El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-10
THE HIGH PRICED PECAN.
"a Pecan Grove Is tho Very Best Life

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| a Louisiana planter who says he has
developed the largest bearing pecan
| orchard in the south is frequently ask
| ed the relative value of Seeding and
| budded pecan trees, and he answers
the question from actual experience in
| Home and Farm as follows
Where one plants Seeding trees that
| grew from fine. large nuts he gets a
! large proportion of trees that bear
| large, handsome nuts. 1 have proved
| that with my own grove. The nuts do
| not reproduce themselves with exact
ness. Yet where one is not able to buy
| budded trees it is no very great risk
| to plant seeding trees.
If one is rich and able to buy bud
ded trees, doubtless it is best to buy
them, provided you know all about the
parent tree. That must be fine in the
first instance or the fact that the tree
is budded is worth nothing. num-
Der of varieties of pecans have been
named, budded and introduced that
are almost valueless. The pecans are
big, and that is all. They are poorly
favored, badly filled out. thick skinned
and poor yielders. Bigness alone is
not sufficient virtue to recommend a
pecan, and people are fast finding that
out The perfect pecan tree must be
prolific, the nuts of good size, well
filed out, thin shell and of good flavor.
My plan was this: planted 15 years
ago the finest nuts l could find. The
Louisiana pecans are the best. A large
percentage of the trees when they
came into bearing bore fine nuts, but
few proved inferior. 1 either cut these
out where too thick or topped them and
budded them to fine varieties.
For man who has children or for
young people pecan grove is the very
best life insurance possible. The price
of fine pecans is higher in New Orleans
and New York than the price of any
other nut. The supply has never yet
met the demand. The public is fast
learning that they are the best of all
nuts. And then, best of all. the tree is
not injured by overflow or by blight
or any form of disease that know Of
1 have planted peach orchards. vine
yards. plums, chestnuts and English
walnuts, and disease and disaster have
killed them all. The pecan grove alone
stands unframed. 1t is the only tree
that will stand the trying effects of our
climate for a long series of years and
survive them all.
A Good Outlook For Spring Pork.
There are some who consider clover
fattened spring pork better than the
corn made fall supply. The result is
that extra prices are often paid for
clean, sweet spring pork which can.
not be obtained for the corn made fall
pork. There is at present an excellent
outlook for next springs hogs, and it
will pay to carry pigs along so that
they will be in fine condition for spring
fattening. So says American Cultiva-
tor and adds:
Quick and rapid growth is neces-
sary for the success of this work, and
both the feed and the protection of the
animals must be considered. We can
not feed them too literally up to the
point where they do not waste any of
the food. 1t should be seen that the
animals are not exposed too much to
inclement weather. In very cold
months a good deal of our food is
sometimes required simply to make
animal heat. An excess of this waste
of heat to keep the bodies warm is a
great loss in the end. The amount of
actual food required to keep the pigs
growing rapidly depends to a degree
upon the protection the animals re-
celve. Turn them loose in the cold
pens in all kinds Of rough weather
without good sleeping pens and warm
bedding and they will require fully 20
per cent more food just to keep up to
the normal standard of animal heat.
The Artichoke.
The artichoke ranks as one of the
best and most profitable crops for win
ter hog pastures in the south. The
tubers may be cut in small pieces for
planting, as is done with Irish pota-i
toes. and about the same amount of
''seed'' per acre is required. They are
planted in the same manner and re-
quire the same cultivation as the Irish
potato. The tuberS make very little
growth before October and do not be-
come thoroughly matured before De-
cember. The yield is larger than that