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Pecans 
Provide 
Profit 
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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 
feet, depending on soil conditions. It is a 
mistake to plant Pecan or any other nut or 
fruit trees so they will be crowded in a few 
years. 
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- 
modate the tap-root; a post-hole digger will 
do for this. Set tree in this hole so that when 
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 
among the lateral roots. When the bottom 
of the 3-foot hole is reached, bring up soil 
over roots in a cone shape. Then put about 
two bushels of rotted stable manure in the 
3-foot opening around tree; cover all with 
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 
leach into the shallow opening. The tap- 
root of young Pecan trees is out of proportion 
to the top, but does not continue in that 
ratio, but becomes of less importance as the 
trees grow, and never goes deeper in the soil 
than do the oak, hickory, or other trees. 
Pecans have their main feeding roots near 
the surface, and are therefore easily fed by 
plowing: in legume crops and_ broadcast 
fertilizers. 
It is not common to cut back Pecan trees 
in planting, but it helps them to live to do 
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so, and the lower you cut the better they 
live. Rub off and keep off all sprouts except 
three or four at the top. When trees begin 
to grow, stir the ground around them with a 
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. 
\MOORE. Nuts fairly small, but of excellent 
quality. Bears young and produces more 
pounds of nuts per tree than any other 
standard variety. 
“STUART. Large to very large; shell of 
medium thickness and cracks well. A 
heavy bearer and good grower. 
SCHLEY. Medium to large; very thin shell 
with pointed ends; meat plump and of 
best flavor. 
~_ CHINESE. CHESTNUTS 
(See color illustration page 13) 
A blight-resistant variety that 1s becoming 
very popular. Large, delicious nuts of won- 
derful flavor are produced in three to four 
years after planting. Fast growing and a 
very free bearer. The tree 1s wide and low 
branching and needs no special care. May be 
set out on the lawn or anywhere, even on a 
rocky slope. Plant two or more trees to be 
sure of nuts. Now every family can have a 
good supply of delicious Chestnuts again. 
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