are, therefore, succeeding. Others are being neglected and consequently 
are a dissapointment to their owners. There are few individuals or 
companies that will care for a large orchard as it should be. Conse- 
quently the majority of the large pecan orchards of the state are not 
profitable. 
And why should they be? The pecan has been over-exploited as a 
get-rich-quick business. The Creator does not usually work along 
these lines. If He had made a royal road to wealth, it would be so 
crowded with physical and intellectual imbeciles that decent people 
would be pushed aside. In pecans, as in all else, the successful growers 
arc those who do not stint their energies either of body or mind to 
bring to pass the desirable. These are succeeding with pecans. And 
the same intelligence and energy bestowed on cotton or trucking or 
fruit growing or merchandising or banking is also bringing success. The 
other fellow ought to fail. 
It would be useless to urge that every one who has room should 
have a garden to grow vegetables for home use. The same reason will 
apply to the growing of pecans. It is not theory, but is based on ac- 
tual experience and observatior. that six to twenty-five pecan trees of 
bearing age growing about the house, garden or barn will not only 
beautify the surroundings, and so make the home more attractive, but 
in addition' to furnishing sufficient nuts for family use, will supply a 
surplus for m.-irket, ranging in value from fifty to several hundred dol- 
lars. My home lot containing 2 1-8 acres in the town of Cairo is bor- 
dered by 22 pecan trees averaging in age about 18 years. For several 
years the average annual income from these trees has been from $250.- 
00 to S500.00. 
Mr. M. G. Maxwell, Calvary, Ga., is a farmer. He has about his 
home eight pecan trees now in their tenth year. He sold at one time 
last autumn a part of the nuts from these trees for $65.12. 
A neighbor has in his back yard a seedling pecan tree twenty-eight 
years old from which, after reserving nuts for his own use, he has sold 
an average of $65.00 worth of nuts per year for the last nine years. 
Dr. Dan S. Clanton of Hagan, Ga., has ten trees set February 
1908 from which he sold last season more than S'200.00 worth of nuts. 
These instances, which could be largely multiplied, are given to 
