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yielded 1,000 pounds in one year and averaged 700 pounds 

 for twenty-five years/ 



Eight seedling trees, not over forty years old, on the place 

 of W. J. Millican, Bend, Texas, gave a yield, in 1919, of 450 

 pounds of nuts for the lightest bearer of the eight trees, and 

 670 pounds of nuts for the heaviest bearer. Three native 

 seedling trees, standing not more than 100 yards apart, near 

 Bend, Texas, on the Colorado river, have records of producing 

 870 pounds, 995 pounds and 1,060 pounds of nuts each respec- 

 tively for the year 1919. The heaviest yielding of these three 

 is the Mother HoUis tree. About a mile up the river from 

 Bend, Texas, stands another seedling which produced 1,400 

 pounds of pecans one year and 1,140 pounds another season. 

 The year that 1,400 pounds were harvested from this tree, 

 a large number of the pecans dropping early were eaten by 

 hogs, leading the owner to believe that had the entire yield 

 been saved, fully a ton of nuts would have been harvested 

 from the one tree that year. 



A. G. Delmas and Sons gathered 235 pounds of pecan nuts 

 from a thirteen-year-old Delmas tree. Theo Bechtel of Ocean 

 Springs, Mississippi, harvested from a Van Deman tree, a 

 record of which was not begun until the tenth year, 100 

 pounds the tenth year, 70 pounds the eleventh year, 60 pounds 

 the twelfth year, and 185 pounds the thirteenth year. A. G. 

 Lowrey of Preston, Georgia, picked 700 pounds of nuts from 

 a seedling tree sixty years old. John West of Monticello, 

 Florida, harvested 900 pounds of nuts from one seedling tree.^ 



Reports of other yield records have been made through 



letters. H. W. Smithwick, Americus, Georgia, has eighty- 



^ A. C. Easly — Texas as a Pecan Possibility ; Proceedings Nat. Nut 

 Growers Assoc, 1917. 



^J. B. Wight, some Aristocrats in the Pecan World. 



