The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-04

the same cultivation being SUFFICIENT
also for the trees.
Having spent some time in California
this summer, / visited the orange, wal
nut, olive, almond and prune groves
and must say l never before SO Iully
appreciated the value which constant
cultivation of all their nut and fruit
groves gives. The neglected groves
constantly running down, While those
cultivated were made continually more
valuable.
Most of the later planted groves ana
orchards are planted by the equilateral
triangle method, which gives l25 trees
to the acre without crowding, wnlIe
the square method gives but los to the
acre.
The theory of cultivation of the
groves and orchards is correct Early
in the season il is necessary 10 get
the ground in the best possible con-
dition before the spring growth begins;
During the fruiting season the ground
is frequently stirred, kept pulverized
in order to get best results in the ma
turity of the fruit.
BY thus keeping the surface IN
loose, pliable condition you counterfeit
in a measure the effects of drought.
and to some extent the dropping OF
the fruit. The bearing trees need
quite as much watchfulness in Guilt
walton as does a mans stock, to see
whether they have the proper 1000
to make them keep growing. Many
people who have seen large wide
spreading pecan trees have supposed
that they needed a great deal of room
because such trees were widely sepa-
rated. We have learned better, thanks
to- the California orchardists, and now
know that close planting. heading in
and cultivation gives the greatest sue
cess in pecan culture, and the trees
can be treated absolutely as fruit
tree from seed to harvest.
Close planting 20x20 and 125 trees
to the acre, because of their nearness
to each, become more perfectly pull
verified by the wind currents produc-
ing large crops. Uniform in distance,
in age in hight, with less liability OF
injury by high winds and easier gath
ering of the crop. Heading-in of the
trees when two or three years old,
produces short tree trunks, lessons sun
scald, causes the limbs to curve in
ward instead of lateral, assuming
somewhat the shape of pear tree
Cultivation causes rapid growth,s so that
in six years from the nut planted the
trees begin to bear at ten years of
age gives handsome earnings, while
uncultivated, such trees would not bear
as much when fifteen years old.
Fifty acres planted at cost for the
nuts of $3.50 only would contain 1880
trees. When the earnings are only 81
per tree Counting the nuts at twenty
pounds, at only cents per pound) you
have s6,250 earnings on first outlay
of $500. the earnings increasing an
nually until the tree natures, when
80 or 40 years old, and continue in bear
ing for twenty generations. 1t looks
like a good and safe investment if the
trees earned only % cents each. don't
it? We found that many growers of
both nuts and fruits in California de-
cided that the growing of English wal
nuts was more profitable than growing
| of oranges. The large profits in nut,
| fruit and vegetable growing are very
encouraging to the Southern states, as
the location gives them monopoly
| for the early vegetables for the North.
In connection with pecan groves the
| one item of tomatoes proves to be very
| profitable, the demand for which is al
| ways large early in the Northern mar
| kets
During this season in Cherokee coun-
| ty. Texas, rs growers aggregating 50
| acres in tomatoes had net earnings
of $20,S50, or $254.25 per acre. What
Texas is doing every other Southern
state can do likewise. Brain and Drawn
together accomplish greater results
than Drawn alone. Plant so acres in
pecans, use the same soil in growing
tomatoes, of which the earnings OF
one acre only will pay all the cost OF
the pecan nuts for planting the SO
acres, and you have a source of wealth
not easily equalled by any other.
Fort Worth, Tex. Herbert Post.