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tree just planted in the orchard, at least one pound of the 

 mixture given below, should be applied in the manner 

 described above. This quantity may be doubled each year 

 thereafter. To illustrate, a tree just planted should receive 

 one pound. At one year old, two pounds; at two years old, 

 four pounds; at three years, eight pounds, and so on, until a 

 maximum quantity of 500 to 600 pounds per acre has been 

 applied, when the annual quantity becomes fixed. Of course, 

 after each application, the fertilizer should be mixed with 

 the soil, either with the plow, disc, harrow or some other 

 implement. If the plow be used, it should be run very shal- 

 low, taking- care not to break the surface roots of the tree. 



As before mentioned, young- and growing- trees require a 

 different fertilizer from old and bearing ones. If the practice 

 of growing 1 and turning under of leguminous crops be fol- 

 lowed-, the fertilizers prescribed for alluvial soils may be used 

 to spread around the trees. If, on the other hand, it is omit- 

 ted, the Nitrogen in each formulae should be increased. Of 

 course, all fertilizers should be applied in early spring. 



Nitrogen can be supplied in the forms usually found on 

 our markets, viz: Tankage, Cotton Seed Meal, Dried Hlood, 

 .Fish Scrap, etc. 



An acid phosphate containing at least 14 per cent of 

 available phosphoric acid should be preferred. Muriate of 

 potash containing 50 per cent of potash, is the cheapest and 

 perhaps the best form of potash for this tree. 



Besides the growing of leguminous crops and the appli- 

 cation of commercial fertilizers, it will often be found highly 

 advantageous in light soils to top dress them with stable 

 manure at the rates of twenty to forty twc-liorse wagon loads 

 per acre. If no commercial fertilizers be applied simultane- 

 ously, it would be well to add with the stable manure, 200 to 

 to 300 pounds acid phosphate, and 50 to 100 pounds muriate 

 of potash per acre. They may be neglected, if the trees are 

 fertilized with the mixtures given above. 



It should always be borne in mind that the pecan tree 

 revels in a fertile, moist soil, and therefore every effort should 

 be made to secure these conditions artificially where they do 

 :not naturally exist. 



