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TJ-iJ£ K U DiA Iv NEW-VOKKES 
February J, 
Pecans in Georgia. 
On page 30 you print an article in an¬ 
swer to an inquiry entitled “Pecan Possi¬ 
bilities on Poor Soil,” in which it appears 
to the writer that you are not quite fair 
to the State of Georgia. While it is true 
that the native pecan was originally found 
in this country on the alluvial lands of the 
Southwest, subsequent history and efforts 
at improvement of the nut have shown that 
it is well adapted to a very wide area; the 
wiregrass pine land of several of the South 
Atlantic States has been found to be an 
ideal location in which it reaches as near 
perfection as anywhere. Nor is its suc¬ 
cessful cultivation confined to the coastal 
plains of these States. In this city, which 
is situated in middle Georgia, in the “Red 
old hills of Georgia,” and underlaid with 
granite, we have pecan trees more than 
three feet in diameter three feet above 
ground, and whose branches reach a height 
of TO feet, with a spread of (50 feet, which 
have borne ■ successive crops without a 
single failure for three-quarters of a cen¬ 
tury ; and on some of the highest bills in 
the city where the soil is nearly all carried 
away by erosion there are trees of immense 
size and among the most productive here. 
A few years, say 20 years ago, a man 
who owned a fine farm in the valley of the 
Oconee River here, which was devoted to 
hay growing, planted about 10 acres of it 
in improved pecans. It was a composite 
soil built up by successive overflows of the 
river, but while it was level it was well 
drained and quite fertile. It would produce 
80 to 90 bushels of corn per acre when 
cultivated, and the soil was fully 15 feet 
deep. After 10 years of growth when most 
of the trees had come into bearing the nuts 
were so faulty that the son of this planter, 
who succeeded him, cut the trees all down 
and continued it as a hay meadow. All 
this time the trees on the hills never failed 
to bear uniform crops of well filled nuts. 
Three miles from here is a farm in the 
red hills which was practically abandoned 
as too poor to grow cotton profitably a 
few years ago, now devoted to a pecan 
grove and nursery. The owner is growing 
the finest type of nuts, and has sold bis en¬ 
tire crop of 1911 at 80 cents per pound. 
He is planting 2,000 pounds of native nuts 
to bud to in his nursery. A part of these 
nuts which he will plant he bought from 
a negro woman at 00 cents a peck, and paid 
her §22.50 for product of one tree at that 
low price. That tree grows on a poor ridge 
in the pine woods a few miles south of 
this city. TJic Commissioner of Agriculture 
for the State of North Carolina says in 
his bulletin that the ridges in his State are 
the best adapted land for the pecan. Then 
there are large commercial groves and nur¬ 
series at Albany, Thomasville, Tifton, Cor- 
dele, Fitzgerald, Quitman and Valdosta. 
All the above places are in the pine -woods, 
and the land is very similar to that of your 
correspondent. While we do not advise 
anyone to select the poorest land he has for 
pecans, nor for anything else for that mat¬ 
ter, nearly all the well drained land of 
south Georgia will grow pecans successfully 
and will fill out the nuts better than rich 
alluvial land. b. t. bethune. 
Georgia. 
Use of Hardwood Ashes. 
I have a. chance to purchase ashes, made 
mostly from hardwood, at a sawmill two 
miles distant, for §1 a load. The mill 
owner wishes the ashes taken away every 
week. Will it be all right to spread the 
ashes on the snow, which is about three 
feet deep, or would it be better to store 
and spread in Spring on meadow or on 
ground to be plowed to corn ? What is the 
value of a ton of unleached hardwood 
ashes? l. j. t. 
Michigan. 
You .certainly have a remarkably cheap 
proposition, if you can get hardwood ashes 
that have not been seriously leached for §1 
a load. We would give a good deal if we 
had such a chance. Such ashes, not ex¬ 
posed long to the weather, ought to con¬ 
tain about 100 pounds of potash, 35 pounds 
of phosphoric acid, and 650 pounds of lime 
to the ton. Of course leaching would take 
some of the potash out, but an average 
sample would run about as stated, and 
would be worth here §8 to §9, if we had 
to buy this plant food in the open market. 
We should get all we could of them, but 
we would not advise you to spread them on 
the snow. You will lose a considerable 
part of their value if handled in that way. 
Try to keep them under cover in some way 
until the snow has gone, and then spread 
them—from choice on the grass or grain. 
Damp Cement Floor.—I saw recently a 
complaint from a man who had made a 
cement floor in bis granary, saying the 
grain spoiled on the bottom. To help this 
difficulty before putting in concrete put in 
four or six inches of ashes and cinders from 
soft coal; tamp them down before putting 
on the concrete. They do not hold mois¬ 
ture as does gravel. They can be used to 
make concrete, using half cinders and half 
Band or gravel with the cement. E. d. b. 
Fayetteville, N. Y. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Winter Short Courses, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., November 28-February 23. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Burlington, Vt., 
December 26-February 24. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Columbus, O.. 
January 2-February 28. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Amherst. Mass., 
January 2-March 8. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Durham, N. II., 
January 4-March 8. 
Corn Growers’ and Stockmen’s Conven¬ 
tion, Urbana, Ill., January 15-27. 
Conventions, Pennsylvania Dive Stock and 
Horticultural Associations, Duquesne Gar¬ 
den, Pittsburgh. January 15-20. 
Livingston County, N. Y., Poultry Show, 
January 16-19. 
School for Housekeepers, Urbana, Ill.. 
January 15-27. 
N. J. State P.oard of Agriculture, Tren¬ 
ton. N. J., January 17-19. 
Farmers’ Week, Canton. N. Y„ School of 
Agriculture, January 22-27. 
Alabama Horticultural Society, Jasper. : 
Ala., January 25-27. 
Ohio Apple Show, Marietta, O., January ! 
23-26. 
Minnesota Short Course, Minneapolis, i 
Minn., January 23-February 17. 
Farmers’ Week, Durham, N. ID, January 
20-Februauy 3. 
St. Lawrence Poultry Show, Ogdensburg. j 
N. Y., January 30-February 2. 
N. Y. State Grange, Auburn, N. Y., Feb¬ 
ruary 0 9. 
Ohio Dairymen's Ass’n. Columbus, Feb¬ 
ruary 8-9. 
Connecticut Pomological Society, Hart¬ 
ford, February 7. 
Ohio Ginseng Growers, Wooster, Feb. 9. 
Farmers’ Special Course, Morgantown, W. 
Va., February 1-16. 
Poultry Week, East Lansing. Mich., Feb¬ 
ruary 12.17. 
Farmers’ Week, State School, Lyndon 
Ctr., Vt., February 12-17. 
Farmers’ Week, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., February 19-24. 
Eastern Meeting, N. Y. State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers' Ass'n., Poughkeepsie, Feb. 22 23. 
Harrow' Experience Wanted. — I w r ould 
like to see in your paper a discussion of the 
value of disk harrow, spading harrow and 
Cutaway harrow. Which is better for clay 
soil? What is the advantage of each? 
e. e. c. 
. R. N.-Y.—We will ask farmers to discuss 
this. The disk harrow works with round 
plates, the Cutaway has these plates with 
saw-like teeth cut into the edges, while the 
spading harrow has strong fingers or 
“spades.” 
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