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GROWING PECANS 
Not only do I have good fruit trees I am now 
growing good pecan trees. You know there used 
to be lots of pecan nurseries. But the owners 
decided that they could not make money fast 
enough. Growing pecan trees is a slow particular 
business. It takes from three to four years to grow 
a good pecan tree. We plant our pecan seed in beds 
that we bud our trees on and grow them a year. 
Then are taken up and the ones that show good 
vigor and have good root systems are set out in the 
field. After they have grown a year we bud them 
and this process produces a tree that is easily trans- 
planted and will come into bearing quickly. Did 
you ever pass a nice lawn with a pecan tree in 
the middle of it. It is a thing of beauty. I know 
one tree that was planted on a lawn some thirty 
years ago. I would like to show you a picture of 
it, but you know how it is now one is lucky to get 
any kind of catalog printed. This tree was planted 
by a lawyer and is just a seedling. It has born as 
high as fifteen bushels of nuts in a single season. 
The man who planted it said he valued the 
a when he went to sell the lot at five hundred 
ollars. 
I asked him what he would have valued it at 
if it had of been such a tree as Madam X. He said 
a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars. The owner 
of this tree would not take one thousand dollars 
for it at this time she says it would damage her 
lot that much if it were moved. A few days ago 
I looked over the tree and I thought HOW FINE 
IT WOULD BE TO MAKE A SPECIAL offer of 
say six good trees in my catalog. Real select trees 
and let the buyer plant them over his place and 
if he did not have room for all of them give a few 
to neighbors. And I have made a selection of six 
real select trees and offer them for $28.75 prepaid 
to you. My intentions are to put in four Madain X 
and two Burkett. These trees are well branched 
and will be bearing in three years. In ten years 
money would hardly buy them. I expect to sell 
- a lot of these special offers and it will pay you 
to send your order right now for them. We can 
hold them until you are ready to plant them if 
preferred but I would advise you to order them at 
once. It is going to be very difficult to buy good 
budded pecan trees in the future. 
A friend takes advantage of pecans on the 
creek bearing a big crop and then nearly failing 
two years. He buys one hundred thousand pounds 
these big crop years. He stores them in a real dry 
building until they dry out all they will. Then 
along when the weather begins to get warm he 
puts them on cold storage. These dry pecans ab- 
sorb enough moisture to pay the storage on them 
for six months. One year he gave seven cents per 
pound actually gained several pounds in weight 
and sold the whole thing for twelve cents per 
pound. I merely mention this to show you just 
what can be done with pecans. 
I need not to go into what a pecan orchard is 
worth. We hear reports about the Eastern pecan 
orchards paying five hundred dollars per acre. 
They have big power sprayers at all the big pecan 
orchards and get a crop every year. With a crop 
every year and such varieties as Burkett, Madam 
X and Western Schley I think a pecan orchard 
is very profitable. Any how after the first shout- 
ing is over I am growing good pecan trees and 
advising everyone to plant a few. trees if you can- 
not afford to plant a hundred then just a few. 
HOW TO SET PECAN TREES 
Dig a hole big enough and deep enough to 
take the roots and no bigger. The less the soil 
down deep is disturbed the better, for your trees 
will grow out slowly in loosened up soil. The pe- 
can nut falls on hard soil a few leaves blow over 
it and it sends its roots down in this firm soil. 
It has been doing this for hundreds of years. When 
your tree is set and the soil firmed around it, 
wrap the body with news papers nearly to the 
top or within a foot of the top. This is to keep 
moisture from evaporating from the body of the 
tree. If this is not done it makes the tree have a 
tendency to die down and come out from the 
root. After the tree is growing good these papers 
can be taken off or left on but be sure there is 
no strings left to cut the tree. How to plant pecan 
trees in a pasture. Very often people have branches 
through a pasture or a tank and would like to 
plant pecan trees in these places. And they make 
fine pecan trees. I have several pecan trees in 
such places now bearing that never were cultivated. 
Set your pecan tree as above. Then build a brush 
pile around them seven feet wide and to within 
a foot of the top of the tree. The brush pile should 
be at least four feet high and piled good and close. 
This keeps the cattle from eating the tree and is 
a delight to a pecan to get to grow up through a 
brush pile and the brush begins to rot in a few 
months and furnishes just the fertilizer the tree 
needs. Goats can be run in the pasture. I have 
yet to see a goat bite a pecan tree. By the time 
the brush is rotten the tree is too big for the cattle 
to hurt and you have saved the cultivation. 
HOW TO HAVE A NICE PECAN CROP WHEN 
OTHERS FAIL. 
Wild pecans on the creek are not often killed 
by frost but they have a big crop, then a lighter 
one then a failure. This is all on account of the 
case bearer. On a few dozen trees you can over- 
come this with even a barrel sprayer. Just as the 
little pecans shed the blooms they should be spray- 
ed with three pounds arsenate lead to fifty gal- 
Ions of water. Then in ten days spray them again 
and at the end of another ten days spray again. 
Be sure and do not use over turee pounds of the 
Arsenate of lead to fifty gallons. By having a 
fine crop of such pecans as Madam X you will get 
a fancy price for them in off years. I am devoting 
a lot of space to pecans because they are a profi- 
table. crop. 
Thank you, 
J. E. FITZGERALD. 

FITZGERALD NURSERY 
- STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS 
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