Southern Nursery Gompany, Winchester, Tenn. 
It will keep on iucreasiiig for fifty years with little labor 
or trouble. 
A pecan grove Is a better investment than insurance. 
It is better than business, because no one has ever failed 
in the pecan industry. 
It is better than a good job, for old age or the trust 
can't get you. 
Pecan growing is better than any other form of agricul- 
ture, for the pecan has few enemies, the crop Is not af- 
fected by the weather, and it is not lost If there happens to 
be a scarcity of labor. 
Willie the money-nialiing pecan crop Is growing, the ground 
can be used for raising garden truck, corn or cotton, pea- 
nuts, sweet and Irish potatoes ; a grove Is also a fine place 
for chickens. 
Pecans are sold in the highest-priced markets in the world. 
DYNAMITE— PLANTED TREES. 
The productivity of dynamite-planted trees is now beyond 
dispute. Until within a very few years It was tnought the 
virtue of dynamite in agriculture or horticulture was where 
the soil was underlaid with hardpau, when the explosive 
was regarded as valuable in breaking the hard soil. Five 
or six years ago It was discovered that dynamite planting 
and plowing added immensely to the yield of trees, bushes 
and cereals. The reason lor suiieriorily of blasted over 
hand-dug holes is very simple, it is because t;ie explosion 
of the dynamite loosens up the soil for yards around the 
spot, kills all grubs, works off other ammal life likely to In- 
jure the young tree and thus makes root growth easy; 
whereas digging the hole with t<K)ls tends to pack the earth 
around tlie roots and retard their growth, as the same Il- 
lustration amply demonstrates. Authorities S!iy tlie ideal 
soil for agriculture is one the niiturai consistency of which 
allows water to circulate freely tlinuigh it, and at the same 
time re.serve or conserve it so that it is available at all 
times for the u<'eds of growing plants. 
HELPS HOOTS TO GET PLANT FOOD. 
Like perfect human beings, perfect land Is very scarce. 
Other soils must be brought up to the highest possible point 
