THE PECAN 
THE PECAN 
This Tree Ik One in iin <)r<*lmr(l of Ninety Aeres Wlilcli Has 
Been Seen aiul Admired l>.v Many Visitors 
should be highly fertilized and the trees will get 
their share. Remember that small grain should 
not be planted in a pecan grove, nor among any 
kind of fruit trees. It is no more diffieult to grow 
a pecan tree than any other fruit or shade tree. 
Common sen.se used in caring for it will bring 
results; but if set as a post and cared for as such, 
it will not greatly outgrow or outbear a post. 
But with due observance of these three requisites 
success is practically certain. 
He who plants a pecan tree is conferring a two- 
fold benefit: 1. On the surrounding covintry as a 
whole in that it makes the climate and rainfall 
more uniform. One reason why our rainfall is 
becoming more irregular, and many streams 
which twenty-five years ago were unfailing, now 
dry up every summer, is that our forests are 
being destroyed. For this reason he who adds 
even a few trees is helj)ing to restore luiture to 
its normal condition. 2. On himself and on his 
descendants for a luindred years, both in the 
healthful food which is provided, and in the 
profit which comes from the sale of surplus nuts. 
THE PECAN 
A Kow of reran Trees <irovvinf>: «n 3lr. J. B. Wiffht's llonie Lot in Cairu. 
Taken: Sixteen Year^ Olcl Now. The Best Crops Borne by These Trees Ha 
Undiscovered Wealth 
No one who has seen the English walnut groves 
of California but has admired them. They 
are things of beauty as well as of profit to 
their owners. And yet we liave in the ])ecan 
something which for the South Atlantic and Gulf 
States is just as profitable as are the English 
walnuts of California, the orange trees of Florida, 
or the apple orchards of the Rogue River Valley. 
Our ])eople as a whole are just begimiing to 
awake to the fact that they have this undevel- 
oped pos.sibility of wealth right in their midst. 
Many have already learned that even a few trees 
around a home increase its attractiveness and 
comfort; and in addition to furnishing the most 
palatable and nutritious food, the sale of the 
surplus nuts gives many an easily-earned dollar to 
supi)ly other comforts and necessities of life. 
When our people learn this, and ])ecan trees 
are found growing about every city and country 
home where there is room enough for even one 
tree, we will have made a long step forward 
towards our economic and financial lietterment. 
These Trees Were Twelve Years Old When This I'icture Was 
ve Avt<rased One Hundred Pounds of Nuts Ter Tree 
Some Records 
THERE are many well authenticated records 
of pecan trees and orchards to show what 
has been done and can again be accom- 
plished. The following are in point: Mr. John 
West, of Monticello, Florida, .sold in 1910 to Mr. 
J. A. Granger of that place nine hundred pounds 
of nuts from one tree. The Lindsay tree in 
Monticello, which bore six hundred and thirty- 
eight pounds of nuts in its 23rd year, is also well 
known. On \ovember 3, 1913, Mr. A. G. 
Delmas, Pascagoula, Mississippi, gathered two 
hundred and thirty-five pounds (green weight) of 
nuts from one tree 13 ycai-s old. Mr. Theo. 
Bechtel, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, has a 
VanDeman pecan tree set in 1900 from which 
he harvested one hundred jjounds of nuts in 
1910, and otie hundred and eighty-five pounds 
in 1913. 
The Nut Grower for July, 1915, gives an account 
of one tree in Quincy, Florida, owned by Mr. 
C. R. Shaw, which bore nine luindred and sixtv- 
I'agc ninctcrn 
VuffC twfnty 
i'age twenty-oitf 
