The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-03
The Money Making Crop.


Not cotton at ) cents per pound, but
I. scans at only cent per pound will bring
IN greatest wealth acre for acre. We
4 not mean that pecans will ever sell at
mt per pound, or at cents per pound,
i NJ We mean that at only l cent per pound
4 n at only so pounds to tree the earn
- would be $50 and 80 cents per acre
\ 5M and the cost only of gathering by
,iIdren. You grow cotton at a cost of
/. hi less than to cents per pound, and
IN cent of it is yours because you eat
4 all while it is growing. Did ever a crop
4 AXE more dependent slaves than does
zptton?
n Did YOU ever hear of fruit or vegetable
tfaler getting down on his knees to his
4 erchant and begging for bread and meat
A support his family while his crop is
.rowing? In the worst days of slavery the
nero was never as much a slave as is
H. white man to-day, growing cotton for
4 living to the neglect of other crops.
Ia time has come when the people in the
totton-growing states must grow other
NOS. There is one thing too long neg
4 cted on our southern farms: that is the
trowing of trees, which can be done at
A the farm as no other product can. Cali
trnia and Florida owe their prosperity
ID tree planting-an industry suitable Gn
tDme kinds) TO every state in the union.
Tie supplying of fruits, nuts and vegetas
fes for the northern markets should
tot be left to far-away California.
fvery state south of Mason and
fx0n's line should come in for its share.
u California tho English walnut the al
tond, the prune, plums, cherries, apricots,
BIZ nectarines have all paid better prof
n than oranges and lemons. In growing
d nuts one great advantage is overlooked;
ffat is their bookkeeping qualities, as
t1mpared with fruits, which must be
lrred into market to save loss. Above
4 others. the pecan will keep the longest
.hemaining sweet for at least twelve
f0nths. Growing with great luxuTiance
tnl profit wherever the hickory or black
alnut will grow, there is no nut tree
Which Yields such large incomes at so
fnall a cost.
The best Texas thin-shell pecan mot
Very plenty) costs but IS to plant one
tcre, yet in ten years time they will earn
lundreds of dollars per acre. counting
D. nuts to- sch at only 10 cents per pound.
~ in most all markets (even here in
fexas) they retail from Is cents to 80 cents
D. pound for the common eating nut
There is an impression abroad that to
grow the pecan successfully it must be
fanted along streams and that it will be
fifteen or twenty years before it will bear
Nature did all this planting, but since man
Pas commenced the work he has planted
iWay from the streams amid cultivated
reids with greater success than attends
Pc wild growth. The secret of the tree
growth of the pecan is that it's long tap
pot Will 80 deep for moisture and feed
Pc upon soils unreached by trees of COM
'non growth. Cultivated in connection
\ nth other crops, on same ground. the
pecan Will commence bearing in six years,
pay we'll at eight and handsomely at ten
Fears. In the plans we now recommend
|or planting, an acre will grow sixty-one
fees and leave room for growing of other
Props in the same ground. At ten years
pld tree will bear at least so pounds of
Pecans. At 10 cents per pound that is IS
per tree, or yield of 1906 per acre, and
|he products of your other crops on same
ma 10 be added. The fact is the nuts
EroWn Will be worth from 20 to so cents per
Ouhd instead of 10 cents, and sell at those
IIces IN your home markets. They con-
nued bearing up to thirty years old, and
IoAunue bearing for hundreds of years.
livery one knows that by DEMONSTRATING
pe Wlld growth of any tree the yield
largely increased. We have wild pc
'ah trees here, which their owners say at
we've and fifteen years of age yield ten
Z Twelve bushelsNof nuts.
we know of one tree wild which has
,alu It's owner six years in succession over
|" per annum, and bids fair to do at
sasl that for hundreds of years to come.
ms tree is in cotton field, cultivated
,Lnu ally. Here is an industry worthy of
IA On every farm in every state in the
Nun GU can safely count on annual in
Olles and large profits without risk or in
eel pests, and only ten acres supporting
Idihlly IN luxury and laying by a snug
I'M IN every year besides. Herbert Post.
Fort Worth. Tex.