There's An Increasing Market for Pecans. 
Rules for Setting Pecan and Fruit Trees Right. 
Protect the Roots! 
Never allow the roots of the trees to become dry or exposed to 
the atmosphere for any length of time from the time they reach 
you until they are set in the ground. 
Wet the bundle just as soon as you can and if not ready to set 
out at once, dig a hole and put roots in and cover up well. Place 
in a shady place if possible. 
Set your trees at once upon arrival or heebin promptly as above. 
Set the tree about the same depth it stood in the nursery. 
Fill in the hole with the best top soil, packing the dirt well 
around the roots, especially the tap root. Keep the roots of the 
trees out straight in their natural position and do not bend them 
down by the tree. 
Have a large hole for your tree. Three feet wide and three feet 
deep will not be too large for pecans. Holes about 12 inches wide 
and one to two feet deep will do for fruit trees. 
Mix thoroughly with the soil to be used to fill in the hole a peck 
or half bushel of welbrotted manure or compost or some good 
guano, being very careful not to allow it to come into contact with 
the roots in ANY QUANTITY, for if it does it will scald them 
and do more harm than good. 
Fertilize Properly 
If you desire to plant on land rather poor in fertility, thoroughly 
mix with the soil two or three shovelsful of welbrotted compost 
when you plant the tree, or one or two pounds of bone meal. 
The best fertilizer after the tree is planted is to scatter manure 
around the trees. The more the better—one-half to one bushel to 
the tree, if possible. Do not bank it up around the tree, but 
scatter it around for two or three feet. When it rains the sub¬ 
stance will be taken down to the roots. Put this around your trees 
in the late winter, if possible, so that the trees will be able to get a fine growth in the spring. 
When the trees are old enough to bear, use potash in some form—wood ashes will do. 
If Soil is Dry 
If the soil is dry when the trees are set, it is a good idea to pour 
a bucketful of water to each tree when the hole is nearly filled, and 
then fill the hole completely up. 
Pour one bucketful of water to each tree once a week during 
very dry spells in Summer. Make a basin-like hole at the base of 
the tree. Pour water and as soon as it is soaked in good, fill com¬ 
pletely up with dry dirt. This holds in the moisture and also keeps 
the ground from baking. If you cannot pull soil back, covering the 
wet earth well, DO NOT water at all. Water poured on top of 
the ground and left this way does more harm than good, as it causes the earth about to bake 
and the tree to scald. 
Cultivate for four to six feet around each tree thoroughly all during the Summer. Never 
let grass or weeds grow up around your trees. Keep the ground dug up and soft at all times. 
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"My orchard of your five-year-old Stuart trees is doing fine. Some trees I bought from an agent, 
supposed to be the best grown, haven’t done anything.” — Aliceville, Ala. 
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