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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
the yield for the 8th year but this the nineth year will show a 
very heavy increase judging from the looks of the crop now on 
the trees. This young orchard doubtless holds the record for 
one of its age and size and is considered one of the best in the 
United States. 
The profits thus far indicated from the yield of nuts is of 
minor importance as compared with the enhancement in value 
of the orchard during the first 20 years. An orchard of good 
varieties on good land and under good management has been 
conservatively estimated to increase in value at the rate of $50 
per acre annually. Such an orchard should be worth $300 per 
acre at the end of five years, $500.00 per acre at the end of ten 
years and $1000.00 per acre at the end of 20 years. There are 
many orchards that could not be purchased at even much higher 
figures. These values are dependent on the crop production 
coupled with the average price of nuts on the market. The 
average price of pecans is the essence of the whole matter and 
is what, ultimately, will fix the valuation of pecan orchards, as 
well as determine what profits may be had from growing pecans. 
Until the present time the improved pecans have been a luxury 
commanding good prices. The production of pecans this year 
will approach twenty million pounds according to reliable esti¬ 
mates, and while this is a very small matter of three or four 
ounces per capita population for the country, it is a big matter 
when it comes to marketing this large tonage. 
It behoves the growers to adopt cooperative marketing without 
delay. This tonage is coming on in ever increasing waves and 
in a very short time unless our marketing facilities are improved 
and organized on a scientific basis, we will face ruinous prices, 
produced by indiscriminate, individual selling. Our condition 
will then be no better than that of the Western wheat growers 
or the cotton growers of the South. Here are two examples of 
prime necessities which, owing to improper marketing are gradu¬ 
ally bringing poverty to the producers regardless of the long 
hours of toil expended in their production. 
We hope and expect the pecan to soon become a commodity 
and a necessary food product rather than a luxury, but we should 
take time by the forelock and steer clear of the utter ruin which 
will be a sequence to our present selling methods. 
We have had the National Pecan-Growers Exchange with 
headquarters at Albany for several years but as yet many grow¬ 
ers have not seen fit to market their crops through this organi¬ 
zation. Perhaps one reason is that the necessity has not been 
acute. Why should we wait for such a calamity? Lack of co¬ 
operation may be the result of differences as to methods em¬ 
ployed. In order that all may be accomodated there was recent¬ 
ly started a new organization by some of the leading growers 
of the South. This has been temporarily organized under the 
name of The Southern Pecan Growers Exchange and is to be a 
strictly cooperative selling agency. 
Mr. R. B. Small, Macon, Georgia is temporary chairman. These 
growers have issued a call for all interested growers of pecans 
to meet at Albany, Georgia, on the 7th of September, for per¬ 
fecting the organization and for making arrangements for mar¬ 
keting this year’s crop. 
It will function on a non profit basis and be incorporated under 
the Georgia law, on a strictly Democratic cooperative plan, fash¬ 
ioned after such associations as have been tried out and proven 
successful. It will be its aim to encourage the consumption o, 
pecans, to stabilize the industry and make it possible for the 
grower to get fair price for his product. It will also insure the 
buying public against unmarketable pecans, furnishing a uni¬ 
form, standard, product at reasonable prices and eliminate specu¬ 
lation. 
It is urgent that every grower of pecans market his crop this 
year through one of these exchanges. 
They should get* in touch at once either with the Southern 
Pecan Growers Exchange, Mr. R. B. Small, Macon, Georgia, 
Chairman, or with The National Pecan Growers Exchange, 
Albany, Georgia., in order that they may aid in this forward 
movement to safeguard their interests. 
The ultimate profit from pecan growing is in the balance, 
through cooperation it may be made secure. Will the growers 
heed the warning? 
FRUIT MEN OF EAST TO ASSEMBLE AT BIG NEW 
YORK APPLE SHOW 
The thorough manner in which State Committees have 
done their work in the fourteen states participating in 
the Eastern States Apple Exposition and Fruit Show to 
be held in New York City, on November 3rd to 10th have 
already assured a very large attendance of fruit growers 
and horticulturists. The attendance of fruit men will he 
considerably augmented by the annual meeting of the 
American Pomological Society which will be held in con¬ 
nection with the Exposition. 
One entire floor of the Grand Central Palace will be 
given over to state exhibitors of apples and fruit pro¬ 
ducts. Space on this floor has been largely provided free 
by action of state legislatures or by public subscription. 
Another floor will be devoted to commercial exhibitors 
including cider manufacturers, nurserymen, and manu¬ 
facturers of spraying material and equipment and other 
farm machinery. 
This exposition will differ from most shows in that 
it will consist of thoroughly practical exhibits instead 
of fancy fruit in plates. All fruit will be shown in com¬ 
mercial packs and in such condition as might be sold to 
any one of the 100,000 or more city folks who are expect¬ 
ed to visit the show. There will be in fact an opportunity 
to sell fruit and any other products in small or large 
quantities and many exhibitors are preparing to sell or 
take orders for large amounts. 
catalogues received 
Mt. Arbor Nursery. Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Wholesale Trade List. 
New Zealand Association of Nurserymen. 
Spring Edition of Trade Register. 
D. Hill Nursery Company, Dundee, Illinois. 
Wholesale Trade List. 
California Nursery Company, Niles, California. 
Trade Price List. 
Leesley Bros. Nursery, Chicago, Illinois. 
Wholesale Catalogue. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Massachusetts. 
Special List of Lining Out and Specimen Stock. 
Huntsville Wholesale Nursery, Huntsville, Alabama. 
Wholesale Price List. 
Kallay Bros. Company. Painesville, Ohio. 
Wholesale Price List. 
Parker Bros. Nursery Company, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 
Wholesale Price List. 
Conard and Jones, West Grove, Pennsylvania. 
Wholesale Trade List. 
NEW YORK STATE NURSERYMEN S ASSOCIATION 
The Summer Meeting Was Held on Board the “S. S. 
OntarioEnroute to Cobourg, Canada, September 6th 
The members and their friends, about forty in number 
embarked at the Port of Rochester at 8.30 A. M., and ar¬ 
rived in Cobourg at 1.30, where several of the younger 
members engaged in a ball game, the others wandered 
about the quaint old town. The return trip was made at 
3.15 P. M., arriving in Rochester about 8 o’clock. The 
weather was perfect and the lake calm, and all agreed 
that the trip was a most delightful one. 
Visitors who accompanied the party were Messrs. 
Bohlender, Cultra. Griesa, LeBar and Schumaker. 
