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THE CARMAN PECAN. 
Just 21. years ago I sent Mr. E. S. 
Carman, the great hybridizer, specimens 
of the Carman pecan. He had a half 
tone illustration made of it. which ap¬ 
peared in The It. N.-Y. at that time. 
The illustration of the Carman given 
with this article is from the half-tone en¬ 
graving that he had made. 
I have fruited the Carman pecan 21 
years, and am now able to give a pretty 
fair estimate of its value. Every month 
in the year men are sending me speci¬ 
mens of new pecans, and asking my opin¬ 
ion of them. My invariable answer is 
that I must fruit a pecan at least 15 
years before I can pass upon its merits. 
The old way was to select a variety be¬ 
cause the nuts looked large and fine, and 
propagate it without knowing anything 
further about it. The results are that, 
the country is overstocked with varieties 
that are poor bearers, and that are bad¬ 
ly diseased, and the kernels of which 
break in coming out. A few years ago 
I gave a definition of the perfect pecan, 
which has been pretty generally accepted 
by the horticultural world. It is this: 
A variety that comes into hearing early, 
and hears heavy annual crops; one that 
is a healthy vigorous grower, the kernels 
of which come out whole and the nuts of 
which are large enough and the flavor 
The ('a km ax I'ecan. 
line enough to sell well on the market. 
Finally, a variety that ripens early in 
the season. Now Carman has all these 
virtues. I have sold Carman all over 
the North to the most critical class, and 
they have given universal satisfaction. 
They have invariably come back for 
more. Carman has also been fruited by 
Prof. Van Deman upon bis plantation, 
and he is much pleased with it. lie 
writes: “I consider the flavor fully equal 
to Schley. I believe it well worthy of 
introduction.” Now when we consider 
the fact that Schley is thought to be 
the finest flavored of all pecans, we set; 
how great Prof. Van Deman’s praise is. 
Hut the Schley is a poor bearer, and the 
worst diseased of all pecans, while the 
Carman is perfectly healthy, and a tre¬ 
mendous yearly bearer. 
Several years ago a man came to my 
place who had spent much time in in¬ 
vestigating the northern demand for 
fancy pecans. lie knew exactly what 
that demand called for. My crop of nuts 
was just ripening, and I took him 
through the whole grove showing him 
trees of all the standard varieties. lie 
pronounced many of them good, but none 
up to the highest standard. Then I took 
him to a Carman tree. The ground was 
covered with the large long, whitish-col¬ 
ored nuts. lie cracked several and ate 
them. His delight was great. "Exactly 
what I have been hunting for,” said be. 
"This is the perfect pecan for the fancy 
Northern trade.” And his words have 
proved true, for wherever 1 have shipped 
Carman pecans to a critical buyer he 
has come hack for more. Mr. (Jeo. Long 
of Louisiana has also fruited Carman 
along with many other named varieties 
on his plantation, and lie tells me that 
it is, by long odds, the finest pecan he 
ever saw. 
Now a great many of the named varie¬ 
ties of pecans arc badly diseased, and 
others are very poor bearers. It is ut¬ 
terly useless to plant any of these for 
commercial purposes. The man who se¬ 
lects his trees by looking at a few hand¬ 
some nuts, is very foolish, and be is 
going to pay very dearly for his folly 
some day. The man who is in the pecan 
business, and who is not testing the Car¬ 
man pecan, is standing much in his own 
light. Of all Mr. Carman’s namesakes it 
is the one that is destined to carry his 
name longest to far-off posterity, for 
when a pecan tree is planted it lasts a 
long time, and when the merits of this 
variety are known it is going to be very 
largely planted. It is far ahead of 
Stuart, in nearly every respect. But I 
have not the slightest, doubt as to its 
future welfare; it is on of the varieties 
that lias come to stay. Taking it all in 
all, the Carman pecan is the best variety 
I know anything about, and I say this 
after 35 years’ experience in pecan cul¬ 
ture. In conclusion, I wish to add that I 
am very very proud to have done this 
little to perpetuate the name of one of 
the world’s greatest and noblest hybrid¬ 
izers. SAM H. JAMES. 
Louisiana. 
A Plea for the Quail- 
One Summer when I was a boy on the 
farm, my father had a large, patch of peas 
planted, and before same had matured, 
we were bothered greatly by a large flock 
of blackbirds, this (lock consisting of at 
least 500 birds. It. is not necessary for 
me to dwell on the destructiveness of said 
birds in a pea-patch. I made frequent 
visits to the pea-patch in question, with 
a shotgun, and Slaughtered all the black¬ 
birds that I could. After making several 
trips, and shooting into the flocks sev¬ 
eral times, these birds naturally took tin* 
hint and began to give the peas a wide 
berth; however, on one of the last visits 
into the pea-patch, with the shotgun, 
after firing into the blackbirds as usual, 
when walking hack through the peas, a 
quail unexpectedly arose, and wishing to 
determine whether or not this quail was 
feeding on the peas I raised my gun, 
fired and killed this bird. You can imag¬ 
ine my surprise on opening this bird, 
instead of finding any peas, I found 
nothing but a considerable number of 
grass seeds, small .insects and one hard¬ 
shell potato bug, while this bird had not 
eaten a single pea. Although the fact of 
its eating a hard-shell potato bug was a 
big surprise to me, yet I have always 
advocated since that any bird of what¬ 
ever species that would eat a bug of this 
character was and is too good a friend 
of the farmer to be ruthlessly slaugh¬ 
tered. Although this bird was killed by 
me, out of season, in order to find out 
whether or not it had been guilty of feed¬ 
ing on the peas, yet it. has been the means 
of saving hundreds of these birds’ lives, 
as, when I have been hunting, when the 
season was in, 1 have always made it a 
rule invariably to pass the "Bob White.” 
I have written this, thinking that it 
might probably be of interest to a large 
number of your readers, and I believe 
that new laws should be enacted by our 
Legislature in protecting birds of this 
character. c. E. SOUTIIAKD. 
New Jersey. 
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