The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-05
PIsntine the Pecan for Results.

Planting the Pecan for Results.
 W. B. Stone in Farm and Ranch.
 Years ago when the pecan tree. q hardy member of the forest. was first given attention. it was allowed to hustle for itself and resist as best 1t could the annual COW pruning, and by the time it was seven years old 1t got
 to be seven feet high. After that the root system was sufficiently strong to
 make 1t grow faster; so by the time it was fifteen or twenty years old IL would begin to bear nuts. or late years we have found that the pecan of the forest will bear cultivation ike the peach, pear and plum, and can be made seven feet high the second year, and begin to bear the seventh ana | eighth year. An improved pecan tree now planted on soil well adapted to 1t and given good attention will bear l fifty pounds of nuts the tenth year af- | ter planting.
 There is a pecan tree Ca budded
 Frotscher) that bore forty-ive pounds | the tenth year, and eighty pounds the eleventh year. growing right here Tn poor. sandy Southwest Georgia.
 Ten fine pecan trees planted for a l boy three to seven years old will send l him to college twelve years later. Just | think two minutes; judging from the nrogress of the present day when l l jcan youth needed a better education l for the future? Advanced age demands | an advanced education. for there are ahead of us advanced problems to
 solve. What will aid better and easier
 in the education of the youth thar q
 pecan grove? If the pecan had no other advantages, its ability to he'p solve in many instances the perplexine labor problem, then this point IS SUI fcient of itself to demand attent'cn 1 If might also prove in many sections solution of the boil weevil.
 Plant the trees and while they arc
 young they will not interfere with the cultivation of the general crops, op,
 are benefited by 1t. As the trees ge' large let the grove be grazing rancn
 and apply the profits of the ranch t' the grove for the improvement of tho
 Plant pecan trees right In the peaef | orchard. Plant them sixty by sixtN
 feet. This Is not too far. It onAS
 takes twelve trees to the acre, this dls'
 tance. TO plant them fifty by nft'
 feet require only seventeen trees to tn'
 acre By no means plant less thai
 fifty feet each way unless you will haV'
 inc nerve to cut out some. Peean'
 hear strictly at the end of the limbs
 so give the trees as much sunlight ant
 outside surface as possible. IT vol | want nuts give distance. IT you wan tirber plant closer. It is no troubl for a pecan tree to be sixty feet acros at forty years old. I measured on , eighty feet across and 1t was onl! tbirtv-nine years old At forty year r old pecan tree Is just in It's prime , Cant you wait ten years for pecai r free to bear a good crop? saw ethl , ,,oarl twenty-five pounds gathered iron 5 trhe seven years from planting Bu , reaIIv the question of waiting ten year
 is easily solved. It is done by asklni a muestion. How long has It taken ID
 inc last ten years 10 pass!
 About Seeding Pecan%'
 f Don't plant seeding Pecans, SN et a f from the finest seed, Every owner Q 7 every seeding grove m .ne s, 5na' , south today would say to you' aoh 2 t seedIings Even Texas. the Stat tbat furnishes one-haf of the oceans IT the Irnited states. had a special com , rnittee of the State Horticultural SO niatv last year to investigate the pecai
 industry and report as follows. fou , lcomnittee has visited twelve cltles U . the State where the pecan tree tiourlsn . . es, and found some very Valuaple trees There trees produce nuts to the Valu of $29 to Sl00 per annum We tiAd Una
 budding and grating from the mos
 valuable trees Is the only reliable wa fl of growing a commefcial pecan orchaFo ] as the nuts do not come true Iron seed"
 VIII the pecan industry soon be over
 done7 It Is not impossible, but IL II improbable. The consumption or nut 5 is largely on the increase. The unlte' States now imports over twenty mil