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PECAN TREES IN KANSAS. 
Tom Davis is going to grub out the six 
or seven acres of pecan trees that Edwin 
Snyder, former owner of that farm, took 
great pains to plant 19 years ago. The 
pecan trees never proved a very profitable 
investment, as no nuts were ever gathered 
from them. The seasons were too short in 
Jefferson county for the successful growing 
of pecans. All the wood grown in one year 
on a pecan tree is put forth before the 
tree blooms which makes the process of 
blossoming very late. The nuts do not ma¬ 
ture until very late and each year frost 
has caught the crop on these trees before 
they were matured. Snyder was very proud 
of his pecan grove and expected great things 
from it. So far as anyone knows it was 
the only grove of its kind in Kansas.—Jef¬ 
ferson County, Eastern Kansas. 
There are several reasons why the 
pecan trees mentioned are not profitable. 
The chief one is that they are seedlings. 
It has been proven beyond all doubt that 
seedling pecan trees do not come true 
to their parentage, there being just as 
much variation from the original as with 
other trees in the quality of the fruit, 
except in such cases as the originals are 
unimproved and of the wild type. They 
are what might be called thoroughbred, 
through long lines of ancestry, and in 
such case would come fairly true from 
seed. This is probably true in the case 
of these pecan trees. They were, in all 
likelihood, grown from wild nuts gath¬ 
ered in some of the creek or river bot¬ 
toms of Kansas or Missouri, for I know 
that this tree grows wild there. I have 
cut and hauled from the forests along 
the Neosho River in Kansas many loads 
of pecan wood for fuel at my pioneer 
home on the prairie, and I have gath¬ 
ered and eaten nuts from many wild 
trees there. All of them were small and 
of almost no value, compared with the 
really good pecans of the southern re¬ 
gions. Sometimes they did not ripen 
before freezing weather and were frozen 
while green and worthless. If the pecan 
orchard mentioned is of this type the 
nuts are not valuable and if they are of 
the southern type the trees are tender 
and the nuts could scarcely ever ripen 
even a few specimens. Jefferson County 
is near the northeastern corner of Kan¬ 
sas and is a less suitable home for the 
pecan than the southern part of that 
State, where it is native. 
It is quite probable that if these pecan 
trees arc on rich land, were cut back 
severely and the sprouts budded to one 
or more of the newly found, early and 
really choice varieties that have long 
been growing wild in southern Indiana 
this orchard might become” a valuable 
property. The climate of Kansas is not 
more severe than that of Indiana. It 
would be a pity to grub out six or seven 
acres of pecan trees that are 19 years 
old. Trees of almost any kind are very 
valuable in a prairie country. For a nut 
orchard they should be at least 40 or 50 
feet apart, to give room for low spread¬ 
ing heads. Within a few years there 
may be several varieties of early matur¬ 
ing and hardy pecans propagated by bud¬ 
ding and grafting that will be suitable 
for growing in Kansas. I have seen a 
seedling pecan grove in Allen County, 
Kansas, near the Neosho River, that the 
owner told me yielded fair crops of good 
nuts, but if the trees were such as I 
have suggested they would be far more 
valuable. h. e. van deman. 
CORN GROWING IN ILLINOIS. 
I have read with interest many times in 
The It. N.-Y. how eastern farmers produce 
large yields of corn on land that has been 
in cultivation for long periods, and I often 
thought that if they had the advantages of 
the Illinois farmer they would surpass our 
best efforts; perhaps our methods would 
interest the eastern corn grower. Corn¬ 
fields in Central Illinois are large. I have 
seen as much as 200 acres of corn in one 
field; 80-acre fields are common and few 
fields are less than 40 acres. The land is 
plowed from the first of April to the twen¬ 
tieth of May with riding gang plows. 
These plows are double, cutting 24 or 28 
inches at one-half round and are drawn 
by four horses abreast. There are a few 
walking plows and sulkies in use, but most 
farmers prefer the gang, as by its use the 
labor of one man is saved. A seed bed is 
perfected by the use of the drag and disk 
harrow, planting being done from the first 
to the 20th of May. A great deal of at- 
tentiou is now paiu to improved seed coru 
and thorough cultivation. The corn is 
planted with a side-drop wire check-rower 
that plants three grains in each hill 3% 
feet apart each way. The ground is now 
harrowed a couple of times before the corn 
comes up, and then the cultivator is put in 
use. 
The usual method is to cultivate corn 
three times, twice the way planted and 
once crossways. Riding plows are some¬ 
times used, but a better job can be done 
b,v the walking cultivators, as the riding 
plows are comparatively hard to operate, 
and by their use a careless man will leave 
plenty of weeds behind him. The crop is 
usually “laid by” by July 4 in an average 
season, and then work ceases in the corn- 
fields. until harvest time. Owing to the un¬ 
certain price of cattle very few are fed in 
winter in central Illinois compared to 20 
or 30 years ago. Therefore not much corn 
" placed in the shock, hut is allowed to 
stand in the fields until husking time, Oc¬ 
tober 15 to November 1. When the Illinois 
farmer is ready to husk corn he rigs his 
wagon with a “throw” or “knock-board,” 
three eight-inch hoards on the right side 
of the wagon to stop the ears when thrown, 
and then goes to work for all he is worth. 
Like most other things there is a knack 
in “shucking” corn, some buskers being 
able to husk and scoop 125 bushels or 
more in a day, while 75 bushels is a big 
day’s work for others. The coru is some¬ 
times hauled to grain elevators and sold 
from the field, while the farmers who are 
in easy circumstances usually hold for a 
better price. The wages paid buskers are 
three cents per bushel with board, or .$2 
per day. After husking, cattle and horses 
are turned into the stalk fields to glean 
the remaining blades of fodder. 
Menard County, Ill. w. d. scully. 
Dry Bordeaux. 
Will you tell me if the “dry Bordeaux” 
mixture as given in the “Farmers’ Garden” 
was satisfactory as the “wet Bordeaux?” 
Will you also give me the chemical com¬ 
position of cotton-seed meal, used as a fer¬ 
tilizer? c. J. c. 
Kent's Mill, Maine. 
Not quite so satisfactory, because it is 
harder to put it on the plants evenly. While 
the wind blows or when the plants are dry 
the dust does not settle as well as the 
liquid. When evenly distributed we believe 
it as effective as the liquid. The Connecti¬ 
cut Experiment Station gives analysis of 
samples of cotton-seed meal. 
Plowing Clover; Flint Corn. 
When is the best time to plow clover sod, 
early in the Spring or just before it is time 
to plant, that is about May 15? I spread 
manure on it last Fall. I intend to plant 
it to corn. What kind of flint corn is the 
best to plant, eight or 12-rowed, and how 
far apart? c. c. 
tliens Falls, N. Y. 
From choice we would leave the sod until 
just before planting so as to put the corn 
in fresh plowed land with all possible 
vegetable matter. This is not always pos¬ 
sible. It often pays to plow early and 
save labor and time. We plant an eight- 
rowed Canada flint three feet each way. 
Champion Potato Diggers. — I will not 
hold with W. U. Howard that the men over 
in Michigan are telling yarns about their 
potato digging. It is the crop that counts 
a lot; the crop could be such a poor one 
that it would take a week for a man to dig 
100 bushels, with an extra large crop the 
same man could probably do tile trick in 
less than one day. I do not see anything 
unreasonable in the claims made by those 
potato diggers. It is the crop, and the 
man. a. b. wright. 
New Jersey. 
Cheap Paint— Some one asks about a 
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