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Items of Interest
The hazel nut is said to be fast disappearing in the Ozark region.
B. W. Stone, chairman of the committee to arrange for a nut ex- it ibit at the Panama-Pacific Expo- sition, is making good progress.
At Dallas, Tex., an Oliver pecan bud was set Sept. 9, 1911, and on Oct. 9, 1914, three and a half pounds of nuts were gathered from the resultant limb.
The Georgia State College of Agriculture, through its adjunct professor of horticulture, is com- piling data regarding the pecan varieties supposed to be most suit- able for that state.
Purdue University, at Lafay- ette, Ind„ lias organized a course in practical forestry. The Nut- Grower is one of the periodicals which go regularly to the library of this institution of learning.
The Dupont Powder Company lias established at Albany, Ga., a dynamite and supply magazine so as to give better service to the pe- can growing trade. The magazine is stocked with their farm powder and 40 and 60 per cent dynamite.
The Chicago Record's Christmas Ship for the children of Europe was given an enthusiastic lift in contributions of Texas pecans. The Houston Post, Fort Worth Star- Telegram and many other Texas papers lent efficient assistance to the movement.
Several negro boys in Muscogee, Okla.. did a thriving business in selling pecans to retail dealers in that city. Later it developed that the nuts were stolen from a ware- house and the merchants had to submit to a confiscation of their purchases or be liable to prosecu- tion for receiving stolen goods.
Calhoun county, Mich., is active- ly engaged in planting fruit trees along the public highways. One hundred and twelve miles of state reward road is being eared for by road repair gangs. It is believed that the trees will protect the roads from washout, provide shade and beauty and produce revenue.
Pecan Literature
The increasing demand for informa- tion regarding pecans prompts the pub- lication of the following list of publica- tions, which we can furnish at prices named.
1. The Cost of a Pecan Orchard ; by J. F. Wilson: a 12-page reprint of a paper read at the Cairo meeting of the Georgia -Florida Pecan Growers’ Asso- ciation in 1909. Price 10c, 12 copies $1.00.
2. The Pecan and Its Culture; by H. H. Hume; a standard work covering every aspect of the business; topics con- veniently arranged under different head- ings; 160 pages; illustrated; cloth. Price $1.50.
3. The Use of Nuts; a book of nut recipes compiled by Mrs. Thomas A. Banning and her committee of ladies, under the auspices of the National Nut Growers’ Association; 116 recipes; 50 pages. Price 50c.
4. Proceedings of the 1904 conven- tion of the National Nut Growers’ As- sociation, held at St. Louis, Mo. A stenographic report containing a great variety of information. Illustrated with halftones of the original officers of the association. 124 pages. Price 25c.
5. Proceedings of the 1906 conven- tion, held at Scranton, Miss. A full and interesting report of a largely attended meeting at a historic pecan center. 124 pages. Price 25c.
6. Proceedings of the 1907 conven- tion, held at the Jamestown Exposition. One of the most complete volumes of the kind ever published. 112 pages. Price 25c.
7. Proceedings of the 1909 conven- tion. held at Albany, Ga. All the for- mal papers and reports, with story of trip to the largest pecan orchards in the world. 68 pages. Price 25c.
8. Proceedings of the 1910 conven- tion, held at Monticello, Fla. Gives stenographic report of discussions, with papers and reports of this intensely in- teresting and most important conven- tion. Contains Judge Whipple’s fa- mous paper, “Why Pecans?” and a care- fully prepared historical sketch of the association. 115 pages. Price 25c.
9. Proceedings of the 1913 conven- tion, held at Houston, Tex. 90 pages. Price 50c.
10. Proceedings of the 1914 conven- tion. 82 pages of closely printed mat- ter, containing full stenographic report of the meeting. Price 50c.
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., JANUARY 1915 NUMBER 1
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
By Charles A. Van Duzee
Delivered at the Thomasville Convention of the National Nut Growers’ Association
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J N the preparation of our program for this meet- reSgl ing, and especially during the past few weeks, the thought has been impressed upon me that, of all the various methods by which men endeavor to win success in life, we, as nut growers, are blessed with a vocation that offers more of stability, safety and attractiveness t han falls to the lot of most oth- ers.
At this time, when the world is torn by the con- flict of nations, and the business of our own country is struggling to meet the abnormal situation, and with the uncertainty as to the planting of crops which may be needed or profitable for another sea- son, we find ourselves established securely within the shelter of our nut orchards. Ours is a business that does not talter, and we are justified in our faith that the harvest will occur, each season with the regular- ity that marks the rising of the sun.
Tli ere may be fluctiations sn our income, caused by the folly of the world at large or the variableness of the seasons, but when nature fails to set a bounti- ful crop of nuts, she usually compensates by added tree growth, and we are filled with hope that the next year will more than make up for the temporary shortage; when financial disturbances affect our mar- ket, we may assume, with reasonable assurance, that the constantly increasing crop of nuts will sure- ly overcome this factor, even if the pendulum does not quite reach its position in the backward swing,
Over all these things, and running constantly in my mind, is the thought that our orchards are es- tablished; that they will endure, and shelter, protect and provide for us in sickness or in health, through all the years.
We have gathered here for a purpose, and, while conditions may prevent some of our members from being with us, our work will go on; we are making and recording the history of nut culture in America; we are attending to the business of gathering the knowledge which develops in the individual, and placing it at the disposal of all the others; we will
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consider the influences which may work for the com- mon good; and combine our resources to combat the things that may threaten the welfare of our chosen industry.
The uncertainty of the past is being overcome, and with each year of progress our pathway becomes more safe from danger, and more filled with satisfac- tion and pleasure.
Today, in spite of conditions which are disturb- ing every industry, we find a full measure of contri- butions from the foremost workers in our field, to make for the success of this meeting, and to insure the continued progerss of our work.
These contributions cover so wide a field, and are of such individual importance and value, that it seems best for me to refrain from even a brief refer- ence to each one, and yet, T may be pardoned for touching upon a few that will require our immediate action, if we are to avoid the loss of valuable time.
Your Committee on Marketing is unfortunate in being called upon for some strenuous work at such a time, and has been handicapped in its attempts to secure the attention of the business world, by the general feeling of uncertainty and unrest.
Knowing the difficulty of obtaining best results under such circumstances, they have devoted rather more time and energy to the general fundamental principles, and will offer you the opportunity to as- sist them by a consideration of constructive matters which can be carried forward during the coming- year.
The time has arrivvd when our attention must be fixed upon the selection of varieties for commer- cial planting, and future demands must be given careful consideration.
The varieties we have been planting promise to fully supply the demand for choice table nuts, and yet there is a very attractive field in the search for better varieties for this purpose, and in the improve- ment of those we now have, but we must not delude ourselves into the belief that these varieties are best
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suited for the trade in excess of this class, for it is a generally accepted fact that some of our choicest nuts are not suited to meet the requirements of the cracking trade.
The growing demand for the shelled meats would seem to indicate that from now on we should plant with more reference to supplying this need, for this field will not fail us for many years to come, and to it must go all the surplus from the other orchards.
The nut best adapted to meet the approval of the crackers may not be as attractive as to size, thin- ness of shell and general appearance as those we are growing for table use but when the tonnage passes the requirements of the fancy trade, the nut must stand or fall upon its merits as a cracking proposi- tion.
A tree that is vigorous, healthy and self-reliant, and one that bears large annual crops of good crack- ing nuts may prove of infinitely greater value as a revenue producer. We are fortunate that there is some history as to varieties and their behavior under different conditions to guide us.
There is another important matter which must be considered and disposed of. It relates to the manner in which the business of all the nut growers shall be carried forward.
In the infancy of an industry, there is usually found a sufficient number of enthusiasts to solve its problems and carry forward its work without com- pensation, but as the industry reaches a point where it becomes a factor in the business world, the indiv- idual must give way to organization.
When the tonnage becomes large enough to at- tract the traders, with their avarice and their mach- inery, they will not fail to appear, and, unless organ- ization protects the industry, it is apt to be the vic- tim.
The walnut growers of the West are fully justi- fied in spending a hundred thousand dollars each year in marketing their crop, for they are organized along good lines; the Guggenheims are warranted, and do pay salaries to individual men of as much or more, for their business requires such service and would fail without it.
Today, the nut growers of the country east of California are unorganized, and they offer a promis- ing field for exploitation by that class of people who prey upon infant industries.
We have nothing to fear from the regularly or- ganized channels of distribution, beyond the fact that we must look ofter our own end of the opera- tion, but to accomplish this, I believe the time has come to employ salaried men in the perfection of or- ganization and the transaction of our business.
With such machinery in working order, we may find ample room for growth, and in affiliation with the western growers there will be the opportunity for mutual advantage impossible under present con- ditions.
I trust that our deliberations may be harmon- ious and earnest; that each member may give freely of his counsel and experience, and that the published record of our proceedings may constitute a valuable addition to the history of nut growing.
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SERIOUS DISEASES OF THE PECAN
By S. M. McMurran
A Paper read at the Thomasville meeting of the National Nut Growers’ Association
j WANT to say, by way of explanation, that I am only partly responsible for the title of this talk tonight. I accepted it as it was handed tome and to that extent am responsible, but no further. It as- sumes too much. It says ‘‘Serious Diseases” as if that were an assured fact, so we might look into this for a few moments. '
Diseases are serious in proportion to the loss they entail, for one thing, but there is another factor to be considered, the ease or facility with which they may be controlled.
The scab fungus immediately suggests itself to 3rou as the cause of a serious disease, and there is no doubt but that it causes considerable loss. On the other hand, you have two courses open for its control. Spraying is reasonably effective and you may top work your trees to scab resistant varieties.
Rosette also suggests itself to you as being a ser- ious disease. Well, it is, and let me say here that I have no remedy for rosette and do not know the cause of it. We hope to find these things out, but we do not know them now. You have all, no doubt, heard of various remedies. There are almost as many proposed remedies as there are cases. The trouble with them is that they all fail in as many or more cases than they help. There is no theory that has been advanced as to its cause that cannot be appar- ently contradicted by many cases. One fact seems to stand out with reasonable clearness, however, and this is that, with the exception of occasional spots here and there, it is by no means a serious factor in those groves which receive the best of care and at- tention. At any rate this is the opinion of many owners of excellent groves and my observations in
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traveling over two thousand miles of the pecan coun- try during this season has tended to confirm this.
Looking at the matter broadly, neglected trees, Starved trees, may be considered diseased. They are certainly abnormal as compared with thrifty, vigor- ously growing trees. The remedy for this is so obvi- ous that we may as well pass it.
What else have we? A dropping of the nuts in some seasons? Yes, but until we can control the weather we shall always have this in some seasons, so this may be dismissed.
And now what else ? A spotting of the nuts and a little loss due to the anthracnose fungus per- haps. A little spotting of the leaves late in the sea- son after their vigor has begun to be depleted on the completion of growth of the trunk and roots. An occasional spot on the kernel of some nuts which may be due to a fungus, a fungus leaf blight on seedling- nursery stock which may be readily controlled by spraying with bordeaux, and certain diseases like crown gall, wood rot and root rot fungi and physio- logical troubles common to all forest and cultivated trees complete the list; and further than this I am unable to enumerate.
It is evident that while local damage may result in certain cases, there is no serious menace to the in- dustry from any of these things.
Of the foregoing, I have been forced to conclude that by far the most serious and fundamental at the present time if lack of care in building up the fertil- ity of the soil, lack of good farming. I have seen many cases during the past summer that practically force the conslusion that the pecan is almost if not quite as susceptible to good care as is the peach. More tiian this cannot be said, and if there is Qne word that I would leave with you tonight it is that the big majority of the pecan orchards need more care. They need more cultivation; they need more legumes, both winter and summer legumes, and these legumes need to be turned under, not removed and a little stubble and roots plowed in. I believe if this system is persistently followed from year to year, ■coupled with the judicious use of lime and mineral fertilizers in small or large amounts when needed, these other troubles will be of minor importance in most cases.
Note — These remark were followed by a series of twenty-five lantern slides showing the characteristic features of the various pecan troubles referred to.
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ROSETTE IN PECANS
:£5 jHE newspapers have stated in the last few years SUB that Edison has said, no one knows one billionth part of one percent, about anything.
The bulletin lately published on pecan rosette, by the national Government, proves it. After years of careful study and many elaborate tests the authors
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of this bulletin honestly admit they do not know what causes it, nor what will cure or prevent it. I have had for for my constant companions for the last 3(j years pecan trees, and while I am no bacteriologist nor entomologist, 1 have a little common sense, ami can shed a little light on this subject.
Six years ago I made the statement before the National Nut Growers’ convention that rosette was caused by some bacterial growth upon the roots of the tree. Prof. Gossard said that I was wiong. Upon my return home I at once began to study x'os- ette, and after six years’ study I have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was wrong and Prof. Gossard was right. The most complete refutation ol any theory is this. A physician lecturing before a a popular audience said that every case of grippe orig- inated from wet feet. A man in the audience inter- rupted him and said, “You are wrong, sir, for I have two wooden legs, and have just got well from a very bad ease of the grippe.” Now I have just as positive a proof that rosette is not caused by any growth upon the roots of the tree. It is this. The common wild pecan of Louisiana never suffers from rosette. Yet when the Schley pecan is budded or grafted upon the wild roots they frequently die of rosette.
There is one bold mis-statement of fact in the Government’s bulletin which I wish to correct: that swamp land is entirely exempt from rosette. My groves, which are situated upon swamp lands, have developed several cases of rosette. I have never known a case among my nursery trees.
Now I wish to tell of a few things that I have found out about rosette. The disease is inherent in certain varieties of pecans, and is very similar to locomotor ataxia in the human species. It is not a
germ disease at all. It is the lack of sufficient nu- trition. Certain varieties have not strong enough digestive organs to assimilate the food under ordi- nary conditions. Here tvith me certain varieties are very subject to rosette, and other varieties never have it at all. They Schley trees nearly all die of it, except under high cultivation. Moneymaker never shows any sign of it. Russell often develops it, while Carmen never does. The common wild pe- can of Louisiana never shows a trace of it. Now no- tice this fact strongly. While the Schley nearly al- ways dies when not properly cultivated, still when very highly cultivated it shows no sign of rosette, and I feel sure that when scientists get at the bottom of the matter they will see as plainly as I do that rosette is a failure of the pecan to digest its food properly. Certain varieties are naturally dyspeptics. — Sam. H. James in Rural New Yorker.
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A 23-acre pecan orchard planted in 1909 near Tifton, Ga., is reported as having produced 650 pounds of nuts the past season.
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In Mr. W. W. Carroll’s paper, "Mistakes of the Last Ten Years.” which appeared in our December number a word which was not in the copy was in some way inadvertently inserted, changing the sense of a sentence. In the phrase “and no more than 35 per cent commission to salesmen,” the word than should not have appeared. Mr. Carroll calls our attention to the mistake and we gladly make the correction.
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Mrs. M. R. Buchanan, of Brandon, Miss., remem- bered The Nut-Grower at Christmas time with a box of sugared nut meats.
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January 21 is Arbor Day in Mississippi and the planting of a pecan tree in every one of the 9,000 school yards of the state will be a feature of the oc- casion. The pecan tree was selected because it is long-lived, gives excellent shade and furnishes an economic lesson.
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Occasionally the labels on Nut-Grower wrap- pers are rubbed off in the mails, so that delivery can- not be made. These copies are returned to us, but there is no way to determine to whom they belong. Subscribers are requested to notify us when copies fail to reach them, so that we can duplicate the miss- ing numbers.
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Thus far The Nut-Grower has been largely de- voted to orchard planting and the development of the industry. Such phenomenal success has been achieved in the production of high grade pecans that the serious problem of marketing them in competit- ion with the seedling nuts becomes of paramount im- portance. This problem — now a condition, not a
theory — will l’eeeive considerable attention in our columns during the coming year.
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Large bodies move slowly, which may account in part for the delay in getting plans formulated by the National Nut Growers' Association and the Geor- gia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Association into opera- tion for marketing pecans. Some of the producers are having experiences which indicate that the time for organized marketing is already at hand.
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Car lot shipments of pecans from the Albany (Ga.) district are becoming common. A few days ago a car was loaded with 17,000 pounds of nuts from a single grove at Baconton, and this was less than a fourth of the crop from that particular orchard. As a car of these high grade nuts brings close to $10,000, it looks like the pecan business is fully up to what The Nut-Grower has claimed for it for the past twelve years.
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The soil is the great reservoir from which our agricultural supplies are obtained. M ith the ordin- ary farm crops of grain and forage only a few inches of surface soil are utilized. With fruit and nut bear- ing trees, which have the element of permanency to a greater or less extent, the roots penetrate the equal- ly rich sub-soil, especially so when explosives have been used in preparing the land. What we need is an era of tree farming on scientific principles to sup- plement the annual grain production.
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In the pecan business, especially where the farm- er and orchardist is concerned, there are two essen- tials which obtain — producing and selling. The first involves the growing of nuts of high quality, then the grading, packing and loading according to estab- lished methods. When this is properly done the producer's operations are transferred to the second essential, which aims to market the crop to the best advantage. If the first essential is well attended to, the second should not prove to be very diffi- cult.
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The time is coming, and we trust is near at hand, when the same study and scientific investigation that is now being bestowed upon live stock and grain crops will be given to food producing trees, other than ordinary fruit trees. In these agricultur- al lines, scientific breeding has wonderfully improved the quality as well as the quantity of these products. The natural nut bearing trees of our great country afford the same, if not greater opportunities for im- provement. This is a vital element in the future food supply for the increasing millions who will in- habit this land in future generations.
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Decreasing Crops
Editor Nut-Grower:
I wish some assistance or advice about my pecan orchard, as my trees are not bearing as they should. I can’t tell what is the matter, and to give an intelligent conception of their condition I will tell how I have managed them.
I had some ten acres in Stuart, Pabst, Russell, Schley, Teche, trees all confined to rows of each varie- ty. From their first beginning to bear, I cultivated cotton in this orchard, close up to the trees, man- uring the same at from 800 to 1000 pounds of fertilizer per acre. Af- ter they began to bear well. I gave extra fertilization around the trees. I made one and a half bales of cot- ton to the acre on this and until the trees became so large that I felt it shaded the cotton too much and concluded to give the land en- tirely up to the trees. Before I did this let me say that in 1911 I I gathered 2,500 pounds of nuts from my trees. The next year, 1912, I got only 2,000 pounds of nuts. In 1913 I planted the land in oats and followed that crop with a fine crop of cowpeas sowed broadcast. I cut the peas off the land for hay, having the cutter- bar of my mower raised pretty high so as to leave a heavy stub- ble, which I plowed under as a feitilizer to the trees, adding hu- mus to the soil. That fall, after turning under this pea stubble, I sowed 20 pounds of hairy vetch to the acre, inoculating the vetch seed to insure a stand and previously sowing one bushel of oats to the acre to hold up the vetch so I could mow it off for hay. I secur- ed a fine stand and the vetch grew waist high. I cut this off and re- ceived a fine crop of hay and oats mixed. I turned under a fine sward and planted soja beans on
the land, inoculating them. Got a fine crop of this growing waist high, turned under this stubble — a fine one — and reseeded it to vetch. The land was full of nod- ules, showing the legumes had drawn ammonia heavily from the air, and full of humus.
I neglected to say that before sowing oats and vetch in the spring of 1914 I broad cast over the land one ton of lime to the acre for the benefit of the trees.
Now let me go back and state that in the fall of 1913 I gathered only 550 pounds of nuts, and they came off of two acres adjoining that had come into bearing. On the same twelve acres this year I will hardly gather more than 300 or 100 pounds of nuts.
To say that I am greatly dis- couraged after all my treatment of the trees and land is putting it lightly. The past two years have been very dry, but this spring my trees bloomed very heavily and I expected a fine crop from my treat- ment and the increased age of my trees, now 15 years old.
I neglected to say in the proper place that in the spring of 1913 I broadcast upon the laud 1000 pounds of Thomas phosphate to the acre.
My trees have grown well and have no disease — just don't bear. I can’t tell what is the matter. I am getting disgusted with the whole pecan business. I should at least have gotten this year from 6,000 to 10,000 pounds of nuts.
If any of your readers can tell me where my trouble lies, what mistakes, if any, I have made, I shall greatly appreciate it. I ful- ly intended to go to the Thomas- ville convention, compare notes and get help if any could give it, but with so poor a crop of nuts and the great war making cotton
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so cheap, I had to forego that pleasure. It was all I could do to hold my cotton and stay at home and live.
Chas. Crossland. Benue ttsvi lie, S. C.
[Mr. Crossland is evidently a good farmer and knows how to en- rich his land. His history of the orchard is most interesting and we will be glad to publish any re plies to his letter which will throw light upon his problem.
Two things occur to us which may bear on the subject:
1. Mr. Crossland speaks of the fine growth the trees are making. It is generally understood that nut crops are most abundant w hen the wood production is held in abeyance and large yields of nuts and rapid growth of the trees can hardly be expected at the same time. The cultivation given the trees would, to some extent at least, tend to confirm this opinion.
2. The dry weather mentioned would also have considerable effect in cutting down the crop.
A more recent letter from Mr. Crossland states that his 1914 crop was double the amount of the es- timate made above. — Editor.]
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Editor Nut-Grower:
Can you suggest the cause and prescribe the remedy ? My (1 year pecans of the Stuart variety are badly blighted and affected with rosette (?). They appear to be yellow, sickly, die at end of twigs and bunch at end of twigs. Do you think cutting back and bud- ding to Schleys or Mobiles would remedy 1
When should bearing trees be fertilized? With what, and how much for six year trees?
W. W. Watson. Orangeburg, S. C.
[These trees seem to be suffer- ing from a complication of diseas- es. It is a question as to how much of the l rouble may be due to rosette. We have refered the part of the let ter dealing with this
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subject to S. M. McMurran of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who is now located at Thomasville, Ga., and will publish his reply wrhen received.
It is doubtful if the trees would be benefitted by working to Schley or Mobile, as both these varieties are as susceptible to rosette as is the Stuart, and are even more lia- ble to scab.
For bearing trees a fertilizer rich in potash is required. One pound for each year of the tree's age may be applied each season. To obtain the best results two or three applications should be made during the growing season. The fertilizer should not be applied too close to the trunk of the tree, but should be placed out far enough to be reached by the lateral root system. — Editor.]
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Editor Nut-Grower:
I am mailing you a sample of my Jewett-Success hybrid, the Williams. Please sample same. I consider it a valuable addition to the commercial varieties of pecans. It is surely a good bearer; 5 nuts in 1912; 98 in 1913; over 700 ex- cellent nuts in 1914. This tree is a top-graft on a seedling tree, scion from the original hybrid' cf Jewett and success, set (or graft made) season of 1907. The original hy- brid is crow ded by other trees and can not do its best but has borne two seasons.
C. Forkert. Ocean Springs, Miss.
[Judged by the association's scale of points, the Williams shows up as follows:
Size 15
Form 4
Color 4
Shell 9
Cracking 19
Plumpness .... 19
Color of kernel . . 5
Quality 14
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His First Crop
Editor Nut-Grower:
I am a Mississippian and own the old homestead in Amite coun- ty where I was born. In January, 1912, about the 20th, to be exact, I set out my first pecan trees, the Success and the Stuart; the Suc- cess 5 to 6 feet; the Stuart 4 to 5. This was the beginning of my pe- can grove and on October 20, 1914, 1 gathered my first crop — one pe- can ! — of tlie Success, and it is a beautiful specimen.
Can you beat that record — Jan- uary, 1912, to October, 1914'? My only regret is that I did not start ten years ago.
Silas H. Jenkins.
Chicago. 111.
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Editor Nut-Grower:
Inclosed find $1.00 for subscrip- tion to your magazine. I’m well pleased with it: I’ve been looking- for just such a paper for some time.
I have 25 pecan trees that I bud- ded last June one year ago to the Stuart on 8 year old seedlings. The branches from one tree in 16 months have grown 46 feet and 10 inches from three Stuart buds. About four months they lay dor- mant, but counting every day and night they must have grown five inches a day. Why, with blue glasses I might have seen them climbing up, and I think this for- ever condemns the assertions of folks who think the pecan is of slow growth.
Why the Lord made cottonwood trees, willows and thorn bushes, I do not know. They are the sorri- est trees in the forest, but people set them out just the same. They do not look ornamental, make no shade, nothing to eat or to pro- duce revenue, and the cottonwood is even no good to make a fire with on a cold winter day.
E. D. Cook.
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My Pennsylvania Grown Budded and Grafted Eng- lish Walnuts will succeed with you
It is not too early to figure on your wants for fall planting.
My illustrated catalog and cultural guide will interest you.
Free for the asking.
Address
J. F JONES
The NitTi e Specialist
Lancaster, Pa.
For Sale Cheap
Pecan trees grafted from bearing trees in my orchard. Best quality and best known varieties. Sizes 2 to 6 feet. For prices write II. H. Simmons, 25 Ocean St., Jackson- ville, Fla.
UR stock of Satsu- = ma orange trees for §= H this season are trees |§ worthy of the name; == EE not little plants or j§§ =§ switches. They are |= ^ two year tops on four = = year (transplanted) == = stocks and have a root = iE system that will make ^ EE failure impossible. ^
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— be appreciated. 20,000 S
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1 Jennings Nursery §
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Shreveport, La.
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Bearing Pecan Orchard
For sale — 70 acres top- worked trees that will save ten years of your time. Can be bought' right and on favorable terms.
Standard Pecan Co. H Sm *"s°n Monticello. Fla.
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PECAN
TREES
Budded Paper Shells Best Varieties Expert Propagation Healthy and Hardy Stock
Write for Prices
| | T. H. PARKER
MOULTRIE., GA.
Bullard Pecan Nurseries
All the Leading Varieties Large Nurseries
Budding and grafting wood for sale. Orchard trees receive best cultivation, thus insuring wood to be in prime condition for use. Careful packing and no mixing of varieties; this applies to both propagating wood and nursery stock.
WILLIAM P. BULLARD
ALBANY, GA.
Budded Pecan Trees Our Specialty...
We grow the old standard vari- eties—Stuart, Frotscher and Schley. None better. Lowest prices. 400 acres in groves, 2 to 5 years old, for sale. Come to see or write
Tuck Brothers
Thomasville : : Georgia
Budding the Pecan
By E. ,T. Kyle
There is very little winter bud- ding of the pecan. In the old southern states and in the eastern part of Texas whip or tongue graft- ing is very commonly practiced during the winter months. A maj- ority of the seedling pecans in the nursery row are worked this way. The grafting generally starts about the first of January and can con- tinue until active growth starts in the spring, provided the scions are kept dormant. In whip grafting the soil should be pulled away from the young seed ling for a depth of about two inches. The scion is then inserted and either wrapped with light string or cloth, or stiff clay placed around the graft so as to hold it in position until a union has formed. The soil should then be banked up around the graft, leaving only about one inch of the scion exposed.
Chip budding has been used with considerable success for sev- eral years. For best results this work should be started between the 15th of February and the 1st of March and may be continued until the trees are in leaf. Where proper wrapping material has been used the chip bud has given bet- ter results in northern, central and southern Texas than the ring bud which is used during the summer months.
In using this method, bud wood should be taken from healthy bearing trees and care should be taken not to allow it to dry out. The part used consists of a strip of bark about one and one-half inches long and contains one sound bud and oftentimes a small amount of wood underneath the bark. A place is cut on the stock for the bud to fit into, after which a strip of cloth that has been dropped in beeswax and then taken out, al- lowing most of the wax to drop out. is placed over the bud, allow- ing it to project through an open- ing cut near the center of the cloth. The cloth is then tied tightly with raffia.
The W. B. Dukes Pecan Farm
Moultrie, Georgia
Growers and Shippers o f
FANCY PAPER SHELL PECANS
Budding and Grafting wood for sale
Berckmans’
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We hare a large variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
President
Pecan™
None Better
Pecan Growing Made Easy
By planting trees dug with en- tire tap root and well develop- ed lateral roots. Few nurseries have such trees.
Made Profitable
By planting only genuine bud- ded or grafted trees, of best quality and best producing var- ieties. Some of the biggest, thinnest-shelled nuts don’t bear — beware of them
Griffing’s Trees are Models Root and Top
Our varieties are best. Gold Medal awarded our pecans at Jamestown Exposition. Hand- some pecan catalog free.
The GRIFFING BROS. COMPANY
NURSERYMEN JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA
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Pecan Trees
That Grow
Are our specialty. We can still furnish the lead- ing varieties in the vari- ous sizes.
Standard Pecan Co.
H. S. Watson, Manager MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
DECAN TREEC
Our Specialty is growing well root- ed budded and grafted trees of best varieties.
Careful attention given all orders. Write for prices.
SOUTHERN NUT TREE NURSERIES Thomasville, :: Georgia
NEW ORLEANS
Geo. H. Appel & Co. PECANS
H E A DQU A R T E R S Appoint us your represent- atives and correspondents
Laux & Appel, 211 Poydras St.
Postoffice Box 976
rafted Pecan Trees
of Select Papershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bayview Pecan Nursery
C. FORKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
For Sale
Pecan Bud and Grafting Wood
From Bearing Trees Frotsoher, Stuart, Van Deman, Mobile, Moneymaker, Young, with a few Jer- ome, Success and Nelson. $7.50 per 1000.
C. L. WHITNEY, Thomasville, Ga.
When growth starts in the spring all sprouts should be kept rubbed oil tin* shoot until the bud either forces out or is found to be dead. It will be necessary to keep all shoots rubbed off until the young shoot gets large and strong enough to take up all the sap and energy of the young tree.
The young trees should be care- fully staked the first season or else they will be blown off by the first hard wind. Buds forced in this way will often make a growth of from four to six feet during the first season. For summer budding we are now discarding the ring bud for the patch bud, which is a modified form of ring bud.
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Report of Committee on Publicity
At the National Nut Growers' convention the committee on Pub 1 icity made the following report:
The work of this association has thus far been largely directed in the lines of orchard development and improvement of varieties.
The advantageous selling of pres- ent and future enlarged crops will measure the financial success of the industry.
The necessity for a ready mar- ket is imperative.
In order to have such a market there must be a constantly increas- ing demand for our product. Such a demand will come only as the general public is educated to the the value of nuts as a staple food product, as well as a luxury.
At present the public at large have little knowledge of the food value of pecans, nor of the variety of uses to which they are readily adapted.
To educate the public to such an appreciation of pecans that it wfill create interest and a desire to use them regularly and largely is the task before us.
Such a propaganda is ordinarily promoted by advertising, which necessarily entails large expendi- ture of cash.
As the association does not at
Budding T ool
Patented 1905
A popular tool for budding Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Persimmons and all other trees.
Buds and Grafting Scions
of Schley, Stuart, Alley, Delmas, Van Deman, Teche, Russell, Mobile, Frotscher and Success.
■ Wholesale and Retail ■
For particulars and prices write
HERBERT C. WHITE
Putney P. O. Georgia
SHIPPING POINTS: Bacon ton,
Ga., DeWitt, Ga., Hardaway, Ga., Albany, Ga.
i^ecan Trees-.
We are headquarters for Pecan Trees in the Southwest and can furnish extra fine trees in large quanti- ty for commercial orchards. Our stock runs heavy in
Stuart
and...
Schley
We also have a fine lot of Citrus to offer for fall and winter 1914-15.
The Louisiana Nut Nurseries
Jeanerette, La.
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present have funds for such use, it becomes our duty to suggest ways ways and means for conduct- ing an educational campaign by other means.
We therefore recommend:
1. That all members of this as- sociation, and others who may be willing to assist and co-operate in carrying into regular execution the following plan for the wide distri- bution of a series of educational leaflets, envelope enclosures and reprints of suitable articles, etc., entering them with their daily let- ters, catalogs or circular mailings.
2. That the actual cost of print- ted matter thus used be borne by the members and ot hers using them in proportion to quantity desired per month.
3. That your Committee on Publicity be authorized to issue at least monthly and without expense to l he association, suitable leaflets, reprints or folders, in such quanti- ties as may be engaged by those who agree to distribute them regu- larly and systematically.
4. We recommend that your committee be entrusted with a modest supply of pecans, to be used systematically and carefully in de- veloping an interest in pecans in northern and western population centers and that interested grow- ers be requested to contribute from one to five pounds each for this use.
J. F. Wilson,
W. C. Jones,
R. B. Small,
S. S. Hotchkiss,
Committee.
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Sam H. James’ Announce- ment
This winter I shall have for sale Stuart and Moneymaker budded pecan trees, grafting and budding wood of nearly all leading kinds, also lespedeza seed. I started grow- ing pecan trees in Feb. 1878, and have been in the business ever since. I have tested here upon my plantation nearly every known var- iety of pecan. I find only twovari-
The Nut-Grower
Which Tree Do You Want?
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The slow-grower, with few and shallow roots and fruit of poor quality, or the vigorous, quick and steady producer of prime fruit ?
The Roots Tell the Reason Why
Frees set in blasted holes bear fruit one year earlier. Write for Orchard Booklet No. 32 5 and learn how to stop first year losses and get quick profits.
We furnish inquirers with name of nearest profes- sional blaster, whom they may hire, if they do not wish to do the blasting themselves. Experienced blasters not on our list should apply for listing.
DU PONT POWDER COMPANY Wilmington, Del.
Established 1802
5,000
Stuart Pecan Trees
6 to 9 Feet Tall Get Our Special Prices
We also have other varieties and prices.
Let us know you r wants.
The Paper Shell Pecan Nursery, Ltd.
W. M. Ellison, Mgr. LAFAYETTE, LA.
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Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedlings Send for Price Cist
Chas. E. Pabst
Proprietor
Ocean Springs, Miss.
Satsuma OrangeTrees in Quantity
To insure first-class trees, your orders should be placed early. Nurserymen will not be able to supply the demand for citrus trees this coming season.
The Best in Budded and Grafted Pecans and General Nursery Stock
Write for information and prices at once.
FLORIDA NURSERIES
W. W. BASSETT. Proprietor MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
— Pecan and Walnut Trees —
Plant our hardy, northern grown Pecan and Persian Walnut trees for best results in the northern portion of the pecan area and in the far northern states. Learn about our trees and our methods of growing them. Our book- let “Nut Trees” will be sent free on request.
Arrowfield Nurseries Box N Petersburg, Virginia
Biloxi Nursery
Biloxi, Miss.
Grafted Pecans, Satsumas Roses, Magnolia Grandiflora
JAMES BRODIE, Proprietor
SUCCESS
NATURAL SIZE
The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
Pecan Trees Satsuma Oranges
Other Citrus Trees
Also a general line of Fruit ^rees, Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrub- bery and Field Grown Rose Bushes. No better stock grown. Before placing your orders write for illustrated cata- logue.
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Turkey Creek ursery Company,
21. Macclenny, Fla.
RHODES DOUBLE OUT^, t Cuts from PRUNING SHEAR Hmbanddp^
not bruise the bark.
We pay Ex- press charges on all orders.
Write tor circular and prices.
522 S. Division Ave. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
RHODES MFC. CO.
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eties that are perfectly healthy and which are enormous bearers. They are Moneymaker and Carman. I have fruited these pecans for 22 years and have sold them to the multi-millionaire class in the north, and they have invariably come back for more. I have just filled Thomas A. Edisons’, John D. Ar- chbolds' and J. M. Studebaker’s orders. The nurseryman who is not growing these two varieties is standing terribly in his own light. Sam II. James, Mound, La. — Adv. o o o
Crops and Markets
Hickory nuts are being shipped to Chicago from Troup, Tex., in ear lots.
The pecan crop at Uvalde, Tex., amounted to approximately ten cars.
The hickory and chestnut crop in northeastern Ohio this season was light.
Shipments of pecans from Ada, Ok la., this season will aggregate about 125,000 pounds.
A San Antonio report places the Texas crop this season at 40 per- cent of the normal yield.
The Galveston, Tex., market re- cently quoted Brazil nuts at 22 cents, pecans at 15 to 20 cents and Sicily filberts at 19 cents.
Receipts of hickory nuts and black walnuts were light in New York the past month and quota- tions advanced to a favorable fig- ure.
Pittsburgh. Pa., has been mani- festing a good demand for all kinds of nuts. Persian walnuts sold as high as 22 cents and fancy pecans ranged from 55 to 60 cents.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of
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Pecan grove of 52 acres, located in the best farming section of Southwest Geor- gia, oue mile from depot on G?orgia Northern railroad. Trees are of the latest variety and are five years old. Price right and terms reasonable. Ad- dress
L. W. HARDY, Barwick, Ga.
very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in vesting in Sou t h Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
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Books and Catalogs
Report of the Secretary of Agri- culture for 1014. 48 pages.
Pecan Rosette, by W. A. Orton and F. W. Rand; a 24-page reprint from the Journal of Agricultural Research. Ten illustrations.
Munson’s Nurseries, Dennison, Tex.; illustrated catalog for 1914- 15; 48 pages closely printed des- criptions of fruits and flowers.
The A B C of Bee Culture; a cy- clopedia of 700 pages of revised in- formation; profusely illustrated. Price $2.00. The A. I. Root Co., Medina, O.
The Beekeeper and the Fruit Grower; Why and How their In- terests are Mutual; a 16-page book- let by E. R. Root. The T. A. Root Co., Medina, O.
Atlantic Coast Line calendar for 1015. Gives much popular in- formation about this road. Copies may be obtained from E. M. North, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga., by sending six cents to cover postage.
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Large crops of pecan and hick- ory nuts were gathered along t lie river bottoms west of Clinton, Ivy.,
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10,000 Fine Pecan Trees
We have for sale this sea- son 15.000 strong, healthy, budded and grafted pecan trees; well developed roots; Stuart variety. Special wholesale prices.
Louisiana Delta Pecan Company
secC:TArea^REWS' Marshall, Tex.
Pecans, Satsumas, Grape Fruit
We have them in QUANTITY as well as QUALITY. Our stock is especially strong in large grades. Let us figure on your wants. Orders for one tre or one car load given the same careful personal at- tention.
Simpson Nursery Co.
Monticello, Florida
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The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company
DeWitt, Georgia
Standard Varieties of Properly Grown Trees
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Our many years of practical ex- perience combined with the scientific study we have made of the industry enables us to supply to the best advantage the wants of our patrons.
Prompt attention to inquiries.
Send for Price List.
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DeWitt, Georgia
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HE financial success of all horticultural enterprises row (like any other commercial business) depends mostly upon the quality of the stock to be used. This quality of stock is highest when grown by experien- ced nurserymen.
We are pioneers in growing citrus and pecan stock in this section, and the care of our nurseries is directed by one of the foremost horticulturists and nurserymen in the South. His long experience and valued knowl- edge has enabled us to ship trees to the same patrons year after year, and “a satisfied customer is the best advertisement a company can have.” Buyers of our stock are scattered from Virginia to Texas and most favorable reports are coming from all parts of the South.
We are in the business to stay and can afford to send out nothing but first-class stock. We know the value of pleasing our customers and would be glad to add you to our long list of satisfied ones.
Our stock consists of Pecans, Satsuma and miscella- neous Oranges, Grapefruit, Kumquats, Peaches, Plums, Figs, Grapes, Roses, Ornamentals, etc.
Ask for Catalog A.
SUMMIT NURSERIES Monticello, Florida
AUB ABOUT KUDZU
A 3~Ton Cutting of Kudzu at “Glen Arden Farm," Showing Both the Cut and Standing Hay
Most Wonderful Growth. The Coming Forage Crop of the South. Better than Alfalfa, Red Clover or Timothy. Better because it succeeds on land too poor for those crops. Better, because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to save it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruin the hay. Better, because stock like it better and it contains more protein than wheat bran, from 16.59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants. Kudzu has great possibilitiesas a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further informa- tion and prices write.
G. C. Pleas Plant Go.
“GLEN ARDEN FARM” CH1PLEY, FLORIDA
FOR SALE. Budded Pecan Trees, standard varieties; order now for win- ter delivery. Also 45 acre two year old pecan orchard ; also improved farms. C.
W. Ransom, Houston Texas.
FOR SALE. Back numbers of The Nut-Grower. Parties desiring to com- plete their files should send list of what they need. The Nut-Grower Company, Waycross, Ga.
which sold for good prices. As farm crops were poor in that sec- tion, the proceeds from the nuts proved to be a great benefit to the farmers.
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Farmers’ Short Course at Athens, Ga.
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad has named exceedingly low fares to Athens account Spec- ial Courses at the State College of Agriculture, January 4th to 20th. Round trip tickets on sale Janu- ury 3-4 5-6-10-11-15-16 and 18, with final return limit January 23, 191o- Ask A. B. & A. Ticket Agent.
Best service and schedule via Atlanta. All trains make direct
connections.
W. W. Croxton, General Passenger Agent,
Atlanta, Ga.
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Grading Walnuts
Walnuts are graded either by passing over a moving screen oi through a revolving cylinder, the meshes of both which are one inch square in the clear. All the nuts that go through the mesh are classed as No. 2s, and those that go over as No. Is. As only the No. 2s pass through the mesh of this screen, those that class as No. Is may vary considerably in size in fact, such variation is at times very noticeable, so that people aie apt to think that some of the nnts purchased as No. Is are below grade. It is well known that nuts of the proper size appear smaller than the really are when compared with large sized ones.
After grading the nuts are car- ried along an endless belt to large, elevated bins built of laths, allowing for perfect ventilation and circulation of air, so that they may become thoroughly dry. Ihej are then sacked and loaded on the cars.
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Orchards may be rejuvenated by blasting between trees to loos- en the sub-soil.
Members National Nut Growers’ Association
Members Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Association
ROOD PECAN GROVES
C. M. ROOD, President
ALBANY, GEORGIA
Twenty-seven year old bearing Pecan Grove for sale in small tracts on small payments
We are now booking or- ders for Pecan stock for fall and winter delivery.
The largest Pecan and En- glish Walnut Nurseries in Georgia.
We sell large soft shelled standard pecan nuts put up in 1, 5 and 10 pound fancy boxes.
Send for catalog.
ROOD PECAN GROVES
ALBANY, GA.
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For Soil Improvement in the South.
Plant in Groves and Orchards
Iron Peas Brabham Peas
Hardy, disease-resistent. 26 oth- er varieties. Price on any quan- tity.
Rowland & Co.
Seedsmen — All Field Seed
Augusta, Georgia
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Waycross, Ga.
PECANS
Budded trees of the best varieties.
Prices Right.
THE HARTWELL NURSERIES, Hartwell, Ga.
The Original Pecan Nursery in Georgia
FOR SALE
1,500 pounds fresh crop pe- cans. Also pecan grove in- cluding 200 acres land. Ap- ply to J. S. Williams, Way- cross, Ga.
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Items of Interest
An Oklahoma editor offers to ac- cept pecans at 10c a pound on sub- scriptions.
The record of J. B. Wight’s fa- mous Frotscher tree at Cairo, Ga., last season was 145 pounds.
The California Fruit Grower of San Francisco lias changed its name to the California Fruit News.
The thirty .ninth annual meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society convened at Athens Janu- ary 19.
A new corporation at Albany, Ga., is the Georgia Paper Shell Pe- can Co., with a capital stock of $20,000.
The Brazos Valley Plantation of Texas is planting 3,000 acres of pe- cans and inter cropping with figs. A graduate of the Texas A. & M. College is in charge of the work.
A Texas man recently came to grief because he offered too many pounds of pecans for a dollar. A jiost-office inspector worked up a case against him for using the mails with intent to defraud.
A story comes from Pauls Val- ley, Okla., telling of the purchase of 40 acres of land three years ago for $600. Since then the purchas- er lias gathered and sold over $800 worth of pecans from this same land.
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Another Record Tree
K. Powell, of Cairo, Ga., has a seedling pecan tree 26 years old in his back yard. While it is near his garden and is fertilized and has the soil about it broken once a year, it has received no special attention. Below is given the record of the tree for the last few years:
Year |
Pounds |
Value |
1908 . |
. 365 . |
. $ 91.25 |
1909 . |
. . 125 . . |
. 106.25 |
1910 . |
. 165 |
. 116.25 |
1911 . |
. . 92 . . |
. 23.00 |
1912 . |
525 |
. 131.25 |
1913 . |
. . 19 . . |
. 12.25 |
1911 . |
. 600 . |
. 150.00 |
2551 |
630.22 |
Annual Average 360 pounds.
Pecan Literature
The increasing demand for informa- tion regarding pecans prompts the pub- lication of the following list of publica- tions, which we can furnish at prices named.
1. The Cost of a Pecan Orchard ; by J. F. Wilson: a 12-page reprint of a paper read at the Cairo meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Asso- ciation in 1909. Price 10c, 12 copies $1.00.
2. The Pecan and Its Culture ; by H. H. Hume; a standard work covering every aspect of the business ; topics con- veniently arranged under different head- ings; 160 pages; illustrated; cloth. Price $1.50.
3. The Use of Nuts; a book of nut recipes compiled by Mrs. Thomas A Banning and her committee of ladies, under the auspices of the National Nut Growers’ Association; 116 recipes; 50 pages. Price 50c.
4. Proceedings of the 1904 conven- tion of the National Nut Growers’ As- sociation, held at St. Louis, Mo. A stenographic repo”t containing a great variety of information. Illustrated with halftones of the original officers of the association. 124 pages. Price 25c.
5. Proceedings of the 1906 conven- tion, held at Scranton, Miss. A full and interesting report of a largely attended meeting at a historic pecan center. 124 pages. Price 25c.
6. Proceedings of the 1907 conven- tion, held at the Jamestown Exposition. One of the most complete volumes of the kind ever published. 112 pages. Price 25c.
7. Proceedings of the 1909 conven- tion, hel&||| Albany, Ga. All the for- mal papBt»pd reports, with story of trip to th|J|Hhst pecan orchards in the world. (juB|0bs. Price 25c.
8. Pr< iJMjljpings of the 1910 conven- tion, hekijTat Monticello, Fla. Gives sdenCgiS^fiic report of discussions, with papers and reports of this intensely in- teresting and most important conven- tion. Contains Judge Whipple’s fa- mous paper, “Why Pecans?” and a care- fully prepared historical sketch of the association. 115 pages. Price 25c.
9. Proceedings of the 1913 conven- tion, held at Houston, Tex. 90 pages. Price 50c.
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WAYCROSS GEORGIA
THE NUT-GROWER
VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., FEBRUARY 1915 NUMBER 2
TREE BREEDING
By E. E. Risien
Delivered at the Thomasville Convention
J^j O much has been written under this headline -O'g-I that it is not tree breeding at all. It now be- comes the duty of any one who has done this work to state a few facts. Speaking for myself, I will first say that it is astonishing how few people seem to know, or have even given it a thought, that there is male and female in all vegetable life, as with all ani- mal life, or that trees and plants have their age, time and season for breeding very much the same as in an- imal life. And so little thought is given to the laws of Nature that it is actually news to some that trees sleep, and must have it or they will dwindle and die. Some of our winters are not cold enough nor long enough to permit the amount of sleep necessary for them to fully recuperate from the previous tax of our long, hot, dry summers. This often has a bad effect on the fruit and in some cases makes them shorter lived. Neither does it take a close observer to notice that some trees sleep longer than others. The common term for this is early and late blooming; and we will also add, trees and plants all have their likes and dislikes; that is why we find ideal ti’ees growing under ideal conditions.
■ Tree breeding, we presume, began with the dawn of creation. The wind and insects then must also have been active, carrying the pollen from tree to tree for the purpose of cross-breeding; this being so very essential to retain vigor from generation to gen- eration; for in all inbreeding we see this exemplified.
My seedling orchard of one thousand trees, and all from the one mother-tree, San Saba, furnishes a splendid illustration of tree-breeding done by the wind and insects, using pollen from the nearby infer- ior trees, just anything and everything; and these nuts are all good enough for the squirrels and other rodents, and to some extent supply the market. The wild and crude is fast passing away. The cultured mind and cultivated tastes of man will not have them when is possible to do better. And this is why
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the pecan tree is now getting so much attention, and will soon be bred up to that degree of perfection as to make it a joy forever.
My first successful work at tree breeding was in the union of the two best paper-shell pecan trees growing in San Saba County. The nuts of these trees were not large, but had qualities in them I wanted to see blended. This work was done in the early part of May, 1904, and I remembered followed by a rain and wind storm, that destroyed about two-thirds of the paper bags (described later on.) However, in the fall I was able to count fifteen nuts for planting. The best nuts are not found near the body of the tree in protected parts, so I didn't consider these fair samples. These fifteen nuts all germinated and grew. The mother tree of these was San Saba. The father tree Sloan (growing on Mr. Sloan's land.) These fifteen little trees were not long in showing great va- riations both in growth and in the leaves. Now to wait on these little baby trees to grow up and fruit naturally, life, I considered too short for that; so the next year they were cut to the ground to get suitable buds for top-working. By managing them this way, possibly eight or ten years were saved in the time of fruiting. Anyway. I got to see sample nuts from the union of these two old trees that were growing twen- ty-seven miles apart, in five years from planting the seed.
This little group of nuts wras an eye-opener, for they revealed to what extent these two breeds bred back to the common wild types, which were mostly in evidence; and that the pollen proved to be pre- potent factor, was also plainly shown, both in the character of the trees and nuts. There were also sev- eral that for want of a better name, I vail false hy- brids. These are nuts that never fill, caused presum- ably from faulty or immature pollen; in fact, I only secured one well-defined cross, this nut is consider- ably larger and retains all the good qualities of both
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parentage. I have not catalouged it for the simple reason that many people are quite foolish about size, and the general market demands large nuts. How- ever, •with this partial success, acquiring the know- ledge that the pollen is the prepotent factor, and that it does not take a whole lifetime to wait on the breeding of pecan trees artificially, my enthusiasm was renewed, so more of this work had to be done.
Now what I wanted to know most, and what I still want to know most, is, the science and art of blending the different varieties to get the best effects and most efficiency out of the trees. So keeping these two features in view, my next selection was to again use San Saba for the mother tree, Atwater for the father tree. The Atwater nuts are a very uncom- mon type; the green husk that covers the nuts is the thinnest I have ever seen, above medium size, soft, thin shell, and the bright coloring is not excelled by any; but is not a good keeper. In the San Saba nut we have the other extreme as regards keeping quali- ties. The union of these two trees resulted very much like my first experience; they showed up their common ancestry, with some false hybrids, but with only one well defined cross. In this 1 secured a prize, a decided improvement on the parentage of either side. The tree has more vigor, the nuts are much larger, and in the coloring they far excel anything in the pecan line. It was by laying one of these nuts on a pile of common pecans, that suggested the name, Venus. But there is one feature that puzzles me, that is the lateness of ripening, being fully a month behind the parentage of either side.
My third experiment was to use Texas Prolific for the mother tree, Atwater, the father tree. I have fruited a great many seedlings of the Texas Prolific fertilized by the wind and insects, all of which have been disappointing; but in fruiting the offspring from the union of these two trees the result was to get some prizes and many surprises. The perfect blend- ing, however, I only found in one. It is a beauty; have named it Banquet. It is large, too, very large; immensely prolific; ripens a week earlier than either parent and retains that bright coloring characteristic of both sides. This alone gives it a distinction from the common herd. In fact, with this the “razor- back'’ stock may now be considered pretty well bred out, and from the nucleus which I now have, it will take but another generation or two of our well bred western nuts to invite criticism from the most fastid- ious.
In these two new creations, Venus and Banquet, we have an unexplained mystery. Why is it that there is a difference of five weeks in the ripening of these nuts when the parentage on both sides ripens the same, neither early or late? So we see there is yet lots to learn.
My observation of the eastern and western pe- cans convinces me that there are two families of
them, and although I have quite a collection of the eastern varieties so highly lauded, I have made no attempt at crossing them, for I have not yet been able to see how anything is to be gained by so doing.
Breeding the Trees
In doing this work artificially, it is absolutely necessary to securely tie a paper bag over each clus- ter of nuts, just about as soon as they can be discov- ered; because at this stage of growth the air is apt to be well impregnated with pollen from the surround- ing trees, and in high winds it may visit our trees from miles away. To save the pollen for use artific- ially, we have but to watch the ripening of the cat- kins or male blossoms; then just as soon as the pollen commences to waste, it is ripe. Now strip off the catkins into a paper bag, take to a warm dry room, empty on a sheet of paper, spreading them out. In a few hours the paper will be covered with a yellow dust. This is pollen. It is now an easy matter to separate this for use by running it through a fine sieve — a milk strainer will do. This 1 put into a pill bottle to use from, as needed. The vitality of it is good for a month, maybe longer.
The pistillate or female blossoms to receive this pollen are on the end of each nut; these are small but plainly seen. By watching closely we can soon learn the receptive stage for the pollen. They open very much like any other flower. The pollen may now be put on most any way. A small pepper shaker works very well, but it is wasteful; or a camel's hair brush, such as comes in a box of water colors may be used.
I list* a medicine dropper, slightly pressing the bulb; this gives just about the right amount for each ap- plication. The paper bag should then be tied back and left on for about two days as a further precaution against foreign pollen. After this time has elapsed, any pollen from another source would not be effective.
Seed Nuts
Every year does not furnish them, although the general market may be well supplied with pecans. But seed nuts for breeding, this is something . differ- ent. The importance of this I can better explain, by saying that should my cross-breeding work be follow- ed by an unfavorable season, all that time and work is lost. I never plant those nuts; the climatic con- ditions, let them be favorable or unfavorable, are all registered in the seed. Now it may not be necessary to be so particular with short-lived annual crops, such as cotton and corn, but with long lived trees, we think there is actually a great saving of time in waiting, and planting only from good normal years. Seed from very old trees or very young trees should not be planted for breeding purposes, but rather from those in their prime. Neither will it do to plant from trees that the heart wood is decajTng, because the laws of nature are very exacting; so in view of this fact see to it that all imperfections are eliminat- ed as much as possible. And do not forget: we must
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feed as well as breed.
Annual Fruiting
From the fact that some of our best pecans are from trees that are not annual fruiters, there is a great need of more light on this subject. The abnor- mal yields we get from some trees are invariably fol- lowed by disappointments. I have in mind many such cases. From one tree in particular, twenty-two bushels were thrashed off, and the parties that did the thrashing, said they lacked three or four bushels of getting them all. When the boosters and promo- ters heard of this, of course, they had to get busy figuring out how many such trees to the acre, the cash value, etc., proving conclusively how easy it is to get rich quickly by planting pecans. But this, like everything, has two sides to it, the other side is, that tree is ruined; it has never got over such abnor- mal' fruiting and never will. And while this may be an extreme case of over-fruiting, this, with under- fruiting, is too mud) the rule. Fortunately, how- ever, for the breeder, there can be enough good an- nual fruiters found to retain and perpetuate this very important trait. Now as to the cause of these ex- tremes of irregular fruiting and not fruiting, we ad- vance this theory. The home of the pecan tree is in a section of subtropical climate that is most always on the extremes; so growing under these environ- ments for tens of thousands of years, the trees have conformed to the conditions of life and partaken of the same nature. Not even our late frosts that we always have, stop their fruiting. Last year the fruit crop of my county was a total failure, but the pecan crop was unusually heavy. I have known them bit- ten back the second time by frost, and then yield fairly well; in fact, the extreme climatic conditions of heat and cold, dry weather, etc., appear absolutely necessary to the full development of the nuts. The conditions of August weather, I regard as the most important, so here is the government report of Aug- ust, 1910, when the whole crop of San Saba County pecans samples the best I have ever known: Mean temp. 81.5, min. temp. 64; max. temp. 105; days clear, 27; cloudy, none; partly cloudy, 4; total rainfall, .06 inches. The rainfall for the month was below nor- mal. The heat was more intense and lasted longer than any similar period since I have been keeping the record, for nineteen days the temperature went from 100 to 105.
And while this tree does grow well and flourish in a more congenial and salubrious climate, the de- fects in the fruiting qualities become more and more apparent the further away from home they grow. To prove this, I quote from Bulletin 324, of the North Carolina Experiment Station: “According to a cen- sus we have just completed, there are in this State upwards of 50,000 seedling pecan trees. These trees range in age from one to thirty years. Seventy-five per cent of them are of bearing age, but there is not
probably one per cent of that number that are profit- able bearing trees. In all parts of the pecan country experience has shown that seed ling pecans are notably slow in coming into bearing, and some trees never bear at all. Those that do bear have nuts I hat are almost invariably small, thick shelled, and of indif- ferent quality. In this respect, however, the pecan tree differs in no way from any of our other classes of fruits. No one would to-day be so foolish as to try to get a good peach or apple orchard by planting the seed of these fruits. But this is just what a great many people have been trying to do with pecans.” Hybrids
There must be something very catchy or fasci- nating about this word, for it to be so often used in advertising novelties, some that are not hybrids at all, according to the Avay this word is defined in the dictionaries.
Hybridizing the Pecan
This means to cross the pecan with the walnut, hickory, or some other nut. But so far my attempts at this have been a failure. The several shipments of walnut pollen sent me from California have been too long in transit. Walnut pollen is not effective after it becomes dry. Dr. Morris, of Now York, also sent me pollen from his choice hickory; this also fail- ed. Now, however, that I have both the hickory and walnut growing on my own grounds, I hope to yet make this cross. Just why a hybrid of this sort should be a valuable aequistion, is because where the English walnut grows to its greatest perfection, the pecan is not a success; and where the pecan grows to its greatest perfection the walnut or hickory is not a success, In a true hybrid I have the greatest con- fidence that it will be a grand success, on either side of this continent or in various other parts of the world.
Pre-Historic
It will interest the geologist to learn that I have a pecan nut of the prehistoric age. 1 his nut was blasted out of a solid rock thirty-eight, feet below the surface of the ground, while digging a well ten miles west of San Saba. Is this sufficient proof that San Saba County is the home of the pecan?
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For the permanent improvement of soils it should not be overlooked that lime and organic mat- ter (humus) are also frequently needed. Lime is especially useful on sour soils and makes them swreet. Humus is the product of decaying plants and is use- ful to make soils more loose and retentive of water. It may be furnished either by using stable manures or by green manuring. In the case of green manuring, humus is produced directly through the decay of plants plowed into the soil, and in the case of stable manure indirectly, after the plants have passed through the digestive organs of the animals.
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The importation of walnuts continues to increase, and the volume is considerably beyond the home pro- duction. The figures for 1913-1914 are 18,597 tons as against an average home crop of about 11,000 tons, o o o
One of the new advertisements in this number is timely in offering cow pea seed for orchardists. Any and all of the legumes are desirable in building soil fertility, and the pecan responds readily to such intercropping.
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A letter from one of the New England states says, “It is always a pleasure to receive copies of The Nut-Grower, for there is much of interest in this little magazine for the reader and for those who are interested in the development of nut culture.”
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Top working pecans in Texas is showing surpris- ing results. A party in Dallas reports that he gather- ed 435 fine Halbert nuts from a tree that Judge Ed- wards top worked three years ago, and that he had 114 the previous year when the tree was only three inches in diameter.
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The Annual Review number of the California Fruit News is a magnificent issue with 80 pages of ap- propriate matter with various tables showing pro- duction for the year as well as importations of fruits which are in competition with the fruit crops of the state.
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The Waycross, Ga., section, while new in the field of modern pecan orcharding has thousands of seedling trees of fine quality, which are bearing well.
During the past three years the planting of budded and grafted trees has been active, and while large or- chaids aie not yet numerous, thei'e are many private enterprises well under way.
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One of the things omitted at the convention was the keeping of a register of the names of all the mem- bers. guests and visitors who attended. Such lists are not only of interest but are valuable in different ways. Houston took particular pains to advertise to the world the names and addresses of everybody present at the 1913 convention.
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A progressive farmer near Tifton, Ga, set ten Satsuma orange trees seven years ago as an experi- ment. The experiment proved so satisfactory that the planting has been since increased to 300 trees. A report in a local paper says that one of these origi- nal trees bore 97 dozen oranges last season, and the crop from the ten trees was worth $165.00.
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Cairo, Ga., has a seedling pecan tree which is pushing Mr. Wight’s Frotseher with a wonderful rec- ord. In our news column we give the record for the past seven years as furnished by Mr. W. C. Jones who vouches for the accuracy of the record. He says the crops have sold uniformily at 25 cents a pound. As judged by its average yield and price obtained for the crops this tree is evidently worth a thousand dollars.
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Mitchell County Georgia, just north of Tbomas- ville, is a banner county for pecan growing and has some of the largest bearing orchards in the world. This is the section where the G. M. Bacon Pecan Company has its extensive nurseries and bearing or- chards. At DeWitt the modern pecan industry was cradled, and the early history of operations at that point will some day be woven into a story of uncom- mon interest.
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Editor Nut-Grower:
We note in the January issue of The Nut-Grower a letter from Mr. Sam. H. James quoted from the Ruial New Yorker on “Rosette of Pecans,” wherein certain ex- ceptions are taken to the conclu- sions reached by the Department of Agriculture which, in our judg- ment, are not justified. A copy of the letter we have sent to Mr. James is enclosed.
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Mr. Sam. H. James,
Mound, La.
Dear Sir:
Mr. Rand and I have read with interest your comments published in The Rural New Yorker and re- printed in The Nut-Grower up- on the article “Pecan Rosette” re- cently published by this Depart- ment in the Journal of Agricultur- al Research.
You have credited us with “a bold misstatement of fact” relative to the occurrence of pecan rosette on swamp lands. The passage in question on page 150 of our article reads, “In fact, for the localities personally investigated, swam p land has presented the only loca- tion so far exempt. It is true that wherever the soil tends to be wa- ter-soaked through a considerable portion of the growing season the pecan presents an unhealthy ap- pearance tb rough its failure to make proper growth and through the sickly yellow appearance of the leaves. Under such conditions the tree usually dies sooner or la- ter. The symptoms, however, bear
so little resemblance to those < f rosette that even the most casual observer will not confuse the two diseases.” In other words, as far as our observation goes the true rosette has not been found on true swamp lands. It occurs to us that this difference in observation is, after all, based on a different un- derstanding of the term “swamp lands;” that you are refering to what we call alluvial land, that is, land which may be submerged or partially so daring spring floods, but is relatively well drained dur- ing the growing season Swamp land, on the other' hand, we have defined as that which “tends to be watersoaked during a considerable portion of the growing season.” In such swamp land we have not found that the pecan occurs nat- urally or that it makes a healthy growth there. '
Another reason for the differ ence in our point of view and yours may be accounted for from the fact that we have studied pecan rosette in practically every impor taut pecan district, while your conclusions are based on Louisiana conditions. If you will refer to the map on the first page of our article you will note that pecan rosette plays relatively a small role in Louisiana as compared with Texas and the Atlantic Coast States. If we had confined our studies to a single district we might have fori ed more definite conclusions iela- tive to rosette, but the more wide ly our studies were extended, the more we found thJ conclusions of one locality to be contradicted by those of another. This is particu- larly the case with reference to varieties, and your attention is called to page 172. “No great or constant difference in varietal i\ sistance has been observed among the common orch ' 1 varu ties, 7 e
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one orchard a certain variety may have a much higher percentage of rosette than some other variety, but in another place the relative amount on the same two varieties is just as likely to be reversed. This has been shown clearly by or- chard records in widely separated localities. Evidently the differ- ence in apparent resistance in such cases is due either to a difference in soil conditions in the two parts of the orchard or to a difference in the resistance of the stocks to the inciting cause. That there is some- times a difference in the true re- sistance of the stocks seems evi- dent from the fact that of two trees of the same variety growing side by side (1 foot to several rods apart) one may have rosette and the other appear perfectly normal. If the cause of the disease lies in the soil, as appears to be the case, such an influence of the stock would naturally b e expected. There appears to be little doubt then as to the existence of a differ- ence in the resisting- power toward rosette, but orchard records and observations tend to show that this difference is usually manifest- ed through the stock father than through the variety worked upon it.” And on page 173, “As to the advisability of using rosetted nur- sery stock, no absolute statements can be made with the present state of knowledge concerning the cause of the disease and varying resist- ance of the stock to that cause. However, orchard and nursery rec- ords show rather clearly that a difference in resistance of stock does exist, etc.”
We wish we might be as confi- dent as you that the real cause of rosette is known. We have not felt justified thus far in doing more than to suggest the probability that rosette belongs in the class of “nontransmissible disease caused by improper nutritive supply or injurious physical conditions,” page 171.
Very truly yours,
W. A. Orton, Pathologist in charge of
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The Owens Pecan
Regarding the original Owens pecan tree, Judge Edwards of Texas summarizes information as follows: The Owens pecan tree is 1)0 feet high and the branches spread 78 feet. The body is nine feet to the fork and nine feet in circumference. Mr. Byrum Carter of Elgin, Tex., will testify that he has known the tree 38 years, that it has not failed in that time to bear a crop of large, thin shelled pecans, and that the crops are usually very heavy. Wil- liam Owens has known the tree 40 years and will corroborate Mr. Carter's statement. James Gage was raised in a quarter of a mile of the tree, has known it all his life and is 53 years old. He says it has been a regular bearer, general- ly producing large crops, and does not remember that it ever failed.
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New Parcel Post Ruling
Anew parcel post ruling has been made whereby sealed packages of fruits and nuts may be sent through the mail, providing the packages are labeled so as to show the name of the producer or manufacturer and the nature and kind of the contents. The parcel post regula- tions generally do not permit seal- ed packages being sent through the
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The order issued by the Postoffice Department at Washington reads as follows: Postmasters are inform- ed that pecans and other nuts, fruits, candies, etc., put up by the producer, manufacturer or dealer as proprietary articles, in sealed packages, labeled so as to show the nature of the contents, quantity and name of producer, manufact urer or dealer, as the case may be, are mail- able at the fourth-class rates of postage, under the provisions of paragraph 5, section 469, Postal Laws and Regulations. When in doubt as to the proper method of putting up such articles in sealed packages for mailing as fourth -class matter, postmasters should submit samples to the Third Assistant Postmaster General, Division of Classification, as provided in para- graph 6 of the section mentioned. (Signed) W. J. Barrows, Acting- Third Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral.
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Texas Varieties
F. T. Ramsey, of Austin, ac- knowledges that it: is hard to make a list of the best Texas varieties and feel satisfied about it. He is unable to choose between Texas Prolific and Halbert to head the list so puts them both at. the top with other varieties following in the order of their merit.
1. Texas Prolific. Halbert.
2. Burkett.
3. Owens.
4. Profusion.
5. Oliver.
6. lyineaid.
7. Colorado.
8. Swinden.
9. Daisy.
10. James.
11. San Saba,
12. Stuart.
13. Hollis.
14. Shell.
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Jefferson county, Florida, is a great pecan county, besides hav- ing other attractions. In point of
nut nurseries, it probably has more and produces more nut nursery stock than any other county in the United States.
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Planting Walnuts
In planting the Persian walnut the stock used should be grafts on one and two year roots. The grafts or scions should be considered as carefully as the root if the great- est measure of success is to be at- tained. In starting a walnut or- chard the matter of selecting var- ieties best suited to the conditions existing where the trees are to be planted should be carefully con- sidered.
Good soils underlaid with hard- pan to the best deep, rich soils are adapted to the walnut. Where hardpan is under the soil dyna- mite shonld be used in each hole to break it up. The dynamiting should be done while the soil is driest as it packs and sticks to- gether w hen blown up wet.
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We have all the leading Texas and Southern varieties of Pecans. Very best of trees.
We grow a full line of nursery stock and specialize in Peach, Plum, Apple, Pecan and Berries.
Our LEONA PEACH will supplant Elber- ta. HAUPT BER- RY, a hybrid, for the South is unequalled.
Catalog free. We pay pay express. 420 acres
S*6e Austin Nursery
*"• T. Ramsey (3b Son AUSTIN, TEX.
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The Pecan Business
In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from planting the nuts to gathering the nuts. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nuts and trees for sale.
B. VV. STONE :: Thomasville, Ga.
making allowance for settling of the earth. Don't put manure at the roots or in the hole. Lean the tree slightly to the prevaling wind, especially if the winds are strong and constant. Press the soil firmly around the roots, and plant in Dec- ember or January if possible, to al- low the the winter rains to settle the earth around the roots. If the soil is inclined to be dry, settle it by pouring several gallons of water around the tree. Holes should be dug deeper than the length of the root, and fill in with good earth for the base of the root to rest on. Holes should be dug about 24 in- ches in diameter.
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Several new ads this month. Read them.
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Insect Injuries to Pecans
By F. H. Chittenden
A very considerable proportion of damage by insects can be avert- ed by proper attention to orchard management. This applies to in- sects in general. If the trees can be kept in thrifty condition by the addition of fertilizers, cutting away injured and dying limbs, and the cutting out of entire trees when their death is positively as- sured, comparatively little atten- tion need be given to other forms of remedies beyond spraying. If a systematic course of spraying is instituted on the first appearance of insects which we know to be dangerous, much injury from fu- ture generations, where the insect is known to have more than one brood a year, can be largely pre- vented. It follows that close in- spection of the orchard, particular- ly of the outskirts, should be made early in the season at least once a week, and later at least twice monthly. It should always be re- membered that- wild pecan and hickory furnish breeding places for all forms of pecan insects, and if in bad condition, to borers, and their presence, if neglected in the neighborhood of the orchard is a standing menace to the welfare of
OECAN TREES
* Our Specialty is ^
growing well root- ed budded and grafted trees of best varieties.
Careful attention given all orders. Write for prices.
SOUTHERN NUT TREE NURSERIES Thomasville, :: Georgia
rafted Pecan Trees
of Select Papershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bayview Pecan Nursery
C. FORKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
Budded Pecan Trees Our Specialty...
We grow the old standard vari- eties— Stuart, Frotscher and Schley. None better. Lowest prices. 400 acres in groves, 2 to 5 years old, tor sale. Come to see or write
Tuck Brothers
Thomasville : : Georgia
Bearing Pecan Orchard
For sale — 70 acres top- worked trees that will save ten years of your time. Can be bought right and on favorable terms.
Standard Pecan Co. H'Sm™ON Monticello, Fla.
The IDEAL Nut Cracker
The latest and most practical nut cracker on the market — for Pe- cans, Walnuts, Filberts, &c.
Its special design auto- matically positions the nut and permits that steady pressure necessary to crack the shell without crashing the kernel; also prevent the shell from living.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. 50c. Postage prepaid to any address. SOUTHERN PECAN & ORCHARD COMPANY First National Bank Bldg., Chicago.
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BuddingTool
Patented 1905
A popular tool for budding Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Persimmons and all other trees.
Buds and Grafting Scions
of Schley, Stuart, Alley, Delmas, Van Deman, Teche, Russell. Mobile, Frotscher and Success.
■ Wholesale and Retail es
For particulars and prices write
HERBERT C. WHITE
Putney P. O. .’. Georgia
SHIPPING POINTS: Bacon ton,
Ga., DeWitt , Ga., Hardaway, Ga., Albany , Ga.
Pecan Trees-*
We are headquarters for Pecan Trees in the Southwest and can furnish extra fine trees in large quanti- ty for commercial orchards. Our stock runs heavy in
Stuart
and...
Schley
We also have a fine lot of Citrus to offer for fall and winter
1914-15.
The Louisiana Nut Nurseries
Jeanerette, La.
the cultivated trees.
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Pecan Rosette
In our book and catalog column mention was made recently of the Bureau of Plant Industry’s report on Pecan Rosette. This report had been anticipated for some time. The report gives much gen- eral information and is summariz- ed in part as follows:
“Pecan rosette has been rather generally recognized by growers as a serious disease almost from the inception of pecan orcharding. It does not appear to be limited to any particular soil type, topog- raphy or season. The disease first makes itself evident through the putting out of undersized, more or less crinkled, and yellow-mottled leaves. The veins tend to stand out prominently, giving a rough- ened appearance to the leaf blade, and the lighter areas between the veins are usually not fully develop- ed. The axes of growth are usual- ly shortened, so that the leaves are clustered together into a sort of rosette. In well-marked cases the branches usually die back from the tip, and other shoots are developed from normal or adven- titious buds, only in their turn to pass through the same series of symptoms.
“Observation and experimental evidence point to the conclusion that pecan rosette belongs among the chlorotic diseases of plants grouped by Sorauer into two main classes: (l) Noil-inheritable and n on- infectious diseases, due mostly to improper nutritive supply or to injurious physical conditions, and (2) inheritable and infectious dis- eases due probably to enzymatic disturbances. It seems legitimate to conclude from the data outlined in this paper that pecan rosette belongs in the first group. The evidence strongly points in the direction that the disease is caus- ed by improper nutritive supply, and it seems probable that it is directly related to a lack of balance between two or more soil ingredi- ents. The possibility of some re-
My Pennsylvania Grown Budded and Grafted Eng- lish Walnuts will succeed with you
I It is not too early to
figure on your wants for fall planting.
My illustrated catalog and cultural guide will interest you.
Free for the asking. Address
J. F. JONES
The Nut Tree Specialist
Lancaster, Pa. jj
For Sale Cheap
Pecan trees grafted from bearing trees in my orchard. Best quality and best known varieties. Sizes 2 to 6 feet. For prices write H. H. Simmons, 25 Ocean St., Jackson- ville, Fla.
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lation to soil organisms is not en- tirely precluded, but it is thought that the direct cause will ultima- tely be found in some lack of bal- ance in the nutritive supply, or possibly in some toxic organic sub- stances in the soil.
“There appears to be little doubt as to a difference in resist- ing power toward rosette, but or- chard records and observations tend to show that this difference is usually manifested through the stock rather than through the var- iety worked upon it. (food care and fertilization are to be recom- mended, but the effects of lime should be tested upon a few trees before using it on a commercial scale. Pruning is of no avail as a remedial measure. Trees showing only traces of rosette may be left in the orchard: but all advanced cases should be cut out and re- planted. On account of resistance versus susceptibility of stock, the discarding of all rosetted nursery trees is to be strongly advised.”
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Markets and Marketing
The first car lot shipment of pe- cans from Pine Bluff, Ark., was made during the past season.
The past season’s shipments of walnuts from the Whittier, Cal., section aggregated in value $450,- 000.
Kansas City reports that the trade in nuts has been as active as usual this season. Black walnuts sold at 90c to $1.00, while hickory nuts ranged from 75c to $1.75 per bushel.
Three walnut packing houses in California shipped during the re- cent season 165 cars. Over half of these shipments went by way of the Panama canal at a rate about 40 percent less than that by rail.
Anew plan for shipping walnuts in California, which proved very satisfactory, was tried out last season. Shipments were made in bales each containing 25 four- pound sacks. Thus the nuts reach- ed the consumer in the original
Berckmans’
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We have a lajge variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
FOR SALE. Budded Pecan Trees, standard varieties; order now for win- ter delivery. Also 45 acre two year old pecan orchard; also improved farms. C. W. Ransom, Houston Texas.
For Sale
Pecan Bud and Grafting Wood
From Bearing Trees Frotsoher, Stuart, Van Deman, Mobile, Moneymaker, Young, with a few Jer- ome, Success and Nelson. $7.50 per 1000.
C. L. WHITNEY, Thomasville, Ga.
FOR SALE-
Pecan grove of 52 acres, located in the best farming section of Southwest Geor- gia, one mile from depot on Georgia Northern railroad. Trees are of the latest variety and are five years old. Price right and terms reasonable. Ad- dress
L. W. HARDY, Barwick, Ga.
FOR SALE. Back numbers of The Nut-Grower. Parties desiring to com- plete their files should send list of what they need. The Nut-Grower Company, Waycross, Ga.
Best Time for Planting at Hand
We have an unexcelled stock of PECANS, assorted var- ieties and sizes, and would be pleased to have on opor- tunity to make quotations on the needs of planters.
We can also furnish some extra nice Satsumas to the re- tail trade.
Additional stock consisting of Peaches, Plums, Grapes, Po- ses and Ornamentals described in our new Catolog A. Ask for it.
Summit Nurseries, Monticello, Fla.
ALL ABOUT tiUDZU
A 3“Ton Cutting ot Kudzu at Glen Arden Farm,” Showing Both the Gut ana Dianaing riay
Most Wonderful Growth. The Coming Forage Crop of the South. Better than Alfalfa, Red Clover or Timothy. Better because it succeeds ou laud too poor for those crops. Better, because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to save it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruiu the hay. Better, because stock like it better and it contains more protein than wheat bran, from 16.59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants. Kudzu lias great possibilitiesas a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further informa- tion and prices write.
G. E. Pleas Plant Go • GLCHIPLEYf FLORIDA
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Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedling's fend for Price List
Chas. E. Pabst
Proprietor
Ocean Springs, Miss.
Satsuma Orange Trees in Quantity
To insure first-class trees, your orders should be placed early. Nurserymen will not be able to supply the demand for citrus trees this coming season.
The Best in Budded and Grafted Pecans and General Nursery Stock
Write for information and prices at once.
FLORIDA NURSERIES
W. W. BASSETT, Proprietor MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
— Peean and Walnut Trees —
Plant our hardy, northern grown Pecan and Persian Walnut trees for best results in the northern portion of the pecan area and in the far northern states. Learn about our trees and our methods of growing them. Our book- let “Nut Trees” will be sent free on request.
Arrowfield Nurseries Box N Petersburg, Virginia
Biloxi Nursery
Biloxi, Miss.
Grafted Pecans, Satsumas Roses, Magnolia Grandiflora
JAMES BROD1E, Proprietor
SUCCESS
NATURAL SIZE
The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
Pecan Trees Satsuma Oranges
AND
Other Citrus Trees
Also a general line of Fruit ^rees, Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrub- bery and Field Grown Rose Bushes. No better stock grown. Before placing your orders write for illustrated cata- logue.
Turkey Creek Nursery Company,
Box 21. Macclenny, Fla.
522 S. Division Ave. GRAWD RftplDS» M!CH
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package and the mixing of grades after shipment was obviated.
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Belated Echoes from the Convention
R. B. Small, of Columbus, Ga., is making a good record for regu- lar attendance at the convention.
J. A. Kernodle, of Camp Hill, Ala., came early and stayed until • the convention work was finished.
C. D. Benfield, of Waycross, Ga., looked after the distribution of The Nut-Grower during the convention.
H. W. Smitbwick, of Americus, Ga., an toed to the convention. He was accompanied by S. S. Hotch- kiss. of Myrtle, Ga.
Another Georgian attained office at the convention, T. H. Parker of Moultrie having been elected a member of the Executive commit- tee.
C. M. Griffing, of Jacksonville, Fla., who mingled with the kind- red spirits at the convention, is not only an adept in absorbing in- formation but is also generous in imparting instruction.
Theo Bechtel of Ocean Springs, Miss., was at the convention long- enough to keep up his record for regular attendance. The meeting was half over before he arrived and he was gone before adjourn- ment, but he was promoted to a vice- presidency.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing- crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in vesting in South Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in-
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vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
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Books and Catalogs
Back yard Bee-keeping; six easy lessons. The I. A. Root Co., Me- dina, O.
Buist's Garden Guide for 1915; 150 pages of description of garden and flower seeds. Robert Buist Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Thornburn's Seeds for 1915; a fine catalog of high class seed, both vegetables and flowers, with prices and cultural directions.
The Buckeye Beehive; by E. R. Root. 100 pages of information regarding the management of bees in double-walled hives. I. A. Root Co., Medina, O.
Constitution and By-Laws of the Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers As- sociation. An eight page booklet. Copies can be obtained of W. W. Bassett, Secretary, Monticello, Fla.
War Time Prices; trade catalog Austin Nursery, F. T. Ramsey & Son, Austin, Tex. 32 pages, list- ing a large number of choice var- ieties of fruits, small fruits and ornamental plants.
William P. Stark Nurseries, Stark City, Mo. Illustrated cata- log and price list of fruit and or- namental trees and decorative shrubs. Gives special attention to the J. H. Hale peach.
The Pecan Business; from plant- ing the nuts to gathering them. 30-page catalog of B. W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga. Much compre- hensive information is found in this pamphlet together with des- cription of ten of the most popular varieties of pecans.
Gardeners and Florists Annual for 1915; a valuable year book for florists, seedsmen, nurserymen and gardeners. Edited by ,T. Harrison
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10,000 Fine Pecan Trees
We have for sale this sea- son 15,000 strong, healthy, budded and grafted pecan trees; wrell developed roots; Stuart variety. Special wholesale prices.
Louisiana Delta Pecan Company
secC:TAr^REWS’ Marshall, Tex.
Pecans, Satsumas, Grape Fruit
We have them in QUANTITY as well as QUALITY. Our stock is especially strong in large grades. Let us figure on your wants. Orders for one tre or one car load given the same careful personal at- tention.
Simpson Nursery Co.
Monticello, Florida
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The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company
DeWitt, Georgia
Standard Varieties of Properly Grown Trees
ID
Our many years of practical ex- perience combined with the scientific study we have made of the industry enables us to supply to the best advantage the wants of our patrons.
Prompt attention to inquiries.
Send for Price List.
The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co.
DeWitt, Georgia
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The New Agriculture
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Free Book
•g OR 2,000 years most farmers have cul- tivated only (1 to 8 inches of soil. They have spent millions of dollars adding to these 6-incli f a r m s p 1 a.n t foods, such as potash, phosphorus and lime, that already lay in the soil waiting to be made available.
VERTICAL FARMING makes available tons per acre of new plant food, en- sures abundant moisture and largely increases crop yields.
Dr. G. E. Bailey, Geologist at the University of South- ern California, has prepar- ed a reading course of instruction in soils and vertical farming. We have printed it in a well illustrated book. It will be mailed
FREE ON REQUEST
to anyone owing a farm in the United States. Get this book about soils. Work your farm to its full capacity. Know your land. Learn its compo- sition. Use the fertilizers nature is storing beneath your 6-inch farms. Send a postal request today for Vertical Farming Booklet, 191-F. Be sure to state the acreage of the farm you own.
DU PONT POWDER COMPANY
PIONEER POWDER MAKERS OF AMERICA
Established 1802 Wilmington, Del.
Stuart Pecan Trees
6 to 9 Feet Tall Get Our Special Prices
We also have other varieties and prices.
Let us know you r wants.
The Paper Shell Pecan Nursery, Ltd.
W. M. Ellison, Mgr. LAFAYETTE, LA.
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White River Valley, Ark., pro- duces pecans abundantly. The low price of cotton lias had the ef- fect of diverting attention to this natural product and merchants now regard the nuts as a staple product.
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Citrus Importations Pro- hibited
The Secretary of Agriculture has issued an order prohibiting the importation from all foreign coun- tries of citrus nursery stock, in- cluding buds, scions and seeds, ex- cept for experimental or scientific use by the Department. This ac- tion is taken to prevent the intro- duction into this country of citrus canker and other citrus diseases found to exist in foreign countries and liable to be introduced on nursery stock.
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Sam H. James’ Announce- ment
This winter I shall have for sale Stuart and Moneymaker budded pecan trees, grafting and budding wood of nearly all leading kinds, also lespedeza seed. I started grow- ing pecan trees in Feb. 1878, and have been in the business ever since. I have tested here upon my plantation nearly every known var- iety of pecan. I find only two vari- eties that are perfectly healthy and which are enormous bearers. They are Moneymaker and Carman. I have fruited these pecans for 22 years and have sold them to the multi-millionaire class in the north, and they have invariably come back for more. I have just filled Thomas A. Edisons’, John D. Ar- chbolds’ and J. M. Studebaker's orders. The nurseryman who is not growing these two varieties is standing terribly in his own light. Sam H. James, Mound, La. — Adv.
Members National Nnt Growers’ Association Members Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Association
ROOD PECAN GROVES
C. M. ROOD, President
ALBANY, GEORGIA
Twenty-seven year old bearing Pecan Grove for sale in small tracts on small payments
We are now booking or- ders for Pecan stock for fall and winter delivery.
The largest Pecan and En- glish Walnut Nurseries in Georgia.
We sell large soft shelled standard pecan nuts put up in 1, 5 and 10 pound fancy boxes.
Send for catalog.
ROOD PECAN GROVES
ALBANY, GA.
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If any man is able to convince meand show me that I do notthink or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ev- er injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignor- ance.
— Marcus Aurelius.
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For Soil Improvement in the South.
Plant in Groves and Orchards
Iron Peas Bra fa Si am Pea©
Hardy, disease-resistent. 26 oth- er varieties. Price on any quan- tity.
Rowland & Co .
Seedsmen — AIL Field Seed
I Augusta, Georgia
ASK FOR MONTHLY BULLETIN
DECAN TKEEq
5 Our Specialty is growing well root- ed budded and grafted trees of best varieties.
( ,-i'ui ! nt ion riven all orders. Writ' f. prices.
SC J .U NUT
'^series
1 . •masviiie, :: Georgia
Graf ,a Pecan Trees
of Select 1 apershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bay view Pecan Nursery
C. FORKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
PECAN
trees
Budded Paper Shells.
Best Varieties
Expert Propaga- tion. Healthy and Hardy Stock.
Write far Prices
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The Twig Girdler
During the winter months the work of the twig girdler may be recognized by the severed branch- es and twigs still hanging on the trees or on the ground. These should be carefully gathered and burned so as to destroy the eggs deposited in them. If there are hickory, oak or persimmon trees in the vicinity of the pecan orch- ard they should be given the same attention. Following up this work for a year or two will practically eliminate this pest.
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Birds as Insect Destroyers
The United States Biological Sur- vey recently conducted an invest! gation to determine the value of birds as insect destroyers and made some startling discoveries.
A tree swallow’s stomach was found to contain 40 entire chinch bugs and fragments of many oth- ers. besides many other species of insects. A bank swallow in Tex- as was found to have devoured 68 cotton boll weevils. Thirty-five cliff swallows bad taken an aver- age of 18 boll weevils each. Two stomachs of pine siskins from Hay- wards, California, contained 000 black olive scales and 300 plant lice. A killdeer’s stomach taken in November in Texas contained over 300 mosquito larva?. A flick- er’s stomach Held 28 white grubs. A nighthawk’s stomach collected in Kentucky contained 34 beetles, the adult form of white grubs. An- other nightliawk, from New York, had eaten 24 clover leaf weevils and 375 ants. Still another had eaten 340 grasshoppers, 52 bugs, 3 beetles, 2 wasps and a spider. A boat-tailed grackle had eaten at one meal about 100 cotton-boll worms beside a few other insects. A ring necked pheasant’s crop from Washington contained 8,000 seeds of chickweed and dandelion heads.
It pays to encourage the birds to nest on your premises.
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In writing our advertisers be sure to mention The Nut-Grower.
Pecan Trees Satsuma Oranges
and
Grape Fruit Trees
That are Right
SAMUEL KIDDER Monticello, Florida
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Pounds
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Peca
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Our crop consists of many of the finest of the standard var- i e t i e s of pecans.
We are offering these choice nuts for sale either in bulk or in small lots. :: :: ::
For price or other information, write to
The
G. M. Bacon
Pecan Co.
DeWitt : Georgia
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THE NUT-GROWER
VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., MARCH 1915
NUMBER 3
THE FOOD VALUE OF NUTS
By Mrs. W. N. Hutt
A Paper read at the Thomasville meeting of the National Nut Growers’ Association
(Q MEKTCA has been called the bread basket of the world; it might just as properly be called the nut basket of the nations. I realize that I say noth- ing original when T say that nut bearing trees should be planted for ornament and shade; I can go so far however, as to say that no home should be without at least one nut bearing tree, and that no town should exist without the trees of one street being of some food-bearing variety. Could even one-tenth of our centers of population be converted to this idea the high cost of Jiving would be less of a problem. The pecan grows upon as beautiful a tree as the acorn; yet we see a hundred oaks to one pecan, even in the pecan territory. Gardens there are, all through the peanut territory, yielding weeds where the goober plant might produce thousands of bushels. And so it is all through the land. There is no more import- ant day in all the year than Arbor Day, and could Arbor Day be devoted to the planting of nut trees it might almost change the history of the food industry of file world in two generations.
With the average housewife the nut is consider- ed a luxury, and well it might be with the present prices of nuts. To be sure, nut growers want to get as much a pound as possible for the nuts. From the viewpoint of the housewife it would seem that the lower the price of nuts the better it is for the world. The high price of nuts has in the past classed them with the confections, when our object should be to make them staple articles of diet, ingredients and ac- cessories to every course in the meal, from appetizer to satiety.
With the exception of peanuts, nuts are a more expensive source of proteid than meats, but because of their pleasing flavor they are becoming more and more used, Dietitians sometimes says that nuts con- tain a large proportion of refuse, there being about sixteen per cent in fresh chestnuts, . twenty-three in dried chestnuts, twenty-seven in peanuts, forty seven in almonds and eighty-six in butternuts, but show me a food that has less waste and shrinkage. It
might also be pointed out that the edible parts form a highly concentrated food, containing very little wa- ter and much fat, the pecan, the richest of all nuts in fat, being about three-fourths oil. Some of the nuts, the chestnut particularly, contain much carbohy- drate. It does not make a successful flour when us- ed by itself, but combined with potato or wheat flour, makes a most delightful and nutritious bread for many of the people of the east. Nor are nuts lacking in proteid, the chestnut containing ten per cent; the pecan twelve; the hickory fifteen; the filbert sixteen; the brazil nut seventeen; the walnut eighteen; the butternut twenty-seven and the peanut thirty. Aside from this, all nuts are rich in phosphoric acid and other mineral matter. Therefore a family cast on an isolated island rich in all varieties of nut trees could obtain the proteid with its tissue-forming qual- ities, carbohydrate with its quality of heat and ener- gy, oils for storing and lubricating and mineral mat- ter for the building of the bones, hair, teeth, etc., and for stimulating the growth of the young animal, hu- man or otherwise. All that would be lacking would be the bulk, which is the cheapest thing in the world to supply.
The objection sometimes raised to nuts is that they become readily rancid and give a very disagree- able flavor. Like olive oil, nuts even slightly rancid will take away the desire for all nuts. When com- pared to other food, however, particularly those rich in food qualities, the keeping time of nuts is extreme- ly long. Proteid in the form of meat, milk, eggs, cheese, etc., will last but a week or two at most at seventy degrees, while, conservatively speaking, nuts will last as many months. These articles of diet, kept in cold storage for months will keep as many years under similar conditions. In considering the nuts as an every day article of diet we must not forget the fact that it is an article of confectionery also. The sale of nut sundaes, of scattering nuts with maple sugar at soda fountains has been a recent development which has increased the consumption
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of certain varieties of nuts enormously. One drug store alone told me that they used over fifteen hun- dred pounds of nuts so prepared in the last year. Of nut candies there are scores of varieties, the black walnut, perhaps, leading in favor, a candy house in Chicago buying them by the ton instead of by the pound. One does not realize the enormous amount of pistachios, almonds, peanuts, etc., that are used by these candy factories unless he sees them, as I did, piled up, filling a room as large as the average ban- quet hall from floor to ceiling.
Right here I should like to say that I do not be lievc that the increased popularity of the nut in the dietary is due to the efforts of such men as are now listening to this paper, but to the fact that woman has become more and more educated in household economics. When the time comes that all men see the value of t he course in household economics for every girl in t lie land, whether it be in the most re- mote school in the back swamps, or in the most fash- ionable high priced city school, then shall the sale of nuts increase with leaps and bounds. No commer- ci.il organization can permanently increase the sale of any food crop. The housewives of the world must accomplish this.
The peanut, while perhaps not a true nut, is such dieiically. Its use in the school lunch basket, as peanut butter, has been of great value to the child. ll is not my purpose to give recipes here, because they can be obtained in almost any cook book. How- ever. I should like to emphasize the fact that man, woman or child can make peanut butter. If the pea- nuts were bought raw and the children permitted to roast them themselves or shown the delightful meth- ods of salting them, and incorporating them into candy and popcorn balls, many a winter evening would be passed with the children around the fire- side instead of the street corner.
Next to the peanut in the popular estimation of the housewife comes the hickory. This is used more in the north than in the south. Of course, its food value is without question, but its great aid to those who are endeavoring to promote community spirit is also without question. Get a group of boys and girls in a school room cracking and eating hickories and you have the beginning of a neighborhood congenial- ity. Like the pecan, I understand that the hickory grows in very few parts of the world. The American housewife, therefore, should appreciate that which is exclusively hers and be proud of what America has had the privilege of giving to the world.
Chestnut bread will perhaps never take the place of wheat bread, but the woman who loves to experi- ment will enjoy this once in a while. It has adecid- edly nutty flavor similar to that of nut stuffing for chicken and turkey.
The black walnut is a very strong nut, but for that reason is best of all nuts for certain kinds of
candy and for cake. The almond, hazel nut and the English walnut combine the qualities of being a very beautiful and artistic decoration to icing, salads and cream soups, and of making those dishes a nourishing repast.
We have so many times gone into the value of nuts as compared to other foods, that I shall not go into it in detail, except to quote Hutchinson, who tells us that thirty English walnuts contain about as much fat as two and one-quarter pounds of moderate- ly lean beef, but that two and one-half ounces of beef are equal to them in proteid. It will be neces- sary to consume about seven hundred walnuts in or- der to obtain the necessary amount of proteid re- quired by the body for a day. The almond is of dis- tinct value because of its poverty in carbohydrate. This makes it valuable for use in dietetic breads, its lack making its worth. The cocoanut, weighing one and one-quarter pounds, contains one-quarter pound fat, so that at the present price, fat from this source is about the same as butter.
Unfortunately, nuts are not readily digested in the stomach unless they are fresh, well-chewed, or ground. We consider it very little trouble, in fact, part of the duties of a housewife to prepare other foods so that they may be readily digested in the stomach. Why should we not give similar thought to nuts?
Many experiments have been conducted as to the absorbability of nuts by the body. It has been found that results compare favorably with the ab- sorption of other foods, particularly in an ordinary mixed diet.
This brings us to the fact that it is not desirable to encourage the use of nuts after a full meal even though they may be combined with raisins, which are in themselves of high food value. They should be eaten as part of the meal or out of hand at odd times.
Looking back in history one finds that the acorn was an important artiele/>f diet among practically all the aboriginal tribes of North America. Because of its bitter and astringent qualities it has been super- seded by other nuts. As has been referred to, the chestnut was of great value to the wandering tribes of Europe and Asia: the cocoanut has fed teeming millions in tropical countries and will probably con- tinue to do so for many years to come; the brazil nut has performed a similar mission in definite parts of the world. This might be said of almost every nut. Today these nuts are being brought to perfection by the efforts of scientific men who have in mind not on- ly their value in dollars and cents, but with true missionary spirit consider their importance as a hu- man food. Economically considered, the nut has never received its just due. It has kept many an is- olated people in meat, since hogs, squirrels, fowls, etc., would have become extinct were it not for the wild nuts to which they have found access.
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As a summary, I might conclude by saying t hat considering the great food value of nuts it is strange that they are not more generally consumed as staples on American tables. The nut is bread, butter and meat all in one. It is served in Nature’s manner of combining the nutrients, and is not only delicious but wholesome. It is packed in Nature's container, and thus will keep longer than any other food that is not cooked or otherwise preserved. No foods, ex- cept the fats of meat, butter and oil, show such an amount of calories of heat per pound as nuts, and ev- en then, under ordinary conditions, nuts are the cheaper. As calories represent the energy ‘nutrients
of foods, nuts are ideal eating for winter and for peo- ple engaged in muscular work. The liking of child- ren of every sort, condition, clime, color and social status for nuts is undoubtedly because of Nature’s demand for a food supplying the excessive energy they put forth in their youthful exercises and in (he cell building of bodily growth. Many nuts yield a greater caloric energy than sugars and syrups, which are nearly pure carbohydrate. Tn fact, no other food of such high caloric energy can be safely eaten ex- cept in connection with diluting foods. Nuts are Nature's masterpiece in the vegetable world.
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Is Marion County the Southern Limit of Profitable Pecan
Growing in Florida ?
By E. A. Davenport
A Paper Read at the Thomasville Convention of the National Nut Growers’ Association
X T is agreed that no State in the Union is at the pi’esent time receiving such an influx of home- seekers as Florida. Most of the newcomers are mak- ing their homes on the land and from all sections of the State come calls for help. They are a thrifty and energetic people that are coming to Florida, and fully capable of subduing the forest and building homes with no assistance from any one, but when it comes to the question of what crops, what fruits, and what nuts to plant, they need all the help that agricultur- al and horticultural association can give them. It follows that no inquiry by the National Nut Growers’ Association could be more timely than the question, “Is Marion County the Southern Limit of Profitable Pecan Growing in Florida!” It is especially timely when new people are coming into the State as its dis- cussion may be of great help to a large number of worthy settlers.
Under the circumstances no one can answer this question in an off-hand way with a simple “yes” or “no." The answer must of necessity be long-drawn- out, in fact some years must elapse before a positive answer can be given. Still what we want to know of the subject will, I believe, be of value to the people who are opening up farms in central and southern Florida. What we do not know may be of still great- er help to some would-be pecan orchardists in the way of protecting them against failure and unneces- sary loss.
In one sense of the word Marion County at the present time is the southern limit of pecan culture in Florida, no commercial groves, at least none of any consequence having been planted south of that local- ity for a sufficient length of time to make a test. We know that pecans have done exceedingly well in Mar-
ion County. The county now claims over one thous- and acres planted to budded varieties and wherever the trees have had anything like a fair chance they have done remarkably well. The high, well-drained, rolling pine and hammock lands of that county have proven especially adapted to the pecan. The rich, sandy loam surface under-laid with clay, seems to be ideal for the formation of a strong root system. Thus the trees put on a fine stocky growth. Orchards that will not be seven years old until January, planted to Van Deman, Stuart and Teche, have matured good crops this year in spite of a very dry spring and sum- mer, followed by a too wet fall. Some of the Teche trees had already borne the two previous years, in other words began showing a few nuts when they were still less than five years old.
Great numbers of seedling trees are to be found in Marion County, scattered about in field and door- yards, receiving no attention whatever, and yet most of them bearing fine crops. Some of these trees origi- nated from improved varieties purchased at fairs and were planted with the idea that like would produce like. The result is that a number of seedlings are to be found in the county producing nuts not like the original, but as good as many of the recognized var- ieties.
It would hardly seem possible that Marion County, where the pecan tree grows and bears so well, could be the southern limit of profitable pecan culture. We would, on the contrary, expect to find either the tree, or the crop, or both, less satisfactory as the southern limit was reached. It w'ould be most unreasonable to expect the pecan to growr to perfection up to a certain line and then break short (Continued on page 38.)
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The Nut-Grower recently purchased several hundred copies of convention proceedings, which will be included in a list of pecan literature soon to be issued. We have sold hundreds of copies during the past two years, and the supply is likely to be exhaus- ted long before the demand for them ceases.
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The Albany, Georgia, pecan district leads all other sections in the area of planted orchards of the improved varieties. They claim 5 12 of the total area of such trees. Their proportion of the recently harvested crop is doubtless still larger, as the yield for this district is given at fully 250,000 pounds, o o o
Pursuant to a call issued by Win. P. Bullard, president of the Albany District Pecan Exchange, a number of pecan growers met at Albany, Georgia, on February 2 to discuss matters relating to the grading and marketing of pecans. A report of this meeting was promised for this issue of The Nut-Grower, but had not been received up to the time of going to press.
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About five years ago a railroad reached the town of San Saba, Texas, a place made famous by Mr. E. E. Risien and his San Saba pecan. For some years previous to the advent of the railroad, Mr. Risien 's post office address was Rescue, Texas. This post of- fice was discontinued four years ago, but the mail for Mr. Risien is still addressed to him at Rescue to such an extent that the department writes him to do what lie can to have his letters addressed to San Saba. He in turn appeals to The Nut-Grower saying, “1 wish you would make note of this in your paper where all will see it.”
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Among the things which count in obtaining re- cords of individual trees is some convenient plan for
locating permanently the individual trees of an or- chard. Some years ago in the editor’s test orchard the following plan was formulated. First a map of the planting -was made on which records of any kind couLd be kept. The orchard was divided into con- venient plots and regularly numbered. Then the rows of trees in each plot were numbered and finally each tree in the row. The next step was to perma- nently connect the map with the orchard so that the identity as well as location o f any desired tree could be conveniently and accurately determined. This was accomplished by the use of three numbers painted or cut on the tree at a convenient height. With an inch chisel numbers can readily be cut which will continue permanently, while paint will wash away in time and labels are easily lost or get trans- ferred to the wrong tree. The top number records the orchard plot, the number below it indicates the row in that plot, while the lowest figure is the tree number of that particular row and plot. This sys- tem is equally available for a large or small orchard and has a number of points in favor of its general ad- option.
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Is Marion County the Southern Limit of Profitable Pecan Growing in Florida ?
(Continued from page 37.)
off and become a failure on the other side of that line.
Thus while admitting that Marion County is in fact the southern limit of profitable pecan culture at the present time, I believe that it is only so because the culture of the nut has not been attempted south of that point on any adequate scale.
We know that seedling trees are to be found in various sections of Florida and south of Marion County. There are bearing trees in Sumter, Hills- borough, Manatee and other southern counties. Re- ports from Hillsborough and Manatee Counties indi- cate that trees from twenty to thirty years old bear only occasional light crops, but the trees have made a good growth and are apparently healthy. They seem to be valued as shade rather than nut bearers and a lack of fertilizer and proper care might have something to do with their shy bearing proclivities. I have reports of seedling trees in Sumter County, the next county south of Marion, that are bearing good regular crops. Some budded trees have been recently planted in Hernando County, in the tier of counties south of Sumter, but it is loo early to re- port on the outcome.
In the light of what we know, 1 would say that Marion County is not the southern limit of profitable pecan culture. In the light of what we do not know, it would be my advice to prospective pecan orchard- ists located south of Marion County, to plant only in an experimental way.
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I think it was Mr. Clias. E. Pabst of Ocean Springs, Miss., who made the statement that oats growing in a pecan grove is almost equivalent to fire sweeping through it. My own experience for three success- ive seasons confirms his view. I’ll never plant oats again in my pe- - can grove. It may do to plant in rows two feet apart and cultivate for moisture, or it may do to sow broadcast if you have a spring of heavy rainfall, but these sugges- tions are merely problematical and I'm afraid to test either one.
The oat crop makes its heaviest draft for moisture in April and May and the pecan tree comes out for moisture at the same time, sets it fruit and makes most of its growth during those two months; then, too, the great feeding root- let system is established about this time and anything that cuts short the development of the root growth cuts short the tree growth and the nut crop. Give the early root sys- tem a chance to develop and you may inter crop with anything, pro- vided you plant in rows and culti- vate up to the first of August if you can.
I have planted my grove to late corn for seven successive years; take nothing off but ears of corn, turning all the pea vines, hay and corn under, and the grove is doing fine — yields of corn, increasing each year; in 1911, 15 bushels per acre; in 1913, 10 bushels per acre; and this from an application of 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre and the tree.) had no additional fertilizer. This shows the great advantages of cultivation and hu- mus.
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Items of Interest
In North Carolina a prolonged drouth cut down the promising pe- can crop for 1914 to about 20 per cent of what was anticipated.
A Nelson pecan tree on the home grounds of ,T. B. Wight at Cairo, Ga., produced 60 pounds of nuts last season, when it was seven years old.
A tree planting movement is in progress in San Angelo, Texas. The local commercial' organization is back of the work and is furnishing pecan and crepe myrtle trees at cost.
Grady county, Georgia, is devel- oping nursery and live stock inter- ests in connection with her pecan orchards in a manner that is at- tracting' much attention through- out the rest of the state.
Pecan growing in California is attracting increasing attention. Parties in Sutter county are start- ing a commercial orchard. It is claimed that trees in that section have been bearing for the past 40 years.
The practice of cutting down pe- can trees still prevails to some ex- tent in the southwest. A local paper at Durant, Okla., protests and heads an editorial with the injunction, “Woodman, spare that pecan tree.”
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expected. The uncertainty as to regular bearing seems to be the reason why plantings have been light during recent years.
The native pecans of Arkansas figured in a commercial way in sev- eral localities during the past sea- son. One town in particular woke up to the fact that their resources were being neglected, and shipped a solid car load of nuts.
A recent importation of wrood oil trees from China is giving prom- ise of commercial Importance in the lower south. The tree is ad- apted to our warm southern cli- mate and is said when three years old to produce a bushel of the nuts which furnish an oil used in the manufacture of varnish.
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Tiie Pecan Husk-Worm
The husks of growing nuts are much affected some seasons in many districts by a small whitish “worm” or caterpillar known as the husk borer or husk- worm. Quantities of nuts have been re- ceived at the Bureau of Entomolo- gy in some cases of about the usual size that were found upon exami- nation to he invariably empty al- though the “worms” fed only on the outer hull. Some growers claim that the principal injury of this species is in cheeking the growth of the earliest nuts, hut from all nuts examined by the writer the husks of which contained the worm of this species, it seems that this latter form of injury is equally se- rious.
The difficulty of applying a good remedy for this insect tends to shew that it is likely to become a very serious pest indeed. About all that can be done is to gather and promptly destroy the infested nuts as often as they are seen, and to gather wind-fails and dispose of them in the same manner. For the perfect protection of the pecan or- chard, however, hickory nuts and wild pecans should be also gather- ed when found affected and prompt- ly destroyed. Where it is feasible to allow hogs the range of the or-
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But lest I overlook the next best thing to the pecan, and one that was overlooked too long on the Gulf coast, the delicious little Sat- suma orange, the big money maker, the pecan man’s little friend, the little fellow who bridges over the hard financial places for the pecan man, while he is maturing his grove. Don’t you fellows who are coming on behind with the advantage of the other fellow’s experience, and the result of his labors in the pe- can business, overlook this great fruit. We did not know about the Satsuma orange, and we are con- centrating on the pecan, but you will have no excuse if you overlook planting the Satsuma between your pecan trees, or planting a block as soon as you start your pe- can grove. The Satsuma begins to show profit in three years, and helps out m Ightily in the long v ait of seven or eight years you are having for the pecan to beg a de- claring dividends. — Exchange.
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The Southern Limit of Profitable Pecan Growing
By E. A. Davenport (Continued from last issue)
I believe that the southern lim- its of the pecan will be pushed well down into southern Florida, just as the northern limits have been pushed fart her north than was believed possible. To avoid costly mistakes, this pushing southward into untried fields must be con- ducted with caution. The various named varieties must be tried out in a small way to determine their behavior before large commercial orchards are planted. Better still, promising seedlings native 1o t he farther south region must be sought out and new varieties es- pecially adapted to the region de- veloped. By all means push the southern limit farther south, but let the work be done systematical- ly and in a way that will not bring disappointment to the people who are turning the forests of Florida into orchards and farms.
Who knows what the future may hold in store? Boundary lines in agriculture and hortieuture are being wiped off the map every day. Districts now regarded as outside the pecan district may a few years hence be recognized as the center of the industry. Men who are not yet very old, can remember when the talk was — nothing worthwhile west of the Mississippi River. But Corn Crossed the Father of Waters and Iowa and Missouri and other States in the valley of the great river became the richest agricul- tural section of the whole country. Another limit was drawn at the Missouri River, and men said, “You will be compelled to stop here, be yond is a wind-swept, barren des- ert.” King Corn crossed the river, and now hundreds of millions of bushels of corn are grown every year in the heart of the great American desert. Millions of bush- els of wheat, oats, and barley were grown this year under dry farni- (Continued on page 51)
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., APRIL 1915 NUMBER 4
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON VARIETIES
By C. A. Reed
Field Agent, Bureau of Plant Industry
^ WO questions regarding any variety of pecan
should be asked and answered before that varie- ty should be included in any planting list. These are:
1. How well can it be grown: and
2. How well can it be soldi
Who can say that either of these questions is the more important, for what does it matter how well a variety may be grown if it cannot readily be sold so as to allow a reasonable margin of profit, or how readily it may be sold if it cannot economically be grown ?
The pecan possessing all of the good points has not yet appeared, nor is it probable that it ever will appear. Varieties possessing all, of what may at the time, be considered by a few as being all of the good points, in certain sections, for certain markets and in certain years, are bound to appear from time to time. And these may be most excellent varieties, but no one variety can ever meet all of the require- ments in all orchards and in all markets, all of the time.
The editor lias asked for reports from different individuals in distinctly different sections regarding their observations of certain varieties. If those who receive these requests will report promptly with thoughtful, brief and concise replies, the variety col- umn should make itself very useful. The column should become a permanent feature, and in it each of the better known sorts should appear for periodic review.
The twro varieties which the editor desires to have discussed in the present issue are the Stuart and the Delmas. Taking up the first of these, by asking the twfo questions which this article says should be asked and answered before it should be in- cluded in a planting list, and at the same time keep- ing in mind Judge Edwards’ “acid test,” wre have: The Stuart Pecan
How wel I may it be grown, and how well may it be sold ?
Favorable Points (of especial concern to the orchardist) :
It has been tested for a long time (since 1885 ) and has been widely disseminated. With the plant- ers it is now one of the most popular varieties.
It is a vigorous, healthy grower, and, so far as authentically reported, both foliage and nut hulls have been free from serious attacks of pecan scab. In fact, so far as known to the writer, a positive case of scab has never been found on this variety.
It has been reported as being hardy farther north than has any other southern variety which lias been given an equal test. (Mr. J. G. Rush, West Willow. Pa., reports having gathered a few Stuart nuts in 1914 from a tree which he set in 1905 on his home grounds in Lancaster County.)
To a very large degree it is capable of shifting for itself; (hat is, it adjusts itself to conditions of en- vironments to such an extent as practically to insure a crop of nuts even under very adverse circumstances.
It is an annual bearer.
While the nuts differ somewhat in shade of color and in form, and the kernels vary in plumpness and quality, depending upon the season, locality, age of trees, and, no doubt, upon other influences, Stuart nuts from the same trees and of the same season’s crop are very uniform in color, size, form and in character of kernel.
Favorable Points (of especial concern to the seller):
The nuts are usually large, attractive in appear- ance, uniform, and the kernels are sweet anil ordi- narily plump.
Unfavorable Points (of concern to both or- chardist and seller.) The nuts are not paper shells, but moderately thick-shelled.
The kernel is loosely constructed and breaks badly while being separated from the cracked shell.
A rather thick partition of astringent, cork-like material, breaking readily, and lying between the
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half-kernels, is with difficulty separated from the pieces of kernel. Tastes of the latter have given rise to considerable prejudice against the Stuart on the ground of astringency of kernel, which of course is entirely unfounded.
So objectionable is the Stuart pecan because of the difficulty with which it is cracked that it does not build up trade as well as do many other sorts.
'the Stuart has been extensively planted and it is bound to be among the very first to feel competi- tion. Its competition probably will be greatest with itself.
In some instances, the Stuart already has been reported as having to "beg” itself into the market.
Stuart nuts frequently germinate while still on the tree. Such nuts deteriorate quickly after being harvested.
The Dei. mas Pecan
How well may it be grown and how well can it be sold ?
This is a less well known variety and not as much can be said regarding it.
Favorable Points (of especial concern to the orchardist):
It is a very prolific bearer and the nuts are uni- form in size.
It is a vigorous grower; its symmetry and beauty commend it strongly for ornamental planting.
Favorable Points (of especial concern to the seller):
The nuts are very large, of an attractive, rich brown color, fairly thin shelled, moderately good crackers and the kernels are usually plump.
The kernels average unusally plump for a large variety.
Unfavorable Points:
Under certain conditions, the Del mas is very subject to pecan scab: so much so, that in the more serious case the entire crop may fall from the trees. In less severe cases only a part of the nuts will fall, while another part will be under-sized and poorly de- veloped. and a small proportion will be entirely nor- mal.
The Delmas is still too new for general rating. It has been tested in but a small portion of the pe can area.
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PECAN ROSETTE
From an article hy W. A. Orton and F. V. Rand in the Journal of Agricultural Research
g OSETTK has been rather generally recognized by pgp growers as a serious disease almost from the inception of commercial pecan orcharding. As early as 1902 requests came to the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture for an investigation into the causes of the disease and possible methods of con- trol. The work was at once undertaken by the senior author and carried on for about four years in connection with other work in the Southern States, but between 190(1 and 1910 little attention was paid to the disease. Since 1910. and more particularly during the seasons of 1912 and 1913, the experi- mentation lias been continued by the junior author.
The disease is well distributed over the pecan- growing territory from Texas to the Atlantic coast and from Florida to Virginia. It has been definite- ly seen by one or the other of the authors at Whitt- ier. Cal.; San Antonio, Boerne, Waring, Renville. San Saba, Waco, Austin. McKinley, Tex.; Xew Or- leans, La.; Ocean Springs. Miss.: Atlanta, Statesboro, Albany. DeWitt, Bacon ton, Thomasville, Cairo. Val- dosta, and Blackshear, (la.; Belleview. Palatka, Sisco, Gainesville, St. Augustine, Jacksonville. McClenny, Glen St. Mary, Alachua, Lake City, Monticello, New- port and Tallahassee. Fla.: Mt. Pleasant, Denmark, Bamberg. Greenwood. Blackshear, Orangeburg, St. Matthews. Fort Motle, Cameron. Sumter. Summer- ton, and James Island. S. ('.; Durham, N. <’.; and at
East vi lie. Va. Besides personal observations at the places above enumerated, specimens of pecans ( Car- lin illinoensis) showing undoubted symptoms of rosette have been received from a much wider terri- tory including Arizona, Tennessee and other States. Similar symptoms have been observed by the authors upon other species of hickory, notably the mocker- nut ( 6 arya alba { L. ) K. Koch.), and the pignut (C. glabra (Mill. ) Spach.), also upon the butternut ( Jug Ians rupeslris Engel m,), the haekberry {Celt is occidental) s L. ). and the common locust ( Robinia pseudacacia L.).
Furthermore, pecan rosette does not appear to be limited to any particular soil type, topography, or season. We have noted many distinct and undoubted cases in the deep sand of the Florida Coastal Plain with the water table at 3 to 3 1-2 feet from the sur- face. farther inland in deep sand or sandy loam with the water table varying from 2 to 10 feet, in sand or sandy loam underlain by yellow, red. or white clay at depths varying from a few inches to several feet and with a varying water table, in the clay or sandy clay of washed-out hillsides, in the river bottom and alluvial soils of Louisiana and Texas, in the black upland soils of Texas, in cultivated and uncultivated land, with and without fertilization, in extremely rich and extremely poor soils, and in wet and dry seasons. In fact, for the localities personally investi-
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gated, swamp land lias presented the only location so far entirely exempt. It is true that wherever the soil tends to be water-soaked through a considerable portion of the growing season the pecan presents an unhealthy appearance through its failure to make proper growth and through the sickly yellow ap- pearance of the leaves. Under such conditions the tree usually dies sooner or later. The symptoms, however, bear so little resemblance to those of rosette that even the most casual observer will not confuse the two diseases..
Symptoms And Virulence Of Pecan Rosette
Pecan rosette first makes itself evident through the putting out of undersized, more or less crinkled, and yellow-mottled leaves, particularly at the ends of the branches. The veins tend to stand out promi- nently, giving a roughened appearance to the leaf blade, and the light-green or yellowish areas which give the leaf its mottled appearance occur between the veins. In these light-colored parts the tissues are thinner and less fully developed than in the normal leaf, and later in the season they frequently become dark reddish brown and dead. In many cases the intervascular tissue here and there fails to develop at all, so that the lamina is dotted with smooth-margined holes suggesting insect perforations which have subsequently healed over. These first symptoms may occur over the whole tree at once, but often one or more branches may be affected for several months before the whole tree appears invol- ved. At this stage the foilage as a whole often pre- sents a rusty appearance. The diseased branches usually fail to reach their normal length, so that the leaves are clustered together on a shortened axis, giving a bunched appearance to the group which led the senior author, about. 1902, to apply the term “rosette” as an appropriate name for the disease. Nuts are frequently borne and carried to maturity on these branches.
In some cases the disease goes no farther. The trees may continue in this way for several seasons, or they may recover completely after showing the early early symptoms for one or more years. How- ever, in a well-defined case where the symptoms are general over the greater part of the tree, the affected branches begin to die back from the tip during the latter part of the first season or later. At first brownish spots and streaks appear in the green bark and these dead areas increase in size until the whole end of the twig or branch dies. While death ap- pears to start in the green bark, the cambium soon become affected and the wood and pith are usually discolored. This dying back or “staghorn” stage is followed during the same or the following season by the development of numerous lateral shoots from dormant or adventitious buds. In young vigorous trees these first shoots of the season are usually large and succulent, and the leaves are dark green and
above the normal in size. In all probability this effect is physiologically equivalent to the effect of severe pruning. Toward the middle of the season, however, the typical yellow mottled color appears and the later-developed leaves are more or less crimped and roughened, as well as below the normal in size. Dormant axial buds of one or two series may develop into abortive shoots, and toward the end of the season clusters of short or spindling branches usually put out from adventitious or dor- mant buds farther back on the branches or on the main trunk. The leaves in these cases are much re- duced in size and may appear as a mere skeleton with ragged edges.
This process goes on from year to year. The growth of the tree is checked, and these abnormal clusters of branches are formed only to die back each season and be followed by others. Thus a well- marked case of several years’ standing presents a characteristically gnarled and forlorn appearance. Rosette in all its forms occurs in trees from seedling and budded or grafted nursery stock to trees of long- established maturity, a hundred or more feet in height, and it is one of the worst diseases known to affect pecans.
(To be continued.)
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It is claimed by those who advocate dynamited holes for fruit and shade trees, that they come into bearing sooner than trees planted in the old way. This might be tested by some disinterested experi- ments to public advantage.
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Salted Pecan New Commercial Product
Salted pecan nut meats in one-pound cartons have been introduced in a commercial way and are finding a ready market, says the New York Journal of Commerce. Heretofore salted pecans have been produced privately or in a small way for mercantile purpose, but a southern cracking concern with large facilities has started turning out the goods on a com- mercial scale and expects by next fall to have estab- lished a growing business in the commodity. Char- les H. Gibbs, the pecan expert, said recently that the demand for the salted nut meats came largely from people who found trouble in digesting the plain ker- nels, but had no difficulty in assimilating those that have been salted. High-grade cultivated shelled pe- cans of paper shell variety offered here show extraor- dinary size compared with similar goods available only a few years ago and readily command as high as $1.25 a pound from the fancy grocery trade. Bet ween this and the commercial pecan meat there are a num- ber of grades in the thin-sliell nuts, varying in price from 55c to $1.00 per pound, according to the size of the halves rated from medium to fancy.
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Mr. Clias. L. Edwards of Texas, is credited with having plented a Del mas pecan in 1907 which bore twelve nuts in 1910, twice as many a year later, six pounds in 1912, three and a half in 1913 and eight and a half pounds in 1914 although the tree was cut severly for propagating wood.
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While potash is higher now than last year, one is not justified in reducing the amount their trees re- quire. As worked out per acre, the increase on 2 per cent potash goods at rate of 400 pounds amounts to ten cents. Possibly other ingredients have been ad vaneed in price as well as potash.
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A few weeks ago over 500 delegates and mem- bers attended the eighth annual convention of the Federation of the Trade Press Associations. This meeting impressed the fact that the trade paper of today is very different from that of a few years ago and that it has become so useful in every trade as to be now so indispensable that no one can afford to ig- nore it.
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The annual meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pe- can Growers’ Association, at Quincy, Fla., is likely to be held during the month of May probably about the middle of the fourth week in the month. This organization comes in close touch with the pe- can interests in its territory and supplements the work of the national body by getting local co-opera- tion, in solving problems of all kinds. .lust now the standardizing and marketing of the crops is of para- mount influence.
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Thomasville was a great meeting place during
1914 for the pecan interests. Beside various confer- ences, the Georgia-Florida Association met there in May and the national association in October. The attendance at these two meetings indicate that the local association appeals more favorably to the grow- ers than the parent body, having had the largest at- tendance while the subjects considered were entirely of local concern. It is supposed, however, that the strnage business conditions which intervened be- tween these two gatherings, compromised the Octo-
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her attendance. For 1915, Albany, Ga., is the center at which various committee meetings and conferen- ces have and will be held, rounding the year with the national meet in the fall.
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During the years which cover the history of modern pecan growing, there never has been a time when the industry was better able to demonstrate what it means commercially to the lower South than the present. Even the financial stress combined with the European war and tarriff legislation are all serving to bring out the attractive and sound busi- ness openings the industry offers. Orchard invest- ments in apples and oranges are popular and have been extensively advertised and sold to an astonish- ingly extent. Shrewd operators have of late been studying the superior merits of the pecan as an or- chard proposition and are finding out that it is sup- erior in various ways to any other horticultural field. When the details of marketing the nuts are system ized so that the selling will be as easy as it is to sell cotton, another bugbear will be disposed of and the pecan will have as wide a market as cotton itself.
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In this issue will be found a report of the organ- ization of the National Pecan Growers Exchange with headquarters at Albany, Ga. This is one of the busi- ness measures looking towards the co-operative mar- keting of nuts for members and for others, and it is not designed for earning dividends on its modest capi- tal stock of five hundred dollars, of which the shares are one dollar each and non assessable. The working- capital isapportined among the members according to the tonnage of nuts handled by the exchange, and the voting privileges of members is unequal but de- termined by the amount of business furnished. The plan follows closely that of the California Walnut Growers’ Association, which has been gradually crystal ized from years of experience. There is no present question involving the financial success of the pecan grower like that of the successful marketing of his product, and there are just two ways for ac- complishing it. First, by the individual selling, and, second, by co-operation which need to be in a wide and true sense. In subsequent issues, as space vill permit, we expect to publish more in reference to this important movement.
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Poor Results from Dyna- mite
Editor Nut Grower:
In renewing my subscription to your valuable paper, from which I get many valuable suggestions, it occurs to me that all information published in regard to the use of dynamite has been decidedly fav- orable, while our experience lias been the reverse.
We first set out 40 acres of pe- cans without the use of dynamite, in this county in 1910 which are now beginning to bear. In 1912 we planted another adjoining 10 acres with dynamite, using from 1-1 lb. to 1-2 lb. placing it from 3 1-2 to 1 feet below the surface. The explosion would crack a small area of the surface and leave a hole below the surface about the size of a 50 gallon barrel, the soil being evidently packed in around the sides and bottom. In plant- ing we would fill this hole with surface soil. Those planted with dynamite have never done as well as those planted without; but it may be that our soil at the time was too wet for its use, and that the results would have been other- wise had the soil been perfectly dry; or some other cause may be responsible for the difference.
We would like to know the ex- perience of others who have actually tested it.
R. W. Hour
Houston, Texas
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Good Budding Results
Editor N ut-Grower :
In the March number of The Nut-Grower I notice a statement from W. H. Schweitzer of Hocli- eim. Texas, to the effect that in the summer of 1911 he put in 100 ring buds and got 388 of them to live. He also states that he get
70 per cent, of the chip buds to live in the spring of 1914. He did not give the number of cli i p buds that were made.
I wish to state that in March, 1912, I sent Mr. Charles A. Ed- wards of Dallas, Texas, and Mr. Meredith James, then a senior student in the Horticultural De- partment of the A. & M. College of Texas, to Brazoria, Texas, to work over some pecan sprouts, which were three or four years old, but which had attained the height of from four to six feet. They began budding about the first of March and continued until about the 15th, budding nearly 500 trees; using from two to five buds to the tree.
The results show that out of about 1200 buds inserted, fully 95 per cent, not only lived but forced out and made strong healthy shoots.
E. J. Kyle
College Station, Texas.
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The Southern Limit of Profitable Pecan Growing
(Continued from page 46.) ing methods, on the semi-arid up- lands and along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where twen- ty years ago a man would have been adjudged insane for even sug- gesting that any crop could be made to grow.
Alfalfa, the queen of forage crops, which at first would grow only on the irrigated lands of the West, was for years a failure in the rain belt, but it now grows wild along the roadside in many states, and the limestone ridges of the South are beginning to take on a deeper green because of its presence. Cot- ton lias pushed westward into the semi-arid regions of Texas and Ok- lahoma, where it was believed a
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few years ago that the soil and climate were suited only for the production of scant grass and stock cattle. Lands in the West that in a state of nature did not produce a single tree of any kind are now the greatest producer of apples in the world. Lines of demarcation and limitation are being pushed back in every direction and the same must prove true of the pecan belt if the growers make the most of the splendid opportunities affor- ded by our grand southern land, o o o
Reports from Quincy, Fla., indi- cate that arrangements are under way for the meeting of the Georgia- k lorida Pecan Growers in May.
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National Pecan Growers’ Exchange
By Wm. P. Bullard. Secretary Organization Committee.
I am requested to give the pe- can public a report of the doings of the Marketing or Organization Committee of both the National Nut Growers Association and the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers As- sociation.
At the regular annual meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Grow- ers Association in Thomasville last May, I)r. C. A. Van Duzee, then president of the National Nut
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1912, of The Nut-Grower, Published Monthly
at Waycross, Ga., for October 1, 1914.
Editor, J. F. Wilson, Waycross, Ga.
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Publisher, The Nut-Grower Company.
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J . S. Elkins,
Notary Public Ware Co., Ga.
My commission expires Aug. 11, 1918.
The Nut-Grower
Growers Association, urged upon the growers the necessity of organ- izing a proper selling agency or as- sociation that would successfully handle pecan nuts as do other or- ganizations their products. As a result of a lengthy discussion a committee was appointed with Dr. Van Duzee as chairman. This committee had frequent meetings and in addition to securing valua- ble data, collected funds with which to send Dr. Van Duzee to the northern and eastern cities to investigate market conditions.
During the annual meeting of the National Nut Growers Associ- ation in Thomasville last October there was a called meeting of the Georgia Florida Pecan Growers As- sociation when Dr. Van Duzee, chairman, made a full report of the committee's work. This report was approved and the committee continued with full power and dis- cretion to take whatever steps this committee might deem wise and expedient, including the organiza- tion of a selling exchange, if thought wise. At the next days session of the National Nut Grow- ers Association a report was made as to this action of the Georgia- Florida Association; this report was approved by the National body and the said committee was made the joint committee of both asso- ciations; and the committee like- wise empowered to do everything in and about the organization of the selling association. This ac- tion of the National Association broadened the scope of this com- mittee’s representation and, in a word, gave to it national scope and character, thus entitling its work to full credit and support of all the pecan growers in the United States.
With such responsibilities in view the committee had meetings and finally decided that the time was opportune for the formation of a selling exchange along lines similar to the California Walnut Growers Association; the charter to be taken out in Georgia. This charter has now been applied for
My Pennsylvania Grown Budded and Grafted Eng- lish Walnuts will succeed with you
It is not too early to figure on your wants for fall planting.
My illustrated catalog and cultural guide will interest you.
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J. F. JONES
The Nut Tree Specialist Lancaster, Pa.
Pecans, Satsumas, Grape Fruit
We have them in QUANTITY as well as QUALITY. Our stock is especially strong in large grades. Let us figure on your wants. Orders for one tre or one car load given the same careful personal at- tention.
Simpson Nursery Co.
Monticello, Florida
S-E-E-D-S
Mammoth White Cosmos. W e have saved a very fine lot of seed from one of the choicest large-flowered strains of this plant and offer it at 15c per oz., $1.50 per lb. If you can use several pounds will make special quotations.
Choice Mixed Mammoth Cosmos. This is of same high quality as above and contains many shades of color. Same price as white.
Calabash or Pipe Gourd. We have grown a fine lot of this seed and offer it at 10c per oz., 80c per lb.
Ricinus or Castor Bean. We have saved a fine lot of seed of many strains in both green and bronze foliage and from 5 to 15 feet in height. 1-4 lb., 15c, 1 lb., 50c.
L. H. Read & Co., Deer Park, Ala.
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NATURAL SIZE
The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
Berckmans’
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We have a large variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
The IDEAL Nut Cracker
The latest and most practical nut cracker on the market — for Pe- cans, Walnuts, Filberts, &c.
Its special design auto- matically positions the nut and permits that steady pressure necessary to crack the shell without crushing the kernel; also prevent the shell from flying.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. SOc. Postage prepaid to any address.
SOUTHERN PECAN & ORCHARD COMPANY First National Bank Bldg., Chicago.
with only such modifications of the California Association as would enable ours to come under the Georgia laws.
It will be seen from a perusal of this charter that the capital stock is practically nominal, shares par value $1.00 and non assessable and non-dividend paying; consequently it is not for the pecuniary profit of any one whomsoever as profit- sharing corporations go. This fea tore is confidently expected to give botli the small and large grower complete confidence in the Nation- al Pecan Growers Exchange, as no one by virtue of directorship or of- fice can get any advantage over the small grower living a thous- and miles away. Of course it will be necessary to pay a good salary to the manager of the Exchange who will give his time to the busi- ness and who must be a man of capacity commensurate with the undertaking. Other associations, exchanges, or whatever name simi- lar organizations go under, pay a good salary to the man who can deliver the goods. Without such a competent, paid man at the head it would be folly to attempt to do much. But aside from the man- ager’s salary and the necessary ex- pense attending such an enterprise, all the net profits will accrue to the members for whom nuts are sold; and each one will share in direct ratio of his nuts to the whole so sold. If A’s nuts are sold for $100 and B's for $200 then B’s share will be twice that of A’s. As to how the nuts will be handled and sold, and the many incidental questions that will arise therein and thereabout — all these ques- tions will receive due consideration; and 1 think it safe to assume that all matters pertaining to the suc- cessful management of the Ex- change will be solved fairly, right- ly, expediently, wisely; and based on the two cardinal principles — first, that pecan growers want to get maximum returns for their product; and second, that they want to receive an absolutely square deal. With these two points
— BestBudded- Pecan Trees
We have them in great quanti- ty as well as quality. Our stock is especially strong and well- rooted. We have also best budding wood.
Magnolia Nursery
W. C. JONES, Proprietor j
Successor to Wight & Jones
Cairo, Ga.
Budding Tool
Patented 1905
A popular tool for budding Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Persimmons and all other trees.
Buds and Grafting Scions
of Schley, Stuart, Alley, Delmas, Van . Deman, Teche, Russelk Mobile, Frotscher and Success.
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For particulars and prices write
HERBERT C. WHITE
Putney P. O. Georgia
SHIPPING POINTS: Baconton,
Ga ., DeWitt , Ga., Hardaway, Ga., Albany, Ga.
i^ecan Trees-.
We are headquarters for Pecan Trees in the Southwest and can furnish extra fine trees in large quanti- ty for commercial orchards. Our stock runs heavy in
Stuart
and...
Schley
We also have a line lot of Citrus to offer for fall and winter 1914-15.
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Jeanerette, La.
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Satsuma Orange Trees in Quantity
To insure first-class trees, your orders should be placed early. Nurserymen will not be able to supply the demand for citrus trees this coming season.
The Best in Budded and Grafted Pecans and General Nursery Stock
Write for information and prices at once:
FLORIDA NURSERIES
W. W. BASSETT, Proprietor MONTICELLO. FLORIDA
— Pecan and Walnut Trees —
Plant our liardy, northern grown Pecan and Persian Walnut trees for best results in the northern portion of the pecan area and in the far northern states. Learn about our trees and our methods of growing them. Our book- let “Nut Trees” will be sent free on request.
Arrowfield Nurseries Box N Petersburg, Virginia
Best Time for Planting at Hand
We have an unexcelled stock of PECANS, assorted var- ieties and sizes, and would be pleased to have on opor- tnnity to make quotations on the needs of planters.
We can also furnish some extra nice Satsumas to the re- tail trade.
Additional stock consisting of Peaches. Plums. Grapes, Ro- ses and Ornamentals described in our new C’atolog A. Ask for it.
Summit Nurseries, Monticello, Fla.
assured in the grower's mind then the Exchange should have full and hearty support.
And it is designed that this Ex- change shall be. as its name im- plies, national in scope and appli- cation. There is no reason why this Exchange can not and should not serve the whole pecan terri- tory from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific, and from the Gulf to the nor- thern limits of successful commer- cial production. There should not be two; there should not be more than one such selling agency. The head office is located at Albany, Ga., that being the logical place at present from point of tonnage of t he named varieties of pecans. But you will observe in the charter a provision whereby this head office may be changed should the centre of production change or the fair and economical management of the business require. It was the desire of this marketing organization committee to plan this organiza- tion on broad and equitable lines that it might appeal alike to the man in Georgia, Mississippi or Texas.
It should not require any argu- ment to show that such an organi- zation is the greatest essential in pecandom to-day. Up to almost the present time it lias been com- paratively easy to dispose of all the large nuts at very attractive prices; but the time lias now come, with increased production, when it will need experience and know- ledge of the market to do this. In fact, the last year has seen more or less demoralization in some sec- tions; and what may we expect in a short while with more and more acreage coming into bearing and older orchards increasing their pro- duction, and when nuts become more plent iful in the hands of men who do not know bow to go about selling them? Other lines of horti- culture have found discourage- ment in a profitless market until they put tilings to rights by some such organization. And so we pe- can growers are about to face the same situation. We should rally
In the HEART of the Texas Pecan Belt
We have all the lead- ing Texas and South- ern varieties of pecans Very best of trees.
We grow a full line of nursery stock and specialize in Peach,
Plum, Apple, Pecan and Berries.
Our LEONA PEACH will supplant Elber- ta. HAUPT BER- RY, a hybrid, for the South is unequalled.
Catalog free. We pay express. 420 acres.
U/ye Austin Nursery
V, X. Ramsey (St Son AUSTIN. TEX,
FOR SALE. Back numbers of The N ut-Grower. Parties desiring to com- plete their files should send list of what they need. The Nut-Grower Company, Waycross, Ga.
The Pecan Business
In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from planting the nuts to gathering tiie nuts. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nuts and trees for sale.
B. W. STONE :: Thomasville, Ga.
Rook Pecan Groves
Pecan Trees and Nuts for sale.
C. M. Rood, Pres. Albany, Ga.
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Red Cross Stumping Powder &
Will get them out in cold and wet weather, when you have ^ W plenty of time. Clear land early and crop it this year, This explosive is low freezing, hence works well while snow is on the ground. It takes less Stumping Powder ^ in wet weather than in dry. Turn the cold wet days ” * of March and April into cash.
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6 to 9 Feet Tall Get Our Special Prices
We also have other varieties and prices.
Let us know your wants.
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to the support of this our selling organization if we would escape havoc of the broker and buyer pi rates who invite price demoraliza- tion for their own profit.
One of the first questions of has ic importance to be determined is that of grades and market stand ards. This matter will be taken up at a general meeting to be held in Albany sometime in April. It is to be hoped that there will be a good attendance at this meeting of representative pecan growers from every section of the country. The exact date has not yet been fixed, but as soon as it is determined I shall be glad to notify any one who is sufficiently interested to inquire of me. All who are interested in the success of this association (and we hope this means every one en- gaged in growing pecans ) will please send in the $1.00 member- ship fee at once, either to me or to any member of the committee whose name appears as one of the incorporators. We not only need all the dollars we can get but what is of quite af much value to us is the getting of every pecan grower identified with and interested in the success of this movement.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
"Own a Level Farm." is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting i n South Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent. Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
Pecan Trees
Do You Want Trees That will Grow and Bear %?
If so, learn about my methods of propagating, handling and shipping before you decide where to buy.
Information about pe- can growing given for the asking : : : :
J. B. WIGHT
CAIRO, GA.
President Pecan —
None Better
Pecan Growing Made Easy
By planting trees dug with en- tire tap root and well develop- ed lateral roots. Few nurseries have such trees.
Made Profitable
By planting only genuine bud- ded or grafted trees, of best quality and best producing var- ieties. Some of the biggest, thinnest-shelled nuts don’t bear — beware of them
Griffing’s Trees are Models Root and Top
Our varieties are best. Gold Medal awarded our pecans at Jamestown Exposition. Hand- some pecan catalog free.
The GRIFFING BROS. COMPANY
NURSERYMEN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedling's Send for Price List
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It is not too early to figure on your wants for fall planting.
My illustrated catalog and cultural guide will interest you.
Free for the asking.
Address
J. F. JONES
The Nut Tree Specialist Lancaster, Pa.
Pecans, Satsumas, Grape Fruit
We have them in QUANTITY as well as QUALITY. Our stock is especially strong in large grades. Let us figure on your wants. Orders for one tre or one car load given the same careful personal at- tention.
Simpscn Nursery Co.
Monticello, Florida
S-E-E-D-S
Mammoth White Cosmos. W e have saved a very fine lot of seed from one of the choicest large-flowered strains of this plant and offer it at 15c per oz. , $1.50 per lb. If you can use several pounds will make special quotations.
Choice Mixed Mammoth Cosmos. This is of same high quality as above and contains many shades of color. Same price as white.
Calabash or Pipe Gonrd. We have grown a fine lot of this seed and offer it at 10c per oz., 80c per lb.
Ricinus or Castor Bean. We have saved a fine lot of seed of many strains in both green and bronze foliage and from 5 to 15 feet in height. 1-4 lb., 15c, 1 lb., 50c.
L. H. Read & Co., Deer Park, Ala.
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Items of Interest
A new oil bearing nut. yielding 45 per cent of oil t hat has been successfully tested in soap making has been discovered in the Philip- pines.
The I>. A < ). Lott Company, of Waycross, (fa., is offering pecan trees as premiums for purchasers of some of their suburban property who make the most attractive im provements t hereon.
The College of Agriculture, Un- iversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has issued a crop information card which gives condensed information regarding crops, soils, varieties, time of seeding and other timely data.
A recent news letter issued by the Department of Agriculture contains an article on the control of the chestnut bark disease and details the steps toward this end now being taken by the govern- ment pathologists.
The Atlanta, Birmingham A At- lantic railroad has offered a short course scholarship at the Georgia State College of Agriculture to the winner of the Corn Club prize iu each of the twelve Georgia coun- ties through which the line pass- es.
The March report shows exports of food staffs, cotton and other products amounting to $151,159.- 760, as against $75,110,776 for the corresponding month of 1911. The amount of nuts exported is so small that they are not listed sep- arately.
Flour made from soy beans is said by the Department of Agri- culture to be available for human food to as great a degree as is corn meal. This bean has for ages past been extensively used as a food by the Chinese and Japanese, being prepared in various ways. It is rich in protein and oil and con- tains only traces of starch. Being a legume aud well suited to the soil and climate of the pecan belt, it can be grown to advantage as an intercrop in young orchards.
Budding T ool
Patented 1905
A popular tool for budding Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Persimmons and all other trees.
Buds and Grafting Scions
of Schley, Stuart, Alley, Delmas, Van Deman, Teche, Russell, Mobile, Frotscher and Success.
■ Wholesale and Retail ■
For particulars and prices write
HERBERT C. WHITE
Putney P. O. Georgia
SHIPPING POINTS: Bacanton,
Ga., Be Witt, Ga., Hardaway, Ga., Albany, Ga.
Jecan Trees-*
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We are headquarters for Pecan Trees in the Southwest and can furnish extra tine trees in large quanti- ty for commercial orchards. Our stock
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Stuart
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Schley
We also have a fine lot of Citrus to offer for fall and winter 1914-15.
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Jeanerette, La.
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., MAY 1915 NUMBER 5
THE NATIONAL PECAN EXCHANGE
A Short Sketch of Its Organization
X X the April Nut- Grower there appeared a con- tribal ion by Mr. Wm. P. Bullard, of Albany, Ga., giving- the story of successive steps leading up to the formation of the National Pecan Growers' Ex- change. Tn the same issue an editorial comment summarized the plans and purposes of the new or- ganization. While the National Nut Growers’ Asso- ciation has for five years past had a standing com- mittee on Markets and Marketing, still it remained for the Georgia Florida Pecan Growers’ Association to give definite direction to the movement for organ- izing a selling exchange by appointing a committee at Thomasville in May, 1914, to handle the mat- ter. A called meeting of this association held at Thomasville during the meet ing of the National Nut Growers’ Association approved the work of the com- mittee, which advised the formation of a selling or- ganization. This action was reported later to the national body, which endorsed the movement, and a joint committee representing both associations was then formed and empowered to act.
This joint committee, after digesting the mass of information which had been assembled, adopted def- inite plans, which were embodied in a charter grant- ed by the Superior Court of Dougherty county, Geor- gia, Albany having been selected as headquarters for the proposed organization. On April 15 a meeting was held at Albany, at which 25 charter members and others, representing a large percentage of the or- chard area of south (Georgia, west Florida ahd south- east Alabama, were enrolled, and the charter accept- ed and adopted. A code of bylaws was submitted by the joint committee, which had held a conference previous to the general meeting, and after a few min- or changes they were adopted.
The election of nine directors then followed. Those having the deepest interest in the success of the Exchange were anxious that everything be done in such a manner as to give no occasion for criticism as to the method of selecting this board. This open-
ed the way for a lively parliamentary skirmish which resulted in the election of the directors without the handicap or embarrassment which results when the ordinary nominating committee recommends more or less of its own members for the offices. It was con- ceded that Messrs, C. A. Van Duzee, W. P. Bullard and B. W. Stone, all of whom had been active in the preliminary work, should be on the board of direc- tors and they were unanimously elected. These were then appointed as a committee to nominate the oth- er six. After a conference they named Messrs. J. M. Patterson, H. Iv. Miller, H. C. White, J. C. Britton, G. M. Bacon and R. P. Jackson, who were thereupon elected.
After the election of directors the subject of grades and standards was discussed. Mr. J. M. Pat- terson of the Patterson-Taylor Co., gave information relating to the experience of his company. Dr. .1. F. Wilson told of the system of grading formulated by the Pecan Growers’ League, the basis of which is founded on the number of nuts per pound, all being readily divided into large, medium and small sizes, while quality is indicated by classes A, B, C and D. Standard varieties are listed in the first three classes, while mixed lots and seedlings go in class D.
In a general discussion it developed that the 1914 pecan crop had been readily sold at remunera- tive prices.
A committee on grading and standardizing was appointed, which consists of H. C. White, chairman, C. A. Van Duzee, B. W. Stone, J. M. Patterson, J. C. Britton. Frank Lewis, F. T. Ramsey and C. A. Reed.
Upon adjournment, the newly elected directors held a meeting and organized by electing C. A. Van Duzee. president, B. W. Stone, vice-president, and W. P. Bullard, of Albany, secretary-treasurer, o o o
California walnut growers are inspecting land in Texas with a view to testing its suitability for this crop.
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WINTER-KILLING REPORTED
a X unusual amount of winter-killing of pecans oc-
Purr e<l in south Georgia and north Florida dur- ing the past winter and from observation as well as from other sources we learn that the Schley probab- ly suffered more severely than any other variety, as trees five years old were killed in some localities.
While there was no extreme cold in this territory, the winter, in fact, being milder than usual, the dam- age was undoubtedly done on November 20 and 21, when the mercury dropped to the lowest point reach- ed during the winter. This cold wave came on very suddenly, while many trees — especially the Schley — were still in active growth, either from late culti- vation or on account of rains which prompted growth at a time when the wood should have been ripened and the trees normant. As far as our particular lo- cality7 is concerned, the damage is apparently confin- ed to this one variety, as its habit of growth seems to render more susceptible to winter-killing than any of the other kinds.
In this connection, the Weather Bureau records give minimum temperatures as follows: In October.
1914, Albany, Ga., 3G degrees; Monticello, Fla., 35; Thomasville, Ga., 34; Waycross, Ga., 39. At all these points the minimum was reached on the 28th of the month. Frosts occurred at Monticello and Thomas- ville. Just three weeks later, on November 20, 21 and 23. freezing weather oecured again, the lowest temperature reached being 21. at Albany, with Mon- ticello a close second at 22; Thomasville 23 and Way- cross 25. In December Albany had a minimum of 23 degrees on the 16th, while at other points it occurred on the 12th, being 27 at Monticello. and 25 at Tliom- isville and Waycross. With the exception of Way- cross, all these points had the lowest temperature of the winter in November.
Nursery stock and Satsuma oranges which were still in active growth when the November cold snap arrived suffered as well as orchard trees. While no detailed data is yet available as to the extent of the damage, it is conceded to be the most serious since the advent of budded trees in the localities mention- ed.
This experience emphasizes the importance of such treatment of orchards as will fully ripen the wood before the arrival ot freezing weather. Only a few degrees below freezing will kill tender and wood the reflow of poisoned sap carries the injury away be low the frozen twigs — in many cases killing the tree, o o o
GEORGIA-FLORIDA PECAN GROW- ERS CONVENTION
IT ORMAL announcement of the annual meeting of M he Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers Association convention at Quincy, Florida. May 26 and 27. and program for the same has been received. The pro-
gram contains much that will be valuable to the grower who is looking for reliable information, and every one who can possibly attend the convention should certainly do so. The entire program follows: Wednesday, May 26, 10:00 A. M.
Call to Order.
Invocation, Rev. J. Marion Stafford.
Address of Welcome, W. M. Corry.
Response to Address of Welcome, W. C'. Jones, Cairo, Ga.
President’s Address, B. W. Stone, Thomasville. Ga.
Opportunities in Pecan Culture. Wm. P. Bullard, Albany, Ga.
Wednesday, 2:00 P. M.
The Value of Well Balanced Farming in the Pe- can Belt, W. L. MacGowan, Quincy, Fla.
Advertising as a Factor in the Success of the Pe- . can Industry. Jefferson Thomas, Jacksonville, Fla.
Question Box, giving an opportunity for any questions pertinent to the pecan industry. To be answered by the pecan experts present.
Wednesday, 7:30 P. M.
Controlling the Enemies of the Pecan —
S. M. McMurran, Thomasville, Ga. (Rosette) H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla. (The Case-
Bearer. )
C. S. Spooner, Thomasville, Ga. (The Bud-
Moth.)
H. C. White. Putney, Ga. (Winter Killing.) General Discussion of Other Enemies.
9:00 p. m. Informal reception at Elk’s Club, dancing, bowling, cards and billiards, complimentary to the Association by the citizens of Quincy.
Thursday, May 27. 9:00 A. M.
The Pecan Market of the Future, Chas. A Van- Duzee, Cairo. Ga. To be followed by a general dis- cussion of the marketing proposition.
How to Grow a Tree up to the Bearing Age, Bernie A. Fohl, Fitzgerald, Ga.
How to Grow First-Class Nuts, B. W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga., W. W. Bassett, Monticello. Fla.
Miscellaneous Business.
Selection of place for next meeting.
Election of officers.
Thursday, May 27, 2:00 P. M.
This afternoon will be devoted to an automobile ride complimentary to the members of the Association by the Board of Trade to points of interest in Quincy and Gadsen County, giving an insight into the great- est Sumatra-leaf tobacco section in the United States. Refreshments at halfway stop.
It is the purpose to put as much of profit and pleasure into these two days as is possible. Quincy is noted for its hustling, hospitable, wide-awake citi- zens, and they will do all in their power to make the meeting a success.
Ample hotel and boarding house facilities will
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Every one interested in nut growing is most cor dially invited to be present.
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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON VARIE- TIES
Stuart
The Stuart is one of the varieties of pecans 1 have recommended for planting in North Carolina. It has been more widely set in this state than any other variety. The tree is a fine, upright grower here and makes a beautiful tree. It has, however, not proved to be as vigorous a grower as Schley and Frotscher. It is less affected by leaf diseases than most other sorts. Stuart has not been one of our phenomenal yielders, but its average production has been very good. The nuts run smaller than they do in the more southern states. Last year (a very dry season) the average weight of our crop of Stuarts from seven year old trees was 67 nuts per pound. The nuts of Stuart are unusually well filled, but there is a sentiment here in favor of other varieties with thinner shells.
Delmas
I did not set any Delmas trees in our original planting and did not obtain trees of this variety un- til three or four years later. Consequently we have no bearing records of this variety. I saw some very fine Delmas nuts produced last fall at Goldsboro, N. C. — W. N. Hutt.
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Stuart
The Stuart pecan is making an excellent record in Texas. The plantings of this variety may be found here and there over a wide area, extending from Red river on the North to the Gulf on the south and from the Louisiana line on the east to localities well to westward and southwestward from Dallas. This var- iety has also been worked extensively on native trees. In most cases proper care has been given and where this is the case trees usually begin to bear in three to four years, while buds on native trees make a show- ing of first fruits a little earlier, and increase their product more rapidly. Most of the transplanted trees are under ten years old and buds on native trees still younger. The man with native trees on his land has been slow to move: he had to be shown; but the pinch of hard times now on the country has set him to thinking in little more lively fashion. He is begin- ning to feel the need of a home product that will help him to hold his cotton crop.
At Marshall, Texas, are some Stuart trees about 20 years old that give an average annual product of more than 100 pounds, which all sell readily at 75 cents a pound. Thus far, I have heard of no Stuarts selling for less than 50 cents a pound.
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The trees grow well here, making good resistance to drouth and blizzard, and nuts ripen early.
Delmas
The Delmas pecan is not grown to the same ex- tent a$ the Stuart, being a later introduction. It was handicapped, too, with a reputation for being subject to scab. For a long time Texas nut growers growers did not know what scab is and all of ns were afraid of it. So, most of us let the Delmas severely alone. A tree of it came to me on an order for Schley, and when the tree began to bear I was gratified over the nurseryman’s mistake, for it has proved better suited to our conditions than the Schley. It makes a beautiful tree, with large, dense foliage, and is a splendid producer on both transplanted and native trees. Since our section lias so far proved practically immune from scab, the Delmas is fast increasing in popular favor. Age for age and tree for tree it leads the Stuart just a little. The nuts are fully as large as the Stuart, crack better and I think the kernels a bit superior in quality. At this writing, if I were restricted to growing only one variety of pecan, it would be the Delmas. Buds from my trees placed on a considerable number of natives in this neighbor- hood, 3 to 5 years ago, have given satisfaction in ev- ery instance. It seldom fails to bear the third year from transplanting and not infrequently shows a few nuts the second year when worked on natives. — Chas. L. Edwards.
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H. E. VAN DEMAN DEAD
Prof. Henry E. Van Deman. widely known as one of the most prominent pomologist in this coun- try and a specialist in pecan culture, died at his home in Washington, D. C., on April 28.
Prof. Van Deman was a native of Ohio. He served through the civil war with the volunteer troops of that state. His services as a judge in fruit exhibitions were greatly in demand, and his work along this line covered nearly every state in the Un- ion. He served for anumber of years as Chief of the Division of Pomology.
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HERE AND THERE
Dr. C. E. Earnheart, a county farm demonstra- tor in Oklahoma is urging the planting of pecans and is giving publicity to statistics and information bear- ing on the industry.
The Santa Cruz Valley Walnut Growers' Asso- ciation has been organized at Tuczon, Ariz. Reports indicate that about 10,000 trees have been set in three orchards this spring.
In New Mexico the planting of pecans is receiv- ing attention from the Farm Extension Department of the State College. A bulletin has recently been is- sued bearing on the subject, from which it appears that the dry climate of that state is a handicap to some extent.
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Forms close on 20th of month preceding date of publica- tion.
Indiana reports a pecan tree which produced 558 pounds of nuts in 1914, which sold for $88.20 in the open market.
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Nuts, like cheese, supply a very concentrated food. As a rule they are not expensive, so their use in various dishes counts for economy.
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Our agricultural exchanges are an important feature of our working equipment. The Prairie Farm- er of Chicago is a recent addition to our list.
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The magnitude of operations in the selling of pecan orchard propositions is illustrated by the suc- cess attending one of the Chicago companies which has sold to seven hundred persons.
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The building of a pecan warehouse and a dry- ing plant at Putney, Ga., inagurates a chain of insti- tutions which will provide needed facilities for tak- ing care of future crops in that locality.
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In the early part of 1911 a number of 4 to 5 foot Teche trees were used in planting a forty acre orchard in Pierce County, Ga., which by the way is in the Waycross Pecan District. In the fall of 1914 a num- ber of these Teche trees bore a few nuts.
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From several localities we hear of trouble with pecan trees, which from descriptions given, is caused by borers. The damage is inflicted before the pres- ence of the insect is known. Preventive measures are important, while the remedy is simply to dig them out when discovered.
While we have not yet heard of the method of
ringing trees being tried on th epecan to increase pro- ductiveness, still we think some bold experimenter would be justified in trying it on some of his seedling or other trees which are not giving a good account of themselves. Some trees like some people, need the discipiine of misfortune and trial, in order to de- velop latent and desirable qualities.
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Their presence in sound health trees is rare as compared with trees which have sustained injury which makes an opening for them to get into the tree. Tree wounds should be prevented as far as practical, and when discovered they should be given such a treatment as will insure early healing. Paint helps in such work.
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The march of porgress seems to demand increas- ing attention to the necessity for truth telling, not only in advertising but in other ways as well. While it is impossible for an editor to verify every item he uses, lie relies upon the integrity and ability of his co-workers to give his readers a square deal. Facts are in demand and they are replacing theory to the advantage of all concerned.
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Feature stories of varieties, orchards and of pe- can men who have distinguished themselves in lifting the nut growing industry up to its present position, will furnish interesting and valuable reading in subsequent issues of The Nut-Grower. Another forward step will be increased space and attention given to the marketing problems, which during the next few years will be a live subject.
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During the breeding season of 1913 Mr. C. For- kert of Ocean Springs Mississippi made thirty-five different pollinations of pecans using about a dozen varieties in making the crosses. Nuts obtained from these hybrids were planted the following year and as fast as the seedling produces mature wood it is being budded and grafted on to older trees, thus gaining several years time in learning the relative merits of the new varieties thus obtained.
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The division of the pecan territory into well de- fined districts, territorially, is one of the things which The Nut-Grower has repeatedly urged. In illustration of the importance of this proposal it may be stated that the Albany district is supposed to contain between forty and fifty thousand acres of or- chards. What the public wants to know is, how many and what Georgia counties are included in this district ? Are Amerieus. Cairo, Moultrie. Thomas- ville and Valdosta, each having large acreage in pe- cans, included or not? This subject was suggested to the committee which arranged the program for the Quincy meeting, and may possibly come up un- der the head of miscellaneous business.
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A Successful Orchard
Ed i tor N ut-Grower:
I have read of several of the ex- periences of nut growers through your columns and it occurred to me that you would perhaps be in- terested in the experience of the Keystone Peca n Orchard Com- pany.
This company was organized in the winter of 1907 in Philadelphia, Pa., and purchased from Mr. O. P. Mears, of Bacon ton, Ga., a six year old seedling grove of sixty acres, which lies adjoining the Barnwell grove, about a mile and a half southwest of the village of Baeon- ton, in the Flint river valley.
The first step was to cut hack the trees preparatory to budding in the following summer. In the summer of 1907 we put in an av- erage of two to three buds to the tree; thirty acres in Schley and ten each in Frotsclier, Van Deman and Stuart. The last buds were put in in the summer of 1909 — this gave us a perfect stand.
The trees were carefully pruned and the heads shaped up symetri- eally. Although top- worked, it would take an expert to discern that the budding had not been done at the crown.
We got a few sprinkling nuts in 1909 and 1910. In 1911 the crop from about 1,600 trees ran to ex- actly 1,076 pounds. In the follow- ing year, 1912, the yield ran up to 3,400 pounds; in 1913 to 3,800 pounds and in the past season, 1914, to approximately 8,00 0 pounds.
During the past season, trees which were budded in 1907 and got well under way in 1908 pro- duced by measure as high as 26 pounds of Schley nuts. A fair av- erage for trees of this age of bud- ded growth was around 12 to 15 pounds. It should he noted here
that the extremely dry season had the same effect upon our Frotsch- ers as was experienced generally through this section of the pecan belt — the Frotsclier trees cast practically their whole crop. The Stuarts were injuriously affected also aud the nuts were considera- bly under size. With a fair aver- age throughout the orchard the production this past season would have run well up to six tons.
We have generally pursued the policy of clean cultivation in our orchard, with light liarrowing un- til midsummer and laid by with cowpeas. This year we have sow- ed the whole orchard with hairy vetch. At first we planted cotton and corn, but the shade from the trees has made this unprofitable for the past four years. We have limed once, 1,000 pounds to the acre, harrowed in early in the spring, and have fertilized the trees with a 5-6-7 mixture put down at the rate of ten pounds to the tree, usually in two applications.
We have usually sold f. o. b. Baconton at prices which for the whole period would average up a fraction below 40c.
Our development has been in charge of Mr. O. P. Meares, a very capable orchardist, and was for several years under the observation and advice of Mr. Herbert C. White, to whose good judgment much of the success of the enter- prise is due.
The investment stands the own- ers in about $15,000, not counting interest, and in its eighth year from improvement has demonstra- ted, in a year when the seasons were bad for at least half of the grove, an earning capacity of 5 per cent on an investment of $60,000. What the future holds in store is to be seen, but as an orchard prop- osition the showing above might
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be accounted a very satisfactory one. At the same rate of develop- ment the income from the proper- ty eight, years hence, even at a much reduced price for the pro- duct. will justify the sanguine view taken by the owners way back in 1907.
James I). Evans.
Florence, S. C.
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Editor Xut-Growek:
That article 1 wrote on Breeding Pecans, I hope, has had the effect of stimulating others to try their hand also. Now is a very good time to begin studying what vari- eties would be apt to blend the best. Reports of this nature will make interesting reading matter for your journal. In this line my work is already laid out as follows: Onliwon x Banquet.
Squirrel’s Delight x San Saba Improved.
Western Schley x Eastern Schley E. E. Risien.
San Saba. Tex.
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As to Dynamited Holes
Editor Nut-Grower:
I have a clipping from a recent edition of The Nut-Grower of a letter from R. W. Houk of Hous- ton, Tex., in which he describes the results he has obtained on blasting for planting pecans.
He states, “using from 1-4 pound to 1-2 pound, placing it from 3 1-2 to four feet below the surface, the explosion would crack a small area of the surface and leave hole be- low the surface about the size of a 50 gallon barrel, the soil being ev- idently packed in around the sides and bottom.” He later states the possibility of the soil being too wet at the time of blasting. Un- questionably the soil was too wet or an unsatisfactory grade of ex- plosive was used. I have yet to find a dense clay that is not thor- oughly shattered to the surface when in a dry condition by a 1-2 pound c li a r g e of the lowest strength dynamite made. All of our literature points out emphati-
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cally that subsoils should not be blasted when wet and we know, from the enormous number of grow- ers who have refused to plant pe- cans on clay soils without blasting and the enormous benefits they have gained from correct blasting, that our contentions are entirely proved. In view' of the fact that the growers and nurserymen of southern Georgia have practically all adopted t he use of dynamite, I am surprised to find this clipping in your journal and would be glad indeed to see a statement from yourself or from another of your correspondents, in your columns explaining why Mr. Houk's results have been so unsatisfactory.
.1. H. Squires.
Editor Vertical Farming. Wilmington, Del.
[The Editor is inclined to think that Mr. Houk’s failure to secure satisfactory results is largely if not entirely due to the moist condition of the soil when the explosive wras used. In all cases coming under his observation the use of dyna- mite has produced good results wdien the soil was in proper con- dition.— Editor.]
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Teche an Early Bearer
Editor Nut-Grower:
I notice editorial reference to Mr. Clias. L. Edwards' tree. I have a Teche, planted the winter of 1910-11, from which I gathered 18 well developed nuts in 1913, and in 1914 1 gathered 68 nuts. The tree is four years old in the ground this past winter; was a 3 to 4 foot size when planted. I un- derstand that the Teche is one of the earliest bearing varieties, how- ever. The 1914 nuts were consid- erably larger than the 1913 nuts. I have not cut any bud w ood from the tree and w ould not for the next two or three years.
Thos. W. Gilmer. Bay Minette. Ala.
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Plant a Nut
Z. F. Yost, Pontiac, 111.
Man, plant a nut! Go, plant a nut! Uproot “why” and “if” and “but!”
Just plant a nut!
Boy, plant a nut! Say. plant a nut!
Be your home a hall or hut,
Run, plant a nut!
Wife, plant a nut! Come, plant a nut! Endless are your duties, but Stop! Plant a nut!
Girl, plant a nut! Do plant a nut! Cease your, proud,- vainglorious strut And plant a nut!
Judge, plant a nut! Mind, plant a nut! Dig yourself from out the rut,
Then— plant a nut!
Doc, plant a nut! Yes, plant a nut! Swing the gate ; the office shut,
To plant a nut !
Priest, plant a nut? Lo, plant a nut!
Sicitur ad astra; ut ,
Tu ! Plant a nut !
Prof., plant a nut! E’en plant a nut! Never mind the mud! Tut! Tut! ! Hike! Plant a nut!
You plant a nut! I plant a nut!
Let that useless tree be cut!
There plant a nut!
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Books and Catalogs
Pecans; 8-page leaflet by W. P.
KEYSTONE
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PAPER SHELL PECANS CTO
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Samples and prices on request. Wholesale orders solicited.
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We have them in great quanti- ty as well as quality.. Our stock is especially strong and well- rooted. We have also best budding wood.
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Write for Prices
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rafted Pecan Trees
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C. FORKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
Nut Growers’ Organizations
The National Nut Growers’ Associa- tion, W. N. Hutt, President, Raleigh, N. C. ; J. B. Wight, Secretary. Cairo, Ga.
Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ As- sociation, W. W. Bassett, Secretary, Monticello, Fla.
Northern Nut Growers' Association, W. C. Deming, Secretary, Georgetown, Conn.
The Pecan Growers’ League, J. F. Wilson, General Manager, Wa\ cross, Ga.
Albany District P^can Exchange, Wm. P. Bullard, President, Albany, Ga.
Southeastern Pecan Nurserymen's Association, Wm. P. Bullard, Secretary, Albany, Ga.
The National Pecan Exchange, Chas. A. Van Duzee, President, Cairo, Ga.
Bullard. Albany, Ga.; a reprint from I he A Ibany I Jerald.
My First Season's Experience with the Honey l!ee; 12-page leaf let; the A. I. Root Co., Medina, ().
Harrison's Nurseries, Berlin, Md. Finely illustrated 50-page catalog, listing select fruit trees and shrub bery.
The Moncrief Orchard Book; a 32-page trade catalog issued by the Winfield Nurseries, Winfield, Ivans.; shows the superior value of pedigreed trees.
Ready Built House Company, Portland, Ore. Book of designs of houses for which they furnish materials cut to dimensions for complete construction.
Thornburn’s Seeds for 1915; cat- alog of high class seeds, both veg- etable and flower, with cultural directions; 150 pages. J. M. Thorn- burn & Co., 53 Barclay St., New York.
Agriculture of Massachusetts; sixty-first annual report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1913; 500 pages; illustrated; cloth. Contains various reports and pa- pers of permanent value. Wilfred Wheeler, secretary, Boston, Mass.
Pecan Growing in Georgia; Bul- letin No. 82 of the Georgia State College of Agriculture: by J. Wil- liam Firor, adjunct professor of Horticulture. This bulletin as- sembles general information for the public.
Bread from Stones; by Cyril G. Hopkins, is an eight page pamph- let published by the Agricultural Experiment Station at Urbana, 111. It treats of the use of lime as a renovator of soils. Copies can be obtained of the Liveoak Limestone Co., Jacksonville, Fla.
Proceedings of the fifth annual meeting of the Northern Nut Grow- ers Association held at Evansville, Ind., August, 1914. 130 pages,
containing reports, addresses, and various discussions, as well as names of officers, committeemen and members.
Small Fruits and Berries; Bulle-
60,000
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Pecans
Is the estimate of our 1911 crop made by those who know.
Our crop consists of many of the finest of the standard var- i e t i e s of pecans.
We are offering these choice nuts for sale either in bulk or in small lots. :: :: ::
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tin No. 4 of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Boston, Mass. This is an illustrated pamphlet of 3 50 pages treating various subjects in a practical nianenr. It contains an article on nuts in that state, re- counting the difficulties which have in the past prevented their more general culture. 1 1 also gives a table contrasting the food value of nuts with that of other foods, o o o
Markets and Marketing
Final estimates and report from the 1914 pecan crop in the Albany, Ga., district show that it was not far from 150 tons.
The value of fruit and nut im- portations during 1914 was $60,- 000,000. Over a quarter of this great sum represented nuts.
Since California walnut growers organized their marketing associa- tion the prices received have in- creased nearly 50 per cent.
A prominent Georgia pecan grower has already sold his 1915 crop at an advance of about a cent a pound over the price received last year.
The California walnut crop now averages about 25,000 tons annual- ly. Prices seem to be pretty well established and the producer us- ually receives satisfatcory prices.
The Albany District Pecan Ex- change has established permanent headquarters for displaying prod- ucts in the Woolfolk building, Al- bany, Ga. W. P. Bullard, is pres- ident of this organization.
At a meeting of pecan men at Albany, Ga., a few days ago one of the largest producers, in telling the story of the successful market- ing of carlot shipments, said that he could have readily sold twice as many.
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Personal Mention
Mr. T. H. Parker, of Moultrie, Ga., obtained an average of 12 pounds per tree from his pecan or- chard at 11 years from planting. As his trees are set 25 to t he acre and he obtained 50 cents a pound for the nuts in his homo town, the
Satsuma Orange Trees in Quantity
To insure first-class trees, your orders should be placed early. Nurserymen will not be able to supply the demand for citrus trees this coming season.
The Best in Budded and Grafted Pecans and General Nursery Stock
Write for information and prices at once.
FLORIDA NURSERIES
W. W. BASSETT, Proprietor MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
The Pecan Business
In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from plaining the nuts to gathering the nuts. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nuts and trees for sale
B. W. STONE :: Thomasville, Ga.
ROOD Pecan Groves
Pecan Trees and Nuts for sale.
C. M. Rood, Pres. Albany, Ga.
In the HEART of the Texas Pecan Belt
We have all the lead ing Texas and South- ern varieties of pecans Very best of trees.
We grow a full line of nursery stock and specialize in Peach,
Plum, Apple, Pecan and Berries.
Our LEONA PEACH will supplant Elber- ta. HAUPT BER- RY, a hybrid, for the South is unequalled.
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U/ie Austin Nursery
F. "T. Ramsey (Si. Son AUSTIX, TEX,
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The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
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Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We have a large variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berokmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
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Annual Convention
Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers Association
Quincy, Fla.
May 26-27, 1915
If you are in any way interested in the growing- of pecans it will pay you to go to this conven- tion. The biggest attendance in the history of the Association will be there and a fine pro- gram for your benefit has been arranged.
Splendid automobile roads from every direction into Ouincy. Ample accommodations, reason- able rates. For information write
B. W. Stone, President, Thomasville, Ga., or Frank W. Lloyd, Sec’y Board of Trade, Quincy, Fla.
Pecan and Walnut Trees
Plant our hardy, northern grown Pecan and Persian Walnut trees for best results in the northern portion of the pecan area and in the far northern states. Learn about our trees and our methods of growing them. Our book- let “Nut Trees’’ will be sent free on request.
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crop was evidenly a profitable one
Mr. W. W. Lambdin, until re- cently a member of a prominent law firm at Way cross, Ga., lias been appointed judge of the I nited States Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Mr. Larnbdiu lias for several years been giving close attention to the pecan and is numbered among the patrons of The Nut-Grower. Mr. L. A. Wilson, another member of the same firm has made a substantial start with on orchard which he will gradually enlarge.
Mr. G. M. Brow n, of Van Buren, Ark’, is doing valuable construc- tive work in testing the adapta- bility of pecan varieties to that section of the country. While he has found that practically all of the popular varieties will grow there, he has also discovered that some of them bloom so early that the bloom is destroyed by the late frosts, while others require a long- er growing season than his locality possesses, so that immature nuts are caught by freezing weather in the fall. Between these extremes he is finding others which regular- ly produce well.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting in South Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A. copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
Pecan Trees
Do You Want Trees That will Grow and Bear
If so, learn about my methods of propagating, handling and shipping before you decide where to buy.
Information about pe- can growing given for the asking : : : :
J. B. WIGHT
CAIRO, GA.
President
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Pecan Growing Made Easy
By planting trees dug with en- tire tap root and well develop- ed lateral roots. Few nurseries have such trees.
Made Profitable By planting only genuine bud- ded or grafted trees, of best quality and best producing var- ieties. Some of the biggest, thinnest-shelled nuts don’t bear — beware of them
Griffing’s Trees are Models Root and Top
Our varieties are best. Gold Medal awarded our pecans at Jamestown Exposition. Hand- some pecan catalog free.
The GRIFFING BROS. COMPANY
NURSERYMEN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedlings .Vend for Price Cist
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Report of the Committee on Resolutions
At the meeting of the Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers’ Associa- tion the committee adopted reso- lutions as follows:
Resolved, first, That the Geor- gia-Florida Pecan Growers' Asso- ciation is indebted the local board of management of t he City of Quin- cy and the good citizens at large for the very hospitable manner in which it has been so royally enter- tained.
Resolved, second, That we en- dorse heartily the plans and meth- ods of the National Pecan Growers’ Exchange and urge the importance of active co-operation bn the part of all pecan growers in order that successful marketing methods may be established and maintained.
Resolved, third, That we con- gratulate the members of this as- sociation on the continued and sub- stantial development of the pecan industry in our territory, and ac- knowledge our indebtedness to the pioneer workers and all the organ- ized agencies which are rendering material aid in various ways, o o o
Mr. J. B. Seanor of Fitzgerald, Ga., has top-worked a number of his Jewett trees to more modern varieties.
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Date of Convention Fixed
An important meeting of the Executive Committee of the Nat- ion Nut Growers’ Association was held at Quincy, Fla., May 26. Rep- resentatives of the Albany District and several others were in confer- ence witli these officials in plan- ning for the 1915 convention.
President Hptt’s desire is that this Albany convention be made a top-notcher in the history of the association. The date selected is M ednesday, Thursday and Friday of the last week in October, being the 27. 28, and 29th of the month, o o o
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., JUNE 1915 NUMBER 6
GEORGIA-FLORIDA GROWERS MEET AT QUINCY
INTERESTING PROGRAM FULLY CARRIED OUT
^ HE ninth annual convention of the Georgia-Flor- mm ida Pecan Growers Association met at Quincy, Florida, May 26. at 10 a. m„ and finished the pro- gram at noon the following day. The sessions were held in the beautiful and commodious Gadsden coun- ty courthouse. The attendance, while not as large as at some previous meetings, was representative and the formal papers and discussions were practical and able presentations of matters of interest.
One noticeable feature of the convention was the faithful adherence to the published program, and the completeness with which every assignment was fulfilled. One advertised speaker was prevented from attending on account of being in a northern hospital, but an able substitute was on hand to take his place. Another sent his paper which was read by Secretary Bassett and Prof. H. K. Miller, who they say has recently been advanced to the dignity of a bank president, summarized his subject into a verbal message and transmitted it by word of mouth via the secretary.
President Stone presided, and the secretary had the affairs of his office in good workable shape. No time was lost or wasted, but any one with a question or pertinent experience to relate was given due time and attention.
Following the invocation by Rev. J. Marion Stafford, Mayor Gibson, in a few well chosen words, constituted the convention as a Quincy institution for the time being and bestowed privileges and free- dom to the visitors with prodigal hand.
W. C. Jones of Cairo, Ga., who was booked for the response to the address of welcome, was on hand and with retrospective vision and prophetic insight framed with bright word pictures a message of the rich heritage-now coming to the Southland through the agency of nature's richest horticultural gift, the pecan. He briefly reviewed the conditions of the ante-bellum South, the titanic struggle of the Civil War, the dark days of reconstruction and the disci- pline of years of poverty, now being followed with a
a fruitage likened to “apples of gold in pictures of silver.” with dreams of a future for this land which will permanently make it the greatest beneath the sun. Mr. Jones said that while the nut growers had come to Quincy with bright anticipations of hospital- ity which were sure to be fully realized, still they came to do Quincy good. Reference was made to the world's markets now at the door of the pecan belt through the opening of the Panama canal, to the fact that the pecan is the finest nut grown and that not one in ten of the hundred millions of people in our own land know anything as yet about the wonderful nut we are now producing. We must let the world as Avell as our own people know what we have.
President B. W. Stone, in his annual address re- viewed the work of the association and mentioned some of the agencies which have contributed to the growth of the industry. This address, as well as oth- er convention papers will appear in subsequent issues of The Nut-Grower.
W. P. Bullard of Albany, Ga., presented an in- teresting paper on Opportunities in Pecan Culture, in which he designated the pecan as “the prince of insurance policies.”
Prof. Matz of Gainesville, Fla., read a valuable paper on “Die-back,” a pecan trouble often supposed to be rosette. Photographs and specimens of diseas- ed tees and of twigs were shown.. The speaker said that cultivation, pruning and care will to a great extent prevent injury from this cause.
President Stone announced the appointment of committees as follows:
On Resolutions: J. F. Wilson, Wayeross, Ga.;
W. C. Jones, Cairo, Ga.: W. W. Bassett, Montic-ello, Fla.
On Nominations: R. B. Small, Columbus, Ga.;
C. R, Shaw, Quincy, Fla,; D. L. Williams, Cairo, Ga.; H. C. White, Putney, Ga.; M. A. Wilson, Monticello, Fla,
On Place of Next Meeting: C. A. Simpson, Mon-
ticello, Fla.; J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga.; C. A. Rouser,
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Thomasville, Ga.; W. I*. Bullard, Albany, Ga.; J. H. Trump, Quincyr, Fla.
The Question Box was always open and one of the first problems developed was along the line of the best varieties. It seems that Schley holds its leading position and would be the one to plant if the grower was confined to a single variety. Alley and Delmas are favorites, while the Van Deman is being restored to its former popularity. W. C. Jones pointed out that several years’ test is needed to properly estimate the value of any variety.
The carefully prepared paper on The Value of Well Balanced Farming in the Pecan Belt, by W. L. MacGowan of Quincy, brought out a general discus- sion of the subject. II. C. White of Putney, Ga.. and Prof. J. W. Firor of the Georgia State College of Ag- riculture figured prominently here. Among the topics of importance that were discussed were the use of legumes, cover crops and the conservation of moisture.
Advertising as a Factor in Success with the Pe- can was the theme on which Jefferson Thomas of Jacksonville made a practical talk. Mr. Thomas is connected with a prominent advertising agenty and through his general work as well as his connection with the Florida citrus growers was able to furnish much valuable data which pecan growers can use to advantage.
C. K. McQuarrie, a Florida farm demonstrator, gave an account of co-operative marketing of crops which had come under his observation. He stressed the absolute necessity for honest grading of prod- ucts. In cultural operations the importance of sub- soiling was emphasized.
Prof. Firor spoke on Rosette, Mr. S. M. Mc- Muaran who had been assigned the subject, being- prevented from attending on account of sickness. This address was of much interest and when publish- ed should be carefully studied.
Bud Moths was the subject treated by C. S. Spooner. The different varieties and preventative measures received attention. Spraying, it was stat- ed, will control this pest.
In H. White’s paper on Winter Killing, he stated that grafted trees were more liable to injury from this cause than are budded trees, and that his experience showed that the different varieties are about equally affected.
The case-bearer, according to Prof. H. K. Miller’s message to the convention, should have attention in August, a mixture two pounds of powdered arsenate of lead in 50 gallons of water being recommended.
,T. B. Wight called attention to the services ren- dered by birds in controlling insects and made a plea for their protection.
Following the session on Wednesday evening, the members of the association were tendered an in- formal reception at the Elks Club, where they en-
joyed the hospitality of that order and the citizens of the town.
Thursday morning the subject of marketing nuts came up. ('. A. Van Duzee reported for the commit- tee on Markets and Marketing and also read a paper on the Pecan Markets of the Future. This was fol- lowed by a general discussion of the subject in which the National Pecan Growers Exchange figured. Mr. W. I*. Bullard of Albany, Ga., Mr. McQuarrie, Mr. Thomas, as well as several others took part in this discussion. Proper grading, local organization and publicity were emphasized and the concensus of op- inion seemed to favor the early operation of such plans as may be adopted for marketing the 1915 crop.
Papers on the subjects of growing first-class trees and superior nuts were presented by B. A. Fohl of Fitzgerald, Ga., W. W. Bassett and B. W. Stone.
The committee on revision of constitution and by-laws appointed at the 1914 convention reported that their draft of constitution and by-laws had been submitted to the association at its semi-annual meet- ing, that it had been received and adopted and was subsequently printed in leaflet form and distributed. The work of the committee, which consisted of J. B. Wight, J. F. Wilson and H. K. Miller, was ratified and it was discharged.
J. F. Wilson presented the report of the com- mittee on Resolutions, the first paragraph of which was adopted by a rising vote, the others being ap- proved in the ordinary way. (See page 70 for these resolutions.)
Thomasville was designated as the place of the next meeting on report of the committee which ad- vised that the new constitution provided that all annual meetings are to be held there unless other- wise directed by the association or the Executive committee.
R. B. Small of Columbus. Ga., chairman of the committee on Nomination read that committee’s re- port in which they recommended that the following be elected:
President. C. A. Simpson. Monticello. Fla.
Vice-President. W. P. Bullard. Albany, Ga.
Secretary-Treasurer. W. W. Bassett. Monticello,
Fla.
Directors, H. C. White, Putney, Ga.; J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga.; H. Iv. Miller. Monticello, Fla.; B. W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga., the officers and dir- ectors constituting the Executive committee.
The report was received and the recommenda- tions adopted.
Mr. Stone, in surrendering the office which he had acceptably filled for the past two years, thanked the association for the honors bestowed upon him and for the co-operation and support he had been accorded.
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Mr. Simpson, the newly-elected president, was duly appreciative o$ the honor of the position. He siad while his early training' as a public speaker had not yet produced any marked effect, still he was glad to serve the association and the industry to the best of his ability.
The newly elected president announced the ap- pointment of standing committees for the* year as follows:
Orchard Statistics: W. W. Bassett. Monticello,
Fla.; C. K. Shaw. Quincy, Fla.: H. H. Simmons, Jack- sonville, Fla.; H. O. Cannon, Cairo, (fa.; A. C. Sned- eker, Waycross, Ga.; L. B. Dukes, Moultrie, Ga.: W. P. Bullard, Albany, Ga.; C. A. Parker, Thomasville, Ga.; L. M. Hansford, Americas, Ga.
Exhibits and Premiums: B. W. Stone, Thomas-
ville, Ga.; W. C. Jones, Cairo, Ga.; H. C. White, Putney, Ga.
Mr. Love, on behalf of Quincy, expressed appre- ciation of the honor bestowed on the city by holding the convention within its borders. Mr. C. R. Shaw announced from time to time arrangements for the convenience and pleasure of the visitors, and was al- ways available for supplying information of any kind, especially as to where cool drinks were obtain- able. Mr. ,T. H. Trump, manager of the Elk's Club, was conspicuous and untiring in his activities in be- half of the visitors.
When the Quincy boosters captured the 1915 convention by storming the Thomasville meeting a year ago with glowing picture and promises difficult to fulfil, many questioned the expediency of going there for the annual meeting. However, those who braved the inconveniences of reaching the place by rail as well as those who came in automobiles — some of the latter traveling ne'arly a hundred miles — all agreed that the glowing promises of seeing a most, beautiful city, surrounded by productive and highly developed lands on which specialized and intensive agricultural operations were being conducted, were of actual conditions, realizing in a remarkable way Mr. Jones’ “apples of gold in pictures of silver,” need- ing only the fruition of thousands of acres of modern pecan orchards to complete the scene.
In the measure of the promised hospitality the realization overflowed the bounds of reasonable an- ticipation, so that the visitors heartily conceded the inducements held out and the promises made were fully realized
Quincy was evidently looking for a pearl of great price when she set about securing this convention. The pecan for Gadsden county is something which the people there can possess by paying the price of properly directed effort. Only a few individuals are thus far in the pecan game properly. Co-inci- dent with this statement it might be observed that the number of copies of The Nut-Grower circulat- ing in the county is distressingly small. Since the
convention has opened the way for ils consideration we feel warranted in suggesting that the regular Hr dilation of one hundred copies of The \'ct Grower in the county and a generous use of its advertising pages would lead directly to the planting of a thous- and acres of modern and first-class orchards within a comparatively short time. This may seem to the uninitiated as simply a, boost for the official organ of the industry, but the statement can be just, as easily demonstrated as were the statements regarding the Quincy territory made at Thomasville last year.
The afternoon of the second day was devoted to sight-seeing. About a score of automobiles were loaded with visitors and citizens and made excursions over selected routes which had previously been marked out with flags at all turning points. The course was about twenty-five miles in length and showed beautiful, highly cultivated farms, fine live- stock— the cattle largely Jerseys — and tobacco plan- tations under the highest type of intensive cultiva- tion and with modern appliances for protecting the crop. Farm after farm was passed where acres and acres of the crop are grown under partial shade, ob- tained by the use of a canopy of slats. Other fields were covered with mosquito netting, as completely as a bed is screened. This was for the double pur- pose of securing partial shade and for excluding the moth which deposits its eggs on every plant, producing the tobacco worm, which must be hand picked from the plant! if they are not screened. The cultivation of these tobacco fields is intensive. Fertilizers for an acre costs in round numbers one hundred dollars. Dry weather at critical season re- duces the yield and sometimes a hail storm will en- tirely destroy the crop. In curing the tobacco a large barn is needed for every four acres. The most careful, skillful and constant attention is required both day and night or the tobacco will be damaged in curing. Sometimes a good profit is made on the crop, sometimes a heavy loss, while the average an- nual profits made by those who stay in the game and know the business thoroughly is approximately about what a ten or twelve year old pecan orchard would yield per acre, while the expense each year is pre- sumably about the entire cost of the orchard. This crop is about as much a gamble for the rich farmer as cotton is for the ordinary grower.
Space will not permit the mention of the many interesting sights and incidents of this trip, which covered about thirty-five miles of road and yielded two and a half hours of enjoyment.
As a practical working body, the 1915 conven- tion will rank high in the history of the association. As to the influence it may have on Quincy and Gads- den county, time alone can tell; but indications are that it may be appropriately likened to seed time with the promise of abundant and perpetual har- vests.
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The importations of Brazil nuts into the United States during 1913 amounted to $797,000. For 1914 it reached the sum of $2,280,000. All these came directly from Brazil.
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Satsuma orange trees suffered to some extent in the south east the past winter owing to the early cold and freezing weather which occurred in November while many of the trees were still in active growth.
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A contributor to the Utah Farmer advocates the planting of nut trees on Arbor Day. It is urged that the nurserymen who give attention to furnishing nut trees and see that they are properly planted will be building desirable business for the future. The fact that nut trees are more difficult to propagate and transplant than fruit trees has contributed to the scarcity of such stock in the general nurseries, o o o
Albany, Georgia, will be the convention city for the National Nut Growers’ Association the present year. The exact date has not yet been selected but the probabilities are that it will be during the nut
harvest period. Six years ago the convention was held at Albany and a day was spent visiting the large orchards in the Albany district. The plan for 1915 will be to again go over the same route, note the changes, and see the actual demonstration of results which were simply in prospect in 1909.
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It requires courage and some money for the nut nurseryman to continue his advertising during the entire year, especially when lie has sold all his stock and has to decline orders. The fact is that proper and regular advertising is a part of the nursery in- vest incut. and not a simple expense to be cut out as soon as possible. It is cumulative in results and the temporary discontinuance cuts out this indirect ad- vantage so that a new campaign again starts at the bottom and grows in proportion to its regular use.
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Since pecan orchards have come into public favor, many i mi uires are made as to the commercial pros- pects in connection with othe nuts, and in widely separated parts of the world. Some data was assem- bled regarding coeoanut cultivation by an agent of the consular service at Singapore. Summarized it shows that the cost of a coeoanut orchard is some- thing over a hundred dollars per acre, that it begins to bear the sixth year, and that the profits by the ninth year amount to something over fifty dollars per acre.
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During the spring of 1914 an orchard of ten acres was started on cut over land near Waycross, Ga. The trees were planted in dynamited holes before the land was cleared and broken up. The planting was followed by about ten weeks of dry weather, with about two inches of rainfall during this period. This caused a loss of over 50 per cent among the Satsuma oranges which were inter-planted in a small portion of the tract but the loss of pecans was only 5 1-2 per cent. Good trees properly planted mean much in getting an orchard started.
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Intermediate crops for the young as well as the established nut orchard is an important consideration. It is suprising to what extent many nut growers per- sist in sowing oats among their trees. Any cereal crop when planted for any other purpose than winter pasture is a direct compromise in which both the trees and the crops suffer seriously. The high ferti- lizing which is claimed justifies the use of oats in the orchard is undoubtedly a fallacious theory as far as the regular growth of the trees is concerned. The modern concensus of opinion is that the excessive drafts an oat crop makes on the soil moisture at the very time the trees need all that the soil ordinarily supplies is the compromising feat lire of such opera- tions.
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I have noticed in vour late issue an account by Mr. Edwards of the Stuart and Delmas pecans. I have a number of small pecan trees in my yard t hat I believe are worthy of mention.
J have a three-year-old Stuart that has set (15 clusters of nuts. I believe it is safe to say that they will average 4 1-2 nuts to the clus- ter, or about 300 nuts to the tree.
I have a small three-year-old San Saba, which has been severely cut back, in order to straighten the tree, that is very heavy set in fruit. 1 have a small two-year-old Halbert that has a number of clusters of nuts.
Last spring I top worked a seed- ling tree to several varieties. The chip bad method was used, the buds being inserted in March, forced out in April. This year, just twelve months from the time the budding was done, there area num- ber of shoots that are four or five feet in length, and are heavily loaded with fruit.
I think it is safe to say that most of the improved varieties of pecans will come into bearing just as early, if not earlier, than with apples and pears.
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THE FIG
By Russell W. Bennett
[ This article is used in The Nut- Grower because the tig offers a promising inter-crop tor the pe- can orchard, when location and other circumstances are favor- able .]
The fig was held in high favor by the nations of antiquity. It was much esteemed by the Roman epicures and at harvest time con- stituted a large portion of the food
of slaves engaged in agriculture. It- was one of (In' principal articles of sustenance among tin* Greeks. Large quantities are raised in Southern Europe but the principal exports are from Asia Minor where the drying of figs is an important industry. In the cotton belt sec- tion of our own southern states the fresh fig has long been con- sidered a great delicacy and few of the old homesteads are without sufficient trees to supply the house- hold. It is wholesome and health- ful and perhaps the most valuable of our domestic fruits. It lias pleas- ant laxative qualities possessed by none other; its value is well recog- nized in medicine. The tree is long lived; is subject to few insect depredations, bears early, thrives with little or no attention and pro- vides an abundant harvest.
Climatic conditions here have been deemed unfavorable to its drying and the poor shipping qual- ities of the fresh fruit gave little encouragement to extensive plant- ing but with the introduction and increased demand for the preserved fig, canneries were established and plantings extended. With the im- proved service provided by the railroads, the growers on the At- lantic seaboard nearest the mar- kets of the eastern cities, commen- ced to realize large profits from ex- press shipments of the fresh fruit packed in berry carriers.
Data on the fig as a commercial proposition is scarce and very un- satisfactory. There are innumer- able instances of extremely large profit from a few trees in all parts of the cotton belt and this induced considerable orchard planting sev- eral years a o. Under widely dif- ferent conditions of soil and culti- vation, the orchards were generally successful and bore good crops for three or four years when wholesale
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disaster overtook many of them. An unaccountable die back set in which soon resulted in their total loss.
That there were exceptions that continued to return particularly large profit, some of them as old as fourteen years and which are still increasing their yield year by year, induced capitalists to make a very thorough investigation of the sub- ject.
Expert horticulturalists were put in the field from the Rio Grande to Charleston and detailed examinations and reports made of the conditions of both orchard and yard trees to determine the feasi- bility of extensive commercial plantings. These reports have been carefully analysed and the condi- tions necessary for successful or- chard operations have been defi- nitely determined.
Through the courtesy of one of the foremost horticulturists of the section and interested largely from Florida to Texas, under whom the investigations were pursued, 1 am permitted to cite the conclusions reached.
Almost identical treatment had been given three of the most suc- cessful of the older plantings. One below New Orleans, one in southern Mississippi and the other near Charleston. The trees ranged from 8 to 14 years old and the results were fully equal to that obtained by trees growing around the house and chicken yards in every part of the belt and it was found that as nearly as possible the same con- ditions were provided as naturally occurred in the yards. Around the houses, chickens roosted in the trees, many of them were close to stable or kitchen door and the roots extended under house and wood shed. A large amount of ni- trogen was uneonciously provided. The roots were undisturbed from year to year and most of them had plenty of water from kitchen dish pan; from the wash tubs and waste from well and all thrived and fruit- ed abundantly. Plenty of nitrogen plenty of water, good drainage and
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undisturbed roots appeared to be the elements necessary to success.
In these particular orchards no plowing was done during the sum- mer months after the second year. Cow peas were planted’ in the spring and were allowed to grow until fall when they were harvest- ed or plowed under. This legume is very rich in nitrogen and fur- nished nearly all the fertility nec- essary for the trees. The vine pro- vided a mulch keeping the ground cool and moist during the heated term. The Iron or Brabham cow pea is preferred as not being sub- ject to root rot or wilt as are most other varieties when planted re- peatedly on the same ground.
The concensus of opinion is that phosphates do not appear to be necessary at all and potash in such small quantities as are usually found in any soil; there is however, room for experiment in connection with potash requirements. It is suggested that potash will not on- ly make a larger sugar content and harden the fruit, improving its shipping and keeping qualities, but may even supply the conditions that will make drying feasible.
It has been deduced from a complete analysis of the observa- tions reported, that in orchard planting, clean cultivation should be given for the first two years, un- til the trees are well established, but that commencing the second spring after planting, no plowing should be done after the growth starts. The trees will not stand cultivation in the summer after the second year but may be plow- ed without harm during the winter. Plenty of water is essential but becomes injurious if it stands on the ground or around the roots for any considerable time.
Nitrogen is the only essential fertilizing element and phosphate, as productive of seed formation, is undesirable and the acid form in combination is injurious. Large quantities of nitrogen are required and is best supplied by growing cow peas on the ground. One cut- ting may bo made for i.ay and the
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Satsuma Oranges
AND
Other Citrus Trees
Also a general line of Fruit "Tees, Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrub- bery and Field Grown Rose Bushes. No better stock grown. Before placing your orders write for illustrated cata- logue.
Turkey Creek Nursery Company,
Box 21. Macclenny, Fla.
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Finest Pecan Trees
Budded or Grafted
Satsuma Orange, Grape Fruit Miscellaneous and Ornamen- tal Nursery Stock grown by
Summit Nurseries, Monticeilo, Fla.
Ask for Catalog
The W. B. Dukes Pecan Farm
Moultrie, Georgia
Growers and Shippers o f
FANCY PAPER SHELL PECANS
One million grafts and buds of Schley Stuart, Delmas and Moneymaker. Write for favorable prices.
vines then allowed to grow until fall. Pruning has proved most de- sirable, though not generally prac- ticed, but the laj’gest crops and the best fruit have come from those trees that appeared to most ob- servers very severely pruned.
Some varieties fruit almost im- mediately after planting. In 30 months, trees given proper atten- tion should yield from four to eight quarts and materially increase their yield each season.
There are many square miles of untilled acres lying in south Geor- gia and north Florida, with most excellent transportation facilities which provide ideal natural con- ditions for fig cul ture on an extend- ed scale. These lands are now be- ing released by the large timber interests and may now be had at low prices when development is assured. Here lies a most unusual opportunity for both the shipment of fresh fruit and in preserving. Transportation is good and fuel plenty.
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Chestnut Disease Quaran- tine Proposed
The chestnut bark disease has become so serious that in the opin- ion of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture it is desirable to quarantine New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Io- wa, West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and Nebraska, or such portions thereof as may be found to be essential. The proposed quarantine will restrict the move- ment from this territory of chest- nut nursery stock and chestnut lumber with the bark on.
The chestnut bark disease is comparatively recent in this coun- try. Its origin is not absolutely known, but it is believed that it was brought in indirectly from Ch ina, where it exists also. In 1908 it was found widely distributed in the Hudson River Valley and in the vicinity of New York City. It is caused by a fungus which rapid- ly kills the native chestnut trees
and is spread chiefly by the distri- bution of nursery stock. Once it been established, however, it is spread locally by wind, birds and insects. Migratory birds may also carry the disease for long distan- ces.
Since th is disease is proving fatal to the native chestnuts in the in- fected area, it is quite probable that their place may be taken by chestnut orchards grown for the nuts in areas that have not yet been infected and from which it is hoped that the proposed quaran- tine will keep out the infection. At the present time the native chestnut grows in practically all of the territory east of the Missis- sippi except a section of the coastal plain of the Southern States, the northern half of Maine, and parts of Illinois and Michigan. For two years after the tree has been killed by the fungus the timber remains valuable, but deterioration sets in after that time.
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Explosives in Agriculture
Explosives are extensively used in modern agriculture and their use for deep plowing or subsoiling is almost as great a step forward as irrigation, is the statement made by Gilbert Ellis Bailey, Pro- fessor of Geology, University of Southern California, in a recent bulletin.
After showing the necessity of loosening the soil to depths great- er than those reached by the most efficient tillage machinery, for the purpose of soil aeration and in- creased water storage capacity, he asserts that blasting the subsoil is the only means of proper deep tillage. Aeration of the subsoil is necessary for oxydizing and nitri- fying the elements of plant food.
Soil porosity is necessary to per- mit rain water to settle by gravity to the water table, and later rise by capillarity as the plants require it.
The importance of a bountiful supply of water and facilities for its free movement through top soil and subsoil is shown by the fact
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that a ton of hay during growth pumps up from the soil 500 tons of water.
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Combination Offer
By arrangement with the Nation- al Nut Growers Association we are able to offer an annual member- ship and a year's subscription to The Nut-Grower for $2.50. Von can save money besides getting the big value this offer presents. En- roll promptly and get ready for a great convention at Albany this fall. Send remittance to .T. B. Wight. Secretary, Cairo, Ga., or to The N ut-Grower. Waycross, Ga. o o o
Advantages of Advertising
Discussing the advantages of ad- vertising, Frank Stockdale, an eco- nomic and business expert of Chi- cago, in addressing the Ad Club of Atlanta, Ga.. said that 84 per cent of the business failures in this coun- try are of those who do not adver- tise. The accumulative effects of advertising, he declared, do not fall far short of being as solid as government bonds.
Mr, Stockdale declared these to be t lie golden rules of advertising:
“Inject your firm's personality into your advertising copy.
“Tell nothing but the truth.
“Put goods behind your adver- tising, and
"Keep everlastingly at it.
"If you don't put truth into your copy,” he said, "you put yourself at the mercy of words, and the man who is the biggest liar gets the biggest trade. Nobody, how- ever, wants the reputation of the biggest liar in Atlanta — or any- where else.”
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Trees an Inspiration
As trees were the great source of the beauty of paradise, so much of the beauty of our homes is in the trees that surround them, and many fond recollections of the days of our childhood are bound up with trees. You recall the old apple tree under the shade of which you passed many a happy
hour or perchance wept away many a ehidish grief. It is good to re- member trees — they make them- selves remembered. There is that about a tree that makes nearer those who have fostered and watch- ed its growth, and met under its spreading •branches, and makes dearer the land where it grows.
Whoever plants a tree sets in motion a mighty train of forces whose action we cannot imitate, nor even fully understand, but which we can direct. The growth of a tree presents a striking con- trast to the works of man. As we watch its development there is no push and pull, no stress and strain. It represents the silent, persist- ent, resilient forces of nature, act- ing through scores or even centur- ies of years. Yet it can be destroy- ed in an hour, and when it is gone there is a vacancy not soon nor easily filled.
It is the manifestation of divine life that gives to nature its signal beauty and symbolic character, and he who lives in sympathy with nature leads the ideal life. The tree is rooted in the ground but it grows upward and its branches reach toward the sky. There is that in human nature that roots us to the earth, but the principle of growth is within us, and that growth like that of a tree, should reach toward heaven. — W. B. Laz- enby, in Ohio Forester.
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Brazil Nut Trees
In this country Brazil nuts are almost as well known as walnuts, yet few know the manner of their growth and the steps taken in their collection and marketing. The tree itself is the most majestic in the valley of the Amazon, where it attains a height ranging from fifty to a hundred feet. Generally several hundred trees are found in a group. The control of the beet producing districts long ago pass- ed to private individuals; lienee the natives are not free to pick and sell the nuts at will.
The Brazil nut tree does not be- gin to bear fruit until it attains
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Pounds I Pecans
Is the estimate of our 1914 crop made by those who know.
Our crop consists of many of the finest of the standard var- i e t i e s of pecans.
We are offering these choice nuts for sale either in bulk or in small lots. :: :: ::
For price or other information, write to
The
G. M. Bacon Pecan Co.
DeWitt : Georgia
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Our Specialty is growing well root- ed budded and grafted trees of best varieties.
Careful attention given all orders. Write for prices.
SOUTHERN NUT TREE NURSERIES
Thomasville, :: Georgia
Nothing Pays Like
Good
Printing
The Nut-Grower is equip- ped with the machinery and has the skilled workmen need- ed for the production of artis- tic printing of all kinds.
Otir Prices are Right
LET US FIGURE ...WITH YOU...
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WAYCROSS, GA.
THE USE OF NUTS
Compiled by Mrs. T. A. Banning and other la- dies under the auspices of the National Nut Growers’ Association.
One hundred and sixteen prac- tical recipes for the use of Nuts. Introduction by Mrs. Har- let North
Foreword by Mrs.W. N. Hutt
Price 25c per copy
Send Orders to
THE NUT-GROWER
Waycross, Ga.
FOR SALE. Back numbers of The Nut-Grower. Parties desiring to com- plete tlieir files should send list of what they need. The Nut-Grower Company, Waycross, Ga.
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the age of fifty years or there- abouts and continues to produce crops intermittently almost for- ever. At least trees known to be hundreds of years old have pro- duced crops. The pods in which the nuts are contained drop in November and December.
These pods are very hard and weigh several pounds, consequent- ly the trees are studiously avoided during the period in which the pods are dropping since it would be extremely hazardous for the gathers to expose themselves to the danger of having the pods fall on them from such a great height. Each pod is at least seven inches in diameter and is full of nuts. The pod is usually opened with a mach ete. — Argonau t.
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English Walnuts in Pennsylvania
The English walnut is attract- ing wide interest in Pennsylvania as a commercial orchard tree. Scarcely a week goes by at The Pennsylvania State College with- out receiving inquiries concerning this nut. These inquiries arc usual- ly prompted by the fact that al- ready within the state are bearing- trees which have proved both their hardiness and their ability to bear abundant crops of nuts equal or superior to the nuts found in our eastern markets, which are import- ed from the Old World, Califor- nia or Oregon, the principal sources of our commercial supply.
Because of the interest manifest- ed, the Department of Horticul- ture of the College has planned a thorough investigation of the sub- ject. This will begin with a survey of the state to determine the lo- cation of all trees. In order to make this survey as complete ;,s possible, the Department urgen; > requests the assistance of eevryt ae who can give facts concerning s ich trees, especially as to location, character of nuts, age of trees hardiness, etc. Owners of nut tree are urgently requested to correi pond with the College. It is hopet that this information will be sen
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in to the Department without de- lay so that the trees may be visit- ed by the investigators and fuller notes and observations made.
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Chinese Walnut Industry
The Chinese or Manchurian walnut fa type of the Jug Ians regia') is grown in a number of districts in the province of Chihli, Shansi, Honan and Shantung. In Chihli Province the three principal districts are Lanchow and Changli which adjoin each other, and are about 100 miles north and east of Tiensin on the line of the Peking- Mukden railway; also the district of Changpincliow, which lies about 30 miles north of Peking. These three districts produce the best grade of walnut which is exported from Tiensin. In Shansi Province the district of Fenchowfu produces large number — in fact, walnut trees may be found in almost any of the hilly districts in the four provinces mentioned. The greater part of the nuts exported from Tientsin, however, are raised in Chihli Prov- ince.
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Active Walnut Growing in California
California is extending its acre- age in walnuts. Tire crop for sev- eral years has exceeded 20 million pounds annually. In the Puente and Covina section 2,200 acres are just beginning to bear, 800 acres are in young trees, while a large additional acreage is now being- planted. When this acreage is in full bearing the Puente Walnut Growers' Association, it is stated, will be obliged to operate the lar- gest walnut packing and cleaning- house in the world. Imported wal- nuts are dutiable at 2 cents per pound not shelled, and 4 cents per ; ound shelled. Imports of the un- ified totalled 28 million pounds of the shelled 9 million pounds 1 he United States during th year 1914. Their total value 1,300,000. Although Califor- is attained a large produet- 1 walnuts, importations show
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no diminution. — Commerce Re- ports.
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Walnuts in Arizona
The English walnut has been grown in Arizona for more than t wenty years. These t rees, however were raised by grafting the French nut on the root of the native black walnut, such as lias been done in the California groves. There are a number of t hese trees at Safford, Graham county, Arizona, which
Nut Salad.
Mix one cup chopped pecans or walnuts and two cups shredded lettuce. Arrange on lettuce leaves and garnish with mayonnaise dress- ing.
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Nut Cake.
To plain cake batter add a half cup of finely chopped walnut or pecan meats. Bake in a shallow pan', cover with boiled frosting and ornament with nut halves, o
Nut and Peach Salad.
Fill the cavities of halved peel- ed peaches with a mixture of nut meats, pears and celery, chopped fine. Garnish with lemon jelly and serve with mayonnaise.
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Chocolate and Nut Sandwiches.
Take two tablespoons of sweet- ened chocolate, mix with a little water and beat to a thick paste; chop fine a half pint of nut meats; stir the chocolate paste while cool- ing, add the nuts and spread thin- ly on narrow wafers. Let harden, then press two wafers together.
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Macaroni Croquettes
Chop fine cold, cooked macaroni. Make a thick sauce by rubbing to- gether two tablespoons of flour with one tablespoon of butter and adding one cup of cold milk. Stir over fire until thick and smooth, and add one teaspoon salt and a dash of pepper. When the sauce is cold add to it one cup chopped
have been bearing good crops every year. The French nut grafted on the stem of the Arizona black wal- nut produces in five years a tree that would require ten years to produce by grafting on the root. It makes just twice the progress of the root graft variety. One of these trees will produce nuts the year after it is grafted and will produce nuts in commercial quan- tities in three years. — Tuczon Citi- zen.
nuts and one cup of the cooked and chopped macaroni. Add on- ion juice if desired. Proceed as with other croquettes and serve with nut or tomato sauce.
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Nut Kisses
Two cups of brown sugar, one- half cup water, one teaspoonful of vinegar, one teaspoonful vanilla ex- tract and one cupful nut meats. Boil the sugar, water and vinegar together until the mixture threads when dropped from a spoon on waxed paper.
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N ut and Celery Salad
Mix equal parts of English wal- nuts or pecan meats cut in pieces, and celery cut i n small pieces. Marinate with French dressing. Serve with border of shredded let- tuce.
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Egg Salad
Cut six hard-boiled eggs in halves, crosswise, keeping the whites in pairs. Remove yolks, and mash. Add mayonnaise dressing and finely chopped nut meats. Make into balls; fill whites. Ar- range on lettuce leaves with nut meats and dressing.
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Nut Bread
One-half cup sugar, four cups Hour, one level teaspoonful salt, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, two eggs, two cups milk, one cup chopped nut meats. Mix dry in- gredients. Add the eggs well beat-
NUTS IN THE DAILY MENU
—Best Budded— Pecan Trees
We have them in great quanti- ty as well as quality. Our stock is especially strong and well- rooted. We have also best budding wood.
Magnolia Nursery
W. C. JONES, Proprietor Successor to Wight & Jones
Cairo, Ga.
PECAN
TREES
Budded Paper Shells.
Best Varieties
Expert Propaga- tion. Healthy and Hardy Stock.
Write for Prices
T. H. PARKER
MOULTRIE, C,A.
rafted Pecan Trees
of Select Papershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bayview Pecan Nursery
C. FORKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
Nut Growers’ Organizations
The National Nut Grower s’ Associa- tion, W. N. Hutt, .President. Raleigh, N. C. ; J. B. Wight, Secretary. Cairo, Ga.
Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ As sociation, W. W. Bassett, Secretary, Monticello, Fla.
Northern Nut Growers' Association, W. C. Derning, Secretary, Georgetown, Conn.
The Pecan Growers’ League, J. F. Wilson, General Manager, Wavcross,Ga.
Albany District P°can Exchange, Wm. P. Bullard, President, Albany, Ga.
Southeastern Pecan Nurserymen’s Association. Wm. P. Bullard, Secretary, Albany, Ga.
The National Pecau Exchange, Chas. A. Van Dnzee, President, Cairo, Ga.
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Satsuma Orange Trees in Quantity
To insure first-class trees, your orders should he placed early. Nurserymen will not he able to supply the demand for citrus trees this coming season.
The Best in Budded and Grafted Pecans and General Nursery Stock
Write for information and prices at once.
FLORIDA NURSERIES
W. W. BASSETT. Proprietor
The Pecan Business
In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from planting the tints to gathering tiie nuts. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nuts and trees for sale.
B. W. STONE :: Thomasville, Ga.
R00 D Pecan Groves
Pecan Trees and Nuts for sale.
C. M. Rood, Pres. Albany, Ga.
In the HEART of the Texas Pecan Belt
We have all t he lead- ing Texas and South- ern varieties of pecans Very best of trees.
We grow a full line of nursery stock and specialize in Peach,
Plum, Apple, Pecan and Berries.
Our LEONA PEACH will supplant Elber- ta. HAUPT BER- RY, a hybrid, for the South is unequalled.
Catalog free. We pay express. 420 acres.
Austin Nursery
F. T. Ramsey (Sb Son AUATIN. TEX,
M( )NTICELLO, FLORIDA
SUCCESS
NATURAL SIZE
The nut that has never tailed to bear and never failed to fill at >oth end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MTSS.
Berckmans’
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We have a large variety of fruit, pe- i-an and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berokmans Go.,
FRUIT LAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
Pecan Trees Satsuma Oranges
and
Grape Fruit Trees
That are Right
SAMUEL KIDDER Monticello, Florida
en: two cups of milk. Put in t ins and let stand .twenty minutes. Bake three-quarters of an hour.
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Nut Chops
Four tablespoonfuls butter, one egg and cracker crumbs, six table- spoonfuls cream, six slices bread. Trim all crusts off the bread; spread the bread with nut meats mixed with salad dressing, cut into three oblong pieces; beat the egg and add the cream. Dip the bread into the egg and cream, then into cracker crumbs. Place in an oiled pan and bake in a hot oven until brown.
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Nut Bread
Two and one half cups flour, two and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful salt, one- third cup sugar, two-thirds cup milk, one egg, well beaten, one cup chopped nut meats. Sift flour and baking powder; add salt, sugar and nut meats. Beat egg well; turn in milk and add to above. Putin pan and allow to stand ten minutes. Bake in moderate oven.
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Nut Bread
One half cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, one and one-half cup milk, two cups graham flour, two cups white flour, one teaspoonful salt, foui- teaspoonfuls baking-pow- der, one cup walnuts, one well beaten egg. two tablespoonfuls corn starch. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and nuts; add milk, molasses and sugar, then egg. Let stand in pans about thirty minutes before baking.
Stuart Pecans
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I still have several hundred pounds of medium sized Stu- art nuts for sale in bulk or small lots. Let me know how many you want and I will quote price.
J. B. SEANOR
Fitzgerald, Ga.
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North-East Texas Plant- ings
Much interest is being developed in North east Texas in the plant- ing of paper shell budded pecans, in a section where the wild seed ling has been abundant in the Red River for years. G. W. Paisley, formerly editor of a daily news- paper at Lincoln, Illinois, who came to Bowie County, Texas, two years ago to develop a large tract of land near New Boston, planted ten acres to pecans the past winter. Dr. .7. N. McGee, who has just com - pleted a large lake for a pleasure resort, fed by natural springs, planted five acres during the past season, while Dr. J. M. Winder planted an orchard of five hundred trees. These orchards wTill be en- larged next season and several others will be planted. Many na- tive trees in the bottoms w ill also be top worked.
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The cold wave which visited the Gulf Coast on March 21 damaged the strawberry crop seriously. Points farther north w here vege- tation was still delayed escaped with but slight loss.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grow n in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting in South Georgia
Fine Texas Pecan Orchard
5 special shares for sale in
Combination Orchard Co., Winona, Tex.
Pecans 1000 acres — Peaches 1000 acres. 6th year. Company will refund original purchase price of these shares from total net earnings. Peach crop 1014, $14,000. tVM. ENGLAND, Ballinger, Tex.
Hawkeye St. Paul Company
THIS COMPANY HAS AN ATTRACTIVE
PECAN PROPOSITION
[^HIS is simply a safe and sound business ESE?| movement for utilizing the opportuni- ties for profitable and permanent invest- ment. The plan eliminates the risks, ex- pense and worry of individual ownership of orchards. It is available either for the large or small investor.
Send for a copy of the HAWKEYE HARBINGER. It gives particulars and valuable information
Hawkeye-St. Paul Company
68-69 First National Bank Building DAVENPORT, IA.
— Pecan and Walnut Trees —
Plant our hardy, northern grown Pecan and Persian Walnut trees for best results in the northern portion of the pecan areaMiid in the far northern states. Learn about our trees and our methods of growing them. Our book- let “Nut Trees” will be sent free on request.
Arrowfield Nurseries Box N Petersburg, Virginia
5,000
Stuart Pecan Trees
6 to 9 Feet Tall Get Our Special Prices
We also have other varieties and prices.
Let us know you r wa n ts.
The Paper Shell Pecan Nursery, Ltd.
W. M. Ellison, Mgr. LAFAYETTE, LA.
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Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders mow for Grafted Pecans
No Seedlings .Send foir Price L,ist
Chas„ E. Pabst
Proprietor
Ocean Springs, Miss.
farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to XV. XV. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent. Room 61 .‘f Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
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Books and Catalogs
Stark Brothers Wholesale Cata- log, including the Story of an Ap- ple. Louisiana, Mo.
Citrus Culture; second edition, eight pages. By Theo. Bechtel, Ocean Springs, Miss.
Pecan Literature; a four page leaflet list ing books and pamphlets, offered by The Nut Grower C'o., Wayeross, Ga., mailed on request.
Hooper Brothers and Thomas Company, West Chester, Pa., cata- log for 1915; 80 illustrated pages listing trees and ornamental shrub- bery.
How Love and Limestone Made Life Worth Living; by Joseph E. Wing. Reprinted from the Breed- ers Gazette. For distribution by the Live Oak Limestone Company, Jacksonville, Fla.
Charter and By-Laws of the Nat- ional Pecan Growers’ Exchange; a 16 page booklet giving the full text of the charter and the by-laws of this recently organized market- ing organization. Copies can be had on application to W. P. Bul- lard, Secretary, Albany, Ga,
Pfile’s Annual Catalog and Grow- ers’ Guide for Pure Bred Poultry; 48 page folder by Henry Pfile, Freeport, III., giving descriptions of leading breeds of fowls and prices on birds and eggs. Contains much information which orchard; ists can use to advantage.
Vertical Farming: by Prof. Gil- bert Ellis Bailey; a 72 page pam- phlet in which t he author argues that blasting the subsoil is but a logical extension of the theory of cultivation. This pamphlet is for free distribution by the Du Pont Powder Co., Wilmington, Del.
EC AN LITERATURE
The increasing demand for information regarding the pecan has been so great that we have compiled a list of publications on this topic, which we can furn- ish, postpaid, at the prices named:
1. The Cost of a Pecan Orchard ; by J. F. Wilson: a 12-page reprint of a paper read at the Cairo meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Asso- ciation in 190'.). Price 10c, 12 copies $1.00.
2. The Pecan and Its Culture ; by H. H. Hume; a standard work covering every aspect of the business; topics con- veniently arranged under different head- ings; 1(>0 pages; illustrated; cloth. Price $1.50.
3. 7 tie Use of Nuts; a book of nut recipes compiled by Mrs. Thomas A. Banning and her committee of ladies, under the auspices of the National Nut Growers’ Association; 116 recipes; 50 pages. Price 25c.
4. Proceedings of the 1904 conven- tion of the National Nut Growers’ As- sociation, held at St. Louis, Mo. A stenographic repo't containing a great variety of information. Illustrated with halftones of the original officers of the association. 124 pages. Price 25c.
5. Proceedings of the 1906 conven- tion, held at Scranton, Miss. A full and interesting report of a largely attended meeting at a historic pecan center. 124 pages. Price 25c.
6. Proceedings of the 1907 conven- tion, held at the Jamestown Exposition.
One of the most complete volumes of the kind ever published. 112 pages. Price 25c.
7. Proceedings of the 1909 conven- tion. held at Albany, Ga. All the for- mal papers and reports, with story of trip to the largest pecan orchards in the world. 68 pages. Price 25c.
8 Proceedings of the 1910 conven- tion, held at Montieello, Fla. Gives stenograpl lie report of discussions, with papers and reports of this intensely in- teresting and most important conven- tion. Contains Judge Whipple’s fa- mous paper, “Why Pecans?’’ and a care- fully prepared historical sketch of the association 115 pages. Price 25c.
9. Proceedings of the 1913 conven- tion, held at Houston, Tex. 90 pages. Price 50c.
10. Proceedings of the 1914 conven- tion. 82 pages of closely printed mat- ter, containing full stenographic report of the meeting. Price 50c.
11. The Nut Culturist ; by Andrew S. Fuller; a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut bearing trees and shrubs adapted to the climate of the United States, with names and description of edible or otherwise useful nuts known to commerce; 290 pages; il- lustrated; cloth. Price, $1.50.
Reprints of selected articles from The Nut-Grwer, having great educa- tional and advertising value, can be furnished in quantity. Write for titles and
prices.
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WAYCROSS, GA.
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He who knows not, and knows not he knows not. He is a fool — shun him.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not. He is simple — teach him.
He who knows, and knows not he knows. He is asleep — wake him.
He who knows, and knows he knows. He is wise — follow him.
Arabic Proverb.
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President : Pecan —
NONE BETTER.
Pecan Growing Made Easy
By planting trees clug with en- tire tap root and well develop- ed lateral roots. Few nurser- ies have such trees.
Made Profitable
By planting only genuine bud- ded or grafted trees of best quality and best producing var- ieties. Some of the biggest, thinnest shelled nuts don’t bear — beware of them.
Griffi rig's’ T rees are Models-- Root and Top
Our A’arieties are best. Gold Medal awarded our pecans at Jamestown Exposition. Hand- some pecan catalog free.
The Griffing Brothers Co.
NURSERYMEN
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Jacksonville, Florida
Pecans, Satsumas, Grape Fruit
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Mammoth White Cosmos. We have saved a very fine lot of seed from one of the choicest large-flowered strains of this plant and offer it at 15c per oz.. $1.50 per lb. If .you can use several pounds will make special quotations.
Choice Mixed Mammoth Cosmos. This is of same high quality as above and contains many shades of color. Same price as white.
Calabash or Pipe Gourd. We ha ve grown a tine lot of this seed and offer it at 10c per oz., 80c per lb.
Ricinus or Castor Bean. We have saved a fine lot of seed of many strains in both green and bronze foliage and from 5 to 15 feet in height. 1-4 lb., 15c, 1 lb., 50c.
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SOCIETIES
Georgia State Horticultur- al Society
The third summer meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society will be Held in Clarkes- ville, Ga., on the 18th and 19th of August. The program committee met recently in Atlanta and have gotten together a most excellent program for this meeting, and it is hoped that there will be a very large attendance. Every member of the Georgia State Horticultural Society should constitute himself a committee of one to see that somebody comes with him to the mountain regions for this meeting.
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Texas State Horticultural Society
The annual meeting of the Tex- as Horticultural Society will be held at College Station, August 2,
3 and 4. Following is a program of the meeting:
August 2nd. 2 p. m.
Invocation.
Welcome address — E. .1. Kyle, Dean of the School of Agriculture, College Station.
Response — M. Falkner, Waco.
Annual address — .1. H. Arbenz, President. Sari t a.
Report of Seeretary-Treasurei — G. H. Blackmon. Dallas.
Address — Dr. W. B. Bizzell. President A. M. College, College Station.
Organization — < ’larence < hisley, Director Extension Service, Col- lege Station.
How Texas is Handling the Cit- rus Cankei — Ed. L. Ayres, Chief. Division of Nursery Inspection. Houston.
Appointing special committees. August 3rd, 8 a. m.
Business.
Reports of Special Committees.
Reports of Standing Committees
Managing an Apple Orchard — ,L M. Higginbotham, Dublin. (Continued on page 93.)
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THE NUT-GROWER
VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., JULY 1915 NUMBER 7
ADVERTISING AS A FACTOR IN THE SUCCESS OF
THE PECAN INDUSTRY
By Jefferson Thomas
A Paper read at the Quincy meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Association
^ HE pecan growers of the United States are eon- 510 fronted with exactly the same problems which would face a manufacturer of a new line of goods who went ahead and built an enormous plant, em- ployed a large number of skilled workmen and pro- ceeded to make up a large supply of his goods with- out having taken any steps to develop demand for them or having made any arrangements for the supply of this demand.
It is unnecessary to say that before very long a manufacturer who had taken this course would find himself in financial difficulties. It is equally need- less to say to intelligent men like those who make up this organization that, unless the pecan industry of the country is placed upon a sound footing as re- gards its selling end, in the very early future thous- ands of orchard owners will find their investment an unsatisfactory one. to say the least.
Up to this time, there has been sufficient de- mand for really good pecans at reasonable prices to fairly well satisfy the comparatively limited number of growers whose groves are in full bearing. The time is rapidly coming when the increased produc- tion will seriously disturb existing conditions, how- ever, 1 believe that those of you who have looked in- to the matter w ill agree with me that upon the so- lution of the marketing problems now depends the future prosperity of the pecan industry.
Ninety per cent of the people of the United States have no real knowledge of pecans. I do not mean to say that only one person in ten knows what a pecan is, but I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons are altogether lacking in information as to the difference between the kind of pecans that you gentlemen are growing and the kind that they have been accustomed to buy at the corner giocery. My investigations show me that at least three fourths of the people of this country never ate a really good pecan and that they have only an indirect and not
always correct idea of the nut in its improved and modern form. Accordingly the general knowledge of pecans is ineffective as relates to any desire to use them.
The story of the pecan must be fully and prop- erly told to the American public before the owners of groves now in bearing or to come into bearing in the next few years can have any assurance that their investments will be permanently profitable ones. If this story is not told in an effective manner, our pecan groves will be just about as valuable property as the plant of the Postum Cereal Company would have been had Mr. Post built it and undertaken its operation without taking the people into his confi- dence as to the product and its usefulness. It is a time for plain speaking and I feel that it is impossi- ble to place too much emphasis upon the crisis which very shortly will confront pecan growers everywhere.
Most of you know of the success that has attend- ed the efforts of the citrus fruit growers of California who are associated in the California Fruit Growers Exchange in making known the name and fame of “Sunkist" oranges. Even more successful, though on a smaller scale, has been the educational cam- paign of the Florida Citrus Exchange in behalf of the superior oranges and grapefruit that are grown in our fair state. There have been other examples of successful effort along similar lines in the market- ing of fruits and farm products. The work of the Georgia Fruit Exchange, formed to handle the prob- lems of the peach growers of that state, is familiar to most of you.
There is some question in my mind as to wheth- er the same plan of co-operative organization can be applied to the pecan industry, however. The perish- able nature of citrus fruits, in itself is one of the factors which renders their marketing difficult and uncertain, makes a virtue of necessity in a way which I believe is the foundation of the success of
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the co-operative movements in this field. The less perishable nature of pecans, it seems to me, intro- duces a complication which may prove a serious handicap in an endeavor to get pecan f growers to- gether in a co-operative body.
In other words, the fact that orange and grape- fruit growers have gotten together in a co-operative way with even a fair degree of efficiency has been very largely due to the perishable nature of their products. Whim these are ripe and ready for mar- ket. they must be disposed of or prove a complete loss. It was the existence of this condition which gave the commission men their great hold on the citrus industry. It is the prevalence of a more in- telligent conception of the meaning of the condition that has made possible the present organization in the field of citrus merchandising. With a product that can be held for some time, with proper hand- ling. as is the case with pecans, this element of the situation becomes radically changed.
At any rate, an organization of the pecan grow- ers would have to be financed to advance money to its growers if not. indeed, to buy their crops out- right. it seems to me. Indeed, it would seem that the time is rapidly approaching when it will be necessary to the continued existence of the citrus growers' organizations for them to do something of t he kind. The problem of financing a co-operative movement to the extent that it can operate on these lines admittedly presents many complications of a puzzling nature. Not the least of these is the diffi- culty of getting efficient management in any organi- zation that is formed on co-operative lines when the handling of vast sums of money is necessary. The theory is a beautiful one, but in practice it often discloses weakness at essential points.
I am sometimes inclined to believe that the solution of the problem may take the form of a great business enterprise, possessing many of the elements of strength of the United Fruit Company but so controlled by proper legislation as to be restrained from practices that would be unfair to growers. Such a corporation, if properly planned, financed and man- aged, might buy the great bulk of the pecans grown in this section of the country at prices which would yield the growers a fair profit. It could then pro- ceed to grade and pack the nuts in centrally located warehouses, arranged for such storage as would be necessary to prevent glutting of the markets. The kind of enterprise which 1 have in mind would need to be financed to carry on an educational campaign adequate to the needs of the situation and of course would have its salaried representatives in every im- portant market in the country to see that as demand for good pecans was developed the trade was used for the supply of this demand.
The mention of the trade in the proceeding sen- tence was intentional. I do not believe that the
distribution of any food product in large volume ever can be arranged for in a practicable way that will eliminate the retail dealer. Some of our friends are of the opinion that mail order business In pecans as well as in citrus fruits, may b'e looked to offering a solution of the selling problem. I have been inti- mately associated with mail order merchandising for a quarter of a century and fully recognize its useful- ness in many fields. It does not have the funda- mental elements that make it susceptible of applica- tion to food products in their natural state on any large scale, however. The only reasons why people buy by mail are that they may secure goods at the lowest possible prices or that they may pay above the average figures for them. In the very nature of things, nuts and fruits cannot be sold by mail at as low a price as through the trade, owing to the higher costs of dist ribution and transportation on small lots to isolated buyers. The appeal of mail transactions must be confined to the class of people who want to pay more than their neighbors in order to get a specially fine grade of goods, therefore, and it is self evident that this class of people always will be a limited portion of the total population.
It is perfectly clear to me that there must be before very long adequate and agressive effort in the marketing end of the pecan industry. 1 am not fully convinced as to whether the right kind of education- al work can best be undertaken by a co-operative organization or a- privately owned corporation. Doubtless some of you do have well formulated ideas on the subject and it is my purpose in this brief pa- per to bring out discussion of this important point. With an adequately financed and properly organized propaganda for the pecan industry, backed by, scien- tific selling methods, the future of the industry can be made everything that any reasonable man has ever expected. Without such educational work and such selling effort, I greatly fear for the coming years of its history. Now is the time to get busy in the making of plans, not after the industry has gone on the rocks. 1 am not as familiar as I would like to be with the progress made by your organiza- tion along these lines, so I trust to leant something by coming to this meeting, however little I may have been able to prove helpful to the body. I do know that but for the financial disturbances growing- out of the foreign wars something would have been done ere this along purely commercial lines to ade- quately provide for the marketing needs of this in- dustry.
You will notice that while I was announced to talk on “Advertising as a Factor in the Success of the Pecan Industry," 1 have not up to this time used the word "advertising." This omission has been in- tentional, advertising in a modern sense is but a part of scientific merchandising. Without the right kind of selling organization, advertising cannot be of real
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efficiency. Wil li proper organization of the selling end, advert ising may be made a vital factor in any business. Il seems to me unwise at this time to dis- cuss in detail advertising plans and policies for the reason that so far as I know (here is as yet no organ- ization of pecan growers nor any private corporation engaged in (he marketing of pecans operating upon a sufficiently liberal scale to assure the success of an adequate and proper advertising campaign for the education of the people in relation to pecans and their usefulness. No plan for selling pecans will be a success that does not include provision for intelli-
gent and liberal advertising. On the other hand, to attempt the advertising of the pecan without the right plan for distribution and selling will be to in- vite failure. My concluding word is to recommend for your careful consideration the famous adage at- tributed to one of our early Southern public men, “Be sure you’re right; then go ahead."' You can count on whatever knowledge and resources that are at my command in any efforts you may make, and I can assure you that the advertising fraternity will gladly extend any help in its power to make your endeavors productive of the deserved result.
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THE PECAN OUTLOOK
By B. W. Stone
Address of President at the Quincy meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Association
E now assemble the 9th annual session of the M < ieorgia Florida Pecan Growers Association, and with pride we note the great progress this Associa- tion has made. Nine years ago a handful of people met in Thomasville, and feeling the need of a social as well as a business relation, suggested the organiza- tion of this present body. Since that time it has had its ups and downs, but has been supported by ardent pecan men. and we are to-day ready to say. “Well done, faithful fellows.” To-day's success of the Asso- ciation is the result of their labors. We meet here to discuss the live subjects of to day.
Geographically, we are in the southeast corner of the United States, but from the paper shell pecan standpoint, Georgia and Florida furnish four-fifths of the total acreage planted to improved pecans. As you see. the busy men of these territories are assem- bling here to-day to discuss the paramount subjects. This is really nothing more than a busy man’s con- ference.
We do not cover the world in subjects, but we do cover the subjects with all the available informa- tion in the world. That is what makes our meetings so very interesting.
To state briefly the object of the Association. I would say it is for a gathering of men of like minds and like interests to learn to correct evils and errors and to make progress in pecan growing as rapidly as possible. By our assembling together and exchang- ing ideas and giving our fellow growers the benefit of our pract ical experiences, we are enabled to ac- complish in three years what it otherwise would re- quire over ten years to do.
We have all been a committee to learn how to grow pecans unt il we are now producing the goods, but most probably we will learn more in the next few years than we have learned in the whole of the past.
It is gratifying to this Association to note that the United States still imports over $12,000,00 worth of nuts annually and produces at home only about 1-4 of what she uses. It is still more gratifying to note that the American people are learning the uses of nuts and demand them faster than the pecan growers are producing them.
N We note that the United States promises to pro- duce the largest crop of pecans this year that it has ever grown, but with co-operation and systematic handling, the crop will be sold to advantage.
A few years ago 2000 pars of Georgia peaches glutted the markets of the country. There are now handled (iOOO to 7000 cars at a profit. May I add that it is gratifying to note that the severe ravages of the case bearer and the bud moth in many orch- ards serve as a net to- catch and to keep out of the pecan orchards all of the timid fellows!
For the benefit of the members of this Associa- tion. it would not be out of order to review what has been done by our general government. It has fur- nished bulletins and leaflets giving to the public valuable information on the pecan industry. There is not one here who has not relied upon the govern- ment's report many times for advice on soils, cli- mates. and especially varieties of nuts. Is would be hard, indeed, to estimate the value the government has been to us in giving dignity, stability and au- thenticity to the business. When we consider the different sections that are interested in this business and the different people that are personally interest- ed in the affairs of pecan growing, and the confusion produced by varieties, we can readily appreciate the efficient and systematic work rendered us by the government.
We have further been fortunate in having one designated as a specialist to study pecan culture all (Continued on page 90.)
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What One Pecan Tree Has Done
While at the Quincy meeting of the Georgia- Florida Pecan Gi'OwTers Association we were shown a tree wrliich produced 9(15 pounds of pecans in 1914. This tree stands on a city lot owned by C. B. Shaw, wdiere W. L. MacGowan resides. It bears a fairly good nut. and w hile we do not know how much rent is paid for the handsome cottage on the property, Mr. MacGowan acknow ledges that the proceeds from this tree were sufficient to take care of it.
The nut from winch this tree was grown was planted in 1880. The spot was where a woodpile was formerly located and was near ahorse lot as well. The tree now has a diameter of about 30 inches, an estimated height- of 75 feet and a spread of branches of fully 80 feet.
The Pecan Outlook
(Continued from page 89.)
over the United States, and this one, Mr. C. A. Reed, has from time to time traveled the United States and visited every place where pecans demanded at- tention, and has conscientiously rendered a report that inspires every one with confidence.
I would like to impress upon the minds of all present the benefit that can be obtained from the government and use this department in every way possible. Let everyone ask for a soil survey of his own county and learn as early as possible the best adapted soils for pecans.
As to what t he government could do for us, I suggest that above all things, we need something like a 15 or 20 year experiment on the subject of fertiliz- ing pecans so that we. as aggressive, practical, and scientific growers can be guided in dealing to the pe- can a balanced ration of fertilizer just as every ex- periment station of the many states has so carefully compiled bulletins on the balanced ration for live stock. We also urge a continuation of their present work of giving scientific information to the business with their authentic reports. We also need a thor- ough study of the varieties and work of cross-polleni- zation.
As to the future work of this Association, I would not care to interfere with the different mem- bers who are on the program, but would like to call your attention to the fact that while this is the most up-to-date and progressive body of pecan men that can be assembled in the United States, there is no one here who knows the possibilities of one acre of paper shell pecans. We do not know the best com- bination of all crops with pecans. I have just gath- ered 15 tons of alfalfa hay off of 13 acres of a pecan grove which is just beginning to bear, but do not know that alfalfa should be grown in a pecan grove.
The industry demands attention from alert and scientific growers, and offers in return bountiful com- pensation as a reward.
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Fertilizers or fertilizing materials, that is chemi- cals containing potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen, are applied either broadcast to be harrowed or plow- ed under or as top dressing or in the hill or with the drill. Each method has its preference in certain cases. Broadcast in g of fertilizers is best where ex- tensive culture is practiced and large quantities of fertilizers are used. ■ Applying in the row with the drill has been found more effective in ease only mod- erate quantities of fertilizers are given. Top-dressing is practiced usually only in case of fertilizers contain- ing nitrogen, such as nitrate of soda, because these nitrogen materials quickly wash in the soil through the rains. Appling in the hill is the least effective in yields although striking in forcing early growth.
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I have quite a number of trees that were budded on two year roots in April that have as high as five little pecans per tree. These buds, you see, have only been put in 60 days. Do you hear of many trees that bear the first year bud- ded? Will appreciate a reply.
I have about 75,000 little pecan trees growing, so you see I am a pecan believer and cannot get along without your paper.
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[When buds are taken from bearing trees it is no unusual thing for the buds to bear a few nuts the first year. — Editor.]
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Editor Nut Grower:
This rather late to say anything of occurences of last spring, but I have been in no mood for writing, having been in bad health for some time.
The blooming period with the pecan this spring was the shortest in duration 1 have ever experienc- ed; about three weeks and all was over. This is the first season since 1903 that 1 have done no cross- breeding. Falling from a ladder at the beginning of the blooming period, I was unable to mount a ladder for some time, and in the meantime the blooming period was over.
After waiting five years for pis- tillate bloom on a McAllister pe- can tree, which after waiting this length of time presented itself this season. I was unable to get it into the tree at the right time to do any hybridizing. This was one of the sorriest disappointments.
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Albany, 1909-1915
The coming of the National Nut Growers Convention to Albany, Ga,, late in October this year af- fords a great opportunity for im- pressing the business world with the importance of the pecan in general as well as for demonstrat- ing. the commanding position held by tjie Albany District in this modern and crowning horticultur- al era. It was in Albany fourteen years ago that the initial move was made which culminated in the formation of this national body.
Six years ago, in 1909, after an- nual and remarkably successful conventions had been held in sev- en different states, a wonderful gathering was held in Albany and a special train used in carrying the visitors who came from fifteen diffent states, from orchard to or- chard and which proved to be one of the greatest demonstrations of horticultural science ever attempt- ed in this country.
That convention and the tour through thousands of acres of pe- can orchards which had magically sprung into existence since that initial Albany meeting only eight years before, may well be regarded as a propitious seed time, while the coming convention may fitt- ingly anticipated as the harvest. Again a tour will be made through the now bearing orchards, at a time when the golden harvest of brown beauties is in active opera- tion, when the various processes of gathering, drying, grading and loading the rich product in solid car loads can be witnessed. This year, however, a hand red or more
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automobile will take the place of the railroad train and the vehicles of every descript ion used in 1D09. An entire day will be given to the excursion over a sixty mile course, with frequent stops for refresh- ments and inspection. The great- er part of this lour will be along the driveways of thousands of acres of solid pecan orchards and through scenes of surpassing in- terest and beauty which at pres- ent have no counterpart in the' world.
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were supplemental to the publish- ed program, were heard. One of them was by H. C. White of Put- ney, Ga., on the subject of grading pecans. Many interesting features of this topic were discussed and illustrated by jars of graded nuts. The grading was done with the machine designed by the Depart ment of Agriculture in conjunction with several growers. The differ- ent sizes of nuts are separated by wire mesh guaged to a sixteenth ol an inch difference in the diam- eter of the nuts. The name of the variety needs to be used in con nection with the sizes in order to give a correct understanding of results. Mr. White has promised a synopsis of his talk for publica- tion.
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The severe frost in western New York on May 27 was very destruc- tive to the fruit interests in that state. It is claimed that the only fruit that escaped is the English walnut.
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Commercial Truck Growing — A. R. Sprague* San Benito.
The Nurseryman as a Factor in the Betterment of Rural Condi- tions— J. R. Mayhew, Waxahaehie.
August 3rd. 2 p. m.
Packing, Handling and Market- ing— B. A. Baldwin, Houston.
Address — Dr. Bradford Knapp, Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington. D. C.
Why 1 Quit Banking for Pecan Growing — A. C. Easley, Waco.
Bulb Growing in the Rio Grande Valley — Eltwood Pomeroy, Donna.
Election of Officers.
Adjournment.
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Budding the Pecan on Hickory in East Texas
By Arthur L. Norman
My experience in this somewhat new field dates back to 1908, at which time I secured pecan buds of the named varieties from Prof. W. S. Hotchkiss, Directoi of the East Texas Experiment Station, also some encouragement.
The varieties used were Frots- cher, Sweetmeat and San Saba, with about the same results with all, some of them died but several lived.
The methods used were ring, chip and ordinary patch buds, I now use most exclusively what Judge Chas. L. Edwards terms a “modified patch bud.” Much of my success I attribute to his tea- chings both oral and written, for which, credit due, is hereby given.
In this immediate section the pecan is not a natural growth.
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though it is, East, South, West and North, at a distance of less than a hundred miles in either direction, however it does well wherever planted or worked on hickory either, the latter method 1 much prefer as it makes a con- genial stock and comes into bear- ing much earlier.
Dr. Collins of Jacksonville who has a grove of 40 acres, most all on pecan stock, says that he great- ly prefers hickory to pecan as a stock for pecan. He has a hickory budded with one Stuart bud in 1908, in 1912 it bore a crop of 5 pounds of choice Stuart nuts. Pretty large returns on a small in- vestment wasn't it? And in only four years at that.
There is nothing like the inter- est taken in pecan culture here, that it, in my humble opinion de- serves. I think with the thous- ands of acres of both upland and bottom hickory awaiting the man with a little money, and a vision that sees a little further than to- morrow, that the day will soon come when this sadly neglected industry will take the place it is entitled to.
Top-working is no longer a dream or any untried theory, as the bear- ing trees of myself and others abundantly prove.
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The Quincy Convention
The Quincy convention furnish- ed more copy for The Nut-Grower than space in June issue would accommodate. This supplemental convention story is simply a eon- tin nation of the previous article.
Judge White, a prominent and esteemed citizen of Quincy was a regular attendant at nearly all the sessions and took a lively interest in the proceedings. In view of his ninety five years of youthful activities he was elected an honor- ary member of the Association. Messrs White. Shaw and Small were appointed to notify him of h is election.
On the request of the meeting, H. C. White gave a demonstration
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of results obtained from the use of a machine for grading- pecans. He h as promised to write for our columns a synopsis of bis work in this particular.
Last month we told only part of the story of tobacco which was given us by an experienced and ex- tensive operator as we passed farm after farm where it is grown with all the skill and enterprise that ample capital can command. We made a rapid mental calculation as to what the same capital, skill and energy would accomplish when properly applied to pecans. Approximately the cost of making a tobacco crop on ten acres would, if properly handled, plant and bring into bearing an equal area in choice pecans. This would in ten years mean an even hundred acres of orchard with an average valuation of live hundred dollars per acre, or $50,000 worth of prop- erty, paying annually as good a dividend as the occasional tobacco crops yield. From this stage of orchard development the profits increase and continue indefinitely, while every year the planting of the tobacco with its certain cost and problematical profit has to be repeated.
However we were on the outlook for pecans and the objective point on the western leg of our route was the home of Mr. FI. B. Hough, where a promising young orchard has been started and several hun- dred acres of suitable land is avail- able for its enlargment, Mr.Hough is a genial gentleman in the prime of life, a turpentine operator, great- ly in love with his beautiful home and his fruit and pecan orchards and farm operations. While he has been on the place four years it gives evidence of natural or ac- quired horticultural skill in the planting of shrubbery and flowers on the home grounds and care they receive. The hospitality of his interesting family was lavish- ed upon the callers and we regret- ted the necessity fora hurried de- parture.
Returning to Quincy the north
leg of the tour was begun. Here we found elegant roads, kept in fine condition. It was a- pleasing surprise to learn that Mr. J. H. Sylvester our seat companion who had so entertainingly described the tobacco interests was a mem- ber of the county board of com- missioners and that the road along which we were spinning at a rate somewhat over thirty miles an hour was under his particular care. Through the courtesy of his bro- ther. Mr. Robert Sylvester, who piloted our party, we took a spin of six miles outside of the prescrib- ed route and saw a small pecan orchard in which the trees were uniformly beautiful. This orchard home is owned by parties who live in one of the Georgia pecan cen- ters. It was said to be but three years old, which, if correct, indi- cates that it takes other Florida points five years to do as well as this place can do in three years.
Mr. Trump, of the local commit- tee of arrangements, did not relin- quish his job of doing things for the visitors until everyone was landed at the railway station most available for a quick trip to his destination. One group was taken a distance of twelve miles by auto- mobile to make an advantageous connection. Another party which included the writer and his fellow townsman, Dan Lott, were given a delightful moonlight ride of twenty four miles in order to reach a desired train.
But again our story encroaches on the allotted space, and several odds and ends must be omitted or woven into other columns.
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Opportunities in Pecan Culture
By Wm. P .Bullard.
Read at the Quincy Convention.
HEX the committee met to prepare a program for this meeting my friend, Mr. J. B. Wight, proposed the subject, “Ad- vantages and Disadvantages in Pe- can Culture." Upon my motion this subject was assigned to Mr.
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Nut Growers’ Organizations
The National Nut Growers’ Associa- tion, W. N. Hutf, President, Raleigh, N. C. ; J. B. Wight, Secretary. Cairo, Ga.
Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ As sociation, W. W. Bassett, Secietary, Monticello, Ela.
Northern Nut Growers' Association, W. C. Deming, Secretary, Georgetown, Conn.
Tiie Pecan Growers’ League, J. F. Wilson, General Manager, Wa> cross, Ga.
Albany District P°can Exchange, Wm. P. Bullard, President, Albany, Ga.
Southeastern Pecan Nurserymen’s Association, Wm. P. Bullard, Secretary, Albany, Ga.
The National Pecan Exchange, Chas. A Van 1 >uzee, President, Cairo, Ga.
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Wight but lie secured a saving’ clause to the effect that he might get a substitute. Immediately af- ter the committee meeting he wrote asking me to take the sub- ject, explaining that a possible en- gagement might prevent his early attendance at t h e meeting. I agreed to take the assignment off his hands but asked the privilege of changing' Hie title to the pres- ent one for the reason that, while lliey both mean practically the same thing yet “Opportunities in Pecan Culture" seemed to appeal to me more than the other title.
I once heard a sermon in which the minister commented on the re- luctance of some of his parishoners to undertake certain of the church’s activities, probably be- cause of diffidence in taking hold. And then he told the story of the young lady who fell sprawling on the icy sidewalk and while she lay helpless her rather bashful escort cried out, “O! Miss Blank; how I should like to help you out if I on- ly knew where to take hold.” And so I was willing to help Mr. Wight out if 1 could get a change of title that appealed a little more to my mentality and afforded a little bet- ter “take hold.” And what’s in a name any way; one writer will treat a subject in one way and another writer in an entirely different way.
Generally and broadly speaking there is no good thing that comes to mankind excepting through ef- fort intelligently, industriously and continuously applied. Occasionally one among the crowd here and there gets a “windfall,” but these are exceptions which are proverb- ially said to prove the rule. Pecan development is certainly not one of these exceptions referred to, at least not to the man behind the development. But it might indeed be a veritable “windfall” to the
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Announcement
T he 1915 convention of the National Nut Growers Association will be held at Albany, Georgia, the fourth week of October. It is proposed to make this gathering a top-notcher in the annals of the industry.
In connection with the local committee of arrangements The Nut-Grow- er will feature the convention in various attractive ways in the August, Septem- ber and October numbers, while the three following issues will be devoted large- ly to the reporting of the convention and as far as practicable there will be printed in its columns the leading and most important convention papers. These feature issues are designed with a view to giving such wide and favorable publicity to the convention and to the pecan in general that a largely increased attendance at the convention can confidently be expected. Additional pages will be included in these numbers,, while the number of additional copies distributed will be as large as the advertising patronage will permit.
Notwithstanding the special value of these numbers for advertising we will make no additional charge for space w hen as many as three successive numbers are used. Where a single insertion is desired in the Convention Number (October) the rate will be 50 per cent in addition to our regular charges.
Owing to the favorable conditions which the coming convention and the official organ of the association will combine, together with the wide distribution of extra copies in the publicity campaign directed bv the local committee, we need only to suggest that the measure of patronage for these special numbers will de- termine largely the extent of the publicity operations planned for making the con- vention the greatest in attendance and interest yet held, which is the aim of the officers of the association, in common with the growers of the Albany section of the pecan territory.
Kindly give this opportunity for you to profit by the plans here outlined — which at the same time gives merited support to the industry, the association and The Nut-Grower — careful consideration and advise us promptly as to amount of space and number of issues you will use.
THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY
WAYCROSS, GA.
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ALL ABOUT KUDZU
A 3~Ton Cutting of Kudzu at Glen Arden Farm, Showing both the Cut and Standing Hay
Most wonderful growth. The coming forage crop of the South. Better than alfalfa, red clover or timothy. Better because it succeeds on land too poor for those crops. Berti-r because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to sive it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruin the hay. Better, because stock like it better and it contains more protein than wheat bran — from l(i. 59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants Kudzu has great possibilities as a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further informa- tion and prices write,
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heir at law. A bearing pecan or- chard has been frequently referred to as the prince of insurance poli- cies. Nothing can excel it:
“A heritage it seems to me
A king might wish to hold in fee.”
But to the man behind that or- chard from its inception to matur- ity it has no resemblance what- ever to a sinecure. To him there are times that are remindful of the “rocky road t o Dublin” — times when the halo and glamour of the thing is swallowed up in the fatigue of discouragement that now and then always attends efficient effort. For him there are the seven or eight years of watchful toil before fi- nancial returns of any consequence come in. And for him there is the expense attending the best pecan development; and the disease and insect enemies (not many in com- parison with other good lines of horticulture) that he perchance may have to meet and overcome- and the problems of varietal adapt ion to this or that locality; and the between-the-row farming prob- lems with its just correlation to both immediate cash returns and the ultimate orchard good; and the great problems of grading and standardizing and marketing which are now beginning to be worked out by the newly organized Nation- al Pecan Growers’ Exchange — all these and perhaps more are the lot of the planter and true develop- er that might well give pause to the indolent, the irresolute and the impatient. But O! what a final consummation to the resolute, the industrious, the MASTER.
But every line of human endeav- or has its problems — the miner at his shaft; the artizan at his bench; the clerk at his counter; the manu- facturer in his shop; the merchant at bis desk; the banker in his counting house — all these have to be ‘overcome. And all these things that have to he overcome may be classed as disadvantages in every line of work, and not more so in pecans than in others — in fact few- er in pecans than in any other good thing I know-.
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It is authoritively estimated that over 90 per cent of business men fail, and that not over 10 per cent of the successful make not- able successes; but given the nec- essary factors of right location, right trees as to both variety and quality; right, care and attention; and ample capital for unstinted development; and last but by no means least — the right man behind the development, then I do not see why there should be a failure in the pecan business. But there will be some failures in more or less de- gree because there will be men who will get into it who are not master workmen, who could not be efficient in anything. This is inevitable in every kind of indus- try. But given all the said neces- sary factors then the trees will grow and they will bear bountiful crops of the most delicious nuts on earth and they will do this years upon years; and there are millions upon millions of probable buyers in the world who have never yet even heard of our large sized thin shelled nuts.
The nuts will go to the market in probably two grades or sizes and the remainder through the crack- eries as shelled kernels. In this connection it might be of interest to state that recently one corpora- tion manufacturing food products placed one order for shelled pecan meats amounting to 2 20,000 pounds; and this special line of marketing has probably only just begun to be developed. The oil content of pecans is high, and this suggests another future profitable industry.
When our domestic markets are supplied then we will build up large foreign trade. Instead of hav- ing our product swamped by out- side importations we will export and supply those same foreigners who ship in here and swamp the product of our brothers in other lines. Think it over. And then the inefficient pecan grower may not come up to expectations as to tonnage production. And many lo- calities less favored by natural se-
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lect ion may not come up to t heir ex- pectation. Over production? No; that is a bogey man. Do not let it disturb you.
One of the most significant things to me in the pecan industry is the confidence of the older men in the business. Charles M. Barn- well who three years aga sold his large pecan orchard near Albany for $200,000, is now making the beginning of another 300 or 400 acre orchard there. Although well along in years he could not with- stand the lure of the pecan tree.
I saw the 150 acre orchard of Mr. C. R. Shaw here (Quincy) this morning. Some of it is bearing. It is not for sale. Mr. Shaw is large tobacco grower and is a trader on considerable scale; everything else be owns can be bought excepting this pecan orchard and when it comes to that he is a “tight wad” He said this morning, “This is the way I figui'e it. This pecan or- chard will grow into large value. I think a lot of it. I have four children and I know of nothing I can better keep for them. No man’s money can buy that orch- ard.”
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting in S o u t h Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bltlg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
EC AN LITERATURE
The increasing demand for information regarding the pecan has been so great that we have compiled a list of publications on this topic, which we can furn- ish, postpaid, at the prices named:
1. The Cost of a Pecan Orchard : by J. F. Wilson: a 12-page reprint of a paper read at the Cairo meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Asso- ciation in 1909. Price 10c, 12 copies $1.00.
2. The Pecan and Its Culture', by H, H. Hume; a standard work covering every aspect of the business; topics con- veniently arranged under different head- ings; 160 pages; illustrated ; cloth. Price $1.50.
3. The Use of Nuts; a book of nut recipes compiled by Mrs. Thomas A. Banning and her committee of ladies, under the auspices of the National Nut Growers’ Association; 116 recipes; 50 pages. Price 25c.
4. Proceedings of the 1904 conven- tion of the National Nut Growers’ As- sociation, held at St. Louis, Mo. A stenographic report containing a great variety of information. Illustrated with halftones of the original officers of the association. 124 pages. Price 25c.
5. Proceedings of the 1906 conven- tion, held at Scranton, Miss. A full and interesting report of a largely attended meeting at a historic pecan center. 124 pages. Price 25c.
6. Proceedings of the 1907 conven- tion, held at the Jamestown Exposition.
One of the most complete volumes of the kind ever published. 112 pages. Price 25c.
7. Proceedings of the 1909 conven- tion. held at Albany, Ga. All the for- mal papers and reports, with story of trip to the largest pecan orchards in the world. 68 pages. Price 25c.
8. Proceedings of the 1910 conven- tion, held at Monticello, Fla. Gives stenographic report of discussions, with papers and reports of this intensely in- teresting and most important conven- tion. Contains Judge Whipple’s fa- mous paper. “Why Pecans?” and a care- fully prepared historical sketcli of the association. 115 pages. Price 25c.
9. Proceedings of the 1913 conven- tion, held at Houston, Tex. 90 pages. Price 50c.
10. Proceedings of the 1914 conven- tion. 82 pages of closely printed mat- ter, containing full stenographic report of the meeting. Price 50c.
11. The Nut Culturist; by Andrew S. Fuller; a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut bearing trees and shrubs adapted to the climate of the United States, with names and description of edible or otherwise useful nuts known to commerce; 290 pages; il- lustrated; cloth. Price, $1.50.
Reprints of selected articles from The Nut-Grower, having great educa- tional and advertising value, can be furnished in quantity. Write for titles and
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We have them in great quanti- ty as v eil as quality. Our stock is especially strong and well- rooted. We have also best budding wood.
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Cairo, Ga.
SOCIETIES
The National Nut Grow- ers Convention
The fourteenth annual conven- tion of the National Nut Growers Association will be held at Albany Ga., October 27, 28, 29, 1915.
With the wonderful expansion and widely increasing interest in nut growing, these annual meet- ings are coming more and more to' be important factors in its devel- opment. From all over the pecan belt there annually gather those who are best versed in the ques- tions pertaining to successful nut production. They come to give information to others, and to learn from others the latest teachings of the orchard and the laboratory.
Albany is of all places the ideal one for a nut growers meeting, there being more pecan trees plant- ed within a given radius about Al- bany than with any other equal area in the world. Opportunity will be afforded to see thousands of acres of these groves, and learn the condition under which success is being achieved.
The people of Albany are already looking forward with great inter- est to the coming of the nut grow- ers. and they are planning to make their stay a pleasant as w ell as a profitable one. One day of the convention will be given to an automobile excursion to the var- ious pecan plantations in the Al- bany, Putney, DeWitt and Bacon- ton sections. At noon of this day the visiting nut growers are to be the guests at a barbecue luncheon complimentary to the Association by the Albany-Georgia Pecan Co., and the South Georgia Pecan Go., of Putney. At Putney opportun- ity will be given to see a practical demonstration of the cleaning, grading and drying of pecans.
A most interesting and profit- able program is already assured. Many questions vital to the indus- try will be fully discussed. No one who is directly or prospectively (Continued on page 114.)
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., AUGUST 1915 NUMBER 8
THE PECAN MARKET OF THE FUTURE
By Chas. A. Van Duzee
A Paper read at the Quincy meeting of the Georgia-Horida Pecan Growers’ Association
^ HAT will the market of the future be for our pecans? This is probably the most vital ques- tion that we have to consider, and its solution, in a satisfactory way, depends entirely upon ourselves.
If we permit ourselves to enter into relations with the consuming public, upon any basis other than that of an intelligent, agressive and honorable effort to give value received, and to so conduct our business that our dealings may be along lines satis- factory to all, our efforts will fail, in just that degree that we fall short of meeting these obligations.
There is no royal road to wealth, no short cut to prosperity, and no method of evasion of our res- ponsibilities. Our success will rest upon the accom- plishment of a service which shall afford consumers as well as producers, attractive and satisfactory re- sults.
We are now considering how best to meet the exacting conditions of this problem, and the accept- ance of a charter from the state of Georgia, at Al- bany. on the fifteenth day of April, and the selection of a board of directors, for the management of the National Pecan Growers Exchange, has placed at the disposal of the pecan growers, an instrument which can be made capable of accomplishing much for the good of our industry, if it is properly handled, and which can as easily work that industry a very ma- terial injury, if its efforts are mis directed.
The measure of success which may be accom- plished by this selling exchange, will rest upon the support given by the producers, and upon the wis- dom and efficiency of its officers. No amount of sup- port can accomplish the best results without efficiency upon the part of the management of the exchange, and no amount of efficiency upon their part can avail in the absence of a hearty, loyal and sustained sup- port upon the part of the growers.
There will be misunderstandings, short comings and disappointments, and it will require the most heroic forbearance, the exhibition of a large measure of patience, and the fullest co-operation upon the part of the growers, if this instrument shall be made to best serve its purpose.
At the beginning, the exchange has had its teeth drawn and its hands tied, so far as wisdom could
dictate, by being formed upon a non-profit basis. Its energy and efficiency can only be directed to serve all of its members, and can not be utilized for the benefit of any favored few. What good is accom- plished through its existence must be for the indus- try as a whole, and its failure must, with equal truth, fall upon all nut growers.
I do not consider this the proper place to dis- cuss the details of the plan for conducting the affairs of the exchange, but many of the problems that will confront the first executive board are the same that will influence the future market of the pecan, and they are the most important problems that confront the grower at this time.
In the first place, we must classify our product, in its relationship to other commodities, as this fac- tor will determine, in a general way, the methods to be pursued in marketing it.
1 am of the opinion that the large tonnage which will be produced within a few years, will place this nut in the class with general food products, and that this thought should receive careful consideration in our plans for building our organization.
All food commodities eventually find their level in the markets of the world. In the beginning their value is based upon an artificial standard, which is governed by its sale, to a selected class of people at a fancy price, regardless of its actual value, but as production increases, this method proves inadequate, and the law of supply and demand begins to have its influence.
When the supply approaches the point where it is impossible to obtain fictitious prices, the final bas- is of market values, is governed by the actual value of the product as a food. The limited demand for the finest nuts for special purposes will continue, but the great bulk of our product will not come under that head, and we must prepare today, to accept its proper classification, and build the machinery for marketing it along proper lines.
The great factors of distribution and transpor- tation, are well established, and it would seem un- wise for us to attempt to revolutionize them. If we accept that, it then leaves us only the problem of
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bringing our operations into harmony with these in stitutions.
It is a generally accepted fact, that much of the difficulty of establishing a new product in the chan- nels of trade, comes from a lack of standardization as to grades, quality and packing.
In our fields, we find our efforts, from the be- ginning, will be hampered by the large list of varie- ties that have been planted in commercial orchards, the difference in size of nuts from the same tree, and also the difference in size of standard varieties grown in different loaalities, and the influence of the sea- sons and the fertility of the root pasture in different years, upon the quality of the nuts.
If we are to maintain satisfactory relations with the agents who must distribute our product, it is necessary that we overcome this seemingly difficult situation, for a standard of quality and size must be adopted, and our methods of packing and labeling must conform to some definite plan which may be agreed upon.
The next large problem which must be consider- ed, is the manner in which the nut crops from the smaller orchards shall be placed upon the market. Any plan which does not provide for careful grading as to size and quality, will interfere seriously with ou r success.
When a definite system of grading has been adopted, and a standard package agreed upon, it be- comes necessary that a rigid inspection be maintain- ed, in which the producer shall have no voice, and a brand be provided, under which such packages may marketed.
A package sold under the brand of the exchange will be accepted, if it fills the specifications, and will be paid for, but if it falls short of these specifica- tions, it will not be paid for until the exchange has adjusted the basis of settlement. In addition to this there may enter an element of distrust, a lack of confidence and a feeling of dissatisfaction, which may predjudice the people of the market against our pro- duct, and thus militate against the success of our efforts. Such a feeling is now prevalent, and has arisen from numerous attempts upon the part of some of the growers to put something over on these people.
These people would welcome the opportunity to deal with a responsible organization, and until such an organization can be established, and demonstrate its efficiency, we shall see the people of the market meeting our advances with a large amount of indif- ference.
One of the most serious obstacles in tne way of establishing our relations with the market, lies in the expense of placing such an organization upon an efficient working basis. Once that point has been reached, the revenue from the volume of business transacted, will be amply sufficient.
In the business world, the term SERVICE has come to represent a very important factor. The per- fection of a service giving organization, requires the combining of wisely directed energy, with sustained effort, and the elements of such a combination costs money, especially during the formative period.
For the immediate moment, we may cover the expense of building a selling organization by paying our bills with patriotism, self sacrifice and enthusi- asm, but the cold atmosphere of the business world will quickly destroy the efficiency of a machine builded upon such a foundation, or carried forward by such energy.
Eventually, the growers of pecan nuts must market their nuts under a system, and by means of a machine, that is built of the same material, and up- on 1 he same lines, as those which have proven suc- cessful in the marketing of coal, iron, tobacco or gasoline, and until we succeed in building an organi- zation, along these lines, that will endure the acid test of the business world, in its operations, we will suffer the just penalty attached to inefficiency.
Perhaps some of you may be wondering where this discussion is leading to, and so, I will here give you the answer to the whole question, in a very fewr words. The future market for pecans, will be just what we, as producers, make it.
Let us reason together, just a little further, up- on the methods we must use, in working out our problem.
If you wished to teach a child how to ride horse back, you would first select a safe, reliable horse, and you would then help the child to mount upon its back. A little later you would equip the horse with a saddle and bridle, and you would give the child the opportunity to become a proficient rider, by giving him daily practice in the actual work. No amount of theorizing, or of explanation can avail, un- less we give the child the horse and the opportunity.
If we accept the truth, that a selling exchange is the logical way to accomplish our salvation, it then becomes our plain duty to place that exchange in the saddle, and to patiently assist it to become proficient.
Laying aside all consideration of the merits of the present situation in Europe, we may state, that in the successful building of markets and marketing systems, the hats of the world are off to the German nation, and a brief discussion of their methods may serve to help us with our problems.
No pains have been spared by these people, in their efforts to build markets for their products. They have patiently gone out into the distant places, have paved the way to success by a careful study of conditions, needs and desires among their prospec- tive customers, and have spent money, time and effort freely, to lay a broad and deep foundation, to the end. that they might bring their products to the
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markets of the world, in an acceptable form and a satisfactory way. We must do our work along simi- lar lines.
The consuming public must be interested in our product, and must be brought to know its merit. We must advertise.
The brokers and jobbers must be brought to know, not only our product, but to recognize our responsibility and our reliability, and we must meet their wishes as to the manner in which we grade and pack our goods.
It is largely up to us to create the demand, for these people ol' the market are busy handling other nuts, and other products that have become in de- mand. and they will not devote any large amount of time or thought to our business.
We must devise and adopt a t^aide nomenclature and must have brands which guarantee our packages, and must stand squarely behind every statement we make, and live promptly up to every obligation.
Upon the other hand, we are confronted by many problems in the producing end of our business. We must devise and perfect grading machinery to meet our needs, must organize local warehouses or sub-exchanges to handle the nut crops at the logical centers of production, and must train men to grade, pack and ship the nuts to the markets. We must provide a system of inspection, methods for curing the nuts before shipments, and a system of account- ing. We must agree upon and determine what nuts shall be marketed as table nuts and what shall be sent to the cracker, or otherwise disposed of.
There is work ahead, and our pathway traverses a difficult and broken country, and there are pitfalls and dangers to be avoided and overcome.
Is there a man among you who feels that this problem will solve itself without effort, or that we can avoid years of low prices and unsatisfactory con- ditions unless we go out to meet these things and conquer them? I think not, and I will leave the subject with a repetition of the answer given before, that the future market of the pecan, is to be what we, as growers, make it.
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THE NATIONAL PECAN GROWERS EXCHANGE
By Wm. P. Bullard.
1915) of the work of the National Pecan Growers Exchange, sometimes referred to as the selling or- ganization of the pecan industry.
The question of the first importance appeared to our Board of Directors to be that of grading and thus standardizing our pecan nuts. It is well known that there are size variations in nuts of the same variety, not only^in different localities but in the
^ AM directed to give to the pecan growers of the ^ U nited Slates an outline to date (July 27,
same locality, and, in fact, on the same tree. And there are more or less variations from year to year, depending upon moisture supply, care of trees, etc. Our product has come to be of sufficient commercial importance to require separation into different size grades, just as other products are classified. When a cotton buyer wants cotton of middling or good mid- dling grade he is able to get just what he wants and pays accordingly. So the buyer of pecans should be able to call for a No. 1 or No. 2 grade of any variety and have the assurance that he is going to get just what he wants and not have to be content with the “tree run” as is now so often the case. Ere long the grower with ungraded nuts will find it difficult to sell them at top prices in the general market.
The question of grades being basic, as we thought, it was given first attention. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors immediately following the or- ganization meeting of the Exchange, this question was taken up and ploced in the hands of a committee composed of some of the most experienced men in the business, with Herbert C. White as chairman. A prominent member of this committee w'as Mr. C. A. Reed of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. Mr. Reed has spent some years in the study of pecan nuts and in the course of this work has each year experimentally graded many of the leading varieties and from differ- ent sections of the pecan belt; and he has done this work on probably a broader scale than any grower in his individual capacity has been able to do. With such valuable data before them, in addition to simi- lar data of the individual grower members of the committee, it was possible to arrive at what appear- ed to be the proper size or grade classification of sev-
eral varieties. This committee made its report at a special called meeting of the Board of Directors, held in Albany on the 27th hist,, (July 1915), and after careful deliberations the following grades were es- tablished:
No. 1 No. 2
Alley, 13-16 and over. Curtis, 11-16 and over. Delmas, 13-16 and over. Frotscher, 13-16 and over, Moneymkr 13-16 and over. Pabst. 12-16 and over. Schley, 12-16 and over. Stuart, 13-16 and over. YanDeman 12-16 and over.
11-16 and 12-16.
9-16 and 10-16. 11-16 and 12-16. 11-16 and 12-16. 11-16 and 12-16. 10-16 and 11-16.
10- 16 and 11-16.
11- 16 and 12-16. 10-16 and 11-16.
In explanation of the foregoing figures will say that no Alley nut, for instance, can go into No. 1 grade if it is small enough to pass through a mesh opening that is smaller than 13-16 of an inch; there- fore an Alley nut that will go through an opening 12-16 of an inch must go in grade No. 2. And an Al- ley nut small enough to pass through an opening (Continued on page 108.)
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It is gratifying to see how the wideawake trade advertisers take advantage of the facilities we afford them. It is this spirit of patronage and co-operation that builds the industry, which in time builds trade for those who let the convention interest know what they have to offer, and The Nut-Grower is certain- ly the best and most convenient medium for securing this desirable publicity.
Last year, in spite of the depressing business conditions caused by the European war, we had a splendid patronage for our special convention num- ber. This year our offer of service is still more at- tractive, as we make no additional charge for space when as many as three insertions are ordered. Our circular letter, which also appeared in the July num- ber, is bringing favorable replies, but time passes so rapidly that many will fail to get their copy in in time for obtaining the best results unless we regular- ly remind them that the September, October and November issues are the most opportune numbers.
We urge that every one having special offers to
make should “get there'" through the columns of The Nut-Grower.
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In certain sections of the pecan belt, consider- able attention is being given to livestock in connect- tion with orchard movements. "Pigs and Pecans” have already figured in South Georgia, the combi- nation working to advantage when properly operated. It was several years after The Nut-Grower suggest- ed this combination before its adoption became gen- eral. “Kudzu and Cows” is a new suggestion which is being put into operation in several places. The reputation of any one who condemns new moves is not safe. Because cows cannot be tolerated in a young grove, it does not follow but that this difficul- ty can be overcome, by such simple means as a silo and soiling such leguminous crops as may be most available. And kudzu is putting up a strong claim to a leading place as a storage crop. The editor has a four acre patch of this plant started, and the way it is growing — well, we will wait until the season is over before we estimate how many cows we will need per acre to utilize the production. Our farmer on the Ellwood Orchard where the plants were set the past spring is from Missouri but he has already ac- knowledged the growing proclivities of the plant.
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A Kansas firm whose advertisement is found in this number has been investigating southeastern ter- ritory to find a locality suitable for growing sweet clover. After several years’ trial ideal conditions were found between Waycross and Jacksonville on sandy land shallow to water. Sweet clover is a wild plant and will not stand coddling. It is only neces- sary to sow the seed and let it alone. It makes fine hay or pasture and in this climate grows all winter.
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Some time ago a correspondent in Texas inquir- ed for particulars regarding a Georgia pecan orchard of twenty acres on which the owner secured a loan of $1,500 per acre. He wanted a copy of The Nut- Grower containing a report of the transaction which was said to haveJoeen negotiated by a New York life insurance company. This makes quite an interesting story, but we must disclaim any knowl- edge of its having appeared in this journal.
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As will be noticed in another column, the direc- tors of the National Pecan Growers Exchange have tentatively established two grades for nine varieties. These grades merely refer to sizes, so that the work as far as the grading machines is concerned can be handled with the next crop. Other elements in the grading, such as quality, cracking characteristics, number of nuts to the pound, etc., will be worked out later. Culls in all cases are excluded.
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The 1915 Badge Book, which is the only available directory of those who are most interested in nut growing in the South, will be from the press the early part of October. This is very much in de- mand on account of the list of members of the National Nut Growers Association and other in- formation which it contains.
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Indieations at present are that the 1915 crop of pecans will fall below that of last season. Contin- ued rains in many localities at the time of blooming probably account for this. In the Albany district the prospects are for a yield ap- proximate to that of last year. Some varieties are dropping the nuts more largely than others, so that observations and records in this particular are of practical im- portance.
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In this issue will be found a let- ter from ,T. B. Wight, secretary of the National Nut Growers Associa- tion regarding the Badge Book for the coming convention. Prompt attention to tne enrollment of new members is important if the names are to appear in the 1915 issue. Our subscribers who are not yet members are reminded that they can send in their applications with renewal of of subscriptions at the combination rate.
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tion is held. It will be an advan- tage to these parties to send in their names at once, so that they may be printed in the Badge Book. As you are making the special of- fer of a year's subscription to t he Nut-Grower ($1.00) and member- ship in the National Nut Growers Association ($2.00) for $2.50, I re- spectfully urge that now is a good time to send membership dues and so be included in the printed list of members in the Badge Book.
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(Continued from page 105.) 10-16 of an inch can not go into even No. 2 grade. There have been but two grades, Nos. 1 and 2, established for any variety.
It may be that later on. after this year's experience, for instance, it may be deemed wise and expe- dient to make some alterations in these grade dimensions; but for the present these seemed wise and expedient. And later on (this year.Jwe hope) there will doubt- less be added other qualifications to these grades: some standard of quality and the minimum and max- imum number of nuts of each var- iety to constitute a pound. While the above named varieties, only, were considered yet it is intended that other named varieties will be included from time to time so as to accomodate growers in quantity of other varieties of standard qual- ity in various sections of the Unit- ed States.
These grades having been estab- lished by your National Exchange the next thing will be the design- ing and adoption of suitable grad- ing machines. This parent Ex- change will have sub-exchanges in each center of production which will have their own grading mach- inery; and while it might be too much to say at this time that each sub-exchange must use the same make of graders, yet it must be conceded without question that the graders of the sub-exchanges must perforce be of such standard mechanism and efficiency as to in- sure that all nuts will be graded with that exactness for which this parent organization must uncom- promisingly stand at all times. This National Exchange must in- sist upon, and its policy be square- ly and unretreat ingly based upon, a high and absolutely uniform standard, not only in grading but in all its dealing with both the grower and buyer public. It can not endure, it can not live, if based and conducted otherwise. Not on- ly the grower but the buyer must
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have complete confidence in this Exchange and its operations.
It might be thought by the im- patient that this organization is going too slowly; that we should be ready this fall to take care of all the offerings. But a careful perusal of the foregoing will show that we have problems many that are both delicate and important. Better, far better that we delay a Period too long and be sure that we are both ready any right than to blunder along and have both to retract and retrace, which would lose us not only time but that con- fidence of the grower and buyer public that is so necessary to our continued and useful existence.
In this connection I want to say that this Exchange is desirous of securing reliable data from every pecan growing section of the Unit- ed States. We would like this data to include location, varieties, age of trees and extent of planting. This information will be useful somewhat in forecasting our work and if mailed to the Secretary, at Albany, Ga., in brief and concise form will be duly appreciated by this association.
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Suppose old man Baldwin had not told anybody about that first Baldwin apple tree? There would have been no Baldwin apples for the rest of us. Fortunately Mr. Baldwin knew an opportunity for fun, money and public spirit when he saw it. so he grafted other trees from the original one and gave cions to his friends. Thus we are now enriched by having many millions of Baldwin apple trees, all descended from the first and only original one.
The time has now come when we need to find dozens and scores of other Mr. Baldwins who will tell us about the good wild nut trees ol America. We now know how to graft them, so that the finding of them amounts to something. We have most surprising resour- ces in the shape of rare nut trees.
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As an example of these unknown resources the recent discovery in Indiana of three or four of the fin- est pecan trees in the world may be cited. It took looking to find these trees among the thousands of wild ones, but it is true that somebody, some boy, some hunter, some observant farmer, has his eye an nearly all of the extra fine nut trees in his neighborhood. He should tell the world about them, that’s all. The way is easy — sim- ply send samples of the nuts, with an account of the tree, to the sec- retary of the Northern Nut Grow- ers Association, Dr. W. C. Deming, Georgetown, Conn.
This association is made up of people who love nut trees and are interested in them. They hold their annual meeting this year at Rochester. N. Y.. September 1 and 2, and expect to see and learn about a lot of remarkable English walnut trees. This association wants your help so badly that it is offering money for it — $50 for a hazel tree of American origin that can compete with the imported filberts; $10 for a northern pecan better than we have now. and $20 for other nuts that are found by judges to be sufficiently valuable.
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What is commonly known among pecan growers as winter killing is probably not caused by frost. Jul- ius Matz of the University of Flor- ida Experiment Station is of the opinion that the mortality in pe- can trees is due to some of the var- ious diseases which attack them. Borers are very prevalent in pecan trees and to the casual observer they give nofsign of their presence. They make a minute hole, girdle the sap wood of the tree and — the frost gets credit for the work.
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The most effective -way of fight- ing the borer is to smear the trunk of the trees with a mixture of one gallon of whale-oil soap, one pint of crude carbolic acid or kerosene and eight gallons of water. The mixture can best be put on with a Whitewash brush or it can be sprayed on, but spraying is not so effective and is rather wasteful. Apply about once a month.
The adult lays the eggs on the bark. The mixture not only re- pels the female but it stops up t lie holes where the. young larvae have entered and thus shuts off the air supply. There is also a chance that some of the gases from ihe kerosene or some of the liquid it- self will reach the larvae and kill them. Carbolinium is usually us- ed instead of the kerosene but it probably cannot be had now. — University of Florida Bulletin.
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Items of Interest
The 1914 pecan crop at Bacon- ton, Ga., totaled 80,000 pounds.
A number of nut orchardists are growing the China bean as an in ter-crop. One grower estimates his crop to be worth $25 per acre.
"Bara-Dichlorobenzene” is the name of a new insecticide describ- ed in Bulletin No. 107 of the Unit- ed States Department of Agricul- ture.
The California Walnut Grow ers Association, in its trade circular for 1915 estimates that the present crop will be as large as last year's, when 12,500 tons left the state. The setting of nuts this year is said to have been the heaviest known, but during May and June the loss from blight was heavy in some districts, reducing the state crop about 22 per ceut.
In a recent issue of the Mont- gomery Advertiser appeared a live and attractive human interest story by Mrs. Thomas A. Banning, entitled From Fines to Pecans. It recounts her operations in build- ing a home and business in the South and merits wide reading.
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MOULTRIE, GA,
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The Pecan Business
In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from planting the nnts to gathering tire nnr.'. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nnts and trees for sale.
B. W. STONE :: Thomasville, Ga.
rafted Pecan Trees
of Select Papershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bayview Pecan Nursery
C. F0RKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
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SWEET CLOVER SEED. Greatest, quickest, cheapest fertilizing crop for orchards, groves, cotton plantations, truck lands, hay or pasture on sandy, swampy lands. Booklet, sample. HAS- KELL & HASKELL, Garden City, Kas.
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Fruit of Citrus Trifoliata, the small three leaved orange used for hedges. In any quantity from a peck to a hundred bushels. Write for prices stating how much you can supply.
Citrus Fruit Co., Deer Park, Ala.
For Sale
FOR SALE Budded Pecan Trees and Budwood, standard varieties. 45 acres pecan orchard, 2 and 3 years old; also improved farms. C. W. RANSOM, Houston, Tex.
FOR SALE. Back numbers of The Nut-Grower. Parties desiring to com- plete their files should send list of what they need. The Nut-Grower Company, W7 ay cross, Ga.
For Sale
Two hundred and eighty acres — 40 acres 20 year old pecans, bal- ance good land at $12.50. Terms. Very cheap — a splendid bargain.
Smith & Morgan, Dothan, Ala.
G. H. Tomlinson
NURSERYMAN
Putney, Ga.
Everything Suited to the South
The May Nut Cracker
The only dependable and successful cracker manu- factured. Easy to oper- ate, rapid and lasting. Postpaid anywhere iuU. S. on receipt of $1 Ad- dress F. B. MAY, Patentee, Wharton, Tex.
If reprinted in booklet form t he story would be of great benefit to the general public and to the pe- can industry.
Improved methods for bleaching walnuts are to be used by the Cal- ifornia Walnut Growers Associa- tion this season, in which the use of sulphur is eliminated. It has been generally conceded that sul- phured walnuts deteriorate more rapidly than unsulphured ones. This association will market a lar- ger percentage of the crop than formerly, owing to its increased membership and its contracts to handle the output of several other associations.
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Diseased Chestnuts
In the fall of 1913 reports were current that chestnuts gathered from blighting chestnut trees were disease producers, causing death to those who ate them. It was also reported that squirrels were dying from eating such chestnuts. Government scientists, as a result of such reports, have made an ex- haustive investigation and have found such reports to be erroneous and that chestnnts from blighted trees are as good as those from healthy trees.
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Blasting Conserves Mois- ture
Blasting the subsoil will prevent wet weather accumulations of sur- face water by storing it deeply and also prevents loss of vegeta- tion during drouth by making this stored water available, o o o
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This company is for the investor who cannot give personal attention to pe- can interests. Shares $1 0.
Send for circular.
J. F. WILSON, Manager and Horticulturist
WAYCKOSS, GA.
60,000 Grafted Pecan Trees
Wholesale and Retail :: Special Price to Nurserymen
Satsuma Oranges and other Fruit Trees ; : Leading Varieties Only
LAFAYETTE PECAN NURSERY, Lafayette, La.
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We need more subscribers for The Nut-Grower. You can help us get them. If you appreciate the wo rk we have been doing, lend us a hand and we can do even greater things in the future.
N connection with the publicity work The Nut-Grower is doing in the interest of the Albany conven- tion of the National Nut Growers Association, we are conducting a campaign for securing new subscrib- ers as well as for swelling the mem- bership of the association. We ask the cooperation of our patrons in this movement. They can greatly aid us by sending in the names and addresses of parties whom they be- lieve to be interested in the industry.
It is also a significant fact that in the locali- ties in which The Nut-Grower circulates regularly there are fully ten acres of fine up- to-date nut orchards for every copy going to that section, and with but few exceptions The Nut-Grower preceded the planting. This points a way for more orchards, the planting of which naturally makes a greater demand for trees. The wise pecan nurseryman not only advertises regularly in the official organ of the industry, but in addition makes generous use of our' subscription department in paying for copies to be sent to names that he furnishes.
To names thus furnished we will send sample copies and other litera- ture of interest.
The many people who read The Nut-Grower regularly are avoiding common mistakes, overcoming dif- ficulties and making successes with their pecan operations. The failures are confined almost entirely to those who rely on their own expensive ex- perience and those who do not know of the existence of such a journal as The Nut-Grower.
We give special and attractive rates to persons who send us ten or more subscriptions a year. Advertisers and others who desire to interest new people in the pecan evidently find this a good plan as they continue to use it from year to year, while a creditable percentage of those placed on our books by this method renew the subscription on their own account.
Active co-operation on the part of all of our friends, in sending us names as well as subscriptions, will be directly and indirectly an aid to the industry as well as to this publica- tion.
THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY
Way cross, Georgia
THE NUT GROWER
Hawkeye St. Paul Company
THIS COMPANY HAS AN ATTRACTIVE
PECAN PROPOSITION
(ol HIS is simply a safe and sound business S&gffl movement for utilizing the opportuni- ties for profitable and permanent invest- ment. The plan eliminates the risks, ex- pense and worry of individual ownership of orchards. It is available either for the large or small investor.
Send for a copy of the HAWKEYE HARBINGER. It gives particulars and valuable information.
Hawkeye-St. Paul Company
68-69 First National Bank Building DAVENPORT, IA.
AL*L* ABOUT KUDZU
A 3“Ton Cutting of Kudzu at Glen Arden Farm, Showing both the Cut and Standing Hay
Most wonderful growth. The coming forage crop of the South. Better than alfalfa, red clover or timothy. Better because it succeeds on land too poor for those crops. Better because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to save it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruin the bay. Better, because stock like it better and it contains more protein than wheat bran — from 1(1.59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants. Kudzu has great possibilities as a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further informa- tion and prices write,
G. E. Pleas Plant Go. ■'"SKSTSESE;
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by the Dupont Powder Company, Wilmington, Del.
Farm Manuals: .T. P. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, issue a list of six farm and orchard books on timely subjects.
The Thomas Idea; a handsome pamphlet of 64 pages, descriptive of the work of the Thomas Adver- tising Service, Jacksonville, Fla. Copy will be sent on request if reference is made to this mention.
The Hawkeye Harbinger; a four- page publication full of practical pecan information, announcing the organization and business offerings of the Hawkeye-St. Paul Company, Davenport, Iowa. Copy can be had on application.
Opportunities in Pecan Culture; by Wm. P. Bullard, Albany, Ga. An eight-page leaflet, being a re- print from the July Nut-Grower of a paper read at the Quincy meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers Association.
The Ellwood Pecan Co., Way- cross, Ga., issues an eight-page folder descriptive of the plans and purposes of an orchard company company organized by the editor of this journal in which his exper- ience and facilities for orchard building are available for invest- ment by interested people who are unable to handle or finance orch- ards of their own.
Bulletin No. 89 of the Georgia State College of Agriculture, dated June 1915, is a volume of nearly 300 pages, containing the proceed- ings of the Georgia State Horticul- tural Society and of several other state organizations which met at Athens, January 15-20, 1915. Sev- eral pages are devoted by the com- mittee on revision of catalog of fruits and vegetables to the pecan. Of seventy -three varieties catalog- ed, ten are indicated as of com- mercial value and the leading var- ieties for the southern and coastal regions of the state. These ten varieties are Alley, Bradley, Cur- tis, Moneymaker, Pabst, President, Schley, Stuart, Success and Teehe.
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Free Book on Road Construction
Will be Issued About August 1 Reserve Your Copy Now
We are just receiving from the printers a new book on road construction, which we believe will prove the most useful and valuable book of the kind ever issued. Our object in pre- paring it is to show the why and how of using
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For Road Building
It is by no means confined to this method, but thoroughly covers every detail of road con- struction and maintenance, and the uses of all modern methods and appliances for this pur- pose. It is fully illustrated by halftones and. original plan and sectional drawings. A copy will be sent free to any supervisor, path mas- ter or private party who has anything to do with building or maintaining roads.
Write to us at once and you will get one of the first copies issued. Ask for booklet No. 325
Good Roads Department
Du Pont Powder Company, Wilmington, Del.
Combination Offer
By arrangement with the Nation- al Nut Growers Association we are able to offer an annual member- ship and a year’s subscription to The Nut-Grower for $2.50. You can save money besides getting the big value this offer presents. En- roll promptly and get ready for a great convention at Albany this fall. Send remittance to J. B. Wight, Secretary, Cairo, Ga., or to The Nut Groaver, Waycross, Ga.
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The National Nut Grow- ers Convention
(Continued from page 102.) interested in nut production can afford to miss the meeting.
You are cordially invited to come and get the benefit of the meet- ing, enjoy the hospitality of Al- bany. and see what has been done in an industry that has magnifi- cent possibilities of future devel- opment.
The Badge Book, containing the list of members of the Association, program of the convention, and other information, 'will be mailed to members about October 10.
For further information Avrite J. B. Wight, Sec., Cairo, Ga..or Wm. P. Bullard, Chairman Committee of Arrangements, Albany, Ga,
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Northern Nut Growers
Our sixth annual meeting will be held at Rochester, N. Y. Sept. 1 and 2. Headquarters and assem- bly room Avill be at the Powers Hotel.
This date is chosen because it has seemed more important to in- spect the many Persian walnut trees that can be reached from Rochester while they are carrying their crops than to see the nuts on the table. To this end a large part of t lie time of t lie meeting will be spent in excursions to these trees, probably in automobiles. There are many trees in Rochester itself, an orchard of over 225 bear- ing trees at East Avon. 18 miles
SUCCESS
NATURAL SIZE
The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
rooeT Pecan Groves
Pecan Trees and Nuts for sale.
C. M. Rood, Pres. Albany, Ga.
Berckma ns’
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
AVe have a large variety of fruit, pe- ran and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
For Sale
A paper shell pecan orchard of 45 1-2 acres. Best grafted varieties, coming into bearing; in the famous Louisiana alluvial section; liaif.-mile from depor. Price right. Reasonable terms. Write
Box 218, Siloam Springs, Ark.
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Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedlings A end for Price List
Chas. E. Pabst
Proprietor
Ocean Springs, Miss.
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Established by G. M. Bacon in 1889. Incorporated 1903. The Oldest Exclusive Pecan Nursery.
The G. M. Bacon
Pecan Company
DeWitt, Georgia
Standard Varieties of Properly Grown Trees
Our many years of practical ex- perience combined with the scientific study we have made of the industry enables us to supply to the best advantage the wants of our patrons.
Prompt attention to inquiries.
Send for Price List.
The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co.
DeWitt, Georgia
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away, the Holden trees at Hilton and others at Victor, Fairport, Brockport, Holly and elsewhere. It will be possible to arrange an excursion to the Pomeroy orchard at Lockport, 65 miles away, and even to the numerous Canadian trees on the Niagara Peninsula.
Rochester is a city of nearly 250,000 inhabitants and the great- est nursery center in this country. The place and date should be par- ticularly attractive to nurserymen who, as well as all others, whether members of the association or not, are particularly invited to be pres- ent and take part in the proceed- ings.
Few exhibits can be expected at this date, but some collections and specimens are promised and all persons are asked to bring nuts or other objects cf interest.
The association offers a prize of $50 for a hazel nut of unquestion- ed native origin that can compete with the imported filbert; $10 for a better northern pecan; and $20 to be divided as prizes for other nuts.
W. C. Demix©,
Georgetown, Conn. Secretary,
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm," is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing- crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting in Sou t li Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent. Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
ECAN LITERATURE
The increasing demand for information regarding the pecan has been so great that we have compiled a list of publications on this topic, which we can furn- ish, postpaid, at the prices named:
1. The Cost of a Pecan Orchard ; by J. F. Wilson: a 12-page reprint of a paper read at the Cairo meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Asso- ciation in 1909. Price 10c, 12 copies $1.00.
2. The Pecan and Its Culture ; by H. H. Hume; a standard work covering every aspect of the business; topics con- veniently arranged under different head- ings; 160 pages; illustrated; cloth. Price $1.50.
3. The Use of Nuts; a book of nut recipes compiled by Mrs. Thomas A. Banning and her committee of ladies, under the auspices of the National Nut Growers’ Association; 116 recipes; 50 pages. Price 25c.
4. Proceedings of the 1904 conven- tion of the National Nut Growers’ As- sociation, held at St. Louis, Mo. A stenographic report containing a great variety of information. Illustrated with halftones of the original officers of the association. 124 pages. Price 25c.
5. Proceedings of the 1906 conven- tion, held at Scranton, Miss. A full and interesting report of a largely attended meeting at a historic pecan center. 124 pages. Price 25c.
6. Proceedings of the 1907 conven- tion, held at the Jamestown Exposition.
One of the most complete volumes of the kind ever published. 112 pages. Price 25c.
7. Proceedings of the 1909 conven- tion. held at Albany, Ga. All the for- mal papers and reports, with story of trip to the largest pecan orchards in the world. 68 pages. Price 25c.
8. Proceedings of the 1910 conven- tion, held at Monticello, Fla. Gives stenographic report of discussions, with papers and reports of this intensely in- teresting and most important conven- tion. Contains Judge Whipple’s fa- mous paper, “Why Pecans?” and a care- fully prepared historical sketch of the association. 115 pages. Price 25c.
9. Proceedings of the 1913 conven- tion, held at Houston, Tex. 90 pages. Price 50c.
10. Proceedings of the 1914 conven- tion. 82 pages of closely printed mat- ter, containing full stenographic report of the meeting. Price 50c.
11. The Nut Cult ur 1st; by Andrew S. Fuller; a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut bearing trees and shrubs adapted to the climate of the United States, with names and description of edible or otherwise useful nuts known to commerce; 290 pages; il- lustrated; cloth. Price, $1.50.
Reprints of selected articles from The Nut-Grower, having great educa- tional and advertising value, can be furnished in quantity. Write for titles and
prices.
THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY
WAYCROSS, GA.
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|r|TRAIN the understanding;.
Take care that the mind has a stout and straight stem. Leave the flowers of wit and fancy to come of themselves. Sticking them on will not make them grow. You can only engraft them, by grafting that which will produce them. Another rule of good gardening may also be applied with advantage to the mind. Thin your fruit in spring, that the tree may not be exhausted, and that some of it may come to perfection.
— Hare.
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President Pecan —
NONE BETTER.
Pecan Growing' Made Easy
By planting trees dug with en- tire tap root and well develop- ed lateral roots. Few nurser- ies have such trees.
Made Profitable
By planting only genuine bud- ded or grafted trees of best quality and best producing var- ieties. Some of the biggest, t hinnest shelled nuts don’t bear — beware of them.
Griftings’ Tr»es are Models-.
Root and Top
Our varieties are best. Gold Medal awarded our pecans at Jamestown Exposition. Hand- some pecan catalog free.
The Grififing
Brothers Co.
nurserymen
Jacksonville, Florida
The W. B. Dukes Pecan Farm
Moultrie, Georgia
Growers and Shippers o f
FANCY PAPER SHELL PECANS
One million grafts and buds of Schley Stuart, Delmas and Moneymaker. Write for favorable prices.
—Best Budded— Pecan Trees
We have them in great quanti- ty as well as quality. Our stock is especially strong and well- rooted. We have also best budding wood.
Magnolia Nursery
W. C. JONES, Proprietor Successor to Wight & Jones
Cairo, Ga.
THE NUT GROWER Items of Interest
The Chinese use large quantities of walnuts, both for eating and for making cakes and candies.
Southern Nurserymen held their annual meeting at Hendersonville, N. C., the last week in August.
Remember the Albany conven- tion date, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October 27, 28, 29th.
A Tennessee subscriber in re- newing speaks of the Nut-Grower as a splendid publication on a most important subject.
Reports from the citrus growers of Louisiana for 1914 shows a pro- duction of 375.000 boxes. With new groves coming into bearing the 1915 crop is expected to be fully forty per cent larger.
A New Orleans company has an 8,000 acre tract near that city on which they have planted a large orange grove. It is divided into 1,250 five acre tracts, which have been sold largely to men from nor- thern cities.
The California Almond Growers Exchange has substantially in- creased its membership, and now has enrolled about nine hundred names. This gives the association the control of about 80 per cent of the total crop for the state.
The native nuts of the Ohio Valley include practically all the nuts indigenous to the LTiited States. The black walnut, butter- nut, chestnuts, hickories, pecans, beechnuts and hazel abound, though the lumber value of some of these primeval trees has caused their destruction at an increasing- rate since the advent of civiliza- tion.
The development of commercial apple orchard movements in vari- ous sections of the country, not- ably in the North-west, has been followed with keen interest by the pecan growers who have studied the situation in comparison with the pecan. In the Pacific coast country the production has reach- ed as many as 25,000 ear lots in one season. This year however the crop is short about 30 per cent.
Quality Trees
Pecans
Satsumas
General line of
Hardy Citrus Trees
Every shipment means a satisfied customer
Your patronage will prove it
W rite for prices at once
Florida
Nurseries
W. W. BASSETT, Proprietor
Monticello, Florida
Budding Tool
Patented 1905
A popular tool for budding Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Persimmons and all other trees.
Buds and Grafting Scions
of Schley, Stuart, Alley, Delmas, Van Deman, Teche, Russell, Mobile, Frotscher and Success.
n Wholesale and Retail ■
For particulars and prices write
HERBERT C. WHITE
Putney P. O. Georgia
SHIPPING POINTS: Bacon ton,
Ga., DeWitt, Ga., Hardaway, Ga., Albany, Ga.
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., SEPTEMBER 1915 NUMBER 9
PECAN ROSETTE
By J. W. Firor
A Paper read at the Quincy meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Association
^ N the garden of Dr. W. H. Doughty, Jr., Augus- ms ta, Ga., there are a number of pecan trees. These trees grow in the fertile soil of the Savannah valley. With the exception of one tree all have made a splen- did growth and have borne good crops. The one ex- ceptional tree has had rosette for a number of years.
Recommendations for the cure of the rosette have been published from time to time. Some of these have been tried on this tree. One year the tree received an application of bluestone; another, lime and bluestone, and still another, lime and stable manure. Other soil treatments have been used.
Phis tree has been under my observation for the last three and a half years. It resette in 1911, 1912, 1913, but during the summer of 1914 the rosette apparently disappeared. None of the noticeable symptoms were observed during last year. Did the use of lime or bluestone or manure or a combination of these materials cause this tree to throw off the rosette for one year? Or did the tree just accident- ally recover?
In the spring of 1912 the Horticultural Depart- ment of the College put down some tests, following the scattered recommendations of that time.
Test with Fertilizer Materials in Five Year Old Orchard
In a five year old orchard in Jefferson county an eight plat test with commercial fertilizer materials was laid down. The plats each contained 14 trees, most of which were rosetted. The trees had been planted all at the same time and conditions of soil, drainage, etc., were uniform as far as could be ob- served. Cultivation and cropping throughout the test was across the plats so this also was uniform. The plats were treated as follows:
Plat 1. 1000 pounds ground limestone, 1912.
Plat 2. 313 pounds of acid phosphate in 1912;
same 1913, 1914 and 1915.
Plat 3. Check.
Plat 4. 80 pounds muriate of potash, 1912, 1913,
1914 and 1915.
Plat 5. 100 pounds* nitrate of soda, 1912, 1913,
1914 and 1915.
Plat 6. Check.
Plat 7. 313 pounds acid phosphate, 80 pounds
muriate of potash and 100 pounds nitrate of soda, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915.
Plat 8. 1000 pounds of ground limestone in
1912, and 313 pounds acid phosphate, 80 pounds mur- iate of potash and 100 pounds nitrate of soda in
1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915.
This test was repeated in a nine year old orchard with t lie additional tests as follows:
Plat 10. Check.
Plat 11. One-half pound bluestone per tree, 1912 and 1913.
Plat 12. One-lialf pound bluestone and 50 pounds of lime per tree.
Plat 13. Check.
Plat 14. 1 pound bluestone per tree, 1912 and
1913.
Plat 15. 1 pound bluestone and 50 pounds of
lime per tree.
Plat 16. Acid phosphate, muriate of potash, 1913, 1914 and 1915.
Plat 17. Acid phosphate and sulphate of am- monia 1913, 1914, 1915.
Plat 18. Muriate of potash and nitrate of soda.
A block of 90 trees were subsoiled by the use of dynamite in the spring of 1913. 90 other and adja-
cent trees were used as check on these trees. tests with manure, mulching, other chemicals, etc., are under way.
Results of Tests in 5 Year Old Orchard
Plat 1. 1000 lbs. ground limestone in 1912. 12
trees.
1913 9 trees with rosette, 3 free.
1914 10 trees with rosette, 2 free.
Plat 2. 313 lbs. 15 per cent acid phosphate in
1912, same in 1913, 1914, 1915.
1912 12 with rosette, 2 free.
1913 12 with rosette, 2 free.
1914 11 trees with rosette, 3 free.
Plat 3. Nothing (check).
1912 13 trees with rosette, 1 free.
1913 12 trees with rosette, 2 free.
1914 11 trees with rosette, 3 free.
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Plat 4. 80 lbs. muriate of potash in 1912, same
in 1913, 1914, 1915.
1912 13 trees with rosette, 0 free.
1913 9 trees with rosette, 4 free.
1914 1 1 trees with rosette, 2 free.
Plat 5. 100 lbs. nitrate of soda in 1912; its equiv-
alent in sulphate of ammonia in 1913, 1914, 1915.
1912 14 trees with rosette, 0 free.
1913 11 trees with rosette, 3 free.
1914 13 trees with rosette, 1 free.
Plat 6. Nothing (check.)
1912 14 with trees rosette, 0 free.
1913 13 trees with rosette, 1 free.
1914 10 trees with rosette, 4 free.
Plat 7. Complete.
1912 13 trees with rosette, 1 free.
1913 12 trees with rosette, 2 free.
1914 9 'trees with rosette, 5 free.
Plat 8. Complete with lime in 1912.
1912 13 trees with rosette, 1 free.
1913 13 trees with rosette, 1 free.
1914 12 trees with rosette, 2 free.
Plat 9. Orchard treatment.
1912 14 trees with rosette, 0 free.
1913 12 trees with rosette, 2 free.
1914 11 trees with rosette, 3 free.
■ Housecut Field Plat 1. Check.
1911 8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
1913 4 rosetted trees, 6 free.
1914 3 rosetted trees, G free.
Plat 2. Ground limestone 1912.
1911 10 rosetted trees, 0 free.
1913 5 rosetted trees, 5 free.
1914 4 rosetted trees, 6 free.
Plat 3. Acid phosphate.
1911 5 rosetted trees, 1 free.
1913 7 rosetted trees, 3 free.
1914 3 rosetted trees, 7 free.
Plat 4. Check.
1911 8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
1913 G rosetted trees, 4 free.
1914 1 rosetted tree, 9 free.
Plat 5. Muriate of potash.
1911 8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
1913 G rosetted trees, 4 free.
1914 5 rosetted trees, 5 free.
Plat G. Nitrate of soda.
1911 5 rosetted trees, 5 free.
1913 4 rosetted trees G free.
1914 7 rosetted trees, 3 free.
Plat 7. Check.
1911 8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
1913 5 rosetted trees, 5 free.
1914 G rosetted trees, 4 free.
Plat 8. Ground limestone, acid phosphate, mu- riate of potash, nitrate of soda.
1911 7 rosetted trees, 2 free.
1913 6 rosetted trees, 1 free.
1914 5 rosetted trees, 4 free.
Plat 9. Acid phosphate, muriate of potash and nitrate of soda.
1911 7 rosetted trees, 3 free.
8 rosetted tress, 2 free.
1 rosetted tree.
Check.
8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
6 rosetted trees, 4 free.
6 rosetted trees, 4 free.
1-2 lb. bluestone per tree 1912, 1913.
10 rosetted trees
7 rosetted trees, 3 free.
5 rosetted trees, 5 free.
Ground Limestone, 1 lb. bluestone.
8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
9 rosetted trees, 1 free.
7 rosetted trees, 3 free.
Check.
10 rosetted trees 9 rosetted trees, 1 free.
9 rosetted trees, 1 free.
1 lb. bluestone per tree, 1912 and 1913
8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
8 rosetted trees, 2 free.
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Prevalence of Rosette
A block of 481 6-year trees of t lie Stuart variety were examined for the rosette in the fall of 1913 and it was found that 257 were free and 224 rosetted. In the fall of 1914 this same block showed 224 healthy and 257 rosette; 33 trees having been added to the list in one year.
In a block of 812 10-year-old trees of several varieties and seedlings there were 468 rosetted in 1913 and the same number in 1914.
The conclusions that I draw from the work that has been given above are as follows:
1. Trees which show marked signs of rosette
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for a number of years may suddenly go through a year without any of the symptoms. This has happen- ed with the tree mentioned at the start of this dis- cussion. with a few trees in the different test plats* with a few in the plats which were not given any special treatment with trees in the orchard proper.
II. Trees which show a slight sign of rosette one year not uncommonly recover the next.
III. So far the tests with different fertilizers and chemicals have not shown sufficient difference from the checks to warrant the conclusion that they were either benefitted or injured by such treatment.
IV. Somewhere within nature's locked law book there is undoubted a fundamental reason for rosette. How long it will take to find it. it is im- possible to tell.
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HOW TO GROW FIRST-CLASS NUTS
By W. W. Bassett
Read at the SRuincy meeting of the Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers Association .
Y predecessor has so very ably and fully covered the subject that I feel little more need be said. If we will go home and carry out his directions we can all produce first-class nuts. We all desire to grow the best pecan nuts that can be grown; the sub- ject is so broad that it covers every feature of the pecan business up to placing them on the market, therefore, if I touch on some of the points just cover- ed by our worty president, I trust that it will only serve to emphasize them the more.
If I were to treat the whole subject, 1 would divide it under four heads: Moisture Supply, Food
Supply, Protection from Insect and Fungus Pests, and The Right Man. I am going to confine my re- marks, mainly, to the first of these divisions.
Moisture Supply
First-class pecan nuts cannot be grown unless the tree be furnished w ith an even supply of moisture from blooming time until harvest. Moisture is the carrier of all nourishment taken up by the tree for the growth of wood and fruit. You have just listen- ed to the great need of plant food and the proper amounts of the different plant food elements to use. With these all present, and every other condition ideal, with the exception that moisture be short at critical periods through the growing season, wre can- not produce first-class nuts. Many of us have not given this phase of the subject enough thought. Our rainfall through the growing season is abundant, but how much of it is kept available and howr much of it is wasted?
We have all noticed the variation in size of Schley nuts, of Stuart and other varieties compared together from different pecan sections, and very often from different trees in the same grove, and from the same trees when two different crops are compared.
An uneven supply of moisture is largely responsible for this, and it is more so with the pecan than the soft fleshed fruits. Most of us have seen a peach or apple crop that was undersized and a few weeks be- fore harvesting time there would come frequent showers, causing the fruit to grow to nearly normal size. This could not be true of the pecan, and other nuts, for there is a critical stage during the harden- ing of the shell two or three months before maturity, and after which an added supply of moisture will not materially affect the size. Therefore, an even and plentiful supply of moisture just at this period, is equally important to an abundance of plant food, and when we have insured this moisture supply, not by irrigation, for w-e do not need that, but by scien- tific methods of cultivation, soil building and main- tenance, wre have done much toward supplying the necessary plant food and the right condition for it to be made available.
To get the highest percentage of first-class nuts from any individual tree, or grove, we must provide ideal conditions as regards moisture and food all the way through the growing season, wre must keep them hustling all the time, and the finishing off process is even more important than growth in the early stages. If we neglected the finishing off process in growing- fat cattle and hogs, how many of them would bring top prices? This watchful care to see that the tree is not suffering for moisture, or food, through the last stages of nut growth, is the very thing that will make first-class nuts out of what would otherwise largely be second and third class.
The dropping of the immature nuts in June by many trees is also largely caused by an insufficient supply of moisture. I have noticed seedling trees drop more than half of their crop during a dry spell in June, and the same trees other years, during more favorable moisture conditions, would hardly drop a nut. Thus wre begin to see the great importance of a constant supply of moisture, if we are to produce a large crop of first-class nuts.
Deep plowing, cultivation and the return to the soil of crops for the formation of liumus are prime factors in regulating this even supply of moisture to the pecan tree, but the most necessary of all is hu- mas. Humus is the very life of the soil, and without which, wTe can grow no highly developed crop. Yrou tobacco growers were very quick to find this out, you have found that stable manure furnished this in a very desirable form and that it also furnished a good medium for bacterial action, so necessary in making plant food available. Humus acts as a sponge in taking up water during a heavy rainfall and hold- ing it through periods of drought; it loosens up the soil, improving the physical qualities, permitting aeration, equalizing temperature, etc. Soils defici- ent in humus are cold and wet in moist weather, (Continued on page 124)
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The dominant feature of the October issue of The Nut-Grower will be a graphic editorial write-up of the initial orchard of the Albany district. This may be reprinted in attractive booklet form and distributed at the convention as a souvenir of the occasion, and subsequently used as an advertisement for the locality.
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Climatic conditions which have injuriously ef- fected cotton and other crops this season in the pecan belt, may or may not be responsible for the unusual dropping of the nut in various localities. While early in the season there was promise of an ordinary crop, still the more recent estimates show a loss of probably 25 per cent.
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The Daily Commerce Reports, a Government publication is a great aid to the business man who desires a general knowledge of commercial operations. This is one of the few government publications for which a subscription price is charged, being listed at $2.50 per annum. From this publication we glean important items of interest to our readers, especially the data bearing on importation of nuts and infor- mation regarding crop conditions in foreign countries.
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Some years ago and before we were as well post- ed as we now are as to the possibilities with the
pecan, we urged that if farmers would plant a few pecan trees and give them proper attention, that they in turn would bring in later and at the right time of the year, the money we all have to produce to pay the taxes, which are always with us and cannot be avoided. How nice it would be if this wTas eliminat- ed by such a simple method.
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Oil-bearing nut trees in the Philippines is the subject of an interesting contribution in a recent is- sue of the Daily Commerce Reports. A tree which is widely distributed on the islands and known by a variety of names yields seed or nuts which produces 45 per cent of a dark fatty oil. The tree is of the order to ■which the “santol,” a fruit commonly eaten in the Philippines, belongs. The name of the tree well it is some name, whether you can pronounce it or not — is Chisochiton cumingianvs Harms.
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As the years go by there is an increasing interest in the use of nuts as food. This is a wonderful field in which there is certain to be great development in the future. When we are told that a pint of pecan kernels contains enough food elements to supply the daily necessities of an active man, we see visions of the prepared foods which will be models of conven- ience and so cheap, when the nuts become less ex- pensive, that the high cost of living will be given wings for passage to other shores.
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One of the side lines which fits nicely with a modern pecan grove is bee-keeping. This not only supplies a source of additional revenue when properly managed, but also contributes to better results with the orchard operations. It has been conclusively shown that bees are a potent factor in pollinizing blossoms of many fruits. Besides the pecan territory is rich in natural bee supplies while many other plants and trees which can be successfully grown are producers of bee food for a considerable portion of the year.
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While at present the greatest activity in pecan planting is in the line of commercial orchards, the small plantings by farmers, and the owners of subur- ban homes aggregates a large acreage each year. In fact, this is the ideal way for the industry to grow, and through the pecan belt every farm and home should have its nut orchard. This is the custom in foreign lands which now export almonds and walnuts to this country in large quantities; the farms have nut trees planted along lanes and highways, about the farm buildings and in other out of the way places and the crops are marketed readily just as other farm products are handled.
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Editor Nut-Grower:
I wish to call your attention to a misleading if not a mistaken statement in the August number of your paper, It is a supposed quotation from a bulletin of the Florida Experiment Station by Mr. Julian Matz. He speaks there of winter killing of pecan trees. He conveys the impression that such injury is doubtful and is usually to be attributed to boring insects. There is no foundation for this view. Winter killing is a very distinct and often prevalent trouble with pecan trees. The past winter was especially severe on the trees and large numbers of them were killed unquestionably by the frost.
The Pin Hole Borer of which he speaks as causing the death of the trees is entirely secondary. They invariably attack dead or dying trees and their presence often mis- leads growers into thinking that they are the cause of the trees death. It will be found however that in every case the tree is doomed before these borers attack the tree.
In some cases where these bor- ers are allowed to breed in the dying tree they become so numer- ous that they will single out some weak and unhealthy trees and at- tack them, causing or hastening their death. For this reason the winter killed trees should be cut and burned as soon as possible. The remaining trees can then be white washed to avoid the borers from seeking out the weak or un- healthy trees. A plain white wash with a little salt added to make it stick has been found to be as ef- fective as more complicated wash- es.
A careful examination will show that these borers enter the wood
of the tree and do most of their work there and not under the bark. The flat-headed borer is al- so common on pecans and often kills trees, especially young ones, by girdling them under the bark. The attacks of this borer should not be confused with the above mentioned borer.
It is unfortunate for misinfor- mation to be allowed to spread and I therefore take this means of correcting the probably effect of the before mentioned note. Win- ter killing is a very distinct trouble and certain things are con- ductive to such injury and should be avoided. Late cultivation and fertilization are two very impor- tant factors in this trouble and both should be strictly avoided. Very severe loss in one grove which came to my attention this past year was caused entirely by a combination of these two evils.
C. S. Spooner,
Asst. State Entomologist, Thomasville, Ga.
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Editor Nut-Grower:
I am directed by Leon M. East- land, of the Federal Department of Agriculture, to inquire of you for any statistics you might have on nut industries.
What 1 would like to get if possible, is the approximate tons of pecans that have reached the channels of commerce.
If you are in a position to fur- nish this information I shall ap- preciate very much receipt of same.
Ben. F. Chapman, Chief Clerk, Texas Dept, of Agri- culture.
[While no systematic statistics have yet been prepared showing tonnage of pecans reaching com- mercial channels, still we have
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some general knowledge of sucli movements. Your state furnishes from 200 to 600 ears a year of na- tive seedling nuts. With other sections of the country and the improved varieties, the new oreh ards are only now coming coming into bearing, and the past season was the first year that shipments reached car lot bulks. Baconton, Ga., had 40 tons last year. Albany, Putney and DeWitt, Ga., aggre- gated 80 tons. Other points in Georgia and Florida supposedly had 15 tons. All of these ship- ments were the products of budded trees. In this same territory a considerable production of fine seedling pecans was marketed but such stock as well as a consider- able part of the yield from budded trees found local market. — Editor]
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varieties of pecans, thus easily making Albany the hub of the pe- can universe. 1 can clearly see in prophesy large grading and pack- ing plants and nut-shelling con- cerns here. This will be true if there is harmony and unification in the industry and if the citizens here are receptive and helpful to take advantage of our many and great pecan commercial possibili- ties.”— W. P. Bullard in Albany Herald.
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How to Grow First-Class Nuts
(Continued from page 121) very hot and dry through periods of drought, they have no reservoir capacity and are subject to wash- ing through times of heavy rain- fall. The nitrifying and denitri- fying bacteria cannot live and work in soils devoid of humus and the value of most commercial fer- tilizer put on them is lost.
Unfortunately a large part of our commercial pecan acreage has been planted on these kind of soils and before we can expect to grow first-class nuts we must build up the soil in its organic content. We have the cart before the horse, so to speak, for this soil building- should have preceded the plant- of the grove and on through its fii'St few years of growth, then at bearing age we would be realizing those fine pecan nuts we have been dreaming about. Most of us have been trying to grow too many acres in grove and have not been intensive enough: first-class nuts are not produced on extensive areas without intensive practices at the same time.
I believe the bearing grove should have some growing crop on the ground through the winter to prevent erosion and the loss of nitrates by leaching. This crop can be one of the legumes or one of the cereals, as best suits the conditions; at the beginning of the upbuilding period, oats will prob- ably give the best satisfaction, in the late winter they should be
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grazed off or turned under for soil improvement. Through theUeor- gia-Fiorida pecan belt, April and May are usually dry and no inter- crops should be grown to rob the trees of moisture. Some form of surface cultivation should be given through this time; the Forkner light draft harrow makes a fine implement for this purpose. The frequent showers of early summer will afford plenty of moisture for the trees and provide enough to grow some cover crop to shade the soil and serve as a mulch through the hot dry periods later on when the critical time in determining the size of the nut is at hand. I have no data or records to prove just when this time may be, but I believe it to be between August first and the early part of Sep! em- ber, depending upon the variety and the season. For this cover crop. I prefer the cow pea, planted in drills with two or three culti- vations before they cover the ground. No matter what the cover crop may be, be sure to start the mowing machine at the first ap- proach of a dry spell, in August or early September. If no crop can be grown, 1 believe it will pay to haul oat straw, or other litter at hand, and cover the ground quite thickly. I do not believe in any half way methods in applying this mulch, too much cannot be ap- pliad, if it be extra heavy it may not be necessary to grow a winter cover crop. I feel that I cannot emphasize the need of the winter and summer cover crops too much, the one to prevent leaching and washing, the other to serve as a mulch and soil builder. Unless some oilier unusual practices are followed, these are absolutely necessary for maximum returns. Had more attention been paid to the soil improving crops, and their consequent effect in controlling moisture conditions during the early years of the pecan tree’s growth, we would have hardly gotten acquainted with the rosette and. many of our other pecan dis- eases.
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So far as the almond crop in California goes this year, while it is less than a normal crop per acre the total tonnage, owing to the in- creased acreage of recent years, should turn out a good average. Several sections are, however, light in their output per acre.
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Near the town of Patterson, Pierce county Georgia, is the par- ent tree of the Laura Sellars pe- can. It has a local reputation for being a good bearer and has re- peatedly yielded crops of over one hundred pounds, although the tree is said to be only about twenty years old. The fame of the variety consists in the extreme size of the nut as well as its great longitudi- nal measurement. While a good cracker and fair quality, it in common with large nuts of tins shape, is sometimes deficient in respect to plump and full kernels, o o o
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A unique and distinctive fea- ture of road-building in the Far West (California) is the planting of nut-bearing trees along both sides of the road way, such as pe- can and English walnut. They serve a double purpose: bearing fruit and furnishing shade. No slate in the union has better pub lie highways than California, and, while they cost money, the cost is a mere quibble when the enormous benefits accrued there rom are considered. In the matter of trees
there is none better suited for roadside planting than our native jpecan, for it is a most productive fruit-bearer and is almost unsur- passed as a shade tree.
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Does The Chestnut Bark Disease Occur in Your Region ?
During the eleven years the chestnut bark disease has been known to exist in the United States, it has spread from its orig- inal point of introduction with such rapidity that it now covers the northern half of the native chestnut zone and has destroyed a number of chestnut orchards.
Recent discoveries of new spots of infection have impressed the danger of its spread by means of infected nursery stock far beyond the limits of the infected region. For example, a young infected tree not long from the nursery, has re- cently bemi discovered at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Berckmans’
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We have a large variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
ERUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
For Sale
A paper shell pecan orchard of 45 1-2 acres. Best grafted varieties, coming into bearing; in the famous- Louisiana alluvial section; half mile from depot. Price right. Reasonable terms. Write
Box 218, Siloam Springs, Ark.
poop Pecan Groves
Pecan Trees and Nuts for sale.
C. M. Rood, Pres. Albany, Ga.
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Hawkeye St. Paul Company
THIS COMPANY HAS AN ATTRACTIVE
PECAN PROPOSITION
"^"HIS is simply a safe and sound business 5E0 movement for utilizing the opportuni- ties for profitable and permanent invest- ment. The plan eliminates the risks, ex-' pense and worry of individual ownership of orchards. It is available either for the large or small investor.
Send for a copy of the HAWKEYE HARBINGER. It gives particulars and valuable information.
Hawkeye-St. Paul Company
68-69 First National Bank Building DAVENPORT, IA.
AUU ABOUT KUDZU
A 3“Ton Cutting of Kudzu at Glen Arden Farm, Showing both the Cut and Standing Hay
Most wonderful growth. The coming forage crop of the South. Better than alfalfa, red clover or timothy. Better because it succeeds on land too poor for those crops. Better because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to save it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruin the bay. Better, because stock like it better and it. contains more protein than wheat bran — from lfi.59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants. Kudzu has great possibilities as a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further informa- tion and prices write,
G. E. Pleas Plant Go. 'GSP^oir;
It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the disease may be found in any nursery in the United States which lias in recent years imported chestnut stock from the diseased region in the eastern United States or from the Orient.
The rapid destruction of the chestnut crop o f the east makes possible the development of chestnut orchards in the West, far away from where the native chest- nut grows. But to succeed with these the stock must be absolutely clean and the disease must not be introduced. The nurseries must be kept clean.
Every inspector, pathologist and nut grower in the country should co-operate with the Department of Afirlculture in a survey of the chestnut nurseries of the country.
Caiefully examine the chestnut stock in the nurseries in your reg- ion. Watch the nursery stock that is coming into the region from every source. Mail to the Depart- ment ample specimens of every suspicious tree which you may find.
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Personal Mention
Mr. A. A. Rich, formerly of La- mont, Fla., is now located at Fo- ley, Ala.
,T. B. Wight, of Cairo, Ga., secre- tary of the National Nut Growers Association has been spending- several weeks on the Pacific Coast taking in the exposition.
Dr. T. G. Starbuck, of Daven- port, la., for years past a subscrb- er to the The N ut-Grower, is presi- dent of the Hawkeye-St. Paul Co., which lias a large and promising pecan orchard in Louisiana.
Dan Lott, of Waycross, Ga. well known in real estate circles, is giv- ing increased attention to pecans. He has had a good example set him by his father who has been selling $250.00 worth of pecans per acre from a four acre grove yearly.
Judge C. M. Wise, of Fitzgerald, Ga., one of the prominent and
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earliest of the pecan growers of that section, died at his home on September 3rd. Mr. Wise was act- ively identified with the movement which established the Old Soldiers' colony which grew into the modern city of Fitzgerald.
On Tuesday, the 10th of August Col. G. B. Brackett, Pomologist of the Department of Agriculture, died. For many years Col. Brack- ett had held this exalted position and was considered one of the fore- most pomologists of the world. His special field was systematic pomology, and his word was be- yond question concerning varieties of fruits.
H. P. Atwater, who will be well remembered by some of those who attended the earlier nut grower conventions, is forming a collect- ion of edible nuts of all kinds, which he expects to display at various fairs and expositions. He is having difficulty in locating specimens of the MacAllister and other varieties of hicans. Any of our readers who can supply him will be contributing to a commend- able enterprise. His address is 2120 Genesee St., Houston, Tex.
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The Pecan Industry
An important and growing in- dustry in the Southeast will be represented at the National Nut Growers Convention to be held in Albany, Ga., next October. It is expected the gathering will be at- tended by nut growers from all sections of the country that are adapted to the growing of pecans or other nuts of food and market- able value.
The pecan industry is expanding rapidly in sections of the South- east. It is profitable and inviting, and is helping to attract more people to this part of the country. — Industrial Index.
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Road Construction and Main- tenance; an illustrated pamphlet
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ALL progressive farmers and orchardists know that trees planted -Tx. in blasted ground grow much faster than those planted in the old way and bear fruit earlier.
This proves the truth of the principles of Vertical Farming, which aims to cultivate downward as well as to till the top soil.
Three years ago tree planting in blasted holes was experimental — now millions ,of trees are set out by the Vertical Farming method every spring and fall.
In like manner, blasting the subsoil to increase general crop yields, now regarded as experimental, will in a few years, be common.
To learn how and why Vertical Farming may. double the yields of your farm, get the Free Reading Course in Vertical Farming, by Dr. G. E. Bailey, one of the best works on soils and soil culture ever published. Sent free with every request for our Farmer’s Handbook No. F 325 Write now.
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Because we have always delivered trees as ordered, at the time wanted, and packed them so that they arrived in better condition than is usually ex- pected, and the result is that our
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For years past we have shipped more pecan trees than any other nursery man. At least one third of the pecan acreage in the Albany district is planted with trees grown by ns.
Our tree are exceptionally fine this year and we know they will please you. Will be glad to quote you on all standard varieties. Your order will re- ceive onr personal attention.
SIMPSON NURSERY CO.
MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
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Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedling's •Send for Price Cist
Chas. E. Pabst
Proprietor
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The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company
DeWitt, Georgia
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Our many years of practical ex- perience combined with the scientific study we have made of the industry enables us to supply to the best advantage the wants of our patrons.
Prompt attention to inquiries.
Send for Price List.
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of 120 pages of general information on an important subject. The Du- Pont Powder Co., Wilmington, Del.
Modern Silage Methods; a 204 page pamphlet giving a large amount of disinterested informa- tion regarding the construction and filling of silos, with a treatise on feeding and rations. Publish- ed at a nominal price by the Silver Manufacturing Co.. Salem, Ohio.
Agriculture of Massachusetts; sixty-second annual report of the secretary; 1914; a fine volume of over 600 pages with many fine ill- ustrations and complete index. A number of timely and carefully prepared papers by specialists are included with various reports of the activities of the State Board.
The Country Home; A Guide to County Living; by Edward Irving Farrington. Published by Laird and Lee, Chicago, 111. Size 7x81-2 inches, substantially bound. Price $1.50. This work abounds with practical suggestions and monthly reminders which can be readily utilized by those who wish to have beautiful and profitable homes.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting in Sou t h Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
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The increasing demand for information regarding the pecan has been so great that we have compiled a list of publications on this topic, which we can furn- ish, postpaid, at the prices named:
1. The Cost of a Pecan Orchard; by J. F. Wilson: a 12-page reprint of a paper read at the Cairo meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers’ Asso- ciation in 1909. Price 10c, 12 copies $1.00.
2. 'The Pecan and Its Culture; by H. H. Hume; a standard work covering every aspect of the business; topics con- veniently arranged under different head- ings; 160 pages; illustrated; cloth. Price $1.50.
3. The Use of Nuts; a book of nut recipes compiled by Mrs. Thomas A. Banning and her committee of ladies, under the auspices of the National Nut Growers’ Association; 116 recipes; 50 pages. Price 25c.
4. Proceedings of the 1904 conven- tion of the National Nut Growers’ As- sociation, held at St. Louis, Mo. A stenographic report containing a great variety of information. Illustrated with halftones of the original officers of the association. 124 pages. Price 25c.
5. Proceedings of the 1906 conven- tion, held at Scranton, Miss. A full and interesting report of a largely attended meeting at a historic pecan center. 124 pages. Price 25c.
6. Proceedings of the 190T conven- tion, held at the Jamestown Exposition.
One of the most complete volumes of the kind ever published. 112 pages. Price 25c.
7. Proceedings of the 1909 conven- tion. held at Albany, Ga. All the for- mal papers and reports, with story of trip to the largest pecan orchards in the world. 68 pages. Price 25c.
8. Proceedings of the 1910 conven- tion, held at Monticello, Fla. Gives stenographic report of discussions, with papers and reports of this intensely in- teresting and most important conven- tion. Contains Judge Whipple’s fa- mous paper, “Why Pecans?” andacare- fully prepared historical sketch of the association. 115 pages. Price 25c.
9. Proceedings of the 1913 conven- tion, held at Houston, Tex. 90 pages. Price 50c.
10. Proceedings of the 1914 conven- tion. 82 pages of closely printed mat- ter, containing full stenographic report of the meeting. Price 50c.
11. The Nut Culturist; by Andrew S. Fuller; a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut bearing trees and shrubs adapted to the climate of the United States, with names and description of edible or otherwise useful nuts known to commerce; 290 pages; il- lustrated; cloth. Price, $1.50.
Reprints of selected articles from The Nut-Grower, having great educa- tional and advertising value, can be furnished in quantity. Write for titles and
prices.
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President Pecan —
NONE BETTER.
Pecan Growing' Made Easy
By planting trees dug with en- tire tap root and well develop- ed lateral roots. Few nurser- ies have such trees.
Made Profitable
By planting only genuine bud- ded or grafted trees of best quality and best producing var- ieties. Some of the biggest, thinnest shelled nuts don’t bear — beware of them.
Griffing’s’ Trees are Models*- Root and Top
Our varieties are best. Gold Medal awarded our pecans at Jn uestnwn Exposition. Hand- s' me pecan catalog free.
The Oriffing Brothers Co.
nurserymen
Jacksonville, Florida
The W. B. Dukes Pecan Farm
Moultrie, Georgia
Growers and Shippc.o w [
FANCY PAPER SHELL PECANS
One million grafts and buds of Schley Stuart, Delmas and Moneymaker. Write for favorable prices.
—Best Budded—
Pecan Trees
We have them in great quanti- ty as well as quality . Our stock is especially strong and well- rooted. We ha\ , also best budding' wood.
Magnolia Nursery
W.C. JONES, Proprietor
Successor tc Wi,.I . Jones
Cairo, Met.
THE NUT GROWER About the Convention
The meetings of the Association will be held in the Courthouse, which is centrally located and within a short distance of all the hotels.
The Question Box wall be one of the features of the meeting. Questions will arise that are not answered in addresses and papers on the regular program. Write these out. hand to the secretary and. if of sufficient interest, they will be answered by some of the many experts present. Some most valuable information is brought out by the questions.
There will be an exhibit of nuts, nut crackers, etc., which will be of special interest to visitors. Those desiring information in regard to exhibits are refered to Mr. C'. A. Reed, of the Bureau of Plant In- dustry. Washington, I). C., chair- man of the committee on Exhibits, or to Mr. Win. P. Bullard, Albany, Ga., chairman of the committee of Local Arrangements. Those hav- ing nuts, especially new and inter- esting varieties, are invited to bring or send samples for exhibit- ion. All exhibits will be mention- ed in the printed proceedings.
One of the most interesting fea- tures of the convention will be a demonstration of the various uses to which pecans can be put in the preparation of various articles of food. These demonstrations will be held in close proximity to the convention hall and at such hours as will enable all to get the bene- fit of them. They will be under the supervision of Miss Randall, head of the domestic science de- partment of of the State Normal College at Athens, (fa., and will be of q special interest to all lady visitors.
Of special interest to visitors and members is the announcement by Secretary Mock of t lie Albany Chamber of Commerce that on the same dates as those of the conven- tion will occur llie Fall Harvest Festival at Albany. A most in- ( Continued on page 140.)
Quality Trees
Pecans
Satsumas
General line of
Hardy Citrus Trees
Every shipment means a satisfied customer
Your patronage will prove it
Write for prices at once
Florida
Nurseries
W. W. BASSETT, Proprietor
Monticello, Florida
Budding T ool
Patented 1905
A popular tool for budding Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Persimmons and all other trees.
Buds and Grafting Scions
of Schley, Stuart, Alley, Delmas, Van Deman, Teche, Russell. Mobile, Frotscher and Success.
■ Wholesale and Retail ■
For particulars and prices write
HERBERT C. WHITE
Putney P. O. .’. Georgia
SHIPr.'Xf' POINTS: Bam, ,lo,i,
Ga., DrWitt, Ga., Hardaivav, Albany , Ga.
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., OCTOBER 1915 NUMBER 10
DEWITT— PIONEER PECAN POINT
(Qj WENT1!’ seven years ago, to be exact, in October mz 888. the writer began his horticultural opera- tions in South Georgia. The growing' of nursery stock in a small way, which included seedling pecans and in turn the planting of various fruits in an experimental way was followed up for several years, until the com- mercial prospects with pecans led to his special work in this line which has since been continuously follow- ed. In the early 90's his place at Poulan, Ga. known as Piney Park Nursery, which was later a part of the Keystone Fruit Company, was visited by Mr. G. M. Bacon, of DeWitt, Ga,, who made a purchase of seve- ral hundred grape vines. This wasonr first meeting, and was brought about by a mutual business acquain- tance, Mr. R. H. Warren, of Albany, Ga,, if memory serves me right, although the name of Nelson F. Tift comes to mind in this connection. While the writer’s location was twenty two miles east of Albany, Mr. Bacon's place was at DeWitt, thirteen miles south of the same railroad center. However. Albany was the touch point, and the years which followed this meet- ing led to l lie closer relations which proved fruitful in the founding of a new industry.
At this initial meeting, the pecan was the link which connected these men in a way that subsequent- ly produced history. While the nursery at Poulan was producing general nursery stock, that at DeWitt which had been established two or three years earl- ier, was specializing in pecans. Pecan orchards were planted al both places as soon as trees were large enough to transplant. At Poulan, one year seedlings were used, and the first nuts were gathered six years later. During this period, and for several years previous, the planting of seedling pecans had been attracting considerable attention and orchards had been started at several other points. This was the time when attention was being directed to choice varieties and when the first budded and grafted trees were being introduced into Georgia territory. It was also the time when the fake pecan dealer was gath- ering in his harvest of dollars, for which he exchang- ed inferior seedlings with a guarantee that they would produce nuts like the elegant sample he dis- played.
This filings the story up to the organization of the National Nut Growers Association and the found-
ing of the Nut Grower, which has been previously recorded.
With this introduction we reach the objective point of this sketch, DeWitt, the home place of Mr. Bacon and the location of his orchards and nurseries as they now appear after thirty years of pioneer work.
There is a peculiar fitness in our giving at this time a brief story of this place, since it will be visit- ed on one of the convention days by the members and friends of the National Nut Growers Association. We make no claim to writing a history of this interest- ing place, or to recording all the labors and achieve- ments of Mr. Bacon and his associates. We simply intend to weave a simple story, and that entirely from our observation and memory, which will help the visitors at the convention to appreciate and en- joy the occasion of their visit to DeWitt. Other orchards included in the day’s itinerary may be more extensive in area, more modern in the selection of varieties, but it is from DeWitt that the inspiration comes. This is where all of the best known varieties were subjected to the severe test which showed their comparative value; where the demonstration of cul- tural methods was made and where the early fights on insect foes and bacterial troubles were made; the place where many of the now popular varieties were first fruited in Georgia.
Nuts grown at DeWitt supplied the demands for specimens of pecans, which were effectively used to further the subsequent development work which has since given the Albany pecan district such wide publicity. The seedling nuts produced here were used largely in growing the thousands of nursery trees which were then budded with wood grown on the earlier planted trees of the choice varieties, and again, these budded trees were used to plant other orchards in the neighborhood which will be visited by the delegates to the convention. Many of these seedling trees were sold and shipped to other locali- ties in Georgia and other states.
While all this is important, other vital features of the industry were worked out at DeWitt. The modern orchards, where the gathering, grading and shipping of the nuts will be seen, profit by tbe results of these earlier operations. Defects in promising
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varieties were nere detected and in consequence they have not been planted in recent years. Experience in cultivation, fertilization treatment of trees and inter cropping of land worked out here through years of labor and observation and at no small outlay in cash have been largely available for the benefit of others.
With such a past, the present aspect of this place becomes doubly interesting and the visitor will on this account find the DeWitt orchards and nur- sery have a distinct and dominant attraction. They are in reality a field for study where days and weeks could be advantageously spent by the student and practical grower. However, t his prospective visit will be in the nature of a hurried sight-seeing tour in which a fixed schedule must be adhered to, so no time will be available for detailed observation. Con- sequently it will be in the nature of a moving pic- ture scene, where stately trees with the dignity of thirty years growth alternate with acres and acres of the earlier successes of top-working, which was here first put into extensive practical operation; then solid blocks of variety after variety of the well known kinds, spreading over hundreds of acres of commer- cial groves, where the brown beauties are now being gathered and prepared for market.
The scene changes to the nursery, which has all these years been growing pecans, and pecans only, with its stock, ranging from this year’s seedlings up to the great masses of budded trees now ready for thi‘ approaching planting season, all showing the systematic and clean cultivation so essential at this period of the tree's existence. Then another change. The long rows of nursery stock, the extensive blocks of orchard give place to individual trees of historic interest. The original Georgia Giant tree, despite its suscepl ibility to scab continues to grow and spread its branches and abide the time when this weakness can be removed, when it will surely resume a com- manding position in the list of regular and abundant bearing varieties. Centennial. Russell and other fine nuts which are not now in popular favor can here be seen under actual orchard conditions.
While such splendid growers as Mobile and Van Deman are familiar to many, it requires trees of a mature age — such as can here be seen — to show their grandeur. Georgia's oldest tree of the Alley variety, which by the way is steadily growing in favor, is on these grounds.
To mention all the things which might be seen would be to write the story of the development of the pecan. It should be written in full some day, and it will make a fascinating book of many pages.
The special significance of this place lies in the fact of its being the scene of the initial commercial operations in the pecan development movement. This was the work of Mr. G. M. Bacon, who is now and has been through all these years at the head of the DeWitt business. His init iative made the start;
his vision of the future gave activity and persever- ance to his efforts. Then the same elements were put into the organization of the National Nut Grow- ers Association in the fall of 1901.
Early in 1902, Mr. Herbert C. White, as horti- culturist, became a member of the company which bears Mr. Bacon’s name, and at once became a promb nent factor in the subsequent progress which marked the advent of budded trees. It was during Mr.White’s connection with the company that the top working of seedling trees was done and carried on extensive- ly. It was largely through his agency that the ac- complished results obtained here were given publicity through The Nut-Grower and other publications, while his contributions of scientific and practical papers to the association at various conventions have been very valuable and have exerted a wide influence.
For a number of years the G. M. Bacon Pecan Go., has not only been prominent, but has been the leading nursery firm in this line. Their annual cata- logs have always carried much practical data and timely suggestions, which made it a source of stand- ard information and gave it a wide circulation. Dur- ing recent years this company has also been solving the problems incident to the successful marketing of the increasing crops. In fact, all the difficulties, trials, problems and obstacles which pioneers en- counter have come to them, entailing labor, expense and even disappointments, but the same initiative, perseverance and energy which characterized the start has always been brought to bear in overcoming difficulties and has pointed out the way in which so many are now successfully traveling.
It is no easy task to measure the value of the work performed by Mr. Bacon and the various other laborers in this field, or the importance of their achievements. Whether or not they receive due recognition or praise it is certain that “their works do follow them” and succeeding generations will be better fitted to take their true measure.
One of the distinctive characteristics of Mr. Ba- con individually is his uniform optimism. This trait necessarily belongs to the pioneer in every line of endeavor, and the early pecan growers were all natu- rally optimists. While timid or pesimistically in- clined people were frightened when rosette appeared in the orchards and nursery he kept evenly on his way or possibly gave better attention to his trees and now he does not regard it as a serious menace. In reference to scab and insect foes his policy is simply to fight and overcome the difficulties as they are encountered.
His vision of ultimate success gave- courage to await the results with complacency and confidence. With such a combination of hum m traits the result now seen at DeWitt materialize to many the vision of the few pioneers and isa tribute to the initiative and labor which produced results far beyond the commer- cial measure of the undertaking.
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^ 1 1 1*] official Program for the Albany Convention, vAltfl October 27, 28 and 29, covers a variety of sub- jects and is flexible enough to admit any pertinent topic by way of t he question box. As published by the Secretary, the program is as follows. It will be noticed the day for sight-seeing is changed from the second, as originally planned and announced in The Nut Grower, to Friday, the third day of the meeting: Wednesday, October 27th, 10 A. M.
Call to order.
Invocation. — Rev. L. J. Ballard.
Address of Welcome.
For City of Albany. — Hon. H. A. Tarver, Mayor.
For Chamber of Commerce. — Mr. Joseph Ehrlich
Response to Addresses of Welcome. — Col. S. G. Mayfield, Bamberg, S. C.
President’s Address. — Prof. AY. N. Hutt.
The Future of Pecans as Compared to other Standard Fruits. — Prof. H. Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla.
Some Lessons in Nut Culture from California. — Prof. A. V. Stubenraucfi, Berkeley, Calif.
Appointment of Committees.
Announcements by Committee on Local Arrange- ments.
. General Business.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2:30 P. M.
Relation of Birds to Pecan Insects. — W. L. Mc- Atee, of the Biological Survey, Washington.
Care and Cultivation of Pecans. — O. P. Mears, Bacon ton, Ga.
Establishing a Commercial Pecan Orchard. — F. V. Scott, Elizabeth City, N. C.
Self Sterility in Varieties of Pecans. — H. P. Stuckey, Georgia Experiment Station.
Round Table on Orchard Cultivation and Inter- cropping.— Dr. C. A. VanDuzee, Cairo, Ga.
Wednesday, October 27th, 7:30 P. M.
Illustrated Lecture on Top- working the Pecan — Prof. E. J. Kyle, College Station, Texas.
My Experience in Top working. — .las. D. Evans, Florence, S. C.
Winter Killing of Nut Trees. — S. M. MeMurran, Thomasville, Ga.
Thursday', October 28th, 9:30 A. M.
The Present Status of the Nut Industry in Cali- fornia.— Prof. R. H. Taylor of the California Experi- ment Station.
Bud Variations in Pecans. — G. M. Brown, Van Buren, Ark.
To What Extent can Natural Enemies be De- pended upon to Control the Insect Enemies of Nut Trees. — To be discussed by some government special- ist.
Best Varieties of Pecans for the Middle Pecan Belt. — I). C. Turn ip. seed. Union Springs, Ala., and Sam C. Patterson, Milledgeville, Ga.
Round Table on Tree Planting, Use of Dynamite, Distance of Trees, etc., Co be conducted by B. W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga.
Thursday, October 28th, 2:30 P. M.
My Experience with English Walnuts. — F. T. Ramsey, Austin, Texas.
Conditions Affecting Successful Budding. — .J. F. Jones, Lancaster, Pa.
Best Varieties of Pecans for the Gulf Coast. — Chas. E. Pabst, Ocean Springs, Miss.
Round Table on Varieties to be conducted by C. A. Reed. Washington, D. C.
The Use of Nuts as Food. — Miss Edna M. Rand- all, Athens, Ga.
Thursday", October 28th, 7:30 P. M.
Report of Secretary.
The National Pecan Growers Exchange and its Purpose. — William P. Bullard, Albany, Ga.
Some Marketing Lessons Nut Growers May Learn from Orange Growers. — Dr. ,T. IJ. Ross, Pres. Florida Citrus Exchange, Winter Haven, Fla., to be followed by general discussion of marketing.
Selection of place for next meeting.
Election of Officers.
Report of Committee on Resolutions.
Friday, October 29th
This day will be devoted to sight-seeing. Al- bany is the center of the largest and most extensive pecan orchards in the world. The citizens of Albany will tender an automobile excursion to the members of the National Nut Growers Association, starting from the New Albany Hotel about 8:30 a. m., trips will be made to the most interesting groves in the Albany section, the ride extending among other- places to Hardaway, DeWitt and Baeonton, eight, twelve and sixteen miles respectively from Albany.
Pecan orchards extend in every direction from Albany; and owing to the extensive territory so planted it will be impossible to see all these orchards in this one day’s drive. But enough will be seen to demonstrate something of the magnitude of this great industry in the Albany district.
About noon a stop will be made at Hardaway, where a barbecue-luncheon will be tendered the Association by Messrs. Patterson and Taylor and associate companies. At this point an opportunity will be afforded nut growers to see the processes of gathering, cleaning, grading, drying and packing pe- cans for market.
The trip will terminate late in the afternoon at Albany in time to take the evening train for home.
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K6e Nut-Grower
Published monthly by Z “he Nut -Grower Company
Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1911, at the post office at Waycross. Ga. , under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription Rates
In the United States and Mexico, $1.00 per year; in Can- ada and other foreign countries, $1.12.
No receipts for subscription remittances will be forward- ed unless return postage is enclosed. ‘The label on wrapper is a receipt and indicates when subscription expires.
Advertisements
Advertisements of responsible parties and firms solicited Medical advertising not accepted. Rates furnished on appli- cation.
Forms close on 20th of month preceding date of publica- tion.
Copies of the 1915 Badge Book were mailed to members of the Association considerably in advance of the convention date. Others can obtain copies on request of the Secretary. It contains the official pro- gram, the names of 275 members, information regard- ing the convention, and a number of pages of adver- tising matter.
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The committee on Program has been alive to the importance of using new material and progressive subjects for the Albany convention. Of the 2(i names which appear on the program, seventeen are new, while but nine have appeared on previous programs. Six of these are on for reports or as conductors of conferences, so that it reduces the old timers to a small number. However we can confidently expect up-to-date and interesting addresses from Prof. Kyle and “Fruit Tree” Ramsey of Texas and Hume of Florida.
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At the Gulfport convention, when the revised constitution was adopted, the membership in the Association was restricted to individuals, and cor- porations, companies and firms were thus barred from membership. This change was strongly opposed by a considerable minority on the convention floor. This new order was rigidly enforced and many prominent companies and firms had to be represented by indi- vidual names. In the 1915 list of members this con- stitutional enactment seems to have been overlooked as several company and firm names appear.
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Several years ago the custom of holding confer- ences on subjects of general interest was introduced as a feature of convention programs. The plan work-
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ed well and has been continued to advantage. This year a new name has been given this feature of the practical convention work. It is now The Round Table.”
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It is easy for The Nut-Grower to regard the lo- calities which afford the publication the most gener- ous and regular advertising and subscription support as the banner pecan centers. On this basis Ocean Springs, Miss., Monticello, Fla., and Cairo, Ga., are the banner sections. Viewed from the subscription standpoint, Chicago is far in the lead, while in actual pecan territory, our home town, Waycross, is in the lead at present, with Atlanta a close second.
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The policy we have always followed in soliciting advertising patronage has been and now is to interest only such firms and lines as will be of direct interest and value to the patrons. There must be some touch point with the industry we represent in order to in- sure desirable results. For suitable lines our medium is, considering the cost, far beyond the results ob- tained by general publications.
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Nuts are the natural food of man and when used with cereals, fruits and vegetables, make a safe and well balanced ration. The high cost and diminishing supply of meat is directing attention to the most available substitute for this standard food supply. Nut meat is the logical, convenient and altogether desirable resource. The only difficulty at present is the inadequate supply of nuts.
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October is the month for the chinkapin, the diminutive chestnut which thrives in the lower south. Thus far it is simply a wild product, growing on a dwarf tree or shrub, while the nuts ai'e small and solitary in the burr. They have a sweet flavor and are particularly relished by small boys regardless of age. It is less hardy than the chestnut, which ac- counts for its restricted area. It is simply a novelty as an edible nut rather than having any commercial importance, but the efforts now being made to select and improve the best varieties may produce interest- ing if not valuable results.
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The top-working of inferior seedling pecan trees to the best known varieties is a feature of the indus- try which merits greater attention than it has yet received. It is no easy and entire practicable to convert such trees into wealth producers, or from a human view point make them "a joy forever that we are forced to the conclusion, that people in gene- ral do not yet recognize fully what it means to the owners of inferior trees.
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THERE ARENO CLAY HILLS IN DIXIE
Finer than those in the Cottage Hill, Fla., district where our nursery and groves are located.
Our pecan stock is absolutely great and if you are in the market be sure to let us figure with you.
We are bringing in a large number of the celebrated Brewton (blight proof) pear, and will either quote you stock in any size, or contract to bud for you as many as you like. An orchard of Brew- ton Pears is a sure and big winner.
We develop pecan tracts under a five year installment agreement the prices and terms of which cunnot be beaten.
Also develop combination groves, using either peaches, satsumas or grape fruit as fillers between pecans.
About twenty five acre tracts still available.
WRITE US
THE PENSACOLA SEED & NURSERY CO.
Cottage Hill, - Florida
KEYSTONE
Pecan Orchard Co.
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Producers and Exporters of fine
PAPER SHELL PECANS
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1 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Times Building, Florence, S.C. Groves: Baconton, Ga.
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VARIETIES:
Schley, Van Deman, Frotsch- er, Stuart
We expect to have approxi- mately five tons of high grade paper shell pecans from our 1915 crop. Varieties: Schley, Van Deman and Stuart. Of- fers solicited or prices quoted on application.
How to Grow a Pecan
By Bernie A. Fohl
Read at the Quincy Convention
We are living in supposedly one of the most highly civilized and enlightened stages in the history of (lie world, regardless of the war now raging in Europe.
The pecan stands out head and shoulders above any other tree that can be planted in my estima- tion.
My personal experience dates back fifteen years when I assisted the late and lamented Homer L. Stuart plant pecan nuts in his nursery at Fitzgerald, Ga,
The preparation of the land was very simple and yet thorough. A deep water furrow was thrown out and plenty of black lot manure and some good high grade guano was then put in the furrow. A scooter was then run through this mixing the furrow thoroughly. On top of this was bedded two fur- rows which was raked off by hand and the seed were dropped four inches apart in the drill. Owing to the lateness of the season and as a precaution against the grass from eating the seedlings up, little pegs were stuck in the ground to indicate where the row was so that we could cultivate the same from week to week and keep the grass subdued before the seedling came up.
With one year’s growth several thousand were large enough to graft at the collar with the first- season and made trees from three to six feet high with the second year’s growth. Thousands of these trees you might say were trans- planted and are growing in Fitz- gerald. Ga,, and vicinity, and have bodies as large as very large tele- phone poles, thirty-five and forty feet high and where they are plant- ed 40x40 feet apart are now touch- ing each other in the rows. By this experience we learned that no trees on well cultivated land should possibly be planted closer than 50x50 feet.
On land where trees have made this growth, the majority of the
growers grew truck crops and fertilized liberally, and we found that the land could be so used for a period of ten years after fertiliz- ing (lie tree, after which time, we abandoned all crops except cow peas which we used and turned under as green manure to keep down the grass and weeds and to benefit the trees.
Looking back over the past fif- teen years, the out look and every- thing connected with the pecan industry, looks brighter and better than anything else that grows in the ground to me, at my age, and if we would all apply ourselves and leave all other trees alone, except the pecan, we would be financially better oil' and a bless- ing to future generations that are to follow us.
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Since the pecan mdullry has de- veloped into such wide proportions, it may lie of some interest to the
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SHOOTING CLUBS
Provide just the fun the farmer needs. Be sociable. Invite the neighbors to a trapshoot in the meadow. Find out who is the best shot. Meet once a week in winter — once a month in summer, and soon all will be good shots.
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throws clay targets 40 to 75 yards just like flying ducks or quail.
I Great practice for hunters. Fun for everybody. Let the women try. They ought to know how.
The Hand Trap costs only $4.00 at your dealers, or sent prepaid by us. Write for free Hand Trap Booklet No.S 56 4 ) also “The Sport Alluring” (men] and “Diana of the Traps” (women).
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reading public to learn a few facts regarding t Ire life history of the founder of this new industry, the late Col. W. R. Stuart. He was a native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland; born November 18, 1820; came to Louisana when a mere youth, and engaged in sugar plant- ing; losing three successive crops by the overflow of the Mississippi river, he moved to New Orleans and embarked in brokerage, later in the commission business, where he continued to reside until 1871, when he was attracted to the beau- tiful Mississippi coast. He devoted himself to the upbuilding of south- ern Mississippi; first by the intro- duction of Merino sheep among the native flocks which ranged at large over these vast uncultivated tracts of pine lands, receiving no care, except the annual spring drive, to get the clip of wool. He made several shipload importations of Jersey cattle from the islands to the port of New Orleans and held sales at the early Meridian fairs. These were two distinct and perm- anent contributions to Southern progress and advancement.
Various fruitless efforts were made to find someone paying crop, or fruit culture, that would give one something to live on. He plant- ed extensively of pears, pecans, grapes and oranges of the old
Statement of Ownership, Management, Circula- tion, etc., Required by the Act of August 24,
1912, of The Nut-Grower, Published Monthly
at Waycross, Ga. , October 1, 1915.
Editor, J. F. Wilson, Waycross, Ga.
Managing Editor, None.
Business Manager, Chas. N. Wilson, Waycross, Ga.
Publisher, The Nut-Grower Company.
Stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock :
J. F. Wilson, Waycross, Ga.
Chas. N. Wilson. Waycross, Ga.
G. M. Bacon, DeWitt, Ga.
H. C. White, Putney, Ga.
E. G. Wilson, Waycross, Ga.
M. A. Wilson, Waycross, Ga.
Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: None.
J. F. Wilson, Editor.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this loth day of September, 1915.
J. S. Elkins,
Notary Public Ware County, Ga, My commission expires Aug. 11, 191 S
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Louisiana sweet variety, but the pecan proved “the survival of the fittest.” Selling in New Orleans one of 1 ) is then choicest varieties of pecans at 50 cents per pound, he became so enthused with the possibi li ties of these fine nuts, lie spent the remainder of his life in the search of finer varieties and the propagation of the same. It was thus in keeping with the broadness and generosity of his soul that of these few rare varie- ties which he had rescued from oblivion and brought into fame, that by the process of grafting he could scatter them over a vast area of territory that thousands might be enabled to see and taste and enjoy. He was too broad a man to live only for himself. While these efforts were undertaken pri- marily for himself, for his own benefit, they benefitted his own countrymen, and the state at large, and the same can be said of this new industry of grafting the pe- can, which owes its existence to his originalty, enthusiasm and energy. Whatever subject he touch- ed he made it glow with the fire of his enthusiasm. He was a man capable of great kindness and the tenderest devotion, full of hope and buoyance of spirit he bright- ened the pathway of life for many. He had faith in himself and un- bounded faith in God and was a joyous and earnest Christian. He died March 29, 1894. — Citrus Fruit Grower.
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About the Convention
(Continued from page 134) teresting program is being arrang- ed, consisting of agricultural dis- plays, farm and business floats, street entertainments, open-air dances at night and numerous nov- el and entertaining features. There will not be an idle moment during the three days and visitors to the convention will have an opportun- ity of enjoying themselves while not engaged in the business of the conv ention.
Reduced railroad rates to the convention are in prospect, pro-
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We can furnish them in any quantity at the follow- ing prices:
3 lb. size $2.10 per 100 5 lb. size 2.75 per 100 10 lb. size 3.40 per 100 20 lb. size 4.80 per 100
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Atlanta Paper Company
Atlanta, Georgia
In the HEART of the Texas Pecan Belt
We have all the lead- ing Texas and South- ern varieties of pecans Very best of trees.
We grow a full line of nursery stock and specialize in Peach,
Plum, Apple, Pecan and Berries.
Our LEONA PEACH will supplant Elber- ta. HAUPT BER- RY, a hybrid, for the South is unequalled.
Catalog free. We pay express. 420 acres.
X5he Austin Nursery
F. T. Ramsey (S. Son AUSTIN. TEX,
When writing to advertisers please mention The Nut- Grower.
Pecan Trees Satsuma Oranges
AND
Other Citrus Trees
Also a general line of Fruit "Tees, Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrub- bery and Field Grown Rose Bushes, No better stock grown. Before placing your orders write for illustrated cata- logue.
Turkey Creek Nursery Company,
Box 21. Macclenny, Fla.
Finest Pecan Trees
Budded or Grafted
Satsuma Orange, Grape Fruit Miscellaneous and Ornamen- tal Nursery Stock grown by
Summit Nurseries, Monticello, Fla.
Ask for Catalog
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Transplanted Pecan Trees
The pecan trees we are offering this season were transplanted one year be- fore budding, and have a much better root system than trees grown in the usual way, having two to six short tap roots in place of one long one, as most trees have.
We also grow a full line of citrus trees.
Get our price list.
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The nut that has never Tailed to bear and never failed to fill at both end wfih kernels of best quality.
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OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
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vided you have a certificate show- ing you paid full fare ingoing, and as many as 200 of these certificates arc available. Be sure and call for your certificates on starting to Albany. *
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Nuts and Nut Flours
In fresh fruits the protein con- tents is small. It is increased in dried fruits, and is abundant in those which are crystal i zed, whilst in oily fruits it is plentiful. There- fore fruit eaters who wish to ex- tract strength from the food they eat should take nut flours in con- junction with fresh fruits, for to- gether they furnish protein in a more wholesome and perfect form than is obtainable from the ordi- nary mixed inflammatory diet.
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Roadside Tree-Planting
A unique and distinctive fea- ture of road-building in the Far West (California) is the planting of nut-bearing trees along both sides of the road way, such as pe- can and English walnut. They serve a double purpose: bearing fruit ancl furnishing shade. No state in the union lias better pub- lic highways than California, and, while they cost money, the cost is a mere quibble when the enormous benefits accrued therefrom are considered. In the matter of trees there is none better suited for roadside planting than our native pecan, for it is a most productive fruit-bearer and is almost unsur- passed as a shade tree.
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Editor Nut-Grower:
Inclosed find list of names of folks I am acquainted with. I think most of them might sub- scribe for a pecan nut journal. 1 am well pleased with the Nut-Grow- er and I find it is instructive to any person wanting to learn all about pecans and how to propagate them and take care of them in all details too numerous to mention all at once. The pecan tree is very
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Buckled Paper Shells.
Best Varieties
Expert Propaga- tion. Healthy and Hardy Stock.
■Write for Prices
T. H. PARKER
MOULTRIE, GA.
The Pecan Business
In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from planting the nuts to gathering the nuts. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nuts and trees for sale.
B. W. STONE :: Thomasville, Ga.
rafted Pecan Trees
of Select Papershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bayview Pecan Nursery
C. FORKERT, Proprietor
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Is the estimate of our 1915 crop made by those who know.
Our crop consists of finest of the stan- dard varieties of pecans.
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For price or other information, write to
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G. M. Bacon Pecan Co.
DeWitt : Georgia
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Our Specialty is growing well root- ed budded and grafted trees of best varieties.
Careful attention given all orders. Write for prices.
SOUTHERN NUT TREE NURSERIES
Thomasville, :: Georgia
THE NUT GROWER
much nicer in every way than the cottonwood, willow and thorn bush trees as of yore.
E. 1). Coots
Shreveport, La.
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Pecans and Walnuts
It has often oceured to my mind that if the people of Texas, when the country was first settled, had paid attention to pecans and wal- nuts and the culture of other nuts that are adapted to this climate, we would all have been a great deal better off. Nature indicated in this goodly land of ours, especially in Texas, and in all the states along the coast, that the most valuable tree adapted to the soil and t he climate; the best adapted to the needs of the people; the best adapted to commercialism, the soil fertility, to temper the winds and guard against extremes of climate, the one suggested by nature and placed here for us, was the pecan.
It can be demonstrated that the pecan as a whole produces more upon one acre than ten acres of cotton bring in commercial value. It has been demonstrated, over and over again, that pecans will produce more to the ten acres than any other crop that we have adopt- ed for general farm purposes, and still we find that pecan trees were ruthlessly cut down by the pion- eers for fire wood and other pur- poses, and now it becomes necess- ary for us to go back and restore these very same trees. A most valuable and benevolent sentiment was uttered by that valiant pat- riot. Governor Hogg, when, on the eve of his dissolution, he wished that Texas should become a land of nut trees.
The inspiration of his perceptive powers impressed him with the ever prevailing truth that nut growing was among the most im- portant of all our natural resour- ces. Not merely a few trees about the home, but millions of trees in groves, in waste places, on high- ways. in cities, in parks, on banks of streams, on hill and valley, and on every available space. Me knew
Seeds and Plants
SWEET CLOVER SEED. Greatest, quickest, cheapest fertilizing crop for orchards, groves, cotton plantations, truck lands, hay or pasture on sandy, swampy lands. Booklet, sample. HAS- KELL & HASKELL, Garden City, Kas.
Wanted — to Buy
Fruit of Citrus Trifoliata, the small three leaved orange used for hedges. In any quantity from a peck to a hundred bushels. Write for prices stating how much you can supply.
Citrus Fiuit o., Deer Park, Ala.
For Sale
FOR SALE. Budded Pecan Trees and Budwood, standard varieties. 45 acres pecan orchard, 2 and 3 years old; also improved farms. C. W RANSOM, Houston, Tex
FOR SALE. B ick numbers of The Nut-Grower. Parties desiring to com- plete their files should send list of what they need. The Nut-Grower Company, Waycross, Ga.
FOR SALE — Farm on Illinois Cen- tral railroad. 100 acres. 26 cleared, 135 budded pecau trees, best varieties, over 100 attained the bearing age. 8 acres in strawberries; large residence. For par- ticulars adress, A. C. de Monsabert, 1216 N. Galvez St., New Orleans. La,
FOR SALE— Six miles of Albany, Ga. 105 acres of pecan lands. 100 acres, trees one and two years old ; five acres, trees six years old and bearing. Location, soil and surroundings unsurpassed; trees best uarieties; Splendid opportunity to engage in a most promising business; Price right; One- half cash and terms on balance. Address ROBT L. STEPHENS 54 West Randolp Street, Chicago, 111.
For Sale
A paper shell pecan orchard of 45 1-2 acres. Best grafted varieties, coming into bearing; in the famous Louisiana alluvial section; half mile from depot. Price right. Reasonable terms. Write
Box 218, Siloam Springs, Ark.
G. H. Tomlinson
NURSERYMA N
Putney, Ga.
Everything Suited to the South
WANTED-VELVET BEANS
all varieties. Write stating quantity and variety.
HAILES SEED STORE, Monticello, Fla.
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Eiiwood
Pecan Go.
^J|OM BINES all the advantages of an up-to-date orchard; has no obligations to meet except to plant and properly care for the best pecan trees obtainable as ex- tensively and as rapidly as its cash capital will permit.
This company is for the investor who cannot give personal attention to pe- can interests. Shares $10.
Send for circular.
J. F. WILSON, Manager and Horticulturist
WAYCROSS, GA.
Agricultural Lime Ground Limestone Burned Lump Lime Raw Ground Phos- phate Rock
Quarries:
Live Oak, Fla. Luraville, Fla.
Delivered prices made any- where. Literature and prices cheerfully given on request.
LIVE OAK LIMESTONE COMPANY
Sales O ffi ce
Jacksonville, Fla.
The May Nut Cracker
The only dependable and successful cracker manu- factured. Easy to oper- ate, rapid and lasting. Postpaid anywhere inU. S. on receipt of $1. Ad- dress F. B. MAY, Patentee, Wharton, Tex.
When writing to advertisers please mention The Nut- Grower-.
we needed protective barriers against the rasping winds; shade to break the heated rays; a system of permane® root growth to hold the soil from the eroding flood and to spread carpets of leaves to regu- late moisture and temperature.
Wise men have affirmed that live stock farming was indispensable to the permanent preservation of soil fertility. They forget that the soil covered with heaviest growth of timber is the richest of all soils. Trees restore fertility and estab- lish a better balanced fertility than any other known agency. The tree is feeding from the soil below and from the air above the surface — is continually drawing, preparing, storing and making available large quantities of food for other plants aside from itself. This is shown by the vigorous growth of shrubs, vines, grasses and other plants un- der the shadow of large trees, as well as the growth that follows the clearing.
The improved varieties of our native black walnut are only sec- ond in value compared to the pe- can. Each of these trees should find permanent place and should receive special favor near every home.
Nuts are the natural food for man, and the substitution of this natural food for the animal food with its impurities, and for the food that is grown upon depleted soil, will be beneficent and salua- tory in result.
Nat trees about the home, with their stately beauty, pleasant shade and rich harvest of delicious nuts, will easily become an inducement to remain on the farm. — E. W. Kirkpatrick, Farmers’ Congress, 1914.
Items of Interest
W. R. Ballard and several other pecan captains are listed in the Badge Book as the Local Com mil, tee of Arrangements. Look them up on arrival. If you see anything
When writing to advertisers please mention The N at- Grower .
THE USE OF NUTS
Compiled by Mrs. T. A. Banning and other la- dies under the auspices of the National N a t Growers’ Association.
One hundred and sixteen prac- tical recipes for the use of Nuts. Introduction by Mrs. Har- let North
Foreword by Mrs.W. N. Hutt
Price 25c per copy
Send Orders to
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Waycross, Ga.
Mrs. W. R. Stuart
Ocean Springs, Miss.
Pecan Nuts and Trees
The true successor of Col. W. R. Stuart
60,000 Grafted Pecan Trees
Wholesale and Retail :: Special Price to Nurserymen
Satsuma Oranges and other Fruit Trees : : Leading Varieties Only
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Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We have a large variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
Budded Pecan Trees
Best varieties. Write for price list. Peach trees 6 cents.
Pear trees 8 cents.
Hartwell Nurseries
Hartwell, Georgia
ROOD" Pecan Groves
Pecan Trees and Nuts for sale.
C. M. Rood, Pres. Albany, Ga.
you want, ask them for it. If you want something that you do not see, ask them where it is.
The recent coast storms along the Gulf coast flooded districts planted with orchard and various trees. The action of the salt water proved very injurious to many species but the pecan, hack berry and ash trees withstood the injury which killed willows, camphor and privet.
The California Walnut Growers Association on Sept. 30, announced prices for the present season which are slightly below last season's fig- ures. The prices range from 10.60 for No. 2 to 16.60 for Jumbos and 17c for budded. The size of the crop is estimated at 12.500 tons and is supposed to be ten days late. The packing houses will not open until Oct. 15.
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New Grading Machine
Mr. Herbert C. White, of Put- ney. Ga.. (formerly of DeWitt, Ga.)
Budded Pecan Trees Our Specialty...
We grow the old standard va- rieties— Stuart, Frotscher and Schley. None better. Lowest prices. 400 acres in gloves, 2 to five years old for sale. Come to see or write
Tuck Brothers
Thomasville : : Georgia
HARDY ENGLISH WALNUT AND PECAN TREES
for planting in the Middle belt or far- ther North.
Why not plant some of my hardy bud- ded English Walnuts iustead of all Pe- cans, and not put all of your eggs in one basket. My catalogue is free for the asking.
J. F. JONES
The Nut Tree Specialist Lancaster, Pa.
When writing to advertisers please mention The Nut- Grower.
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Make Your Old Trees Bear
Why let the old trees go to rack and ruin. Make them produce. Make them pay renewed interest on your past investment. Regenerate those old orchards and make the old trees bear.
RED CROSS
DYNAMITE
will help you. By blasting and break- ing up the subsoil around the trees, a new water reservoir is created, new plant food is made available and the old trees will be made to produce as well as before.
To learn how progressive orchardists and farmers are using dynamite for cultivating fruit trees, regenerat- ing barren soil, ditching, draining, stumping, removing rocks and boulders and scores of other things, write for our well written and illustrated booklet F 325.
DuPont Powder Co.
ESTABLISHED 1802
WILMINGTON, DEL.
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Because we have always delivered trees as ordered, at the time wanted, and packed them so that they arrived in better condition than is usually ex- pected, and the result is that our
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For years past we have shipped more pecan trees than any other nursery- man. At least one third of the pecan acreage in the Albany district is planted with trees grown by us.
Our trees are exceptionally fine this year and we know they will please you. Will be glad to quote you on all standard varieties. Your order will re- ceive our personal attention.
Simpson Nursery Company
MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
is about to put on the market a simple nut grading machine at a price which will justify the owner of even one bearing tree to use. Mr. White designed this for his personal use to save the trouble, expense and fallibility of hand grading. His budding tool (pat- ented in 1905) which has become so popular, was also designed to save time and inconvenience in his personal work. We do not at pres- ent know what the machine is like but we do know that Mr. White would not put on the market any tool unless it’s usefulness has been fully determined by exhaustive tests.
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Active Walnut Growing in California
California is extending its acre- age in walnuts. The crop for sev- eral years has exceeded 20 million pounds annually. In the Puente and Covina section 2,200 acres are just beginning to bear, 800 acres are in young trees, while a large additional acreage is now being planted. When this acreage is in full bearing the Puente Walnut Growers’ Association, it is stated, will be obliged to operate the larg- est walnut packing and cleaning house in the world. Imported wal- nuts are dutiable at 2 cents per pound not shelled, and 4 cents per pound shelled. Imports of the un- shelled totaled 28 million pounds and of the shelled 9 million pounds into the United States during the fiscal year 1914. Their total value was $4,300,000. Although Cali- fornia has attained a large produc- tion of walnuts, importations show no diminution. — Commerce Re- ports.
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Penuchie
Three cups of brown sugar, one cup of milk. After it has cooked for five minutes put in butter, size of egg. Test in water. When done flavor with vanilla, set aside to cool, then beat until it sugars. Work in a pound of pecan nut
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meats and knead well with the hands. Put on plates, smooth and cut into squares.
Nut Hash
( 'hop cold, boiled potatoes and any other vegetables that are on hand, and put them into a butter- ed frying pan, heat quickly and thoroughly, salt to taste, then just before taking from the fire. Stir in lightly a large spoonful of nut meal for each person to be served. The nut meal is made by grinding nut meats in a food chopper, or rubbing them through a seive, un- til they make fine meat.
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Cream one-half cup of butter with one cup of sugar and two beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of vanilla, one-half cup of milk and one and one-half cups of flour, sift with three level teaspoons of bak- ing powder. Put the batter into two layer cake pans and press halves of pecan nuts over the top of one pan. Bake and put a cara- mel and nut filling between. Cara- mel filling: Butter a sauce pan
and turn in one-half cup each of granulated and soft sugar and one- third cup of water. Cook until the syrup threads, then cool partially; stir in one-half cup of chopped pe- can meats and beat until creamy. Use as a filling between the cakes and put the cakes garnished with the nut meats on top. When a filling made in this way becomes too stiff by beating, a few drops of water added and beaten in will make it soft again.
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Books and Catalogs
Harrisons' Nurseries; illustrated trade booklet; 32 pages. J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md.
The Moncrief Orchard Service; 12 pages of orchard information.. The Winfield Nurseries, Winfield, Kans.
Badge Book, Program, Etc., of the fourteenth annual convention of the National Nut Growers Asso- ciation. 52 pages. ,1. B. Wight, Secretary. Cairo. Ga.
Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1914-15 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedlings Send for Price List
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Proprietor
Ocean Springs, Miss.
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lol HIS is simply a safe and sound business 510 movement for utilizing the opportuni- ties for profitable and permanent invest- ment. The plan eliminates the risks, ex- pense and worry of individual ownership of orchards. It is available either for the large or small investor.
Send for a copy of the HAWKEYE HARBINGER. It gives particulars and valuable information.
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68-69 First National Bank Building
DAVENPORT, IA.
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A 3-Ton Cutting of Kudzu at Glen Arden Farm, Showing both the Cut and Standing Hay
Most wonderful growth. The coming forage crop of the South. Better than alfalfa, red clover or timothy. Better because it succeeds on land too poor for those crops. Better because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to save it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruin the hay. Better, because stock like it better and it contains more protein than wheat bran — from 1(>.59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants. Kudzu lias great possibilities as a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further informa- tion and p -ices write,
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Fruitland Nurseries; annual cat- alog and price list for 1915 1910; 64 finely illustrated pages descrip tive of fruit and ornamental stock suitable for the middle and lower south. I*. .1. Derek mans Co., Au- gusta, Ga.
Pecans; by II. P. Stuckey, Bul- letin No. 110; August, 1915; the Georgia Experiment Station, Ex- periment, Ga.; Reports record of trees on station grounds with va- rietal data and other observations.
Louden Barn Plans; a fine illus- trated trade catalogue of 112 pages containing plans and much infor- mation which will be useful to those who desire modern and efficient farm structures. Price $1.00. The Louden Machinery Co. Fairfield, Iowa.
A Practical National Marketing Organization and Rural Credit System for the United States; a hearing before the State Depart- ment, June 21, 1915. This pamph- let gives the views of Mr. David Lubin, delegate of the United States to the International Insti- tute of Agriculture, Rome.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting i n S o u t. li Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
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Pecan Company
DeWitt, Georgia
Standard Varieties of Well Grown Trees
Our many years of practical ex- perience combined with the scientific study we have made of the industry enables us to supply to the best advantage the wants of our patrons.
Prompt attention to inquiries.
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Cairo, Ga.
THE NUT GROWER Control of The Sap Flow
By J. F. Jones
A paper read at the Albany Convention
To graft the more difficult nut tree successfully, under northern conditions, the sap must be active in the stocks. If left undisturbed, or not manipulated, let us say. there is but one "best time" to graft stocks of nut trees. This "best time" to graft is when the sap is just in the right condition to give the best possible results, and, at best, covers a period of only a very few days. Again, not all stocks or seedlings start growth at the same time and. while cer- tain stocks may have reached just the right condition of sap, others, possibly only a few feet away, have not reached this condition. 1 have practiced, for several years, manip- ulating stocks to be grafted and holding back the sap to prolong the grafting season. This has con- sisted simply in repeatedly cutting back the stocks as growth started, cutting off only sufficient wood of the previous seasons growth to re- move all buds that might have started to grow.
The stocks are gone over every week or ten days and in tnis way we have been able to greatly pro- long the grafting season so that a much larger number of grafts might be set with limited, expert help. In doing this, we have found that we can not only prolong the grafting season, but that we can get much better stands of grafts or manipulated stocks than it is possible get on stocks not so ma- nipulated. even though the stocks not manipulated be grafted at the proper time to give the best possi- ble catch or stand of grafts.
According to my experience, there are four essentials to the successful grafting of the English walnut, shagbark and pecan, under northern conditions. We must have good, well matured cions; the cions must be perfectly dormant: we must have good, vigorous stocks and we must control the sap flow
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THE NUT-GROWER
VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA., NOVEMBER 1915 NUMBER 11
THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
© 1 E fourteenth annual convention of tin* National SB? Nut Growers Association met at Albany, Ga., the city where the initial meeting was held in the fall of 1901, on Wednesday, October 27. 1915. The formal sessions were held in the Dougherty county Court house auditorium, while convenient rooms ac- comodated the exhibits and committees.
The attendance was large, representative and cosmopolitan. The personnel was in keeping with former meetings and bore the stamp of earnest pur- poses supported by experience, science and business acumen. The deliberations were carefully directed by a presiding officer who was quick to turn to good account the most commonplace incidents.
Several of the advertised speakers failed to at- tend. Some of them sent practical and interesting papers which were read by the Secretary. Every moment was crowded full and nothing foreign to the industry was allowed to kill time.
We speak of the attendance as being large, be- cause about twice as many were in attendance as at former conventions. It should be mentioned also that this doubling up was not due to a large local attendance, as Albany evidently relied upon the efficient committee of arrangements for representa- tion. Mr. W. P. Bullard, Dr. J. W. Gillespie and several others were very busy and then some until the last visitor had departed.
There was no doubt about the gathering being a representative one. The far west, the frozen north, the north Atlantic coast, as well as the balmy south came together for a common purpose and that simple word of five letters, p-e-c-a-n, was the lode-stone that drew this truly cosmopolitan gathering to Albany.
The Albany Herald, which carried full and ac- curate reports of the convention said:
Many expressions have been heard locally to the effect that never in the history of Al- bany as a convention city, has there been a more markedly manifest interest in the pro- ceedings of a convention than has been evi- denced by the visitors on the occasion of the National Nut Growers' meet. It is made plain that they are here for what they can gain in the way of knowledge, from the ex- perience of others and from scientific re-
search, that will lend to their energies in bringing the important industry of pecan and other nut culture to the stage of de- velopment it deserves.
At 10:00 a, m., President W. N. Hutt, of North Carolina, openld the exercises, as indicated by the official program. This was followed by the President’s Address, which will be published later in these col- umns. Mr. Hutt mentioned two important lines which now require attention. Since the experiment- al stage of production has grown into a practical horticultural business the perfecting of marketing arrangements and the advertising of nuts as a staple article of food become the dominant considerations at this stage of the industry’s phenomenal develop- ment. Both these subjects had a prominent place on the program.
As occasional transpositions in the published program were expedient, we will not attempt to fol- low the order in which the papers were presented, but will rather group our comments by subjects. Following this plan. The Use of Nuts as Food, is first to receive attention.
Miss Edna M. Randall, of the Domestic Science Department of the Georgia State Normal School at Athens, read a carefully prepared paper on this sub- ject and later gave a practical demonstration. With a model kitchen equipment installed in the conven- tion hall, she analyzed several recipes, assembled the ingredients in proper and measured portions, mixed t hem as she talked, cooked them and wound up by serving the finished product to the audience. A large number of ladies were present at this demon- stration, but the men were by no means slow in demonstrating their appreciation of the viands when they were ready for sampling. Some of the long, lanky fellows, like Stone of Georgia and Bechtel of Mississippi, showed marked ability in sampling the various dishes, while their long arms served them well. It did not need a vote to demonstrate that the demonstration was a demonstrated success.
Winter Killing of Trees was discussed by Mr. S. M. McMurran, of the Department of Agriculture. Considerable trouble from this cause is said to have developed during the past winter in several promi- nent pecan centers.
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A report of experiments conducted at the Georgia Experiment Station by Prof. H. I*. Stocky, on Self- sterility of Varieties, gave original information of much interest and value and opened the way for a general discussion.
The paper by Mr. (!. M. Brown, of Van Buren, Ark., oniBud Variation, recorded valuable observa- tions of a careful student.
Thejs object developed by Mr. O. I'. Mears, of Baconton.'Ga.. in his paper on the Care and Cultiva- tion of Pecans, brought out many and diverse sug- gestions. Probably more persons got into this dis- cussion than iu any other number on the program. This theme, being closely allied to a Round Table subject which followed, brought out several points which will be more closely studied in the future. These points are grouped around several centers, such as the use of lime, legumes and conservation of mois- ture. It appears that a deficient rainfall reduces the size of the nuts. Legumes and dust mulch are of increasing importance. Deep versus shallow culti- vation each had advocates, while a long list of desir- able plants for inter cropping was enumerated and live stock side lines advocated. Bees and birds are also to figure in the equipment of the modern pecan orchard. Mr. C. A. Reed of the Bureau of Plant In- dustry, lists ample rainfall as the best fertilizer for an orchard.
Birds as a factor in successful pecan orcharding came to the front in connection with the paper of Prof. W. L. McAtee, of the Biological Survey. Even the obtreperous blue jay was given credit for service done in destroying the case-bearer. The blue bird, although almost exterminated in many localities, destroys the bud worm. The conservation of the birds, it was shown, will greatly help in all orchard work.
The paper on Top-Working Pecans by Mr. .1. C. Evans, of Florence, S. ( ’., w ho has orchard interests in South Georgia, opened up a general and somewhat extended discussion of this subject. While he spoke more particularly on accomplished results rather than the technique of the work, the discussion brought out various erratic views and showed that that high- ly important feature of the industry needs to be standardized as well as other practical operations. In the particular of cutting back the trees in prepar- ation for top-working there seems to be considerable butchery of the trees.
Establishing a Commercial Orchard came in for a fair share of comment, following the reading of a paper on that subject sent in by Mr. F. Y. Scott of North Carolina. The use of dynamite in tree plant- ing has become quite general and the advantage of blasted holes extends beyond mere convenience, having an important part in conserving moisture. From the viewpoint of an entomologist, it seems that bugs and insects are not a serious menace to the in-
dustry, as methods for controlling them are proving effective.
Several papers referring to local adaption of var- ieties were read and discussed and this made room for some optimistic tributes to the pecan which rivalled the much-quoted epigram of that veteran grower, W. C. Jones, of Cairo, Ga., who claims the nut to be the “fruit of the gods.” The genial I)r. Boss, of Winterhaven, Fla., scored on Mr. Jones w hen he assured his audience that among the orange and pecan groves one could “get so close to nature that he* could hear the angels sing.” Mrs. T. A. Banning, of Chicago, also joined the class of word-picture painters when she spoke of pecan growing.
• Papers by Messrs F. T. Ramsey of Austin, Texas and .1. F. Jones of Lancaster, Pa., were read by the secretary.
Mr. C. A. Reed’s Round Table Discussion on varie- ties, as well as his reports at previous conventions are having a marked effect in checking the indis- criminate planting of varieties w hich do not measure up to a high standard. The list of desirable varieties is being reduced each year by exclusion of those that fail to meet the test and it has now been several years since any new, untried candidates for public favor have been recommended or largely propagated. Schley, Alley, Curtis, Delmas and Success are still in the select list. In the light of experience from long- er observation, there are likely to be some of the now unpopular, varieties that will "come back." Then the business of marketing nut kernels is likely to to bring others to the front. As a preface to Mr. Reed's discussion, he read a paper contributed by a Middle Georgia grower on varieties adapted to that section. The trend of this paper indicated that practically all of the standard varieties are doing well and thus far have escaped serious disease or in- sect injury.
Mr. Theo. Bechtel, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi stressed the importance of leguminous crops for or- chards and, as a part of the plan, the growing of live stock, particularly hogs. In discussing the proper use of lime for improving tin* production of alfalfa and other legumes. Mr. < ). P. Mears, of Bacon t on. Ga. advocated the use of from one to two tons of ground lime per acre and deep cultivation, claiming that sur- face pecan roots were not desirable. The well-known volunteer beggar weed, which is prevalent in South Georgia and West Florida received merited mention.
Mr. B. W. Stone, of Thomasville, Ga., persists in advocating the growing of oats as an inter crop and he has some followers, but an analiysis of his case seemed to indicate that Mr. Stone was growing this crop for his Berkshire hogs, rather than for the good of the pecan trees.
As bearing on the self-sterility of varieties, the case of an isolated orchard of GOO Frotschers was
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BUD VARIATIONS IN PECANS
By G. M. Brown
A Paper Read at the Albany Convention of the National Nut Growers’ Association
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^ N 1905 I purchased about 40 acres of creek bot- ms tom near the pumping station of the Van Buren Water Co., on Lee’s Creek, Ark. On this land there were a few wild pecan trees growing that had been protected by the former owner. The trees had evi dently passed through some visissitudes of fortune as the land passed through the hands of different owners. Some of the trees were clumps of two or three trunks that had grown up as sprouts from stumps where some unfriendly hand had cut them down in former days. Of these five clumps of trees, two showed remarkable variations in the bearing habits of the different sprouts from the same roots. On one the more vigorous sprout was also the best bearer, and I think bore a little the largest nut. At the time I attributed the difference to the fact that the smaller tree stood on the north side and was somewhat overshadowed by its larger companion. Some years ago a windstorm came from an unusual direction and blew down the larger tree. Pecan trees are usually not easily blown down where they grow naturally, but where they grow from the side of a stump they are sometimes peeled off when the wind strikes them from the right direction. After the larger tree was blow n down, I expected to see the smaller tree improve somewhat in grow th, but there has never been any noticeable improvement in the size or quantity of the nuts it bears. It bears some nuts every year, but it has never been loaded like its companion used to be.
On the second clump the variation in the bear- ing habits was still more marked in regard to quan- tity but the nuts appeared to be identical in size and quality. On this clump one tree would bear so heavily that the limbs would bend with the weight of the nuts, while on the other and more vigorous tree there would be only a few scattered ones. About once in six or eight years the poor bearer would have a good crop, and the last time this occured 1 cut the tree down to more easily gather the nuts and to get it out of the way of its more profitable companion. This last tree has borne as usual since the other was cut down, and is interesting in that il shows a varia- tion in the bearing habits of the different branches. One or two are surer croppers than the others.
To my mind there is scarcely room for doubt that these differences in the bearing habits were caused by but variations. When a difference in bear ing occurs on trees of the same variety on separate roots, it is usually attributed to a difference in the soil, amount of moisture, etc. But is this always correct? We know that with other fruits and flowers
the horticulturist often seizes upon variations or sprouts to obtain new varieties or improve old ones. Why can’t something of this kind be done with the pecan? There are several fine varieties that have many good qualities, but are reported as not bearing as well as others. If these could be improved in bear- ing qualities if not in size, if would be greatly to the advantage of the industry.
Take for instance the much abused Columbian. He is a tree that in this latitude (35 deg. and 30 min. n.) grows vigorously. It does not start growth too early in the spring, and ripens its wood and also its nuts about as early in the fall as our natives. In fact it conforms to our climates better than any other large Southern variety that I have tested, and could be grown considerably farther north. Its great fault is that it is a shy bearer. ■ It has also been con- demned as a poor filler. On my ticts 1 have noticed that the majority of the bad nuts have worms in them. It is reasonable to suppose that the nuts would have been well filled if it were not for the weevils. The tree is only partially top-worked, and there are thin shelled native nuts on the same tree, but the weevils seem to prefer the thicker shelled Col uinbian.
Now if a Columbian tree, or even a branch could be found t hat bears better than usual, and buds taken to top work some of the poor bearing ones; these would also be likely to show an occasional variation. By taking the best of these and continuing the pro- cess I believe it would be possible to correct the faults of this nut so that growers would have a better opinion of it.
I have not fruited the tine varieties long enough to be sure that the variations that I have noticed are permanent. On one of my Georgia Giant trees there is a branch that for the past two or three years has not grown as well or borne as well as the rest of the tree, bnt this may be attributed to other causes.
Although this is a negative result I am keeping- watch on it with a view of correcting it. In budding some small trees with the Stuart I had one bud that started out remarkably red. Some of the Stuart buds are light pink when they start, but most of them are light yellow. I took some buds from the red tree and budded several small trees, and set them out in my test row. It will be several years, however, before I find out whether it varies in any other way than just in tne color of the bud.
As far as my observations have gone, the pecan
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Mr. E. Lee Worsham, Georgia’s efficient State Entomologist is authority for the statement that lie regards pecan culture as the “finest horticultural proposition in the United States.”
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In some sections the injury to pecan trees by borers has been serious and some times fatal to the trees. Ordinarily the trouble has its beginning with some external injury, and their presence and the damage is not recognized until the trees show the effects. The treatment requires careful inspection and heroic surgical measures, while preventative measures will greatly reduce the injury.
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According to the late Elbert Hubbard, the pe- can grower may be classed as a success, whether he realizes a pecuniary profit from his tree or not. The following extract from his virile pen should be an encouragement to many:
“When J speak of success 1 do not mean it in the sordid sense — the result of a man’s work is not the measure of success. To have worked is to have succeeded — we leave the results to time. Life is too short to gather the harvest — we can only sow.” o o o
Albany, according to Mr. W. P. Bullard, chair- man of the local arrangement committee has cause for congratulations in having the recent convention within her gates. An extract from a letter in the Albany Herald says:
“It should be very gratifying, not only to the local pecan growers, but to the people of Albany as well, to know that this was the most successful meet in the history of the National Association. In fact is is doubt-
ful if Albany ever entertained a convention of men from all sections of the U. S. cover- ing a period of three days that even ap- proached this one not only in point of at- tendance but in the sustained interest of the delegates from the beginning to the end.”
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The Department of Agriculture has sent out the following circular:
The Department of Agriculture desires to secure information concerning individual nut trees, either native or introduced, which bear nuts of such super- ior excellence as to justify special consideration.
The nuts which are of special interest at this time are the pecans and other American hickories, black walnuts, butternut, chestnut, and hazels, as well as foreign walnuts, chesnuts, and hazels (fil- berts). It is also important to locate beechnut, chinquapin, and Japanese walnut trees of especial merit.
To be worthy of the attention of the Depart- ment, trees must be hardy in the section where found, vigorous, prolific, and bear annually; nuts of medium size or above: uniform in size and shape; thin-shelled, easily cracked; kernels plump, rich in quality, pleasant and agreeable in flavor, and easily removed from the broken shells in unbroken halves.
If you are the owner of such tree or trees and are willing to cooperate in this inventory of nut trees the undersigned will be glad to send franked packing boxes in which to forward samples of the mature nuts from trees considered worthy of record.
If you know of trees not your own, will you kindly give the name and address of the owner or party from whom a description of the tree and sam- ples of its nuts may be obtained?
We shall greatly appreciate any information you may be able to give regarding the size, character, age and bearing habits of the tree, and especially your opinion of what its points of superiority are.
A franked envelope which requires no postage is enclosed for your reply.
Your cooperation in this work will be greatly appreciated.
Very truly yours,
C. A. Reed, Nut Culturist
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varies in its productive qualities oftener than any other way. and if so this can be turned to advantage in selecting budding wood and propagating trees. The number of variations, however, that would come under the notice of a single observer-are comparative- ly few, and for this reason I would like to get others interested as 1 believe much could be done along this line.
THERE ARE NO CLAY HILLS IN DIXIE
Finer than those in the Cottage Hill, Fla., district where our nursery and groves are located.
Our pecan stock is absolutely great and if you are in the market be sure to let us figure with you.
We are bringing in a large number of the celebrated Brewton (blight proof) pear, and will either quote you stock in any size, or contract to bud for you as many as you like. An orchard of Brew- ton Pears is a sure and big winner.
We develop pecan tracts under a five year installment agreement the prices and terms of which cannot be beaten.
Also develop combination groves, using either peaches, satsumas or grape fruit as fillers between pecans.
About twenty five acre tracts still available.
WRITE US
THE PENSACOLA SEED & NURSERY CO.
Cottage Hill, - Florida
KEYSTONE
Pecan Orchard Co.
CrD
Producers and Exporters of fine
PAPER SHELL PECANS
CrD
OFFICES :
1 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Times Building, Florence, S.C. Groves: Baconton, Ga.
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VARIETIES:
Schley, Van Deman, Frotsch- er, Stuart
We expect to have approxi- mately five tons of high grade paper shell pecans from our 1915 crop. Varieties: Schley, Van Deman and Stuart, Of- fers solicited or prices quoted on application.
THE NUT GROWER Control of Sap Flow
(Continued from page 150)
in the stocks, if we are to get good, unvarying results.
An excessive (low of sap in the stock may cause any one or all, of the following injuries: Flood and
sour the cion or its sap content, and prevent its callousing; by be- coming stagnant from being con- fined, and sour from its starch con- tent, may darken and injure all cut surfaces and thus prevent a union of the stock and cion, or, the excessive bleeding of the stock may, and usually does, exhaust the vitality of the stock to such an extent that it will not be able to callous and form a union with the cion.
In the examination of failures due to the excessive bleeding of the stock, we often find that the cion has calloused perfectly, where good, heavy cion wood was used, while the stock has either failed to callous entirely, or has callous- ed to slowly to form a union with the cion. To make a union, the stock and cion must callous or start the formation of new wood growth simultaneously, or very nearly so. For instance: If the
cion callouses in ten days or two •weeks, while the stock must recov- er from its weakened condition, due to excessive bleeding, and takes a month or six weeks to cal- lous, a very weak or poor union, if any at all. must be the result.
Good, well matured cions of heavy growth, will stand a pretty strong flow of sap without appar- ent injury and, with this liberal supply of sap, will callous and start growth quickly. At the same time, the stock is being weakened by the extreme flow of sap and consequent waste of vitality, to
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such an extent, that it callou.se very slowly, if at all, with the re- sult that even with the very best material to work on and careful work, the results from grafting may be very disappointing. In this connection, it is well to re- member that the strong, vigorous stocks, which have a large reserve of vitality and which, properly manipulated, would give the very best results, are just the ones that will “bleed to death” when cut off and grafted.
Rood Pecan Groves
Albany, Ga.
Pecan Trees Pecan Nuts English Walnuts
W rite for Prices . .
C. M. Rood, President
Mrs. W. R. Stuart
Ocean Springs, Miss.
Pecan Nuts and Trees
The true successor of Col. W. R. Stuart
When writing to advertisers please mention The Nut-Grower .
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Satsuma Oranges and other Fruit Trees : : Leading Varieties Only
LAFAYETTE PECAN NURSERY, Lafayette, La.
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The Fourteenth Annual Convention
(Continued from page ir>2)
was mentioned where the bearing was not equal to that of trees of the same variety grown in mixed groves.
The Wednesday evening session was by far the most important and interesting. Dr. J. H. Ross, of Winter Haven, Fla., president of the Florida Citrus Exchange, gave detailed, specific and pertinent in- formation regarding the marketing problems which confront the grow- ers in much the same way as they encountered the orange growers. The address was intensely interest- ing, highly instructive and very suggestive. The necessity for or- ganization was made plain and genuine co-operation was shown to be the ideal and practical way for handling such marketing opera- tions as the citrus growers now have on hand and for that which tin' pecan growers Avill soon have to face. The secret of successful operations he tersely summarized in the epigram, “Think for your- self and cooperate with others."
Following this address, Mr. W. I*. Bullard, secretary of the recent- ly organized National Pecan Grow- ers' Exchange, outlined its charac- ter and purposes as far as complet-
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T ransplanted Pecan Trees
T he pecan trees v'e are offering this season were transplanted one year be- fore budding, and have a much better root system than trees grown in the usual way, having two to six short tap roots in place of pne long one, as most trees hav e.
We also growr a full line of citrus trees.
Get our price list.
THE JENNINGS NURSERY
JENNINGS LOUISIANA
ed. lie was followed by I)r. C. A. Van Duzee, who made an appeal for financial support for the or- ganization. He asked for loans from members, on which <1 per cent interest is promised and the revenues of the business pledged as security. The promise was made that an objectionable feature of the charter, which might permit the cent ralized control of the cor- poration would be changed as early as practicable. In reply to a ques- tion, it was stated that the Ex- change would not be ready to handle the present crop.
Officers were elected, resolutions were adopted, the place of next meeting fixed and a p p a re n 1 1 y everything was ready for adjourn- ment when C. A. Reed introduced a resolution changing the name of the organization to the Southern Pecan Growers Association. A lively discussion followed and a fierce parliamentary conflict en- sued, which at a late hour was ended by the resolution being tab- led. This action was taken when it became apparent that any con- stitutional change required suit- able previous notice. This matter will receive editorial attention in subsequent issues of The Nut- Grower.
The convention selected Jack- sonville. Fla., as the place of next meeting, and elected officers as follows:
President. \V. N. Hut t. Raleigh, N. C.
First Vice-President, R.W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga.
Second N ice - President, Theo. Bechtel, Ocean Springs, Miss.
Secretary. \V. P. Bullard. Al- bany, Ga.
Treasurer. Nathanael Brewer, J r. Newport, Fla.
The third day of the convention was given over- to sight-seeing. Some of the leading features of the day will make a separate story for our December issue. The exhibits, which attracted much attention, will be dealt with in another arti- cle. Practically all the formal papers will appear in successive
N.C. ALSTON
Richland, Ga.
Standard Varieties
of Pecan Trees
Budding Wood And Nuts
Pecan Trees Satsuma Oranges
AND
Other Citrus Trees
Also a general line of Fruit "Tees. Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrub- oery and Field Grown Rose Bushes, No better stock grown. Before placing your orders write for illustrated cata logue.
Turkey Creek Nursery Company,
Box 21. Macclenny, Fla.
Berckmans’
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know' the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are growm. Why not get them?
We have a large variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
SUCCESS
NATURAL SIZE
The nut that has never Tailed to bear and never failed to fill at >otb end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
Budded Pecan Trees Our Specialty...
We grow the old standard va- rieties— Stuart, Frotscher and Schley. None better. Lowest prices. 400 acres in groves, 2 to five years old for sale. Come to see or write
Tuck Brothers
Thomasville : : Georgia
HARDY ENGLISH WALNUT AND PECAN TREES
for planting in the Middle belt or far- ther North.
Why not plant some of my hardy bud- ded English Walnuts instead of all Pe- cans, and not put all of your eggs in one basket. My catalogue is free for the asking.
J. F. JONES
The Nut Tree Specialist Lancaster, Pa.
In the HEART of the Texas Pecan Belt
We have all the lead- ing Texas and South- ern varieties of pecans Very best, of trees.
We grow a full line of nursery stock and specialize in Peach,
Plum. Apple, Pecan and Berries.
Our LE< )NA PEACH will supplant Elber- ta. HAUPT BEE EY, a hybrid, for the South is unequalled.
Catalog free. We pay express. 420 acres.
XShe Austin Nursery
F. X. Ramsey (Sb Son AUSTIN. TEX,
Budded Pecan Trees
Best varieties. Write for price list. Peach trees 6 cents.
Pear trees 8 cents.
Hartwell Nurseries
Hartwell, Georgia
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issues of The Nut-Grower. Much data and many notes regarding in- cidents and persons also await space for suitable comments, o o o
With Our Advertisers
in our advertising columns this month will be found new advertis- ments for the following firms:
Summit Nurseries, Monticello, Fla.
Leon Eaton r, Chicago. III.
N. C. Alston, Richland, Ga.
Rood Pecan Groves, Albany, Ga.
W. P. Williams, Blackshear, Ga.
Paper Shell Pecan Nurseries, La- Fayette, La.
Southern Pecan A Orchard Co., Chicago, 111.
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Items of Interest
The 1914-1915 citrus shipping season which closed Oct. 31 shows a total of 46.862 cars, being the second largest total for one year. The lemon crop amounted to 6,- 851 cars being more than double that of the first two seasons.
A bumper crop of California wal- nuts is moving readily at the prices fixed by the growers Association. The prediction that the crop would be over 13,000 tons is likely to be fulfilled. In quality the crop is below what it has been in more favored seasons.
Mr. Robert Heller, of Chicago, had a camera at work while the nut growers were in action at the Hardaway barbecue. Several in- teresting pictures have been re- ceived from him.
• The convention was a favorable one for The Nut-Grower; new sub- scriptions were in excess of prev- ious conventions, renewals more numerous and new advertising j >a tronage greater.
Three things are necessary to success with pecan trees:, (a) heal- thy. vigorous trees, (b) good land, (c.) proper cultivation and fertili- zation. If these points are carefully guarded the passing years will bring more and more of satisfaction with the investment. There are insects and fungous enemies to
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Now is the Shooter's Time
The call of the woods, the fields and the marshes is not to be denied.
Get readyl See that your scatter- gun is oiled and easy. Get shells loaded with
(gypoNi)
SHOTGUN POWDERS
Ducont :: Sallostite :: Schultze
Du Pont Black Sporting Powder
Each has its good points — each has its friends and all are bound to get desired results if your aim is right.
Write for booklet.
E. I. Du Pont De N emours &. Company Wilmington, Delaware
Agricultural Lime Ground Limestone Burned Lump Lime Raw Ground Phos- phate Rock
Quarries:
Live Oak, Fla. Luraville, Fla.
Delivered prices made any- where. Literature and prices cheerfully given on request.
LIVE OAK LIMESTONE COMPANY
SalesOffice
Jacksonville, Fla.
The May Nut Cracker
The only dependable and successful cracker manu- factured. Easy to oper- ate, rapid and lasting. Postpaid anywhere inU. S. on receipt of $1. Ad- dress F. B. MAY, Patentee, Wharton, Tex.
For Sale
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50,000
Pounds
of...
Pecans
Is the estimate of our 1915 crop made by those who know.
Our crop consists of finest of the stan- d a r d varieties o f pecans.
We are offering these choice nuts for sale either in bulk or in small lots. :: :: ::
For price or other information, write to
The
G. M. Bacon Pecan Co.
DeWitt : Georgia
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Our Spe cial ty is growing well root- ed budded and grafted trees of best varieties.
Careful attention given all orders. Write for prices.
SOUTHERN NUT TREE NURSERIES
Thomasville, :: Georgia
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watch: but these are not so trou- blesome as those with which the peach, apple or orange grower has to contended. There are hundreds of growers who witness to the fact that intelligent care and fore- thought put into the pecan will abundantly reward the labor be- stowed.— .1. B. Wight.
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Winter Killing, Sun Scald or Sour Sap of Pecans
By S. M. Me Mure an.
An address delivered a f the Albany con- vention of the National Nut ( iroive rs’ Association .
It is not uncommon, in the pe- can orchards of the south, to ob- serve here and there and in certain seasons, occasional trees which have made a good growth for from three weeks to three months to suddenly wilt and die. In the meantime, it not infrequently oc- curs that these trees have thrown up sprouts from the roots or from just below the ground line, either before or shortly after they die.
An examination at this time in- variably shows injury to the bark between the ground line and the first limbs and sometimes extend- ing higher.
This injury if observed early in the season has a soft, black, watery appearance and usually a sour odor.
If examined a few weeks later, it is generally found to be riddled with many small holes indicating that shot-hole or pin-hole borer has been at work. This latter stage is the one at which the injury is usually observed by the orchard- ist, and has led to a common though erroneous impression that the primary damrge has been done by these borers. Entomologists assure us, however, that this group of borers rarely attack healthy trees, but almost invariably at- tack dead or dying trees. We may therefore dismiss the apparent damage done by these insects and proceed to the consideration of the cause of the sudden death of these trees.
The death of plants from ex- treme temperatures or from sud- den changes of temperature not
FOR SALE. Budded Pecan Trees and Budwood, standard varieties. 45 acres pecan orchard, 2 and 3 years old; also improved farms. C. W. RANSOM, Houston, Tex.
FOR SALE. Back numbers of The Nut-Grower. Parties desiring to com- plete their files should send list of what they need. The Nut-Grower Company, Waycross, Ga.
FOR SALE — Fine paper shell pecans. Varieties: Frostcher, Stuart, Scldey
and Van Deman. Prices 25 and 30c per pound f. o. b. Chas. Munroe, Tallahas- see, Fla.
FLINT RIVER PECAN CO. OR- OHARD FOR SALE — Located Albany Ga., 4 acres, set out 1909. Will sell for $250 00 per acre AT ON OE. $200.00 cash balance easy payments. Karl Jorgen- sen, 3091 So. Cedar St., Lansing, Mich.
FOR SALE — Farm on Illinois Cen- tral railroad. 100 acres, 26 cleared, 135 budded pecan trees, best varieties, over 100 attained the bearing age. 8 acres in strawberries; large residence. For par- ticulars adress, A. C. de Monsabert, 1216 N. Galvez St., New Orleans, La.
FOR SALE— Six miles of Albany, Ga. 105 acres of pecan lands. 100 acres, trees one and two years old ; five acres, trees six years old and bearing. Location, soil and surroundings unsurpassed; trees best varieties ; Splendid opportunity to engage in a most promising business; Price right; One-half cash and terms on balance. Address ROBT L. STEPHENS 54 West Randolpli Street, Chicago, 111.
Wanted
WANTED — High grade, thin shell pecans. Will pay spot cash or sell on a commission basis. Submit samples with price on lots of 100 pounds and up. Jas. E. Plew,436 Webster Bldg., Chicago, 111.
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WANTED — A young man with am- bition to get into a promising Horticul- tural business, where pecans and Sat- suma oranges will be leading features. No investment of cash necessary. Write Horticultural Service Co., Waycross, Ga.
Wanted — to Buy
Fruit of Citrus Trifoliata, the small three leaved orange used for hedges. In any quantity from a peck to a hundred bushels. Write for prices stating how much you can supply.
Citrus Fruit Co., Deer Park, Ala.
G. H. Tomlinson
NURSERYMAN
Putney, Ga.
Everything Suited to the South
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In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from planting the nuts to gathering the nuts. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nuts and trees for sale.
B. W„ STONE :: Thoraasville, Ga.
rafted Pecan Trees
of Select Papershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bayview Pecan Nursery
C. FORKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
necessarily extreme has long been observed. Considerable o x p e r i menfcal work lias been done in an effort to determine just how cold kills plants and an extensive lite- rature. both European and Ameri- can, lias accumulated in the last half century on this subject. The question yet remains to be answer- ed satisfactorily, but for our pur- poses here, this is not so import- ant as the observed facts that have been well established.
It is very generally understood that trees that enter the winter in a green, sappy, growing condition are much more liable to injury by cold than those that have been so handled that their wood lias been well ripened before the first frost.
Furthermore, it has been noted that the injury to the wood of the tree is most commonly found at the collar and at the crotches or forks of the main limbs. It has been shown by investigators that these portions of the tree are the last to stop growing in the fall, which undoubtedly explains why the injury is so generally localized at these points.
The type of injury most com- monly found on pecans is on the body of the tree and extends from the ground line up two or three feet. It varies all the way from a slight injury on one side, which is usually indicated by a roughening of the bark, to a complete girdling of the tree. Depending on the de- gree and extent of the injury, the tree may be simply checked in growth or it may leaf out and make an apparently vigorous and thrifty growth for, from a few weeks to several months, when it suddenly collapses. The writer has observed trees injured in this manner during the past winter to continue their growth up to the middle of August and then sud- denly die. This type of injury has never been observed by the writer on orchard trees over six years of age. However, it is of very com- mon occurence up to that age throughout the territory in which the paper-shell pecan is grown.
THE . . .
Williams Pecan
A new and most promising variety. Tree commenced bearing in 1911 with a crop of 40 nuts averaging 49 to the pound. Subsequent crops have been as follows :
1912— 160 nuts, 40 to the pound.
1913— -365 nuts, 43 to the pound.
1914— 1584 nuts, 36 to the pound.
In a grove this variety has proved more productive than Success, Stuart, VanDeman, Bolton, Pabst, Frotscher, or Jerome; and has been equaled only by Moneymaker.
A paper shell variety that fills well.
While surrounded by other varieties which have shown considerable disease, particularly scab, it has shown only slight susceptibility to these diseases.
Not as susceptible to the case bearer as most other varieties such as Stuart, Frotscher, Nelson and Pabst.
Specimen nuts mailed for 25c.
250 trees for sale at from $1.50 to $2.50 each. Buds in season $2.50 per hun- dred.
Also Registered Duroc Jersey Pigs for sale.
W. P. WILLIAMS
Blackshear, Ga.
5,000
Stuart Pecan Trees
6 to 9 Feet Tall Get Our Special Prices
We have other varieties and a stock of 15,000 Satsuma orange trees for sale. Write Us.
The Paper Shell Pecan Nursery, Ltd.
W. M. Ellison, Mgr. LAFAYETTE, LA.
feA-nrSe The Eureka Nut Cracker
Crack Nuts The Easy Way Latest- most practical crack- er in existence. Kernel is re- moved whole or in halves. Suitable for all kinds of nut-s. Strong and durable. Price 25c Postpaid. Agents Wanted. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. Southern Pecan CsL Orchard Co.
110 So. Dearborn St. CHICAGO, ILL.
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Another point to be noted in re- gard to this trouble is that it is usually spotted throughout the orchard. An occasional tree is killed here and there. This distri- bution of the trouble on the tree here and there throughout the or- chard is a source of much confus- ion to those inexperienced with this trouble. The only explanation that can be gi ven of this spotting of the injury is that of the individ- uality of the trees.
Not infrequently, however, nur- sery stock is killed outright and all the trees in fairly well defined areas are lost.
A great deal of this trouble has shown up during the past spring and summer about this section of Georgia and a consideration of the weather conditions during the sea- son of 1914 gives some light on what appears to have been an epi- demic of trouble.
The summer of 1914 was con- siderably below normal in precipi- tation up to the first of Septem- ber. Rains began about this time and between Sept. 1 and Nov. 18, the dase of the first killing frost, 10.13 inches of rain fell. Many or- chards which showed the effect of the dry weaklier earlier in the summer put out a late summer or early fall growth and had a thrif- ty, vigorous appearance and re- tained their foilage in large part until the first frost.
The week preceeding Nov. 18th was unseasonably warm. Between Nov. 18th and 22nd there were four days on which the tempera- ture fell below freezing, twenty- three degrees F. being the mini- mum reached on the 21st. The daily range varied from fifteen to thirty-five degrees and the days were clear. With such a combi- nation of growth and weather con- ditions, it is not surprising that some trees succumbed or that the loss was serious in certain orchards which received late summer culti- vation and fertilization, as some did.
It will be obvious to this audi- ence that the most important single
A Wise Man
profits by the experience of others and the ex- perience of many others is that the man who
Plants
pecan trees is getting himself in a state of pre- paredness against the hardships and failures that come so unexpectedly.
Pecan Trees
planted ten years ago are now yielding their own- ers very satisfactory returns with the promise of an income no other line of horticulture affords.
A grove planted
This Winter
brings you much nearer this income and inde- pendence.
For information relative to select stock, guaranteed, write to
Summit Nurseries
Monticello, Fla. :: :: :: Foley, Ala.
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Largest Distributors of Pecans in The West LEON LATOUR
Receiver and Distributor of
Louisiana Sugar, Molasses, Rice, Pecans And Other Southern Products
186 North La Salle Street CHICAGO, U. S. A.
Liberal Cash Advances Made on Consignments. Write for Particulars
REFERENCED
Julius Weis & Son, Newr Orleans, La Leon Godchaux Co. Ltd., New Orleans, La. Lehman, Stern & Co. Ltd., New Orleans, La. Mr. Sol Wexler. President Whitney Central National Bank, New Orleaus, La. National Produce Bank, Chicago, 111. Foreman Bros. Banking Co., Chicago, 111. Wakem & McLaugh- lin. Inc., Chicago, 111. North American Provision Co., Chicago, 111.
Shippers and Growers Are Requested to Furnish Samples “READ THAT TOP LINE AGAIN”
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■ Orchards. Inc., Norfolk, Va.
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IN BLASTED GROUND
A LL progressive farmers and orchardists know that trees planted in blasted ground grow much faster than those planted in the old way and bear fruit earlier.
This proves the truth of the principles of Vertical Farming, which aims to cultivate downward as well as to till the top soil.
Three years ago tree planting in blasted holes was experimental — now millions of trees are set out by the Vertical Farming method every spring and fall.
In like manner, blasting the subsoil to increase general crop yields, now regarded as experimental, will in a few years, be common.
To learn how and why Vertical Farming may double the yields of your farm, get the Free Reading Course in Vertical Farming, by Dr. G. E. Bailey, one of the best works on soils and soil culture ever published. Sent free with every request for our Farmer’s Handbook No. F 325 Write now.
Established 1802 DU PONT POWDER CO. Wilmington, Del.
WHY DO
THE LEADING PLANTERS AND NURSERYMEN RECOMMEND TREES GROWN BY
SIMPSON NURSERY COMPANY?
Because we have always delivered trees as ordered, at the time wanted, and packed them so that they arrived in better condition than is usually ex- pected, and the result is that our
TREES GROW
For years past we have shipped more pecan trees than any other nursery - man. At least one third of the pecan acreage in the Albany district is planted with trees grown by us.
Our trees are exceptionally flue this year and we know they will please you. Will be glad to quote you on all standard varieties. Your order will re- ceive our personal attention.
Simpson Nursery Company
MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
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factor in avoiding this trouble is in so handling t lie orchard that the trees will be able to thorough- ly ripen their wood before the cold weather sets in and that the best way to do this is by planting some gross feeding cover crop, preferab- ly a legume at or a litlle after mid- summer.
In some places, however, it has been found that even though the orchard was handled most care- fully with reference to this par- ticular trouble, injury still occur- red. In these cases resort has been had to wrapping the trees from the ground line up about four feet with old sacking and this treatment has, in the cases of which we have record, practically eliminated the trouble.
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Philippine Pili Nuts
Some attention is being given by individuals in the Philippines to the larger utilization of the pili nut (pronounced “peelee”). This nut is counted a great delicacy by those who have eaten it. It is native to the islands and is known as Canarium luzonicum. It is found in more or less abundance in the Provinces of Camarines, Al- bay, and Sorsogon. The pili nut has been exported to some extent to Europe and the United States, but no regular exportation is car- ried on, owing to several obstacles encountered. It has been compar- ed to the pecan nut of the United States, but most persons familiar with both prefer the pili. In Ma- nila it is used extensively on the tables of Americans and foreigners and to some extent by the Filipi- nos.
Shipments abroad have not been altogether satisfactory because of the unreliability of t lie local sup- ply. The natives who gather the nut are not careful to let it mature before gathering. As a consequence the mature and the immature nuts are put together and marketed. There is not much difference in the appearance, and it is not easy for the purchaser or the exporter
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to detect the immature nut. The nut picked green is subject to a withering or drying up of the meat, which only appears when it is cracked. As a result, those who have exported these unselected nuts have had many complaints of worthless nuts from their patrons.
Practically all the pili nut trees in the islands are wild. The nut has never been cultivated, so far as known. Some of the nuts have been planted in Manila by private experimenters and have been found to grow well there and to produce nuts at the age of 4 years. It is probable that the pili nut will not become an article of ex- port worthy of consideration until some steps are taken to plant groves of selected nuts, for there are several varieties — some much better t han ot hers — and to estab- lish a uniform system of gathering and preparing them for market that shall insure a uniform quality of nut for export. It is estimated by those best informed as to the nature and characteristics of the pili that the nut could be highly developed with but little effort and made to more than rival the pecan in the world's markets.
It is proposed to plant the pili- nut tree along the highways of the Provinces in which it flourishes and is known to thrive and to have it planted by the pupils of the public schools in those Provinces. The tree is easily propagated from seed, which is to be had at ten cents per hundred in the pili nut Provinces.' The trees are very large when mature, and the best inform ed persons propose to have them planted at intervals of 30 feet. — Consular and Trade Reports, o o <o
Exports of Brazilian Nuts
Exports of Brazilian nuts from Para, Manaos, and Itaeoatiara dur- ing the period from January 1 to June 30, 1915, amounted to 407,- 087 bushels. Of this total, 188,542 bushels were from Manaos, 38.117 bushels from Itaeoatiara, and 1 81,- 028 bushels from Para. Manaos shipped 100,890 bushels to Europe
WOLDERT GROCERY CO.
‘TYCER.TEXASand CHICAGO. !LL.
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PRICE
$199 Each
Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery
Season 1915-16 Will be pleased to book or- ders now for Grafted Pecans
No Seedling's Send for Price List
Chas. E. Pabst
Proprietor
Ocean Springs, Miss.
H. & D. Corrugated Fibreboard Boxes
FOR PiLCANS AND ALL SORTS OF NUTS
This box will carry safely five pounds of pecans yet it weighs only J4 ounces. Equally convenient for Ex- press and Parcel Post.
Think Of The Saving !
In Postage and Expressage
Write for prices and sam- ples, any size or style you want.
The Hinde & Dauch Paper Co.
171 MARKET STREET SANDUSKY, OHIO
PECAN TREES
As GOOD as can be grown
And as CHEAP as the best can be grown...
J. B. WIGHT, Cairo, Ga.
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Hawkeye St. Paul Company
THIS COMPANY HAS AN ATTRACTIVE
PECAN PROPOSITION
j Q) HIS is simply a safe and sound business 5G3 movement for utilizing the opportuni- ties for profitable and permanent invest- ment. The plan eliminates the risks, ex- pense and worry of individual ownership of orchards. It is available either for the large or small investor.
Send for a copy of the HAWKEYE HARBINGER. It gives particulars and valuable information.
Hawkeye-St. Paul Company
68-69 First National Bank Building DAVENPORT, IA.
Al>Lr ABOUT KUDZU
A 3“Ton Cutting of Kudzu at Glen Arden Farm, Shewing both the Cut and Standing Hay
Most wonderful growth. The coming forage crop of the South. Better than alfalfa, red clover or timothy. Better because it succeeds, on land too poor for those crops. Better because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to save it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruin the hay. Better, because stock like it better and it contains more protein than wheat bran — from 1(1.59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants. Kudzu has great possibilities as a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further informa- tion and prices write,
G. E. Pleas Plant Go.
and 87,652 to American ports, Ita- coatiara 23,274 to Europe and 13,- 843 to this side of the Atlantic, and the respective figures for Para were 87,496 and 93,532. The total exportation to Europe was 212,660 and to American ports, 195,027. The United States imported during the fiscal year ended .June 30, 1914, 11,431,531 pounds of cream and Brazil nuts, having a value of $64 1 .825.
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The Steady Subscriber
How dear to my heart is the steady subscriber, who pays in ad- vance without skipping a year; who takes out his dollars and of- fers them gladly and casts ’round the office a halo of cheer. Who never says “Stop it. I can not af- ford it,” or “Getting more papers each day than I read”; hut always says “Send it. the ranch outfit likes it — in fact, we regard it as an absolute need.” How welcome lie is when he steps in the sanctum; how he makes our heart tlirob, how lie makes our eyes dance; we outwardly thank him — we inward- ly bless him — the steady subscrib- er who pays in advance.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting in So u t h Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
“GLEN ARDEN FARM’’ CHIPLEY, FLORIDA
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Established by (J. M. Bacon in 1889. Incorporated 1903. The Pioneer Pecan Nursery
The G. M. Bacon
Pecan Company
DeWitt, Georgia
Standard Varieties of Well Grown Trees
Our many years of practical ex- perience combined with the scientific study we have made of the industry enables us to supply to the best advantage the wants of our patrons.
Prompt attention to inquiries.
Send For Our New Catalogue.
The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co,
DeWitt, Georgia
/jrt\UIT yourself like a man; Vt speak up and strike out, if necessary, for whatsoever is true and manly and lovely and of good report; never try to be popular, but only to do your duty and help others to do theirs; and, wherever you are placed, you may leave the tone of feeling higher than you found it, and so be doing good which no living soul can meas- ure to generations yet unborn.
— Thomas Hughes.
IOc per Copy $1.00 per Year
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KEYSTONE
Pecan Orchard Co.
CrD
Producers and Exporters of fine
PAPER SHELL PECANS
CrD
OFFICES :
I Broadway, New York, N.Y. Times Building, Florence,S.C. Groves: Baconton, Ga.
CrD
VARIETIES:
Schley, Van Deman, Frotsch- er, Stuart
We expect to have approxi- mately five tons of high grade paper shell pecans from oar 1915 crop. Varieties: Schley, Van Deman and Stuart. Of- fers solicited or prices quoted on application.
The W. B. Dukes Pecan Farm
Moultrie, Georgia
Growers and Shippers o f
FANCY PAPER SHELL PECANS
One million grafts and buds of Schley Stuart, Delmas and Moneymaker. Write for favorable prices.
—Best Budded— Pecan Trees
We have them in great quanti- ty as well as quality. Our stock is especially strong and well- rooted. We have also best budding wood.
Magnolia Nursery
W. C. JONES, Proprietor Successor to Wight & Jones
Cairo, Ga.
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Items of Interest
Jacksonville, Fla., is to be the meeting place for the 1916 conven- tion.
A large shipment of Italian nuts designed for the holiday trade at New' York was lost by the sinking of the steamship Ancona.
The California Associated Raisin Company is spending $160,000 in advertising to increase the con- sumption of this product.
In a Consular report from Mar- seilles, France, the almond crop is said to be short 55 per cent this season.
Turkeys are coming into favor as an orchard by-product. They are said to rival the famous bob- white in cleaning up insects which injure trees.
Almond growers are finding it necessary to spray their trees on account of the peach blight which has during the past two years ser- iously injured the almond orchards.
The convention paper by Mr. W. P. Bullard of Albany, Ga., the new secretary of the Association is to be reprinted in leaflet form. Copies can be obtained from the secretary or Tlie Nut-Grower.
December is the month for planting citrus trees. Previous cultivation of the land is desirable and care in planting followed by regular cultivation and ample sup- plies of plant food are essentials.
Shipping boxes for pecans and nut crackers are two lines of trade which (lie pecan is building regu- larly and rapidly. The dealers who advertise in the official organ are getting an increasing trade each year.
No one need go without a prac- tical nut cracker in these days of pecan progress. The Southern Pe- can and Orchard Co., of Chicago offer a convenient hand cracker at the low price of fifty cents. This is a move in the direction of help- ing- t he industry rather than for profits they might make at this price.
Quality Trees
Pecans
Satsumas
General line of
Hardy Citrus Trees
Every shipment means a satisfied customer
Your patronage will prove it
Write for prices at once
Florida
Nurseries
W. W. BASSETT, Proprietor
Monticello, Florida
Budding Tool
Patented 1905
A popular tool for budding Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Persimmons and all other trees.
Buds and Grafting Scions
of Schley, Stuart, Alley, Delmas, V an Deman, Teche, Russell. Mobile, Frotscher and Success.
■ Wholesale and Retail ■
For particulars and prices write
HERBERT C. WHITE
Putney P. O. .’. Georgia
SHIPPING POINTS: Baconton,
Ga., DeWitt , Ga., Hardaway, Ga., Albany, Ga.
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VOLUME XIV WAYCROSS, GA„ DECEMBER 1915 NUMBER 12
THE NATIONAL PECAN GROWERS’ EXCHANGE
AND ITS MISSION
By Wm. P. Bullard
A Paper Read at the Albany Convention of the National Nut Growers’ Association
n ET lie apparently digress from my subject a ^Mrl moment to say that every nut grower should subscribe for all the leading nut journals. I am moved to say this for the reason that as Secretary of this Exchange I am in receipt of frequent letters of inquiry that would never have been made if these growers had been readers of these journals. There have appeared from time to time full reports of this Exchange in these journals, whose editors have kind- ly opened their columns to us so that we might keep the field posted. And any way, every progressive person should take the leading publications pertain- ing to his work, be that work medicine, merchandis- ing or nut growing. The man who does not take these journals, and who does not attend association meetings of this character because he can not learn anything new is destined to soon land on the dump- pile of antiquated curios. In a certain city there was a firm that prided itself on its past record, which was hoary with age. Across their store front there was a conspicuous sign like this: “Established one
hundred years ago. We are it.” Some enterprising up-to-date young men set up a similar store across the street and over their door this sign: “Establish-
ed yesterday. We do not sell any old goods.”
The necessity for a satisfactory selling or market- ing association for the pecan growers has been dis- cussed for the past three or four years, and at the annual meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Grow- ers’ Association, at Thomasville in May, 191L, this thought was crystallized into form by the appoint- ment of a committee to make a complete study of the whole subject. This committee met frequently, investigated market conditions and otherwise con- sidered the problem, and made a report to the called meeting of the Georgia-Florida Association during the annual meeting of the National Nut Growers Association at Thomasville last October. This report was approved and the committee continued and vest- ed with full authority to do whatever seemed exped- ient and wise. At the next day’s session of the Nat- ional this whole matter was brought before the
meeting, whereupon the action of the Georgia-Florida was approved and the committee made also the com- mittee of the National and similaarly invested with full power and discretion. This action of the Nat- ional broadened the committee’s work and made it national in scope and character.
In due time this National Pecan Growers’ Ex- change was organized on lines as nearly as possible approximating the California Walnut Growers Asso- ciation; after which the most urgent thing appeared to the establishment of certain grades and standards. This was done in due season, and two grades, num- bers one and two, were established for all the leading varieties of nuts. If this Exchange never does any- thing more, this one action of grade establishment should earn the everlasting gratitude of nut growers and dealers in pecans.
Briefly stated, this Exchange is based wholly upon co-operative lines. While it has a nominal capital stock to comply with the Georgia incorpora- tion laws, yet this stock has a par value of only one dollar, is non-dividend paying, and only one share to each member; the membership is restricted to pecan growers, and the voting power and control made de- pendent upon the tonnage of nuts marketed and not upon share holding; in other words, the stock is shorn by charter of every characteristic usually attaching to stock, thus making it in virtue and effect simply membership certificates, and might as well have been so called. As thus organized this Exchange can not be construed as a trust prohibited by the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, but on the contrary, it comes within the Clayton Amendment to said Anti-Trust Law, which expressly extends immunity to labor, agricul- tural or horticultural organizations instituted for the purposes of mutual help and not conducted for profit.
It would be impossible to organize a selling body more favorable to the grower. The only possible profit that can come to any member is from the sale of his own individual pecans, the voting power is based upon the quantity of pecans sold for each member, one extra vote accorded for each ton of nuts
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so sold. Thus both membership and control are placed with the growers and can never pass into the hands of speculators or dealers. While the head office is located in Albany, that being the present logical place in point of thinshell production, yet the board of directors may change this head office at any time to any other city or State.
The Exchange has been criticised because it is not profit sharing with stock that may be bought and controlled and run for the private gain of those in control. They ask how it can be financed. Why, it can be financed the same as any other business, either firm or corporation. Instead of buying capital stock, lend funds to the Exchange secured by its promissory notes or bonds, to be paid back with in- terest at an agreed date. Such an investment in the Exchange would be just as safe and the security just as good as in any other, kind of selling organization.
A profit sharing business is conducted on the basis of greed — for the profit of the owners, who must and will buy just as cheaply as possible. They will hammer the life out of your prices, they will buy cheaply and sell dearly, for there lies their margin of profit. While the private selling concern will de- press vour prices, the Exchange on the other hand will aim to get you the highest prices possible based upon supply and demand and consistent with good business judgment. Too low a market price means little profits to the grower; too high a price means restricted demand; a fair and consistent market price means market extensions and enlarged consumption. This is what the Exchange will stand for.
And it will stand for high ideals as to standards of grade and quality. This will appeal to buyers. Last year a lot of uncured pecans were shipped to the Atlanta markets. They made people not only sick but disgusted them with pecans and the market- ing methods in vogue. Very lately stale pecans were on this Albany market. Spoiled pecans may be found in nearly every market at all times, they being- holdovers from the previous year. A large eastern buyer for home use wrote me within a fortnight as follows: “I have great difficulty in buying from the
larger grocers of New- York and Boston an honest pecan. They seemed to be mixed with the crops of a year or more previously gathered.” This Exchange stands for the elimination of these practices.
The California Walnut Growers Association is the most successful association the nearest kin to our business. They will handle about seventy-five per cent of the walnut crop this year. That enables them to guarantee stability of prices throughout the year; and to guarantee standards of grade and qual- ity, including cracking standards; in other words, enables them to guarantee every requisite demanded by the trade. This is what the trade wants, and it will welcome and support any organization that can offer them these things. Eight or nine years ago
wholesalers and jobbers were afraid to buy more than a twenty-four hours' supply of raisins at one time. There was no organization; it was every fellow for himself, and the devil for the hindmost. But now, thanks to the raisin association, these buyers will not hesitate to buy their year's supply at one time.
The California walnut crop this year will ap- proximate 27,000,000 pounds, and their association will handle about seventy five percent of it; last year they handled about sixty-five percent at a total cost to the grower of about three per cent, including ad- vertising, salaries, etc. Can yon beat it? That looks like a successful organization. They pay one and one-half per cent brokerage, while the larger pecan companies pay from five to seven per cent. We are patterned as nearly as possible after that association as it is near of kin to our business, and we should adopt all their successful methods as far as appli- cable to our industry. When you go to Rome do as the Romans do. You might improve on the Roman methods after a while, but better not try too many innovations at first.
The California association sells entirely through brokerage connections, of whom they have over a hundred in the United States. They have more than twenty local affiliating associations located in the producing sections. The local growers are members of the local, and the local has a representation in the councils of the head association. The parent associa- tion owns and supplies its own graders to these locals, thus insuring absolute uniformity in grading. Through a well worked out system of bank draft connections, they make immediate payment to the local of ninety per cent of each shipment as soon as shipped, the ten per cent being held back to cover expense of office, advertising, sales and possible loss and to equalize the pools and the sum each shipper gets on each shipper gets on each grade in event there is a carry-over. Under their system favoritism is impossible. These are things we should pattern after.
It will not require large capital to finance this Exchange, 'there is no reason to begin in a spec- tacular way; make a moderate beginning and gradu- ally but surely build on a firm foundation and ere long it will dominate the pecan markets of the world. If I were to outline the present requirements, I would advise the raising of a fund of, say $15,000, payable on call, as deemed wise, said sum to be se- cured b5’ the bonds or indentures of the Exchange, with an agreed interest and returnable to the lender out of the proceeds of the business. As one large grower puts it, this would simply amount to an ad- vance payment of brokerage commission, which would be returned later with interest. The next step would be to employ the right man, if not con- tinuously. then from time to time, for the first few months, as the needs required. Thus equipped the
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Exchange should be started on the highway to suc- cess for the pecan growers everywhere.
If I should let loose some enemy that would de- stroy part of your orchards, you would not spare money to destroy me; if by some means I should cut in two t he production of your orchards, you would contribute most liberally to condemn me. And now after raising your crops should you sit idly by and allow your income to be decimated by unorganized market conditions which you could and should rec- tify? One large grower last year was compelled to buy up ten tons of nuts from time to time on the New York market to hold the price to a profitable basis. Very soon the volume will be too great to do this.
Now that you have raised your crops after long- years of toil and waiting, you must not expect some genii to pop up and buy your pecans without effort on your part. You have no Aladdin's lamp to open to you the golden markets. The Spartan youth who complained to his mother that his sword was too short, was told to add a step to it. And now we must add one more step to our many others gone be-
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fore, and this must be a combined effort to finance this Exchange. If it is not this Exchange that will dominate, then eventually if will be some monster of greed like the United Fruit Company, or the Stand ard Oil Company; and if it comes to this then may God help us down here in Southwest Georgia, where we pay nineteen cents for gasoline, while our broth- ers in Chicago pay only nine. The manipulations of these trusts for their own advantage are wonderful to behold and destructive to experience.
My own connection with the Exchange as Secre- tary is simply an incident to the organization, and I have neither hope nor expectation of any official con- nection of emolument whatever; but I am privileged now and here to say to you that the success of this Exchange is now up to you. It was fathered and brought into being by this very National Association that is now here in session; and organized for you growers. If wise in business wisdom then you will finance it without grudge or stint; if not then it will be every fellow for himself, and the devil get the hindmost; and that will be the most of you.
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THE HARDAWAY PACKING PLANT
^ HE third day of the Albany Convention was giv- gf V en over entirely to sight seeing so an early start was made in automobiles and many places of interest were visited during the day. No effort will be made to trace the drive or give a report of the day's doings other than the story which centers at Hardaway, the headquarters of the Patterson & Taylor operations. This was the pivotal point for the day for various reasons. The thousands of acres of orchards which surround the town were largely planted shortly be- fore the convention visited the same locality six years previously, and a goodly number of the much larger party for the 1915 inspection had been there on the former occasion. To this contingent of the visitors the wonderful development of the trees and the organized business methods in actual operation in gathering and marketing the nuts was of very great interest.
Then this was the point where the Georgia bar- becue was to served at noon. This was one time when everybody was on time. In fact the crowd was so hungry that they began arriving by eleven o'clock, and kept coming until the appointed hour, when something over two hundred brainy and progressive men and scores of sprightly and beautiful women were graciously served by attendants who imparted good will as they dispensed hospitality in the form of Georgia barbecue with finishing touches that would do credit to any chef.
But the meal came to an end before the abun- dant provisions were exhausted, and the company
was marshalled to a shady lawn where the after din- ner speaking was staged. What was there said by representatives of the companies, Prof. Hutt, Sena- tor Butler, Mayor Tarver and others would make another story yet to be written.
However the purpose of this article is simply to give somewhat in detail a description of the initial pecan packing house or factory as it might fittingly be called, where the nuts come in from the orchards and are prepared for market.
This plant is owned by the various parties and interests controlled by the Patterson-Taylor organi- zation, each owner having one share of stock in the plant for each orchard unit they own. It is located on an A. C. L. side track, was designed carefully by Mr. .1. A. Miller of Chicago, a civil engineer who is one of the orchard owners and who has been for years a regular subscriber to this journal.
A description of the process from orchard to shipment will describe the plant. Mr. J. M. Patter- son, the dominant personality of the enterprise gave personal and courteous attention to the writer in his inspection of plant and process and since other plants will pattern after this initial one to a greater or less extent, a careful memoranda was taken at the time which now takes form in this story.
Beginning in the orchard, large sheets are spread beneath the tree. Nuts are then whipped off clean as the trees are visited but once during the season. The folding of the sheet eollects all the nuts which
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X5he Nut-Grower
Published monthly by XShe Nut -Grower Company
Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1911, at the post office at Waycross, Ga. , under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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No receipts for subscription remittances will be forward- ed unless return postage is enclosed. The label on wrapper is a receipt and indicates when subscription expires.
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Forms close on 20th of month preceding date of publica- tion.
The increase in demand for fine pecans is grow- ing faster than the production is being enlarged. Eacli year they sell more readily and, contrary to expectations, the prices obtained are also increasing, rather than diminishing.
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The 1916 convention to be held at Jacksonville, Fla., will doubtless attract wide attention, and since that city has the facilities and inclination for enter- taining large bodies, it may be confidently expected that the meeting there will not only be a record one in attendance, but enjoyable in various ways.
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During the past twenty-five years the pecan in- dustry has passed through and sucessfully overcome all the accidents, mistakes and injuries from exploi- tation incident to the formation of a new industry and is now well established and ready to grow more substantially and rapidly than ever.
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The quality of pecans is a characteristic of the nut that can well be pressed to the front. With all the native and imported nuts which the pecan must compete it can lead them all in this particular, when proper attention is given to the selection of varieties and proper grading when placed on the market.
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The competition which now exists between the standard varieties of pecans and the- seedlings now found in the markets is one of the problems which promises to be overcome to a great extent, by the increasing consumption of the latter by the cracking factories. This leaves the fine varieties for use in
the more circumscribed dessert nut trade, where they have a commanding position.
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Among the pecan exhibits at Albany the five plates shown by T. S. McManus, of Waldo, Fla., were conspicuous on account of the unusual size and fine appearance of the specimens. We may talk about quality, plump kernels and abundant bearing as being more important, but the fact remains that the size and fine appearance is what attracts the pub- lic eye, and it is the general public that is supposed to pay for what it likes.
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If more of the old and young men could grade up to the measure of usefulness that is indicated by the following extract from a letter to the editor from Mr. Thomas Bridgen, of Alabama, there would be a great increase in the planting of fruit and nut trees. He says: “It may seem like folly lo plant pecans in
my 82d year but I presume there will be some one left after I am gone, so I am still interested in fruit and nut culture.”
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With the new year we extend greetings to old and new patrons, wishing each and every one pros- perity. We know that happiness is in store from the fact that you are or soon will be the proud possessor of bearing pecan trees. In a material way we know of nothing having greater potentialities, as the high brows call it, for manufacturing Christmas good cheer than a bearing pecan tree. These trees live long, so the planter extends his beneficence to future genera- tions as well as the present.
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About two years ago we told the story of nine Satsuma orange trees which were planted under the direction of the editor near Waycross. As we recall the mention, it said that ten trees had been planted in the spring of 1911 and that one of them failed to grow. The crop from t lie nine trees in September and October 1913 was TO dozen oranges which sold on a local market at 20 cents per dozen. As the owner believes in making records oi his creditable trees, we are able to add another chapter to the story. The tree that failed to grow the first year was not dead below the bud. and after getting a good foot-hold started into growth and made up for lost time so that the 1914 and 1915 crops are from the ten trees rather than the nine as formerly stated. The past two season’s production shows 160 dozen for the past year and an even 100 dozen in 1914. In addition to the increased crop better prices were ob- tained. even the culls selliug as high as 20 cents per dozen while the average price obtained was close to 25 cents.
THERE ARENO CLAY HILLS IN DIXIE
Finer than those in the Cottage Hill, Fla., district where our nursery and groves are located.
Our pecan stock is absolutely great and if you are in the market be sure to let us figure with you.
We are bringing in a large number of the celebrated Brewton (blight proof) pear, and will either quote you stock in any size, or contract to bud for you as many as you like. An orchard pf Brew- ton Pears is a sure and big winner.
We develop pecan tracts under a five year installment agreement the prices and terms of which cannot be beaten.
Also develop combination groves, using either peaches, satsumas or grape fruit as fillers between pecans.
About twenty five acre tracts still available.
WRITE US
THE PENSACOLA SEED & NURSERY CO. Cottage Hill, - Florida
THE . . .
Williams Pecan
A new and most promising variety. Tree commenced bearing in 1911 with' a crop of 40 nuts averaging 49 to the pound. Subsequent crops have been as follows :
1912— 160 nuts, 40 to the pound.
1913— 365 nuts, 43 to the pound.
1914 — 1584 nuts, 36 to the pound.
In a grove this variety has proved more productive than Success, Stuart,
^ anDeman, Bolton, Pabst, Frotscher, or Jerome; and has been equaled only by Moneymaker.
A paper shell variety that fills well.
While surrounded by other varieties which have shown considerable disease, particularly scab, it lias shown only slight susceptibility to these diseases.
Not as susceptible to the case bearer as most other varieties such as Stuart, Frotscher, Nelson and Pabst.
Specimen nuts mailed for 25c.
250 trees for sale at from $1.50 to $2.50 each. Buds in season $2.50 per hun- dred.
Also Registered Duroc Jersey Pigs for sale.
W. P. WILLIAMS
Blackshear, Ga.
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Hardaway Packing Plant
(Continued from page 109) are emptied into a sack, tied and labelled as to variety. This pro- cess is repeated from tree to tree until the entire crop is gathered. Early ripening varieties receive the first attention. These labelled sacks then are gathered and haul- ed to the factory where varieties are separated, as but one variety at a time is processed.
The first step in the factory is to run the contents of the sack through a fanning mill which cleans out the leaves and rubbish collected on the sheet from the whipping of tree. From this mill the nuts, many of which are still in the hull, pass by means of a carrier to the h uller where by means of a mechanical appliance the hull is removed. On the way to the grader the hulls are screen- ed from the nuts. The grader is a sheet iron cylinder about ten feet long with a diameter of about thirty inches. This is placed hori- zontally with enough inclination to move the nuts from the one end to the other as it revolves. This cylinder has numerous perfora- tions, elliptical in shape and vary- ing in size and corresponding with the established grade which has its basis in a specific number of sixteenths of an inch. The entrance end of the cylinder has small per- forations and thus separates all the small nuts. Larger ones move along the revolving cylinder by gravity until a perforation large enough for it to drop out is reach- ed. Immediately beneath the cylin- der, and corresponding with the varying size of the mesh are com- partments with gravity runs which deliver the nuts of each grade in separate baskets.
They are now clean, graded as to size and ready for the dryer. Nuts which pass through the holl- er without separating the nut pass entirely through and are treated as varying conditions require.
From this stage the different grades as well as varieties are kept carefully > " and are emptied
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5,000
Stuart Pecan Trees
6 to 9 Feet Tall Get Our Special Prices
We have other varieties and a stock of 15,000 Satsuma orange trees for sale. Write Us.
The Paper Shell Pecan Nursery, Ltd.
W. M. Ellison, Mgr. LAFAYETTE, LA.
Rood Pecan Groves
Albany, Ga.
Pecan Trees Pecan Nuts English Walnut Trees
Write for Prices . .
C. M. Rood, President
Mrs. W. R. Stuart
Ocean Springs, Miss.
Pecan Nuts and Trees
The true successor of Col. VV. R. Stuart
The Eureka Nut Cracker
Crack Nuts The Easy Way
Latest most practical crack- er in existence. Kernel is re- moved whole or in halves. Suitable for all kinds of nuts. Strong and durable. Price 25c Postpaid. Agents Wanted. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. Southern Pecan (Sb Orchard Co. 110 So. Dearborn St. CHIT - " L.
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The Pecan Business
In a concise booklet FREE. Every point mentioned, from planting the nuts to gathering the nuts. Written from prac- tical results, over 20 years experience. Nuts and trees for sale.
B. W. STONE :: Thoirasviile, Ga.
rafted Pecan Trees
of Select Papershell Varieties
NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST
Bayview Pecan Nursery
C. FORKERT, Proprietor
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
Wanted— to Buy
Fruit of Citrus Triloliata, the small three leaved orange used for hedges. In any quantity from a peck to a hundred bushels. Write for prices stating how much you can supply.
Citrus Fruit Co., Deer Park, Ala.
G. H. Tomlinson
NURSERYMAN
Putney, Ga.
Everything Suited to the South
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Transplanted Pecan Trees
The pecan trees we are offering this season were transplanted one year be- fore budding, and have a much better root system than trees grown in the usual way, having two to six short tap roots in place of one long one, as most trees have.
We also grow a full line of citrus trees.
Get our price list.
THE JENNINGS NURSERY
JENNINGS :: LOUISIANA
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into trays holding probably fifty pounds or more. These trays are about four by six feet in size and four inches deep. As filled they are racked to a height of about five feet on trucks and passed to the drying room where currents of air are circulated by means of a fan. Provision is also made for heating the air to any desired temperature but the constant circulation rather than the temperature is supposed to be preferable. About twelve hours in the drying room cures the nuts. They then go to bins holding specified grades and varie- ties. The product is now ready for marketing. This company wholesales their supplies through brokers, and offer but three grades for the fancy trade, which they brand on the sack used for handling shipments. The grades are called Extra Fancy, Fancy and Crackers. Any stock that does not classify in the two first named grades goes as Crackers.
Sacks with capacity of 175, 25, 10 and 5 pounds are used, each stenciled as to variety and grade and bearing the name of the com- pany, which handles only its own product. The name of the com- pany is given as the Paper Shell Pecan Growers Association, and membership is limited to the own- ers or orchards developed by the Patterson-Tay lor Company. Ex- penses of operations are pro rated on the tonnage basis, each paying- in proportion to the size of his crop. Membership is optional, but circumstances are not favorable for individual marketing, although some are handling their own crops. The present officers are J. M. Patt - erson, president; W. H. Wilder, vice-president and Ilobert S. Cor- son. secretary and treasurer.
Shipments in pound cartons packed in eases containing 36 car- tons are also made to some extent in the marketing program.
This plant, as now in operation, is invoiced at $6,000 and is handl- ing the crops from about 4.000 acres. It is modeled on co-opera- tive lines and will be enlarged to
N.C. ALSTON
Richland, Ga.
Standard Varieties
of Pecan Trees
Budding Wood And Nuts
Pecan Trees
Satsuma Oranges
AX'D
Other Citrus Trees
Also a general line of Fruit "Yees, Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrub oery and Field Grown Rose Bushes. No better stock grown. Before placing vour orders write for illustrated cata logue.
Turkey Creek Nursery Company,
Box 21. Macclenny, Fla.
Berckmans'
Trees and Shrubs
Are grown by specialists of long experience, who know the require- ments of Southern soil and climate.
Only the best tested varieties are grown. Why not get them?
We have a large variety of fruit, pe- can and other nut and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens and roses. Can supply in carload lots.
Catalogue for the asking.
P. J. Berckmans Go.,
FRUITLAND NURSERIES, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ou Landscape department is equip- ped with competent landscape archi- tects and engineers. If you wish to beautify your grounds, consult us.
SUCCESS
NATURAL SIZE
The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both end with kernels of best quality.
BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
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Budded Pecan Trees Our Specialty...
We grow the old standard va- rieties— Stuart, Frotscher and Schley. None better Lowest prices. 400 acres in groves, 2 to five years old for sale. Come to see or write
Tuck Brothers
Thomasville : : Georgia
HARDY ENGLISH WALNUT AND PECAN TREES
for planting in the Middle belt or far- ther North.
Why not plant some of my hardy bud- ded English Walnuts instead of all Pe- cans, and not put all of your eggs in one basket. My catalogue is free for the asking.
J. F. JONES
The Nut Tree Specialist Lancaster, Pa.
In the HEART of the Texas Pecan Belt
We have all the lead- ing- Texas and South- ern varieties of pecans ^ ery best of trees.
We grow a full line of nursery stock and specialize in Peach,
Plum. Apple, Pecan and Berries.
Our LEONA PEACH will supplant Elber- ta. HAUPT BER- RY, a hybrid, for the South is unequalled.
an investment of $25,000 as crop increase requires. It is, in fact an interlocking interest represented by the several development com- panies with the orchard investors.
There are many intricate prob- lems;, both commercial and horti- cultural being wrought out in the operations at Hardaway which are not only of much interest, but must necessarly be influential in various ways in the steady growth of the industry. The arrival of nut crops, which, by the way, came in on schedule time, inaugu- rates a new era in the industry, though much still remains to be done by the trained horticultur- ists who have heretofore exclusive- ly held the stage.
The visit to Hardaway was an event of extraordinary interest. It will go into history as did the pilgrimage over these same orch- ards six years ago. Mr. Patterson and his associates fittingly met a great occasion and the apprecia- tion of his guests for the day will long linger in his memory.
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Nut Recipes
Nut Bread
2 1-2 cups flour.
2 1-2 teaspoons baking powder.
1 teaspoon salt.
1- 3 cup sugar.
2- 3 cup milk.
1 egg, well beaten.
1 cup chopped nut meats.
Sift flour and baking powder; add salt, sugar and nut meats; beat egg well, turn in milk and add to above. Put in bread pan and allow to stand ten minutes. Bake in moderate oven.
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pECAN TREEC
Our Specialty is growing well root- ed budded and grafted trees of best varieties.
Catalog free. We pay express. 420 acres.
Uf>e Austin Nursery
F. T. Ramsey (Q, Son AUSTIN. TEX,
Budded Pecan Trees
Best varieties. Write for price list. Peach trees 6 cents.
Pear trees 8 cents.
Hartwell Nurseries
Hartwell, Georgia
Nut-and-Cheese Roast 1 cupful grated cheese.
1 cupful chopped English wal- nut meats.
1 cupful fine breadcrumbs.
Fine Young Orchards For Sale
Trees now in second year; eight acres ; five standard varieties ; Splendid loca- tion. One-fifth cash, balance in five an- nual payments. Particulars on request
A. J. Strickland, Blackshear, Ga.
Careful attention given all orders. Write for prices.
SOUTHERN NUT TREE NURSERIES Thomasville, :: Georgia The May Nut Cracker
The only dependable and successful cracker manu- factured. Easy to oper- ate, rapid and lasting. Postpaid anywhere in U. S. on receipt of $1. Ad- dress F. B. MAY, Patentee, Wharton, Tex.
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2 tablespoon chopped onion.
1 tablespoon butter.
1-2 lemon.
Salt and pepper to taste.
3-4 cupful water.
A few sprigs of parsley.
Cook the onion in the butter with a little parsley until it is ten- der; add the nut meat, cheese, breadcrumbs; salt and pepper to taste; add the grated rind and the strained juice of half a lemon. Turn into a buttered fireproof dish, cover with buttered breadcrumbs, and bake in oven for twenty min- utes. Decorate with cut lemon and parsley.
Nut Loaf No. 1
1 cupful chopped nut meats.
2 cupfuls breadcrumbs.
I- 2 cupful melted butter.
II- 2 teaspoons salt.
1 egg.
1-2 teaspoon onion juice.
1 teaspoon mushroom catsup.
1-4 teaspoon pepper.
Mix these ingredients together and add more seasoning if requir- ed. Put into a buttered tin or mold, bake for one hour in mode- rate oven (covered the first half hour). During the cooking, baste three times with melted butter. Turn out on a hot dish.
Mock Goose
1 pint dry breadcrumbs.
6 hard boiled eggs.
1 pint chopped or ground nuts.
1 pint cold boiled rice.
1 tablespoon salt.
1 tablespoon grated onion.
3 well beaten eggs.
1 tablespoon finely powdered sage.
Cook one pint of dry bread- crumbs in a pint of water until boiling hot. Take from fire, add six hardboi led eggs, finely chopped one pint chopped or ground pecan, hickory or black walnut; one pint cold boiled rice, one tablespoonful salt, one tablespoonful grated on- ion, one tablespoonful finely pow- dered sage. Mix thoroughly and add three well beaten eggs. Place on oiled paper in a baking pan, form into G ■■ of a goose, reserv-
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ing some for legs and wings. Form the legs, stick in the body. Form the wings and press them down near the back on the paper. This may be done the day before cook- ing. One hour before serving time brush the “goose” with melted butter or cotton seed oil, dust thickly with fine breadcrumbs, and bake in quick oven for an hour, basting several times with melted butter or oil. Serve with apple or gooseberry sauce. In serv- ing, cut off the legs and wings and cut the body in slices, crosswise, o <p> o
Proceedings Mailed
Editor Nut-Grower:
I have just mailed the Proceed- ings of the Albany Convention to all life members of the National Nut Growers Association, and to all those who have paid their dues for the year. This is a volume of
When writing to advertisers please mention The Nut- Grower.
For Sale
FOR SALE. Budded Pecan Trees and Budwood, standard varieties. 45 acres pecan orchard, 2 and 3 years old; also improved farms. C. W. RANSOM, Houston, Tex.
FOR SALE— Fine paper shell pecans. Varieties: Frostcher, Stuart, Schley
and Van Deman. Prices 25 and 30c per pound f. o. b. Chas. Munroe, Tallahas- see, Fla.
FOR SALE — Farm on Illinois Cen- tral railroad. 100 acres, 26 cleared, 135 budded pecan trees, best varieties, over 100 attained the bearing age. 8 acres in strawberries; large residence. For par- ticulars adress, A. C. de Moxsabert, 1216 N. Galvez St., New Orleans, La.
FOR SALE— Six miles of Albany, Ga. 105 acres of pecan lands. 100 acres, trees one and two years old ; five acres, trees six years old and bearing. Location, soil and surroundings unsurpassed; trees best varieties; Splendid opportunity to engage in a most promising business; Price right; One-half casli and terms on balance. Address ROBT L. STEPHENS 54 West Randolph Street, Chicago, 111.
Wanted
WANTED — High grade, thin shell pecans. Will pay spot cash or sell on a commission basis. Submit samples with price on lots of 100 pounds and up. Jas. E. Plew,436 Webster Bldg., Chicago, 111.
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15,000 PECAN TREES
In desirable grades and Standard Varieties. Heal- thy, well grown stock.
Write For Prioes
All trees fumigated in ac- -
cordance with Georgia Laws. Certificate of in- spection attached to every package.
D. & O. Lott Co.
Waycross, Georgia
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And Fine Orchards Are Grown From
Inter-State Nursery Trees
Fine
Pecan
Trees
Five recognized best pecans for the farm or commercial planting; BRADLEY, CURTIS, PRESIDENT, SCHLEY. STUART and other leading varieties.
Our system of growing, digging and handling pecan trees insures success. Diversify your planting with other nut and fruit trees. Our catalog tells about best kinds ; how to plant and care for them.
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much practical interest, and no member should miss it. If there are those among your readers who have been members of the Associa- tion and have not received the Proceedings, flic explanation is likely that they have not paid their dues for the year 1915.
J. B. Wight Cairo, Ga., Dec. 10, 1915.
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Wight’s Frotscher Tree
Mr. J. B. Wight advises that his record Frotscher tree, for the year 1915 produced 162 pounds of nuts and has increased its circumference to 74 inches.
This tree has been visited by more people than any other tree in the realm of pecan culture. Its phenomenal history and produc- tion has been attributed to the care and skillful attention bestow- ed upon it by the indulgent owner.
But Mr. Wight is like others in some particulars, and for the past ten years this tree has not in the judgment of The Nut Grower, been given a square deal in its laudable efforts to make history, simply be- cause the owner has not given it room to spread its branches. A fine Centennial tree of equal age stands within about fifty feet of this Frotscher while other trees of various sizes and ages dot the city block on which it stands. It seems that there is but one direction in which it can reach out and the limbs on that side reach out for nearly a hundred feet, while from appearance at least half of the bearing wood is on this open side.
Such a tree deserves an entire acre of space. Thinning out a pe- can orchard when the trees begin to crowd each other is very nice in theory but it does not, as far as we have yet heard, go into actual practice.
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Planting Instructions
One of our advertisers gives the following instructions for planting pecan trees:
In handling and setting out pe- can trees, the most important
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“O’SHAW”
. Absolutely THE BEST Cracker ever invented for cracking pecans. . . .
Thoroughly breaks the shell
without crushing the kernel
Made of Malleable Iron and finished in nice shape, with two coats of tin.
Everything drops on the table. No muss all over the floor.
An Ideal Xmas Gift
Sent prepaid to any address upon receipt of 35c stamps not accepted. Address
SHAW MANUFACTURING CO.
1 500 West Street FAIRFIELD, IOWA
thing to remember is, never let the roots of the young trees get dry. Keep them damp always. If the roots are allowed to dry out, serious damage is sure to follow, and the trees very apt to even- tually die.
If explosives are not used in preparing the land, dig holes at least two feet, six inches deep, and two feet square. Fill in with top soil only. Plant the tree so it will be at about the same depth as when it stood in the nursery. It is much better and safer to plant
a little too deep, than not deep enough.
Broken or damaged roots should be cut off. Use a sharp knife or pruning shears. Never a hatchet or ax.
Pack the soil very firm around the roots. If it is dry, it is very important to water well, during and after planting. In any event, it is best to use water as it packs the soil better around the roots. Thorough packing is very essent- ial.
Do not put fertilizer in the tree-
hole. After planting work the fertilizer into the soil around the tree, but not too close to it.
Remember, never let the roots get dry.
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New Nursery Firm
The Inter-State Nurseries is the name of the re-organized firm of Griffing Brothers as applying to the non-citrus operations conduct- ed for many years by this firm at Jacksonville and Macelenny Fla. Mr. C. M. Griffing who was for- merly secretary and treasurer of
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A Wise Man
profits by the experience of others and the ex- perience of many others is that the man who
Plants
pecan trees is getting himself in a state of pre- paredness against the hardships and failures that come so unexpectedly.
Pecan Trees
planted ten years ago are now yielding their own- ers very satisfactory returns with the promise of an income no other line of horticulture affords.
A grove planted
This Winter
brings you much nearer this income and inde- pendence.
For information relative to select stock, guaranteed, write to
Summit Nurseries
Monticello, Fla.
Foley, Ala.
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WHY DO
THE LEADING PLANTERS AND NURSERYMEN RECOMMEND TREES GROWN BY
SIMPSON NURSERY COMPANY?
Because we have always delivered trees as ordered, at the time wanted, and packed them so that they arrived in better condition than is usually ex- pected, and the result is that our
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or years past we have shipped more pecan trees titan any other nursery- man. At least one third of the pecan acreage in the Albany district is planted with trees grown by us.
Our trees are exceptionally fine this year and we know they will please you. Will be glad to quote you on all standard varieties. Your order will re- ceive our personal attention.
Simpson Nursery Company
MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
the Griffing Brothers Company be- comes manager of the new firm and will continue the progressive policy which during the past nine- teen years developed the extensive and varied operations which lie managed.
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Personal Mention
Mr. .T. D. Evans of the Keystone Pecan Orchard Co., which has 60 acres of top-worked trees at Ba- conton, Ga., reported at the con- vention that their 1914 crop of nuts amounted to 7,700 pounds.
Mr. Guy P. Stubbs, of Louisiana, was one of the prominent figures at the Albany convention. While he did not have much to say in a public way, he was alert as an auditor and evidently absorbed the good things the meeting offer- ed.
The election of W. P. Bullard as Secretary of the National Nut Growers Association makes Albany the headquarters of the organiza- tion. Mr. Bullard is well quali- fied for the position by his ability and prominent activities in organ- ized movements.
There seemed to be something- lacking at the Albany Convention in the jovial spirit which charact- erizes the nut growers' meetings. It was explained when a telegram came from Rev. C. M. Ledbetter conveying regrets that he could not be present.
Dr. J. B. Curtis, of Florida, one of the pioneer pecan men of the south and one of the earliest sub- scribers to The Nut Grower has for some unexplained cause drop- ed out of the industry and advises to cancel his subscription. Tak- ing his name off our books makes us feel like we do when advised that a beloved patron is dead.
Mr.C. Forkert, of Ocean Springs, Miss., the pecan hybridizer, ap- preciates other good things horti- cultural as well as the pecan. He winds up a recent letter with the following comment on oranges: “The Satsuma orange trees laden with their golden globes are beau-
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tif ul to look at just now, but still nicer to eat. I have a few trees of the pineapple orange which seems to be a real early ripening variety, and a good bearer. The tree is a stronger grower than t he Satsuma, though on trifoliate; the globes of gold rivaling the Satsu- mas near by."
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Books and Catalogues
The Pecan Business; trade pam- phlet by B. W. Stone, Thomasville Ga., 36 illustrated pages.
Report of the Secretary of Agri- culture for 1915. 56 pages showing activities of the Department for the past year.
T. H. Parker, Moultrie, Ga. Il- lustrated price list of select varie- ties of pecans; four pages. Sent on application.
Blight Resistance among Wal- nuts; monthly bulletin of the Cali- fornia State Commission of Horti- culture, Sacramento; four pages.
The Munson Nurseries, Denison, Texas. Catalogue for 1915-1916; fruits and ornamental stock. Par- ticular attention given to grapes and roses.
Magnolia Nursery, Cairo, Ga., W. C. Jones, proprietor, lists eight popular varieties in a four page price list for season of 1915-1916. Sent on request.
Ravages of the Boll Weevil; A twelve page circular of informa- tion. Contains important infor- mation. Published by the U. S. Bureau of Census, Washington, D. C.
High Explosives; their Manufac ture, Storage, Handling and Use; first section; E. I. du Pont de Ne- mours & Co., Wilmington, Del. 128 pages of useful information in this line.
Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Fla., are sending out a beautiful catalogue which is of peculiar interest as it lists tropical fruits and plants of- fered by the farthest south nur- sery in the United States.
The Pecan; catalogue of the G. M. Bacon Pecan Co., DeWitt, Ga.;
Grafted Pecan Orchard Farms For Sale
Description of Farm No. 1, Located on Carthage Macadam Road, 2 1-2 Miles South of Mar- shall, Texas.
This farm contains 52 acres, good new four room cottage, two story barn, stable, sheds, two wells of first-class water. Place all fenced and sub-divided; practically all in cultivation.
On this place there is a pecan orchard containing approxi- mately 750 trees, practically all of which are grafted or budded and of the large varieties such as Stuart, Frotscher, Van Deman, and Curtis. These trees range from two to seven years old, possibly 450 of them being six to seven years old, of which about 1 00 begun bearing the present year, fine large nuts. Also, have about 7500 nursery stock pecan treee, 5,000 of which will be ready for budding next spring.
Also, have about 200 good peach trees, few plum trees and some fine young apple trees, bearing fruit the first time this year. Fine bermuda grass pasture. Price $150.00 per acre.
Description of Farm No. 2, Located on Rosbor- ough Springs Road, Four Miles South-west of Marshall, Texas.
This farm contains 42 acres, two good wells of water, good four room farm house with new galvanized iron roof, two small barns, good pasture. Place well fenced and sub-divided.
On this farm there are several hundred bearing peach trees. Also, about 450 fine grafted pecan trees, mostly Schley and Stuarts, from two to six years old, 75 bearing this year which yielded a nice lot of nuts which sold as high as 50c per pound. Price $1 25.00 per acre.
As an investment, these farms should pay in the next two or three years a handsome dividend on the investment, or as a home, would make you a living without work, except care of the trees and gathering of crop. If you are looking for a new location come to Texas, tha greatest State in the Union, and the native home of the pecan tree, there being more native pecans in this state than all of the other states combined. Terms will be at least half cash, balance vendor lien notes, if desired.
M. LOTHROP
Marshall, Texas
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60,000 Grafted Pecan Trees
Wholesale and Retail :: Special Price to Nurserymen
Satsuma Oranges and other Fruit Trees : : Leading Varieties Only
LAFAYETTE PECAN NURSERY, Lafayette, La.
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Hawkeye St. Paul Company
THIS COMPANY HAS AN ATTRACTIVE
PECAN PROPOSITION
D|HIS is simply a safe and sound business aSH movement for utilizing the opportuni- ties for profitable and permanent invest- ment. The plan eliminates the risks, ex- pense and worry of individual ownership of orchards. It is available either for the large or small investor.
Send for a copy of the HAWKEYE HARBINGER. It gives particulars and valuable information.
Hawkeye-St. Paul Company
68-69 First National Bank Building DAVENPORT, IA.
ALL ABOUT KUDZU
A 3”Ton Cutting of Kudzu at Glen Arden Farm, Showing both the Cut and Standing Hay
Most wonderful growth. The coming forage crop of the South. Better than alfalfa, red clover or timothy. Better because it succeeds on land too poor for those crops. Better because it does not have to be cut at a certain time to save it. Better, because a shower of rain doesn’t ruin the hay. Better, because stock like it better aud it contains more protein than wheat bran — from Hi. 59 per cent to 19.80 per cent. Kudzu is perfectly safe for all stock. Now is the time to place your or- ders to be sure of plants. Kudzu has great possibilities as a cover crop for pecan orchards, to supply nitrogen for the young, growing trees. For further iuforma- tion and prices write,
G. E. Pleas Plant Go. "“SSESlSKi;
1G pages of elegant illustrations with interesting information, and list of select varieties offered. For free distribution among those in- terested in pecans.
The Pecan; Some Points, Point- ers and Suggestions; by J. B. Wight; the Pecan Grove Farm, Nursery and Orchard, Cairo, Ga. Contains a variety of pertinent information. Will be sent on re- quest.
Melaxuma of the Walnut; Bul- letin No. 261; a preliminary report by the Agricultural Experiment Station. University of California, Berkeley, Cal.; by Howard S. Faw- cett. This bulletin reports inves- tigations for the control of a com- paratively new disease of the Persian walnut in that state.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Nut Growers Association, held at Albany, Ga., Oct. 27-29, 1915; 96 pages, containing stenographic re- port of this large gathering with list of members and officers. Price 50 cents. Copies can be obtained of the Nut Grower or from W. P. Bullard, Secretary, Albany, Ga.
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Issues List of Farms for Sale in South Georgia
“Own a Level Farm,” is the title of a very attractive descriptive pamphlet, giving a complete list of farms for sale along its line, just issued by the Atlanta, Birm- ingham & Atlantic Railroad. This pamphlet contains a number of very pretty pictures of growing crops, and it is intended to de- scribe the diversity of crops grown in South Georgia, as well as to give anyone interested in in- vesting in So u t h Georgia farm lands an opportunity to in- vestigate in advance the proper- ties for sale in the fast developing communities served by that line.
A copy of this farm list may be had free of charge by writing to W. W. Croxton, General Passen- ger Agent, Room 613 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. — Adv.
Standard Varieties of Well Grown Trees
Our many years of practical ex- perience combined with the scientific study we have made of the industry enables us to supply to the best advantage the wants of our patrons.
Prompt attention to inquiries.
Send For Our New Catalogue.
The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co.
DeWitt, Georgia