The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-18
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

Raising for PrOht-PlOW1ng Ohuer
or Feeding Pea Vines-Where Does
Nitrogen Come From.-Agricul-
turai Terms.
THE world do grow is as true now,
as when this remarkable discovery
took place. No longer can pecan groves
any more than orange groves be con-
sidered as an experiment, for it is fast
coming to the front as the most profit
able industry which can be engaged in
by the masses. Unlike the culture OF
oranges, lemons, pine apples, almonds,
prunes, ETC., the pecan is of as uni
versal growth as the hickory and wal
nut, and upon any good soil that will
successfully grow other trees. One
thing that has deferred the planting
of groves is that so many say 20. we
cannot wait so long for them to bear.
We may not live to get any personal
benefit some one else would get the
fruit of my labor" Just remember that
for the tree products you enjoy, some
| one planted the trees for those who
should come after them and you owe
as much to others as you receive. You
will wait while you live. and royal
income every year might help you to
pass the evening of life in comfort and
luxury not obtained by any other in
vestment of like nature, but should
you not live you leave a patrimony to
your children, worth vastly more to
your memory than would be costly
granite monument.
A man who is living at 20 years of
age has the prospect of longer life than
many others at forty, and he can plant
with the expectation of gathering the
fruit of his planting.
There is a vast difference between
cultivated trees and those growing
wild. uncultivated, the cultivated pc
can trees growing four or FIVE times as
| fast.
No one need have the least fear of
| an over supply of pecans, if millions
| of trees were planted every year. With
! $4,000, 900 of people in the United States,
and the world outside for a market,
| the demand will for this generation
at least, keep pace with the supply,
| however large
The demand for the future will be
for the large. thin shell pecan, for both
| planting and for the market, as with
thousands none but the best will an
swer for their table.
| The demand also for nut meats is
very large. If the nut crackers can get
them, one hundred carloads per annum
will be easily consumed, as the de-
mand is on the increase annually. The
| pecan being the most popular nut
| grown, and growing only upon this
continent we need have no fear of an
oversupply.
Parents and guardians of children
will find here an investment of small
outlay, safe and under cultivation
sure of large annual income through
life of many generations. We do not
believe that any one planting the
choice Texas thin-shell pecan will live
long enough to see their product sell at
prices which are Improbable. The price
you pay for seed now of the choicer
varieties is hardly to be considered
even If the price should be IS per pound
That would not be a tenth part of the
cost of planting an acre in oranges.
Intensive farming must come in al
over Southern states to reap the great
est benefit from the soil. Many may
have forgotten that the largest known
yield OF corn in the world upon a sin
gle acre was grown upon poor soil q
few years ago by intensive culture in
South Carolina.
1t is an exploded idea, or ought to be
that to succeed best in planting pecar
trees. they must be 40 or so feet apart
so they may have a wide spread o.
limb. We have learned that the pecal
tree can be treated same as a frui
tree in its pruning and cultivation
Heading of the pecan when 2 or year.
old chat is, removing the inner limb.
growing over the tap root in the cen.
teri, has produced a wonderful advanc,
in their culture. The three great requi
sites of success being close planting
heading in and cultivation. Forty b,
forty feet apart gives but twenty-sevel
trees to the acre, while the plan w,
advise is the equilateral triangle meth
cd, whereby 125 trees are planted t,
the acre without crowding. The tree
planted 4OX40 are so far apart that tn,
pollen from each tree fails to fertiliz
the other, and small crops are the re
suit
, Twenty by twenty feet apart. TIL
trees being same age, hight and dis
lance. the air currents carry the pol
len from tree to tree, the result beinj
heavier crops, as such pollen is add
) ed to that borne by. each tree Head
, ing in causes the outer limbs to turf
inward, instead of growing. as the,
do in the forest, laterally. With thes
advantages cultivation rapidly hasten
l SIOWl III, NlSOi, WIFI large crops TO re
ward. Upon the same soil, until tn
) limbs shade the ground. we recon
mend the growing of vegetables o
other low growing crops. but never an
: other trees, as the pecan should tn
most valuable, no other trees Shout
r be among them to stunt their growth
One of the greatest paying industrie
of the South for the early Northern
markets is that of tomatoes, and hun
, dreds OF thousands of bushels will b
raised before the early markets will b
, over-supplied.
| In Cherokee county, Texas. this sum
mer, twelve farmers, on fifty acres
earned $2S7.S0 net per acre in tomatoe
for Northern markets. This crop ca
be probably grown upon the sam
: land with the pecan trees. the cultiva
? | ton Of the tomatoes also cultivatin
the trees. Cannot the same results b
obtained, or better still, in the Gul
( and Atlantic states, being nearer tn
, Eastern markets? A word as to tn
, earnings of such pecan trees as ma
be reasonably expected. Under cult
walton the pecan will bear in ST
years from the nut (some trees her
bear at five): will pay at eight, an
, at ten will earn from So to $40 per tree
1t is not unreasonable to expect tina
such nuts will sell for planting an
/, market at .25 cents per pound. Bu
we will call 1t 20 cents per pound;
, means only twenty-five pounds at .
, cents. and $40. fifty pounds at 20 cent
per pound. Now, divide this by tw