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Pecans 
Provide 
Profit 
and 
Pleasure 

UT TREES, especially Pecans, make good shade trees, and yield wholesome, delicious 
N 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 is 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 is 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 finished it will stand about same 
depth as in the nursery; fill in with fine soil 
and pour in water with it to settle well 
STUART. Large to very large; shell of 
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 plum nadwot 
two bushels of rotted stable manure in the best favor i P 
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 is HAPANESE. ‘Juclans i cordiformitamlne 
no manure in contact with roots, but it will p ieaned Risneee: sae ‘ 
leach mto the shallow opening. The tap- Sega aah seit Seg MS OS 
‘ ° five years. It is a rank and vigorous grower, 
root of young Pecan trees is out of proportion . : 
yOuns eee immensely productive, and makes an orna- 
to the top, but does not continue in that Se ie etches N 
ratio, but becomes of less importance as the phere Scher cate ens hse NOUS 
are medium size, pointed, usually heart- 
trees grow, and never goes deeper in the soil Raaed d b I 
than do the oak, hickory, or other trees. 2 pee? : es ewe fla clusters of ten or 
Pecans have their main feeding roots near Daeg de IL oe eee and one of the 
the surface, and are therefore easily fed by Shall cola he . the entire nut family. 
plowing in legume crops and_ broadcast my ae ard, but by setting them 
on edge and not striking too hard they 

saginet 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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