Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-15
WOULD PLANT PECAN
TREES ALONG ROAD
Suggestion By Mr.. BGazley,
Of LGGSbUFg

Mr.. C. H. Beazley, of Leesburg, makes
the suggestion that the highways Of
this section be lined with pecan trees
in order to afford comfort to the trav
eler and profit, also, in the supply
of nuts to be obtained in this way.
In his letter to The Times Recorder,
Mr.. Beazley speaks as follows:
In your Saturday issue you are very
complimentary to Lee county in your
notice of the pike we are building from
Smithville to Leesburg, and as an
incident the fine condition of the roads
through Macon and Sumter counties
comes in for mention. The great
work of making travel possible in the
coantry is deserving of the highest
praise and your words are worthily
bestowed on the people who give their
money to build such arteries of COM
munication.
l hope it will not be taken amiss
to here make some slight suggestion
that might improve the roads a great
deal and at the same time be no real
burden on the people.
AS things stand in Sumter, Lee Ma
con and other counties, there are long
hot, dusty stretches of road that lead
through open fields with not a tree in
sight for shade and in the summer
with the mercury decidedly over the
hundred mark. This conditions makes
for the injury of farm animals COM
PEELED to pull loads over them, aud IS
of course a detriment to their work
ing powers, aside from the inconven-
fence to the human beings who suffer
with them.
Needless suffering is wrong, neces-
sary endurance is heroic, the Drawing
of the elements in the discharge OF
duty is commepdable, the defying of
sunstroke of man and beast when it
can be easily avoided is foolish.
A line of pecan trees along these
roads would reduce the temperature
many degrees in summer; would keep
down weeds and grass that now rem
der the sides unsightly and choke up
at added expense the cutters, neceS,
stating more frequent repairs. The
grown trees would be profitable from
a food standpoint and for the added
saving of fence posts for the wire
fencing often found necessary along
the highways.
In some sections of Cuba the gov
eminent has for miles bordered the
public highway with orange and 9th
er fruit trees. The result is fruit and
much less sunsickness. In other parts
of the world the experiment has been
tried always with profit to the coun-
try in added values of land, for the
psychological fact must be taken into
consideration that things that please
NhS man Will lllOlCy anu duu W us
comfort are large factors in getting
his money to stay in their neighbor-
hood.
When the farmers, and if necessary
the counties rendering them the as
sistance of furnishing nursery stock
and perhaps planting, make these
highways things of beauty, as well as
of profit, does anyone suppose that
what is now perhaps a bare, desolate
field with here and there a patch while
the rest is sunswept and weed-grown
will present a far more attractive APP
pearance and, of course, sell for much
more on the market In this age Of
quick travel what is to prevent the
desirability of lots, miles distant, be-
ing the home of the business man in
town, or the winter home of the man
of millions from the north to whom .
hundred dollars an acre would be but
a plaything. Nothing could be lost
by the experiment for the trees would
of themselves be an asset in this day
of diminishing forests and increased
cost of fence and wood supplies.