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Pecans 
Provide 
Profit 
and 
Pleasure 

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 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 m; 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 : 
or spade out to sufficient depth to accom- pee aales : NE gE te aa aca 
modate the tap-root; a post-hole digger will he f yOUne ‘a pee a hee 
do for this. Set tree m this hole so that when ae ae nuts per tree than any other 
planting is pre ee it eae feos about same SEC EELEC ERS) BRERA 
depth as in the nursery; fill in with fine soil f 
and pour in water with it to settle well ae ARE ve oe ie ie nae ee et 
among the lateral roots. When the bottom as ee se ie eonagaey ghee 
of the 3-foot hole is reached, bring up soil Nay ae a oO bt Or 
over roots in a cone shape. Then put about | SCHLEY. Medium to large; very thin shell 
two bushels of rotted stable manure in the with pointed ends; meat plump. andor 
3-foot opening around tree; cover all with Hecttavan ape . 
soil, and bank up 6 inches high around tree, : 
to counteract settling, prevent baking and to 
make culture easy. Planted this way there is 
no manure in contact with roots, but it will CHINESE CHESTNUTS 
leach into the shallow opening. The tap- 
reoLes pe trees is out of BagPecon 
to the top, but does not continue in that : : : : : 
ratio, but becomes of less importance as the A blight-resistant variety that 1s becoming 
: = | very popular. Large, delicious nuts of won- 
trees grow, and never goes deeper in the soil | gerful flavor are produced in three to four 
than do the oak, hickory, ae other trees. years after planting. Fast growing and a 
Pecans have their main feeding roots near | Vo free 5 Th ee a 
the surface, and are therefore easily fed by eee oa ae Eee Beak Ws te 
poae in legume crops and broadcast set out on the lawn or ee even ue a 
ferti eee rocky slope. Plant two or more trees to be 
_ It is not common to cut back Pecan trees | sure of nuts. Now every family can have a 
in planting, but it helps them to live to do | good supply of delicious Chestnuts again. 
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