The Little River news., 1918-04-10
MAKE YOUR SHAOE
 TREES TREES PECAN TREES
This Is the Advice Given To Arkansas People By J. S. Knox, of the
 Extension Division.

Make your shade trees pecan trees Then you will have shade in summer and good supply of oceans for the winter. This is the advice given to Arkansas people by J. s. Knox, hoI. oiculturist for the Agricultural Exten. .iion Division of the University ot Arkansas, who says:
 Many of the farm homes over Ar kansas that do not have shade trees could be made far more attractive by the planting of several pecan trees about the premises. Not only do the trees make excellent shade trees, but they will also furnish an abundance 3i delicious nuts, which, according to different authorities, are the richest n food value of all the nut fruits. Tho writer has been very favorably impressed with the possibility for pc. can growing in this State because of the fact that in many sections thou. sands of wild pecan trees seem to ;hIive and bear crops of nuts. The wild species is, however, so far infe TOT to the cultivated varieties that ,it does not pay to plant them fo1 commercial purposes.
 Pecan Trees Demand Fertile Soil.
 The soil best suited to pecan cul ,ure seems to be the rich bottom lands "here the drainage is good, but as $ the case with other fruits, it can se grown on great diversity of soils. provided the soil be made fairly fer, lie. Trees have been seen growing n soils that were far from the rich. est in fertility, but as rule trees clanted on such soils make very low growth. It will pay the grower, therefore, to see that the soil is put Il good shape, so far as fertility and cultivation are concerned, before the -'ees are planted.
 : ant Treea Three to Four Years Oid
 It is generally considered best to plant trees from three to four years old, and some nurserymcn would planl them even five to seven years old T. seems, however, that for trees SC large, damage done to the root sys m in digging would be hard to over. come. It makes. little difference where trees gre bought, so long az they are we'll grown trees that are rue to name. This means, of course ,hat they should be secured from reliable nurseryman.
 Do Not Plant Pecan Seed.
 Et is not considered advisable fo, 'i,e amateur to try to bud or graf, his own trees, because pecan trees are flore difficult to propagate than the ivcrage fruit tree. One should no' plant pecan seed and expect the trees which they produce to bear nuts like me ones planted At the South Car ollna Experiment Station about 5C 'uts from single pecan tree were planted and not one of the trees grown from these nuts bear fruit lik, the original tree. AS rule the seed ling trees are far inferior to the budded or grafced ones.
 How to Plant Pecan Trees.
 The distance apart to plant the trees depends upon the kind of soil upon which they are to be grown. Oi, he thinner soils from 45 to 50 fee apart each way may not be too close but on the rich lands they should not he planted closer than 65 10 70 fec; oach way. If planted 65 feet each way it will require only about ter trees to plant an acre. or twelve treeo if planted 60 feet apart. Since there are only few trees for each acre enc should use every care to see that he trees arc planted just right Eacl tree that dies means one-tenth of ar acre to plant over.
 How to Care for Pecan Trees.
 Pecan orchards should be kept cul tivated, and for the first few years oi their growth the orchard may be in tercropped, using truck crops OF any of the farm crops that do not inter fere with the growth of the trees. T. should be remembered. however. tha' it does not pay to get closer then four to five feet of the young tree with an intercrop, and as the trees grow older the distance must be in creased from the trees. The question is often asked how old pecan trees arc befose they begin to bear Hero no definite answer can be made, but usually 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. 1 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 It should be remembered, however. that after an orchard once reaches a bearing age it is ordinarily good fo1 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