The Dermott news., 1918-02-07
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his Is .e Advice Gwen To Arkansas Topic By J <. Knox, of the
 Extension Division.


 nd good supply Of oceans for the tsinter This is the advice given to trkansas people by !. <. Knox, hor icut'urist or the Agricultural EXten- .on pis ion of the University of Arkansas wto says:
 Man. of the farm homes over Ar tansas that do not have shade trees 'ould be made far more attractive by lie planting of several pecan trees about the premises. Not only do the reas make excellent shade trees. but they vii also furnish an abundance f delc5ous nuts, which. according to Efesent authorities. are the richest Il tood value of all the nut fruits. fh" writer has been very fayorably impressed with the possibility for pe- ean growing in this State because of the fact that in many sections thou sands Of wild pecan trees seem 10 h..se and bear crops of nws The aild species is. however. so far rife. rior to the cultivated varieties that | does no' pay to plant them for commercial purposes
 Pecan Trees Demand Fertile Soil
 The soil besf suited To pecan eul- ture set. .ns to# be the rich bottom lands whore the drafnare is good. hut ae k the case with other fruits. il can he grown on sreat diversity of soils provided the soil b. mad, fatrly fer ale Trees have been seen growing on soils that were far from the rfch- est in fertility. bat as q rule trees rlanted on sgch soils mako verr zloH growth. | will pay the srover therefore to ser that the soil k put ta good aape. SO far as fertility and cultivation are concerned. before the esees are planted.
 Plant Trees Three to Four Years Old
 | N generally considered best to p'azE trees from three to four years e'4 and soac nurserymen would plant tgen even five to seven years old T. seems. however, the for trees 90 large. damage done .o the root sys- tsm ia digging would be hard 10 oyer come l. makes little difference where trees are bought. 90 long as .hey are well grown trees that are rue te name This means Of course. that they should be secured from q Ea!iable nursery ymau.
 Do Net Plant Pecan Seed.
 T. k not considered advisable for the amateur to try to bud or graft his own trees, because pecan trees arc more difficult 10 propagate than the average frult tree. One should not plant pecan seed and expect the trees which they produce to bear nuts like the ones planted Al the South Car ol,aa Experiment Station about 90 nuts from a single pecan tree were planted and not one of the trees grown from these nuts bear fruit like the orig tree \. a rule the seed Ing trees are far inferior to the budded CT grafted ones.
 How to Plant Pecan Trees.
 The distance apart to plant the trsas depends upon the kind of soil qpon which they are to be grown On fhe thinner soil from 45 to 50 feet apart each way may not be too close. but on the rich landS they should not he planted closer than 65 10 70 feet each way. If planted G. feet each way il will require only about ten Jrees n plant an ace. or twelve trees II planted So feet apart Since there gre only few trees for each acre. one should use ever. care to see that the trees are planted just right Each tree that dies means one-tenth of an acre 10 plant over.
 How to Care for Pecan Trees.
 Pecan orchards should be kept eul tiyated. and for the first few wears of their growth the orchard may be in tercropped. using truck crops or any ot the farm crops that do not inter. fere with the growth of the trees. IL should be remembered. however. that it does not pay to get closer than four to five feet of the youns trees with an intercrop. and as the tree. grow older the distance must be in. creased from the trees. The question i0 'iNti upN OIu trees are before they begin Co bear. Here no definite answer can be made. but usually a few nuts are borne in from for To five years after the trees are planted. provided trees are three to four years old when they are set. | have known trees to reach an age of ten to twelve years before beginning to bear. The fact that it takes the trees so long to come into bearing is one of the principal reasons why the trees are not more generally planted Ii should be remembered, however, that after an orchard once reaches a bearing age 1t is ordinarily good for a long period of years. Pecan trees seldom pay any profit until they are ten to twelve years old.
 Varieties to Plant.
 As to varieties, there are several that do well in our State The Van