The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-06

planting. The pecans will grow in any
section along the Seaboard Air Line
and the nuts command a good price.
An acre set to pecans will return a
revenue four times what an acre set to
cotton will yield and when once set
and in good growing coalition, they do
not need any more attention than a
hickory nut tree. They can be set in
the woods and will do we'll if q space
ten feet square is cleared of trees and
brush. They can be set in old worn
out aud abandoned fields if a hole three
feet square and two feet deep is dug
and filed with rich dirt from the woods,
and in planting the Old worn out fields
in pecans we are enhancing the value
of the lands to ut least twenty dollars
an acre in four years. II the trees are
properly cared for in four years they
will be fine thrifty trees and a farm In
pecans four years old a be readily
sold for twenty five to fifty dollars and
acre. II only requires about thirty
trees to an acre and at three cents a
tree the cost would only be ninety
cents. Three hundred trees at a cost
Of nine dollars will Get ten acres. Per
sons desiring to secure vines end trees
must arrange 60 purchase chem through
their nearest 8 a L Station or Indus
trial Agent. Trees and vines will not
b. sold to anyone az the price named
unless an Industrial or Station Agent
guarantees that they are to De planted
on lana that ID tributary TO the Sea
board Air Line. That is on land owned
by persons Who do business at some
points on the Slaboagd Air Line. They
may live twenty miles swBy from the
road but il they GO their business by
the SsaboaTd AIR Line they will be n.
titled SO purchase the vines and trees
at prices named.
Persons living eff the Seaboard Air
Line territory can buy the trees, vines
and NUS of the Pinobluf Grape & Pa.
csn Company, at an advance Of four
G3tAA = PAhO%o htFAA4lN oS'HNs
Tne following is copied from the
Stuart Pecan Go. Circular. They sell
year old pecan trees at twenty cents
each, the regular price of all nurseries
except the PInebluf Company, whose
regular selling prices is twelve cents
for nus and grape vines. The special
offer OF three cents each can be offered
only through the Seaboard Air Line
Station and Industrial Agents as STATED
above.
The pecan belongs to the hickory
family, and is found growing in it's
wild state in Texas, often measures
three to four feet in diameter, with a
spread of top sixty to seventy feet.
Many years ago some nuts were planted
in Maryland, and nov some OF the
finest in the Union may be found
growing there rs habit is lower and
more spreading than the HICKORY.
When not too much surrounded by
other trees, forming one Of the hand
somesf Of shed9'trees, with foliage a
rlch, d RI green color. UfGer favor
aole condit On IL is very Ia id growth.
TIE cultivation sauuld % thorough
Il is best to grow some crop TIE frat
four or five yeara; cotton il i-cREed
in the cotton growing Orla, or any crop
requiring Clean culture viii DO, and by
mulching after the trefs have come
into bearing the orchard may be turned
into q pasture.
The pecan begins to bear in some in
stances at five years, uaoaily six or
seven years. If the tree has mad coed
attention, it nearly elwaye blooms one
year before bearing nuts. As ten years
of ege you may expect a paying crop,
increasing in quantity annually until
the tree arrives at q mature bearing
age, IS to so sears"
JNO T PATRICK,
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