THE PECAN 
P: 
>iirin«: tlie r<»l€l otoliths thiif thf l*e<*an Sheds Its I-eaves to (Jive Nature 
• r the Spring Leaflns and Fruiting; 
believe will stand the test: Good land set in 
vigorous budded trees at the end of the first year 
is worth $100 per acre. Add $50 to this value at 
the end of each year of growth. With this as a 
basis, your land should therefore be worth — 
At the end of 5 years $300 per acre 
At the end of 10 years .$.550 per acre 
At the end of 1.5 years .$800 per acre 
"While varieties differ slightly as to the age at 
which they begin to bear, yet this may be safely 
put at from four to six years from the time trees 
are transplanted. By the tenth year, when the 
value as above is SooO, the net income per acre 
should be 8 per cent of this amount, or $44. 
This is probably about as early as the trees 
would begin to pay a reasonable income on the 
value as figured above. By the fifteenth year the 
net income would be $64 per acre, or 8 per cent 
on $800. The twentieth year should show more 
than a net income of $84 per acre, or an 8 per 
cent income on a valuation of 81,050 per acre, 
according to the above estimate. By net income 
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THE PECAN 
THE PECAN 
A Fourteen- Vear-OId l*e«'an Or<-liar<i. These Trees ,\re Set 
to >leet in the .Middles. Tliis Is a Clear l>enionstration of 
is meant what remains after deducting a reason- 
able amount for cultivating and fertilizing trees, 
and for the gathering of the nuts. It has been 
shown that land set in pecans can be made to 
l)ay for its cultivation and fertilizing by the 
crops of cotton, peas, potatoes, vegetables, etc., 
that are grown between the trees. 
"Now the above estimate is not by any means 
visionary. While it has not been demonstrated 
with orchards on a large scale, yet it has been 
shown to be a very conservativ^e estimate both 
hy myself and by other growers of i)ecans. There 
are orchards of budded pecan trees in this section 
that can not be bouglit on the above basis. 
Understand me that when I give these figures I 
emphasize the fact that the trees must be prop- 
erly cared for. If you are going to set them out 
in a careless manner and leave them to the 
indifferent attention of hired help, to be run over 
and broken down by the stock, and to be smoth- 
ered by weeds and grass, then this will not be 
borne out bv results. This estimate is based on 
Forty-seven Feet .Vpart. Twent.v Trees to tlie Aere. Tiiey Are Now Hejcinnin^ 
the Fa<'t that tlie .Ahove Oistanee Is Too Close and AVill l*roduee Smaller Nuts 
good land, good trees and good attention to be 
paid to them. These being given, you will not 
be disapi)ointed in results. Trusting the above 
will be satisfactory, I am, 
"Verv truly vours, 
"J. B. WuiHT." 
THERE is a picture on page 18 in this 
booklet which bears this legend: "A $25,- 
000 Pecan Tree." It has been worth that 
much to me because it started me to growing 
pecans. But it is nothing more than an ordinary 
seedling standing as a lone sentinel in a cornfield 
four miles north of Cairo, Georgia. Thirty years 
ago my attention was directed to it. Iiuiuiry 
developed that this tree bore one hundred to two 
hundred ])onnds of nuts per year, which sold for 
10 cents per pound. To a young man looking to 
the future, was not that a ])ointer? One ti-ee 
without any particular attention producing 810 
to $20 [)er year! Why should not a hundred trees 
do relatively as well.* And if a hundred, why not 
a thousand? So I reasoned then; and who can 
gainsav the logic of the conclusion.* 
Pitge fimrlcetl 
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