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five acres in pecans, embracing more than a dozen varieties, 

 ranging from ten to fifteen years after planting, that produced 

 14,126 pounds of pecans in 1921. The 1922 crop was very 

 much shorter than this. J. S. Scarboro, Tifton, Georgia, 

 harvested 3,400 pounds of pecans from 100 ten-year-old trees 

 in 1921, which was followed by a very light crop in 1922. 

 G. C. Pabst, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, gathered a total of 

 9,000 pounds of nuts from 100 thirteen-year-old pecan trees 

 in one year. From seventeen other trees, eight years old, of 

 the Stuart variety, he harvested in one year 1,700 pounds. 

 J. A. Kernodle, Camp Hill, Alabama, obtained a little more 

 than 1,000 pounds of nuts from seventeen fourteen-year-old 

 pecan trees in 1921. These seventeen trees are growing on 

 one acre of land where the soil has been kept in a high state 

 of fertility by growing an annual winter cover-crop of bur 

 clover, followed by corn and soybeans planted between the 

 rows of trees in the spring after the clover seeds matured. 

 Growers in many sections of the pecan belt may be able to 

 give some authentic records of yields that will surpass these, 

 but the general average or even the trees of the best com- 

 mercial plantings will fall far below them. 



From the fourth to the eighth year inclusive, each average 

 tree of a well cared for orchard of varieties adapted to the 

 section in which they grow should produce a total of fifteen to 

 twenty-five pounds of nuts. During the next five years, each 

 tree should yield a total of 85 to 125 pounds. For the next 

 period of seven years, which will bring the tree up to twenty 

 years after planting, the total yields should range from 

 500 to 700 pounds of nuts. From this it would be expected 

 that an orchard of pecans on good soil and properly treated 

 should produce a total of 600 to 850 pounds to a tree for the 



