Bass Pecan Trees Will Bear and Pay You While You Live! 
To Answer Your Questions:— 
How to Plant Pecan Trees 
(How Many Trees to the Acre, Etc.) 
T WO usual questions asked us are how many trees to plant to the acre, and what kind of 
soil in which to plant them. 
On lands of only fair fertility, plant trees every 50 feet, but we generally recommend 60x60. 
If the ground is very rich, plant farther apart, such as 70x70, but for the average, figure on 
every 60 feet—12 trees to the acre. Please refer just below. You can get more trees to the 
acre by the triangle method of planting (14 as against 12). 
As to soils—land that will grow hickory or oak trees will grow fine pecans. It has been 
well said that any land that will grow cotton will grow pecans. Well drained land is needed 
for best results. Practically any average land in the South will grow fine pecans. 
The sooner you set out your pecan trees the better will be your prospects for them living, 
the more vigorous will they grow up, and the earlier they will begin to bear. Set out pecan 
trees as soon as possible after the leaves shed in the Pall, in November, December, January, 
February or March. Even if you cannot set your trees early, book your order nozv so we may 
reserve some of our finest trees for you. 
Use a planting Board in setting your trees. 
This is easily made by taking any board or 
plank about six feet long and cutting a V-shaped 
groove in the center of it. This groove in the 
planting board is made to fit down over the 
stake you have driven down in the ground where 
the tree is to be planted. Then at each end of 
the planting board place a small peg. When you dig the hole for the tree, all you will have to 
do is to lay this planting board across the hole dug so that each end will be against the pegs and 
your tree will come right in the groove and be exactly in line. If you do not use a planting board 
it is hard to get trees in line again after holes are dug, even if lined up exactly right to start with. 
Square Method 
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To plant the square method, take an 
ordinary L-square and place on ground 
in order to get your lines true. Sight 
and place a stake sixty (preferably) 
feet away on each line until you reach 
the ends of the field. Then stake off 
on parallel lines at every sixty feet 
and plant trees at each stake. Plant¬ 
ing sixty feet apart, you have 12 trees 
to the acre. 
By planting the triangle method you get more trees 
to the acre, and besides all trees are exactly sixty 
feet apart in ALL directions. To get a true equilat¬ 
eral triangle easily, drive a stake in the corner of the 
field. Then with the aid of an L-square find stakes along the 
outside lines. In order to get proper and exact distance in¬ 
ward toward the field, get a wire sixty feet long. Attach to 
stake. Get another wire of same length and attach to next 
stake. Let one man make an arc with his wire, and another 
man an arc with his. When the two wires meet, properly 
taut, drive stake for tree. Work from that stake and so on 
until field is covered. 
Plant Fruit Between the Rows. See Pages 21, 22, 23, 24. 
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