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Pecans 
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UT TREES, especially Pecans, make good shade trees, and yield wholesome, delicious 
food. Everybody likes, wants, and plants shade trees. Usually oaks, maples, and the 
like are used, and are excellent for the purpose, but they provide nothing but leaves. 
The time is coming, some day, when people will plant shade trees with a view to something 
more than mere shade; instead of planting mere trees they will sense the wisdom of planting 
nut trees which yield both pleasure and profit. 
There are about 3,000,000 home-owners in the Pecan-growing area who do not have a 
single tree. There should be a few of these at every home, in the field, yard, garden, or waste 
places. They make fine shade trees, and bear fruit that is profitable and enjoyable to all. A 
few good Pecan trees in full bearing will pay taxes and insurance on an ordinary home. They 
supply delicious and wholesome food for the entire family, as well as cooling shade. 
Pecans should be set 60 by 60 to 80 by 80 | so, and the lower you cut the better they 
feet, depending on soil conditions. It ts a | live. Rub off and keep off all sprouts except 
mistake to plant Pecan or any other nut or | three or four at the top. When trees begin 
fruit trees so they will be crowded in a few | to grow, stir the ground around them with a 
years. hoe after every rain. After the first year, 
apply fertilizer liberally and plow in; don’t 
‘place it too close to tree, and get farther 
awav each year. Clean culture is Imperative. 
For bearing trees, guano ts excellent. 
There are many methods of planting 
Pecan trees, but the one we consider the 
best, of moderate cost and for practical pur- 
poses, is as follows: Dig a hole 3 feet across 
and 10 inches deep; in the center of this dig | MOORE. Nuts fairly small, but of excellent 
or spade out to sufficient depth to accom- quality. Bears young and produces more 
modate the tap-root; a post-hole digger will pounds of nuts per tree than any other 
do for this. Set tree in this hole so that when standard variety. 
planting is fmished it will stand about same 
depth as in the nursery; fill in with fine soil | STUART. Large to very large; shell of 
and pour in water with it to settle well medium thickness and cracks well. A 
among the lateral roots. When the bottom | heavy bearer and good grower. 
of the 3-foot hole is reached, bring up soil | SCHLEY. Medium to large; very thin shell 
over roots In a cone shape. Then put about with pointed ends; meat plump and of 
two bushels of rotted stable manure in the hecmtnee ; 
3-foot opening around tree; cover all with ; 
soil, and bank up 6 inches high around tree, WALNUTS 
to counteract settling, prevent baking and to 
make culture easy. Planted this way there ts JAPANESE. Juglans’ cordiformiieamanll 
no manure in contact with roots, but it will pate ae: ate besten PER oC 
Ge Aare a8 shallow pare The tap- five years. It is a rank and vigorous grower, 
root of young Pecan trees is out of proportion immensely productive, andi tak sai! inn 
to the top, but does not continue m that mental as well as a good shade tree. Nuts 
ratio, but becomes of less importance as the areeined: une mremret spall hee 
trees grow, and never goes deeper in the soil BHapecmenn borne in. clustersue eee 
than do the oak, hickory, or other trees. more; of excellent flavor and one of the 
Pecans have their main feeding roots near most idesirablaotirhe sect ee fanraly 
a surface, ay are therefore oan, Kee by Shells are rather hard, but by setting them 
plowing mm legume crops and broadcast on edge and not striking too hard they 
otra will break open in halves and the meat 
_ It is not common to cut back Pecan trees comes out whole. Perfectly hardy through 
in planting, but it helps them to live to do the southern half of the United States. 
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