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Index 



Chrysohothris femorata. 111 

 Cions, number to use, 50 

 Claremout variety, origin, 28 

 Clasterosporium diffusum, 190 

 CJeophora carycefolieUa, 173 

 Cold weather, winter-injury, 195 

 Commercial planting, first, 18 

 Commodity, organization. 149 

 Contract, membership, 151, 155 

 Cookies. 211 

 Cooperative marketing, 140, 147, 



148 

 Cost of shelling, 141 

 Cover-crops, 83, 84, 85, 80, 88, 91, 



107, 118 

 Crackeries, commercial, 138 

 Crackers, pecan, 140 

 Cracking, soaking for. 139 

 test, 128 



machines, 138, 140, 141 

 Cropping the orchard, 115, 110, 



118, 119 

 Crown-gall, 193 

 Cuticle, removing, 206 

 Cultivating, pecans, 115, 110. 117, 



120. 121 

 Cutting back, for top-working. 44 

 for bark-grafting, 40 



Da tana integerrima, 174 



DeCourset, Diary mentions pe- 

 cans, 15 



Delmas variety, record yields of, 

 134 



Dependable variety, origin, 30 



Desserts, pecan, 210, 211 



De Soto, 13 



Dieback, 188 * 



Distance, to plant nuts. 39 

 to plant trees, 110. 112. 120 



Dominance of male in crosses, 30 



Drainage, of soils. 77 



Drying pecans, 124 



Dynamite for trees, 113 



Energy values, 199 

 Equipment, budding and grafting, 

 70. 71 

 spraying, 195, 198 

 Euhicoria, 217 



Exchange. National Pecan Grow- 

 ers'. 153 

 Experiments, fertilizer. 91 



Fertilizers, experiments. 90. 91 

 influence on composition of nut. 



92, 93 

 influence on yields. 91, 92. 93 

 mixtures used. 91 

 triangular experiment. 91 

 quantities for pecans, 94, 95 



Fillers, 118, 119 



Financing organizations, 152 



Food value, pecans, 199, 200 



Forcing chip-buds. 61 

 dormant buds, 57 



Fossil pecan. 12 



Frost resistance in spring. 106, 

 107, 195 



Frotscher variety, origin, 20 



Fungus, catkin disease. 192 

 scab, 182 

 wood-rotting. 194 



Fusicladium effusum, 182 



Georgia, yields in. 132 

 Germination, variation of, 33 

 GJomereJla cinguJata, 191 

 Graders, pecan, 129. 130 

 Grading pecans, 120, 127 

 Graft, cleft, 50 

 Grafting bark. 63 

 Grafting, first, 17 



revived, 20 



ring-bud, origin. 21. 50 

 Grafting-wax, 72 



alcoholic wax, 73 



linseed oil, wax, 73 



liquid wax. 74 



tallow wax, 74 

 Greenville soils, 78, 79. 91. 94 

 Groups of varieties, 98, 99. 101, 



102, 104 

 Groves, pecan, vn 

 Growing season, length of, 4 



Harvesting, 122 



Hexagonal method, laying-out or- 

 chard. Ill 

 Hicoria, 216 



