The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-27

ground as do taller trees. The limbs are
not so liable 20 bend down with their fruit
and more easily propped up If desired.
Such branches are affected by the sun
only upon the upper side, while the I'M
derslde being shaded, grows the fastest.
lience this upright growth of limb permits
close planting So long has the common
saying been that we will not plant pc
cans we will have so long to waltz
What Of that? Is not that a very sell
nsh view TO take? Somebody planted the
fruit which YOU now enjoy and the next
generation has the same calm upon YOU.
Are you not going TO wait anyway as
long as you live? Would it be any worse
waiting with a good pecan grove of nifty
acres than waiting without one?
Seys a man in Georgia: Il am 50 years
old. but l am planting pecons, partly for
myself and partly for posterity. man
VINO plants fifty acres will ne rich man
IN ten years, for under cultivation the
trees will begin to bear In six years, and
VIII be profitable when ten years old"
HIS experience is like ours. Under cult
walton the trees will grow four or five
times as fast as uncultivated. will bear
when six years old. pay at eight. and
very profitable when ten years old,
earning easily s. per tree, and
annual Increase until fun maturity. when
thirty 10 forty years old. continuing in
bearing during their life of hundreds of
years, We do not know how long. but
we have knowledge of one tree here which
was killed by lightning a few years ago.
When cut down it's rings showed it to be
over 500 years old and bearing the last
year of its life
we recommend the planting of vegetable
crops among the pecan trees until they are
ola enough to shade the ground. the cul-
uVation of which gives the trees the cult
walton they require In all orchard
growth cultivate the trees as thoroughly
as you do your corn field. 1t will pay
During this season both Texas and Florida
nave grown vegetable crops, earning from
500 to 800 per acre. and others can do the
same The fact is the Southern states
can easily become the early garden for
the North al great profit in early ship
mems. In addition to the earnings of the
vegetable crop the tree growth of the pc
can grove easily adds one hundred dollars
per acre annually, for when ten years old
me owner could not afford to sell his
grove at $1,000 per acre. for its 10 per cent
earnings far exceed that valuation Do
not plant any other trees among The pc
cans as the vegeta Bile or other low grow
ing crops will pay you vastly better.
Wherever the hickory or walnut grow the
pecan will thrive. Their long taproots
get their food way below the surface and
Will grow well upon lands where the sur
face may be worn out for other crops,
thus bringing into profitable cultivation
| fields considered worn out There is no
reason why the Southern states cannot
grow as commercial enterprises large pc
can groves of the Texas thin shell pecan
as California now does of 100 10 600 acres
OF Walnuts, olives, prunes. pears, peaches,
etc, with the profit largely ia favor of
the pecan Freedom from blight, from
the usual insect pests earning royal in
comes for generations, taking the outlay
and income, the pecan has no
equal. Using dynamite in tree planting
is productive of wonderful results, and
should be more generally used in the
planting of every kind of tree, whether
for fruit or for shade
Here is one of the safest surest paying
investments. Parents can make for their
children, their children's children for
twenty generations Pecan groves can
not run away, cannot burn up, will not
default. for Nature is the best of pay
masters and every one who can put $50
into pecan grove of fifty acres. containing
$3.50 trees, has got fortune on the invest
ment as soon as the trees will average
| only 81 each, saying nothing of the great
er earnings following for years. There
is no blow about these facts, for the pos
sibilities of pecan culture are beyond any
statement we make.
| OF the Twentieth Century pecan. with
nuts as large as guinea eggs weighing
| twenty 70 twenty-five nuts 20 the pound
we need say but little as growing upon
but few trees the supply is very limited
They are the nGes$ grated pecan grown,
without exception
Another advantage of pecan groves
upon a farm is the increased value of
! every acre by the presence of such
grove mich adds very materially to its
valuation. In fact, we do not know of
any drawbacks to successful pecan cul-
ture, and certainly no other tree growth
can equal this Industry. costing so little,
with such enormous earnings. No fear
OF an oversupply, II this generation should
plant millions of acres, for the pecan
grows upon no other continent, and the
pecan nut is but little known i'm Europe
Very soon we will have 100000 900 of peo-
pie in this country. where the pecan nut
is the favorite nut of all others and will
consume all which can be grown
Fort Worth, Tex. Herbert Post