ioo TREES AS GOOD CITIZENS 



time. Prices for cotton, corn and other staples were low 

 and the demand light. During this period of depression, 

 the tenant-farmer found financial salvation in the harvest 

 from 73 Pecan trees clustered about the residential build- 

 ings of the farm and extending in lines on both sides of his 

 private entrance and along the public highway in front of 

 the plantation. These trees had just come into bearing, 

 and from their crop the tenant netted nearly eight hundred 

 dollars, practically a third more than the amount of 

 his rent. 



In Portland, Oregon, in 1907, a resident planted eight 

 seedling Persian (English) Walnut trees along the street in 

 front of his residence. From these trees each year, in ad- 

 dition to having all the nuts needed for home consumption 

 and dividing with the boys of the neighborhood on their 

 own terms, he now obtains from nuts which he sells 

 enough revenue to go a long way toward covering his taxes. 



A pioneer Pecan planter and one of the best known 

 growers in Florida, had an experience which is typical of 

 that of many who are brave enough to weather the jests of 

 the neighborhood. In the fall of 1893, he ordered 100 Pecan 

 trees from nurseries in Georgia and Louisiana. His place was 

 then largely planted to Orange trees but he planned to set 

 the Pecan trees along the driveway and about the buildings. 

 The trees arrived at the railroad station, and were still 

 in the freight house when the famous freeze of 1894 

 arrived with its temperature of I5F., killing the citrus 

 trees and financially ruining many hundreds of people. 

 Most of his neighbors left the community, but the planter 

 removed the dead Orange trees and put the Pecans in their 

 places. In later years he ordered more trees and put them 

 out, too. 



The few straggling neighbors who hung on turned to 

 cotton, corn, cattle, etc., the "etc." referring largely to 



