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The SOUTHERN PECAN TREE, with its graceful beauty, affords one of the handsomest trees in 
the world. It grows tall and shapely, with graceful arches, leafing out fully in hot June and re- 
taining its foliage until well into Autumn, when heavy crops of delicious nuts may be harvested. 
Indeed, this tree offers the ultimate in a combination of shade and fruit! Deeply-rooted, it offers 
almost unshakeable resistance to the winds; and one might well say, when once established, “It 
lives forever’. George Washington planted pecan trees that still can be seen growing at Mt. 
Vernon. 
PECAN PRODUCTION ties in well with farm activities. Besides the beneficial and beautiful 
shade the trees afford, they may be mutually beneficial in poultry, cattle, and hog raising. Pecans 
may be interplanted with peaches, pears, plums, or other fruits, and the fruit-trees taken out after 
they have become non-productive. Pecan groves may be successfully interplanted with cotton, corn, 
or truck the first few years, and only a strip may be left for the trees gradually widening the tree 
rows as the trees grow. Pecan growing can be a profitable, permanent business, and a farmer 
can “grow into it’’ without loss of his land while the trees are reaching commercial productivity. 
Large pecan groves may be handled with a minimum of labor and expense, by use of machinery 
for cultivation and harvesting, and by grazing of cattle where practicable. 
ADAPTATION as a shade-tree is practically universal thruout the entire U.S. , but for production 
of nuts the pecan tree requires temperate to warm climate and fairly long growing season with 
medium rainfall. Generally, it can be said that it will produce nuts in Tex., Okla., Ky., W. Va., 
Ark., Md., and states southward and eastward, including Va., N. C., S. C., Ga., and Fla. 
SOILS best suited are mildly acid, fertile, fairly well-drained, high in organic content (gray, dark, 
or chocolate-colored topsoil) and underlaid with clay subsoil. Generally, good cotton land will 
produce good pecans. Avoid sandy soils with no “bottom” or clay subsoil; or gummy, low lands 
that are continually boggy or under water; and avoid “new-ground” whenever possible. 
PREPARATION FOR PLANTING. Home plantings, where shade is of equal or greater importance 
than fruit, may be spaced 25 or 30 ft. apart. Care should be taken to avoid planting near large 
trees or large-growing shrubs. Before staking out an orchard, the land should be thoroughly 
plowed or disked, so that there is no danger from fire, and laying off the rows will be much 
easier. Trees should be spaced at least 60 x 60 ft., which will take 14 trees peracre in triangles, 
or 12 per acre if planted in squares. Ifland is very fertile, plant 70x70 ft. which’ will take 10 trees 
per acre in triangles, or 9 per acre in squares. Trees may be advantageously planted along 
field-lines, or along both sides of home lanes. They make exellent wind-breaks in large fields. 
If the land is rolling or terraced, trees may be planted on terraces, but care should be taken to 
give ample spacing to avoid later competition between trees. 
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