□DDDnDDnDaDDDDnaDaDnDDaDDnDa ° H ° H D D B UNIVERSITY LIBRARY g D □ D UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS D g LIBRARY g D AT D □ AMHERST H D n ° H D H ° 9 D P ° H a D ° H >=> R ■=> 5 ° H ° H ° H D n D □ ° R D S ° H 1=1 R ° R ° R D n n D □nnncnnnnnnonnnDDnoDDnnnnnDa THE NUT-GROWE^R Volume VI Number 1 Po'lan, Ga., August 1907 5c per Copy 50c per Year inii- I'ECiJ^^COLTUEE Kead by "Wm. Nelson at the meeting )f till- Louisiana Horticultural Society. 1 am glad that, as a member of pis society, it has been alotted to ae, among others, to say something jibout pecan growing. For the past twenty-five or more tears I have been specially interested in it and. have been long convinced }hat ptv,an trees will pay large profits an any money invested in planting them. This industry is now far past the fexperimental stage. Returns now poraing in arc proving so satisfac-i jlory that thousands of trees have been planted the past few years, and bany thousands more in process of planting at the present time. The rapid increase in pecan plant- ing is really remarkable. Where Iformerly a few dozen trees were planted, it is now usual to hear oJ orchards of several thousand treef. ilready established. The nurserj- Imen's sales ol, budded and grattq. frees, pf-lhe improved standard vj ^vrtifes, have increased annually to 300 per cent. This is an bation-that the public generally ^- Igins to realize the importance of llie lindustry and are convinced that it [will pay. The largest investments ol leapital in pecan planting is betig Idone mainly by the orchard con- Ipanies, though there are Individial lowners of orchards of thousands of ■trees. I Ijnow of one who has ];•,- |000 trees planted. That "some varieties of pecans Iwill grow almost anyv.'here in the ISouth, and as far north as Southern llowa," may be true. But it cannot be disputed that there are locations seemingly specially adapted to their perfect growth. They thrive best, attain the largest size and produce the largest crops on alluvial soil along the river and creek bottoms, A good guide in selecting a locaticu is to plant where the wild trees grew well and bear well. If possible, plait varieties proven to be adapted to such location. There is reason to tear that many orchards already planted will eventually prove fail- ures, principally because the s lil is unsuitable, or that Tn5*-« Vas et-'es planted are net adapted to the cli- matic conditionaj: This matter of the best varieties to plant in the several Sohthern A state, more or less adapted to their {:rowh, is being inquired into, dis- cuss'l, and results recorded, by the .Natinal Nut Growers' Association, • ,vhO!? fourth annual convention was held at Dallas, Texas. S'me varieties of pecans are hard- ier han others; and may be planted farner north. Some varieties that 1)6.1 well and fill well in certain locilities are partial failures in oth- ers This important feature of the pecin industry cannot be settled off haid at once. It will take time to piove the adaptability of the one iJimdred or more named varieties to tie various locations where they are bsing I'lanted. So far this associa- ton nas been able to agree on only I few varieties as being favorably leported on by the members from different parts of the country. There are many promising varie- ties now on trial; no doubt this list of good kinds will be lengthened year after year as results are reached. Some varieties have been discarded by the association because of some fault or defect, as lack of size, poor bearers, not filling well, hard shell, etc. Of course, you will all agree that it is desirable to have a nut that is of a large size, that fills well, bears weil annually, of good quality and thin shell. This is the nut that we are all looking for. We usually find that the large nuts are not, as a rule, as well filled as the small ones. If this defect, lack of fullness, is persistent or constitu- tional in a variety, it should be dis- carded as worthless. If it occurs only occRE'c-naliy as the result of ac- cident, (U.sease or unfavorable con- ditions of t^e weather, it should not be hastily condemned, but seek the cause, and a remedy for the trouble. This 1 ai tial filling of the nuts is usually attributed to imperfect pol- lenation. I have been under this impression myself. That perfect pollenation is necessary for the set- ting of a full crop of nuts is ad- raitted. But I am far from being satisfied that it is a lack of this func- tion that sometimes causes the nuts to be only partially filled. If the impregnation of the pistillate flow- ers has occurred the fruit v/i!l de- velop; if not they will dry up and drop off. Imperfect pollenation may result in a half or a quarter crop, or in the setting of a few nuts only. But can it be the cause of a full crop of nuts being only partially filled? I think not. I think the weather conditions during the grow- ing season are much to blame for this trouble. It is well known that all varieties of pecans of this last fall's crop were far from being well filled. Of course, I mean here, all those from the southern part of this state. At least all that I have seen. It was a general complaint. Such well-known varieties as Frotscher, Centennial, Stuart, Schley, etc., us- ually well filled, were all defective in this respect. This certainly was not brought about by imperfect pol- lenation, or constitutional tendency, but I think due mainly to our un- usual 3t season, which probably •fos'.ero an unusual increase in the hull worm and other insects that fed on the fruit, causing the im- perfect development complained of. The large investment of capital being done by the orchard companies planting pecan trees is wise and com- mendable. But for the general wel- fare of the country I think it would be better if all the small farmers and planters could be persuaded to plant a few trees. They woilld doubt- less all Qo so if convinced that it will pay, and that it requires no large outlay of money to do it. Assuming t'nat the ground to be planted is in cultivation, the cost to plant the best varieties of budded or grafted trees need not be over ten dollars per acre. This is surely within the means of all. Get them to understand that this first cost is the principal outlay required. Let them realize that the .ground planted in trees can be cul- tivated as usual in any annual crop. This cultivation will hasten the growth of the trees. The trees will not for years cause any less return from the usual crop. When the time comes that the trees will injure the growth of this crop the returns from the trees will more than make up this loss. "But," say they, "it will take years before the trees begin to pay." Well, what if it does? Go on planting cotton, corn or whatever else you usually do. The trees will keep on growing night and day. At the end of a few years you will be surprised to find that you can stop cultivating the fields you planted in trees and can tuA your stock into them; because you will now get more money per acre from them in one year than you formerly (by incessant THE NUT-GROvIeII laborious work) got ia five. The conditions for successful re- sults in pecan growing are proper location as to soil and climate, and planting varietiee suited to such location. Do a little of your own banking by planting a few trees on your own land. Stop making it necessary to pay life insurance presidents $100,- 000 a year to take care of your sur- plus money. Remember that every tree planted on the land adds to the selling price of that land. This sell- ing price rises regularly at an in- creasing ratio as the years go by. But, if I am not greatly mistaken, you will not be willing to sell at any price after your trees come in bearing. f! PRESIDENTS ADDRESS Delivered by C. Falkner at tlie meet- ing of the Texa.s Nut Growers' Associ- ation. Texas with her vast area and varied natural industries has devel- oped more rapidly the last decade or so than any other. Southern state. In her new state, with her varied climate, soil and other favorable con- ditions she has introduced and de- veloped many products of commer- cial value, while at the same time she has neglected one of her most valuable natural products — the nut bearing trees. These nut trees, es- pecially the pecan, we find growing wild throughout the greater part of our state, and we feel sure our tree- less plains and prairie lands will grow this royal nut successfully with moderate care in planting the nuts, or transplanting the young trees, so we might say truthfully that our en- tire state, as well as our entire south- land, is most favorably adapted to the growing of this most valuable of all nuts successfully, yet cheaply and easily, and if nature in her wild state (all our fine pecans, so far, are from the forest) furnishes us the most valuable and therefore the highest priced nut in the world, growing wild and in profusion in our forest, should not man, with his scientific knowledge and American push and enterprise, aid nature in I)roi)agating, disseminating and beau- tifying our homes and our south- land with the most useful of na- ture's gifts — the royal pecan. To aid in this great and glorious work was called into existence our Te.xas Nut Growers' Association. The interest and attention to our pecan nuts is of quite recent origin. Some twelve or fifteen years ago our first native trees were budded to the horji- ling V finer types of our native pec that most indomitable and ente^is ing pioneer, Mr. E. E. Risien, ofjan Saba, Texas. This modest begini^ng in an obscure part of our s^te marked the beginning of the grlat- est and most far reaching indirtry yet to bless mankind with food piifl- ucts and beautify our homes snd southland with the grandest \nd most useful and undying shide trees. Following this beginning a few of our enterprising and publp- spirited citizens, mainly our culturists, began to see someth our nut bearing trees and one % one manifested an interest in then. Some joined friend Risien in select ing and propagating our best typei by budding and grafting; then th« enhanced value of our native wild nuts gave new impetus and interest to this industry. This interest grew and widened until it was thoughti best by our leading growers that we should and could further this great industry by organizing a State Nut Growers' Association. To accom- plish this purpose a call was issued through our leading papers by the Hon. E. W. Kirkpatrick of McKin- ney, Texas, to whom much credit is due for his indefatigable work and influence. This call asked all in- terested growers to meet in Austin, Texas, during May, 1906, for the purpose of organization. Respond- ing to this call we had quite a crown of interested and animated citizens from many sections of the state and organized the first Texas Nut Grow- ers' Association. Thus was birth given to our organization. At our organization several Im- portant committees were appointed and have, as our secretary's report will show, accomplished much, and we believe, lasting good. Many Inter- esting articles on nut growing have been written by our members and publisked in our leading journals throughout the state. By this means much information pertaining to our infant industry has been disseminat- ed and the marked interest in our new industry is real and wide- spread. It is very noticeable and yet more commendable that this inter- est is among our very best citizens and has every appearance of abiding and widening all the time. Since our organization our society, as the minutes will show, has had two meetings, one with the Farmers' Congress at this place one year ago, the other — our winter meeting — at Austin, in February. At each of these meetings our attendance was good and much interest was mani- fested and resulted in an increased membership at each meeting. EACH ISSUE O^'F The American NUT JOURNAL PETERSBURG, VA. Contains information by expert and practical growers and deal- ers concerning the cultivation and marketing of nuts of all kinds. No land owner or pro- gressive farmer in America can afford to be without this publi- cation. Sample copie.s free on request. ^AMERICAN NUT JOURNAL- PETERSBURG, VA. Branch Offices: Norfolk, Va., and Coleman, Texas. Monticello Nurseries... i Monticello, Fla. Offer a c]K)ice'[lot of grafted P'raii trees of the Ijest varieties. Nice, thrifty, stocky trees. None b'tter. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. BJioniiutjtou, 111., until N(jv. 1; thore- ifer Monticello, Fla. ~"^.. \ Niits for Profit ^,,^100^^^^ of 1.58 pages; 60 jii,>stiatious. Propagation, Cultivation, t'tc. of Nuts best adapted to the various SCI'! ions. Interesting and instructive. fr,,;- by mail, 25 ct-uls. JOHN R PArlRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. PBOAINS AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Martwell Murserie« S. W. Peek, Prop'r. Hartwell, Ga Established 1883. Send for Catalogue. "A Short Talk on Pecans," h\- Fred S. Dawson, Starke, Fla. It is five. Write a postal card for it. BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The nut that has never f-i '\ eel to bear and never f:ti:"j; tol fill at botli ends witli kernel of best quality : : : Ocean Springs : : Mississippi THE NUT-GROWER FOR SALE! 3000 Grafted Pecan Trees Tliese trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. VAN DEMAN, STUART COLUMBIAN... and a dozen other clioice varietios. Pe- can Nuts for sale in season. Applj- to JOHN S. HORLBECK Charleston, S. C. Ocean Springs Pe <^ Season 1907-8 '^^ Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mississippi Your committee on Legislation and the Governor Hogg Memorial Park ad several meetings at Austin dur- ng the sitting of our last Legisla- ture, and did some hard work to- wards securing suitaDle legislation in securing the park we so much cov- eted. Our bill was reported favor- ably and met no opposition, and would have passed with ease, but for the pressing platform demand, which no doubt, you have all heard about. These platform demands seem to have had the right of way and held it to the last, cutting out our bill, which had no opposition. But fail- P-^Y ing to secure just what we wanted eCanNUrSeO' and needed, we feel much was gained in this direction, and we feel confident that at the next sitting of our Legislature the good work so far accomplished by your committee can and will be completed with ease. In conclusion I would recommend that a strong legislative committee be continued to take up this work and any other needed legislation per- taining to our organization and push It to a final conclusion at the next meeting of our Legislature. I would re 'ommend further that more effort be expended in the matter of secur- ing membership in our organization and to this end I would suggest that cjur secretary publish our first annual report, to be ready at our winter meeting, and that a strong commit- tee be authorized or appointed by this body to take up this matter with our secretary, looking to the strengthening of our membership from all parts of this state. As be- fore alluded to in this article no or- ganization has appealed so forcibly and readily to our best citizenship throughout this entire state as our own Association (in growing pecans). And while the work so far accom- plished has been more than the most siuiguine of our members expected. yet we see the vast field of our state so ready to turn and help us in this great and grand work. Not only this state is interested in our nut grow- ing, but the numerous inquiries com- ing to our nut growers from other states and from men of capital who wish to invest in the pecan indus- try, should stimulate us more than ever to increase and expand our membership. Allow me to call your attention in this connection to the diseases and insect depredations preying upon our pecan trees. It has been said that pecans have no disease and are free from depredations of insect pests, but those of us who have been forced to look into this question closely find that we have some dis- eases and some pests that should re- .[ C»=:^'tii5svllle [Nurseries Ot Gainesville, ria., K'i'ake p specialty of Budded and G»'u->ftoi Pecan trees of such stand- ard varietie.s as have a good record beiiind tliem. Our Catalogue will not only lielp in the selection of var- ieties but will assist you in the plant- ing and culture ; its free for tlie ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, FiA. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries^J>,^'-,.^/;!. Albany, Georgia Budding and Grafting Wood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over •1000 budded trees of the best standard varieties and is theold- -iidded grove of over 800 Georgia. quire more prompt and close atten- tion to the end that we may be able to head them off in time. I would suggest that we invite an agent from the Agricultural Department at Washington to visit our field and spend quite a time examining our groves, looking into these two feat- ures: The disease of our pecan trees and the pests preying upon the same. HICKORY AS A STOCK FOR THE PECAN (H. A. Halbert, Coleman, Texas.) I had this experience last year: There was a man by the name of W. L. Watkins who tried some ex- periments in this line. He had pre- pared them badly, however, and got after me to come over and bud them for him. I did so. This gentleman lives in Tyler. I was very anxious to try the experiment for myself, be- cause pecans are nothing but a va- riety of hickory. I went over late in the teason, and believe it could be maclj a success, though his fared badly. I did not expect much suc- cess, and told him if I got 10 per cent, of them to live I thought I would be doing well. He wrote me in a little time that he had 75 per cent, living, but he stated that in carrying out my instructions he cut too close down to the bud, and his theory is that cutting very close, per- haps too close, may have hurt them. Well, I went over there after a while to inspect them and to my gratifica- tion I found plentiful results, at least 30 per cent, did nnally live, and were there showing for them- selves. .Mr. Watkins was still In doubt, and wrote all around to the differ- ent places to find out if any one had any experience. After a while a gen- tleman wrote a letter, and said that he had had actual experience; that some five or six years ago he had budded a little hickory stock and It had come to bearing in a couple of years and had been bearing, I think he stated, five years. He got about forty pounds on the old tree this year, and eight or ten younger ones all bore nuts this year. That is the extent of my actual experience in budding. This letter was published at Tyler, and the actual growth, too, is given considerable interest in that section of the state. The people say that there is a fortune lying in these groves in that county, and it has been emphasized this year. I think this industry is, in some respects, better than perishable fruit. For wheth- er the prices suit "or not you can lay in nuts and easily keep them for twelve months and sell them at any time you want to. The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-Grower Co. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Poulan, Ga., nuder tlie Act of Congress of Mai-cli 3, 1879. Subscription Price: •• 50c per Annvm Advertising Rates Sent Upon Application THE NUT-GROWER not stip even ter year, and does when you are dead. AUGUST 1907 Mr. A. C. Davenport, of South Omaha, Neb., intends to plant 140 acres in pecans during the coming winter. His location is central Flor- ida. Sometime ago we gathered to- gether a number of pecan Ireports. No two of these were alike, *but ev- ery one had something of interest. One of these, without date or ad- dress, has the following written on the back of the blank furnished, and evidently in a lady's hand: "We have a number of children, and the trees serve to keep them out of mis- chief after school, and off the streets. So we let them enjoy them." This evidently is mentioned to account for the small crop harvested from a few home trees. However, it's a good way to use the nuts. Notwithstanding the large pro- duction of edible nuts in this coun- try, the importations are steadily on the increase. It seems that it will be a difficult matter to overstock the market, especially so as the demand for nut products is steadily increas- ing. The regularly increasing, value of land planted in nuts, ev^a ^hile they are growing to bearing age, IB a significant feature of the industry. It the orchard is of choice and val- uable varieties and the trees receive proper attention, the cost of the orchard can be added each year to its invoice value. Medium and small nuts are not likely to be discarded as extensively as some might expect, from the fact that the best quality and finest flavor are usually found in the ordinary sized or small nuts. Besides this there is much evidence to support the claim that they bear more pounds to the tree than do some of the larger varieties. While there are good points in favor of thin-shelled pecans, still it should be borne in mind that there are objections as well, and these are liable to be overlooked. A very thin shell is sometimes broken in shipping or handling the nuts, but the most serious objection is that the kernel will become rancid in shorter time than will one with a thick shell. The long life of a pecan tree and its successive crops is a great im- provement on life insurance as an investment. In the one case, after years, of waiting or when you die, the insurance company pays back about what you have paid in. The pecan, however, keeps on paying back the investment in full, year af- PERFECTING I MM A TUNE PECAN NUTS By C. FORKERT The pecan crop of 190 6 was a fairly good one in our section, but the devasting storm of September 27 came when four-fifths of the crop was still on the trees and blew and knocked them off while still imma- ""tur^._ Some growers did not gather "ahy of the fallen nuts, knowing that they were green and would be worth- less, while others gathered what they could and put them in a place where they would dry gradually. It ap- peared to me that putting those im- mature nuts in a dry place with the expectation that they might mature was wrong. Putting them in a place where all moisture was excluded started those immature nuts at once to shrivel and dry up, and none so put away were of any value af'er they had become dry. To experiment in the opposite way and keep the partially immature nuts surrounded with moisture ap- peared to me to be a surer way of perfecting the nuts. Accordingly on a sandy location 1 dug out the soil about three inches deep, wide :iiid long in proportion, gathered a half bushel of those fallen pecans and put them into this slightly exca- vated place, about three nuts thick, then put sacking over them and spread the soil evenly over this. The moisture rising from below kept the pecans evenly moist, and by examin- ing them now and then I found the pecans filling out to perfection. The hull would part easily from the nut and the kernel was found full and fresh except a very few which were yet too green and immature to per- fect further. Such would show mould and rot. Being convinced of having discov- ered a way to save a wrecked — one might say — crop of nuts, in the rush of other work I almost forgot about my buried pecans, and when I examined them again (I believe it was by the end of November) many of the nuts had already sprouted, a sure sign that they had filled out and perfected their kernels, whereas those which had been put away to dry became worthless — the imper- fect kernel shriveled to nothing. Thousands of dollars would have been made had the fallen pecans been treated right, or if the people had known of a way to save them. I sincerely hope that we shall nev- er again be visited by a storm of such severity as that of September 27, 1906, and that we may never be put to the task of saving a crop of pecans as advised above, yet should it occur elsewhere that nuts be knocked off the trees prematurely, the plan given above is worth trying. I do not think it necessary to bury the nuts in the soil. Cover with sacking and on top of that put sev- eral inches of leaves, hay or any material that will keep the ground moisture confined to the nuts. If possible, uncover late in the evening and let them catch the night dew and cover again early in the morn- ing, or before they become dry. It takes moisture, plenty of moisture, to bring fruit and nuts to peri.%tion. No one will appreciate or fill.v u'a- derstand the real value of tlis treat- ise without having to go thougK tht experience we had in the •'iall ol 1906, when a splendid crop of pe- cans, nearly ready to gather, were knocked to destruction, when almost all the crop could have been saved had the nuts been treated right. "The point must be emphasized that greater care should be exer- cised in the selection of seed used in nursery work. — The Pecan and its Culture. THE PECAN .Tohn Craig in National Nurseryman. Another fruit industry attracting attention in south Georgia and north Kloiida is the growing of pecan stock and the planting of pecan orchards. This is quite a different type of en- terprise from the growing of peach- es. A pecan orchard is not a tem- porary investment. As an invest- ment it does not yield a dividend as quickly as the peach, but it con- tinues productive for generations in- stead of for a decade. It comes into hearing in five or six years, and, so far as we know, should be in its prime at fifty or sixty years. Unlike the peach, a host of enemies are not waiting to wipe out the crop when it does materialize. Enemies may No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of THE NUT-GROWER BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable ( r 31 1 )I G' CATALOGUE TELL ABOUT THEM Twenty leadiug varieties of Pecam;. Also a complete line of Fruit and Omn- meutal Trees and Shrubbery. Catakg free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Not the Most — Only the Best For Descriptive List wri re BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss R. C. Koerber NEW YORK COMMISSION MERCHANT Dried Nuts and Fruit. Advan- ces made on Pecan shipments. Wilson & Compafcny REAL ESTATE POULAN. GA. Wrifi' for particulars rc<:^arditif^ these Bargains : No. 11. Mill — fine water pow- er and 62 acres of good land. No. ];}. Improved property to exchange for lands suitable for pecans. No. 16. 100 acres, 1200 pecan trees, 12 to 18 years old. A bar- gain. STUART-ROBSON PECAN COMPANY Growers. Dealers in Large Sofr and Paper Siiell Pecans. Growers of tlie celebrated varieties, Colambiaii, Stuart, Van Deman and CapitfJ. Budded, Grafted and Seedling Trees for .sale. Address eitlier arise, but they are not apparent at the present time. Meanwhile, pecan planting is progressing at a lively pace, and nurserymen who are fortu- nate enough to have "the hang" of the propagating trick are making good money. li the market likely to be over- loaded? This is a remote possi- bility. There is no reason why this fine nut should not compete success- fully with almonds and walnuts in the British and European markets. A little exploitation will triple the consumption of the home markets without depressing the prices a par- ticle. In our opinion, the pecan will be to the middle south what the apple is to the northeast — a sure money-earner and a safe investment. It was our pleasure to call upon some of the representative nursery- men of the region, and the number visited was only restricted by limited time. The hospitality of the southerner is proverbial. He entertains heart- ily and without ostentation. His fireside comforts are unreservedly yours. One of our first visits was with the G. M. Bacon Pecan Co., of De- Witt. In Mr. G. M. Bacon, presi- dent, we found a pleasant gentleman of the courtly and older southern school. Mr. Bacon may be said to be the father of the pecan industry of this now famous region. His plantings are among the oldest, and the company's the most extensive in south Georgia. This company grows stock in large quantity and is also planting large orchards. They dem- onstrated in this way their faith in the future of the pecan industry. Associated with Mr. Bacon is Mr. Herbert C. White, vice-president and office and field superintendent, as well as expert in propagating the pecan. Mr. White is also officially connected with the DeWitt Pecan Co. and the South Georgia Pecan Co., both of which orcharding enterprises are located in the immediate neigh- borhood. OccJin Springs, Miss. Kirkii'OO'l, Ga. EXPERniENTS WITH HEED XUTS By JAMES BRODIE Several years ago I can remember Mr. W. P. Heikes, of Huntsville. Ala., asking me if I had noticed any material difference in the seedlings grown for grafting stocks that would give preference to a special grade of nut. To this I made a decided negative answer, for the best results so far noted had come from com- paratively small ones. He expressed some surprise, and said their ex- perience at Huntsville (where they planted graded nuts) was decidedly in favor of the higher grade. The subject interested me. Hith- erto I had exercised reasonable care in the selection of sound seed, but had not measured or graded them. Inquiries among other coast nursery- men were more favorable to my opinion than against. It was evident we all gave coast grown seed a preference on account of its known quality, and our personal knowledge of the ancestral trees. Next year I was able to procure 30 pounds of high grade seeds at 60 cents per pound. They meas- ured 1.S4X.S1 inches, and planted in comparison with ordinary coast seed. They gave a slightly better and more uniform result, but not sufficient to demand their use or meet the extra cost. In planting the seed crop In the fall of 190.5 rigid attention was given to the uniform preparation and fer- tilizing of a virgin field. I also kept a record of the seed purchases, and planted them in rotation. This plant- ing gave an opportunity of investigat- ing the merits of ungraded nuts from ten small seedling orchards. The orchard owners had exercised little forethought in the selection of parental trees. Some were trans- planted seedlings picked up in the district, but so far as it was now possible to judge or learn, most of them might be classed as good ordi- nary selections from the commoner coast varieties. In the spring of iy06 these separate lots of seed showed a few distinguishing feat- ures. Some germinated earlier, and a fall count for available seedlings of grafting caliper gave advantages to special lots. In the spring of 190 7 they appealed to the eye on dividing lines with remarkable dis- tinction. The three best lots were from nuts apparently not superior to the others at time of planting, rather inferior in point of size. In the fall of 1906 the highest growth in this field of over 300,000 was tor the best plant 2 feet 6 inch- es ground caliper, .56 inch, grown from nut 1.22x.7. Next best, 2 feet four inches ground caliper, .6 inch, grown from nut 1.25x.75. One se- lected from many of similar height, 1 foot ten inches, ground caliper .56, grown from nut 1.53x7. Se- lected ideal growth, 1 foot 2 inches, ground caliper .5, grown from nut l.')-s..la. An examination of 100 good results, in plants ranging from 1 to 2 feet, gave calipers of .37 to .66, and nuts 1.28x.69 to 1.5x.81. My next examination took in un- ittJC i:s(*jT-OH.U W1!,K. satisfactory plants. In this grade I included plants calipering .22 at ground line and under .22. In this grade I found nuts varying from l.OSx.6 to 1.25X.65. In planting the 1905 crop I planted one row of selected small seeds, ranging from 1.06x.56 to 1.22x.6. In this row results were discourag- ing. In several hundred plants but four came up to grafting size. In the fall of 190 6 I repeated the same experiment with prospects of no bet- ter results. In both these trials in lower grade nuts the germinating power was good, but the plants showed a marked weakness in com- parison with those of better grade seeds. This was turning the results of close observation against me, and very much in favor of Mr. Heikes' experience, but taking the crop in its entirety, none of the lots of nuts giving best growths were superior to the bulk of seed planted, for ex- cepting the three best lots, the other seeds ranged freely between .7 and .81. For a time it puzzled me to account for this, but after some re- flection and other visit to the orch- ard, it dawned on me that the best results came from trees where stock was kept. Mr. A. was a dairyman; C. and D. kept a line of all sorts, and so the tangle opened out and pointed to well fed nuts calipering not less than .69 as capable of giving good results, superior to larger but poorly fed ones. Now, I am of the opinion that very small nuts should not be planted for nursery purposes. Seeds under .6 I would as far as prac- tical reject. Few nurserymen have the advantage of local selection such as coast nurserymen enjoy. Were I so situated preference would be given to nuts calipering .69 to .81. It is well known to nurserymen that the pecan cannot be depended on to give uniform results in plants from seed or seed from plants. Still my observations show in no uncer- tain light the transmission of more direct hereditary type and habit than the plant is generally credited with. Seeds from varieties of early or late blooming habit will transmit the same feature to future generations. On the lawn before my home stands the two oldest and largest pecan trees I know of, one of them a towering tree exceeding 90 feet. As children, our oldest residents knew them then and now as little changed. Undoubtedly they were first settlers and small hard nuts at best. Where the original seeds came from none can tell. In former years they w«re reported as better bear- ers, but now they simply stand as "things of beauty" lacking our desire for their further increase. Some forty of their descendants circle around them, and all display the an- cestral traits, all indifferent bearers, and some apparently barren. One of my neighbors from whom I now buy nuts transplanted a seedling from one of these trees in his younger days, and from this tree came the nut that grew my best 2 feet 6 inches seedling of 1906, the tallest in 300,- 000. Since coming to the coast I have devoted much time to the search for superior nuts (I mean nuts such as might be classed worthy of propaga- tion), but excepting already well- known varieties, but one has turned up in a twelve years' hunt. Of late years the tendency has been to increase the number of named varieties, but the nurserymen of this coast (say from Scranton to Mississippi City) have certainly ex- ercised the utmost conservative care in presenting the limited list of varieties offered by them as coast originals, and I do not believe there is one man among them would will- fully persuade or induce the novice to plant a tree of unknown merit. No one now planting an orchard can afford to set other than the best budded or grafted sorts, still I think we who have benefited by the careful seed selections and plantings of our forefathers or early settlers, should be more lenient in out estimate of those who have a desire to experi- ment in planting seed of known an- cestry. In the present selection and pro- pagation of the pecan by sexual methods, nurserymen are taking the greatest possible stride towards isola- tion of improved types, but it must always be remembered visible char- acteristics of the parent nut are not to be relied on as a sure means of transmitting the same or similar characteristic type to the offspring. In all our improved pecan nuts and pecan trees there is a mass of subtle latent or active atavistic tendencies inherited from a distant and un- known past far beyond our control, and in all nut selections we must not overlook the possible transmis- sion of pollen from negative or ret- rograde type that may be within easy reach of the selected trees. To this coast the pecan is not indi- genous. If the first nuts planted at Scranton and Ocean Springs were se- lected (and there Is little doubt many of them were), the trees grown from these seeds would be less liable to suffer from the taint of nondesirable pollen. In such a situation sexual development would Pears, Plums and Japan Persimmons Are very profitable when planted be- ((V carry a tween the trees of fi'i'iinfjfgen- a pcca II grovB. They era/ FA' t I T and ORNA- caii be cut out when MENTAL they begin to crowd STOCK the pecan trees Arcadia Nurseries J. H. Oirardeau, Jr.f M ^r. Monticello, Fla. Are You Interested In S- Peaches ?S of etablei If SO, send 50c for a year's subscription to The Peach Grower Savannah, Ga. It has the Circulation and reaches the Growers. Koerber Nut Meat Co. Inc. PECANS— in Sliells, Polished and Slielled — a Sf.pcialty. We extract all nut meats irom the sheU by means of ingeniou.alv constructed patented mach- ines, getting out the whole kernel unhurt. Shipping al- over tlie States and to Europe. 169 Read St., Ncav York. Pecan Trees... That are Properly Grown is My Specialty... BUDDED and CRAFXED TREES of tKe Best Varie- ties foi* sale Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to growing and care of groves. 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Especial- ly valuable to all growers in the Gulf States. Subscription $1.00 per Year All three of these publications, repre- sentative of the greater part of the United States, and the only ones largely devoted to nut culture, %vill be sent to j'ou one year for $1.00 Send your dollar and address to THE NUT-GROWER POULAN, GEORGIA t; n- IN i& W P A IN For growing Pecat-is, Pee>r«», Peaches, etc., at a profit — Ffee 50 per cent, reduction in price of tre^s. Soire to live. No agents. Freight paid. B. W. STONE & CO., - Thomnsvillc, Ga Proceedings of the Scranton Convention Price, 50 cents For copies address tlie Secretary, J. F. WILSON, PouLAK, Qa. benefit by isolation of type, and in resulting present day selections we have every reason to suppose this was the case. There could be no greater incentive to healthy develop- ment and mutation than this change of location to a suitable climate and liberal nourishment. All these feat- ures the pecan inherited by its trans- fer from the swamps and forests of Louisiana and Texas to the gardens of the coast. Of the pecan there is but one va- riety displayed in many types, in- cluding a wide range of variability resting on two extremes, and these dipping into the degenerate and non desirable. For explicit convenience I will select both types as experience has placed them before me. I have seen evident weakness in nuts of .59 of an inch and under, and adopt a nut of 1.12X.62 inches as one ex- treme, and 2x1 inches as the utmost possible that can be allowed for de- velopment with merit in a large nut. and in the mean an ideal nut 1.62x .81. Look at it as you please, ex- tremes in size are undesirable; the very small nut is a nuisance, the mammoth a development of shell and coarse kernel inferior in every way. In this assertion I do no injustice nor reflect on the merit of large nuts now on the market, as few, if any of them, will touch the limit named, but I do look for and expect the mer- its of every nut grown for commer- cial purposes to be investigated and passed on by a qualified board of ex- aminers and the score of merit placed on nursery catalogues. Neither nurserymen or orchardists have yet secured or reported on im- proved nuts as the result of bud variation, but it is quite possible such sports may yet appear. In one instance I have had strong evidence of its presence in a young tree just coming into bearing, one branch pro- ducing nuts not half the size of the others. Hybrids with the hickory are to be found, but tew, if any. have produced nuts worthy of considera- tion. Double adaptation of variety to localities widely separated is anoth- er point worthy of close considera- tion. I have seen very strong evi- dence against the planting of large late ripening and early blooming va- rieties in the extreme northern lim- its of the pecan belt. In such lo- cations the smaller early ripening nuts will be found more' desirable and in every way superior. If the excellency of our coast pe- cans can be attributed to no other agency than chance, it would not be unreasonable to expect improved re- sults from selected nuts gathered in orchards of improved trees where the influence of non-desirable pollen was excluded. . Under such conditions I am inclined to the belief Mendels' laws would hold good. It is ever humiliating to think we are more indebted to the grand achievements of "blind chance" in the neglected gardens, fence rows, or other of nature's waste places for lasting and permanent achievements in fruit and nut culture than we are to the best efCorts made by scientific man. Otto Lock, of Texas, says of the pecan tree: That it is the most val- uable of all Southern trees. No other lasting trees bring such great returns as the nut or pecan trees. Not for Its wood, (which, however, is all very valuable and has for many purposes no equal) ; not for its beauty, durableness or longevity as a shade tree, but for its fruit is known to be the best of all nuts. 8 THE NUT-GRO\VER I have a tree on my grounds that must be over two hundred years old. When 61 years ago the first settlers came to New Braunfels, the Indians had their camping grounds under tliis old tree, and when my father came here 54 years ago, he says: "At that time the tree looked as big and old to me as it does now." We like the idea of naming farms and orchards. It has more than sim- ple convenience to commend it. It the name is well chosen it not only gives information about the place, but becomes a permanent advertise- ment which will pay dividends in satisfaction as well as in dollars. In illustration of this Mr. Watkins, of Tj'ler, Texas, has a name for his place that will keep him, his busi- ness and his place in the public eye. He calls it Breezy Point Nut Farm. 7 O O O O ...GR-AFTED... P EC AN TREES ...FOR SALE... Grown without fertilization, lieuro hardy ami storky. Propagated from our own bearing ortriiard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dec. 10, 1!K)7. NURSERIES: Lafayette, La. Ocean Springs, Miss. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Miis. Lafayette Parish, La. St. Lardry Parish. La. For*par'"''^Iiirsand illnsti;ii<(l lilora- ture address Southern Nut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE, 1^. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Mark Designs CopvniGHTS &c. Anyone sendltiR a f:l:ctfli nud df^acrinlinn may quickly as^'erhiiii our oiiinuni free whether an invention ia prolmbly p'lteiiOiblo. Commnnira- tlonaBlrictlyconUilcntliil. HANDBOOK onPatfni.3 Bent free. Oldest agency for eecnring patents. Patents taken throueti Munn & Co. recelyi tpfcial notice, without cbnrge. in the Scientific Jfniericaii. A hnndsnmely i^I^^?I^.^tP^1 xrf?eklv. I.nrtrpst cir- culalinti (if nny pcioiiIlOti Journal. 'I'crnia. ?3 a y-.ir : four rautitbs, tl. Sold byall TiPws.loalerfl. MUNN &Co.36iE'<>»''«''y- New York Branch Office. 625 F St. Washington. D. C. When writing to Advertisers please mention The Nut-Grower. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. Siii'i Acres III Pecans {(SO arc ill Test Orchard) GOLD MEDAL A WARDED OUR EXHIBIT OF FEVAN^ AT ST. LOUIS 190^ w DeWitt Georgia E received specifically tlie for This Conipaii\ makes a single Specialty of Pecans only Medal awarded Pecan trees wliicii Mention The Niit- (irozver -when Writing were planted and growing on tiie Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. ^iConviiudng and val- uable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseries at De Witt, Ga. Visitors always welcome.^ Bud- ded lind grafted trees of meritorious com- merc'al and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices (;onsistent with first-c^ass trees — Wholesale and Retail. The Peeaii Tree: How to Plant It, How to Groin It, Ilinvto Buij It,(iW\ri\eW\t\o\\) will be mailed free to tliose interested. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. Huntsviiie Wholesale Nurseries We offer GRAFTED PECANS, one year's growth on two and tliree year roots. In oiu' soil we get a splendid system of tibroiis roots, superior Xo auythiiig we have seen elsewhere. We have in stock the following varieties: Stuart, Russell, Pabst, Van Demax, Taylor, (the Scoring Committee has given Taj'lortlie highest score of anj' nut .so far passed upon) Pjude op the Coast, Fhotsoher, Moneymaker. Particulars Ijy mail. Address W. p. HeJkeis, Mgr., liuntsville, A:a. Tile Nut Norse^'y Company Monticello, Fla. For next season's planting we will have an extra large su'iply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can furnish all standard varieties — S/nart, ]'an Deman, Schlev. Frotscher, Pabst, Money Malier, Russell, Voung. Alley, Nelson, Hall. Bolton, Deliiias and others. At Monticello we have soil and climate which are peculiarly adapted to the Ijroductiou of high grade jiooan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stock}- tlian we liave seen etsewhere. Special prices on large sliipments and Car Load Lots. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED-—INSPECTION INVITED FLORIDA K Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley F^ecan ^\^ P^^^" °f 1 the Future OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU THE NUT-GROWER Volume VI Number 2 Poulan, Ga., September 1907 5c per Copy 50c per Year HYBRIDIZING PECANS (E. E. Risien, San Saba, Texas.) The subject assigned to me of top working the pecan, has, I think, been pretty well thrashed out. So, in view of this fact, would suggest the subject of Hybridizing, because in this line of work future develop- ments largely depend. Sometimes I think that in no branch of Horti- culture do greater variations appear than in the pecan. The vast number of seedlings I have fruited also helps to confirm this statement. The plant- ing of pecans fertilized by the wind, insects or whatever agencies nature affords, is only followed by disap- pointments. So why continue to travel this uncertain road when there is a remedy and within the reach ot all. To make my subject plainer, I will use for an illustration, corn, because the pollination of it and the pecan is very similar. Most of us know that if an ear of corn is covered with a paper sack in time to keep off the pollia from the surrounding tassels, the result Wiil be a naked cob. Just so it is with the pecan. If a bunch of nuts is effectually protected from the surrounding pollin, empty shells of shrivelled kernels result; general- ly the nuts drop off. In every case de- fective pollination will show itself in some form or other. If we are to stop deterioration, eternal vigilance must be the watchword; botch work will te a clear waste of time. I am now regretting very much that I de- layed so long giving my attention to artificial fertilizer of a pecan blos- som, because I already have printed the work of my own hands and have learned also that the pollin is a pre- potent factor, hence the importance of the character ot the tree from which we get the pollin. To the ac- customed eye it is no job at all to locate the tree that our seedling trees are pollinized from If growing within a few hundred yards so pro- nounced IS the potency of the pollin. Pecan pollin from the top of our old sky scrapers is doubtless wafted for miles in the wind storms of Spring- time when it can be seen coming down to pollinize the younger growth like fine sand. The yield from this source is immense, and as a fruit is most always inferior, of course the pollin must be correspondingly so; hence another cause for such whole- sale deterioration. In attempting to' encourage those interested in this part of the work, I wish to lay special stress on these words: "We must feed as well as breed." By this I mean nothing but thrifty, healthy trees should be bred from or bred to. Now as to what constitutes an ideal nuc, each one has his own pet theories, and it is better that it should be this way; it helps to keep alive the old adage we all believe in, "Variety is the spice of life." The collecting of the pollin being the first step, I will here explain that it is necessary to watch this very closely, because when ripe the cells holding it pop open very much like pop corn; so when this popping commences is the time to gather the pollin. This is done by pulling off the whole tassel; then spread them out evenly on a newspaper in the sun for a few hours. All the pollin you can use will be found in the form of yellow flour on the paper. To cleiin this I use a fine brass wire milk sirainer, a new one; be sure it is cleaa. Having thus procured good sound pollin, I put it into bottles — pill bcttles I find the handiest, they are so easily carried in the vest pocket — cork up and keep in a cool dry piace in the day and I believe its vitality can be counted on for a month, any way. And right here I predict the time close at hand when this will be a marketable com- modity by mail. So presuming it is the season of the year that the two varieties in which the cross is to be made, the next thing is to get some ten-pound paper sacks, and just as soon as the bunch of nuts is in sight strip all the catkins off (or tassels) on a small limb to be used, then put this fruit- bearing spur, leaves and all into the sack, pinning or tying it close around the stem. Selecting small upright fruit-spurs, in a week or so the pis- tillate blossoms of the nuts should show open mouths. These are plain- ly seen, which indicates they are receptive. The pollin now on hand should be applied with a feather or small brush commonly used for wa- ter colors, although I prefer a medi- cine dropper, a small glass tube hav- ing a rubber bulb on the end. Any drug store keeps them for sale at five or ten cents each. From this the pollin goes out in the form of dust (Continued on Page .5.) THE CONTROL OF BUD- WORMS By Dr. F. H. Chittenden. The control of budworms is very difficult. One method of checking them consists in cutting away in- jured buds as often as they are at- tacked and promptly destroying them. This is laborious, and for success requires the co-operation ot neighboring pecan growers, which is true of any method that might be employed. A better remedy consists in spraying with an arsenical, either Paris green prepared with a little more than an equal quantity of quicklime and applied at the rate of about one pound of poison to 100 gallons of water, or arsenate of lead, one pound to 40 gallons of water. The latter, because ot its great adhesiveness, should prove still more useful. To insure the greatest effectiveness the spray must be ap- plied just before or after the eggs of the insects hatch, so that the young budworms may be destroyed before they enter the buds or twigs to conceal themselves in folded leaves. There are two or three gen- erations of budworms a year; hence, it is a matter of importance for the grower to ascertain the exact time when they appear in his locality, es- pecially in the spring, so he may know when the eggs are laid, and therefore when to apply the spray to the best advantage. Such budworms as do not enter buds or twigs can be destroyed even after they have sought concealment in folded leaves as they issue from these quarters to feed on leaves that are not folded and will, therefore, eat enough pois- on to kill them. The budworms re- quire further study of their life hab- its in order that better methods of control can be devised. Co-operation with the Bureau of Entomology is earnestly solicited. Directions in Farmers' Bulletin 127, which may be had on application. CONGRESS OF HORTI- CULTURE The week of September 23-27, 1907, is to he an important one, hor- ticulturally, at the Jamestown Expo- sition. In addition to the regular meetings of the American Pomologi- cal Society, National Nut Growers' Association, The Society for Hortl- THE NUT-GROWER cuUural Science, and the Federation of Horticultural Societies, arrange- ments have been made for a Con- gress of Horticulture to consider topics of a general character cover- ing the various branches of horti- culture. This Congress was ar- ranged for by the National Council of Horticulture upon invitation of the authorities of the Exposition Company and of the Norfolk Horti- cultural and Pomological Society. In view of the fact that the regu- lar biennial session of the Pomologi- cal Society occurs the same week all strictly pomological subjects are omitted from the program of the Congress. The topics are to be treated in a general way and the aim will be to show the present status of our actual knowledge of these subjects and to point out just where we stand in the various branches in a manner that \fiU be of interest to horticulturists generally. It is hoped that these meetings wiL be the means of bring- ing the more or less scattered branches into closer union, add in- spiration and profit to all partici- pants and others who may be pres- ent and to dignify and advance hor- ticulture in all of its branches. It is earnestly hoped that the at- tendance will be commensurate with the interests involved. THE 1907 CONVENTION Present arrangements contemplate the holding of four sessions, begin- ning at 2 o'clock p. m., Thursday, September 26, with two sessions on the 2 7th and one the morning of the 28th. The general meetings will be held in a convenient hall in The States Building, while committee work will be assigned rooms as needed. Headquarters have been provided at the Inside Inn, while special rates for board and lodging is offered by the follov.'ing convenient flrst-class hotels: The Inside Inn — European plan, $2.00 per day, which includes ad- mission to the grounds and privi- leges of the Inn. American plan, $4.00 per day for each person; addi- tional charges for bath rooms, and when but one person uses a room. Hotel Elliott — Near the Exposition grounds on Willoughby I!ay, Ocean View postoffice, |2.25 per day. Willoughby Beach Hotel — $2.50 per day, American plan. Reservations can be made with any of these hotels by writing them in advance. Railroad rates to the exposition are obtainable in all parts of the country. Prof. H. E. Van Demau, assisted by Mr. J. B. Wight of Georgia and Col. Van Duzee of Minn(!sota will plan and direct the sight-seeing at convenient times. The Badge Book will be issued about ten days before the convention date. It will contain the full roster of officers, program of exercises, an aliihabetical list of all members and advertisements of members and rep- utable tradesmen. Those desiring space should send coi}y ou receiyt of this notice. The conventioh program is of par- ticular interest, and all the speakers are specialists in the assignments given them. The Jamestown Exposition is much better than many expected, and all our members should allow for ample time to profit by its inspection. .1. F. WILSON, Secretary. Poulan, Ga., Sept. 5, 1907. BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size CONVENTION PEOGEAM ■ The program for the Jamestown Convention will embrace the follow- ing prominent features: This is sup- plemented with various reports and business niatters of importance. President's Address — Prof. F. H. Eurnette, Baton Rouge, La. ,■• •-; "California Nut Growing"— Prof. E. J. Wickson, Berkeley, Cal. "Importance of Initial Steps in Nut Culture" — Col. Chas. A. Van Duzee, St. Paul, iVIinn. "Nut Growing in Maryland" — Prof. C. P. Close, College Par'ic, Md. "The Industry of the Future" — Mr. E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Tex. "The Preijaration of Nut E::h!bits" — Prof. H. E. Vah Deman, Washing- ton, D. C. . Addres3-^Dr. L. H. Bailey, Cornell University. "The Governor Hogg Memorial" — Mr. C. Falkner, Waco, Tex; "Economic Horticuiltare"^tMr. H. C. V/hite, DeWitt, Ga. "The Snagbark Hickory" — Dr. Robert T. Morris, New. York. "The Scale of Points and its Ap- plication"— Prof. H. H. Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla. "Nuts in the Far ivorthwest"^ Mr. Henry E. Dosch, Hillside Ore- gon. "The Science of Nut Culture" — Prof. H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla. "Observations on Pecan Growing" — Prof. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. AN ENGLISH SCALE In the Winter Flowering Carna- tion Society of England, an associa- tion formed for the encouragement of the culture of the American type The nut that lias never fail- ed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernel of be.*it quality : : : Ocean Springs : : Mississippi FOR SALE! 3000 Grafted Pecan Trees These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. VAN DEMAN, STUARX COLUMBIAN... and a dozen otlier elioice varietios. Pe- can Nirts for sale in season. Ajiply to JOHN S. HOR.LBCCK CKarleston, S. C. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Cc; t) Season 1906 :7^ Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mississippi Gainesville INurseries Of Gainesville, Fla., Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such stand- ard varieties as have a fjnod record beliiud them. Our Catalogue will not only help in the selection of var- ieties but will assist you in t!ie plant- ing and culture; its free for the ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Fla. NIIJ^SERIES , :%.M-BiAR.''PROP. . ■.pal'atka.Vla.- ': SCMO FOit Mice LIST Pears, Plums and Japan Persitnmons Are very prolitulile when planted lie- IVf carry a tweeii the trees of fullliueifgen- ^ pecan grove. They ''"In'lV/ fail lie cut out when ana OHNA- ■ • ■ i NENTAL tliey begin to crowd STOCK the pecan trees .Arcadia Nurseries J. H. Gi ardeaUt Jr.» Mgi*. Monticello, Fla. Are You Interested In Peache© ?°*.; & veg- etables 9 The cultiva- tion of THE NUT-GROWER 3 of carnations, the scale of points for count them as safe trees. Thirty- judging new varieties is as follows: seven were apparently "stone" dead. Color 5 points The cost oi moving the 138 trees was Size 5 " about $115; so the approximate cost Fragrance 5 " of the 4 9 good trees would be $2.35 Substance 5 " per tree. So far I am more than Calyx 5 " pleased with the result. Hope to General Appearance 5 " get a good many trees from those Length of substance of stem 5 " I do not count now. Habit of p.ant 5 " I regret that we could not get a A variety must gain at least 30 larger and better picture. We points to entitle it to a first-class cer- sprayed with Bordeau. Some of the tificate, and 25 points to entitle it to trees were too high for our appa- ai award of merit. At the first show ratus and rig. We could not put of this society, held in the Royal the spray over the top of some of Botanic Gardens, London, on Dec. 4, them. This, or these diseases bring prizes were offered for the best col- dismay to our hearts. If we cannot lection of cut carnations on table stop it we have no desire to enlarge 10 feet by 4 feet, and many other our orchard. One of our best bear- If so, send 5()c for a year's suljscriptioii to The Peach Grower Savannah, Ga. "It has the Circulation and reaches the Growers. Koerber Nut Meat Co. Inc. PECANS— in Shells, Polislu-d and Slielled — a Specialty. We extract all nut meats fi cm the shell by means of injjC'i'iou.'ily constructed patented mach- ines, getting out the whole kernel unhurt. Shipping al- over the States and to Europe. 169 Read St., New York For ffrowing Pecans, Pear-s, Peaches, etc., at a pmttt — Ri-ee 50 per cent, reduction in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. Freight paid. B. W. STONE & CO., : : Thomasvillc, Ga. "A Short Talk on Pecans," by Fred S. Dawson, Starke, Fla. It is free. Write a postal card for it. ..Monticello Nurseries.. Monticello, Fla. ■ • o Offer a c h o i c e 1 o t o f grafted pecan trees of the best varie- ties. Nice thrif- ty, stocky trees None Better For prices address STANDARD PE- CAN CO.. Bloomingtou, 111., until Nov. 1; thereafter, Monticello, Fla. SPAYING PECAN TREES IN THE GRdVE OF DR. J. H. BURGESS. SENECA, S. C. rrizes for blooms shown in vases, also for bouquets, baskets, etc. REMOVAL OF LARGE TREES Editor The Nut Grower: Last year I gave you an account of how I transplantea 138 large, IG-year-old pecan trees. The work v/as done in January, 1906. I promised a report as to the success or failure of the vork. In June of this year I visited the orchard and helped my brother v.ith the spraying we were doing to try and check and stop, if possible, the ravages being made in our or- chard by fungus diseases. I found 49 of the transplanted trees with a fine growth well up to the top of the trunk. I feel sure that these will continue to grow and make good trees. Fifty-two others had new growth, from a ring of sprouts at the lower part of the trunk to nearly covering the trunk, but I did not ing trees matures very few of its nuts. A tree which in 1905 bore about ten pounds of very fine nuts, last year matured only a handful, it having in the meantime fallen a victim to this dreaded fungus. I have just read Mr. Halbert's wail about "pecan pests increasing." We had the displeasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. Halbert's new friend about fourteen years ago. At that time the Department of Agri- culture characterized that pest as coming from a "psychid moth, yet unnamed." I am not informed whether they have named it yet or not. I hope when they do the name will exterminate it. I have great faith in the Department of Agri- culture, but it seems that they are pretty slow sometimes. We used Paris green spray to combat the psychid moth, but some of our trees were almost destroyed in just the way Mr. Halbert describes. (Continued on Page li.) THE NUT-GROWER The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-Grower Co. Entered as secoiid-olass matter at tlie Postoffice at PoiUau, Ga.. imder tlie Act of Oougress of March 3, 1879. Svbscription Price: - 50c per Annum Advertisinj Rates Sent Upon Application ty tree^ to the acre, will average up very well with corn or wheat. Then, when the selling price is conisdered. the returns are from four to ten times as much for the nuts as the other crops command. Under such circumstances it seems a sensible thing to be willing to wait ten years for the trees to get in shape, especial- ly so as they are a permanent fixture when onca brought into bearing. SEPTEMBER. 1907 Prof. H. E. Van Deman is at the Jan-.esto'.vn Exijosltion as Horticul- tural Juror. He writes that the ex- position is really very gaod, well worth seeing and far better than the public's opinion of it. Dr. Burgess of Soath Carolina has made a good record in the re- moval of large pecan trees. His former report of the work and the contribution in this issue giving the result will prove of much interest and of substantial value to the in- dustry. One of the farm crops whic'.i it will be diflicult to produce beyond the demand is nuts. In fact, the de- mand is now growing faster than the trees are being planted, while the new and more extensive use of nut products is prevented by the increas- ing prices which now prevail. Mr. W. M. L. Black, a Texas sub- scriber, suggests the plan of fixing a minimum price on pecan nuts, as the farmers do in marketing their cotton. Some system of this kind would secure for many producers a better price than they now receive, without necessarily increasing the cost of nuts to the actual consumer. We favor any plan which will cut out the middleman's unearnad prof- its. The prominent exhibit of seedling nuts at the Dallas Convention from the Swinden Orchard, which showed how small a percentage were equal to the parent nut, did not fully sat- isfy at least one Texas grov/er. He claims the orchard can show a larger number of choice varieties than were shown at Dallas. The supplemental exhibit he proposes to make will be of much interest, not only to those who were at Dallas, but by all in- terested in the subject. Arrangements have been perfected whereby a congress of horticultur- ists will occur at Jamestown at tlie time, or near the time, of the Ameri- can Pomological Society meeting, September 24 to 2 6. Immediately preceding it will occur the meetiny of the Society of Horticultural Science and the I.Iaryland State Hor- ticultural Society. Immediately fol- lowing, with the first session taegin- n'ng on September 26, will occur the convention of the National Nut Grow- ers. This combination of horticult- ural events will assure t"ne largest gathering of horticulturists the coun- try has ever seen since the days of the ■W'orld's Fair at Chicago. — The California Fruit Grower. ■When measured by bushels per acre of farm products the pecan holds a prominent place when or- chard is of bearing age. Two and a half bushels to the tree, with twen- The soil in which pe:an seedlings are grown and the treatment they receive in cultivation, with a view to producing fibrous roots, merits care- ful attention and investigation. Mr. John S. Kerr of Texas, at one of the State meetings, spoke on this line, in part as follows: "The pecan trea is hard to transplant beir.uss it has but few fibrous roots and the large hole, all tap root theory is a fallacy. The thing required is to grow trees with more fibrous roots and my experience has been that eastern grown pecan trees are more easily transplant- ed than those grown here. I attribute this to the fact that the eastern grown trees have more fibrous roots. Experien-:e has shown that pecan trees which have been once trans- ])lanted and then are moved again are more liable to grow than those whose roots have never been molested. I advise the cutting of the tap roots about eight inches below the surface of the ground. This should be done during the win- ter following the first year's growth. This cutting of the roots of pecan trees causes from three to eight tap roots to form on each tree and thus enables them to be more successfully transplanted." to make a few remarks concerning Mr. H. A. Halbert's "New Pest," the little white worm about three-fourths of an inch long that is ruining his famous Halbert tree. I have 100 Taylor, 100 Stuart and 50 other trees taking the third year's growth. In the summer of 1905 each variety showed that denudation of foliage which he mentions as to his fine Halbert tree. Now, being an amatuer, I didn't know what to think was the matter. After a thorough examination I found his little white worm imbedded deep inside of the leaf bud, and sometimes this worm would work his way down on the inside of the tender growth of the limb, destroy- ing the pith and vitality of the new growth. I had every tree searched, and destroyed the living worms, but they still keep coming. A spray of arsenate of lead at the proi.er tine would, in my opinion, kill out this worm entirely. But the question still remains, where do these little worms come from? If you can help me in any way to get rid of them I certainly would be very grateful. H. V. COLLINS. Jacksonville, Tex. PR 0 TEOPTER YX DEL U- DANA Editor of the Nut Grower: I have been in the pecan growing business for only three years, and am there- fore only a beginner. But I wish Editor Nut Grower: I have your letter of August 28 with accompany- ing page from "The Nut Grower,' and Dr. H. V. Collins' letter. As you of course know, it is a difficult matter to write about an in- sect v/ithout seeing a specimen or having an i;lentification by an ento- mologist. In this particular case there can be but little doubt that this insect is the pecan budworm (proteropteryx dsludana), which, during the past two or three years, has been extremely abundant in some regions. There are several forms of budworms, but this is the important species, as it shows a special fondness for pecans and is found wherever the pecan is culti- vated. It is also common In the Northern States, where it affects hickory, butternut, walnut and re- lated trees. We have yet to learn its full life history. Like some other insects zoologically related, its hab- its vary according to the food plant and the stage of its growth. The name budworm explains its habit of boring into the bud. It also attacks leaves, stalks, and bores into twigs, and later in the season rolls the leaves. As Dr. Collins describes it, the worm imbeds itself deeply in the inside of a leaf-bud, and sometimes works its way into the tender growth of the limb, destroying the pitch and vitality of the new growth. THE NUT-GROWER No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFFING'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecans. Also a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Shrubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Xot the JJost — Only the Best ForDescriptiveListwrit BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss R. C. Koerber NEAV YORK COMMISSION MERCHANT Dried Nuts and Fruit. Advan- ces made on Pecan shipments. Hotel Elliot R. H . EI^IvI OT, Proprietor OCEAN VIEW, VA. One Half Mile from the Jamestown Exposition Grounds spacious La-Mn Excellent Table Bathing Boating Fishing Crabbing RATES: |2.00 to 13.00 per Day for Room and Board. Rooms, $1.00 and up. Special rates to lodgers and con- ventions. Engage quarters as far in ad- vance as possible. He is also right about the remedy, arsenate of lead. There is no doubt if this is applied at the proper time, namely: when the insect has just hatched from the egg, it can be con- trolled. Later, if the borer has pen- etrated into a leaf-bud or tender twig It is more difficult to reach it. The later generations, which attack more particularly leaves, although they live within the rolled up leaf, will eat enough of the arsenate of lead to destroy them. As there are two or more generations of this species sev- eral applications of the poison will be necessary. Mr. H. A. Halbert is right in as- suming that this "worm" is probably an old pest assuming a new role. choice food plant. This is well ex- emplified by the Colorado potato bug, which feeds by preference on the tender varieties of potatoes. The tougher leaved varieties are almost exempt from attack where the ten- der foliage is sufficient for their needs. This matter is mentioned in Circular No. 87, a copy of which is sent you under separate cover. I regret to be obliged to correct an error which has been perpetrated in Mr. Halbert's article. The cotton boll weevil is quite distinct from the cotton boll worm. The weevil feeds, so far as we know, exclusively on cotton, but the boll worm is the corn worm which attacks peas, beans, tomatoes, and a variety of PROF. P. H. President of tlie National which meets at N' that is, as regards man's observa- tion. In my own experience I have observed this species in great num- bers rolling the leaves of very young pecan, and have found it under the bark of old trees in winter, and I am inclined to believe that its favorite place of concealment is under bark, although it probably hibernates in various other places, beneath debris, in the shelter of dead leaves, in the crotch of trees, and in similar places. Many insects prefer the foliage of young and tender trees, and are apt to become abundant also on very old trees which have become neglected. It is also well known that insects us- ually prefer tender varieties of their BURNETTE Nut Growers' Association, orfolk this moutli. other crops. I am also sending un- der separate cover copies of Farm- ers' Bulletins Nos. 216 and 191. In the former 1 refer you to the illus- trations of the boll worm moth on page 7, and Its work in a roasting ear on page 11, and on a cotton boll on page 13. It might not be a bad Idea to make a separate note on this matter for publication, using these Illustrations in the columns of your periodical. F. H. CHITTENDEN. HYBRIDIZING PECANS (Continued from Page 1.) which readily adheres to the already prepared pistillate blossoms. The 6 THE NUT-GRO>VER paper sack should at once be re- placed for a few days longer, or un- til the blossoms change colors, when it should then be removed entirely to stop retarding any further growth of the leaves so enveloped. It is needless to say that a bunch of nuts thus treated should be plainly la- beled, and a further precaution is necessary to save a cluster oi nuts so as to protect it frOm squirrels. I clasp on them a corn popper, fast- ening it with a piece of wire. Nuts cross-bred in this way are seed nuts proper, and about the only ^•ay to get them. They should be planted in the best place obtainable, receiving extra care and altsntion, and when old enough to furnish scions of buds, top-work on the tops of old trees, for with the piost of us life is too short to wait on these fruiting naturally. Several years ago I received from California some pollin from the best known English walnuts there. This I applied to my variety known as the San Saba, with the hope of getting a cross. I have quite a number of these seedlings so treated growing, but as yet it is too soon to report results. I hope those who have the English walnut growing will experi- ment in this line. A true hybrid of this sort would have more than a cash value now that a large num- ber of trees are fruiting from the planting of the so-called choice seed pecans, selling at fancy prices some ten to fifteen years ago. I am fre- quently asked to explain such quick and severe deterioration that has de- veloped. My diagnosis of the case is that in order for the nuts to be fertile there must of necessity be a fertilizer. So the question arises, what were they fertilized for? Ninety-nine chances to one hundred the tree that bore the fruit was sur- rounded by any amount of worthless ones, so how then could anything else be expected. Another proof that the pollin from the neighboring trees is the prepotent factor; but we will re- verse this order of things and select nuts from the most worthless one surrounded by better varieties, plant these, and when old enough to sam- ple the fruit a large percentage will be improved, another proof that the surrounding pollin is a prepotent factor. There is evidently a limit to de- terioration, but we have no proof that there is a limit to improvement. Each locality in the wide range of which the pecan is capable of grow- ing has its influence either for the better or for the worse. localities than last season, but on the whole is likely to be as light as last season. This should mean good prices for the crop. REMOVAL OF LARGE TREES {Cotithined from Poi^e 3.) I have read with pleasure the ar- ticles on fakes and fakirs in several of the last numbers. We frequently read articles warning us against un- scrupulous nurserymen, but who has read of any certain firm l^eing singled out and dubbed "unscrupulous?" How can we, who perhaps uever see the nursery or nurserymen, know who is honest and who is not? J. H. BURGESS. Seneca, S. C. The walnut crop in California this season promises to be better in some WHA T IS BEING DONE TO IMPROVE OUR VARIE- TIES OF PECANS Read before the College Station meeting of tlie Texas Nut Growers' Associa- tion by H. P. Atwater. A more general knowledge of the merits of the pecan during recent years, _ and a better appreciation of its value as a wholesome and nutri- tious food, has naturally stimulated the desire, especially among pecan buyers and dealers and nurserymsa, to find the most valuable varieties. The increased demand compared with former years and high price.j now paid for large sized, thin shelled pecans, with finely Savored kernels or meat, and the reasonable probabil- ity that pecans v/ill sooner or later take the place of all other nuts, to- gether v.'ith the possibility of event- ually being used for oil for illumi- nating purposes and table use, have also been causes for the increased desire to find the best kinds. An- other cause which might be men- tioned is the rapidly growing public sentiment in favor of the pecan for a shade tree around the house, with numerous desirable points in its fa- vor for this purpose. Numerous oth- er reasons could be given, but prob- ably the most important reason why there is a wide-spread inquiry and desire to discover what are the best varieties is the fact that the people are gradually becoming to realize that the planting of pecan trees will prove a paying proposition. It is, therefore, natural that those who contemplate setting out pecan trees, either in small or large quantities, from the single tree in the yard that will some day shade the home porch and rattle down on the roof its rich and generous crop to those who in- tend to plant more extensive groves for commercial purposes, should de- Did You Ever THinK That every man interested in agriculture ouglit to be a reader of THE COTTON JOURNAL, published iu tiie interest of the Cotton Growers once a week at At- lanta, Ga. Excellent terms to agents. Valuable prizes and premiums. Advercising rates ujioii application. Tlie best medium for reacliiug the cotton growers iu the South. U/je Cottoin Jotariaal ATI^AtiTA, GA. EACH ISSUE OF The American NUT JOUi^MAL PETEBSIURG, VA. Contains information by expert and practical growers and deal- ers concerning the cultivation and max-ketiug of nuts of all kinds. No laud owner or pro- gressive farmer iu America can afford to be without this publi- cation. Sample copies free on request. ^AM£5ICAN NUT JOURNAL^ PETERSBUEG, VA. Branch Otiices: Norfolk, Va., and Coleman, Texas. Nuts for Profit ^, ,?P^^^^I, ot 1.5b pages; (lO illustrations. Propagation. Cultivation, etc., of Nuts best adapted to the various sections. Interesting and instructive. Price l>v mail, 2n cents. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Pla. STUART-ROBSON PECAN C O M P A NY Growers, Dealers iu Large Soft and Paper Siiell Pecans. Growers of the celebrated varieties, Columbian, Stuart, Van Demau and Capital. Budded, Grafted and Seedling Trees for sale. Address either Oceein Springs, Miss. Kirkwood, Ga. Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN, GA. Write for part iculars rc^ardin^ these Bargiti}is ; No. 11. Mill — fine water pow- er and 62 acres of good land. No. 13. Improved property to exchange for lands siiital)le for pecans. No. 16. 100 acres, 1200 pecan trees, 12 to 18 years old. A bar- THE NUT-GROWER PEG AN© AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Martwell Murseries S. W. Peek, Prop'r. Haktwell, Ga. Established 1883. Scud for Catalogue. WANTED Choit-e Budded recall Trees for fifty acre orcliard. Send pro- posals and particulars to The H. WESTON LUMBER CO. LOGTOWN, Miss. Pecari Trees... That are Pmi^crly Growu is My Specialty... BUDZ}£D and GRAFTED TREES of tHe Beet Varie- ties for sale Write for prices of trees and intorrua- tioii as to growing and care of groves. J. B. Wi^Kt. GE^^^?2 Gillgrove Pecan NIlT'^l^^l^lP'Si J.P.Gill 111 oCl lCv5/>,-„^,-.a-,i/VER At the Austin meeting of Texas nut growers Mr. E. W. Kirkpatrick referred to opportunities the State afforded in this line, in part as fol- lows: "The Importance of pecan grow- ing cannot be over estimated. The pecan tree is one of our greatest natural resources, and this tact is being recognized by some of the fore- most men of the South. To a cer- tain degree the planting of pecans in some localities is supplanting the orange, yet our Texas people do not manifest sufflcient interest in this great industry. Thousands should engage in this great work which affords so much pleasure and profit to the growers and the country. The pecan, unlike other trees, endures hundreds of years anu becomes more valuable with age. He who plants a pecan tree confers a blessing which cannot be equaled by any other call- ing. The proprietor of "Breezy Point" Nut Farm, Tyler, Tex., is in the mar- ket for Filbert trees. TEXAS jVUT growers At a meeting of this Association a year ago. The Nut Growers' Asso- ciation and the people of Austin, pro- posed to undertake to establish The Hogg Memorial Park upon the ground in Austin called "Riverside Walk." This enterprise it is hoped to be consummated at this time. It is well remembered, too, a re- quest made by the popular Ex-Gov- ernor only a short time before his death as follows: "I want no monument of stone or marble, but plant at my head a pe- can tree and at my feet an old-fash- ioned walnut. And when these trees shall bear let the pecans and the wal nuts be given out among the plain people of Texas so that they may plant them and make Texas a land of trees." One of the objects of the Associa- tion is to see that the spirit of Gov. Hogg's request is carried out. In the Hogg Memorial Park it is proposed to grow only the choicest pecans, walr.uts and other nuts, and to distribute the nuts produced therein to the scnool children of Texas for planting. Proceedings of the Scranton Convention ^ Ready for Distribution oarly in October For copies address the Secretary, J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. SOO Acres in Pecans (60 lire ifi Test Orchard) GOLD JilEDAL A WARDED OUR EXHIBIT OE PECANS AT ST. LOUIS w DeWitt Georgia E received the specifically for '2 his Com pi! II y mtikes a siiiffle Specialty of Pecans only Medal awarded Pecan trees which were planted and growing on tlie Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. "^Convincing and val- uable ol)ject lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to lie seen in the Company' t'i; -hards and nurseries at De Mention The Nut- (rroiuer zvhen M'ritiiio Witt, Ga. Visitors always weh'ouie.li Bud- ded and grafted trees of meritorious com- mercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with hrst-class trees — Wholefiale and Retail. The Pecan Tree: How to Plant It, II ov to Grow It, Howto Bwij It, (tliird edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell Couniy, Ga. Muntsvilie Wholesale Nurseries We offer GRAFTED PEUAN5, one year's growth on two and three ye^ir roots. In our s lil we get a splendid system of fibrous roots, superior to nuythiug we have seen elsewhere. We have in stock the followiag varieties: Stuakt, Russell, Pabst, Van Demax, Taylor, (the Scoring Committee has given Taylor the liigliest score of a-iy luit so fai- passed upon) Pride of the Coast, Fkotsoher, iioxEYJiAKEU. Particulars by mail. Address W. F. MeJkes, Mgr.. Huntsviile, Ala. TKe NiJit Nursery Company Monticelio, Fla. For next season's planting we \\\\\ have an extra large .supply of Grafted and Btsdded Pecan Trees We can furnisli all standard varieties — Stuart, i'aii Demmi, S^hlev, Froisclier. Pabst. Money Maker . Russell, Vo:ing. Alley, Nelson, Hall. Bolton, Delmas and others. At Moiiticello we have soil and (dimate which are ijecnliarly adapied to the production of high grade peirau trees. Oar trees grow fasler and more stocky than we have seen elsewliere. Special price.^ on large sliipments and Car Load Lots. CORR-ESPONDENCE SOLICITED INSPECTION INVITED FLORIDA K Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan ^\'' P^^^" °f -^ the ruture OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU THE NUT-GROWER Vorume vr Number 3 Poulan, Ga., October 1907 5c per Copy 50c per Year THE SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION NATIONAL NUT GROW- ERS ASSOCIATION Met at the Jamestown Exposi- tion The 1907 convention met accord- ing to announcement in the conven- tion hall of the Inside Inn, where most of the members were domiciled. Prof. Burnette presided in his us- ual affable and skillful manner, giv- ing all the exercises a most pleasing and profitable character. The program had been well ar- ranged and the convention work ran smoothly. Most of the business m^at- ters were well prepared by the vari- ous committees, and with one excep- tion, the committees' reports were adopted. A skillful stenographer took a full report of the proceedings, which will he published as soon as the Asso- The Norfolk convention selected In this article only casual men- tion can be made of such matters as impressed the writer, and such men- tion is made from memory, as other duties precluded the taking of notes as the incidents occurred. As a whole the meeting was rath- er a deliberative bodj- than one noted for scientific discussions. Although the regu'ar reports were practioa! and interesting, still their great value is found in their publication and wide distribution through the pro- ceedings. The formal addresses were by emi- nently practical men, and need to be read to be fully appreciated. Sev- eral speakers wei'e from, various causes prevented from attending and their assignments were read by title. The President emphasized the val- ue of the scale of points in the com- mercial aspect of nut examinations and showed that the nut trade want- ed a good commercial product rather than large fancy nuts, althotigh ad- mitting that there was a large but limited demand for the fancy nuts. Mr. Kirkpatrick of Texas had a theme well suited to him, and he rivaled his former achievements in impressing upon the convention his optimistic spirit regarding the future of the nut industry. Mr. Kirkpat- rick is a large man, physically as well as intellectually, and is a zeal- ous champion of his large state, which has grown an astonishing number of pecan trees, but some of his auditors were inclined to want proof for his theory that nut cul- ture was one of the employments of Paradise, and that it is not neces- sary to leave this world to have a taste of future bliss. Dr. Van Duzee's paper showed how important it is to get started right in nut culture, and will be of much value to the army of new nut growers if they heed his advice. Dr. Morris of New York was a nev/ and unique personality in the his- tory of convention work. With him nut culture, and especially hickory nut culture, is a fascinating study and a delightful recreation. His researches are world-wide, and the collection of varieties he has ob- tained from many sources — some of which he exhibited — are of much interest and great scientific value. Kis address was a prominent feature of the convention, and his genial per- sonality is a pleasant reminiscence of the meeting. Prof. Close of Maryland was also a new figure in the convention. His address dealt largely with local con- ditions in his state, and will be found to be a valuable contribution to the literature of this subject. Prof. Van Deman is so well and favorably known, both as a conven- tion worker and able writer, that comment on his address would al- most be out of place. In taking up the purely liusiness affairs of the meeting as they came from the various committees we were impressed by the wide range of the ;natters considered and the impor- tant bearing they have on the work and the future of the business in hand. Judged from this standpoint the association, notwithstandin.g its brief record, is getting down to hard, substantia! and far-reaching work, both scientifically and commercially. The first installment of the con- vention report in this number will speak for itself. In our November number will appear an equally in- teresting and more extended account of the work of the various special and standing committees and the ac- tion taken on the important matters presented by the Committee on Reso- lutions. Some personal sketches of leading characters on the convention floor and a full list of the officers elected will also appear. PRESIDENTS ADDRESS It is said that a man's education is lac'King until he belongs to a modern society and is able to sit through a inesident's address without showing that he is bored. It is my duty at this time to apply this test to mem- bers of the National Nut Growers' Association. In presenting the presi- dent's address I desire to say that an association president labors un- der peculiar difficulties. He is in some way expected to deal with everything connected with things per- taining to the industry, be very brief, and make it interesting. I shall make claim at the outset to only one of these particulars — brevity — and endeavor only to touch upon those things which it seems to me should be emphasized. To my mind, this association has accomplished more good for the in- dustry during its brief existence than any other of the similar organiza- tions has done in its chosen field of labor. Before Its existence chaos reigned supreme in nomenclature, propagation, etc. Today system and order mark the whole industry. It v.as only the other day that I saw in a leading horticultural journal an article from the pen of a prominent horticulturist, which reads like this: "Perhaps in no branch of pomology is there greater confusion at the present time than in pecans. This is a public catastrophe, and disastrous to the welfare of the industry, but it is regrettably true." I shall chal- lenge this statement at the outset, and say that in no industry is there less disorder today; and that our or- ganization in the very near future, through the work of its standing committees, will wipe out every cause of complaint along this line. In the nomenclature of figs, persimmons, and even apples, there is great con- fusion at this time and in so;iie cases very complex. The many pecans na;-:-.Ed Rome no doubt was the cause THE NUT-GRO>VER of the statement referred to, and per- haps the use of working wood from young trees not bearing may have contributed to it. also one or two unscrupulous propagators, but all of these causes are as good as elimi- nated today and a clear field is ahead of us on that score. This association has given the greatest confideace to the industry. and why? Because the men who or- ganized it and make up its member- ship are men who know and men who do. The pioneers, the expert, piogressive, practical and reliable growers, and the horticulturists of our experiment stations, aided by the interested workers from the National Department of Agriculture, make up Its membership. As an evidence of the confidence which its members have in the association, one item may be mentioned. Some of its members have on their letter heads a small but significant statement. It is: "Members of the National Nut Grow- ers Association," A member of this association must necessarily be worthy of membership or be drop- ped from the membership list. In no other association that I am ac- quainted with does its committee on ethics do such vigorous and careful work, and this means an association of the very highest standard. Our membership has been keen to lay a sure foundation, and has been work- ing in the greatest harmony. These members have traveled far and' served the association at great per- sonal expense and sacrifice. Surely It has been a labor of love among them and the welfare of the indus- try has been the only watchword. We are proud of our membership but we need more. In an association st;ch as this a great deal of work develops and funds are necessary. An increased membership is then one of the first requisites to meet this condition, and we hope that every member will bring to the association new names for enrollment. The in- formation obtained at our meetings is worth many times the fee. In fact, there is an inspiration gotten from these meetings that is worth more than anything that I can mention to one interested and in love with his work. The present condition of the nut Industry, in our southern states es- pecially, is one of great promise. Men are beginning to look at it as a permanent industry and are invest- ing accordingly. While many stories of high prices and large yields are prevalent, it is not a get-rich-quick industry. Men who enter it with this idea sooner or later will proba- bly lose out, and deservedly so, for they will neglect the preparation of the soil and selection of proper stock. The personal element will be missing. The careful investor, the investor who, by the way, gives strength to the industry, is the one who by careful study and investiga- tion chooses his land, prepares it thoroughly, selects his trees, plants them with the utmost care, and gives them every personal attention in cul- tivation. We have many pecan orchards to- day that are being cared for in this manner and it does not take a proph- et to foresee the outcome. We have also many orchards where the trees have been planted and neglected. It does not require a prophet either to foresee their end. The same ques- tions will come up concerning care and cultivation of nut orchards as you will find concerning any other fruit orchards. There will be bad crops, diseases, insects and many oth- er things, but cultivation, fertiliza- tion and watching and spraying will accomplish many vi'onderful things in plant life and nut trees are no e."- ccption to the rule. To be vevy brief in calling your attention to some of the problems confronting this association, I will say that among them will be found tile question of self-sterility in varie- ties. When something along this line has been worked out there is no doubt but that some very im- portant inforr.iation will be obtained, and many confusing, not to say troabksome conditions corrected. Another problem to be solved is connected with stock. Somewhere there is a variety, or there is som3 method to be employed by which vigorous early maturing, prolific stock may be selected. Nurseryman and o;chardist alike desire to know where to gel it. It is time some- thing definite could be obtained about this very thing. Another important feature desired is the early bearing qualities of va- rieties, and their behavior in sections of the pe?an belt outside of their native locality. This information is being obtained as rapidly as possible, but some of us seem to be impatient for the knowledge. Here would be perhaps the first valuable informa- fon to l)e gained from a test nut orchard at the state experiment sta- tions. While some of the experiment stations have taken up pecan inves- tigation there is one serious draw- back that in a large numljer of cases really prohibits work along this line. It requires so much room that the stations cannot spare it for perma- nent occupancy. In such cases the only chance for work is along the line BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The nut that bus uever fail- ed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends v?itli kernel of best (luality : : : Ocean Springs : : Mississippi SALE! 3000 Grafted Pecan Trees These trees are grafted frcjni the best bearing trees in my grove. VAN DEMAN, STUART COLUMBIAN... and a dozen other choice varietios. Pe- can Nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOa.< S. HOiVLBECK Charleston, S. C. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery d "^ Season 1907-8 re E) Will he pleased to Ixiok orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mississippi Gainesville Nurseries Of Gainesville, Pla., Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such stand- ard varieties as luive a good record behind them. Our Catalogue vs'ill not only help in the selection of var- iel ies but will assist you in tlie plant- ing anil culture ; its free for the ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop. .Gainesville, Fla. 1 ^CAN THE NUT-GRO\VER EACH ISSUE OF The American NUT JOURNAL PETERSBURG, VA. Contains iufi)rmation bj' pxpert and ])raetical growers and deal- ers foucerning tlie cultivation and marketing of nnts of all kinds. No land owner or pro- gressive farmer in America can aflford to be witliout this publi- cation. Sample copies free on request. -AMERICAN NUT JOURNAL^ PETERSBLTRG, VA. Branch Offices: Norfolk, Va., and CoLEMAji, Texas. Monticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Offer a choice lot of grafted pecan trees of the best varieties. Nice, tiirifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. Bloouiington. 111., until Nov. 1; there- after Montic ello, Fla. Nuts for Profit \ ,?ooklet of 1 .58 pages ; fiO illustrations. Propagation, Cultivation, etc., of Nuts best adapted to tlie varions sections. Interesting and instructive. jPrfc by muil. i.', cents. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. PEGAPHS AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. tiartwell INurseries S. W. I'EEK, Prop'r. Haktwell, Ga. Establi-sbed 1883. Send for Catalogue. "A Short Talk on Pecans," by Fred S. Dawson, Starke, Fla. It is free. Write a postal card^for it. 7 O O O O ...GRAFTED... PECAN TREES ...T!-OR SALE... Grown witliout fertilization, lieuce hardy ancl stocky. Propagated from our own bearing orchard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dec. 10, 1907. NURSERIES: Lafayette, La. Ocean Springs, MisB. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Miss. Leifayette Parish, La. St. Landry Parish, La. For particulars and illustrated litera- ture address Southern Nut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE, LA. of co-operative work with pecan or- chardists which oftentimes is not sat- isfactory. An Experiment Station Field Agent would be a very val- uable adjunct to the staff of our Ex- periment Stations. To my mind there is another im- portant feature of the work of this association that should be more strongly emphasized, and that is a system of registration. In a way the Committee on Nomenclature and ■ Standards is a system of registration, but something more is needed in or- der to register the name, protecting the originator in his claim to a name, and also to give full publicity to the fact. In other words, our machinery should run faster along this line. In- cidentally other than a commercial standard of scoring varieties is need- ed, for there will be no doubt va- rieties introduced, not of commercial value, that may be valuable for home use. This feature is respectfully put before you in the hope that some time during.. (Our convention it may be discussed and acted upon. It is indeed a pleasure to see so many of our nut.. growers present. I trust that our convention will be both pleasant and, profitable, and feel that I shall have as chairman, your hearty co-operation in trying to make it so. varieties of pecans and will have some one-year seedlings ready for shipments in November. — California Fruit Grower. CROPS NOT EQUAL TO THE DEMAND Pecan growing is engaging the at- tention of nut growers in the South Atlantic and Gulf states almost" to thp exclusion of other nut bearing trees, "various influences having com-' bined to produce a demand for pe- cans considerably in excess of the supply. The popularity- attained by the pecan within the past 'few years has caused the price to increase from four cjuts per pound in 1903 to eighteen cents at present, and St. Louis, the leading pecan market of the country, receives on an average of 600 carloads of ^ the nuts a year, yet the demand is unsatisfied there. Nearly all of the nuts received in St. Louis are grown in Louisianaand Te:.as, the forraer state having cul- tivated trees and producing a finer flavored nut, but Texa;s- produces 92 p.or cant, of 'the nuta, which also grow wild in- -that state. This is a feature of horticultural industry to which growers in Califor- nia might with profit give more seri- ous attention, as conditions of soil and climate ar,e eminently favorable to pecan culture. In this connection it is interesting to note that the Leonard Coates Nursery Co., Morgan Hill, is devoting considerable atten- tion to the propagation of desirable MEXICAN PECAN CROP Monclova. The pec9,n crop in this section will be one of the heaviest ever known. The trees are so heavi- ly loaded with nuts that branches are bent to the ground in many in- stances. This is one of the best pe- can districts in Mexico, and pro- duces nuts of the highest quality. There are many trees here which have a spread of branches 75 feet in diameter and some of them have been known to produce a crop in a good season worth ?150 for a single tree. The season has been unusual- ly dry this year and other crops have suffered severely. It is understood that the entire crop was contracted for by buyers from the United States, nearly a year ago. — Califor- nia Fruit Grower. BOOKS AND CATALOGS ■ -Alabama Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala., wholesale price list of stock and implements. ' The Arcadia Nurseries. J. H. Girar- deau. Jr., manager, Monticello, Fla. Descriptive catalogue, finely illustrat- ed. Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, Glen Saint Mary, Fla., wholesale cata- logue for nurserymen and dealers only.- Frtrtt Guide and Catalogue — Pa- per shell pecans, B. W. Stone & Co.. Thomasville, Ga., 2 4 pages carefully prepared matter. Fruitland Nurseries, P. J. Berek- nians & Co., Augusta, general cata- logue, price list, 50 pages illustrated, contains much descriptive matter. ""^ilmmit Nurseries, Monticello, F^la., Miller & Gossard, proprietors. Finely illustrated catalogue and price list, 20 pages, half of which are de- *Joted to nuts. The Pecan, a 12 page pamphlet descriptive of this nut with catalogue by S. W. Peek of Hartwell, Ga., will he found of interest by those seek- ing reliable data. The Walnut in Oregon. By C. I. Lewis. Bulletin No. 9 2 of Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, Corvallis. Oregon, is a 44 page pam- phlet, illustrated, containing much useful information. The Nation's Garden Spot is the title of a neat 40 page Illustrated pamphlet descriptive of territory reached by the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. Wilbur McCoy, of Jack- sonville, can furnish copies to those interested. THE NUT-GROWER The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-Grower Co. Entered as secoud-class matter at tlie Postoffice at Poiilau, Ga., under tlie Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Svbscription Price: •• 50c per Annvm Advertising Bates Sent Upon Application OCTOBER. 1007 The American Breeders' Associa- tion is mailing a special effort to in- crease its membership. Chattanooga as the place of the next meeting. The date is left with the executive committee, which will see that the opportunity to make an ex- hibit is given right of way in ar- ranging the date. Some varieties of the pecan are more influenced by climatic condi- tions than others, while some are susceptible to disease and insect in- jury. This makes it important to discover the most hardy variety, and their most favorable requirements. State vice-presidents are requested to confer with the experiment sta- tions in their respective territory with a view to securing active co- operation in testing varieties of dif- ferent nuts in the several states. A number of experiment stations have already arranged to engage in this important work. Arrangements are being made for an Inter-State meeting for nut grow- ers at Thomasville, Ga., during No- vember. The point is easily accessi- ble for Southwest Georgia, West Florida and Southern Alabama. This territory embraces a number of the most important nurseries and largest nut growers in the country. The matter of local organizations for nut growers was given favorable consideration at Norfolk. Vice- President Wight, of Georgia, has al- ready begun planning for an early meeting in his territory. This is a good move, designed to bring the work in close touch with the farm- ing interests of the country. The yield in pounds of nuts is a better basis for stimulating the com- parative value of nut trees, rather than the variable price obtained for the crop under favorable or excep- tional circumstances. While a Texas grower reports having received $50 per year tor three successive sea- sons from a single tree, still we pre- fer Widow Barnett's tree in the same state which yielded twenty-five bushels of nuts in one year. The Norfolk convention went on record as being a National Nut Grow- ers' Association, as its name im- plies, rather than as the Southern Pecan Growers' organization, as it is sometimes called. While all the five Gulf coast states were repre- sented, as well as Georgia and Soufn Carolina, still that was less than half the states participating in the convention work. Besides this the walnut and hickory were the most conspicuous nut before the meeting. The Executive committee, while recognizing the pressing importance of work in hand, were conservative enough to heed the sentiment of the Scranton convention, and kept ex- penses within the actual resources of the association, even though it oc- casioned an undesirable delay in publishing the 1906 proceedings. This led, however, to action which, it successfully carried out, will pro- vide increased resources and more prompt and persistent calls on the membership for active and substan- tial co-operation. It is now up to each member to do his part. PECAN SCAB Editor Nut Grower: There is a large, healthy looking pecan tree in this neighborhood, on the farm of a Mr. M. J. Beckham, that for two or three years has ripened no nuts at all. The tree stands in a lane near a cotton house, and frequently cat- tle come and stand under the shade. Years ago it used to bear quite bountifully, but three years ago about half the fruit was affected by a kind of black mould on the out- side, and they failed to fill out; so there was only a small crop. Last year the tree started out in the spring with a fine growth and set a large quantity of nuts. When about one-third grown this same black mould appeared on them, and in a few days all the nuts visible were turned black, and 1 don't think the tree matured a dozen edible nuts. This year the same thing happened again; so as I am somewhat inter- ested in pecan culture, I am writing to you for information as to the trouble and its cause, and the reme- dy, if there be one. I send you by this mail under separate cover a small box containing some of the nuts from this tree. G. A. BYLES. Windsor, Fla. This letter was referred to Prof. W. A. Orton of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who replied as follows: Editor Nut Grower: Referring to the enclosed communication from Mr. G. A. Byles, relative to a disease of pecans, I find them to be affected by the scab, a fungus disease due to fusicladium effusum. This trouble appears to occur throughout the country, wherever the pecan is grown. It was, without doubt, a parasite of this tree and related hickories, before any cultivation was undertaken. The fungus lives over winter in the diseased leaves and nuts on the ground, and appears in the spring on the young fruits and on the leaves causing circular black spots which often spread and fuse together. It also attacks the young twigs, in many cases even killing them back for a few inches. Wet seasons are marked by an increased loss from this disease, which also appears to be worse on trees growing on low ground. In dry seasons a good crop is often obtained from trees which were previously diseased. We have no conclusive evidence as yet that the occurrence of scab is affected by the crops grown be- tween the trees, by the cultivation or fertilization of the soil, or by any pruning of the trees. Further ob- servations are required on this point, however. From its similarity to the apple scab, we would expect it to be easily controlled by spraying, and some preliminary experiments that we have made show this to be the case. We advise that the first spray- ing be done shortly after the flower- ing period, a second application some two weeks later, ^and if it should be found in any locality that the disease does not appear until July a third application at that time would be advisable. Not enough work has been done as yet to es- tablish definitely the best dates for spraying. The difficulties experienced in spraying are two: The first is the great variation in the time of flower- ing among varieties of pecans, and especially among seedlings, so tnat in spraying a mixed orchard it is necessary to go over it several times The second is the large size of the trees, which makes it necessary to employ a powerful spray pump and an elevated platform rigged on a farm wagon, together with long ex- tension rods to enable the operator to reach the tops of tall trees. These difficulties can be overcome, but all things considered, it is quite doubt- ful whether spraying will ever come into general use. It would unques- tionably be profitable in the case of THE NUT-GROWER No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure an J Profitable GRIFFING'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecans. Also a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Shrubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Not the Most— Onhj the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss R. C. Roerber NEW YORK COMMISSION MERCHANT Dried Nuts and Fruit. Advan- ces made on Pecan shipments. Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN. GA. Write for particulars ra^ardiiiff these Bari^aius : No. 11. Mill — fine water pow- er and 62 acres of good land. No. 1.3. Improved property to exchange for lands suitable for pecans. No. 10. 10I» acres, 1200 pecan trees, 12 to IS years old. A bar- gain. STUART-ROBSON PECAN COMPANY Growers, Dealers in Large Soft and Paper Sliell Pecans. Growers of the celebrated varieties, Columbian, Stuart, Van Deman and Capital. Budded. Grafted and Seedling Trees for sale. Address either trees producing large nuts, where the crop on a single tree is worth several dollars. There is a marked difference in the susceptibility of varieties. Many seedling trees show a great tenden- cy to scab every year, while others near them remain free. Few or none of the finer named varieties have been observed to be affected by scab, and our greatest hope is that this resistance will be maintained. We therefore advise those who are troubled by the disease to make ex- periments in top-grafting their dis- eased seedlings with some of the finer named varieties, and the writer desires to obtain the co-operation of interested pecan growers in re- porting the results of any such tests, as well as their observations on the relative susceptibility of varieties. W. A. ORTON. Pathologist. Ocean Springs, Miss. Kirkwood, Ga. 77/ a; place of nut CUL- ture in our rural ECONOMY Prepared by Wm. A. Taylor, of the Dejartnient of Agriculture, for tlie re- cent Horticultural Congress at the Jamestown Exposition. Discussion of the attractiveness and lirofit of nut culture has in recent years awakened much interest among our people In the possibilities of this rather newly developed industry. Among dwellers in cities and towns the idea of nut culture appears to be particularly attractive and in the case of the average person to sug- gest as its principal feature the syl- van shade and bosky dell of the nut harvest rather than the hard work essential to success in other lines of orcharding. As the result of considerable at- tention to the subject the writer has been forced to the conclusion that in the mind of the average person the term nut culture stands for: First, a very pleasant harvest time in which a bountiful crop of beauti- ful nuts of fine quality is garnered to be later sold at very remunera- tive prices. Second, the production at low cost and ultimate sale at high prices of a considerable quantity of valuable chestnut, walnut, hickory or other nut tree timber to be derived from the thinning out of the superfluous trees of the grove or orchard. In short, the general conception of nut culture among our people is decidedly visionary and highly tinged with sentiment. Doubtless because of the fact that almost our entire domestic supply of tree grown nuts has until very recently been derived from the forests, there is a deeply imbedded conviction in the average American mind that nut culture is a phase of forestry rather than of pomology; that it is closer kin to timber production than to fruit growing. With the species known to the writer this view is en- tirely and essentially erroneous. The production of straight grained, sound and valuable timber neces- sitates close planting with a view to forcing an erect and relatively tall trunk. This in turn is accomplished by the rapid and continuously pro- gressive smothering of the lower branches as the crown of the tree reaches upward with the rising for- est floor. The result is a tall pole with a relatively small tuft of young branches such as alone are capable of producing blossoms and nuts. The apparent abundant yields of chestnuts, walnuts or pecans occa- sionally observed in the crowded for- est would not in fact be large yields at all if reduced to the basis of bushels or pounds per acre. The production of good crops of nuts of most species, on the con- trary, necessitates the development and maintenance of a relatively large head of strong growing youiig wood which can only be done under such conditions a-, provide an abund- ance of air and sunshine. All ex- perienced nut growers agree to the above statements. I take it though, there is still much difference of opin- ion am.ong them as to the necessity of cultivation, fertilizing, pruning and in specific instances, spraying to control injurious insects and dis- eases. Many maintain that the leaf imbedded, unstirred soil of the for- est constitutes the ideal soil condi- tion provided otTier factors be right. The writer is strongly of the opin- ion, however, that where nut trees are planted primarily for the crops they yield rather than as wind- breaks or for road side ornamenta- tion or shade near dwellings, sys- tematic cultivation, including judi- cious use of suitable cover crops will be found essential. The leaf mold mulch method of humus production is not practicable under the sunlight and moisture dispelling conditions of the orchard so man must exercise a directing influence over the condi- tions of plant growth if he desires more regular and abundant crops than the species concerned ordinarily produce in its natural state. The fact is that nature's methods do not promote maximum productiveness nor highest quality of produce as judged from the standpoint of man's needs. Heavy crops of nuts in the forests are at most invariably fol- lowed by very short crops, or even 6 THE NUT-GROWER total failure in many cases apparent- ly through inability of the unaided tree to set a normal crop of well de- veloped fruit buds while maturing a heavy yield of nuts. As with our Iiomaceous and stone fruits we must steady the yields by furnishing or rendering available sufficient fertili- ty and conversely in some cases by reducing the set of nuts in full crop years by judicious pruning, or even by hand thinning of over productive varieties of some species. Regularity of abundant cropping is the excep- tion rather than the rule under the forest condition, and doubtless the most certain and economical way of Insuring it is by systematic orchard cultivation. At least this has been found true with almond and the Per- sian walnut on the Pacific coast, where the production has assumed most importance. There may be ex- ceptions to this general rule as with the pecan on alluvial soils that are abundantly fertile and moist and there may be cases where the cheap- ness of the land and its inadaptabil- ity to other profitable uses may justi- fy an investment in nut grpwing where only occasional full crops may reasonably be expected as with the sprout grafted chestnut orchards of the rough lands of the Alleghany and Blue Ride mountain regions. But the important commercial develop- ment of the industry now under way and likely to show large increase during the next decade will un- doubtedly be along lines of orchard practice not differing much in prin- ciples from those now recognized as essential in the production of the de- ciduous tree fruits. Of the present status of nut cul- ture in the United States little can be shown in statistical form. The fig- ures as compiled from the 12th cen- sus, covering the crop year of 1899. were as shown in the following table: Nut trees. NUT TREES AND PRODUCTS IN CONTINENT- AL UNITED STATES, CENSUS OP 1900 iVees. Pounds. Almond 1,649,072 7,142,710 Cocoanut .... 48,664 136,650 Pecan 643,292 3,206.850 Persian or Eng- lish walnut. 726.798 10,668,065 Miscellaneous nuts 634,460 380.224 Acres. Bushels. Peanuts 516,654 11.964,109 Value of tree nuts $1,949,931 In all U. S 1,950.161 Value of pea- nuts 7.270,515 Total value of nuts pro- duced ....$9,220,446 No statistics nor reliable estimates of later date relating to the entire country are available, but by com- bining the known data on imports of almonds and walnuts with the com- mercial estimates of the yields of those nuts in California a fair no- tion of the quantity of those nuts re- quired to meet the present demands may be gained. APPROXIMATE QUANTITY OF ALMONDS AND WALNUTS CONSUMED IN UNITED STATES, 1902-3 TO 190G-T ALMONDS POUNDS Home grown 1902-3 . . . . 6,540,000 Total . .14,682,164 Imported 1903-4 Home grown 1903-4. . . . . 9,838,852 . . 6,400,000 Total . .16,238,852 Imported 1904-5 Home grown 1904-5. . . . .11,745,081 . . 1,600,000 Total . .13.345,081 Imported 1905-6 Home grown 1905-6. . . . .15,009,326 . . 4,200.000 Total . .19,209,326 Imported 1906-7 Home grown 1906-7. . . . .14,233,613 . . 1,400,000 Total . .15,633,613 WALNUTS Imported 1902-3 Home grown 1902-3. . . . .12,362,567 . .17,140,000 Imported 1903-4 Home grown 1903-4. . . . .23,670,761 . .11,000.000 Total- ...-..' . .34,670,761 Imported 1904-5. . . .'' . Home grown 1904-5. . . . .21,684,104 . .15,180,000 Total . .36,864,104 Imported 1905-6. Home grown 1905-6. . . . .24,917.028 . .12,800,000 Total . .37,717.028 Imported 1906-7 Home grown 1906-7 . . . . .32,597,592 . .12,000,000 Total . .44.597.592 These figures appear to indicate an Increasing consumption of almonds, and especially of walnuts, and though the data on other nuts are lacking there has unquestionably been larger consumption of pecans, filberts, chestnuts and peanuts in re- cent years and a considerably home increased production. It should be noted that we are still importing much the larger , portion of the al- monds and walnuts that we are con- suming, domestic production not hav- ing yet overtaken home consumption. Our total imports and exports of Pears, Plums and Japan Persimmons Are very profitable when planted Ije- tween the trees of apcrau grove. Tliey can be cut out when they begin to crowd the pecan trees A.rcaclia Nurseries J. H. Oirardeau. Jr., Mffr. Monticello. Fla. Are You Interested In ?"- Peaches t'^ of etables 9 nV carry a fiiU line of i^eii- cral FRlIT and ORXA- MENTAL STOCK If SO, send 50c for a year's subscription to The Peach Grower Savannah, Ga. It has the Oirciilatiou and reaches the Growers. Koerber Nut Meat Co. Inc. PECANS— in Shells, Polislied and Shelled — a Specialty. We extract all nut meats from the sliell by means of ingeniously constructed patented mach- ines, getting out the whole kernel unhurt. Shipping al- over tlie States and to Europe. 169 Read St., New York. Pecan Trees... That are Properly Grown is My Specialty... BUDDED and GRAFTED TREES ofthe Best Varie- ties for sale Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to growing and care of groves. J. B. Wie'Kt, oE^^^^S Did You Ever Think That every man interested in agriculture ought to be a reader of THE COTTON JOURNAL, published in the interest of the Cotton Growers once a week at At- lanta, Ga. E.xcellent terms to agents. Valuable prizes and jiremiums. Advertising rates upon application. The' best medium for reaching the cotton growers iu the South. ©6c Cotton Journal ATLANTA., GA. THE NUT-GROWER Three Nut Journals 1 j Year for oulv $1.00 The Nut-Grower jr„f'°." ««S"! Org-aii of the National Nut Growers' Ass(»ciation. Indispensible to aU projjrressive yprowers. Sub- scription 50 cents per year. I American Fruit and Nut JourKal Petersburg, Va. A iiKintlily jdiiriuil of great value t(i all luit growers and to fruit growers generally. A most attractive and val- ual)le publication. Finely illustrated. Subscription 50c per Year Texas Fruits, Nuts Berries ^ Flowers San Antonio, Tex. A Inunlsonie illustrateil journal dealing with topics of practical interest to fruit and nut growers. Especial- ly valualile to all growers in the Gulf States. Subscription $1.00 per Year All three of these publications, repre- sentative of the j^reater jjart of the United States, and the only ones largely devoted to nut culture, will be sent to you one ^ear for $1.00 Send your dollar and address to THE NlIT-CxROWER POULAN, :: GEORGIA Trum^Ti ' F!ff .CT^isnwf* -T^jrimB *. ...j y^-'-jp-' t^i-JLiOSBX IN E C \ A For srowiiiK Pectitis, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a pr; fit— Free 50 per cent, reduction iu price of trees. Sure to live. No agen s. Freight paid. B. W. STONE & CO., - Thomssvillc, Ga. ProceedBR^s of the Scranton Convention *i^ Now ready 8i>* for Distribution Price, 50 cents For copies address the Secretary. J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. nuts for the last year were as fol- lows: I.-tports of Nuts Fisr-ril Year 1906-7. Almonds, 14,233,613 lbs. f2, 331,816 Coeoaauts, free 1,349,562 Cocoaniit meat, broken, oi co;ira, not sbredded, desicated or prerarcd, free, 7, 064,532 lbs.... 302,132 Cream and Brazil, free, ■252 538 lbs 650, 4SS' Palm and palm nut ker- nels, free 39,32 9 Wnlniits dut., 32,597,592" lbs 2,969,649 All otter free and all oth- er dut 2,100,274 Total imports 19,743,250 EXPORTS OP DOMESTIC NUTS, FISCAL YEAR 1906-7 Peanuts, 6,386,012 lbs. ..". $278,236 All other 103,929 Total exports $382,165 Of the large number of species of. nuts that enter into consumption in this country those that appear to offer greatest promise to the grower are the almond, Persian walnut, pe- can, Japanese and European chest- nuts. The efforts at filbert culture thus far made in the United States have not warranted extensive com- mercial plantings, though the im- possibility of profitable filbert cul- ture has by no means been demon- strated. The improvement of the native chestnut and chinkquapin, the Eastern and the California black walnuts, the butternut, the shagbark and the shellbark are well worthy of the attention of the amateur and r <> breeder. ' Two species, the almond and the Persian walnut, may be said to be upon a sound economic cultural basis one the Pacific coast, and one, the pe- can, is approaching that status in the Gu'f and South Atlantic States. Numerous questions affecting the nut industry are pressing for solu- tion, the rapidity with which plant- ings ha^-e been made having pre- vented the acquirement of enlighten- ing experience as a guide to the commercial planters. The important questions of self fertility or sterilty of varieties, rela- tive congeniality and adaptability of grafting stocks, resistance to dis- eases snd insects, etc., as well as the broad and important question of relative adaptability of varieties to poils and regions demand thorough and systematic investigation if the industry is to have healthy and nor- ir.al economic development. LJF/i MEMBERSHIP The time for receiving Life mem- bers at the reduced fee of $10.00 has been terrlporarily extended by unan- i:"ous consent of the Executive com- mittee. After the Jamestown convention it was found that more funds were needed for the early publication of the proceedings and tor other work than the ordinary and anticipated resources of the Association would promptly supply. The conservative financial policy of the Association — limiting the expenditures to the avail- able funds — as discussed at Scranton and endorsed at Norfolk, seems to require that we promptly make a si;ecial effort, for the best interests of the Association and for that por- tion of the public that looks to our body for information and help. Our present resources are only sufficient to complete and distribute the proceedings of the Scranton con- vention and to meet the recent con- vention's expenses. The copy for the proceedings of the Norfolk conven- THE NUT-GROWER Pecan and Rose Nursery for Sale In Connection with a Delightful Home on BacK Bay, Biloxi, Miss. Bilosi is a noted health resort, patron- ized bj- city people and planters of the Sontli in summer and Northern people in -winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one half mile. Over 25,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 200 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1907-8. Over 100,000 budded roses for market \viuter of 1907 and winter of 1908. Also a fine sto<^'k of magnolia i;iaudi flora, figs and Japan persimmons. Tills property belongs to the Heikes- Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends. The company has no debts. It is operated a.s a branch of the Huntsviile Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. Tliis is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address, W. F, tieikes. Manager Huntsville. Ala. 60 YEARS' ENCE Trade Mark Designs . . Copyrights ic. Anyone sending a aketrli and doacriptinn may qnlckly ascertain onr opinion free whether an invention is probably puleiitahle. Commuiiicn- tlonBstrictlyconBdential. HANDBOOK on Patents Bent free. Oldest at-ency for Be<.-u ring patents. Patents taicen throujjh Munn & Co. recelvt •pecioJ notice, without charge, in the Scientific Jitnerlcan. A handaompty Illustrated weekly. I..^^(^est cir- culation of nny p^'ientiDc journal. Tenits. %7> a year ; four montbs, $L Sold by all Tie"-s'ioaler!>. MUNN iCo-'^'^""""""- New York Branch Office. 63S F St.. WaablOKton, D. a tion will be ready soon, the more val- uable papers read at Dallas and the important historical matter and sev- eral addresses delivered at the Macon convention in 1902, as well as the constitntiim adopted at that meeting, are to be published as sor pecan meat in general. Many confectioners aliandoned the use of pecans for all kinds of candy, using instead other kinds ponnds of small nnts produce altont ]()<• lioiinds of (dean meat, while 25(1 to 275 ponnds of large nnts will produce the same quantity. Walnuts in shells are stored in cold storage in very large lots, ;ind prices for this arti(de, wdiich is so great a competitor of the pecan, will rule very low, based upon the reason that dealers want to get rid of their stock be- fore the new crop arrives, which is about the middle of Novem- l)er. In general, full reports from nut producing countries cannot be furnished at this lime, but as soon as reliable reports arrive T shall not hesitate to report them to your valual)le paper, as they have a great inlluence on the price of pecans. PECANS IN THE SACRA- MENTO VALLEY We are awaking to the fact that tiie pecan in the Sacramento- San Joaquin valley is not only a success i)ut promises to supersede even the walnut as a prolital)le crop. In Texas, Georgia and otiier states, the i)usiiiessof grow- ing pecans for market is assum- ing immense proportions, and tiie more the nuts are known the greater is the demand. The pe- can succeeds over a wide terri- tory, but delights in hot sum- mers with plenty of moisture at the root, followed by a winter cold enough to thorougiily ripen the wood. The rich alluvial bottoms of the great Sacramento valley form an ideal location for the pecan. I have seen magnifi- cent trees growing from Butte county to Tulare, producing im- mense crops of full-meated, thin- shelled nuts of excellent quality. (Jrafted trees are very scarce and if we import varieties from the scmthern states it may be that our climatic conditions would not agree with them. The bet- ter way is to plant seedlings from a good home-grown strain, known to he prolific, and any of those that should not bear nuts of the best quality could be grafted ov- er at a time when we siiould know from what trees to take grafts. Seedlings carefully taken up, planted deep, with a Itasiii left of a foot or two in diameter and several inches deep, filled with old manure as a mulch, will grow well even the first year, and not one should fail. The pecan possesses several advantages over the walnut, as neither the nuts or leaves are ever injured by the hot sun, and its upright growth makes it more desiral)le as a roadside tree, or for planting along irrigating ditches. — Leonard Coates, in Sac- ramento Union. THE TEXAS CROP Editor Nut-Grower: All this blow and bluster about the en(jrnious pecn crop in Tex- as turns out to lie mostly moon- shine. The crop is very good in a few of the lower counties, where rain was abundant during the growing sea.son, Ontsitle of these counties the crop promised to be the largest ever known un- til the drought set in several months ago, when the trees l)e- gan to shed their nuts and have been dropping them until per- haps only about 50 per cent, are left. I got my information from per- sonal observation and from the members of the Texas Nut Grow- ers' Association, who met at Austin on October !). I saw one gentleman wiio claimed that a full crop with him meant twenty- five cars and that he did not ex- pect to get more than two this year. J. F. Leyexdecker. Frelsburg, Tex. The National Association's committee on Ethics will be glad to help any grower in advising them in regard to any pecan prop- osition they may be considering. THE NVT-GROWER The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-GroVvef Go. Eutererl as secoud-c-lass matter at the Postoffiee at Poulau, Ga. , nuder t;lie Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price: •• 50c p^r Arnivm Advertising Cates Sent Upon Appljcaticn NOVEMBER. 1Q07 " ,'"• ' Wliile pecan niits are market- al)le all over tlie world, it is a significant fact that this is the only country wiiere they are in- digenous. The United States, or the Gulf Coast, rather, has a natural monopoly of tiie indus- try. After' ma jjy, delays the I'ni- cecdhu/so^ the Scranton couNcn- tion is finally out and is heing distrilnited. It Is a neat volume of one hundred and twenty pages of highly instructive data and — to any one interested — is most facinating reading. It contains all the formal addresses, discus- sions, reports of various commil- tees and list of officers elected at that meeting. As a food for hogs, acorns are much prized in various sections of the country. Compared with corn they have half the protein, two-thirds the nitrogen — free ex- tract— and about tiiree-fifths the fat. As the crop costs nothing to grow and the hogs do the har- vesting it is readily seen thai this nut is an important lactor in the economy of the farm. In addition to tlie advantages nam- ed, acorns have the property of imparting a fine flavor to the meat. The pecan men of .Jackson county, Mississippi, lay claim to distinction in having produced more of the recognized stand- ard varieties of pecans than any other locality of similar area. They listed fifteen varieties up to the date of the Scranton con- vention and among them ai)[)ears the names, of 'Stuart, I'alist, Rus- sell, Schley., Jewett, Alley, Suc- cess, . Delmas and Centennial. This is a great list , and will give .Jackson county a proininenl place in the history of the pecan industrv. With most of the products of tlie soil the item of labor is the chief factor in the cost of ]iro(luction. This is ecjually true of nut culture — still there is a difl'erence. With the staple cereal crops and cotton the mar- gin of profit, after deducting the cost of labor, is very small and often disappears entirely. With nut culture pitching the crop is necessary !)ut once. After that nature does most of the work, the necessary labor being large- ly confined to harvesting the. crops after the orchard is well estalilished. The letter of Dr. Dennis, of Cedar Rapids, la., in this num- lier is one of the results of i)iil)- licity work recently inaugurated liy the Association's committee on that suliject. There are many persons scattered all over tlie country, who — like Dr. Den nis — have long recognized the importance of mit culture: and as they learn of the w-ork now in progress it arouses sentiments and activities which can lie prof- itai>ly employed. We like to come in contact with such men, as they embody so many of those desirable qualities which a close- to-nature life develops. The growing of alniomls always (»xcites the attention of those who look into the business feat- ures of nut growing. Tiiis branch of nut culture lias been carefully studied for many years and it is conceded that it is confined in this country to the Pacific slope, and even to particular localities there. There is no trouble in growing the trees in any part of the country where the peacii tlirixes, but its habit of early blooming insures its being caught l»v the late frosts with such reif- ularity that crops are not obtain- able outside of the favored sec- tions mentioned. Tlu' horticul- tural wizard who can evolv(> a late-blooming variety will make a good thing out of it. There are few, .if any, indus- trial or commercial lines wliicli are better suited for co-operative investments thai\ is luit culture. Corporations for planting ordi- ards'. are' readily formed and can be managed on tlie same plan as are our great industrial enterprises. The liinids offered by the few well organize(r and reputable eohipanies engaged in the actu,a,l"p'la1itiiig of iiut orch- ards have an increasing security as the trees approach the liearing age. The value of their stork issues soon goes above par and should gradually increase in val- ue as the trees grow to maturity. Add to these considerations the safety of such an investment and . the fact 'that it continues to pro- iluce through all the tqis ami downs of business, and it looks like a genuine "gilt-edge invest- ment," provided, of course, that the magement is competent and honest. WA y TED- A WliEPIKG J 'EC AN Among the many thousands of seedlings now being planted, I am hoping that something of this sort will soon develoj), for here in western Texas, away oil' fi-mn the timber belt, it would ha\i' an inestimable \alue. The trees that thrive here are few and far between. The pecan, bt-ing in- digenous, is of es]K'cial value. Luxuriating under the intense heat of our July and August sun, it grows to such large and stately proportions as to be unsuited for the limited space of many town or city lots; and this is why a weeper or dwarf variety would have a distinctive value. The writer has exiierimented largely with the weeping ash, the weeping ('amperdown elm and several other weepers suit- No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GEIIFING' C ATALOGUE TELL ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecans. Also a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Slimbbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Comipany JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pccse Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Xot the 2[ost— Oiihj tin' Best F o r D e s c r i p t i V c List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss ■R. Ce Roerber NE'W YORK COr^MESSION MERCHANT Dried Nuts and Fruit. Advan- ces made on Pe;'an sliipnients. Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN. GA. ll'ri/r for pnrh'ciilars ri-i^nirJini;- ///ISC I-i iir <,'a i n s : No. ]]. Mill — fine water pow- er and (52 acres of good land. No. i;5. Improved property to exchange for lands suitable for pecans. No. 1(1. 1(H) acres, ]2()0 pecan trees, 12 to IS years old. A bar- gain. S T U A R T - R O B S O N PECAN CO 31 PA NY Growers, Dealers in Large Soft and Paper Shell Pecans. Growers of the celebrated varieties, Cohimbian, Stnart, Van Denian and Ca])ital. Budded, Grafted and Seedling Trees for sale. AdVER 1 sent those specimens to A. S. Fuller, of New Jersey, and Frof . Budd, oi' our agricultural school at Ames, lu. K this nut was of good quality, I think it niigiit do to grt)W here. 1 think your society should he urged to look after the few hick- ory trees that are left and bud them in the Soutli. It can be done liere but without mucli show of success. All our American nuts. North and South should be rescued and improved upon be- fore they become entirely ex- tinct. What a collection of those nuts could have been gatliered in Indiana and Oiiio 60 years ago, when 1 was a small l)i)y I And what lovely, large l)eechnuts — the richest nuts of all — I used U)gatlierl All gone now: the ruthless hand of man, who thinks only of the iViiw and who never looks ahead foi' those who must follow in his footsteps and see the ruin lie has left tliem as a heritage, has swept them away. A. B. Uexms. Cedar Kajjids, la. NITRATES FROM AIR The report that the world's supply of natural nitrate which ctmies from Chili, is l)eing so rapidly exhausted that the end of it will likely be seen within thirty years' time gives addition- al interest to the claim that a process has been x:)erfected where- by nitrates can be secured direct- ly from the air. Nitrogen con- stitutes the most import- ant of the three fundamental el- ements of plant food, the other two l)eiiig potassium and the phosphates, so that witiioul ni- trogen for plant food, vegetation would starve when the supply becomes exhausted, and the fail- ure of vegetation would mean starvation throughout the ani- mal kingdom. Recognizing this situation to which the world is drawing near. Prof. Frank and Dr. Caro, emi- nent scientists of (iernumy, set abcmt to find a method of deriv- ing nitrogen artilicially from tlie air itself — as the atmosphere is an inexhaustible reservoir of that element — and binding it in a compound to serve as a vehicle by which it C(nild be handled practically, and of such a nature as well as wimld be slowly solu- l)le and capable of assimilation by plant life after lieing placed in the soil. The efforts of these two men of science have been successful, according to a report in perfect- ing a process which permits the manufacture of such a product upon a commercial scale. The final product which the process t)btains is composed of limestone, coal and nitrogen, and is popu- larly called "lime nitrogen," 20 per cent, of the weight of which is nitrogen. The chemi- cal name of the compound is cal- cium cyanamid. Thiscompouml not only has its direct use as an agricultural fertilizer, but it will be most extensively used in the chemical arts for the produc- tion of ammonia, nitric acid and other useful things. As a meas- ure of tlie magnitude of the con- sumption of Chilian nitrate it might be mentioned that the United States alone imported last year 375,0110 tons of it, hav- ing a value of .i>-20,000,000. A col- umn of the atmosphere resting on any two acres of the earth's surface contains the same amount of nitrogen as did last year's importation from tljiili. The process of manufacture is electro-chemical and therefore involves an extensive consump- tion of cheap electric power, and it is thougiit possible to turn to account the wasting energy of the great Tennessee river and liurden it with the duty of sup- plying one of the vital necessi- ties to human existence from the free air which surrounds the earth. The Agricultural Department at Washington is said to be tak- ing a great interest in the new fertilizer and is having it ivesti- gated l)y the department expert. — L'aliforiild Fruit Grower. Pears, Pltitns and Japan Persimmons Are very profitable when planted be- liv carry M^r. Monticello. Fla. Are You Interested In !■ Peaches Th. culti lion oi Or oth- er fruits & veg- etables If SO, send 50c for a year's subscription to The Peach Grower Savannah, Ga. It lias the Circulation and reaches the Growers. Koerber Nut Meat Co. Inc. PECANS— in Shells, Polished and Shelled — a Specialty. We extract all nut meats from the shell by means of ingeniously constructed patented mach- ines, getting out the whole kernel unhurt. Shipping al- over the States and to Europe. 169 Read St., New York. Nut-Grower ads pay. Pecan Trees... That are Properly Grown is My Specialty... BUDDED ana GRAFTED TREES of the Best Varie- ties for sale Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to growing aud care of groves. J. B. Wig;lit. oE^^^^S Did You Ever Think Tliat every man interested in agriculture ought to be a reader of THE COTTON JOURNAL, iniblished iu the interest of the Cotton Growers ouce a week at At- lanta, Ga. Excellent terms to agents. Valuable prizes and premiums. Advertising rates upon ajJijlication. The best medium for reaeliiiig tlie cotton growers iu the South. S6c Cotton Journal ATLANTA, GA. THE NUT-GRO>VER t » Three Nut Journals 1 | Year for only $ 1 .00 The Nut-Grower J'-rir'SmS"! Orjjaii of the National Nut Growers' Association. Indispensible to aU projiressive growers. Sub- scription 50 cents per year. American Frvil and Nvt Journal Petersburg, Va. A monthly journal of great value to all nut growers and to fruit growers generally. A most attractive and val- uable publication. Finely illustrated. Subscription 50c per Year Texas Frvhs, Nuts Berries S^ Flowers San Antonio, Tex. A handsome illustrated journal dealing with topics of practical interest to fruit and nut growers. Especial- ly valuable to all growers in the Gulf States. Subscription $1.00 per Year All tliree of tliese piil)lications, repre- sentative of the greater part of the United States, and the onlj' ones largely devoted to nnt cnltiire, will be sent to yon one year for $1.00 Send yonr dollar and address to THE NUT-GROWER POULAN, GEORGIA For growing Pecans, F*ear"s, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Rt-ee 50 per cent, reductiou in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. Freiglit paid. B. W. STONE S CO., - Thomnsville, Ga. Proceedings of the Scranton Convention ns Price, 50 cents For copies address the Secretary, J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. FECAJV CULTURE Read by J. F. Jones at the meeting of tiie Louisiana Horticuhural Society. The growing of pecans as a com- mercial proposition, though long neglected, is receiving considerable attention at the present time and deservedly so, as selected varieties are now being propagated by graft- ing and budding and the certainty of the outcome is assured if varieties known to bear early and i regular crops of good nuts are planted and properly cared for. We sometimes wonder why the pecan was so neg- lected, as very ordinary nuts selling for ten and f^fteen cents per pound are profitable as a commercial prop- osition. Perhaps the principal draw- back has been the comparatively long length of time necessary to. get seed- ling trees into profitable bearing, as when in bearing the trees require little care in comparison with the apple, peach, or other fruit trees so largely planted. Besides being slow coming into bearing, the average seedling or wild pecan varies great- ly even where selected fine nuts are planted; besides, the tree may be a poor or irregular cropper or even en- tirely barren, so that the propaga- tion of the trees by grafting was necessary to place the industry on a firm and assured profitable basis. Early attempts to propagate the pe- can by budding or grafting were gen- erally unsuccessful, probably because these attempts for the most part were made with wild trees or trees grow- ing under unfavorable conditions, and the pecan, not unlike other species of hickory was found difficult to propagate. At the present time there are a number of nurserymen successfully propagating the pecan by budding and grafting and trees may be had at a fair price. Perhaps the principal drawback to propagation is the comparatively slow callousing of the pecan. This is overcome to some extent by Intensive culture In nur- sery, or by cutting back and induc- ing a vigorous growth as in larger trees to be top workej. Experience has shown that young vigorous trees may be budded or grafted with fair success, while the same care and the same methods may give a poor stand or even failure on less vigorous trees or stocks; so that if there is any secret in propagating the pecan, aside from careful, painstaking work, it- is in intensive cultivation of the young trees in nursery. This applies to dormant trees to be grafted, as well as to trees "in sap" to be budded in spring or summer. Any propa- gator will give good cultivation to stocks to be budded to hold the sap and facilitate the budding, but lit- tle thought is given to proper feed- ing and cultivation that the stocks to be grafted may mature perfectly and store up a maximum amount of "starch," without which, callousing and union oC stoclc and scion would be slow and uncertain, resulting in a poor stand. It is unnecessary for me to say anything in favor of budded or grafted trees, as the ad- vantages are obvious to anyone. Be- sides perpetuating given varieties which bear desirable nuts and regu- lar crops, grafted or budded trees come into profitable bearing in about one-halt the time that is required by the average seedling tree. This is a very decided advantage; besides there is no guess work as to the nuts which will be produced when the' ti-ees come intO; bearing, as Is the ease with seedling trees, provided of course that we know that our budded or grafted trees are true to name. You people i of Louisiana 8 THE NUT-GRO^VER should feel proud that the pecan was first successfully propagated in your state by graftage, and that the in- dustry now assuming comparatively large proportions was started in Lonisiana. (To be Contiiniii/.) Pecan Grafting Wood... I have u nice lot of grafting wood of tlie Pabst, Russell, Moneymaker and James Pecans from bearing trees for sale. Also graft- ed trees of leading varieties. \V rite for circular. Sam. H. James, Mound, La. Gillgrove Pecan Albany, Georgia Budding and Grafting Wood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over 4000 budded trees of the best standard varieties and is the old- est budded grove of over 300 trees in Georgia. Pecan and Rose Nursery for Sale In Connection with a Delightful Home on fiacK Bay, Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patron- ized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Nortlieru people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one half mile. Over 2.5,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 200 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1907-8. Over 100,000 budded rcses for market winter of 1907 and winter of 1908. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per«•• THe Nut Nursery Company Monticello* Fla. For next season's planting we will liave an extra large supply of Graifted zind Budded Pecan Trees We can furnish all standard varieties — Stuart, I'an IJemnii, Schley, Frotscher, Pabst, Money Maker, Russell, ]'oiing. Alley, Nelson, Hall. Bolton, Dehnas and otliers. At Mouticello we have soil and climate which are peculiarly edapled ro the production of high grade pecan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky than we have seen elsewliere. Special prices on large shipments and Car Load Lots. CORR.ESPONDENCE SOLICITED. —INSPECTION INVITED MONTICELO FLORIDA Nut Trees-Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan '^\^ f^*'*" °^ t the ruture OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU THE NUT-GROWER Volume VI Number 5 Poulaiiy Ga., December 1907 5c per Copy 50c per Year PR O MISING NE W PEC A NS By WM. a. TAYLOR. From tlie I'lai- Book of the Department of Agriculture, 1906. The peoaii continues to engage the attention of nut growers in the South Atlantic and Gulf States almost to the exclusion of other nut-bearing trees. The in- creasing popularity of the nut, doubtless due in part to the dev- elopment of systematic methods of grading and cracking by nuicli- inery operated by steam or elec- tric power, which render possible tlie marketing of the meats ready for use, have combined to pro- duce a market demand consider- al)ly in excess of the present sup- ply. Under this stimulus and the production of consideralde numbers of budded and grafted trees of clioice varieties in soutli- ern nurseries the planting of pe- can orchards is proceeding rapid- ly in many portions of the Soutli. Much of this planting up to the present time has of necessity lieen done rather l)lindly as re- gards the adaptability of varie- ties to soil and climatic con- ditions, very few varieties hav- ing yet been fruited sufficiently outside of the localities of their origin to determine their prol)- al)]e behavior elsewhere. As the earlier plantings of budded and grafted trees come into bear- ing, it is unfortunately becoming apparent that in the infancy of the industry the stock of several of the leading varieties was con- siderably mixed with otlier sorts. In some cases closely related seedlings inferior to the sort whose name they bore appear to have been propagated from. This confusion of identity is now giving rise to diverse reports as to the behavior of particular var- ieties in different sections, and will doubtless require some years of careful work by nurserymen and orchardists to rectify. Seedling ondiards grown from nuts of the large varieties, such as Centennial, Frotscher, Stuart, Van Deman, Russell, etc., that came into public notice from 1875 to 1895, are now coming in- to bearing throughout tlie South, and as lioth the trees and nuts commonly bear a general resem- l)!ance to tlieir parents, they are in many instance lieing discussed and even labeled with the names of the parent varieties. As such seedlings are likely to discdose characteristics even more diverse from their parents if budded or grafted from and planted else- where, they should never 1)e de- sigiuited otherwise than as seed- lings until found worthy of dis- tinctive varietal names. The utmost care in selection of authentic stock from these ear- lier varieties to l)ud and graft From is necessary at tlie i:)resent time to insure trueness to name in the nurseries and orchards. It is not safe to use grafting or bud- ding wood of any of these sorts from trees that have not liorne except where sucdi stock can be unquestionably traced to Ijcaring trees that are true to name. Less confusion exists among the more recent introductions, although some of these have in various ways lieen more or less confused with one another. A few of the more promising of the newer ones are described. ALLEY. The origimil tree of this varie- ty was grown by Jlrs. C H. Al- ley, of Scranton, Miss., from a pecan of luiknown variety pre- sented to her by the late Ool. R. Seal, of Mississippi City, Miss., in 1871. This nut she planted in a box the same fall, transplant- ing tlie young seedling that re- sulted therefrom to its present location in her garden in 1872. The tree began bearing at the (Continued oil Page 5.) THE SHAG BARK HICK- ORY By dr. ROBT. T. MORRIS. From a paper read at the Norfolk meet- iug of the National Nut Growers' As- sociatiou. Concerning the future devel- opment of the hickory as bearing upon tlie public benefit, my Friend Dr. Chamberlain of New York, said, when I showed him some specimens at a meeting of the liorticultural society, that the man who developed the hick- ory would be a public benefactor. I agree witli Dr. Chamberlain, and have agreed with that prop- osition ever since I was a boy, wlien I thought that any man who raised good hickory nuts was a public benefactor. At the present time I base my interest in tlie suljject of nut culture largely on tiie ground of sport. As a very busy man, I have sought for recreation in yachting, salmon fishing, bear hunting, etc., but I have found nut cul- tui-e a little more expensive than all these, thougii more exciting and nmre fun. To elaborate a little : I had this spring placed great hope upon the outcome of the planting of several thousand nuts whicli I ob- tained from Japan and Korea, l)ut on account of the long, cold, wet spring, most of these were lost. Then, I found some spe- cies that were sprouting freely were attacked by enemies about which I knew nothing. I found, after trying to catch a certain species of mice which I believed were attacking one kind of nut, tliat the crows were getting them all. I found this out after most of the nuts were gone. Again, I found, after setting traps for various kinds of mice, that our common mole was the malefac- toi — nnich to my surprise, be- cause my training in zoology had taugiit me to believe that the THE NUT-GROWER mole was an insectivore wholly. But I have learned tliat he will pull almost all the pecans under ground and eat the roots, being also fond of the hitternxit hick- ory and chestnut. As showing the interest one can develop in the sulgect, 1 made a cross between an Asiatic Pterocarya, which bears loni; racemes of nuts, forty or fifty in a raceme, and the shagbark hick- ory. In this connection the question of intense interest is, "Is this to be a fertile hybrid or not? Are the genera so far apart tliat I cannot ol)tain a fertile hy- brid, or am I to get a hybrid tliat will give me hickory nuts in a raceme half a yard long?" I mention tliisas going to show tin' different kinds of interest in whicli one becomes engaged in taking up the work oT nut cul- ture. Then, geographically, I luive found much interest in obtain- ing species from different parts of the world — Korea, Silieria, Argentina, Chile and the remote parts of Japan ; and I luive some nuts now on the way from Thili- et, which will probably lie the first sent out from that country. 1 have nuts from a part of Japan which could only be obtained through a Japanese officer, who is one of my friends. One of the Austrian princes was undecided what to name an avenue being laid out in Opoeno, and as most (>f the hickory nuts 1 hai1 sent him last year had sprouted, he decided to line it with liirkory trees and name it afU'r tiii' one wlio sent him the nuts. As to tiie matter of profit in the raising of hickory nuts, 1 went to tl)e dealers in New York when I first liecame interested in the suliject, and talked with them from a business standpoint, and I bnmd tiiis: t)ne num would say, "Wliy don't you go into chestnuts? 1 can't get enougli chestnuts: if yon will just develop a large acreage nC chestnuts, I will take all yon can raise." The ne.xt man would say, "For heaven's sake, go into hazels, and let nu> have all yim can raise." Still another would say, "Oil, raise English walnuts. We don't want the California nuts or the Oregon nuts, for they will not graft or grade them on the Pacific coast aiul it ruins t)ur nuirket: the European growers give us grafted and named varie- ties. The European uuirket is a market you can't always depend on : do go into the raising the Persian or English walnuts." Another num would say, "Give us all the hickories you can." On one occasion I had some spec- imens from a prize contest, and I was talking with a dealer who handled hickories largely and who had a fancy patronage. He had just told me that he paid $8 a Inishel i'ni shagbark hickories in October and %\ in January, and had showed me one basket of nuts for which he paid a Tarni- er !f8 a bushel. 1 took from my pocket •> small handful of nuts and handed him one. He crack- ed and ate it, and said, "^^'ell, I will take all these you can give me and pay you whatever yoti ask." Now that statement, of course, was to lie taken at its face value; but it gives an indi- cation of tiie view-point of a dealer, who assumed, of course, that 1 had only one tree aiul c(Uild only furnish three u\ four bushels at one time perhaps. In developing nut trees, 1 have taken up not only the hickories, but hazels, walnuts ami chest- nuts and am looking for a good heecli. I ha\e siuue twenty-six species and varieties of chestnuts and 1 do not know how many hazels. I have been developing local, native hazels. I have a large number of walnuts, but hickories have engaged my cliief attention; and through prize olfers in the agricnl(iu-al papers 1 have oblainetl numy hundreds of specimens. 1 iielieve that the shagbark hickory will stand very close to the pecan in com- mercial importance and will outrank it in (pudily as a dessert nut for table use. From my experience in making Ibis collection it seems to me the best nuts ai-e coming from BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The Dut that lius never faif- ed to l>ear ami never failed to fill at both ends with kernel of best quality : : : Ocean Springs : : Mississippi FOR SALE! 3000 Grafted Pecan Trees These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my srove. VAN DEMAN, STUART COLUMBIAN... and a dozen iitlier choice varietios. Pe- can Nnts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HOR.LBECK Charleston, S. C. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery a. "^ Season 1907-8 ^ Will be pleased to liook orders now for (grafted Pecans. NovSeedlings. Send for r r ice Lis t CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mississippi Gainesville rHurseries Of Gainusville, Tla., Malii' a specially of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of sueli stand- ard vai-ieties as liave a good record belund them. Onr Catalofcue will not only help in tlie selection of var- ieties but will assist you in the plant- ing- and culture ; its free for tlie ask- ing. H. S. GiiAVF.s, Prop., Gainesville, Pla. THE NUT-GROWER EACH ISSUE OF New Jersey and Maryland. I The American NUT JOURNAL PETERSBURG, VA. Coutaius iufomiation by expert and practical growers and deal- ers coucerninj^ the cultivation and marketing of nuts of all kinds. No land owner or pro- gressive farmer in America can afford to be without tliis publi- cation. Sample copies free on request. ^AMERICAN NUT JOURNAL- PETERSBURG, VA. Branch Offices: Norfolk, Va., and Coleman, Texas. Monticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Offer a choice' lot of grafted pecan trees of the best varieties. Nice, thrifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. Bloomiugtou, 111., until Nov. 1; tliere- after Monticello, Fla. Nvits for Profit \ .^^oklet oi 1 58 pages ; 60 illustrations. Propagation, Cultivation, etc., of Nuts best adapted to tlie various sections. Interesting iind instructive. Pi/rr bv mall. l'.-> .■oils. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY. N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 1.5, Orlando, Fla. PEGANS AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Martwell INurseries S. W. Peek, Prop'r. Hautwell, Ga. Establislied 1882. Send for Catalogue. "A Short Talk on Pecans," by Fred S. Dawson, Starke, Fla. It is free. Write a postal card for it. 7 O O O O .. .GRAFTED... PECAN TREES ...FOR SALE... Grown without fertilization, lience hardj' and stocky. Projiagated from our own bearing orchard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dec. 10, 1907. NURSERIES: Lafayette, La. Ocean Springs, Miss. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Miss. Lafayette Parish, La. St. Landry Parish, La. For particulars and illustrated litera- ture address Sovthern Nut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE. LA. get larger nuts from farther west and farther soutii, but not the best. I am attempting, by cross fertilizing to get an ideal hickory. (To be Continued.) NEWS NOTES The East Tennessee Poultry Association will hold its tliird annual meeting at Knoxville, Jan. 7-11. The fourth annual meeting of the American Breeders' Associ- ation will be held at Washing- ton, D. C, January 28-30. The Alabama Horticultural Society will hold its fifth annual meeting at Birmingham, Febru- ary 13 and 1-1. An interesting program is being arranged. The United States Forestry Bureau is giving much attention to the conservation of native forests and to reforesting opera- tions, especially in the Stmthern Appalachian regious. During the past year Monti- cello, Fla., has located several new nut orchard companies, which are planting, in the aggre- gate, 1,300 acres in pecans. The Te.xas Nut-Growers' Asso- ciation will hold its midwinter session in conjunction with the State Horticultural Society's meeting at Abilene, January 15 and 16. At a recent meeting of grow- ers, the Coleman County (Te.\.) Pecan Growers' Association was organized. J. P. Morris was el- ected president and B. F. Robey secretary-treasurer. The asso- ciation was formed to better the conditions for handling and dis- posing of the crop. The mem- bership is very enthusiastic. The following names were add- ed to the list of menibrs of tlie National Nut Growers' Associa- tion during the Norfolk conven- tion : D. L. Williams, Cairo, Ga. ; Prof. C. P. Close, College Park, Md.; Chas. T. Alexander. Chattanooga, Tenn. ; A. M. Troy- er, Calhoun, Ala.; Mrs. Benigiia G. Kalb, Jacksonville, Tex.; Frank E. Kalb, Jacksonville, Tex.; Prof. W. M. Munson, Mor- gantown, W. Va.; Prof. W. N. Hutt, Raleigh, N. C. ; F. K. Freeman, Athens, Ga. The ad inicriit) committee, which is arranging blanks ff)r noting various features of nut tree growth and habit is com- posed of the folhnving: Prof. W. A. Taylor, Washington, D. C. ; Prof. H. Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla.; Prof. H. E. Van Deman, Washington, D. C. ; Prof. H. N. Starnes, Experi- ment, Ga.; Mr. H. C. White, DeWitt, Ga. NUr GROWEBS MhET In response to a call by Mr. J. B. Wight, vice-president for Georgia, a meeting of nut grow- ers was held at the courthouse in Thomasville, Ga., November •iO, 1907. T];erewas a good local attend- ance, and nearby towns in Flori- da, as well as Georgia, were well represented. About forty per- sons were in attendance. Mr. Wight stated the object of the meeting to be for the pur- pose of showing how valuable the industry is to any section so well suited to the work as the surrounding territory. Mr. W. C. Jones, of Cairo, Ga., was elected chairman of the meeting and Mr. Ray C. Simp- son, of Monticello, Fla., secre- tary. Prof. H. K. Miller, Dr. J. F. Wilson, and Messrs. H. C. White and J. B. Wight, all well- known in tlie National Nut Growers' Association, gave prac- tical talks on pertinent subjects. Dr. J. B. Curtis, of Florida; Mr. H. S. Watson, of Illinois; and Mr. J. P. Gill, of Georgia, were conspicuous figures in the gener- al discussions. Many pertinent questions were asked and an- swered. The day was pleasantly and profitably spent and the meeting was so evidently a success that it was resolved that a midsum- mer meeting should l)e Iield at Monticello, and the officers were continued to arrange for the same. THE NUT-GROWER The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-Grower Co. Entered as secoud-elass matter at the Postoffice at Poulau, Ga., uuder tlie Act of Congress of Marcli 8, 1879. Subscription Price: - SOc per Annum Advertising Rates Sent Upon Application DECEMBER 1907 The season for nuicli of the or- chard work is at liund. Nut growers, as well as others, should reuienil)er that "an ounce of prevention" policy is a good remedy for sundry ills. The advertisement of Gill- grove Pecan Nurseries was inad- vertently omitted in our October number. We run up against all kinds of similar accidents. Ev- en this notice, intended for our N;!vember issue, was overlooked. In Texas the past season is said to have been the dryest in twenty years. It had an injur- ious effect on the pecan crop: the immature nuts dropped bad- ly and tiiose maturing were much smaller in size than usual. Our excliange table bears con- vincing evidence of the popular- ity of The Nut-Grower with the agricultural and horticultural press, as well as with the exper- iment stations. The bulletins which nearly all the stations send us regularly reflect the pro. gressofall lines of agricultural enterprise. This section is also tlie home of The Nut-Grower. The territory surrounding Al- bany, Georgia is certain to at- tract much attention as a nut growing center. Within a radius of twenty miles are loca- ted several of the largest pecan orchards yet planted. At the recent meeting of nut growers held at Tliomasville, it was stat ed that, with the contracts now being filled, the orchards of bud- ded and grafted trees in this territory will total 3,000 acres. As the years go l)y we are rap- idly learning the great value of the services rendered by the pio- neer nut growers, especially those who were instrumental in establishing the superiority of of budded and grafted trees. Although it has been but a few years since this fact was estab- lished, and though most of those who took part in the work are still with us, they are pioneers in the true sense of the word, even though they still lack the gray hairs which we involuntar- ily associate with the term. The Norfolk convention advis- ed the formation of local nut growers' societies and recom- mended that the state vice-pres- idents take the matter under careful consideration. J. B. Wight, vice-president for Geor- gia, acted promptly and held a meeting at Tliomasville on Nov. 20. This meeting was well at- tended by local interested part- ies, and other towns in that sec- tion, particularly Albany, Ba- conton, Cairo and Monticello, Fla., had able representatives present. Another meeting of this body is planned for Monti- cello in midsummer. When nuts were being gather- ed this season we instituted some observations on a small scale for determining how rapidly pecans mature on being gathered and what ])ercentage of weight they lose in drying. A certain num- ber of nuts was taken from each of two trees and were carefully weighed at intervals of a week until they ceased losing in weight. The recorded data will be worked out in percentages and published later. One obvious deduction is that it does not pay to l)uy pecans by weight until they have been gathered fully two weeks. the National Nut Growers' Asso- ciation has emphasized the im- portance of systematic experi- mental work in nut culture in all parts of the land and par- ticularly in the pecan belt. In addition to the work now being started through the cooperation of state experiment stations, and which is being arranged by sev- eral state vice-presidents, Presi- dent Burnette lias appointed a strong a() interim committee to formulate definite plans for mak- ing various observations. The secretary is now consolidating the suggestions and plans of this committee and will embody the contemplated work in a series of blanks which will be put in the hands of various members and experiment station workers who will make and record the data desired and send it to this com- mittee from widely separated localities. The comparative val- ue of such records is likely to prove of great importance when placed in the hands of skilled horticulturists who can glean from them new principles and laws afi'ecting the industry. Each succeeding convention of New and unexpectedly favor- able features in pecan culture, in a commercial way, are still com- ing into general attention. As compared with industrial invest- ments the following will be of interest: In all industrial work the capital invested in buildings and machinery begins to wear out and every year a percentage of its cost must be deducted for wear and tear which depreciates the value of the investment. Then there is the cost for repairs which have to be frequently nuide. Added to this is a heavy fixed charge for insurance. All of these items must be deducted from the gross earnings. Now notice how these same matters affect a pecan orchard. When it is once planted it begins at once to grow in value, instead of start- ing in the opposite direction, and in ten years, when a fac- tory's machinery is ready for the junk heap, the orchard has ac- THE NUT-GROWER 5 No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFFING* CATALOGUE TELL ABOUT THEM Tweuty leadiug vaiieties of Pecans. A.lso a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Shrubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Xoi the Most- Old ij the Best F o r D e s c r i ji t i V (• List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss R. C. Roerber NEW YORK COMMISSION MERCHANT Dried Nuts and Fniil. Advuii- ces made on Pecan shipments. Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN, GA. M^ritt' for pai'tirulars rc!^'(iy; CULTURE Read by J. F. Jones at the meeting of tlie Louisiana Horticultural Society. (('o7ili)iiiid from lur.t Isfiie.) It i s ■ H u n e c e s s a r y f o r m e to say that Louisiana is naturally adapted to pecan culture, as you have on every side thrifty trees thriving and bearing well with prac- ticaliy no care or attention what- ever. Some of these noble old trees are estimated to be several hundred years eld, or to have been growing when Columbus discovered America! I believe that you have in Louisiana the best possible combination of soil and climate to produce pecans of the highest quality, as well as a maximum growth and productiveness of tree, with cultural expenses cut down to the minimum. I believe that pecans can, and will, be grown profitably in all of the southern states, but for a large commercial orchard proposition one should se- lect the best possible location, where both soil and climate are conducive to the growth and healthfulness of the tree and where the product can be produced the cheapest consistent with high quality. In your rich, moist, alluvial soils, the pecan is a natural growth, and the tree requires comparatively little care after be- coming established. I have on my desk five jars containing nuts of five of the improved varieties of pecans, the product of grafted trees growing in Mr. B. M. Young's orchard at Morgan City, La., and I have never seen larger or better filled nuts from any section where the pecan is grown — even where the trees were highly fertilized and cultivated — while these trees have never received any fer- tilizer, and are growing in Bermuda sod! The pecan revels in a rich, deep, moist soil, and where the soil is lacking in fertility or moisture the trees should be well cultivated to conserve moisture, and the trees well fertilized. The pecan differs from most fruit trees, in that trees mak- ing a vigorous growth as a result of fertilization or cultivation bear well instead of going all to wood growth, so that we need not be afraid to plant on the richest land to be had, and the richer the land the better the results that may be expected in both growth and productiveness of tree. I have seen young grafted trees of productive varieties bearing early Pecan Grafting Wood... I have a nice lot of grafting wood of the Pabst, Russell, Moneymaker and James Pecans from bearing trees for sale. Also graft- ed trees of leading varieties. Write for circular. Sam. H. James, Mound, La. Pecan and Rose Nursery for Sale In Connection with a Delightful Home on EacK Bay, Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health restu't, patron- ized by city people and plauter.s of the South in .summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or les.s, with a water front on Back Bay of over one half niilo. Over 25,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 2iiO 000 pecan .seedlings will be in fine (•oiiditi(]U for grafting winter of 1907-8. Over lOa.OOO budded roses for market winter of l'.)07aud winter of I'.iOS. Also a line stock of magnolia graiidifloru, figs and Jaj^an persinnuons.' This ]}ri)i]erty belongs to the Heikes- Biloxi Nurseries (A).. Biloxi, Mi.ss., and is paying good dividends. The company has no debts. It is operated a.s a branch of the Hnntsvide Wholesale Nurseries, Hunt.svillo, Ala., and tlie only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. Tills is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of C(md)ining pleasure anil business. This ])roperty will admit of divi.sion into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address, W. F. Heikes, Manager Huntsville, Ala. Pears, Plums and Japan Persimmons Are very profitable when planted be- //■<• <■«;■;- V a tween the trees of ■^""I'i^'j^i-fV'' a/;ccrt« grove. They „„,/ OAW.-l- "^" ''("Cut out when MEXTAL they liegin to crowd STUCK the pecan trees Arcadia Nurseries J. H. Girardeau, Jr., Mgr. Monticello, Fla. Koerber Nut Meat Co. Inc. PECANS— in Shells, Polished and SI idled— a Specialty. We extract all nut meats from tlie shell by means of ingeniously constructed patented macli- lues, getting out the whole kernel uuliurt. Shipping al- over the States and to Europe. 169 Read St., New York. Gillgro\ e Pecan Nurseries.4r:cSi!. Albany, Georjjria Budding and Grafting Wood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over 4000 Inidded trees of the best standard varieties and is the old- est budded grove of over 300 trees in Georgia. Pecan Trees... That are Projierly Grown is My Specialty... BUDDED ana GRAFTED TREES of the Best Varie. ties for sale Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to growing and care of groves. J. B. Wi^ht, ^^Sk'^l Did You Ever Think Tliat every man interested in agriculture ought to be a reader of THE COTTON JOURNAL, published in the interest of tlie Cotton Growers once a week at At- lanta, Ga. Excellent term.s to agents. Valuable prizes and ])remiuiiis. Advertising rates upon applicati(m. The best medium for reacliing tlie cotton growers in the South. tohQ Cotton Journal AT)U'\.NTA, GA. THE NUT-GROWER Three Nut Journals 1 j Year for only $ 1 .00 The Nut-Grower ^H^^^r'm^^:! Oryfaii of the National Nut Growers' Association. Indispensible to aU progressive growers. Sub- scription 50 cents per year. American Fruit and Nut Journal Petersburg, Va. A niontlily journal of great value to all nut growers and to fruit growers generally. A most attractive and val- uable publication. Finely illustrated. Subscription 50c per Year Texas Fruits, Nuts Berries S; Flowers San Antonio, Tex. A handsome illustrated journal dealing with topics of practical interest to fruit and nut growers. Especial- ly valuable to all growers in the Gulf States. Subscription $1.00 per Year All three of these ijuhlications, repre- sentative of the greater part of the United States, and the only ones largley devoted to nut culture, will be sent to yon one year for $1.00 Send your dollar and address to THE NUT-GROWER POULAN, GEORGIA IN W P L. A IN For growing Pecans, Pear's, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Pr*ee 50 per cent. reiUntiou iu price of trees. Sure to live. No ageuts. Freight paid. B. W. STONE & CO., - Thomasvillc, Ga. Proceedings of the Scranton Convention ^ Price, 50 cents For copies address the Secretary, J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. and abundantly in as rich soil as there is in the state, where the trees were liberally fertilized with stable manure. For the orchards of the Jones Pe- can Co., we have selected the finest land to be had in the state, and have :ust planted nearly 5 00 acres in the improved large paper and soft-shell varieties of pecans. Under good culture, we expect these trees to be- gin bearing in five or six years, and to be quite profitable at ten years, and increase with the age and size of the trees till the product of a single year will equal or exceed the total cost of the orchard. Eight or ten years Is about as soon as a profitable apple orchard can be es- tablished in the best apple growing sections, while we expect the pecan to be far more profitable. In varie- ties: We have planted Stuart, Schley, Van Deman, Russell, Young and Frotscher, in quantities in the order named, with a less quantity of newer but promising varieties for trial. These varieties have been test- ed sufficiently that their success is assured. The trees were selected with a view to producing a uniform growth as far as possible in the orch- ard, and with this in view the most vigorous and stockiest trees were se- lected and all "spindling" trees were discarded. Perhaps I cannot do bet- ter than to try to tell you just how these trees were planted and how v.-e propose to care for the orchard: For lining of the tree rows we used a steel wire which would stand the necessary strain without stretching, and cut the same into lengths so that the links when tied would be just fifty feet apart. The tieing was carefully done so that there would be no stretching of the line and good anchors were at- tached to the ends. A base line or row was carefully staked off and care v.as taken in setting the anchor each time to see that the first link was place's directly in line with the stakes marking the first row, oth- erwise all links on the wire would be out of line and the stakes mark- ing the places for the trees would not line up properly. Half as many men as there were links on the wire, or rows to be staked, were given sharp- ened stakes about eight feet high with a piece of white muslin at- tached to the tops so that they could be readily seen at a distance. The end stakes being set and a man placed at end or base row to see that the stakes lined up properly, the stakes were set in rotation beginning with the one farthest from the base row, and with signals or motions of the hand the man "sighting the stakes" had them placed in line, when the wire was lifted and carried from the preceding row and an- chored close to, and in line with the stakes just set. Small stakes to mark the place for the tree were quickly stuck down c'ose to the wire and opposite the links marking the row. In this way about seventy-five acres per day were nicely staked off ready for the men digging holes. The holes were dug about a foot deep with spades and sunk an addi- tional two feet with Iwan earth augers, making the holes three feet deep. In planting the tap roots were cut back to about two feet on the average and the small lateral roots were cut back to within two inches of the tap roots. The trees were placed in the center of the holes af- ter having filled the holes sufficiently with good top soil so that the trees would stand the proper depth, or a little deeper than they stood in nur- sery, and the soil was well firmed THE NUT-GROWER about the roots with tamping sticks so rounded and smoothed that they would not injure the small roots. We have thrown ten to twelve feet beds to the trees and will give clean culture each year till say, July 15th, when cow-peas will be sown to reno- vate and improve the soil. By giv- ing the tree rows ten to twelve feet and cultivating the trees with one- horse cultivators independent of any crops which may be grown in the orchard, comparatively few trees will be injured by cultivation or harvest- ing of crops and better care can be given the trees. With this method almost any crop may be grown in the orchard, but we prefer to grow such crops as will not exhaust the soil, and are planting corn, cow-peas, alfalfa, etc., and will leave sugar cane out of the rotation, as cane is very exhaustive to the soil. The trees have been cut back heavily — about one-half on the average, and all limbs or sprouts will be left to grow for a year or two to shade, and to draw sap, thicken up the trunks of the trees and thus facilitate the formation of a vigorous root system, which is the foundation of the orch- ard. No attempt to shape or train the trees will be made till they are established and growing vigorously so that the heads can be made to form systematically and without in- Jury to the tree. A good many of us are too Impatient and we want newly planted trees to make a show at once. We often see fine trees ruined by having the tops left on and the low- er sprouts rubbed off in an effort to form the head the proper height at once. The result is generally "hide bound" trees which, if they do anything at all, will be far be- hind trees properly cut back and al- lowed to branch low to shade and to thicken up the trunk, to say nothing of the loss in transplanting. In conclusion I will say that wc expect to be able by the time our laige orchards come into bearing to harvest and handle the crop largely by machinery. This is sure to come when the nuts are produced in suffi- cient quantity to warrant the manu- facture of such machinery. The special 1908 Fruit Guide and Cat- alogue of B. W. Stone & Company, Thoma.sville, Ga., is a closely printed paniplilet of 24 pages and contains mncli interesting data regarding pecan and fruit specialties. This firm deals directly with the planter and make it plain that they employ no agents. The descriptions of fruits and nuls listed and instructions for cultivation make it of practical value to the general farmer. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. SOO Aciis ill Pccniis (60 are ill Test Orchard) GOLD MEDAL A WARDED OUR EXHIBIT OF PEC AXIS AT ST. LOUIS lOOJt Mention The jViit- Grovjrr zvlicn }l'ritin^ De^Vitt '/'his Coinftiny makes g-^ ' a simple Ueorgia specialty «/ Pecans \^E received the only Medal awarded speL'ifically for Pecan trees which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. T[ Convincing and val- uable oljject lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orcliards and nurseries at De Witt, Ca. ^'isitors always welcome. ^j Bud- ded and grafted trees of meritorious com- mercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with first-class trees — Wholesale and Retail. The I'eran Tree: Ilov to Plant It, IIoui to Grow It, How to Bvii It, (third edition ) will be mailed free to tliose interested. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. WANTED— A Decorticating Machine for removing Shells from Nuts We also solicit correspunrtence from coucenis who make machiiier3- of this cJtarac'ter for .sjjecial purjioses. L. C. GILLESPIE & SONS, () and 8 Fletcher St., New York. Rose Hill Pecan Farm Fine Bvdded Pecan Trees From Selected Stock. For Prices aitilress H.B. McNeill, mgr., JACKSON, MISS. g TKe Nut Nursery Company Monticello, Fla. For next season's planting we will have an extra large sujijilj- of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can furnish a.l standard varieties — Stuart, I'an Deman, Schley, Frotscher, abst. Money Maker, Riissc//. )'oiini;-, Allcv, Nelson, Hall. Bolton, Delnias and others. At Moiiticello we have soil and climate wliieh are peculiarly adapted to the ])i-oduction of lii^h grade pecan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky than we have seen elsewhere. Si»cial prices on large shipments and Car Load Lots. 8 I CORR-EEPONDENCE SOLICITED- ■ INSPECTION INVITED SUMMIT S^ NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO URSERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors \ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan '^'?^ P^^^" °f the r uture OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU THE NUT-GROWER Volume yi Number iS) Poulan, Ga., January 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year PR OMISING NE W PECANS By WM. a. TAYLOR (Coi:ti mud from last Issue.) CURTIS Synonym: Curtis No. i The original tree of this varie- ty was grown by Dr. J. B. Cur- tis, of Orange Heights, Fla., from a nut of the Turlvey Egg pecan, obtained from Arthur Brown, of Bagdad, Fla., in 1886. It bore about a dozen nuts in 1893 and has borne a crop each year since then, except in 1902, when heavy rains at blooming time prevent- ed fertilization of the blos.soms. It was first propagated by Dr. Curtis in 1896 and was dissemin- ated by him somewhat later. The original tree, though heavily cut for scions, yielded 80 pounds of nuts in 1905. The variety appears to have been first des- crilied and illustrated by Hume in 1900. DESCRIPTION Size medium, 60 to 70 nuts to the pound; form .ovate conical, compressed, with a sharp point- ed base and an incliujition to curve near apex; color bright, with very few black stripes, but sparsely stippled with black ov- er most of the surface ; sliell very thin and brittle; partitions thin; cracking quality good; kernel very plump and thick, free from indentation other than the nar- row grooves, which are of me- dium depth; color bright, except certain brownish stippling that perceptibly darkens the tint in some specimens; texture firm, crisp; flavor sweet and rich; quality very good. The tree is reported to be slen- der and rather pendulous in hab- it of growth and regularly pro- ductive. The variety is of spec- ial promise for Florida growers, as it is one of the few sorts that have originated and been thor- oughly tested in that state. It is reported to be rather hard to propagate, the wood being slen- der and the biids not numerous. Dr. Curtis reports it free from attack by the bud worm where such sorts as Rome and Centen- nial are badly damaged by it. GEORGIA Synonym: Georgui Giant The original tree of this varie- ty is one of a large number of seedlings grown in nursery row by Mr. G. M. Bacon, of DeWitt, Ga., from nuts of unknown pa- rentage in 1885. Enough of these seedlings for a 80-acre orchard when planted 80 feet apart were transplanted to their present lo- cations the following year. In 1891 this tree, which was the first in the orchard to bear, yield- ed 82 nuts, which are said to have weighed one pound. The following year its crop was 2 1-2 pounds, increasing annually un- til 1902, when it yielded 4 1-2 bushels of nuts. Its bud propa- gation, begun in that year, has resulted in such heavy cutting of the young wood that the crops since then have been compara- tively light. DESCRIPTION Size large to very large, aver- aging 40 to 50 nuts peiv pound ; form round ovate, with a tenden- cy toward inequality of sides; color rather dull and dark grayish brown, sparsely striped with black ; shell rather thick, with moderately thick and soft partitions, yet cracking well ; kernel broad, plump, rather bright and very attractive; tex- ture rather soft and inclined to be coarse, though of pleasant flavor and excellent quality. The tree is a sturdy, strong grower, precocious and produc- tive, and worthy of thorough test throughout Georgia and ad- jacent states. DELMAS The original Delmas pecan ( Continued on Pai;e 5.) THE SHAGBAEK HICK- ORY By dr. ROBERT T. MORRIS (Continued from last Iseue. The ideal hickory has not yet been found. I am trying to hold desirable types by grafting. When, through the prize offers, a remarkable tree is found, I hold that tree by grafting in or- der to keep the type. And in this connection I would like to say, because I believe it is im- portant, that we are going to be disappointed in our nut-raising if we believe that a type which is a creation of locality is going to retain all of its characteristics at their best in any other locali- ty. The Albemarle apple can't even hold its own as far north as Long Island, yet it is a most re- markable apple in some localities and not desirable in others. The Tompkins County King, devel- oped in a clay soil where there are only about 25 per cent, of sunshiny days in the year, when transplanted to an area with much more sunshine and a sandy soil, loses its wonderful charac- teristics. The cinchona plant, when transplanted to other soils, fails to store up quinine. So we must expect a nut tree, trans- planted to a locality different from the one in which it became a feature of the environment, will lose some of its characteris- tics. I am working on the develop- ment of dwarfs, believing we can get precocity in bearing of the hickory if we can develop satis- factory dwarf types. Instead of a tree which expends the first half of its life in making wood, I think we can get a type much earlier in bearing. So I am ex- perimenting in the grafting of the shagbark hiSkory upon allied species of different types in the hope that I will in that way ob- tain precocity and dwarfing. THE NUT-GROWER Another point I will speak of is the Japanese ringing method, which can be applied if one wants to know what he is getting out of a seedling pecan, for in- stance, without waiting ten or twelve years to know what he has. I am probably telling this to those who know a great deal more about it than 1 do, but in our locality, in New York, if we take a ring of bark one-fourth of an inch in thickness, including the cambium layer, that tree believes it is going to die and makes a last tremendous efi'ort to bear. Thus the tree is induc- ed to make fruit spurs and will at once produce fruit to s1k)W what it is. We make that cut about the fifteenth of June in the locality of New York. If you are afriad to risk the tree by tak- ing this strip of bark from the trunk, you can take it from a limb. 1 think about one-fourlli of an inch is enough. In mak- ing this experiment with the butternut, you will often miss it and lose the tree, while the shestnut may be ringed for half an inch and make it. As show- ing the proportion of elaborated food used above and below the ring, that a ringed tree is one fourth larger above the ring in September, than below the ring in the trunk. If it is feared to risk a valua- ble pecan or other tree, one liml) can be ringed and that limb will fruit that next year. I plan this for tiie purpose of getting types early for cross-fertilization. 1 do not want to wait so long after planting a certain number of seedlings before knowing what 1 can get for crossing purposes. 1 believe that ringing may in the end limit the size of the tree. 1 do not know that, and have not been able to get authoritive information on that point. Pos- sibly some members of this asso- ciation can tell me about it. I oljtained this information from Japanese sources and I was given to understand that it did not make any difference with the longevity or final development of the tree. From collateral knowledge of plant growth in other directions, I would feai- dwarfing as as result: perhaps not. The scale of points brought out by Prof. Hume 1 believe to be very important in its bearing upon the shagbark hickory. Size, I believe not to be necessary nor desirable: coarseness goes with sixe. At any rate, the largest shagbarks I have have not as yet proved the best. Here is one very large shagbark hickory nut, measuring over four inclies in circumference. The shell is not tlie thinnest, but it is somewhat famous among shagbark hickor- ies. This is from a well-known tree. 1 do not classify it as first- class except in size; quality, sec- ond-class; cleavage, second-class, thinness of shell, second-class. Those are the important points. That is the Hales. Mr. Hales has been so much interested that 1 would like to believe with him that this is the best ever shown anywhere, aiid I have tried to l)e- lieve it. Mr. Hales ought to be given great cretlit for v.'hat lie has done, and this is certainly a remarkable hickory; but my own classification, from my own point of view, is given above. Here is a nut, on the other hand, of very highest quality, but with cleaveage seco.id-class; quality and thinness of shell first-class: yet it is third-class in size. This is the Vest shagbark. The qual- ity is of the very first, and tiiis tree happens to be a heavy an- nual bearer. The Krst nut men- tioned is not an annual bearer. The Vest is annual bearer, has very plump meat of first quality, with a shell barely thicker than that of a chestnut; yet it is third class in size. Here is a nut that is four-cell- ed (though there is no advantage in that) : first in quality, second in size, second in cleavage, third in thinness of shell. 1 am illustrating the difficulty in finding the ideal nut. These are some I have chosen among hundreds and thousands. This last one, the fonr-celled one, is the Welsh. That I have classi- BECKTEL PECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The uut that lias ueyer fail- ed to bear ar.d uever failed fo fill at both ends with keruel ot best quality : : : Ocean Sprngs, : : Mississippi FOR 5AI.E! 5CCO Gre-tted Pecaiu Trees These trees' are graf.ed from the be,st bearing trees in my grove. . VAN KJEiVIAN, STUART COIvUMBiAK... aud a dozen other choice varieties. Pe- can Nuts tor sale in. season. Apply to JOHN S. £iOR.!LB£:CK Charleston, S. C. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery t) Season 1907-8 ^ Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted P e c a n s . No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mississippi Gainesville Nurseries Of Gainesville, Fla., Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such stand- ard varieties as have a good record behind them. Our Catalogue will not only hel]i in the .selection of var- ieties but will assist you in tlieplaut- ing and culture; its free for the ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Fla. '7*^^ NURSERIES (I.A'.BEAR PROP. Ira L ATK A . fL A . THE NUT-GROWER EACH ISSUE OF The American NUT JOURNAL PETERSBURG, VA. Contains information by exj^ert and practical growers and deal- ers concerninff the cultivation and marketing of nuts of all kinds. No land owner or pro- gressive farmer in America can afford to be without this publi- cation. Sample copies free on request. ^AMERICAN NUT JOURNAL^ PETERSBURG, VA. Branch Offices: Norfolk, Va., and Coleman, Texas. Monti cello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Offer a clioioe lot of grafted pecan trees of tlie best varieties. Nice, thrifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. Bloomington, 111., until Nov. 1 ; there- after Monticello, Fla. Nuts for Profit ^,?ooklet of 1.58 pages; <^0 illustrations. Propagation, Cultivaticn, etc. , of Nuts best adapted to the various sections. Interesting and iustriictive. Price hv mail. 2r> cents. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. PEGANS AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Martwell INurseries S. W. Peek, Prop'r. Hartwell, Ga. Established 1883. Send for Catalogue. "A Short Talk on Pecans," by Fred S. Dawson, Starke, Fla. It is free. Write a postal card for it. 7 O O O O ...GRAFTEn... PECAN TREES ...FOR iSALE... Grown without fertilization, lience liardy and stock}'. Propagated from our own bearing orcliard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dec. 10, 1907. NURSERIES: Lafayet'e, La. Ocean Springs, Miss. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Miss. Lafayette Parish, La. St. Landry Parish. La. For particulars and illustrated litera- ture address Southern Nut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE. LA. tied as a curiosity, not being de- sirable— tliough the quality is first-class — because the cleavage is so bad and the shell so thick. This next one, the Raymond, also has a shell that can be crushed in the hand, but the thinness of shell here makes it undesirable because the meat cannot be taken out in halves. The shell crushes wherever press- ed upon and it has to be picked all apart. So if we were looking for thinness of shell without re- gard to cracking quality, this would be ideal. But in tiiis case it is an undesirable quality. In quality it is second; tiiinness, first; cleavage, third; size, sec- ond. This Manahan nut is quadrang- ular in shape, with very plump, full, meat; second in size, first in quality, second in cleavage, second in thinness and first in keeping quality. I have not mentioned keeping quality be- fore, though it is marked on the cards bearing the other samples. Some hickory nuts will keep well for two or three years, while others will not keep well for two or three months; and from the market standpoint this is a very important feature. As a rule, the long type of nut has a suture which separates early in drying, and fermentation in the kernel is then liable to take place. Among all these specimens you have not one ideal nut as yet. I am helping to develop the ideal nut by cross fertilization. I am crossing, not only the shagbark, but am preparing to cross the shellbark. I use these names as distinguishing between the west- ern shellbark, H. sneiniosa, and the eastern shagbark, H. ovata. The Kraft shellbark measures over six inches in long circumfer- ence. It may be that it is desir- able to cross with this the shag- bark. It is only an idea I have and is yet to be worked out. In fact, most of the problems upon which I am at work at present are speculative, and as specula- tive problems are of intense in- terest. THE CARMAN PECAN By SAM. H. JAMES The Carman pecan fruited first just 15 years ago. It was named in honor of that noble hybridizer and horticulturist, Mr. E. S. Carman, editor of the Rural Neir Yorker; and during his lifetime specimens of the pecan were forwarded to him, from which a half-tone engraving was made, the illustration ap- pearing in his paper. For 15 years I have been watching the behavior of this variety. I have budded a num- ber of trees of the Carman in my own grove ar.d r.uml ers of grafts, and a few grafted trees have been sent out to the public. I did not boom the pecan at first for I was afraid that its consti- tution was too delicate to make a standard variety, but after 15 years of fruiting I find it much more vigorous than either Rus- sel, Halbert or Georgia Giant. Prof. Van Deman helped me harvest the crop one year from the original tree. With all the enthusiasm of a boy just out of school, he joined in with the little negro children in picking the nuts from the ground, and ever since that day he has been very enthusiastic about the Car- man. In a letter received from him in the last few days he says: "I consider the Carman a splen- did nut, worthy of cultivation. I remember it well and the nuts w"e got off the old tree. I would not hesitate to send it out to the public." Carman is a large, long pecan and the only very large, long pe- can I ever saw that was always well filled out. After Money- maker it is my best liearer, bear- ing heavily almost every year. It has a fancy look about it — in fact it is a much handsomer nut than the Moneymaker and well suited to the fancy trade. While the meat is not so rich as Van Deman it is a better bearer and commences much earlier, while it is better filled out than that variety. {Continued on Page 6.) 4 THE NUT-GROWER The Nut -Grower Published by Thn Nut-Grower Co Entered as seooud-elass matter at the Postoffice at Poulan, Ga.. under tlie Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price: «• SOc per Annvm Advertising Sates Sent Upon Application JANUARY iQOS Cliilean walimts are being shipped to the United States from Valparaiso in increasing quantities. Tlie strenuous eift'orts of the United States Bureau of Fores- try, in arousing public senti- ment in favor of forest preserva- tion, seem to afford a good argu- ment for the extensive planting of nut producing trees. These trees were certainly an import- ant feature of the primeval growth, and the faster we get back to natural conditions tiie sooner the dangers threatened by the prospective extinction of the forests will be averted. One of the leading nut nursery firms sold, during the season of 1901-2, pecan seedlings to 95 per cent, and budded and grafted trees to 5 per cent, of the full number of trees handled. It was during this season that the initial movement in the forma- tion of the National Nut Grow- ers' Association was made. The same firm during the season of 190(5-7, sold seedlings to 6 per cent, and budded and grafted trees to 94 per cent, of their output, while their busi- ness had increased regularly and rapidly each season. We wish to make Tue Nut- Grower more useful to its sub- scribers with each succeeding year. During the journal's ear- ly career we were obliged to re- ly largely upon our own resour- ces for subject matter. Things have changed materially during the past five years and we can now consult the needs of tlie in- dustry and plan to supply what the circumstances require. This brings us to the point of asking our i^atrons to mention subjects on which they desire information. The topics suggested will be carefully considered, classified and provision made for giving the most authoritive and up-to- date information on such themes. Interest in the shagbark hick- ory is steadily on the increase and the initial steps recently taken by the American Agricul- turist in offering premiums for the best specimens serves a double purpose — in attracting attention to this excellent nut and in locating the choice var- ieties, from which propagating wood can be obtained. While the successful budding a n d grafting of the liickory is an ac- complishment of recent date and has been tried mostly in the Southern states, we are glad to learn that a company is being organized in Pennsylvania for the propagation of tliis specialty. In an early number we expect to reproduce the report of Dr. Robert T. Morris, who examined the specimens in competition for the 1907 prizes. While a large area of splendid country will produce nuts of dif- ferent kinds, still there is reas- on to believe that the large com- mercial groves will gradually centralize in a few favored local- ities. This is but natural, and liiay result from other causes thaii any superiority of environ- ment. The great peach orchards of the country are bunched in comparatively few sections. The great bulk of general nursery stock is produced in still fewer selected localities. At tlie same time, peaches can be successful- ly produced in nearly the entire country, while there are but few places where at least some lines of nursery stock cannot be grown. So then, because we record the fact that south-west Georgia and the adjacent territory in west Florida is making rapid strides in planting orchards of budded and grafted pecans, it does not necessarily follow that it is the best section, but it does mean that many others will follow the example set by the shrewd in- vestors who are now in that field. The activity in this section can be easily traced by The Nut- Grower to the operating causes, wiiicii have a substantial basis; and we would not be surprised to see still greater undertakings following in the near future. Mr. ,J. B. Wight, of Georgia, in reporting the record of his famous Frotscher tree for the past two seasons, says: "As you know, the past two seasons have been very poor one for nuts, and tiiis is especially true of 1907, when there was not over 10 or 15 per cent, of a crop." We are in doul)t whether this explana- tion should l)e used as an apolo- gy or a commendation for the tree in ques t io n. In 190 6 the yield was 9(5 pounds, the tree measuring 53 inches in circum- ference. In 1907 the yield was ;iO pounds and the circumference had increased 3 inches. Now, if tlie 1907 crop in general was only 10 or 15 per cent, of the av- erage crop, it would seem tiiat the Frotscher did better than tiie average tree. To illustrate the point, suppose tiie average yield of the tree to lie 100 pounds on a five year basis. Then 10 per cent, of a yield would be only ten pounds, while tiie this tree produced three times that amount, or twice as much as a l^ per tent, yield would make. So it must have done much bet- ter tluui other varieties — in fact must liave helped up the general average. Judged from another viewpoint, a still better showing is made. If 30 pounds, the 1907 crop, is only 10 or 15 per cent, of the average crop, the tree should make 200 or 300 pounds in a normal season. This would be doing pretty well for a tree in its sixteenth year. THE NUT-GROWER Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure ' nd Profitable GRIFF ING' CATALOGUE TELL ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecans. Also a complete line of Fruit Aud Orna- mental Trees and Slirubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Not the Most— Only the Best ForDescrijitiveList write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mi.^s Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN. GA. JVrife for parficttlars regardiui^- these Baygahis : No. 11. Mill — tine \vater pow- er and 62 acres of good land. No. 13. Improved property to exchange for lands suitable for pecans. No. 16. 100 acres, 1200 pecan trees, 12 to 18 years old. A bar- gain. STUART-ROBSON PECAN COM PA NY Growers, Dealers in Large Soft and Paper Sliell Pecans. Growers of tlie celebrated varieties, Coliimbiau, Stuart, Van Demau and Capital. Budded, Grafted and Seedling Trees for sale. Address either Ocean Springs, Miss. Kirkwood, Ga. . C« Roerber NEW YORK COMMISSION MERCHANT T)ried Nuts niid Fniit. Advan- PR OMISING NE W PEC A NS ( Continued from Page 1. ) tree was grown from a nut plant- ed by Mr. A. G. Delmas at his place at Scranton, Miss., about 1877. It began bearing in 1884 and has been known under the name Delmas since the following year. It was propagated in a limited way by Mr. Delmas about 1890 by grafting both in nursery and orchard. Its gener- al dissemination, however, ap- pears to have occurred in con- nection with the Schley about 1902, mixed scions of the two varieties received from Mr. Del- mas having been grafted in the Pierson nursery at Monticello, Fla., and disseminated under the name Schley before tiie ad- mixture was discovered. The wood of the Delmas is so much stouter than that of the Schley variety that little difference is experienced in separating them even in the nursery row. The original Delmas tree was blown down by the Septeml)er storm of 1906 before the crop was ripe, but was severely head- ed back thereafter and riglited, so tliat it is hoped it will sur- vive. DESCRIPTIOX Size large to very large, aver- aging 40 to 50 nuts per pound ; form oblong ovate, rather point- ed at base and ratlier bluntly quadrangular at apex; distinct- ly marked by four conspicuous ridges extending from the apex nearly to the base of the nut ; color grayish brownish, sparing- ly marked witli black; slieJl rather thick with partitions soft but corky ; cracking quality good ; kernel plump and well filled, grooves rather narrow, but shal- low, and surface undulating; kernel bright straw color, very attractive; texture rather soft and open ; flavor sweet, pleasant; quality good. The tree is a strong grower, of erect and roundisli head, very distinct from the Schley, with which it has been somewhat mixed in nurseries and orchards. for the lower pecan districts, such as tlie Gulf coast region, where it originated. RECORDING OBSERVA- TIONS The following schedule for observations on the pecan has been arranged by tlie secretary of the National Nut Growers' Association from suggestions of- fered by several members of the ad interim committee recently appointed by President Burnett. It is not yet complete in every particular, hut will appeal to all careful oljservers as affording the means for making a good start in the gathering of com- parative data— tlie value of which will mean much to the industry. Blanks embracing tliis sum- mary have ijeen prepared and will be furnished to all growers who will undertake to make the records contemplated. State vice-presidents will be asked to secure observers in various sec- tions of their territory. At the close of the growing season, or shortly before the date of the next convention, these reports will be assembled and carefully compared, and the deductions embraced in the report of this special committee. Doubtless the blanks for an- other season will embrace other items, Imt this makes a start and the near approach of the grow- ing season makes it necessary to send the blanks out immediate- ly. The plan is to use a blank for each tree selected for record. While it is designed for testing the standard and new varieties, each observer is requested to add one or more seedling trees to his list, as the character of seedlings as compared with budded stock is important. It is also suggested that where observers have both budded and grafted trees of the same varie- ty, that each kind be included in the observation and records. This is importautwork and the wide co-operation of members of the Association and subscribers 6 THE NUT-GROWER It affords means of obtaining data showing where a particular variety does best. It means al- so that we learn which variety is best suited to any particular locality or section. These features of the work ap- peal directly to all growers, while to the professional horticulturist and nut specialist it will be of great interest and value. It is desired that such additional features in connection with the tree selected for record as may seem of interest, be added to the report. Anyone who will make this rec- ord for a season will find his in- terest in the work and knowl- edge of the trees greatly increas- ed by such systematic study of the life history of this most prof- itable tree. Genkral : 1. Name of variety. 2. Place of observation. 3. Latitude. 4. Origin and parentage of tree. 5. Date of Planting. G. General c h a r a c t e r of growth. 7. Height. 8. Circumference 3 feet from the ground. 9. Form of top — u prig lit spreading, drooping. Leaf : 1. Date of first appearance of leaf. 2. Date of full leaf. 3. Date of first falling of leaf. 4. Date of tree bare. Flower : 1 . Date of appearance of male flowers. 2. Date of full blooming of male flowers. 3. Date of disappearance of male blossom. 4. Date of first appearance of female flowers. 5. Date of formation of first nuts. Fruit : 1. Date of first mature nuts. 2. Date of average ripening of crop. 3. Date of latest ripening. 4. Date of gathering crop. Insect Injuries : 1. What insects affect trunk, limbs or leaves? 2. What is the character and extent of the damage? 3. What fungous diseases af- fect the tree? 4. What is the character and extent of the damage? Climatic Conditions : 1. Frosts — date of occurence after blooming. 2. Frosts — date of occurence before ripening of fruit. 3. Rainfall, by months. 4. Temperature, m a x i m u in and minimum, each montli. Obtain data from nearest Weather Bureau station. Soil and Drainage : 1. Character of surface soil. 2. Character of subsoil. 3. Lay of land — flat, slope or hilly. 4. Exposure. 5. Mention if near streams or springs. 6. Ordinary depth to ground water, as indicated by aver- age water level in nearby wells. Other Characteristics : Date after permanent planting at which tree bore first nuts. Is tree a regular or irregular bearer? Is the tree solitary? If not, how near other b earing trees? Does the nut part easily from the husk? THE CARMAN PECAN {Contii2ued from Pcii^c 3.) I have waited 15 years to be sure about the Carman before advocating its general introduct- ion, but I now believe that it stands well up among the best named varieties. It has lieen just 30 years this winter since I planted my first pecan trees, and during that time I have tested nearly all the varieties as they came out. I feel sure that as soon as the virtues of the Car- man are well known that it will make its mark in the world. Wr carry a full line of iren 'eral FRl'lT and OH NA- ME NTAL STOCK Pears, Plums and Japan Persimmons Are very profitable when planted be- tween the trees of ajfecaw grove. They can be cut out when they begin to crowd the pecan trees Arcadia Nurseries J. H. Girardeau, Jr., Mgr. Monticello, Fla. Gillgrove Pecan Albaiiy, Georgia Budding and Grafting Wood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over 4000 budded trees of the best standard varieties and is the old- est budded grove of over 300 trees in Georgia. Pecari Trees... Tliat are Projierly Growu is My Specialty... BUDDED and GRAFTED TREES of the Best Varie> ties for sale Write for prices of trees and iufornia- tiou as to growing auci care of groves. J. B. Wight, oE^^^^g Pecan Grafting Wood... I have a nice lot of grafting vi'ood of the Pabst, Russell, Moneymaker and James Pecans from bearing trees for sale. Also graft- ed trees of leading varieties. Write for circular. Sam. H. James, Mound, La. Proceedings of the Scranton Convention W Prico, 50 cents For copies address the Secretary, J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. Papers for llHe Price of 1 S6g Nut-Grower and tHe American Farmer of lt\cliax\apolis BOTH ONE _ sr\ <~A«^4c; YEAR FOR ~ - O^J cents The American Farmer is 1 he only Literary Farm Journal published. It fills a position of its own and has taken the lead- ing place in the homes of rural people in every section of the United States. This unparallel- ed offer is made to all new subscribers and all old ones who pay all ar- rears and renew before April 1. U/ye Nut-Grower Co. POULAN, GA. IN B W P A M For growing Pecans, Pear-s, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Pr-ee 50 per cent, reduction in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. Freiglit paid. B. W. STONE & CO., - Thomasvillc, Ga. Did You Ever TKink Tliat every man interested in agricullure onglit to be a reader of THE COTTON JOURNAL, publislied in tlie interest of the Cotton Growers once a week at At- lanta, Ga. Excellent terms to agents. Valuable prizes and premiums. Advertising rates upon application. Tl)e best medium for reacliing the cotton growers in the South. U/)e Cotton Journal ATLANTA, GA. The nut trade in New York was active during September, October and November. It is reported that 50,000 bags of al- monds were shipped from Tarra- gona, Spain, during those months. The United States is the principal buyer at that port. THE NUT-GROWE A LETTER ER OM A RKAN- SAS Mr. G. M. Brown, of Van Bu- ren. Ark., writing to the secre- tary of the National Nut Grow- er.?' Association, says: "I was somewhat surprised and ashamed of the poor showing tliat Arkansas makes in the Badge Book, and am anxious to do what I can to help bring up her end. Arkansas is the natur- al home of the pecan and her wild trees are numbered by the million. If her trees were all top-worked to fine varieties, we would have pecans for export. I ^find quite a number interested in pecans and I believe by a lit- tle work at odd times I can in- crease Arkansas' representation in the association. "Please send me a few more application for membership blanks and I will at least make the effort. I would like further instructions in regard to life membership. Must a new ap- plicant pay $2.00 and become an active member before he can ap- ply for life membership or can he become a life member from the start by simply paying |10? Please advise." [Note : New members of the Association who have joined within the year can obtain life membership by the payment of $8.00 in addition to the active membership fee until the reduc- ed rate is withdrawn. — Editor.] R A. H. Gossard, Columbus, O. H. C. Irish, St. Louis, Mo. The Annual Review and Har- vest Edition of the Calitornia Fruit Grou'er is a large and el- egantly gotten-up edition. LIFE MEMBERSHIP Since the Jamestown conven- tion and up to the first of the year, life members of the Nat- ional Nut Growers' Association were enrolled as follows: Griffing Bros. Co., Jackson- ville, Fla. Geo. M. Brown, Van Buren, Ark. Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, Ohio. The drought in Texas last year not only reduced the size of the crop, but the size of the nuts as well. FORESTRY IN PRIVATE LUMBhRING OPER- ATIONS "The fuller utilization of for est products which characterized the operations of lumliermen in 1906 marked the greatest gain of the year in private forestry," states the Yearbook of the De- partment of Agriculture. "Em- inent success in systematic effort to prevent damage by fire was obtained by ijrivate owners as well as by the States and the Federal Service. That forest preservation has come to be re- garded as a matter of deep con- cern to every citizen is manifest. Private forestry has grown until not only are professional foresters employed regularly liy a number of large firms, but firms of con- sulting and contracting foresters supervise cutting operations and guarantee to the owners renewal of the trees desired in the forest. Large users of forest products tend more and more to apply sound methods to the raising of wood crops and to their careful utilization." At a recent meeting of the board of trustees of the Iowa State College, Mr. C. A. Scott of the United States Forest Ser- vice, was elected to the chair of Forestry, to fill the vacanay caused by the resignation of Prof. H. P. Baker. Cowpeas are much more gen- erally planted than they were a decade or more ago; but their value in many sections is not yet fully appreciated, especially as a means for restoring worn out soils. At the Missouri experi- ment station it was found that as much forage could lie produced from this crop in 80 days as red 8 THE NUT-GROWER clover would yield in 15 mouths. Cowpeas not only iDroduce a rich forage, but they increase the fertility of the soil and improve its physical condition, making it more open and friable, more easily worked and increasing its moisture-holding capacity. The crop is also said to cause soil to dry out earlier in the spring. — Ex. BOOKS AND CATALOGS Tree Planters' Handbook and Cata- log; Munson's Nurseries, Deuuison, Tex. A 30-page pamphlet of much interest. Press Bulletin No. 75 of the Florida Experiment Station gives a list of all available publications issued by the station. The l'J08 Catalog of the Glen Saint Mary Nui-series, (jlen Saint Mary, Fla., is a liandsomely illustrated 50-page book descriptive of tlie stock ottered by this ■well-known firm. Nuts and their Uses as Food, by M. E. Jaffa, University of California, is a twenty page reprint from tlie I'JOB 1'^ ear- book of tlie uepariment of Agricul- ture. It will be lound of particular in- terest to our readers. The Timber Supply of the United States, is the title of tiulietiu No. 97 of the Forestry Service, a 16 page pamph- let by Gitford Jr'inciiot, Foresier. it gives much interestuig data, showing tlie natural timber resources and the lavish waste whicli is consuming tlie forests at a much more rapid raie than the increase in population. Practical Arboriculture: by John P. Brown, Counoisville, ind. ; 8 vo., 458 pages, price |a.80. illustrated with many original photographs. A text book lor railroad eugineeers, manufac- turers, lumbermen and fai'mers. We find this work of much interest and value, it deals with the practical and commercial problems incident to the rapid removal of our forests and the de- creasing supply of lumber, especially that for particular uses, such as railroad ties, vei'iicle manufacturing, etc. It contains a great deal of information not otherwise easily acces.silbe. Among otiier things, the author advocates tlie planting of catalpa speciosa for produ- cing railroad ties. Tlie book is of par- ticular interest to our readers in that it siiows the great value and extensive use of the hickory, criticizing the sliort- sightedness of manufacturers in doing nothing to replenish the rapidly dimin- ishing supply of this valuable wood. Much attention is given to catalpa spec- iosa, whicli has much to commend it, especially its rapid growth and its adap- tability tor ties. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. SOO Acres in Pecans (60 are in Test Orchard) GOLD MEDAL A WARDED OUR EXHIBIT OE PECANS AT ST. LOUIS 190J^ Mention The Ntit- Groiver ivhcn Writinp' DeWitt This Company makes >-.. . a single Lieorgia specialty 0/ Pecans \X^E received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees wliich were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. ^| Convincing and val- uable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseries at De Witt, Ga. A^isitors always welcome. 1 Bud- ded and grafted trees of meritorious com- mercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with first-class trees — Wholesale and Retail. The Pecan Tree: How to Plant It, How to Grow It, How to Bill/ It, (third edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. Huntsvillc Wholesale Nurseries We offer GRAFTED PECANS, one year's growth on two and tliree year roots. In our soil we get a splendid system of fibrous roots, superior to auj-thiug we have seen elsewhere. Wo have in .stock the following varieties: Stuart, Russell, P.\BST, Van Deman, Taylor, (the Scoring Committee has given Taylor the highest score of any nut so far passed upon) Pride OF tme Coast, Fuotschek, Moneymaker, Particulars liy mail. Address W. F. neikes, Mgr., Iluntsville, Ala, I THe Nut Nursery Company Monticello, Fla. For next season's planting we will have an extra large supply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can furnisli al standai-d varieties — Stuart. Win Deman, Schlev. Protscher, abst. Money Maker , Pusscll, }'oung. Allcv. Nelson, llall. Bolton, Drlmas and others. At Monticello we have soil and climate which are peculiarly adapted to the production of higli grade pecan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky tlian we liave seen elsewhere. Special prices on large shipments and Car Load Lots. I 1^ CORRESPONDENCE SOLSCITED---1NSPECTION INVITED (^•MiViw^*^^' i%^»H,»«»»^i»i»»»M«Wlii^i^^>^*'^»^»^^>^»»^i^ UR5ERIES MILLER Sc G05SARD Proprietors MONTICELLO FLORIDA Nut Trees-Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan '^'?^ P^^^" °f y the ruture e OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU THE NUT-GROWER Voluma VI Number 7 Poulan, Ga., February 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year OBSERVATIONS ON PE- CAN GEO WING By JOHN CRAIG Professor of Horticulture^ Cornell University Read by title at tlie Jamestowu meet- ing of tlie National Nut Growers' Asso- ciation. At the outeet I may as well admit that 1 am a biased wit- ness in this case and on that score I shall not quarrel with anyone who desires to take is- sue with my statements, which are all based uj^on observations extending over a comparatively short period. For several years I have been an interested visitor to pecan growing regions, and during that time my ideas have undergone some modifications in regard to the requirements, the value and the commercial outlook for this interesting nut fruit. I shall set down my observations and impressions very briefly under five heads. I. ADAPTATION As I have traveled over the country, examining pecan groves here and there, studying the character of growth, the produc- tivity and the vigor of trees in different regions, I am coming to believe that there is no one Mecca for the pecan culturist. I do not hold the opinion that there is one place where pecan orchards surpass all others in vigor and productivity. Thirty years ago it was held by many that the peach growing area of the United States was practical- ly limited to the Middle Atlan- tic States; that if a man were so unfortunate as to live outside the boundary of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland he might as well give up the thought of entering the commercial field of peach growing. The experience of years has dispelled this erro- neus notion, and peaches are now grown throughout the length and breadth of our country. It is true, not eqiuilly successfully in all parts, Init it is true also that there is more in the selec- tion of the soil and site than there is in Ijroad climatic or geo- graphic divisions. I do not mean to convey the idea that man can overcome natural obstacles, but it is nevertheless true that in the case of the peach, which I am simply using to illustrate my point, careful selection of site, aspect and soil may make peach growing a commercial success under the guidance of one man, while it may be a total failure in tlie same region under ditfer- ent conditions on another man's farm. As our knowledge of native re- quirements of fruits increases and is put into practice, so will our success also enlarge. A gen- eral principle in fruit growing applies, in my opinion, also to nut growing. This is that thin soil induces early bearing and fruitfulness. As a rule, howev- er, early and iieavy bearing hab- its are usually correlated with short life. So that we may ex- pect the pecan groves on the heavier soils and lower levels to grow more vigorously than those on thin soils, yet it seems to me reasonable to expect that as veg- etative activity predominates, to that extent will reproductive activity lie suppressed. The peach orchard, to use this illus- tration again, on the heavy soil is slower in coming into bearing, but this slowness is compensated by greater longevity. The pe- can is a long-lived tree, however, and even on thin soils it seems to me there is no reason why the deficiency of the soil can not be offset by the judicious use of {Continued on Page 6.) BARK DISEASE OF THE CHESTNUT Within the past three years an apparently newdisease has proved very destructive to native chest- nut trees in the general vicinity of New York City, and is spread- ing rapidly westward. So much attention has been attracted to this and the Department of Agri- culture is receiving so many let- ters of inquiry regarding it, that the following information con- cerning it has been collated. The disease is caused by a fun- gus, Diaporthe parasitica Mur- ril. The spores of this fungus enter the tree through wounds, dead twigs, or dead wood any- where; possibly also in other ways. From the point of infec- tion the fungus grows in all di- rections through the growing la.yer (cambium) and inner bark until the growth meets on the opposite side of the trunk or limb, which in this way is gird- led. Being girdled, it neces- sarily follows that all parts above the point of girdling die early in the following year. The disease is very conspicuous and easy of diagnosis. On the limbs with smooth bark the areas attacked by the fungus show dead, dis- colored, sunken patches of bark, covered more or less thickly with yellow, orange or brown pustules of the fruiting fungus. If the spot is on the trunk or a large limb with very thin bark, there is no obvious change in the ap- pearance of the bark itself, but the pustules of the fungus show in the cracks of the bark, and on account of the destruction of the layers beneath, the bark us- ually sounds hollow when tap- ped. A patch usually grows fast enough to girdle the branch or trunk it is on by the end of the first summer, so that all parts of the tree above die the next THE NUT-GROWER spring, and from this time on the dead branches make the diseases especially conspicuous. It is evident from this that the lower the infection occurs on a tree, the sooner the death of the tree results. The disease seems to attack chestnuts of all ages, from seed- lings in the nursery to trees a century old or over. No varie- ties of chestnut appear to be free, the disease occuring even on the chinkapin ; but the Jap- anese varieties, so far as observ- ed, appear to be highly resistant. This fact, if corroborated by fur- ther observation, will prove to be of the utmost importance in the history of chestnut growing. The disease is not known to occur on any other trees than the chestnuts; that is, it has not been observed outside of the genus Castanea. It is not certain that tliis chestnut disease was noted prior to 1904. By 1905 it had spread over a considerable area. In consequence of the lack of early observations, the point of its first appearance is not known. Whether the disease originated in this country, or was imported, is an open question at present. Dr. W. A. Murrill, of the New York Botanic Gardens, named the fungus and made extensive studies of the disease. Mr. Hermann W. Merkel, For- ester of the New York Zoological Park, tried in vain to control the disease by spraying, as early as 1905 and reported his experience in his report for that year. At the present time the disease has spread .over the whole of Great- er New York and over at least the western half of Long Island. It has been reported as far east as Milford, Conn., as far soutii as Trenton, N. J., and as far up the Hudson as Tarrytown, N. Y. Probably a careful study would show that it has extended far be- yond these points. It has been said on excellent authority tiiat the disease occurs in Delaware, Maryland, the District of Col- umbia and Virginia, but this re- port has not at the present time been corroborated by this De- partment. If the disease occurs in these localities, it is not yet common. But in the limited area through which it has spread already, the harm done is enor- mous. It is doubtful if a person could find fifty cliestnut trees in Greater New York free from this disease. In the Bronx, along Riverside Drive and in Forest and Prospect Parks, Brooklyn, the effects of the dis- ease are particularly conspicu- ous. Probably the greatest fi- nancial, as well as aesthetic loss, has been sustained on the coun- try estates of Long Island, where in many cases the mansions were located with reference to certain old chestnut trees or ad- jacent groves, and where the surrounding chestnuts are an important part of the scenic scheme, in many cases forming skyline and background. The disease appears to have spread throughout Nassau coun- ty, except near Oyster Bay, where it is present, but appar- ently only recently there, and doing far less harm than farther south. From Oyster Bay east- ward there is less and less of the disease. At Cold Spring Har- bor there are only scattering cases, and in a superficial sur- vey made along the north shore as far east as Port Jefferson, no diseased trees were noticed east of Huntington. Accordingly it is probable that the advancing edge of the disease in that part of the Island is in groves be- tween Cold Spring Harbor and Huntington. How far east the disease extends in the center of the Island and on the south shore has not yet been de- termined. It has been reported to be present in chestnut groves on Shelter Island, but this re- port has not yet been verified. It is evident from the preced- ing description that this disease presents striking analogies with pear bligiit, the disease of the pear and some other fruit trees which is caused by a bacterial organism, Bacillus amylovorus. In their effects on the host tree BECHTEL J)ECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The nut that has never fail- ed to bear and never failed to fill at botli ends with kernel of best quality : : : Ocean Springs, : : Mississippi FOR SALE! 3000 Grafted Pecan Trees These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. VA.N DEM AN, STVAKT COI^UMBIAN... and a dozen other choice varieties. Pe- can Nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HOR.LBECK Charleston, Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Spring-s, Mississippi Gainesville Nurseries Of Gainesville, ria., Malie a .specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of sucli stand- ard varieties as have a good record behind them. Our Catalogue will not only lielp in the selection of var- ieties but will assist you in the plant- ing and culture ; its free for the ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Pla. PECAN MURSBRIES J.A.BEAR PROP. PALATKA. FLA. seMO ran pmecL/sr THE NUT-GROWER Monticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Offer a choice lot of grafted pecan trees of the best varieties. Nice, thrifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. Bloomiugtou, 111., uutil Nov. 1; there- after Monticello, Fla. Nuts for Profit ^ booklet i-VUlb lOr rroilU ^^ isgpages; 60 illustrations. Propagation, Cultivation, etc. , of Nuts best adapted to tlie various sections. Interesting and instructive. Price hv mail. 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. 7 O O O O ...GRAFTED... PECAN TREES ...FOR SALE... Grown without fertilization, lieuce hardy and stocky. Propagated from our own bearing orchard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dec. 10, 1907. NURSERIES: Lafayette. La. Ocean Springs, Miss. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Miss. Lafayette Parish, La. St. Landry Parish, La. For particulars and illustrated litera- ture address Southern Nut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE, LA. 2 Papers for •■ tHe Price of ^ S6e Nut-Grower and the American Farmer of Indiai^apolis BOTH ONE _ _ ar\ ec>nts YEAR FOR J*-' ^-«;«»1.3 The American Farmer is the only Literary Farm Journal published. It tills a position of its own and has taken the lead- ing place in the homes of rural people in every section of the United States. This unparallel- ed offer is made to all new subscribers and all old ones who pay all ar- rears and renew before April 1. C/7C Nxit-Grower Co. POULAN, GA. the two diseases are very simi- lar. Accordingly it is probable that the only way in which the chestnut disease can possibly be controlled is by the methods which have already been success- fully employed in certain locali- ties in combatting pear blight, notably in California. But Avhether these methods will prove practicable when applied to the chestnut remains, of course, to be proved. The method em- ployed in pear blight is essential- ly one of quarantine, requiring the destruction of all fatally dis- eased trees and the cutting out of all diseased parts throughout a large area. As in the case of any contagious disease, the des- truction of the tree results in the elimination of infection. The Department of Agriculture ac- cordingly advises everyone who has chestnut trees affected with this disease to destroy them im- mediately, unless they regard the trees as sufficiently valuable to be treated individually. The death of the diseased trees is only a question of time, and of a very short time, and by cut- ting them down immediately the danger of infecting trees still healthy is reduced to a min- imum. Owners should either destroy diseased trees at once or take measures to treat them in- dividually, in accordance with directions that will be supplied upon application. In certain localities where the disease is just now appearing, such as the country east of Oys- ter Bay, already mentioned, it would undoubtedly be possible by prompt cutting down or treat- ment of all infected trees, and very careful inspection, to main- tain a zone free from the disease, and hence keep the disease out of the uninfected country be- yond. "Whether, however, this is practicable in dealing with a forest tree like the chestnut is more a sociological question than a botanical one. In the case of orchard trees such a pro- ceedure may be practicable, but that is a different proposition. The success of such a measure depends wholly on the interest which property own- ers directly concerned have in it, and on their ability to act in un- ison, and to insist upon and pay for effective work. There is ev- ery reason to believe, however, that even if the chestnut forests must be lost, individual trees of special value on account of size or situation can be saved if they are worth the expense of special treatment. The cost of treat- ment will probably be the only limitation. Experiments have been inaugurated at various points in Long Island to show just what can be done to save valuable individual trees and young orchards. Owners who desire to save such trees should communicate with Dr. Haven Metcalf, Pathologist in charge of the laboratory of For- est Patliology of this Depart- ment, who will advise with them according to the requirements of the individual cases, and make arrangements to give detailed instructions, so that the methods used by the Department of Agri- culture may be followed as close- ly as possible. Unless something can be done in the way of extensive and in- ter-state quarantine, there is nothing to prevent this disease from spreading to the chestnut forests and chestnut orchards throughout the country. Possi- bly the disease will run its course and cease to be serious before such a thing could happen, but we cannot depend upon this, as there are many diseases, and notably pear blight, which so far as we know, are more serious to- day than they were a hundred years ago. There is not the slightest pos- sibility that any method except cutting the disease out of a tree and protecting the tree by spray- ing or otherwise from further in- fection, will be of any avail. Such measures as watering the roots with copper sulphate, or boring holes in the wood and putting in chemicals or other sub- stances, are particularly futile. (Continued on Pnge 5.) 4 THE NUT-GROWER The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-Grower Co Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Poulau, Ga., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Svbscrition Price: •• 50c per Annum. Advertising Rates Sent Upon Application FEBRUARY IQOS Sulplmring fruits is a contro- verted subject in California. Tlie pure food law seems to have rubbed up against its excessive practice. Among nursery reports recent- ly gathered, here is one selected at random : "Our business has increased every year at least 25 per cent, for the years named. We do not sell any seedling trees." Just as rapidly as the supply of choice varieties of nuts in- creases, so fast will the native seedling be relegated to a back seat as a commercial product. Quality always wins in a general market. The National Grange is mak- ing a strong plea for government appropi'iations for improvement of the public highways. It seems that their claims are just ones, since the railroads formerly iiad large grants of land and the in- land waterways are aniuuilly voted large amounts. France and Germany export large quantities of walnuts to this country. If the home de- mand for pecans is ever supplied we can send this superior nut not only to France and Germany but to all the world. No pessi- mistic viewsas to overproductiim should deter any sensible person from planting pecans. "Beneath the Old Shade Tree," is the name of a new pop- ular song. It does not say what genus the old shade tree belong- ed to, but it is not out of place for us to remind our readers that when it comes to combining shade, ornament and usefulness it's pretty hard to l)eat a nut tree. Closely allied to nut growing is the production of peanuts and cliufas. These are valuable farm crops in the pecan belt and, es- pecially while pecan trees are small, can be grown as interme- diate crops. These ground nuts, as well as cowpeas have a benifi- cent effect on the orchard laud, beside making substantial re- turns for cultivation. Bulletin No. 98 of the Texas experiment stations contains a summary, in condensed form, of previous bulletins. The subjects cover many important interests l)ut a close examination of this list of nearly a hundred separate publications fails to find a single one — as far as the titles indicate the contents — that refers to nuts of any kind. From our view- point it seems as though the most valuable product of the state, the famous pecans is like the propiiets of old, unhonored in its own countrv. While ediljle nuts suited to all parts of the country are given general and parti<'ular attention in The Nut-Gkower as circum- stances permit, still the fact re- mains tliat, owing to the super- iority of the pecan to any of the many nuts indigenous or intro- duced into this country, much attention must be given to it. Its cultivation in southern terri- tory, where it is a commercial success, engages the attention of thousands; while other nuts, aside from the walnut and al- mond are not grown on a com- mercial basis. A Texas writer says, "There is meat, money and luxury in pecans." This is a strong com- bination of desirable qualities to have associated in a single product. While all these are in the nut, it takes a man (if ability, industry and persever- ance to realize the full lienetits, which its cultivation makes pos- sible. Any one can relish a plump, rich, kernel. Others can make money out of the crop, while still others may enjoy tl.e luxury, by means of money com- ing from other sources, Vmt the persons who get all there is to 1)0 had from the pecan are few and far between. When the planting season is over the nut nurseryn an will be- gin figuring on his catalog and price list for another season. We wish to suggest that these trade puljlications can, and should, urge membership in and support of the National Nut Growers' Association. Another thing sh(mld not be overlooked, and that is not only to mention The Nut-Grower as a desirable publication, but also offer it as a premium to new patrons, as several of the leading firms have already been doing. This aids the new grower Ijesides helping the publication which has been and is, the moving spirit in this work, by extending its field. Investors demand security and must be convinced that the col- lateral ottered is safe and sufli- cient before they will put out their money at a low rate of in- terest. Just in proportion as the risk increases does the rate of interest increase, until the m after becomes speculation. Confidence is the reason why well conducted banking institu- tions are able to assemble large sums for which they pay but a small interest. The time seems to be coming when a well man- aged pecan orchard will be rec- ognized as affording the ideal or gilt-edged security for loans or bond issues as well as direct in- vestment. The more closely a proposition of this kind is exam- ined, the l)etter it appears in all important particulars. The el- ement of safety is unrivalled, its value increases for years in- THE NUT-GROWER stead of deteriorating, it is ex- empt from industrial fluctuation and is permanent enough to suit the longest lived individual as well as his children, "even unto the third anil fourth generation." This exposition will be held in a section of the country wiiere world's fairs are new, and for that and many other reasons it is expected to be a success, ben- eficially, educationally, artistic- ally and financially. NEWS NOTES Mr. Wm. Gilbert, of Califor- nia, an authority on nut culture in tliat state, died last month. A report from one of the im- portant nut nursery centers says that a large number of grafts — about 300, UOU — have been set there this season. Atlanta, Georgia has a new popular organization known as the Home-made Club. The pur- pose is to encourage people to patronize home industries. The Texas Nut Growers' Asso- ciation held their senii-annual meeting at Abilene last month. The State Agricultural Depart- ment will pulilish the proceed- ings as a bulletin. A California correspondent says that the Ranchito and Los Nietos Walnut Growers' Asso- ciation shipped 123 ten-ton cars of walnuts during October and November, 1907, which was a light crop. The Jefferson County Horti- cultural Society was recently or- ganized at Monticello, Fla. The pecan men are evidently an im- portant factor in the organiza- tion, as the list of officers em- braces names that are very fam- iliar iu nut growing circles. Mr. John P. Brown, editor of Arhoriculiure, is spending the winter at Carney, Alabama, planting trees on the L. & N. railroad's forest plantation. Dur- ing Novemljer last he received two carloads of seedling catalpa speciosa, containing over 601), 000 trees. Now that the Jamestown Ter- centennial Exposition is over, all eyes are turned toward the next great world's fair, the Al- aska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition which will be held at Seattle, Washington, opening June 1, and closing October 15, 1909. CLAREMONT PECAN By H. E. VAN DEM AN The original tree of this varie- ty stands near the dwelling on the Pecania Plantation, near Ferriday, La. It was grown from a selected nut planted with a few others at this plantation about 35 years ago and four of those seedlings stand together in the house yard. The planta- tion was then called Claremont, hence the name given to this variety. Tiiis history I got from old darkies who planted the trees where they have since stood. The Claremont is the best of the lot in tree and in quality of nut. It is very regular and productive in be-ring for it has never failed to bear a fair croji for aliout 20 years past, so those living on the plantation and in that vicinity have told me; and since I have known it, which is four years, it has had nuts each year, never less tiian 50 pounds and in 1906 fully 200 pounds. The tree is very tough in its liranches, which are rather slen- der. It passed through a very heavy sleet, in February 1905, which liroke many branches of all the other pecan trees about it, though not one was broken on the Claremont tree. The nuts average 55 to the pound, are roundish oblong, and fair in color. The kernel comes out of the shell very easily, is very plump and light in color. The shell is of medium thick- ness. The season of ripening is earlier than the average. is very much desired that parties who know of this disease in their vicinity report it to the labora- tory of Forest Pathology. It is already known that the disease has spread to all parts of Great- er New York and Nassau county, and information from parties outside of these limits is partic- ularly desired. — Circular, De- partment of Agriculture. BARK DISEASE pE THE CHESTNUT {Continued from Page S.) The Department is deeply in- terested in ascertaining just how far this disease has spread and it PEANUTS IN COMMERCE Peanuts are beginning to form an appreciable and rapidly grow- ing item in the foreign commerce of the United States, especially in the import trade. Despite the fact that the United States pro- duces probal)ly twelve million bushels of peanuts per annum, her exportations have been in such inconsiderable quantities that the Bureau of statistics has only recently found it neces- sary to include peanuts in its list of articles exported. Mean- time the imi)orts have also rapid- ly increased and the total foreign commerce in this article in the year about to end will aggregate nearly one million dollars, the imports iiaving grown in value from less than $6,000 in the year 1900 to about a half a million dollars in the present year, while exports for the year will approx- imate about three hundred thous- and dollars. Prices of peanuts have also greatly advanced in the foreign markets, the average valuation of imported peanuts, based up- on wholesale prices in the mar- kets from which they are sent to the United States, having ad- vanced from 1.1 cents per pound in 1898 to 3.4 cents per pcmnd in 1907, for those in the natural state, and that of shelled pea- nuts in 189S was 2.4 cents per pound, and in 1907, 4.5 cents. West Africa and the East In- dies are the principal sources of supply of the peanuts entering the international markets of the world. The exports of peanuts from the French colony of Sene- gal on the west coast of Africa were, in the latest available year, over three hundred million 6 THE NUT-GROWER pounds ; those of British India, a little less than two hundred millions; Gambia, on the west coast of Africa, about one hun- dred millions; the Dutch East lndies,about fifty millions; while China, Japan, Argentina, Spain and the United States also sup- ply comparatively small quan- tities.— CaJit'oriila Fni/'t Grow- er. Ill reading over the minutes of the annual meeting of the Nat- ional Nut Growers' Association we are reminded of the perti- nent fact that more people are coming to realize that in the nut they have an element in the daily diet that has been over- looked and neglected. The pub- lic now realizes that the nut is one of the most nourishing foods given us by nature. Some call nut eating a fad. This is wrong. It is simply the result of investi- gation and experiment, whiih show that instead of being a luxury the nut is a necessary factor in the food]3roblem. — Am- erican Fruiff!. OBSERVATIONS ON PE- CAN GROWING {Coutiuued from Page 1.) fertilizers, and in this way the orchardist may secure early and abundant crops, as well as reas- onably long-lived trees. One other phase of this adap- tation question, and perhaps the most important of all, should re- ceive the continued earnest at- tention and study of fruit grow- ers. This is the adaptation of the newer varieties to different conditions from those in which they originate. As a general rule, a variety succeeds best un- der conditions of its native en- vironment. Tliis does not hold always, for we have seen cases where imported plants tlirove luxuriantly in entirely n e w land, where conditions were in- evitably very different from those which prevailed in the place of their nativity. For in- stance, note many of our intro- duced weeds. Nevertheless, the pecan culturist has a great deal to learn in regard to the adapta- tion of varieties to soils, eleva- tions and temperatures. At the outset, inasmuch as the whole field is unexplored, the grower must perforce proceed rather blindly. But let each take ad- vantage of the opportunities at hand, collect data and present it when he thinks it is reliable and safe. The subject of adap- tation of fruits of all kinds is practically in its infancy. The pecan grower has the advantage of tlie pioneer orchardist of half a century ago. He knows what problems are awaiting solution, and he can shape his studies to- ward these ends. II. SANITATION The remark that nurserymen should act conscientiously in propagating from healthy trees only may be looked on as gratui- tous. Nevertheless, it is a char- acteristic of the human race that it needs to be reminded from time to time of its weaknesses. And in the attempt to keep up with the demand for certain varieties of pecans, may there not be a tendency to overlook weakness of stock or evidences of disease? Of course this is a short-sighted policy on the part of the propagator. While ros- ette, for instance, may not as- sume serious form in the near future, or may never develop so that it is to be (dassed with the serious enemies of the pecan, yet it is unquestionably wise to exercise the greatest possible precautions in propagating, to keep stock healthy and uncon- taminated. Something over a generation ago the peach and plum industries of the Hudson River Valley of New York were practically wiped out by yellows and black knot. These parasites had been gradually spreading for a number of years somewhat unnoticed. When favorable climatic conditions for their growth appeared, they suddenly developed as an epidemic, and orchards went down with great rapidity. As pecan culture ex- tends we must expect the ene- Pears, Plums and Japan Persimmons Are very profitable when planted be- nv carry a tween the trees of /"" '•'"■ "fire"- a pecan grove. They :,:;:.' o/;.v''' can he cut out when MENTAL they l)egin to crowd STOCK the pecan trees Arcadia Nmrseries J. H. Girardeau, Jr.» M£fr. Monticello, Fla. Gillgrove Pecan i> U lot; ri CO Pr'ofr. !r- Mgr Albany, Georgia Budding and Grafting Wood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over 4000 budded trees of the best standard varieties and is the old- est budded grove of over 800 trees in Georgia. Pecan Trees... That are Properh' Growu is My Specialty... BUDDEI* and GRAFTED TREES of tHe Best Varie> ties for sale Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WifiHt. ^^8kWi% Pecan Grafting Wood... I have a nice lot of grafting wood of the Pabst, Russell, Moneymaker and James Pecans from bearing trees for sale. Also graft- ed trees of leading varieties. Write for circular. Seun. H. James, Mound, La. Proceedings of the Soranton Convention ^ Price, 50 cents For copies address tlie Secretary, J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. THE NUT-GROWER No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFFING'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM Twenty leadiug varieties of Pecans. Also a complete line of Fruit and Orua- nieutal Trees and Sbrubberj-. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPEfi SHELL VARIETIES Not the. Most- Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN. GA. Write for particulars rci^ardiui^ these Bari^^aiiis : No. 11. Mill — tine water pow- er and 62 acres of good land. No. 13. Improved property to exchange for lands suitable for pecans. No. 16. lUO acres, 1'2(I0 pecan trees, 12 to 18 years old. A Ixir- gain. STUART-ROBSON PECAN COM PA NY Growers, Dealers in Large Soft and Paper Shell Pecans. Growers of the celebrated varieties, Columbian, Stuart, Van Deman and Capital. Budded, Grafted and Seedling Trees for sale. Adciress eitlier Ocean Springs, Miss. Kirkwood, Ga. AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Martwell Murseries S. W. Peek, Prop'r. Hartwell, Ga. E&tahlislied 1882. Send for Catalogue. mies of the trees to increase in number and develop \vith great- er virulence. This is a law- of nature, as the food of animals or plants increases, so it may be ex- pected that the parasites of these will take advantage of the opportunity and develop propor tionally. We have learned our lesson in connection with the cultivation of peaches, plums, grapes and the like. We know how to combat their enemies. Let us profit liy this experience and in the fostering of the pecan industry, let us exercise judg- ment and and discrimination in propagating from healthy stock to the extent of destroying con- scientiously and carefully all trees harlxiring dangerous dis- eases. III. TTILIZIXG SEEDLIXeS The pecan industry will l)e promoted by growing the best varieties. A good product pop- ularizes any industry, l.e it nat- ural or artificial. Shoddy goods do not promote lousiness. So in fruit growing a high quality will advertise a fruit better than poor or mediocre quality. There are thousands of seedling trees in the pecan regions ranging all the way from poor to .worthless. Many of these could be utilized, and with astonishing ease and rapidity, by top-working. Tlie expert top-grafter will transform a seedling tree in a comparative- ly short time, and nature will develop a new top, and bring it to bearing age with wonderful rapidity. In my opinion, this type of investment is one of the "A Short Talk on Pecans," by Fred S. Dawson, Starke, Fla. It is free. Write a postal card for it. For growing Pecans, Pears, PeacHes, etc., at a profit^ — Pnee 50 i^er cent, reduction in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. Freight paid. B. W. STONE S CO., - Thomasvillc, Ga. most profitable kinds that many southern pecan growers can en- gage in. Instead of continuing the shipping of diminutive, hard- shelled and comparatively poor flavored varieties, they can se- cure the improved kinds with very little effort, thereby great- ly increasing their returns and encouraging larger consumption. IV. TILLAGE In examining pecan orchards in all parts of the country, I have been impressed with the fact that file same principles w'hich apply in fruit growing obtain here in equal force. Tillage with feeding, spraying, pruning when necessary, these commonly rec- ognized orchard practices are sure to give reward. Of course, tillage and feeding are parts of orchard management which must be practiced with due regard to the character of soil and the amount of fertility present. I can easily conceive of conditions where comparatively little feed- ing would be necessary and, again, I can imagine soils where thorough tillage and annual feed- ing will richly repay the owner. Study the soil, watch the growth of the tree, attempt to maintain an equililirium between vegeta- tive growth and fruit production : these are the principles on which intelligent soil management rests. V. MARKETS Inasmuch as the great markets of the country have not been touched by tlie improved varie- ties of pecans, it is a little diffi- cult to say what will happpen when these are produced in quantity. But the grower has great comfort in the. fact that the imports of nuts are increas- ing from year to year, notwith- standing the increased home production. There is no reason why this country should not pro- duce all the nuts our people need. The walnut growing pos- sibilities of the Pacific coast are great; the pecan growing future of the Gulf states is unlimited. Personally I have every faith in the market and the firmest be- lief that the consumer will appre- 8 THE NUT-GROWER ciate a good product and tliat the improved nut of the future will bring more profit to the grower tlian the native product of the past. BOOKS AND CATALOGS Muinlainence of Soil Fertility, Bul- letin No. 182 of the Oliio Experiment Station, is of much Interest. Proceedings of tlie fourth annual meeting of tlie Alabama State Horticul- tural Society, lield at Montgomery. R. S. Mackintosh, Secretary, Auburn, Ala. Proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of tlie Louisiana State Hortitvil- tural Society, held at Lake Cliarles. F. H. Burnette, Secretary, Baton Rouge, La. Sotitlitfii VVoodhuids, a bi-monthly journal devoted t« forestry, lumbering, wood manufacturing, etc. Published at Athens, Ga. , by the Georgia Forest As- sociation. Promising Nexv Fruits, bj' Wm. A. Taylor, of tlie Bureau of Plant Industrj-, Washington, D. C. Dlnstrated. A 20- jiage reprint from the Department's 1906 Yearbook. The follo-w ing varieties of pecans are described and Illustrated : Alley, Teche, Curtis, Georgia and Del- mas. Bulletin No. 53, of the Bureau of Statistics, gives figures on exports of farm products. Tlie value of nuts ex- ported, exclusive of peanuts, in 190G was $140,959, and over lialf of this am- ount was taken by Canada. With im- ports of fift3' times that amount in th? same year it looks as though the home demand alone ought to furnish a wide market for nuts. Proceedings of a Congress of Horti- culture held at the Jamestown Exposi- tion, September 23, 1907. 108 piiges; Iirice, 25c. This publication includes the formal addresses and discussions of the papers read at the meeting, which covered the various phases of horticul- ture. This meeting was pronounced by authorities to be one of tlie greatest horticultural meetings ever held iu a single day. H. C. Irish, Searetary, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. Bulletin No. 38, of the Department of Agriculture, cfnnectiug the subject of good roads with farm values, says: "When the facts secured by this De- partment become known to the farmers of the cotmtry, and they realize that the establishment of a complete system of properly constructed public roads will have the direct effect of greatly increas- ing the value of their farms, they will be the foremost advocates of a broad, comprehensive jxjlicy of public road im- provement by the nation, states, coiin- ties and townships." The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. SOO Acres in Pecans (60 are in Test Orchard) GOLD MEDAL A WARDED OUR EXHIBLT OE PECANS AT ST. LOUIS 1904 DeWitt This Company makes ^ . a simple laeorgia specialty of Pecans \^E received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees which were planted and growing on tlie Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. TOonvincing and val- uable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseries at De Witt, Ga. Visitors always welcome.^! Bud- ded and grafted trees of meritorious com- mercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with lirst-class trees — Wholesale and Retail. The Pecan Tree: How to Plant It, How to Grow It, How to Buy It, (third edition) will lie mailed free to those interested. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. Huntsvillc Wholesale Nurseries We offer GRAFTED PECANS, one year's growth on two and tliree year roots. In our soil we get a splendid system of fibrous roots, superior to anything we have seen elsewhere. We liave iu stock the following varieties: Stuart, Russell, Pabst, Van Deman, Taylor, (the Scoring Committee has given Taylor the liighest .score of any nut so far passed upon) Pride of the Coast, Frotscher, Moneymaker. Particulars bj' mail. Address W. p. tieikes, Mgr,, Huntsville, Ala. Mention The Nut- (irorver %vhcn W ritiui^ Tine Nut Nursery Company Monticello, Fla. For next season's planting we will have an • extra large supply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can fumisli al standard varieties — Stuart, Van Demiui, Schlev, Frotscher, abst. Money Maher, Russell, l'ouny^»^^«»*lr»»^>^^»»»%VW^«»/'»«»'»V^^<»^»^ THE NUT-GRO R Volum. VI Number 8 Poulan, Ga., March 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year .4 TALK ABOUT NUTS By dr. ROBERT T. MORRIS An address delivered at tlie Sports- men's Show of the Forest, Fish and Game Society of America. Nut culture promises to open one of the great new fields in horticulture, and it is closely related to forestry questions be- cause so many kinds of nut trees are valuable for their timber. Conservative business men some- times confine all of their invest- ments to convertible securities, and nut raising presents a field in -which we can exchange back and forth between timber values and nut values, both securities being of such nature that they are readily disposed of in the market. I believe, further, that nut trees are largely to take the place of the useless trees, which are at present planted for decor- ative purpose in public and pri- vate grounds. The reason for this belief is, because there are no more beautiful trees or more attractive trees than those to he found in the nut bearing group. Is there, for instance, a more stately or more inspiring tree in the world than the pecan, which will grow from New Orleans to Boston, and which rears its head a hundred and fifty feet into the heavens with a corresponding spread, and with the grace of an elm? Is there a more luxuriant- ly growing tree, almost tropical in appearance, than the heart nut, which will grow as far north as Ontario, Canada? We have in America at least twenty-five Ivinds of nut l)earing trees that are notable for their beauty as well as for their value. HICKORY Hickories belong exclusively to North America. So far as we at present know, there are eleven species and many varieties. At tlie present time the pecan is perhaps the most valualjle mem- ber of the group, and thousands of acres of cotton and corn land in the south are now being turn- ed over to pecan culture. The first specimen wliicli I show you is from a wild pecan tree, and this next specimen represents a cultivated variety. More than two hundred dollars has been paid for the crop of a single pecan tree in a single year. The tree readies its higliest de- gree of development in the Gulf states, but I know of two trees in New Jersey which have borne crops of excellent pecans for about a liundred years. The de- mand for cultivated pecans is so much in excess of the supply that the highest priced nuts of the species do not even get so far as the New York market. The shagljark liickory is per- haps the next most important member of the family. It has not as yet l)een cultivated, Ijut I am locating the most desirable trees of the species through prize offers in tiie agricultural papers, and iiave orchards of grafted trees under way. The largest liickory nut we liave is the western shellbark. Here is a nut measuring more than six inches in l;):ig circum- ference, and the nuts in their thi^k green iiuUs on the trees look almost like ap^)l33. Tae crjss section of the nu:, you will observe, shows it to have a very thick shell. The nut is really of excellent quality, although rather coarse, l)ut the thick shell will prevent this species from becoming of great value in the market, unless I can find for cultivation some individual tree of -the species which produces ( Ccniiiiuec! on Pcige 5.) IMPORTANCE OF INIT- IAL STEPS IN NUT CULTURE By dr. CHAS a. VAN DUZEE Address delivered at the Jamestown meeting of the National Nut Growers' A' s iciatiou. Having trodden the unfamiliar pathways which the novice must follow, and knowing the dangers wiiicli surround him, it is a pleas- ure to contriljute my mite to- ward the glorious effort which this association is making to help every worthy man and woman to know, appreciate and enter upon the business of growing nut trees for the betterment of the world, and for profit to themselves and those that live after them. I was first interested in this subject by conversation with a young man whom I met on a steamer coming from New York to Charleston, and for two years or more I applied myself to gath- ering evidence and investigating the merits of the business, with constantly increasing enthusiasm and graving faith in the subject. And now that I have entered up- on the actual growing of nut trees, I would l;e very glad to give w h.at I have learned that these who may l;ecome interest- ed may, perhaps, profit l.iy my laf)ors. The growing of nut trees is a Imsiness which responds to intel- ligent efi'ort in exact measure witii the amount of brains and energy employed, and is also as ready to prove unsatisfactory if sa'ue are not forthcoming. Right- ly managed and vigorously fol- lowed, I believe it offers greater possibilities of success and more sure reward than any other lous- iness with which I am familiar. There are various ways of en- tering upon the business of nut growing and for this time my re- THE NUT-GRO\VER marks will be contiued to the business of pecan nut growing, u subject large enough to require far more time and space tlian is at my disposal, and much great- er than my limited experience would warrant me in attempting to cover. To speak brielly, the establish- ment of a successful nut orchard requires suitable soil in a favor- able locality, planted with the very best stock, in the best man- ner and subsequent care, upon which, largely, the success or failure of the orchard must rest. Some one has said, "Don't plant more trees than yon can well care for," and I believe that is one of the most important fac- tors in gaining success. Wiiile it is true that success nn\y follow on various grades of soil, and also that tlie question of which soil is best has not been settled, nor will he settled for many years, it is wise and proper to select the land upon wliich the orchard is to grow with great care, and l)est results will liard- ly follow carelessness in this matter. The orchard site should be up- on good land, tlie best to be had, well drained and not too broken, ."nd the advice of Inniest men re- siding in the locality is not to be scorned. The general limits as to the locality in which pecan orchards may safely 1)0 planted are matters of history, on wliich the novice must inform himself. As our kncnvledge grows and ex- periments are proven, I lielieve the zone in which orchards may be safely established will ex- tend; but at tills time, for com- mercial planting, it would seem wise to confine our eiforts to those localities in which tlie re- sults of years are (dearly in ev- idence. The locality and the land hav- ing lieen decided iipcni, it re- mains to secure the trees which are to occupy the site of the or- chard for generations, and it is here that the novice may wisely pause and spend mu(di time and efi'ort in making his selection of varieties. I believe that the very best are none too good and, further, that only those which have been proven in the locality, under similar conditions, and upon soil of like quality and character, are best to be used; and in case such information is not to be had, I would advise tlie greatest care in studying tiie results in similar, localities, that the varieties selected may l)e as suitable as possible. In this connection, the advice of an ex- perienced grower, if such can he had at a fair price, would he well included in the amount invested, and could easily prevent great loss and subsequent disappoint- ment. The character of tlie n.ursery stcjck next requires careful con- sideration, and it is my honest conviction that the saving of money here can work a greater loss than is generally compre- hended. Nothing but the very l)est of trees, purchased from some reliable nurseryman of un- questioned integrity, should be planted. Why save a few cents on the price of trees that may entail the constant loss of dollai's each year for a hundred years of more? We are contemplating an investment which sliall con- tribute to our suppin-t in old age or perhaps to that of liur child- ren's children, and poor nursery stock will render all of our ef- forts fruitless. A good tree may reward us if planted in poor soil and an unfavorable locality, but a poor tree will forever fail lo accomplish that for whicii we are striving. Having the soil, the locality and the best trees obtainable properly planted, we then enter upon a period of years wherein the measure of our success will he in exact ratio with the watcli- ful care and constant cultivation which the orchard receives; and without such care and cultivation everything that has gone before can not prevent failure from en- tering in and robbing us of the fruits of our labor. Indifferent trees, planted on poor soil and carelessly attended, will frequently return more than QECflTEL PECAN NURSERIES '"SUCCESS"— Natural Size The nut tliat lias uever fail- p.l ti)liear and uever failed to lill at both ends with kernel (if be:-,t qiiality : : : Ocean Springs, : : Mississippi FOR SALEI SOOO Gs-afted Pecasji Trees These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. VArj DEMAN, STUARX CO/^-UI-JEIAX... and a dozen otlier clioice varieties. Pe- can Nuts for sale in season. Apjjly to JOHN S. HOR.3LBECK CKarleston, S. C. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery -^ Season 1907-8 W Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springs. Mississippi Gainesville INurseries Of Gainesville, Fla., Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such stand- ard varieties as liave a good record boliind tlieni. Our Catalogue will not only lielp in tlie selection of var- ieties but will assist you in tlie plant- ing and culture ; its free for tlie ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Fla. J.^li^AR PROP, r PAiLArk A. f LA. THE NUT-GROWER For Season of 1908- 1909 Budded and Grafted Pecan LeConte and Kieffer Pears Mardy Oranges Plums, Persimmons, Figs Mulberries, &c. A full liue of Oruameutal and Shade trees. Quautity aud Quality. Gorres- poudeuce solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello. Fla. Gillgrove Pecan i\ u. rse ries /^,„'^,-. a- Mgr Albany, Georgfia Budding and Grafting Wood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over 4000 budded trees of the best standard varieties and is the old- est budded grove of over' 300 trees in Georgia. Pecan Trees... That are Pro]ierly Grown is My Specialty... BUDDED and GRAFXED TREES of the Best Varie- ties fo3* sale Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to growing aud care of groves. J. B. W^igKt, CAIRO GEOP.GIA For growing Pecans, Pear-s, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Ki-ee 50 per cent, rediictiou in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. Freight paid. B. W. STONE &■ CO., - Thomasville, Ga. Proceedlii^s of the Scranlon Convention ^ Price, 50 cents a reasonable compensation, but I firmly believe there is no in- dustry in which care, judgment and conscientious effort will more surely meet with a large and ever increasing reward than in the growing of pecan trees. To those who contemplate en- tering this inviting and mpst fascinating field, I would earn estly urge that you subscril)e to one or more journals devoted to this particular subject; that you become a member of tlie Nation- al Nut Growers' Association, and tliat you come to our meetings. I waited two years before planting my first tree, and did just what I suggest above, aud I have no regret; but on the contrary, each year finds me more deeply interested, and more thoroughly impressed with the tilings I have tried to tell you. For copies address tlie Secretary, J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. XUT CULTURE The increase of interest in nut growing has been steady and strong during the past, decade. But the last five years have seen a remarkalde development of in- terest in this special branch of pomology. The interest is spread practically over all the cotton growing states. It is fair to say in this connectioDu however, tiiat much of this interest is to be credited to the activity of the organization which stands for nut growing interests in the couutry, the National Nut Growers' Asso- ciation. Tlie president of this Association is Prof. Burnette, of tlie Louisiana College of Agri- culture and Experiment Station, and tlie secretary Dr. J. F. Wil- son, of Poulan, Georgia. The society has held several success- ful meetings. It has issued mucdi valuable matter. _ Like most young organizations the financial problems are the most difficult to solve. It has on hand at the present time a great deal of val- uable material awaiting funds which will enable tiie secretary tf) pulilish it. Increase in mem- bersiiip in the Association will make this possible. Let all who are interested in nut culture and desire the information these re- ports contain join the society and help along the good work. — National Nurseri/man. FUNG US ON PECANS Editor Nitt-Grower : I send under separate cover two small limbs from a four-year- old Van Deman pecan tree. Last season's growth on the lower part of the tree has a reddish color like the small twig, and man^y of the brandies of the same size have that color and more or less of the brown spots. One of the branches had a'streak of dead wood in it about one and a half feet long, like the sample enclosed. The whole tree above four or five feet from the ground is rougli and pel)bly (/. e., the bark). The tree has made an average growth, or perliaps a little better than the rest of the twenty Van Demans we have — 12 feet high and 7 inches in cir- cumference of stock. . Was not here last summer to know whether the leaves show- ed any signs of disease or not. Last year we had some peach trees affected with the San Jose scale (which I have cut out and l)urned), but have not seen any scale on this pecan tree nor on the others. I don't know that this is any- thing that will seriously • affect tlie tree but would like to have an opinion on it. W. E. David. Citronelle, Ala. The twigs mentioned in Mr. David's letter were referred to the Bureau of Plant Industry, wliich makes tlie following re- port : "The canker on the larger limb is caused by the conidial stage of one of the black fungi. As the specimen is somewhat immature, we have not yet been able to identify it with certain ty but will probably be aide to do so a little later. "The disease is one that need not excite any alarm. These ( Continued on Png^' 7.) THE NUT-GROWER The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-Grower Co. Entered as second-class matter at tlie Postoffice at Potilan, Ga.. under the Act of Congress of Marcli 3, 1879. Svbscrition Price: •• 50c per Annum Advertising Rates Sent Upon Application MA.RCH IQOS The arid lands of the southwest will eventually become great nut- producing sections as irrigation makes them available for plant- ing. The pecan is the coming nut of America, and can scarcely be grown in so great quantities as to become unprofitable. — Arbor- iciiiture. Plans and preliminary arrange- ments for the National Nut Grow- ers' 1908 convention at Chatta- nooga are already under advise- ment and will take definite shape soon. Some recent figures indicate that the importation of walnuts and almonds in 1907 were alxiut 40 per cent, greater than in 1900. This is aljout the rate of increase shown the year previous. We wish to again call attention to the importance of co-operative observations as outlined in a re- cent issue of The Nut-Grower. Blanks for recording tiie desired data will be furnislied all who apply for same to tiiis office. A few years ago tlie large tliin shelled nuts were eagerly sougiit for propagating purposes. Now tiie tendency is to find nuts of medium size, witli plump kern- els, that are produced by trees that bear regularly and abun- dantly. The shell bark hickory is proli- ably more widely distributed than any other edible native nut. It has been a longtime in secur- ing the recognition it merits, but its value is now appreciated since the supply of native trees has been so largely exhausted. The value of eacli volume of Proceedings pul)lislied by the National Nut Growers' Associa- tion is beyond computation at this time. One member says that each copy is worth much more than the amount of the an- nual dues to anyone interested in nut growing. "More members for tiie Nat- ional Nut Growers' Association and more funds for tlie work in hand," was tiie slogan urged Ijy the Ways and Means committee at the Jamestown meeting. Ev- ery member is asked to oI)tain at least one new member. This plan, if carried out, will double the association's efficiency. Intermediate crops in tlie nut orchard are more important tiian some may suppose, in remember- ing wiiat sliould not lie used as well as ill finding out wiiat will benefit rather than retard the orchard's growth. Cereal crops are generally understood to l)e detrimental to the orchard, but legumes enrich tlie land. During recent years mucli at- tention has 1 een given to tiie selection of seed for general farm crops — especially cor n — w i t li such tangible results that the yield in quality and quantity per acre has lieen wonderfully increased. We are satisfied that tlie same — thougli possibly more t e d i o u s — experimenting witii seed nuts will be productive of equally lieneficial results. Tlie following extract from Dr. Van Duzee's address at the Nor- folk convention may l)e aptly likened to the plump kernel of a selected nut: "To speak briefly, the estal)- lisliment of a successful nut orcii- ard requires suitaljle soil in afav- oralde locality, planted with tiie very liest stock, in tlie l^est man- ner and subsequent care, upon which, largely, tiie success or failure of the orchard must rest." Witli tlie denioiistrated fact that pecan trees can be Ijrouglit into liearing as promptly as the apple, we see no reason wliy tlie bugbear of long waiting for trees to come into bearing should not be banished. Any one who re- fuses to plant apple trees because it takes time for them to grow to sufficient size to yield is not given credit for much good sense or business capacity. If there are reasons for planting apples, there is wisdom in planting nuts. As an investment, nut culture seems to be exempt to a great ex- tent from some of the ills attend- ing ordinary industrial stocks. The production of nuts never ex- ceeds the demand ; the business does not have the fixed charges for insurance, wear and tear of machinery, strikes or lockouts so common in other lines. Besides, thus far, the only movement in the value of nut properties has been upwards, as orchards in- crease steadily in value for aljout 25 years. It seems that parties operating power nut crackers are not anx- ious to give out any information aliout them, as our repeated ef- forts have thus far failed to elicit the data wliich some of our subscribers desire. The im- pression thus given is that the work performed V>y these mach- ines is so satisfactory and profit-" able that the fortunate possess- ors prefer to quietly profit liy their enterprise than to invite competition. Several years ago the editor of The Nut-Grower was one of a party of nut grow- ers who spent a day in New Or- leans looking into various phases of the nut industry. The mem- bers of the party were not back- ward in asking questions and probing for information, but their efforts to see a machine at work cracking nuts or to get any THE NUT-GROWER intelligent description of its op- erations failed utterly. One of the party had previously had a similar experience in another city, although in this instance he was generously informed that the shells were a commercial by-product, being ground up and used for giving weight to ground spices. This did not, however, fully satisfy the nut grower, who is still wanting to see the mach ine which can make two market- able products out of one. A TALK ABO C/T NUTS {Continueti from P(ige 1.) thin shelled nuts. 1 shall also cross the shellbark with the shagbark, in the hope of getting a very large nut of finest quality. The next specimen which I pass about is the nutmeg hick- ory, a southern species. The meat is diminutive, while the shell is so thick that it makes the boys laugh when they look at it, and itniay make the squir- rels weep. Here is the ugly-looking, dark brown, rough-shelled nut of the water hickory, also a south- ern species. The meat is Vjitter and inedible, as a rule, but oc- casionally we find a sport of the tree bearing excellent nuts, and I have found one tree of this sort which will be used for cul tivation. The next specimen is the small sweet-meated Carolina hickory. I am looking for trees of this species wliich will give high quality nuts, which can be crack- ed like hazels at the table with a small hand cracker. The pignuts and the mocker- nuts are very large in many cas- es and the meat is sweet, but inclined to have too strong a flavor. The thickness of the shells of these species is such that the nuts are not valuable as a group. The trees, however, are very beautiful and valuable for their wood, and an occasion- al tree bears thin shelled nuts. This bitternut hickory has a thin shell and plump meat, but it is not good enough to be used for food. The tree is valuable for its timber, and is the best grafting stock for other hickor- ies, unless we except the pecan. WALNUT8 Perhaps the walnuts form the next group of importance among our nut trees, but of these an introduced species is more valu- able than any of our native ones. The Persian, commonly called the English walnut, is now being cultivated extensively in this country, and much of the land in California formerly devoted to fruit culture is now turned over to the Persian walnut. It is a somewhat capricious tree in its choice of soils and of temperatures, but thrives in many places from the Gulf of Mexico to Massachusetts. Three Japanese walnuts iiave been introduced into this coun- try, and of these the heart nut promises to be the most desirable one. The specimens which I pass about show the large meat and comparatively thin shell of this sp cies. We have four native walnuts in North America. Of these the common black walnut is most important, both for its nuts and timber. The nuts of this spe- cies, as a rule, are thick shelled and of too strong a flavor, but I have found some trees with nuts of excellent flavor and compar- atively thin shells. The California black walnut closely resembles the common black walnut, Vmt the tree is smaller and the nuts not as good. The Arizona walnut is a small tree, almost a bush in some local- ities, and bears little hard shel- led nuts like bullets. The tree is chiefly valuable as grafting stock for other kinds. The butternut, while a favor- ite with the boys, is not as yet a walnut of much market value, but I hope in time to find some tree bearing particularly desir- able butternuts, and this tree, if found, will be used for grafting purposes. CHESTNUTS The chestnuts form an impor- tant list of nut-bearing trees. Some of them have been cultiva- ted for centuries in Europe and in the Orient, but most of these foreign chestnuts are inferior in quality to our native ones. Some of the foreign chestnuts are much larger than our native nuts, but they are chiefly used for cooking purposes. Including the chinka- pins in this group, we have six kinds of chestnuts in America; the common sweet chestnut, the alder-leaved chestnut, the gold- en chinkapin, the common chink- apin, the bush chinkapin and the tree chinkapin. The nuts of all the group are valuable, and two of the trees, the common sweet chestnut and the golden ciiinkapin, are magnificient for- est trees of great timber value. Some trees of the common sweet chestnut bear remarkably large and fine nuts, and these are to be used for grafting. HAZELS Hazel culture in Europe and Asia has developed to a very large extent witli many valuable varieties, but none of these haz- els as yet have been found which could be cultivated in this coun- try in localities where they are stricken with the blight. This means almost all of North Amer- ica, but Mr. Felix Gillett, of Cal- ifornia, who has interested him- self deeply in the question, has found that hazel culture in Washington and in Oregon prom- ises to give great results. We have three kinds of native hazels in North America, and one of these is superior to any of the foreign kinds in point of flav- or, but the nuts are rather small and inclined to have thick shells. After examining many thous- ands of native hazels I have found two individual bushes which bear large thin shelled nuts of high quality, and these are now being cultivated. The busiies have the advantage of being resistent to the blight, which is so destructive to intro- duced species of the kinds that have long been cultivated in other parts of the world. ALMONDS Almonds are now being culti- 6 vated extensively in many parts of tlie-v5outli, and the group has become a very important one for California. The tree is hardy over pretty niuch the wliole area of the peach, but on account of itsearly blossoming the flowers are usually caught by frost in the North, so that the tree in the Nortii bears too irregularly t cems The American Farmer is the only Literary Farm Journal puldished. It fills a position of its own and has taken the lead- ing place in the homes of rural people in every . section of the United States. This unparallel- ed offer is made to all new subscribers and all old ones who pay all ar- rears and renew before April 1. S6g Nut-Grower Co. POULAN, GA. THE NUT-GROWER No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES are so well known to fruit orch- ard ists. They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFFING'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecans. Also a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Shrubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Not the 2Iost — Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN. GA. }Vyitc for particulars regardinf^ these Bargains : No. 11. Mill — fine water pow- er and 62 acres of good land. No. 13. Improved property to exchange for lands siiitalile for pecans. No. 16. 100 acres, 1200 pecan trees, 12 to 18 years old. A bar- gain. STUART-ROBSON PECAN COMPANY Growers, Dealers in Large Soft and Paper Si lell Pecans. Growers of the celebrated varieties, Columbian, Stuart, Van Deman and Capital. Budded, Grafted and Seedling Trees for sale. Address either Ocean Springs, Miss. Kirkwood, Ga. PEGANS AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Martwell PHurseries S. W. Peek, Prop'r. Hartwell, Ga. Established 1883. Send for Catalogue. F UNO US ON PECANS (Continued from Page 3.) fungi, as a rule, are found at- tacking various trees that have been injured in some way. They enter through wounds that have not been protected and may cause injury to the healthy wood when once established, l)ut there is little to fear in the case of a healthy tree. "W. A. Orton, Pathologist." SHE INK A G E IN C UR IN G On October 22, 1907, we took directly from the trees, samples of two different pecans. One tree furnished an ovate nut of medium size, with a thin shell and plump kernel, weigliing, when gathered, 75 to the pound. The other tree furnished a small ol)l(>ng nut of similar character of shell and kernel weighing, direct from the tree, 135 to the pound. These samples were carefully preserved and at the end of a week were again weighed. The larger nut had by this time lost nearly 15 per cent, in weight and and required 86 nuts to make a pound. The small nut showed a loss of but lOi per cent., running 150 to the pound. This small nut bad not lost any more in weight by the twen- ty-first day after gatiiering. The larger nut, however, had lost slightly during the second week, and at the end of the third week a still smaller loss was recog- nized. The test is interesting in show- ing the extent to which the lar- ger nut lost in weight and also indicates that the nuts are sub- stantially cured in a week's time if kept under favorable condit- ions. It shows also that the small nut not only lost less in percentage of weight, but cured in less time than the larger one. The following season this firm sold 3,000 and had ready for sale the past season 20,000 trees. They expects to grow 60,000 trees per year hereafter. They grow no seedlings. THAT NIAGARA FALLS NUT TREE The following letter is Prof. Craig's reply to our inquiry re- garding the supposed pecan tree near Niagara Falls, mention of which has previously appeared in these columns : Editor The Nut-Grower: I am of the opinion that the nut tree referred to is a variety of English walnut, which has been grown from seed near Lock- port, N. Y., and has been thriv- ing very satisfactorily in that locality. I do not know of any pecan bearing near Niagara Falls, although it is possible that such miglit occur, for the tree suc- ceeds as far north as Vincennes, Ind., and if so, one might ex- pect it to grow in protected po- sitions near Lake Ontario. Yours sincerely, John Oraig. Ithaca, N. Y. A Florida nut nursery sold 1,000 budded and grafted pecan trees during the season of 1905-6. The Starke Pecan Nurseries, of Starke, Fla., have been pur- chased by Dr. A. J. Boss, of Monroe, Ga. The Albany Georgia Pecan Company has purchased a large tract of land at Hardaway, Ga., and has already planted 400 acres of choice pecans. During the past few months all the nut nurseries have been actively engaged in grafting pe- can stock, and reports indicate a large increase in the number set. The inter-state meeting of the Gulf Coast Nut Growers, which is booked for Monticello, Fla., is likely to be held about tlie mid- dle of May. Imports of nuts for the three years ending December 31, 1907, were as follows : 1905 1906 1907 Almonds $1,041,989 $1,940,273 $2,751,142 Walnuts 1,826,473 2,493,167 3,331,758 AU Others 1,244,561 1,365,148 2,331,7.58 8 THE NUT-GRO^VER JAPANkSE CHESTNUTS AXD BABK DISEASE By haven METCALF The hark disease of the chest- nut, caused by the fungus Dia- porthe parasitica Murrill, has spread rapidly from Long Island, where it was first observed, and is now reported from Connecti- cut, Massaciiusetts, Vermont, New York as far north as Fough- keepsie, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania and possilily Delaware. It is no exaggeration to say that it is at present the most threaten- ing forest-tree disease in Amer- ica. Unless something now uii- forseen occurs to check its spread, the complete destruction of the chestnut orchards and forests of the country, or at least of the Atlantic states, is only a ques- tion of a few years' time. 01)servations made by the writer during the past year indi- cate that all varieties and spe- cies of the genus Castanea are subject to the disease except the Japanese varieties. All of the latter observed in the field or tested by inoculations have been found immune. This fact can hardly fail to be of funda- mental importance to the future of chestnut culture. Although the nuts are distinctly inferior in flavor to the European varie- ties, such as Paragon, the Japan- ese chestnut is already grown on a large scale as a nut-producing tree. There are, however, many trade varieties of dubious origin. Some of these may prove later to be subject to the disease. Im- munity tests of all known varie- ties of chestnuts have l)een un- dertaken. Attempts will also be made to hybridize the Japanese with American and European varie- ties, with the hope of conil)ining the immunity of the former with the desirable qualities of the latter. Florida and Lousiana are the only states which have thus far issued experiment station bulle- tins or speeial information re- garding pecans. f;UMMIT vS? CHOICE S^ NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO URSERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges—Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan '^^^ P^^^" °f 1 the ruture OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU Ttie Niit Nursery Company | Monticello, Fla. For uext seasou's planting we will have au extra large supply of Grafted and Bixdded Pecans Trees We cau fiiruisli a standard varieties — Siunr/, I'ciii Diimui^ S''hlc\, Fyot seller^ abst^ i^f our v Make }\ Rusxvlh i'o/nio. A//cv, Nrlioii, Hal!. Bolton. Drlmas aud Others. At Monticello we liave soil and climate which are peculiarly adapted to the production of higli grade pecau trees. Our trees grow faster aud more stocky than we have seeu elsewliere. Special prices on large sliipments and Car Load Lots. I CORRESPONDENCE S0LIC1TED---INSPECT10N INVITED I I PECAM a^d ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Deli^I:itf iil Home on BacK Baj', Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patro!iized bj- city people and planters of tlie Sbuth in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front en Back Bay of over one half mile. Over 5),0f,0 grafted pecau trees. Over 100 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for graftinj winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 budded roses for market of 1938 aud of 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia graudl flora, figs and Japan psrsimmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nur.series Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paj'ng good dividends. Tlie compraiy has no debts. It is operated as a branch of tl^e Hnntsviile Wliole.sale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is t!ie desire to concentrate all business at HuutsviUe. This is an ideal rural liome on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unnsual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F. HEIKBS, Manager, Muntsville, Ala. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. SOO Acyrs in Pecans [GO aye in Test Oycliayd) This Cnmfauv makes a sini^Ic Spceialty of Pecans DeWitt Georgia 'IX/'E received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees ''' which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. ^ Convincing and valuable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseriesat DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. T Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with first-class trees — Wholesale atxl Retail. The Pecan Tree: How to Plant It, How to Grow It, How to Bun It, (tliird edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Nctt-Grower when writing. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. THE NUT-GROWER Volum* VI Number 9 Poulan,Ga., April 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year PEG POSED EXTENSION OF ASSOCIATION WORK A proposal to amend tlie con- stitution of the National Nut Growers' Association, with a view to enlarging and extending its operations, will likely lie a feature of the Chattanooga con- vention. As the Association is now constituted, with its control largely in the hands of southern members who are specialists in pecan culture, the erronemis im pression that it is a southern j^e- can growers' organization, rather than a national nut growers' so- <'iety, sonietiuies gets out. "While it is true that pecan in- terests predominate in the Asso- sociation, it is because of the fact tiiat this nut is receiving more attention us a commercial product tiian all others grown in this country — aside from the al- mond and Persian walnut, wliich are confined to the Pacific slope, as the pecan is to the G>ilf ••oast. The pecan men were first to move in the organization, V>ut they recognize the importance of nut culture to all sections of the country, although each sec- tion may have its own special or exclusive nut. It is argued that by the estab- lishment of sections, or standing committees officered by earnest members, for each of the more important nuts, that interest (^n several specific lines, similar to the rapidly growing pecan inter- ests, can be developed in many localities. To illustrate; a standing coiu- mittee. or section of the Associ- ation work, might be formed for giving special attention to the I'hestnut. This committee would naturally be made up of practi- cal men in that section of coun- try where this nut is naturally at IxMue. A majority of such a committee would likely be loca- ted within easy reach of each other and could hold occasional meetings, as well as local con- ventions devoted to the chest- nut, and, in fact, do for that nut just what the national .socie- ty is doing for the general indus- try. It also becomes a strong arm of the Association in gather- ing tlie most authentic and up- to-date information, which would in the form of reports find a place in the annual proceedings of the Association. The same line of work can be maT. The decrease has oc- cured over an area in which con- ditions, as with the nut trees, were widely diU'ereul. Letters in reference to the nut crop was notable over all (d' North Amer- ica, over parts of Soiith Ameri- ca, from whi(di letters were re- ceived, over all of Europe and over parts of Asia. In the prize contest fm- liMiT not a single sptcinien of the western shellbark, HicorUi Jac- iniofio, was sent in. A numlier of sperime isof the eastern shag- bark, IJicorld ovald. were recei- ved, and most of these show tue ellect id' imperfect jiidlination. The first prize for the shagiiark goes to H. P. (.'arty of Burling- ton county, N..I., who won first I)rize with the same nut a year ago. The nut is barely ahi)ve third-class in size, and issecoml- (dass in thinness of shell; hut it is tirst-class in quality and ,*':,^;J! Albany, Georjfia I->iidding and Grafting W^ood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over 4000 budded trees of the best stamlard varieties and is theold- est budded grove of over ;-]00 trees in Georgia. Pecan Trees... That are Pr()]ierly Grown is My Specialty... BUDDED and GRAFTED TREES of the Best Varie- ties for sale Write for prices of trees and iufornisi- tion as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WigiKt, oe5=^^^S For growing Pecans, Pear-s, PeacHcs, etc., at a profit — Pfee •jO per cent, reduction in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. Freight paid. B. W. STONE S CO., - Thomasvillc, Ga. Proceedings of the Scranton Convention Price, 50 cents For copies address the Secretary, J. F. WILSON,. Poll AN. Ga. THE NUT-GROWER BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The nut tluit lias never fail- ed to liear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernel of best qualitj" ; : : Ocean Springs, : : Mississippi FOR SALE! 3000 Grafted Pecan Trees These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. VAN DEMAN, STUART COLUMBIAN.;. and a dozen other clmice varietios. Pe- can Nuts for sale in season. Apjily to JOHN S. HOR.LBECK Charleston, S. C. 1NURSERIES JJV>BEAR PROP. PALATKA. FLA^ Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery ^ Season 1908-9 ^ AViil lie pleased to l)c)nk orders now for Grafted Pecans. NoSeedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Spring's, Mississippi The secoml shagbark prize goes to L. M. Benluun of New Haven county, Ct. The nut is third- class in size and thinness of sliell, hut first-class in cleavage and quality. It is an irregular (juadrate nut, white as the Carty nut, and is probably a better keeper, although that point can- not be determined for some months. The third shagljark prize gf)es to H. S. McLous of Cayuga coun- ty, N. Y. It is fourth-class in thinness of shell, but second- class in quality, size and cleav- age. The nut is (.'oinpressed, oval and shouldered, and has a liglit brc)\vnish red colf>r. There is more or less tragedy in making prize selections of nuts, and perhaps more heart- aches result than after the judg- ment of Paris. Many of the specimens were sent in with let- ters expressing an allectionate regard for the particular trees, and it shows how close the hick- ory tree is to the home. A good many specimens were sent by children with painstaking let- ters, and we woiild at least like to give every one of the children a kiss. There were specimens neatly done uji in little liags, with careful needlework and an expression of feminine hopes that the prizes would l)e award- eil judiciously. The most interesting and the largest collection of nuts came for the special prize for small, thin-shelled shagbarks. The first prize easily belongs to S. R. Leonard of Orange county, N. Y. Mr. Leonard sent the first lot from this tree in November for competition in the general list, Imt the nut had no chance in that list because it was so very small. In December he sent another lot from the same tree in response to the special prize offer for small thin-shelled hick- ories. In this class the nut wins, and it demonstrates the fact that Mr. Leonard was quite right in his persistence in stand- ing as a champion for the actual value of his favorite shagbark. The nut is not a pretty one. It is is quadrate pyraform in shape and of an unevenly stained plain dirt color, but the shell at the thinnest points is (luite as thin as the shell of a chestnut; cleav age is nearly perfect, and the fiavor is exquisite. Second prize in the special class goes to Miss Nellie Mae Wright of Belmont county, O. The nut is broad, fusiform in shape, and of light reddish brown color; shell nearly as thin as the Leonard nut, and quality and cleavage a very close second. There was no third prize offer in this special class, and it was somewhat diilirulr to choose be- tween the Wright nut and one sent by Clarence C. DuBois of ■ Lister county, N. Y. The latter nut resembled the Leonard nut so (dosely as to appear to belong almost to the same tree, but of lietter color. If the nuts were really from the same tree, the selection for even color made a choice of individual nuts which y the Florida and Geor- gia growers. Some months ago. The Nut- Grower joined with two other publications in making a (;oml)in- ation oifer for new subscriptions. Some complaints have come to us stating that one of these jour- nals does iu)t reach the patrons who ordered through us. We regret such failures but wish to assure all who subscrilied under this arrangement that their sub- scription to The Nut-Grower will be extended to make up for any deficiency on the part of the oth- er journal. The W(.irk of practical nut growing is so allied with, and parallel to forestry, that the pre- servation of timber and the re- foresting of denuded tracts be- come matters of much interest, especially since there seems to be a general awakening to the importance of forests in the pub- lic economy. The planting of large nut orchards cannot fail to be recognized, sooner or later, as no small factor in solving the problems which now confront the government in its efforts to maintain the conditions so essen- tial in many industries, as well as in agricultural operations, which now suffer immense losses annually as a direct result of forest devastation. The dream of every father is to lay up something that his children can enjoy after he is gone. Those who plant pecan orciuirds find an easy solution to this problem. They are l)etter than stocks and bonds and are away ahead of life insurance, be- sides they are easily within reach of numy to whom stocks, b():,ds or even life insurance are prohi))itive. Add to all this the permanence of a pecan or- chard, its safety as an invest- ment and the large profits which eventually follow from a com- paratively small outlay, and you have a prospect which ranks higiier tlian the alleged "gilt- THE NUT-GROWER edged" securities wliicli the fin- uncial institutions offer. lurements of city life cannot ov- ercome the love of home wiiich these trees foster. Some years ago a prominent horticulturist, now dead, urged that the nut industry should l^e encouraged because it tends to settle down many of our moving, restless southern farmers. This is a good argument, though one seldom used. The sooner a farmer becomes permanently located on land of his own — even if but few acres — the sooner does he liegin to make provision for his declining years, and no agri- cultural product has more to of- fer in this respect than nuts. He provides ffir himself and family by planting nut trees, and can make the farm so Ijeau- tiful and attractive tliat the al- Tybec by Ihe Sea Georgia's Greatest Seaside Resort Offers the greatest attractions for a Summer Outing. Fishing, Boating, Dancing, Surf Bathing, Skating, Bowling and many oth- er forms of amusement. Under new immagement has been thoroughly overhauled and refurnished and is new through- out. Splendid orchestra, fine Artesian Water, Fresh Fish and other Sea Food. St^ibbs (SL Keen Projjrietors Also Xhe New PulasKi. iSavan- naH Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES JVot the Most — 0)ilij the Best For D e s e r i ]) t i V e List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Gainesville INurserles Of Gainesville, Fla., Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecau trees of such stand- ard varieties as liave a good record behind tliem. Our Catalogue will not only help iu the selection of var- ieties but will assist you in the plant- ing and culture; its free for tlie ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Fla One of the strange and almost unaccountable c o n d i t i <> n s connected with the growing scarcity of hickory timber for vehicle manufacturing is the almost entire lack of provision for replenisliing the supply of this most valualjle timber. The diminishing supply, with the in- creasing cost, has been heralded for years and strenuous efforts have been nuide to find a satis- factory su])stitute, but as far as this writer knows no systematic move to grow the hickory as a timlier crop has yet been made. Such an enterprise certainly promises large returns, while there is scarcely any section of the country where it cannot be grown. It seems as though the nut growers may be forced to fall into the breach in order to save the pecan from the fate of the hickory. WILD NU'J' COXTKST (Coiiliniicd from Pd^c ■',.) one, and such competent commit- tees take the nuitter in charge in the south every year, that we did not feel qualified to make decisions relative to pecans. A few years ago we would gladly have expressed an opinion, but after reading Hume's compre- hensive book on the pecan, we are now properly humble. Entries in the black walnut class were . disappointing, and with one exception consisted of most ordinary specimens. The exception was a nut sent by B. F. B. Woodall of Kent county, Del., who is awarded first prize. It is a small nut, but of remark- ably good flavor, and thin shell, for a black walnut. Cleavage is first-class. Mr. Woodall writes that the tree bears when very young and is unusually i^rolific, bearing tlie nuts in clusters of from four to six. The tree is eight years old, and has l)orne three crops, varying from five to fourteen liushels. The second prize for black wal- nuts goes to J. A. May of Onon- daga county, N. Y. The nut is a little larger than the Woodal nut, but is not so good in quality, and the cleavage is only fair. Mr. May writes that the tree, which is seventy-five years old, bore a crop of thirty bushels in 1907. A tree that will bear thir- ty bushels of anything — coal, spools, anything — is worth prop- agating. Third prize for black walnuts goes to H. M. Gee of Buena Vis- ta county, la. First prize but- ternut goes to M. L. Caldwell of Allegan county, Mich. The nut is rather large, and with the thick, rough shell and rather strong meat that are characteristic. M. J. Persing of Sandusky county, ()., has second prize. Harry E. Williams of Aroos- took county. Me., takes third prize for butternuts. Among the hazels, C. W. Kraft of Montgomery county. Mo., takes first prize. Clara E. Nelson of Lafayette county, Wis., takes second haz- el prize. Third prize in hazels is for Miss Clara C. Nickel of Butler county. Pa. There was only one entry in the beechnut class, but that nut is certainly remarkable for size and ciuality. Harold B. Howard of Madison county, N. Y., sends the beechnut. The chestnut class is, on the whole, inferior, due to the gen- eral failure of the chestnut crop for 1907. Horace A. Jones of King George county, Va., takes first prize. Second chestnut prize goes to Claude Abel of Dutchess county, N. Y. Miss Maybelle Graves of Hamp- shire county, Mass., takes third chestnut prize. DWARF PECANS Editor Nut-Grower : Dwarf pecans? We have them — a fixed type, not just one or two that might be regarded as freaks, but whole rows of them. 6 not over 18 inches high but load- ed with catl^ins. Next year, if tliese are not disturbed, big clusters of nuts will be on these little trees. Nuts, and plenty of them, are what we want. E. E. RisiEN. San Saba, Tex. THE NUT-GROWER IXTEB-STA TE MEETING OE NUT GROWERS Tke second semi-annual meet- ing of Alabama, Florida and Georgia nut growers will beheld atMonticello, Fla., on May 19 and 20, 1908. A cordial invita- tion is extended to all interest ed parties, irrespective of their locality. An interesting and practical program is being arranged, one which will bring out and make public the exceptional commer- cial advantages which this sec- tion of country offers for nut cul- ture. It will also show the rapid ex- tension of work in the orchard and nursery, besides illustrating how foreign capital and skill are utilizing opportunities which local interests fail to recognize. The lirst session will be held on the afternoon of the 19, upon arrival of trains from dilfereiit directions, and adjournment will take place early enough on tlie •20 to enable all to return ou tluit date. Tiie matter of permanent or ganization, which was left in tiie hands of a committee, will come up for consideration, as well as the matter of an expressive and significant name for the belt of territory which embraces our favored area. At some convenient time a meeting of the executive com- mittee of the National Nut Growers' Association will be held and plans for the Chatta- nooga convention discussed. It is expected also that tlie nut nurserymen will find the oc- casion convenient for a confer- ence regarding trade matters which promise to come up at the next national convention. The r.'.cotiug can hardly fail lo be of much interest and import- ance, and since the time and place are as favorable as can be selected, every nut grower with- in this territory is urged to at- tend, while those from other sections who can be present are cordially invited. W. 0. JONES, Chairman . CHATTANOOGA Chattanooga is a city of histor- ic environs. It lies at the foot of Lookout Mountain. Its east- ern boundary is the famous Mis- sionary Ridge; its western boundary, Walden's Ridge — the future home of the great Inter- State Club of the United States. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Militi-.ry Park and Fort Oglethorpe (army post) are dis- tant only a tew miles to the southeast. All these and many other points of interest are easi- ly accessible over the one hun- dred and twenty miles of free United States Government boul- evards, by carriage, automobile and electric cars. Chattanooga challenges the world to name a city of like commercial advantages located in the midst of more marvelous natural scenic beauty. — Circular issued l)y Chattanooga Chanil)er of Commerce. PROPOSED EXTENSION OE ASSOCIATION WORK {L'onii nittd from Page 3.) ing inquiries along such a line. Again, the time will soon come when a standing committee on markets and transportation will be needed, in order that the full benefits due the producer may be realized. It is XJossible that some of tiie special committees of the Asso- ciation which have been contin- ued for several years, may be made permanent. It should be borne in mind that the great public value of the Association during its brief history is due in no snndl part to the efiicient work of the few standing com- Monticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Offer a choice lot of grafted pecan trees of the best varieties. Nice, thrifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. MONTICELLO. FLA. Nuts for Profit ^ ,-^«*^o^^^^ of 1.38 pages; tO illiistratious. Propagatiou, Cnltivation, etc., of Nuts best adapted to the viirions sections. Interesting and instructive. Pricr l>\ mail, ;?,; n;,ls. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. 7 O O O O ...GRAFTED... PECAN TREES ...FOR SALE... Grown without fertilization, hence liardy and stcrky. Propagated from our own bearing orchard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dec. 10, 1907. NURSERIES: Lafayette, La. Ocean Springs, Mies. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Miss. Lafayette Parish, La. St. Landry Parifh, La. For jiartioiilars and illustrated liteia- ture address Southern Nut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE, LA. 2 Papers for tlie Price of S6c N^at-Grov/er and tHc Axxierican Farraer of lndiai\as30lis BOTH ONE _ _ er\ <~4a»>*« YEAR FOR " ~ -^^^ cems The American Farmer is the only Literary Farm Journal published. It fills a position of its own and has taken the lead- ing place in the homes of rural people in every section of the United States. This unparallel- ed offer is made to all new subscribers and all olil ones who pay all ar- rears and renew l)efore April 1. ^he Nut-Grower Co. POULAN, GA. THE NUT-GROWER No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFFING'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecaus. Also a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Shrubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Wilson & Company REAL ESTATE POULAN, GA. ll'ritr for particulars rcs^ardin <^ f/ifSf Ban^ains : No. 1]. Mill — fine water pow- er and 62 acres of good land. No. 18. Improved property to exchange for lauds snitable for pecans. No. 16. 100 acres, 1200 pecan trees, 12 to IS years (dd. A liar- gain. STUART-ROBSON PECAN COMPANY Growers, Dealers in Large Soft and Paper Sliell Pecans. Growers of the celebrated varieties, Columbian, Stuart, Van Deman and Capital. Budded, Grafted and Seedling Trees for sale. Adilress either Ocean Springs, Miss. Kirkwood, Ga. PEGANS AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Hartwell Nurseries S. W. Peek, I'rop'r. Hartwell, Ga. Established 1882. Send for Catalogue. niittees established at the time the body was organized. The work of the Association has grown so rapidly and is reaching out in so many different direc- tions that it seems not only de- sirabh' l)ut necessary to make the most ample provision for tlie Association for reliable data. This is the keynote of the con- stitution of tlie Association, "to give pultlicity to authentic infor- mation regarding nut culture and to encourage its development along scientific and substantial lines." It will be readily seen that the increased facilities contem- plated are directly in line witii the work in hand and are designed to increase tlie elhcien- cy of the Association as well as facilitating its operations. TOP- WORKING PFA'ANS Read b}' E. E. Risien at tlie recent meet- ing of the Texas Nut Growers' Asso- ciation. The advice that has lately ap- peared in print al;out the ease with \vhi(di large pecan trees two, tiiree or even four feet in diameter can lie budded with the choicer varieties and at once l)ecome profitable, is sufficiently misleading to make it the duty of some one wlio knows better to exclaim against it. My twenty years' experience in this line ought to V;e worth something, and for this reason I sa.y they won't do anything of the kind. For various reasons the handling of such very large trees is a waste of time and lalior. One is, the heart wood is already too old and when cnt into commences to deca.y, sometimes rapidly, from tiie large wounds that of necessity are made in cutting back so severely. In a few years you will find some trees hollow and generally full of water; they take the dropsy (I call it), their health becomes impaired, the fruit is small and inferior. To some extent, however, there is a remedy and that is to draw ofi' the water (as is the case with the human family.) Tap them 1)y Ijoring a hole in tiie body of the tree where the water is. I have some trees this way that if negleated will accumulate eight and ten feet of water from the rains that run down the l)ody of the tree from above into the hol- low made where sawed oft'. As iioles bored into a live tree grow over and close up, a good plan is to insert a piece of pipe. This ends the trouble for several years anyway, l)ut as decay goes on another opening will be neces- sary lower down. Trees tliat I have treated this way are yield- ing fairly good crops that otiier- wise would be worthless. Pecan trees, like everything else, have their best days, and wlien you see that a tree has seen its Ijest da.ys, don't waste any more time on it, but turn your attention to the more vigorous ones, for tliey must be vigorous in the stock to perfect the fruit of the choicer varieties. Sometimes it hap- pens that we find a tree not do- ing well on its own roots, as is the case with the Marechal Neil rose or the Duchess pear, etc., l)ut will Ije greatly improved if grown on a n.iore vigorous stock. Tlie fruit will lie a third larger, tlie yield will be a third more, and in a given time the growth will surpass the mother tree a third and be longer lived. This work calls for close obser- vation, for it is not always that there is a congeniality between the stock and the scion, and while it is seldom there is lack of affinity, we have proof that it does occur, because we see some unions that refuse to do any good ; they don't start off right, and if compelled to grow together, in some way they are disappointed and generally die back. Some- times I think we may just as well let them separate, as is the case with some married couples. But, on the other hand, when we see the scion starting off thriftily all will be well. My theory of these exceptions is that there is something lacking in the quality of the sap of the stock. As a plainer illustration of my meaning, we all know how much richer some cow's milk is than 8 THE NUT-GROWER others, notwithstanding all may eat the same feed. Just so it appears with a row of trees all grown out of the same piece of ground and all living under the same conditions. Some furnish better sap than others, but just how we are to ascertain which trees furnish the best quality of sap is hard to determine. The limit of size in profitably work- ing over large laecan trees 1 think to be about eighteen inches in diameter, and for a detailed ac- count of how I do the work I re- fer to a treatise now obtained for the asking by addressing a letter to Prof. E. J. Kyle, Oul- lege Station, Tex. Pecan culture is like every- thing else; there are those wiio succeed and those who fail. This industry cannot l^e dream- ed out — it must be worked out, and while this language is a Hat contradiction to some writers, it is a fact just the same. We hope to see less in print al)out "get rich quick" and "stay rich" when writing about pecans; neither do we think that it is the thing to do to advise anyone already busily engaged in pro- ducing the staff of life to quit it and raise pecans. We can live w i t h o u t pecans. President Roosevelt said the greatest need today was more sense, more courage and more honesty. The Dallas (Tex.) News is publishing some interesting and able articles on the budding of pecan, contributed by Mr. 0. R. Edwards. NE W MEMBERS During the first quarter of 1908 the following new life mem- bers were enrolled by the Nat- ional Nut Growers' Association : M. J. Niblack, Vincennes, Ind. W. 0. Stubbs, New Orleans, La. H. W. Smithwick, Americus, Ga. W. L. Watkins, Tyler, Tex. M. J. Killing & Co., Chicago, have been added to the list of active members. C.UMMIT ^fy CHOICE ^ NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO UR5ERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors > FLORIDA Nut Trees—Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan ^)^ P^"" °f 1 the ruture OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU I Nursery Motiticello, Fla. For next season's plautiiig we will liave au extra large supply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can furuish a sttilard varieties — Shmrt, I'lm JJciikih. Sr///ev. Frotschci'^ t')-\ I oncx Maker , li ussell ^ I'oiuij^^ Al/ev, Xi-lsoii, Hall. Billion, /)('/«/«.« aud others. At Mouticello we have soil aud t-limate which are peculiarly adapted to the productiou of higli grade pecau trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky thau we have seeu eLsewliere. Special prices ou large sliipmeiits and Ca-r Load Lots. CORRESPONDENCE .SOLICITED- -INSPECTION INVITED '.mm* I I PECAN and ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connectiojn Avith a Delightful Home on BacK Bay, Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health re.'.ort, patronized by city people and planters of tl e South in summer and Northern people iu winter. 40) acres, more or les.'i, with a water front on Back Bay of over one half mile. Over5),0C0 grafted pecau trees. Over ICO 000 pecau seedlings will be iu fine condition for g.-aflin^ winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 tiudded ro.ses for market of 19;'8aud of 1909. Also a fine stock of maguolia graudiflvra, figs and Japan pei'simmons. Thi.-; property belongs to the Heikos-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends. Tlie company has no debts. It is operated as a braucli of the HuutsviJe Wliolesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is tlie desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This propertv will artmit of division into eight lots, foul- fronting on the Bay. Address W. IT. tl EIKES, Manager, rtuntsvil le, Ala. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. SOI) Acres ill Pccniis DcAVitt This Comfaiiy makes (6 J are ^ , a simple ill Test Orchard) VaeOfgia Sfccialty\f Pecans AX/'E received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecau trees "' which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. 1 Convincing and valuable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseriesat DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. T Budded and grafted trees of meritorious coiumercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with first-class tree.s — Wholesale and Retail. The Pecan Tree: Iliiw to Plant It, IIow to Grov) It, Iloiuto Buij It, (third edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention Tue JN'ut-Grower when writing. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga, JCnE NUT-GROWXR Voluma VI Number 10 Poulan, Ga., May 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year ^JVL'f. GEO WING IN MA R Y- LAND Address delivered at the Jainestowu meeting of tlie Natioual Nut Grow- ers' Association bj" Prof. C. P. Close. In order to obtain information on tlie present status of nut growing in all parts of Maryland, the speaker sent out letters of inqu ry to every man or woman who owned a nut tree of any kind so far as he was able to learn. Ninety-five people were enough interested to reply more or less minutely to the various questions asked. From nearly every portion of the state the native chestnut, l>lack wal- nut and hickory are reported. Occasionally an extra large and sweet native chestnut is men- tioned. A few magiiilicent black walnuts and hickories of thin shell and large sweet kern- el have been located. Other natives of less importance, such as the butternut, hazelnut, chinkapin and beechnuts, abound. From one place the wild pecan is reported. Scattered efforts have lieen made to improve a very few of the luitive nuts of special uierit, and some effort has been made to introduce cultivated nuts from other supposedly more favorable climes. Being so favorably sit- uated as she is, on the boundary line between the severe cold of the North and the intense heat of the South, Maryland may well aspire to add tlie new industry of nut production to her varied resources. A few old pioneer Persian walnut and pecan trees have blazed the way, and exten- sive orchards of the hardiest of improved varieties of these nuts will surely follow. Since the state is of such pe- culiar shape and varies in eleva- tion from sea level in the east to quite respectable mountains in the west, it is well to divide it into sections of similar soil and climatic conditions and dis- cuss each section briefly. In the two westernmost coun- ties of higli elevation and winter temperature dropping occasion- ally to 20 degree below zero all of the native nuts succeed well and thousands of pounds of na- tive chestnuts are shipped from there annually. One man alone gathers and sells a hundred bush- els per year. Very little effort has been made to grow improved chestnuts or Persian walnuts and only a few of these trees were reported. In the third county of Western Maryland, about 75 Persian walnut trees were re- ported, and most of them are doing well without even ordin- ary attention in a winter temper- ature which occasionally reaches ten degrees l)elow zero. Insects and diseases do not trouble the trees to any extent and the cold of winter does little injury. Most of these trees seem to be seedlings not over 30 years old except one which has reached the age of 80 years. In most in- stances, the nuts produced are reported fe) be equal to and even better tiian those purchased in the market. Seedling trees are reported to produce true to type and begin to yield at from 6 to 9 years of age. The yield varies from a few nuts to one peck, or even one bushel per tree. A certain tree, now 12 years old, has averaged one bushel of nuts annually for three or four years. One tree cleft grafted on black walnut produced 300 nuts the third year from grafting and more than lOOO nuts the fourth year. The man wlio did this grafting thinks that lilack wal- nut stocks promote earlier and more aljundant yields and that {Continued oti Page o.) PECAN INVESTMENTS Paper prepared by Dr. J. F. Wilson for meeting of luter-State Mut Growers at Mouticello, Fla., May 19-20. There are few if any agricul- tural specialties or industrial openings which adapt themselves more readily to a great variety of circumstances than does the growing of pecan nuts. This in- dustry invites patronage from all ranks, regardless of conditions or locality, and promises satis- factory returns to the small non- resident owner of an orchard as well as to the capitalist who finds it a safe and permanent line, provided a few cardinal princi- ples are faithfully observed. It is the purpose of this paper to show in part, but as far as the present status of the industry warrants, what these essential requirements are, and how they are within reach and at the com- mand of all interested parties. An effort will l)e made to point out different plans which are available for different classes of investors', so that each may tind one that will be not only to his liking, but adapted to his pecun- iary circumstances and knowl- edge of — or even lack of — prac- tical cultural experience, as well. Briefly stated, to establish a nut orchard requires: 1. Suitable land in a practi- cable locality. 2. Good tree s — budded or grafted — of recognized valuable varieties, suit- ed to the section where planted. 3. Competent horticultural experience and good bus- iness management. 4. Such cash capital as the work demands. In the discussion of these fun- damental principles, we take them up in reverse order as the THENUT-GROWER orcliardist of the future will use them in this order. Before pass- ing, however, we are warranted in regarding tliese points as cor- ner stones, no one of which can be omitted or even slighted without greatly handicapping the prospective orchard. The better the foundation, the better and more permanent the super- structure, which in this case means more money. These cornerstones, as they have been called, constitute the capital required, and this can be brouglit together as cash or by association of interests, to such au extent that the work is ac- complished by a comparatively small amount of ready money. In round numbers the orchard will entail an investment of $100 an acre. Approximately one- fourth of this represents the val- ue of the land ; another fourth is required for trees; still another fourth goes for the labor neces- sary while trees are reaching bearing age, while the remaind- er is absorbed by buildings, im- plements, taxes and cost of ad- ministration. Thus it is readily seen that land, trees, etc., when put into an orchard for a rela- tive interest, reduce the amount of the necessary cash outlay. Presuming that the capital for a fixed acreage is at com- mand, the next step involves the use of practical skill on the part of some one connected with the work, or employed, in select- ing suitable land and location. Closely following this comes the very important matter of the selection of trees of known qual- ity and bearing habits and the planting of the same. These particulars are of the utmost importance and demand undoubted ability on the part of those directing them. Mistakes at this stage are permanent and fatal, because it requires years to demonstrate the errors. With this understanding of the general foundations which should underlie all orchard operations, we come to the con- sideration of how difi'erent class- es of investors can become pos sessed of a first class orchard. We group into several classes : 1. Those who are able, and disposed, to have full control of the invest- ment. 2. Those who prefer, or who are obliged, to enlist the services of others as agents, or who patronize orchard companies sell- ing individual holdings on installments or regu- lar payments of fixed amounts. 3. Those who purchase the secured bonds of orchard companies. 4. Those who become stock- holders in regular orch- ard companies. All of these classes of inves- tt)rs desire sound business nu th- ods, skillfully Iiandled and dir- ected by liorticultural experience and thorough knowledge of the business. The last mentioned plan, tliat of the stock company, provides for large or small investors who share in proportion to their paid up holdings of stock and reap their full share of all benefiits without the responsibility of management, and regardless of whether they are experienced in the business or not. Their stock being transferable, it can l,e sold readily should a sale be de- sirable, and as the property lie- comes more valuable with added years and increased crops tlie value of the stock goes far be- yond par. In the purchase of secured bonds of orchard companies the rate of interest is hxed at a com- paratively normal per cent, but sometimes a part of the profits go to the bondholder in addition to the agreed interest. Tlie ad- vantage of this plan is urged as eliminating the risk assumed by stockholders, while the bond security becomes more stable as the orchard attains age. The installment plan, of pay- ing for a specific acreage planted and cared for up to bearing age l)y some responsible company or individual, is at present a popu- For Season of 1908- 1909 Budded and Grafted Pecan L.eConte and Kieffer Pears Mardy Oranges Plums, Persimnnons, Pigs Mulberries, &c. A full line of Oruamental aud Shade trees. Quautity and Quality. Corres- poudeuce solicited. Arcskdia Nurseries MonticelIo> Fla. Gillgrove Pecan Albany, Georgia Budding and Grafting Wood for sale from bearing trees. Con- tracts taken for top working seedling trees and caring for groves. My grove contains over 4000 budded trees of the best standard varieties and is the old- est budded grove of over 300 trees in Georgia. Pecan Trees... That are Properly Growu is My Specialty... BVDDEB and GRAFTED TREES of tHe Best Varie> ties for sale Write for prices of trees aud iuforma- tiou as to growing and care of groves. J. B. Wifi'Ht, oE^^^?2 For growing Pecans, Pear-s, PeacHes, etc., at a profit — Ri-ee 50 per cent, reduction in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. Freiglit paid. B. W. STONE & CO., - Thomasvillc, Ga. Monticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Offer a choice lot of grafted pecan trees of the best varieties. Nice, thrifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. MONTICELLO. FLA. THE NUT-GRO>VER BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The uut that lias never f;;il- ed to liear and never failed to fill at both euds with kernel of best quality : : : Ocean Springs, : : Mississippi Proceedings of the Scranton Convention Price, 50 cents For ropies address tlie Secretar3-, J. F. WILSON, PouLAN, Ga. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery ^ Seasou 1908-9 ^ Will l:e pleased to Ijodk orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List lar mode for obtaining such a property on easy terms without the care or responsibility wliich attaches to a private business. The patrons of this plan, howev- er, contribute substantially to the profits earned by the com- pany furnishing the orchard. At the same time the service ren- dered is most important and merits a lilieral profit as the pur- chaser is ultimately the full lieneficiary, while the promoter has only the compensation earn- ed. The first plan mentioned will always have a large percentage of investors in its class. Where the party engages in the busi- ness purely for profit he employs comiietent help, which is not abundant, and directs affairs ac- cording to his own ideas. When he makes it his business, he first learns what to cfo and how to do it, and his success and pro- fits will l)e measured by the abil- ity, industry and perseverance he applies to its prosecution. With all these various plans it seems as tiiough almost anyone can get a foothold in the indus- try. It is now up to us, as prac- tical and experienced growers, to furnish su.di opportunities as patrons may select, and give to them such encouragement, sup- port and services as circumstan- ces may require. This means direct and indirect benefits to us and to the industry, and pro- fits for our patrons. CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON XOMENCLA TURE AXD STANDARDS In the matter of adoption and use of the varietal names of pe- cans that have been recommend- ed by this committee and accept- ed by the Association in former years, we have to report a con- tinued aiid gratifying improve- ment in commercial practice. Few cases have been observed during the year where varieties have been catalogued by any nursery under more than a single name, and not many under naujes -- •' word. The most important feature of this phase of the ques- tion at the present time, in the judgement of your committee, is the avoidance of propagating under the names of existing standard varieties, seedlings of them which, even though close- ly resembling the parent varie- ty, are in fact distinct, and un- doubtedly in a large majority of cases, inferior sorts. While it is not considered proljable that any experienced and reputable nurseryman would adopt this practice, which would speedily and inevitably result in confus- iiin of varietal identity and the disappointment of the orchard- ist, your committee feels com- pelled to warn beginners in the propagation of nut trees against the dangers of this practice. Scions or buds for propagation should be taken only from trees of unquestioned authenticity and should preferably be trace- able directly to bearing trees. Comparatively few new sorts have been submitted for exam- ination since the Scranton meet- ing, and of tliese only one was formally passed upon by the committee. This was the "Oas- piana," pecan, submitted by Mr. W. J. Hutchinson of Oaspi- ana, Louisiana, which, as graded by four members of the commit- tee received an average rating of 79 points. We would strongly recommend that in submitting new varie- ties for scoring, the following points be observed : 1. That no varieties be sub- mitted until they have shown distinct evidence of superiority in some important characteris- tic. 2. That an average sample of at least one pound of nuts, showing the aver- age run of the crop, be furnished ; and that such sample be forwarded as soon after the crop is harvested as possible, to insure their examination THE NUT-GRO^VER The Nut -Grower Published by The Nut-Grower Co. Entered as second-class matter at tlie Postoffice at Poiiiau, Ga.. uuder the Act of Cougress of March b, 1879. Subscription Price: •• SGc per Annvm Advertisina Rates Sent Upon Application MA.Y IQOS A new nut product, known as Sliced Nut Flakes is put on the market by a Minneapolis firm. A popularity which promises a heavy business is claimed for it. One of the substantial reasons for planting a nut orchard is that you can have a regular and am- ple support from it. This is very reassuring when one feels like retiring from active busi- ness life. There is a wide range in halnt and growth of nut trees. In size they run all the way from the six foot hazel bush to the monarcii walnut, and, as to long- evity, from the ten years of an almond to the centuries of the pecan. Considerable space will be giv- en in our June issue to the Mon- ticello, Fla., meeting of nut growers. Extra copies of tiiis numlier can be furnished only on orders sent in l)elore we go to to press, on the JUth of the month. much toward helping it into pub- lic favor. The growing scarcity of hickory timber is another factor that is bringing the nut to the attention of the pul)lic. Horticultural week at the Jamestown Exposition last fall brought together a large and distinguished body of men. It is estimated that over one hund- red addresses were made before the five national bodies which convened there during that time. The old-time shagbark hickory is gradually receiving the in- creased attention it merits. The atteiition it attracted at the Norfolk convention has done A nut nurseryman in north- west Louisiana shows that he is keeping up with the procession by reporting an increase in the number of budded and graft- ed pecan trees sold, of frtnn l(j per cent, during the season of 190] -2 to 95 per cent, in 1900-7. He also reports a large and ('om- paratively regular increase in the amount of Imsiness. The date for the 1908 conven- tion at Chattanooga is likely to be fixed for October 27, 28 and 29. Tiiere was a pretty strong sentiment in favor of the first week in November, but that be- ing election week was impracti- cable. Tiie impression is that the nuts will be ready for exhib- ition by the earlier date. Spec- ial attention is to be given to the exhibition feature of the convention . In this number of The Nut- Grower appears the full page advertisement of Mr. Sam. H. James, of Mound, La. We are glad to learn that Mr. James has fully recovered from the ill- ness which so handicapped iiis work during the past two years. Few men have as great faith in the industry as has Mr. James, but tlien there are but few who have his experience or who are reaping the profits as largely. There are many opportunities for the pecan grower to study his trees with a view to gaining practical knowledge. Suppose we all make a study of the size of nut clusters. See how many they average to the clus- ter on your pet tree and then hunt for a tree which shows a larger number. Jot down your observations and have sometliing specific to report at the Chatta- nooga convention, or send it to The Nut-Grower at once. Many sections of the country are giving increased attention to work classed as civic improve- ment. This is certain to produce good effects in various ways, but in order to accomplish the greatest good and most perma- nent effect, it will be necessary to make a liberal us^ of nut trees. In beauty of form and foliage they rival any trees of equal hardiness, so that the add- ed pleasure and profits from crops make them of double val- ue for such uses. Dr. J. J. Taylor, of Philadel- phia, editor of the Medical Coun- cil, like many others of the med- ical profession takes a lively in- terest in nut culture and has re- peatedly called attention to its attractions as a side line for physicians. In a recent issue of his journal he referred kindly to The Nut-Grower and its editor, as well as to Ur. Eobert T. Mor- ris of New York, commending the good work he is doing. As a direct result, we received let- ters for several days from phys- icians in all parts of the country, asking for sample copies and for information regarding the pecan and other nuts. These men re- cognize the importa.nce of nuts as a food, as well as the prospec- tive profits of growing them. The interest shown by such men in the general business of nut growing means much in various ways and merits the attention of our active workers. About thirty years ago we read regularly a little paper called Orchard and Garden. Thatwas before we knew much about the pecan, but our only distinct rec- ollection about the paper was its advocacy of nut growing. An old scrap book still shows the ex- tent to which it contributed to our store of nut knowledge. Re- cently we noticed a quotation from this publication in the cat- alogue of a Georgia nurseryman, which says : "Nut growing for profit will grow into a mighty in- dustry, and become one of the THE NUT-GROWER most important branches of hor- ticulture. It cannot help it. The Orchard and Garden is too patriotic to see the large annual importations of nuts of all kinds into this country without mak- ing every effort to convince the public that by far the larger per cent of this supply could be pro- duced at home with far greater profit than the grower can hope to realize from the cultivation of apples, pears, peaches or small fruits. The prospects in nut growing are enticing, the field is wide and we should see to it that it is properly cultivated." NUT GRO WING IN 2IARY- LAND {^Continued from Page 1.) trees on such stocks stand the winter better than those on I'er- sian walnut stocks. Another correspondent believes that trees on black walnut stocks do not stand the winter well. He crown grafts on Persian walnut seed- lings only three inches high. No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFFLNG'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM TTventy leadiug varieties of Pecans. Also a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Shrubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. The only nut tree nursery report- ed in the state is in this section and contains about 1200 young trees. Pecans are said to grow slowly and bear at 15 years. There was, however, only one report on pe- cans. There was only one report on improved chestnuts, and in this the grower says that after ten years he gave up in disgust. The section north of the Dis- trict of Columbia and extending east to the Chesapeake Bay is more favorable for nut culture because of a milder climate than that of Western Maryland. From 75 to 100 Persian walnut trees less than 25 years old are report- ed in this section. There are al- so a few old ones. One old land- nuirk, planted before 1860 and killed by the blizzard of 1900, bore as much as five bushels of nuts per year. The younger trees behave like those mention- ed a few moments ago. Most of of the nuts are of good quality and some are thin shelled and of good size. One man reports grafting on black walnut with fair success by the bark grafting method. He cuts Persian wal- nut scions early in March and stores them in an icehouse until the last of April or first part of May. Then he saws otf the stock slanting, splits the bark, makes a four inch slanting cut on one side of the scion, slips it in and waxes the wounds secure- ly. Only a few pecans are men- tioned in this section, as are al- so a few Japan walnuts, chest- nuts and filberts. The improv- ed chestnuts have not proven profitable generally, and since the various native nuts are so abundant there has not been much incentive to grow cultivat- ed ones. In the section south of the one just mentioned and between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, there are without doubt many nut trees, but only a few were located by this survey. The climate is mild, comparatively speaking, and the production of nuts ought to be a most tempt- ing vocation in this section. Doubtless the best portion of the state for the nut industry is the entire Eastern Shore, that is, all of that portion east of the Chesapeake Bay. The climate of this section is modified some- what by the waters of Chesa- peake and Delaware Bays, and the soil is especially adapted to fruit and nut culture. Eighty- five Persian walnut trees were specially reported and others mentioned as being in the var- ious neighborhoods. There are quite a numlier of magnificent old specimens from 50 to 80 years old, producing from one to five bushels of nuts annually. One tree 50 years old is said to have produced from 3 to 10 bushels of nuts per year for the last 30 years. Many of these trees yield a product that is equal to and even superior to "store" nuts. Nearlj" all of tlie younger trees are productive, but a few are not. These are mostly seed- lings and usually bear nuts as good or even better than those from the parent tree. Several grew from nuts grown in Califor- nia. They began bearing at from 5 to 10 years after plant- ing. One correspondent, 81 years of age, reports that 50 years ago Persian walnut trees were as common as plum trees in his section, but now they are very scarce. The Grenoble is the only variety mentioned. This began bearing when 6 years old. Strangely enough, pecans are reported in larger numbers than Persian walnuts in this section, over 200 trees being mentioned. They grow luxuriantly, are not troubled with insects or diseas- es, and are much used for lawn trees. A few are seedlings grown from nuts obtained in New Orleans. Many of these trees bear thinshelled nuts of good quality but usually small in size. One tremendous tree, 100 feet high and 100 feet in spread of l)ranches with trunk five feet in diameter, is said to have grown from a nut planted 6 THE NUT-GROWER 107 years ago. Two other ven- erable companions of Father Time are each 100 years old, and one bears extra good nuts. It is also live feet in diameter. A third old timer is 83 years old. I measured one tree whose spread of branches is 75 feet and the trunk diameter 4 feet, but un- fortunately the nuts are not ed- ible. Other trees nearby bear- ing good large nuts are 2i feet in diameter. One man has 50 seedlings, 12 years old ; another has 125, 15 years old, which are just begin- ing to bear choice nuts. Only a few named varieties were men- tioned. One correspondent has 6 Stuart and 6 Van Deman trees 15 years old : the former Ijegan l)earing at 6 and the latter at 10 years of age. Another corres- pondent has the Fal)st and Alley varieties. In this section are a few Jap- an waliiuls, tilberts, improved hickories and improved black walnuts and an abundance of native nuts. There was one re- port of three almond trees in full bearing. In order to stimulate interest in planting nut trees, the Exper- iment Station last spring sent out 74 Persian walnut trees of improved varieties to 16 locali- ties throughout the state. Next spring we expect to send out several hundred more and per- iiaps also to establish several nut orchards in various parts of the state. Nearly every correspondent from every part of the state except the extreme west voices the opinion that the Persian walnut, particularly, can be profitably grown in Maryland if the trees are cared for. Many think the pecan may als.i be produced with profit. Nut growing in Maryland may l)e briefly summarized as fol- lows: The native black walnut, butternut, hickory, chestnut, beech, hazel and chinkapin abound aluKjst everywhere. A few of the black walnuts and hickories are of especial merit and will lie utilized as a l)asis for improving these nuts. Most of the state has produced excel- lent Persian walnuts and some pecans for more than a hundred years. Only a few named var- ieties of the improved sorts have thus far been tried. The impro- ved varieties of chestnuts are not generally profitable, but may become so, if the immense crop of native chestnuts is cut short as is now threatened by a dis- ease which is causing the death of hundreds of trees from two to three feet in diameter. The Japan walnut is not much grown and is not likely to be. There is an awakening to the possibilities of nut culture, probably caused by the intensely active earnest- ness with which several of the Southern states are taking hold of this problem, and in a few years Maryland will rank as a nut producing state. She has the requisite soil, climate and incentive, and since satisfactcn-y varieties are to be had, it is now only a question of launching the industry systematically and this movement has already begun. PECAN DAINTIES Nut Balls : — Melli cCn ouiice of granulated' sugar-until it turns a pale brown, advood and budding wood of all leading kinds such as Stuart, Van Deman, Pabst, MoneymaKer Russell, FrotscHer, Georgia Giant James, Columbian, ScHley Centennial, &,c. &lc. He will also have for sale next fall a fine lot of grafted trees, also eating pecans from a hundred acre grove now in bearing. Mr. James was awarded Gold Medals on his pecans at the St. Louis, the Charleston, the Portland, Oregon, and the Jamestown World's Fairs. Also First Prizes at all State Fairs where- ever exhibited. Address SAM. H. JAMES MOUND :« LOUISIANA THE NUT-GROWER Volume VI Number 11 Poulan, Ga., June 1908 5c per Copy SOc per Year GEORGIA-FLORIDA NUT GROWERS Annual Meeting at Monticello, Florida — Permanent Organization Ef- fected and Officers Elected At the 1907 convention of tlie firactical lines, while local bod- ies, such as he was addressing, were auxiliary to the national body, iiaviug more specific functions closely allied to the working out of commercial proli- lems incident to orcltard worJv and tile realizing of a fair profit National Nut Growers' Associa- tion, the Committee on Resolu- tions advised tiie formation of local societies of nut growers. Acting upon this recommenda- tion, Vice-President J. B. Wiglit of Georgia, held an inter-state meeting at Thomasville, which from the labor expended in its was well attended. The matter development, of permanent organization was Prof. H. H. Hume spoke on placed in the hands of a commit- the subject of possible over-pro- tee which reported, "In our duction of nuts in nursery and judgment a meeting of this kind orchard. He said that since he serves a public purpose in l)ring- was engaged in nursery work he ing a knowledge of the industry would leave that part of the sulj- jnto greater prominence. The ject for others to discuss and intelligent promotion of pecan then proceeded in his clear and culture in this favored section forceful way to give his views on should be encouraged. Occas- the subject, which he sumnuiriz- ional meetings at convenient points seem to be desiralde. We recommend that the temporary officers of this meeting be con- tinued and the matter of perma- nent organization be deferred until a sulisequent meeting." Tiiis report was adopted and to come. ed Ijy saying that in liis judgment the production of nuts would not be overdone until the annual crop amounts to o(),()0<) carloads. In his opinion, increased con- sumption would keep pace with increased production for years Monticello, Fla., was selected as the place for the next meeting. Mr. W. 0. Jones, of Cairo, Ga., who presided, designated May 19-20 as date for the Monticello meeting. - Dr. J. F. Wilson, secretary of the national association was present and gave consideraV)le infornuition regarding that body, explained the work of the Pub- licity committee, spoke of the On this date a goodly number efficient use of the "Nut Notes" of Georgia and Florida growers which are Ijeing sent monthly to assembled at the St. Elmo Hotel and work began at 2 p. m. Chairman Jones set the ball rolling with his address. He dwelt upon the growing commer- cial importance of nut culture in general and in particular as to the territory represented, the trend of his argument being that the National Nut Growers' Asso- ciation is a scientific and delib- erative body furnishing the ba- sis for development, on sound all the leading agricultural and horticultural journals and read a sample of the numerous letters he receives from interested per sons from all over the country. A subject of much interest was the reports from dilt'erent counties in Georgia and Florida. The only one of these made in writing was that of Mr. D. L. Williams, of Grady county, Ga., which can be found in another column. However, other coun- ties got in the list with figures which, on being tabulated, make a surprising showing as to the recent activity in the planting of budded and grafted tr^es. In the following table no account was taken of seedling orchards. By counties, all of which are within a limited area in south- west Georgia and west Florida, the totals were : Florida Jefferson county 870 acres. Leon and Gadsen 600 acres. Wakulla ... 25 acres. Central and South' Florida . . . 370 acres. Total for Florida 1865 acres. Georgia Dougherty county 1000 acres. Grady . . . 400 acres. Thomas . . . 423 acres. Mitchell . . 3200 acres. Total for Georgia 5023 acres. Grand total . 6888 acres. It was conceded that a more thorough canvass would carry the acreage up to 7000. As the plantings will average 20 trees to the acre, this would give an aggregate of fully 140000 trees. A survey of prospective plant- ings already projected and like- ly to be consuniated as soon as the general financial condition permits, was also made. This footed up 2875 acres. The Question Box proved a fruitful source of general discus sion, which lasted till adjourn- ment for a visit to places of in- terest in the town. Many large and historic seedling pecan trees w^ere found in yards and gardens. The first stop was made at the home of Mr. W. A. Lindsay, to see the large tree which bore a crop of 638 pounds in 1906, when it was 21 years old. That crop sold for 17i cents per pound. The tree has lieen Ijearing for about 12 years and averages THE NUT-GROWER al)()iit 150.00 per crop. It is about 60 feet high, with spread of 50 feet and circumference of five feet a short distance above the crown. In the grounds of Mr. Carroll some precocious budded trees were inspected, one in particular said to be a variety known local- ly as Moore's, showed nearly ev- ery terminal with a cluster of well-set nuts, and they averac;ed better than three or four to the cluster. The tree had the ap- pearance of being about six or seven years old. Several esti- nu\tes as to the probable yield were made, some of which plac- ed the prospective crop as high as fifty pounds. Other trees on the same grounds showed re- markable' growth and early fruiting. The second session convened at 8:00 p.m. Prof. Miller, of the committee on permaiient or- ganization reported as follows : ''It is the sense of this com- mittee that we form a perma- nent organization. "That we have two meetings a year, one in conjunction with the meeting of the national as- sociation and another during the growing season. "That the name of this body be the Georgia-Florida Nut Grov>ers' Association. "That the object and purpose of the association is to stimulate commercial interest in pecan culture. "That the' association be aux- iliary to the National Nut Grow- ers' Association. "That the present incumbents remain in office until a commit- tee can report on rules and regu- lations.'' This report was adopted and the chairman desigiu/ed the same committee, which consisted of J. F. Wilson, H. K. Miller, J. B. Wight, J. P. Gill and J. B. Curtis, to draft the constitution and l)ylaws. Ur. J. F. Wilson then read a paper on "Pe/aii Investments" in which he outlined essential requirement and classified the dift'erent plans under which dif- ferent classes of investors can obtain interests in orcliurd prop- erties. The meeting then adjourned to accept the invitation of the Jefferson County Horticultural Society to attend an ice cream festival given for the lienefit of a local club. On the morning of the 20th a committee of the .Tetfersnn Coun- ty Horticultural Society acted as a steering committee, showing the visitors the various orchards and nurseries in the vicinity. The first drive was made to Wortland Plantation, which is owned by the North Florida Pe- can Company. Here were seen 8000 pecan trees, covering 400 acres that had been planted out last winter. The trees have had careful cultivation. Next a block of pecan trees owned by Simon & McRae and to be planted on the Springdale Pecan Company's plantation was visited. These trees had made a remarkable growth, as have most of the nursery trees grown around Moniicello. The time being short, a hurried drive was made to the orchards of the tStandard Pecan Company. Here were shown trees in their fourth growing seasini that were 12 to IS feet high and nicely branched. Tliis company has 200 acres in orchard — partly in its fourth and partly in its fifth year. They are also tlie owners of the Monticello Nurseries, which were visited. A drive to Miller & Gossard's place showed some beautiful six and seven year old orchard trees with nuts on them, also a gener- al supply of nursery stock. Mr. H. K. Miller, who is in active charge of the business, has a beautiful home on the grounds. The nurseries of Simpson Bros, were partially visited, their uuiin holding being a little off the direct route. They have several hundred acres of land and have oO acres of orchard on this besides a large pecan nur- sery. The Arcadia Nurseries, J. H. Girardeau, Jr., manager, were For Season of i90S- 1909 Budfied and Grafted Pecan L.eConte and Kietfer Pears Hardy Oranges PluiTis, Persimmons. Figs Mulberries, &c. A full line of Oruaiiieutal and Shade trees. Qnautily f.ud Quality. Corres- poudeure solicited. A.rcadla. N^irseries Mojiticello> Fla. Pecan Trees... That are Pmperly Grown is My Specialty... BUDDES and GRAFTED TREES of the Best Varie- ties for sal3 Write for prices of trees aud iiifoniia- tioii as to growing aud care of groves. J. B. Wi^Kt. OE^^^^S For growing Pecans, Peeirs, PeacHes, etc., at a profit — Fs-ee 50 per cent, reduction in price of trees. ' Sure to live. No agents. Freight paid. B. W. STONE S CO., - Thomasville, 6a. Moeticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Offer a choice lot of grafted pecan trees of the best varieties. Nice, thrifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. MONTICELLO. FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Not the 2Iofst— Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Nuts for Profit ^ booklet i-%Utb lor i-ii>Jii of 158 pages; 00 illust rations. Propagation . (_^ultiv,-. t ion , etc., of Nuts best adapted to the various seerions. Inteiestiug and instru tive. P)ic,- hv muil. -i', cnils. .JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. THE NUT-GRO>VER BECHTEL PECAN NUfiSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size Tlie nut tliat lias never fail- ed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernel of best quality : : : Ocean Springs, : : Mississippi Ocean Sprino;s P e can Nursery ^ Season 1908-9 W Will i)e pleased to liDok orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Spring's, Mississippi PECAN J lURSiRIEiS , PAf ATK^. PL A . S£)*j>j'0/ffJ>/Ck'i./ST , Gainesville (Nurseries Of Gainesville, Fla.. Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of sur-h stand- ard varieties as have a good record behiiid them. Our Catalogue will not only lielp in the selection of var- ieties but will assist j'ou in the jilaut- iug and culture; its free for t! e ask- ing. H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Fla. next visited. They are largely engaged in growing pecans, or- anges and other varieties of stock. One of the newer nurseries, Barrows & Granger, was not vis- ited owing to the shortness of the time. In addition to the nurseries named above, the Conimerciul Nurseries have have purchased land near Monticelloand will be- gin operations in the fall. Mon- ticello is the largest pecan nur- sery center in the United States. The soil is especially adapted to the growing of a thrifty, stocky pecan tree. Trees are shipped from here to every pecan grow- ing section of the United States and into Mexico. Atll a. ni. the association was called to order and listened to the report of the committee on Constitution and Bylaws, whilanied or the tree raised from the nut, time will duly l)ring the reward hoped for in nuts that will sell for eating and also furnish seed that will germinate, and, in due time, produce trees that will likewise produce nuts tiiat will germinate, and thus provide nuts to produce trees and nuts for all time to come without a doubt or uncertainty. Now, can any- one give that absolute certainty for the nuts coming from a graft- ed pecan tree? Will sucli nuts germinate at all, and even if the tree grows will it ijear nuts, or will it simply be a "mule" and entirely barren? Now, these are serious questions, and, as such must be decided by each plant- er for himself. The simple fact of my belief in tlie premises does not prove anytliing." The Texas Nut Growers' As- sociation meets with tlie Farm- ers' Congress at College Station, July 7-8-S). The Yazoo Valley Pecan Co., is a new organization ottering stock to the public. Bulletin No. 128 of the Colora- do Experiment fetation, on Alfal- fa Studies, is of much interest. CARD FROM DR. MORRIS Editor Nut-Grower : Tlie proposed extension of tlie National Nut Growers' Associa- tion, to which you refer in the current number of The Nut- Grower, is certainly very impor- tant and in line with progress. We should even have Canadian 7 O O O O ...GRAFTED... PECAN TREES ...FOR SALE... Growu without tcnilizaiiou, liouce iiarrly and sleeky. Propagated from mir o-wn bearing orchard aud true lo name. Ready tor flelivcry after Dec. 10, U)„T. NURSERILS: Lafaye'le, La. Ocean Springs. Mies. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson C3unty, Miss. Lafayette l^arish. La. St. Landry Parish, La. - For particulars and illustrated litera- ture addre.ss Southern Wut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE, LA. P G G A H © AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BLST VARIETIES. Martwell Nurseries S. W. Peek, I'rop'r. Hartwell, Ga. Established 1882. Send for Catalogue. "Pecan Investments" A four page leaflet, reprint from May Kut-Gkovvek of paper read at meeting of Georgia-l'lorida Nut Growers' Asso- eiation by Dr. J. P. Wilson. The first edition was exhausted in a few days. Second will go to press at once if ordt-.rs warrant. Tliisisgood matter for nur- serymen aud promoters to send to pros- pective customers. Prices: 500 copies, $2.u0 100 copies, ..50 350 copies, 1.25 .50 copies, .25 10 copies, .10 Senr Postiiaid S>6g WTut-Grower Co. POULAW, GA. Tor ©ale ! Standard varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top-working seedling trees aud car- ing for groves. Our groves contain ov- er 4. .00 budded trees of tlie best standard varieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. Gill, Mgr. ALBANY, GA. Send^s$1.00 And we will send The Nut-Grower to your ad- dress for 8 years. THE NUT-GRO^VER FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties ; The Admiral Schley Pecan '^\^ P^"" °f - the r uture ^ OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU THe Nut Nursery Compariy Monticello, Fla. For next season's planting we will liave an extra large supply of Grafted and B^idded Pecan Trees We can furnish a standard varieties — Stuart, Win Domui, Schley, Frotscher Pabst, Alonrv Maker, Russctt, }'oiifia^, jlllcv. Nelson, Hall, Bolton, Dtlinus and otliers. At Monticello we have soil and climate which are peculiarly adapted to the production of liigh grade pecan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stockj- than we have seen elsewliere. Special prices on large shipments and Car Lead Lots. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED- ■ INSPECTION INVITED I I PECAN and ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Home on BacK Baj', Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted liealth resort, patronized by city people and planters of tlie South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one half mile. Over 5;),0C0 grafted pecan trees. Over ICO 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 53,000 budded roses for market of 1908 and of 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandl flora, figs and Japan persimmons. This property belongs to the Heikos-Biloxi Niir.-i.vies Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends. The company lias no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsviile Wholesale Nurseries, Hunt.sville, Ala., and tlie only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all busine.ss at Hnutsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunitj' of combining \ leasme and Lusiness. This property will admit of division into eiglit lo <, four frcntiug on the Bav. Address W. P. HEIKES. Mcnager, Huntsviile, Ala. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. S')0 Acres in Pecans (6J are in Test Orchard) Y^Q^lW This Coniftiny males f> ' " sinr-h L»eOrgia specialty of Pecans \X/E received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees ""^ which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. ^ Convincing and valual)le ol)ject lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and ntirseriesat DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. ■^ Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with first-class trees — Wholesale and Retail. The Peeati Tree: How to Plant It, How to Grow It,, How to Buy It, (third edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Nut-Grower when w'riting. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. committee members. The fu- ture market for nuts will depend upon the character of the nuts grown rather than upon their quantity, and the tendency of committees will be to bring out the best sorts for propagation. Committees also can have a great deal of influence in lessening the disappointments of men who go into nut raising without prop- er information. During the past year I have learned of a number of men who were putting out large quantities of seedling chestnut andshagbark hickories, for whi-h they paid fancy prices, not knowing that they would have to wait about twenty years for the seedling trees to come into bearing, that the remark- ably fine nuts planted represent- ed freaks, and that the progeny of such freaks was almost cer- tain to be degenerate, or at least to show a return to the mean type. Furthermore, nur- serymen are selling large num- bers of seedlings under varietal names, and this must be stop- ped. The many failures resulting from improper selectiVER Mr. Sam. H. James of Mound, La. WISHES to announce to his many friends and customers that his health has been entirely restored. Mr. James has had over thirtj' years of ex- perience in groAv^ing fine pecans, and is the largest groAver of fine pecans in the world. He will have to offer this sea- son grafting Avood and budding wood of all leading kinds such as Stuart, Van Deman, Pabst, Moneymaker Russell, FrotscHer, Georgia Giant James, Columbian, ScKley Centennial, &.c. &.c. He will also have for sale next fall a fine lot of grafted trees, also eating pecans from a hundred acre grove now in bearing. Mr. Jamesrwas awarded Gold Medals on his pecans at the St. Louis, the Charleston, the Portland, Oregon, and the Jamestown World's Fairs. Also First Prizes at all State Fairs where- exhibited. ever Address MOUND SAM. H. JAMES :: LOUISIANA THE NUT-GROWER Volume VI Number 12 Poulan, Ga., July 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year NUT CULTURE AND FOR- FSTRV Tliere is now iiiucli piililic ut- tentitm given to matters classed with tlie forestry interests, wiiich att'ect the private citizen as well as tlie liody politic. Many dis- tinct features of importance are embraced nniler this head, some more or less local and others far- reachinii; in results. It intdudes the conservation of.primeval for- ests as well as the reforesting of denuded areas. It incdudes the cominiting of damages caused liy floods, the cost of keeping streams and waterways open all the year, and the elimination of the damage done to farm lands l)y soil washing and the over- flowing of hottom lands. It fig- ures the changed conditions of climate as well as the diminisli- ed rainfall traceable to the de- creasing forest area. The drying up of streams fti lie the Texas Nut Growers' Associ- ation. Many hundreds of varieties of cxcidlent pecans have been dis- covered in Texas, each vai'iety lia\ ;iig its (dianipioiis wlin are linil'use with conclusive (da i ms oi' the excellence oi' their t'avni'i'.e variety. A variety may excell in one Inciility and fail in aiiothei- lo- I'ality. Probably no variety will excell in all localities. Ill seeking best varieties .me mii^t first determine what cdiar- ai-teristics attach to the biest varieties. This calls for a stand- ard of perfection. Standards \ary with the conceptions of in- ili\iduals and since no two in- dividuals are exactly alike, it follows that it is next to impos- sible to fix universal stainlards. We may approximate standards in a general way and thus attain a high degree of success. foi- an extended sear(di after stand- ard pecans we refer to page I'.C} of the Proceedings of the ninth annual session of the Farmers' ( 'ongress. Some of the most favored \;ir- ieties suited to Texas soils are San Saba, Texas Pndific, Mollis, Halbert, Gregg, Stuart, Success. Schley and Russell. Thei-e are many others not infericjr to these. For Season of 1908- 1909 Budded and Grafted Pecan UeGonte and Kieffer Pears liardy Oranges Plums, Persimmons. Figs ^'^ulbe^^ies, &c. A fuli fine of Oruamentaf ami Shade trees. Quantity and Qiiality. Corres- liondeuce solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Fla. Pecan Trees... That are Projierly Grown is My Speciaity... BUDUED and GRAFTED TREES of the Best Varie- ties for sale ■Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to growing and care of proves. J. B. Wig'Ht, oE^^^^S For <;rowiiiit Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Pr-ee •"lO per cent, reduction in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., - Thomasvillc, Ga. Monticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Oiler a choice lot of grafted pecan trees of the best varieties. Nice, tlirifty, stocky trees. None better. For prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. MONTICELLO, FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Xol the Most- Only the Best P o r D e s c r i p t i V e L i s t write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Nuts for Profit ^, , ?'^o«^le,t of lob page.s ; bO illustrations. Propagation, Cultivation, etc., of Nuts be.st adapted to the various sections. Interesting and instructive. /-";•/(-.■ hv mail. '2-', ,;-,i/s. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. THE NUT-GROWER 3 DECHTEL PECAN NUBSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size The nut that lias uever fail- ed to bear ami never failed to fill at both ends with kernel of best qiiality : : : Ocean Springs, : : Mississippi Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery ^ Season 1908-9 W Will lie jileased to hdok orders now for Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send f o r Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mississippi PECAN HilRSiillES ^.A.BEAR PROP. . PALATKA. FCA. Gainesville Nurseries Of Gainesville, Fla., Make a specialty of Bitdded aud Grafted Pecan trees of sitch stand- ard varieties as have a good record behind them. Our Catalogue will not only lielp in the selection of var- ieties Init will assist you in the plant- ing and culture; its free for the ask- ing. H.[S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Fla. A few persons are experiment- ing with a ci)llection of varieties for the purpose of finding those varieties best adapted to given localities. Many others should engage in this work. Our col- leges and experiment stations should join, and thus help to nuike Texas the leading nut pro- ducing state in all the world. SU^IMER TREATMENT OF NUT ORCHARDS By J. B. WIGHT. The first requisite in the treat- ment of the nut orchard is to give the trees thorough and reg- ular cultivation. Without this they cannot thrive. With this, if the land is of reasonable fer- tility, well established trees will at least make a fair growth. If the orchard has not yet reached the bearing stage, then the trees should be as carefully cultivated as is cotton or cabbages or pota- toes. To allow the weeds and grass to grow up about a pecan tree is almost or quite as injurious as it is about any other of the above crops. Furthermore, it is impor- tant to keep the ground well loosened about pecan trees, and as this cannot be done with a plow, then the narrow space about the tree that is not reach- ed by the plow should Ije kept cultivated and loosened up with a hoe. It is an advantage to an orch- ard to have well cultivated crops planted among the trees, provid- ed the planting is not allowed to come too near the trees. While small grain is injurious and should never be planted in a pe- can grove, yet corn may be plant- ed provided a sufficient space is maintained between the corn and the pecan trees. The roots of corn or cotton frequently run from 4 to 6 feet in all directions. For this reason it is not well to allow these crops to grow any nearer than this distance to a pe- can tree. Any crop that is grown in a pecan grove should be highly fertilized. If this is done the pecan trees will get their share of the fertilizer. Where special fertilizing is given to trees there is great danger of putting it too near the trees and so causing a congestion of roots in the soil close to the tree. Where orchards are older it is important to cultivate them well, but it is not so important to maintain a dust mulch about them as it is around younger trees. For a bearing grove, thereis nothing better than plant- ing some leguminous crop, such as peas, pinders or velvet beans. The precaution necessary to be observed in planting the latter crop ■ is not to allow the bean vines to take possession of the trees. The negro who can plow among pecan trees and never skin one has not yet been born ; at least he has not made his appearance in these parts. Great damage is frequently done by the l)ark being knocked from growing trees, and of course this should be avoided as far as possible. But when trees are skinned, the wound should be covered as soon as possible with a thin coat of paint. For this purpose I prefer ordinary white lead, slightly thinned down with oil, thcmgh any good paint having sufficient body will answer the purpose. Occasionally limbs are broken by the wind during the summer. Where this is done the wound should be carefully painted as above. Where trees are grow> ing rapidly limbs are occasional- ly broken off by heavy winds and storms. Wounds made in this way should receive the same at- tention as above. There are two reasons for this application of paint: first, the wound is pro- tected until nature has a chance of covering it with a new growth of bark; second, a convenient place for the deposit of eggs of injurious insects is protected. Caterpillars and worms in gen- eral should be looked after dur- ing the spring and summer. If this is properly done and at the right time, one person can look {('ontifijieci Oil Pit^c ■!.) THE NUT-GROWER ^hQ NUT-GROWER Published Monthly by B»c Nttt-Growrer Company Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Poulau, Ga. , under tlie Act of Congress of Marcli 3, 1879. Subscription 50c per Annum Advertising Rates ort. Appli- NOTICE When this paragrapli is marked it means that your subscription has ex- pired and that you are requested to re- new i)romptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if j'ou will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. JULY lOOS The old fable of money grow- ing on trees conies to mind as we hear of the dollars harvested annually from nut trees. One of the Mississippi nut nurserymen began business in the season of 1903-4 with budded and grafted trees only. His re- port show a steady growth with- out the aid of seedling trees. As late as June 1 a Texas hor- ticulturist was using budding wood which had been cut last February. Cold storage of the scions makes this practicable. At this date new wood is suffici- ently mature to furnish buds. Parks and pleasure grounds for city peojjle are receiving much public attention now. Nut nurserymen should be interested in this matter and should urge the planting of pecans and other nut trees on such grounds. They should be able to make a strong argument in their favor. A good way to learn the desir- able qualities of a pecan nut is to study the careful and elabor- ate descriptions of famous nuts, by enthusiastic admirers. Some Texas growers have great ability in describing Texas nuts. If other states have better nuts than the Texas varieties, they have not yet been exploited with the same skill. We have a subscriber in Texas who has no pecan trees or land on which to plant any. In re- newing his subscription he says, "If I ever get hold of an acre of land that will grow pecans I expect to plant it, even if I am 75 years old at the time. It will be a permanent contribu- tion to posterity and to the real wealth of the country." We liear much about diversi- fication in farming and its im- portance in general. This is something that touches the nut grower, as his farm operations during the early years of the or- chard, the cultivation of the land and the rotation of crops, so as to best maintain soil fertility, all demand attention. Then as the orchard attains age, its use for stock range, poultry raising or bee keeping offers side lines with indirect benefits to the orchard, as well as addition- al profits. Sam. H. James, the veteran Louisiana pecan orchardist, says, "I have been searching all my life for a pecan that would ripen early, that would bear heavily on young trees, that would bear heavily nearly every year, that was a vigorous grower, that was large enough to sell well on the market, the kernel of which would come out whole and be rich enough to suit the popular fancy." This is a good descrip- tion of the ideal commercial nut. Any nut fulfilling these condit- ions should be tested in all sec- tions of the pecan territory. In urging the planting of nut trees the promoter or nursery- man has a number of strings to pull, and when one of them fails to land a customer, one of the others may accomplish the pur- pose. There are few trees which furnish so many substantial rea sons for planting as do nut trees. In the first place they are profit- able for the crops they produce. Again they are unrivalled for shade and ornament and hund- reds of thousands of trees are planted each year for these pur- poses alone. Then the timber value of nut trees is so great that planting for this purpose only would be a good investment. If there is any other class of trees which can make as good a show- ing, we would be glad to hear about them. The question is sometimes asked, "What benefits do mem- bers of the National Nut Grow- ers' Association receive?" Brief- ly stated, those who actively co- operate are lienefitted socially and commercially. This embrac- es a great deal, but there are other rewards aside from any personal or selfish gain, viz., the public good, which is far reach- ing in benificient results. The present supporters of the Asso- ciation are pioneers in a new in- dustry which has great potential- ities now recognized by but few people. If viewed simply from the standpoint of personal inter- ests the members have much to gain, and, whether they care for the public interests or not, they are serving a public purpose as .well. All of this, however, is measured by the active interest in, and support of, the work in hand. We have a memoranda on our editorial desk which directs the publication of the names of those who secure new life or active members for the association. It will be recalled that the Ways and Means committee at the Norfolk meeting recommended that each member be urged to secure at least one new member. We regret to say that so few have yet reported that we have but little copy for the list. It is time to get busy, as this help is needed now. As far as we are able to determine, the mem- bership fees received recently came in a general way and not as the result of individual effort. A hundred new active member- ship fees or twenty additional life nxemliership fees would put THE NUT-GRO%VER ^^^ F^ra ^^ B^^^y BUCKBEB'S SEEDS S^'CCE^D I SPECIAL OFFER: ^Mnde to bntld Kew BunlnesM. A trial will ^ make you our permanent customer. Prize Coller.tlora f^'^h^nvaneuesM.et-^ — '■ ■• ■ ■■ '" "■■-■■ tuce, 1? kinds; Icmnl.'e*. 11 ibe finest ; Turnip. 7 splendi-'. ; Onion, 8 best varie- ltle8;i0 8prinB-aoweri.ig liuib*—(;5 varieties iD all. GCAKANTEED TO PLKA8E. Write tO'day; Aiention this Paper, I to cover poatege and peck irg and receive tbls valnable T collection of Seeds po»t;»ait!ess prove of surpassing interest to the large numbers from the cen- tral and western states, who will for tlie first time be in attend- ance. The official program is Ijeing carefully arranged and will em- brace subjects of vital import- ance, while the speakers will represent the greatest skill and ripest experience which the country affords. Many important busitiess mat- ters will come up from the var- ious special and standing com- mittees for consideration a n d action. New plans for perpetuating and extending the work will be discussed. Another feature of the pro- gram will be the reports from state vice-presidents and from auxiliary organizations, showing progress and achievements in the various sections of country. The place of meeting has at- tractions and historic associa- tions which, will warrant the al- lotment of considerable time for sightseeing excursions and social gatherings. Let it lie borne in mind tluit this convention is in the in- terest of general nut culture in all parts of the country, and al- though the pecan interests of the South may seem prominent, it but illustrates the potentialities of other sections and other nuts. The importance of this work is beyond computation. The achievements of the past few years, while wonderfully signifi- cant, are simply the initial steps in a new movement, fraught with the richest promises for the future. We invite the hearty co-oper- ation and liberal support of all who recognize in this organiza- tion a potent agency for public good. •T. r. Wilson, Secretary. Foul an, (la. SUMMER TREATMENT OF NOT ORCHARDS ( C out hilled from Page -i.) after several hundred acres of trees. Take, for example, the fall weliworm. A few clusters (rf these appear soon after growth begins in the spring. If these are removed, much trouble for the future will be saved. The worms in one cluster, if allowed to reach their maturity, go into the pupal stage, and soon are hatciied out mature moths, which lay the eggs for the second gen- eration of this pest. In this manner, the worms contained in one wel), if unmolested maj' pro- duce a hundred webs in the next generation. Keep these webs off as they appear and no serious damage will come from this source. The experienced orch- ardist needs no instructions as to how' to remove these. A more serious pest than this, at least one that is lial)le to do greater harm, is the borer. In my groves I am acquainted with only two forms of this insect. One of these resembles very much the "flathead" found un- der the bark in dead pine trees. In the pecan it is usually found working just under the l)ark and is most readily removed liy cut- 6 THE NUT-GROWER ting out witli a knife. The oth- er more nearly resembles the lx)rer found in tiie bodies and uoots of peach trees. In the pe- can they usually bore into the wood, and it is generally impos- sible to get at them to kill them in the ordinary way. Some rec- ommend running a small wire into the hole; but the trouble lies in the fact that the hole is often crooked and of unknown depth, and it is impossible, therefore, for one to know wheth- er or not he has killed the worm. A better, if not an easier way, is to inject with a common med- icine dropper a few drops of car- bon bisulphid into the liole, stop it up with wax and the work is done. It sometimes happens that the hole runs up, and conse- quently the bisulphid when in- jected runs out. In this case dip a snuill bit of cotton into the bisulphid, push it into the hole, stop up as before and your Ijorer will never trouble you further. Wounds made by the borers are best covered by paint. Orchard trees should be gone over at least every two or three months and searched for these borers. An intelligent person will soon learn how and where to find them. These are the essential points in the proper care of the nut or- chard during the growing season. As in every other business it is important to do the right thing at the proper time. KILLING PECAN TRF.EIS Editor Nut-Grower : I note in your April issue an article by G. M. Brown regard- ing the girdling of peean trees. For the benefit of all interested, I would like to give the following information in regard to the manner in which pecan trees can be killed immediately. Though I have never advoca- ted planting pecan trees close together and thinning them in later years, those who have done so and who now desire to cut out the surplus trees and kill the stump at once, can do so by of AU Kinds on (or thai riplive bi Depl You can have all llie boi net!'' by our plan Write beaulifull illuslrated and descriplive book. A Book tore in your home." Ii i free. Write today. We guarantee quality and value. Our prices the lowest. Write (or Catal 3g. h is free. The largest mail order Boole house in the world. 48 years in business. NG.29 THE FRANKLIN-TURNtR CO,, 65-71 Ivy 8t„ MlanU, Gi. following this method. Out the trees down in the spring, after they are in full foliage — don't wait too late — and on the stump pour a bit of kerosene oil or crude petroleum. Put enough on the stump to cover it completely. This will penetrate very deeply down into the wood and in nine times in ten the stump will lie completely killed. Now and then, generally when the job has not been done thor- oughly, a stump will put up a few sprouts. In that case trim off the sprouts and give a good dose of kerosene. For a perfect job, a small quantity of sulphur- ic acid in place of the kerosene will do the work. J. H. Girardeau, Jr. Monticello, P'la. A CORRECTION Editor Nut-Grower : In a back number of your jour- nal there appears a communica- tion from Mr. H. A. Halbert, in which he says, "There was a nuui named \V. L. Watkins," etc. Now, for fear some of my friends may think I am out of the business, I will ask you to correct this impression. 1 am still alive and nuire enthusiastic, and am making more experi- ments than ever before. For instance, the inquiries I made last year in The Nut- Grower and Earni and Ranch abcmt filberts have brought me several letters from Felix Gillet, of Nevada Oity, Oal., that I prize very highly. I succeeded in getting his four best varieties, all grown from layers. I also have the Europ- ean White and some I grew from seed, making six varieties in all. I have now out a))out 120() nut trees, as follows : 100 budded pecan trees of the Stuart, Hal- l)ert, Daisy, Frotscher, Morris, 7 O O O O ...GR.AFTED... P EC AN TREES ...FOR SALE... Grown witliout fortilization, lieuce hardy and stocky. Prtijiagated from our own bearing orchard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dec. 10, 1907. NURSERIES: Lafayette, La. Ocean Springs. Miss. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Miss. Lafayette Parish, La. St. Landry Parish, La. For particulars and illustrated litera- ture address Sovthern Nut Nursery Company LAFAYETTE. LA. AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Hartwell Murseries S. W. Peek, Prop'r. Hartwell, Ga. Established 1882. Send for Catalogue. Tor Sale ! Standard varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Ooutracts taken for toi)-workiug .seedling trees and car- ing for groves. Our groves contain ov- er 4)00 budded trees oif the best .standard varieties and is tlie oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrovc Pecan Nvrscrics J. p. Gill, Mgr. ALBANY, GA. San Saba, Texas Prolific, Suc- cess, James' Paper Shell pnd Moneymaker. I have also about 300 seedlings from the largest and finest soft shells I could buy and about 800 seedlings from or- dinary nuts that I expect to bud when about 4 years old. Then I have about 75 l)lack walnuts and 25 budded varieties of the Franquette and Mayette and some fine English seedlings. I have also about 250 filberts, 25 chestnuts, chinkapins and scaly- l)arks, and 25 almonds that may have some few nuts on this year. So you see that I am not dead yet. W, L. \V.\TKINS. Tyler, Tex. THE NUT-GROWER f MONTICELLO Nut Trees—Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan ^\^ P^'^^" °f 1 the ruture OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU TKe Nuit Nursery Company Monticelio, Fla. For uext season's plauting we will liave an extra large supply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trses We eau furuish a staudarri varieties — Sliiart, Vnn Demnn^ Schley, Frotsc/ter Pabsf, Moiiry Maker , Russell, I'oi/n^, Alley ^ IVelso?!, Hall. Bol/on. D.liiias and others. At- Mouticello we have soil and climate whicli are peouliarlj' r-dapted to the production of high grade peian trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky than we have seen elsewhere. Special prices on large shipments and Car Load Lots. I COR.RESPONDENCE SOLICITED---INSPECTION INVITED > zj^ .aaii&aj^ trj^r iiASiai-; PECAN and F^OSE NURSERY FOR SAI^E In Connection -ivitii & Delightful Home on. SacK Bayt BiloKi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of tiie South in summer and Nortlieru peojJe in winter. ■100 acres, more or less, v.ith a water front on Back Baj- of over one lialf mile. Over 50,0(;0 grafted pecan trees. Over ICO 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 Imddod roses for market of 1908 and of 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia graiuli flora, fig.s and Japan persimmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Niu-series Co., Biloxi. Miss., and is payiug good dividends. The company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsviile Wholesale Nui-series, Huntsvillc, Ala., and the onlj' rea.son for selling is tlie desire to concentrate all business at Huntsviile. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. Tliis property will admit of division into eight lot.s', four frcnting on the Eav. Addre.ss " VV. F. MBIKBS, Manager, HuntsviUe. Ala. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. son Acres in Pecans DcWitt This Coi:i/'aiiy makes (GO are f • " "'"il'lc in Test Orchard) ViCOrgia Specialty "of Pecans TX/E received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. T^ Convincing and valuable object lessons on all pliases of Pecan culture and propagation are to l^e seen in the Company's orcliards and nurseriesat DeWitt, Ga. A'isitors always welcome. ^Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with tirst-class trees — Wholesale and lictall. The Pe_ THE NUT-GROWER Volume VII Number 1 Poulan, Ga., August 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year NUT CULTURE IN THE PA CIFI C NOR TH WES T * By henry E. DOSCH. "If you can help your fellowmau, you must lielp your fellowmau. It is a duty, nay a divine privilege, to li;i;lifen the burden of our fellow laborers, by giving tliem the results of our best tlioughts and experience." Nut culture in the Pacific Northwest ha.s attained the dig- nity of a horticultural pursuit and we have successfully passed tlie experimental stage. It is most gratifying to aie to know that English, or more cor rectly speaking, French, walnut culture is receiving the attention it deserves, though it is over twenty yeaars since I first ex- perimented with walnut culture and introduced into the Pacific Northwest, tlie French varieties best adapted to our climatic and soil conditions. All the nut trees planted since in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia, even in Montana, Wyoming and Utah, many of which are now in full bearing, wore planted at my ear- nest solicitation, including the now famous walnut grove of Mr. Prince, near Dundee, the nu- cleus of whicli was planted by Mr. Zacli Davis, for wliicli pur- pose I visited, at his invitation, at his house and selected tlie lirst hundred trees for him, wiiicli came from California, l^eing grafted trees and costing $1.50 per tree. This grove lias now grown to one lunnh'ed acres. By persistent effort in keeping this matter before the horticul- turists, many groves iiave since been planted and those who iiave taken my advice in the be- ginning and planted on a com- mercial basis, are now reaping tlie benefit, as tlieir products *Read by title at the Norfolk meeting of tlie National Nut Growers' Associa- tion. command the highest price in tlie market, which I will explain later. Hence I am doubly grat- ified to know that my advice lias proven so satisfactory to the planters. True, we have as yet but half a dozen groves on a commercial basis, l)ut there are many small groves of from five to twenty acres. All of those which were planted on proper soils and of varieties adapted to our climate have proven revenue producers. Even the trees on my own soil, which is absolutely unfit for nut culture, being a heavy clay soil underlaid with six feet of liard- pan, have produced some very fine nuts. Wlien I first planted my own, in order to thoroughly satisfy myself as to the adaptability of our soils and various climatic conditions, I gave away several hundred yearling trees of my own growing. I sent them to friends in various parts of east- ern and western ( )regon and Washington, the coast ranges and Idaho, and the reports re- ceived have been most gratify- ing. I saw some of these trees eight years after planting which had grown to a height of 20 feet with a spreading top of 14 feet and measured seven inches in diameter four feet from the ground, where planted on good loose soil. Walnut trees usually go into bearing at five (jr six years; at 12 years are in full bearing. It is not a slow grower as is usually supposed. Three to four feet is not an uncommon growth in a season on good soils : besides it is a healthy tree, having few- pests to molest it and, once es- tablished, it lives to a good old age and proves profiitable to generation after generation witii ordinary good care. {Continued on Page -5.) CUT-OVER PINE LANDS In a recent issue reference was made to the utilizing of southern pine lands for pecan orchards as a factor in tlie forestry proljlems now under discussion. These lands, which are not only non- productive since the cutting of the mill timber, but which en- tail the cost of taxes, present an opportunity for cooperative work with practical nut growers, which when properly handled sliould prove of mutual profit as well as becoming a valuable ad- vertisement for the locality in which the operations are con- ducted. As a rule, these large tracts are being held for an en- hanced selling price as the de- mand for land for agricultural purposes increases. (.)ur purpose is to show how these lands can be brought into demand at remunerative figures, thus adding to the wealth of the owners, and at the same time subserve the public good in var- ious ways. The plan is a model of simplicity and can be operated on a capital consisting of mutual confidence ratiier than large amounts of easii resources. We have previously shown that the requisites for successful pecan growing are (1) suitable lands, (2) choice budded and grafted trees, (3) skillful plant- ing and care of orchards and (4) cash for labor and contingent expenses. The land is the first — and in this plan the essential feature. The mill men w'ho own these large tracts of idle, cut-over lands are the agency which can make this proposal operative, and do it easily, from a pecuniary standpoint, as it does not call upon them for additional invest- ments, but simply changes a non-productive holding into one which, under proper handling, becomes productive, with the indirect advantage of mailing otlier unproductive lands more saleable. The essential requirement on the part of these land owners is confidence in the integrity and ability of those nut growers wlio may undertake the development of such orchard propositions. To illustrate, say the owner of ten or twenty tliousand acres of these cut-over lands agrees to put a tenth of his holding, one or two thousand acres, into an orchard proposition, at its pres- ent valuation, provided other interested parties furnish the requisite skillful management and the additional c ■-) p i t a 1 needed to establish an orciuird of agreed area. This makes a a basis upon wiiich a company can be formed. The prospector who is looking for an orchard location recogniz- es the advantages of sucli an of- fer and joins his working capital and skill to the resources of the land owner. Together they en- list the cooperation of nursery- men who find it advantageous to invest their pecan trees in orch- ards. This strengthens the company so that the rest of the cash capital can lie oljtained from other parties who are look- ing for investments in this lii;e. Such an assem1)liiig of interests makes an active organization, capable of working ou , in due time, handsome prohts for all concerned, wliile tlie permanent character of the business and the increase in profits as the years go by, makes it of exceptional importance. The land owner simply takes some of his capital from one pocket and puts it into another, where it increases more rapidly in value. The active and skillful manag- er secures an opportunity to make his services of pecuniary value to himself and his associ- ates. The nurseryman who furnishes trees as a part of the capital is enaljled to perform the paradox- ical feat of eating his cake and yet keeping it. THE NUT-GROWER The cash investor is atl'firded a safe, protital)le and perma- nent opportunity for investing his money. Tiie writer has frequent oppor- tunities for influencing all the elements mentioned e.xcept land, and the great work of this publi- cation and the National Nut Growers' Association in showing the importance of the industry should make the proposition well worliiy of consideration liy all large land owners. It is not on- ly the direct prolits which should appeal to this class, but the great benefit which would result to every place in which such an enterprise is located tiirough the putdicity which would result from the planting of large orch- ards and the consequei.t de- mand for additional la ids for new plantings whicii u^ilarly follow the successful initial ef" fort. A National Aiple hhow will be held at ojxikane. Wash., De- cember 7 .11 12 inclusive. Li MBEU FUoil yCT Tl:i-:i:S Hickory lumber to tiie ex.eni of ■208,211, 000 feet was cut in the United S.ates in li/i)7. Uf this, the South cut 5S.i per cent, or 118,'224,0UU feet. Hickory was cut in every vSouthern state. Arkansas led tjie United States with ;j(l,4t:(5,()(l(» feet. Ohesa.ut luuilier to the extent of 658, 2;5y, ()(»() feet was cut in tiie United States in 1907. Of this tiie South cut 868,740,000 feet, or 56.4 per cent. Chestnut was cut in every Southern state except Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Walnut luinljer to the extent of 41,490,000 feet was cut in the United States in 1907. Of this the South cut 12,400,000 feet. Walnut was cut commercially in every Southern state except Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. For See^son q^ 1908- 1909 Budded end Grafted Pecan UeConte and Kieffer Pears Hardy Oranges Plums, Persimmons. Figs Mulberries, &c. A full liue of Ornamt'ut;:! ami Shade trees. Quantity aud Quality. Corres- poudence solicited. Arc£idia. Hii^rseries Monticello, Fla. Pecan Trees... Tlia! ;:i-e Properlj" Grown is My Specialty... BUDDED and GRAFTED TREES of tHe Best Varie- ties for s^le Write for prices of tree.s aud informa- tion as to gro^yiu<; and care of groves. J. B. Wi^Ht, ^^8kW^ For firowinir Pecans, K>cars, Peaches, etc.. at a p.olit — Ri-ee 50 per cent, reduftiou in jiriee of t.ees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., - Thcmasvillc, Ga. Some sections of the California walnut territory report the pre- Monticello Nurseries... Monticello, Fla. Oiler a choice lot of grafted pecan trees of the liest varieties. Nice, thrifty, stot'ky trees. None Ijetter. F"or prices address STANDARD PECAN CO. MONTICELLO. FLA. Grafted Pecan Trees OF SELECT PAPER SHELL VARIETIES Not the J/oiit— Oh 111 the Bext For D e s c r i ]) t i V e List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Nuts for Profit ^, , ^.^-'^^^^^.t 01 lo8 pages; bO illustrations. Propagation, Cultivation, etc., of Nuts be.st adapted to the various sections. Interesting aud instructive. Price b\ mail. S5 roifs. JOHN R. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 1.5, Orlando, Fla. THE NUT-GROWER 3 DECHTEL PECAN NUSSERIES "SUCCESS"— Natural Size sent crop to l)e ulxiiit 15 percent in excess cjf last year's yield. The mit that liiis iii>\er fail- ed to bear ami uever failed to fill at botli euds ^^ith kernel of best qualify : : : Ocean Springs, : : Mississippi Ocean Springs P e c a n Nurserv ^ Season 1908-9 W Will lie pleased to book orders now tor Grafted Pecans. No Seedlings. Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop. Ocean Springes, Jlississippi PECAN NURSERIES , . J.:^BEAK.i^Roi>. SCMO'^OItPmCC LIST Gainesville Nurseries Of Gainesville, Fla., Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecau trees of such stand- ard varieties as have a good record behind fliein. Our Catalogue will not only lielp in the selection of var- ieties bait will .assist you in the plant- ing and culture; its free for the ask- ing. • 4 H. S. Graves, Prop., Gainesville, Fla THE 1907 PnoCKKDl^GS It is a matter of regret that delay has been encountered in pul)lisliing the important and valuable Proi-eediiina of the Norfolk convention. The mem- bers of the Association as well tliose who have paid in advance for copies are entitled to know the cause of this delay and the attending circumstanc-es. The former volumes of Pro- c('('ilin(/i< entailed greater e.xpense than the resources of the Associa- tion would meet. At S.-ranton the advances made by several of- licers were liquidated and a ten- tative understanding that no debt s'.i ) ill ba c, ).iur.i,'._;ue 1 in the future was reached. Following out this wise pro- gram, the completiuu of the Scranton Proceed! iii/s was delay- ed until after the date ot the Norfolk convention. At that meeting the resources of the As- sociation V\'ei'e .-aieiu.ly i-onsid- ered by the committee on \Vays and ileans, aii'l recomiiienda- tions made for ealargi.ig Jie rev- enues. Tlie secretary-treasurer understood t horoughly the poli- cy of puldishing the Pro<;eedini/s promptly, but coupled witli that knowledge was the sentiment which forbade the contracting of del)ts. A heavy draft on the lUOT re- sources was necessary to com- plete the 1908 work. The esti- mated resources for the current year were approximately iflOU.UO. Each member was asked to ob- tain at least one application for membership during the current year, which would nearly double our receipts, and the secretary was allowed to enter new lields in soliciting advertisements. The preparatory work for pub- lishing the last convention re- port was promptly completed and half the printing accomplished early in May, when available funds were exhausted and by direction of the Executive com- mittee work wms stopped. In the meantime, diligent efforts were made to collect all accounts and dues from delinquent mem- bers, with only partial success. Enough remains unpaid to finish the Proceedings if it could be collected. Besides this, the anticipated increase in member- ship has materialized only to a very small extent. Finally, ow- ing to inability to fix a date for the publication of the volume, it has l)een impossible to ask for the advertising patronage con- templated, which, if as generous as formerly, would substantially assist the publication. It is simply a case of work delayed on account of inability to realize on our apparent resources. Our 190S dues are another as- set, not yet drawn upon. Chat- tanooga promises a large list of new nieml)ers at the approaching convention, and will care for sundry expense items which have previously been Iwrne by the Association. The advertise- ments in the convention B/idge Book will provide for otlier in- cidentals, so that the convention prospects are in no way compro- mised by the delay in publish- ing the Proceedijii/s, except that we lose the interest it would ex- cite if in the hands of the pub- lic several weeks prior to the convention date. W h i 1 e a conservative and strictly cash policy is the ideal plan for any business, still the National Nut Growers' Asso- ciation is not a commercial en- terprise, per se, but really a pult- lic utility, in which the public in general and members in par- ticular are the beneficiaries. Doubtless the next convention will be specific in providing for subsequent work. There is a great future for this industry. Our association is re- sponsible to the public for its skillful and aggressive direction. It costs money to carry on the work and our membership is the only regular dependance. When that fails, the work is delayed. J. F. WiLSOx, Secretary. Poulan, Ga. T/ie Nut-Grower 3 ijeara for $1 THE NUT-GRO^VER 75hQ NUT-GROWER PublisHed M ontHlx by S6e Nut-Grower Company Entered as secoud-class matter at tlie Postoffice at Poulau, Ga. . under tlie Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription 50c per Annum A sprout. Tiiat is, they throw up two sprouts from the pointed end of the nut. One of these sprouts turns down over the nut and forms the taproot and the otlier continues upward and forms the tree. Now remove them very carefully, as these sprouts are very brittle and easily broken, which would make the plant tsorthless. Plant them either where you wish the trees to grow (by far the l)est way) fifty feet apart, or in nursery rows about five inches deep and trans- plant the following spring. The young trees should be allowed to grow straight up, cutting away all the side branches every year till the tree has reached a height of six feet, when it should be allowed to branch out; but under no circumstances should the main stem be cut off. The ground between the trees, until they come into full bearing, can be utilized for berries, peach- es or vegetables, but no potatoes, grain or grass should be grown. At harvest time the nuts fall to the ground as soon as the hull bursts, which it does when the nuts are ripe, and can be picked up easily, and must be picked up promptly, as squirrels are very fond of them. They should then be cured, either in the sun or by being subjected to a gentle heat in an evaporator or oven, to prevent mildew or their becom- ing rancid. Sulphuring is prac- ticed to some extent to supply the demand for bleached nuts — a most pernicious method. This treatment, while improving the color, proves decidedly injurious to the flavor of the nuts and less- ens the keeping qualities. At the California Experiment Station, experiments with bleaching solutions have been carried on and it is reported very satisfactory results have been obtained with a mixture of sal soda, chloride of lime and water. However, it must be borne in mind that the bleaching of nuts is entirely unnecessary and adtis absolutely nothing to their food value. This process is simply carried on to improve the ap- pearance of the nut and will probably be carried on so long as people buy by the eye ; but I say to you, don't do it, unless the customer to whom you sell the nuts demands it ami prefeis spoiled to clean, healthy, wl.oU- some and toothsome nuts. In the beginning of this paper I promised to explain why wal nuts grown in the Pacific Nortl - west commanded a higher figure in the eastern markets than the California product, and w ill in a measure allay the appreliensioi; expressed in some cjuarters that we cannot compete with Califor- nia in this particular industry, and pi'ove that we are not in the same class. The output of Mr. Prince's walnut ^rove of one hundred acres was sold to a New York grocer who makes a specialty of supplying the retail grocers throughout the United States who handle only the finest and costliest brands. This grocer states that the Southern Califor- nia walnuts do not come up to the requirements of his trade, but that he believes the Oregon nuts will, as they areof the same varieties and similar in quality to the nuts he imports from Europe (i'ranquette, Mayette, Parisienne and Chaberte) for his trade; in fact, they are better flavored and more nutty than the s o u t h e r n California product. Hence, as said bef(n'e, we are not in the same class. What is here said of the Oregon walnut is equally true of all French wal- nuts grown in the Pacific North- west. 1 have experimented consider- ably with various fruit trees on fhe Stringfellow method of root pruning when planting, that is, the cutting away all roots except a few stumps about three inches long, and obtained marvellous results. The grand root system tiiese trees developed led me to try it on walnut trees especially t() settle the controversy whether it is injurious to cut off the tap root or whether it must be left intact when planting. For this BULBS BtCKBLn'S BULL J C'JCCL Ala-e to build New Business. A^ / ti'li-i will mr!_ • you a per:!i:;;!'-ent cu.-^- ', , tcn-cT. Sathf, I tiou guaranteed or your money refunded. ' Souvenir CoUectioiiL"''°',',°,.",t'':-:,'^l:L ' Ibo roi;^rt-iii„' iit.iiUr'uVcc-ti;"'arupe llya'.'iuth, Feather Hja- clnth, Sprlnj Snowflake, Ixiit, Spanish IrU, SciUiH. Sparmls, f Ranunculus. Snowdrop, Croons, Chionodoia, Anemoue, Daflbdkl, Pocla Eve N-rct-'ua, DAiirin Tulip, Parrot Tulip, Variegated 1 F^ili:ilte Tulip. Oi-i is, French, Kom^ia and Dutch iljaointha, larW und iBt ;. Tu'i-o'. f to , ■ ■ -. G-t'ARAAT^ED TO PLEASE I Write to-day M 'Jttlon_ thisj^aper \ I to cover poatape and pn<.':;'i3 ft ni recfjvo this valuaMe collpctloD ..f Bulbs Pos;piid, to;, bcr wi;b nij big Tllualratol, laatrut-iive, Lo^utifulSecO, Bulb Mil Plant Book. Telia all about tho Beat J iricties of Sei 1?. Bul'.s and Plaala. L In Commein oration of a conlinnoas, saccessful busin^es . since 1 71, I nil present freoof ohareo with this Collect ioii 1 ' I Babjloa'-nHor'*'-'! TuHp Bulb. Tlic gn-aicit fi oral wonder , V of the age. This Bulb alone la worth a quarter. II m n IL 1196 BUCEBEE ST. ^H. W. Buckbee kockford. ill. 5000 Grafted Pecan Trees Tliese trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my fjrnve. VAN DEMAN, STUART. COLUMBIAN... and a dozen other choice varieties. Pe- can Nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston.. S. C. No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFPING'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecans. A.lso a complete line of Fruit and Orna- mental Trees and Slirubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. THE NUT-GRO>VER Worth County (Georgia) Fair Sylvester, Ga., September 24-30, 1 908 Tliis Fuir offers an exceptional opportun- ity for seeing the varied products of Wire- grass Georgia and to meet the practical farmers and business men who have brought the county into deserved promin- ence. Worth county lands are not only suited to farming and stock-raising, but are ex- cellently adapted for pecan culture as well. Some of the largest nut orchards in the state are in adjoining counties. Call on or Write to our Bureau of Information J. A. Kitchen, Gen. Mgr of All Kinds on GR You can have all the books you e.i by our plan. Write for ih. beaulifully illuiitralcd and dcscriplivc book 'A Book ''tore in your home." h free. Wnlc today. We guarantee quality and Our prices ihe lowcsl. Write lor Catal -g larijesl mail order Book house in ihe world. 48 years DepL NG.29 IHt FriANKLlN-TURNcK CO., 65-71 Ivy St., Atlanta, Ga 7 ...GRAFTED... PSCAN TRKES ...FOR SALE... Grc'-\vii -svitliout fertilizaticu, hence liaiTlv anil stocky. Proiiagated from our own bearing orcliard and true to name. Ready for delivery after Dee. 10. 1907. NURSERIES: Lafayette, La. Ocean Springs, Mies. PECANS EXCLUSIVELY PECAN ORCHARDS: Jackson County, Mis?. Lafayette Parish. La. St. Landry Parish, La. For particulars and illustrated litoia- ture address Southern Nul Nursery Company LAFAYETTE, LA. AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. Harlwell INurseries S. W. Peek, I'rop'r. Hautwell, Ga. Estalilislied 1882. Send for Catalogue, Tor Sole ! Standard varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Muts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top-workiug seedling trees and car- ing for groves. Our groves contain ov- er 4 JOO budded trees of the best standard varieties and is tlie oldest bnclded grove in Georgia. Gillgrovc Pecan Nurseries J. p. Gill, Mgr. ALBANY, GA. FOR SALE— Four shares stock in The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co. Add: ess Lock Box 60, Maxeys, Ga. The Soulhem Farm Journal A Monthly, Illustralcd Agricvltural and Family Paper Devoted to every interest of the man and ^^onlan in the country. On the Farmers' side of the fence always. Clean, conservative, up-to-date and re- liable. An aid to the Farm, Garden and Orchard. Suited to Southern con- ditions. Send for sample copy, club rates and terms to agents. SOUTHERN FARi^ JOURNAL CHATTANOOGA, TENN, ptirpose I used yearling seedlings and grafted varieties from Mr. Felix Gillette, Nevada City, Gal. I cut away all the roots except tlie stumps to scarcely three in- ches, and planted them as you would a stick — simply stuck them into the ground the proper depth. I had great faith in the Stringfellow method, but hardly enough to hope for good results on walnut trees especially on my poor, heavy clay soil. For the first six years these trees managed to maintain them- selves and even made some growth, about three inches each year, but for the past two years these trees grew from four to five feet and a number of them produced most beautiful nuts. They not only grew new taproots but developed a marvellous lat- eral root system, to which latter fact I attribute the growth, as ordinarily walnut trees have very few lateral roots. In nut culture of all kinds, but more especially with wal- nuts, three things are most es- sential, and it is difficult to say which is most important. They are soil, generation and variety. Nut trees of all kinds do well on most soils, even rocky ground, except, as stated above, heavy, stiff clay soils, but do best in fairly rich soil, as they are gross feeders,' but there must be no "hardpan." The subsoil must be loose and open, so the taproot can grow as far down as it de- sires, for as soon as it strikes hardpan the tree stops growing, and of course this lessens tlie nut crop, as nut trees make few lateral roots. In fact, it is sui- cidal to plant nut trees on very heavy stiff clay soils, or on soils underlaid with hardpan. This applies particularly to walnuts. However, if the hardpan is a thin strata with loose soil or gravel underneath, it may be successfully dynamited and bro- ken up. ( To Be Coiitinuid.) A CORRECTION Editor Nut-Gkower: On looking over the June copy of The Nut-Gkower, I find that you credited me with the state- ment that "the production of nuts would not be overdone un- til the annual crop amounted to 30,000 carloads." I am very sor- ry to note that you misquoted me, as I did not make this state- ment. The statement which I made was "that at the time of the freeze in Florida, it was said that the orange industry^ was likely to be overdone. At that time, Florida was shipping be- tween five and six million box- es, and California half the am- 8 ount. Since thut time the Cal- ifornia product had increased to 30,00(1 cars, and yet tlie citrus industry was not overdone." But I did not state tiiat the pe- can industry would stand an output of 30,000 carloads. Kind- ly make correction. H. Harold Humk. Glen St. Mary, Fla. THE NUT-GROWER THE 190S CONVENTION The time is now approaching for the annual meeting of the National Nut Growers' Associa- tion, and it becomes necessary to think ahead and plan and pre- pare for the meeting. It is very much desired that a good exhibit be shown at the meeting, and members are urged to bring specimens, well prepar- ed and in sufiRcient quantities to make the exhibition a good one. It might be well also to suggest that they be shown in jars that can be sealed to pre- vent handling. This should be the most im- portant meeting of the Associa- tion yet held. The industry is growing rapidly, and prominent men are now deeply interested in it. There are many import- ant topics to V)e considered and the best informed men in nut culture will discuss them. Each old member should at- tend and bring a new member for the Association. There is a large amount of dues yet un- paid that should be attended to at once, in order that the affairs of the Association may be kept in a good condition. Hence the need of a stable support will be apparent. The pul)lication of our Pro- ceedinr/s depends upon the mem- bership fees. There has not been sufficient funds to issue the 1907 Proceed lugs as yet. Let us come forward with the dues and publish them in time for the 1908 meeting The place of next meeting is very convenient, easy of access and in connection with this meet- ing many points of historical in- terest may be visited. Everyone interested in nut growing should attend the Ohat- anooga meeting. Come and help to make it a great success. F. H. BuRXETTE, President. C^UMMIT ^7 CHOICE ^ NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO URSERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors f/jt^^^fj^gf: FLORIDA Nut Trees-Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan ^^^ P^"" °f -. z. the ruture e OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU t^* I I THe Nut Nursery Company | Monticello, Fla. For uext season's plautiug we will liave au extra large supply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can furnisli a standard varieties — Stiuirl, Win Dcnian, S'hlcv. Frotscker Pabsf, Moiiry Mttker. Riissrl/. Toiutg. Alley, Xrlson, Ilitll. Bolton, Drlmas and others. At Monticello we liave soil and climate which are peculiarly adapted to tiie ]iroduction of high grade pecan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky than we liave seen elsewliere. Special prices oi) large slii]inients and Car Load Lots. COR.RESPONDENCE SOLICITED-.-INSPECTlON INVITED PECAN and ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Coxit^ectioi\ ^vitH a Deli^Ktful Home on JBacK Bay, Biloxi, Miss. Bilo.xi is a noted liealth resort, patronized by city people and planters of tlie South in summer and Northern jieople in winter. 40 ) acres, more or less, witli a water front on Back Bay of over one half mile. Over 5>1,(!00 grafted pecan trees. Over 100 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition fom the view- point of tiie parents, at tlie end of twenty years they can see an abundant reward in the attach- ment to home, in revenues suffi- cient to clothe and educate the child, and still have a property producing a regular annuity for years and years. This is no cas- tle in the air, provided, of course, that the trees are properly plant- ed and cared for. If one acre will do so much, why not put out an acre a year for five years? If anyone has a better plan for giv- ing their children more health- ful pleasure and a more perma- nent and regular support, we would be glad to learn what it is. Some time ago we were advis- ed by the owner of large real es- tate interests that the land where we are planting pecan was too valuable for that purpose, his argument being tliat cheap- er, less fertile soil, ten or twelve miles from the railroad, was the place to plant them. While we were willing to admit that they could be grown on cheaper land and that on account of nuts be- ing a concentrated product they could be hauled for miles to the railroad at small expense, still we pressed the inquiry as to what better-paying agricultural purpose the land could be put. A^arious crops were mentioned, but it finally settled down to an argument between pecans and cantaloupes. On the theory that on such land, located directly on the railroad, with a favorable season and good market condit- ions, a net profit of !?] 00 an acre is possible, we asked how long the land would stand the drain without rotation, of crops or rest. Two or three years was regarded as the limit for continuous crop- ping for cantaloupes. We con- ceded all that could be claimed for the melons and then sug- gested that they could be grown around young pecan trees for two years witlu)ut serious detri- ment to either, and that in a few years more the nub crop for an indefinitely long period might annually be worth all and more than all that the melons could yield for a short time only un der the most favorable circum- stances. We mention this inci- dent to impress the point that no agricultural lands are too val- uable for growing the pecan, and since the land is to be perma- nently used, the luore eligible the location the better adapted it is for tliis purpose. The Georgia peach growers have troubles of their own, and the past season with its large crop failed to make them a reas- onable profit. However, they have made an immense contribu- tion to the revenues of the com- mission men, railroads, express and refrigerator c o in p a a i e s, crate manufacturers, as well as to the orchard laliorers. In one case it worked out about as fol- lows on a single car which was sold in New York at 70 cents a crate : Freight, $167.75, refriger- BUUBEE'S ScBDS SUCCEED i ■>i^ SPECIAL OFTER: M»de to bnlld New Rnslnfaii. A trial will ' mate you our permaneat customer. Prire rntleCfion "iull>k. 17TP.rielle8:l.l■t- !-L!iiJ^SlilSkkiJi!l luef. 12 kinds; To.i.nt..c.. 11 the finest ; Tomlp. 7 eplendid ; Onion, 8 best varie- ties: 10 Bprlnff-flowerlng Itulbi— ti5 varieties in all. 6CAKANTEEB TO PI.tASE. Write to-day; Mention this Paper. SEND 10 CEm s to cover poBtago and pcckini; and receive tills Tcliir.ble collection of Seeds po!>tr)a'd, together with my biu Inatructive, Beoatlfui Seed ond Plant liool;, tetls all Ebout the jJesl "* arietles of Seeds, PIi_iitPi etc. ll'.ii, BUCKBEi: STREET EOOK/CRD. ILL. ,H.W. Buckbes, FOR SALE! 5000 Grafted Pecan Tre e s Tlie.se tree.s are grafted from the Le.st bearing- tree.s in my grove. VAN DEMAN, STUAR.T, COLUMBIAN... and a dozen otlier ciioice varieties. Pe- can Niit.s for sale in season. Ajiply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, CHarlestor\» S. C No Farm is Complete Without a Grove of BUDDED PECAN TREES They are Safe Sure and Profitable GRIFFrNG'S CATALOGUE TELLS ABOUT THEM Twenty leading varieties of Pecans. \l,so a complete line of Fruit and Orua- meutal Trees and Shrubbery. Catalog free. Address The Griffing Bros. Company JACKSONVILLE, FLA. THE NUT-GROW^ER ation, $(50.50; couiiiiissidii, $;38.50. These items aggregated $8.25 more tl:aii the amount received I'or tiie car, which difference the shipper had to make good. He was also out tlie cost of tlie crates, labor of gathering, packing, load- ing the car, iiesides losing the peaches, which had cost him la- bor and fertilizer to produce. Back of all this is liis orchard in- vestment, use of land, interest, taxes and incidental expenses. From tiie view-point of tiie com- mission man, the railroad and refrigeration companies, peach growing is a safe and profitable business. But, strange as it may seem, the grower regards it from a dilferent standpoint. He makes the investment, produces the crop, gathers and crates it, loads the curs at his own expense, and then assumes all market risks, which proved rather ex- tensive the past season. From our viewpoint it seems that the commission men, railroads and refrigerator companies have so nearly strangled the goose that lays the golden egg, that the lack of a proper system for distribu- ting shipments is about the on- ly thing else necessary to put the finishing touches to that fowl. Some of these peach gi-owers may not feel able to continue their work under existing circumstan- ces. To such we would com- mend pecan culture as being free from several of the expensive features attending the market- ing of the peach. First of all, the crop does not have to be rushed to market. Second, the refrigerating expense is cut out entirely. Third, there is but little expense in preparing the nuts for shipment. Fourth, nuts are a concentrated product and a carlot shipment will command about ten times as much money as one of peaches. If our peach orchards were planted in good varieties of budded and grafted pecans and the owners would stick to growing corn and cotton on the same lands for four or five years, a different and more hope- ful prospect will materialize, be- cause the market for choice pe- cans cannot be glutted for the next twenty-five years. CON VENTION PROGRAM Among the subjects on the program of the 1908 convention of the National Nut Growers' As sociation are the following: "Nut Dietetics." "A Plea for less Exaggeration in the Pecan Business." "The Industry from the View- point of the Nurseryman." "Insects, and How to Control Them." "Review of the Nut Markets." "Pecan Investments." "Nut Propagation." "More about the Hickory." "Chestnut Culture." "The Walnut." "Marketing Nut Products." The practical features of culti- vation and fertilizing will receive a fair share of attention. An experience meeting of the pio- neers of the industry w'ill be a unique feature of the meeting. The list of speakers embraces a number of distinguished horti- cultural authorities, among them l)eing : Dr. Kobt. T. Morris, New York. W. A. Taylor, Washington, D. C. H. Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla. W.F.Heikes, Huntsville, Ala. H. E. Van Deman, Washing- ton, D. C. J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga. Sam. H. James, Mound, La. H. C, White, DeWitt, Ga. Various reports will bring out a vast amount of interesting mat- ter. Sam. H. James says: I use three methods in harvesting my pecans. 1. When the nuts are still green and just open, I send a man up the tree with a long pole and he thrashes them and I have little negroes to pick them up. This always injures the tree more or less, and I only do it when prices are very high or for spec- ial occasions. 2. I wait until the nuts get 6 gry and then my mun goes up the tree and shakes them. This does no injury. 3. Place a woven wire fence around the grove and let the winds of heaven and the law of gravitation bring them down. THE NUT-GRO^VER NOT CULTURE IN THE PA CIFIC NOR TH WES T (Continued from Pai^^c 1.) pounds. Southern Oregon also produces a large crop, but 1 liave been unable to secure authentic figures. I have experimented with the soft-shell varieties, such as the Princess, Nonpariel, IXL and others, but find the same trouble as with the finer French varieties of chestnuts. While they bloom profusely, there is no pollination. But there is one variety perfect- ly adapted to our climate, the Grosse Tendre, or improved Languedoc, a strong hardy tree, a profuse bloomer and al)undant bearer every year. The nuts are extremely large and of excellent flavor, while the sliell is thin enough to be readily crushed by the hand. FILBERTS Filberts are especially adapted to our soils and climate as they are first cousins to the hazelnut, which grows wild and so abund- ant all over the Northwest. The best varieties are the Barcelona, similar to the old English cob- nut, only larger and finer flavor- ed, the red or white Aveline and the Du Ohallu, rapid growers and prolific bearers. Filberts are propagated by layering, tliat is, branches are bent down and pin- ned to the ground. At intervals they are covered with dirt, where they root, after which they are cut and planted. PECANS This beautiful and toothsome nut has not received the atten- tion it deserves. With me the trees have grown nicely, but have not yet fruited, wiiich I at- tribute to the inadaptability of my soil ail l);j,ii),i. Pecans delight in moist soils, preferab- Iv l)ottom lands which are sub- MONTICELLO FLORIDA Nut Trees—Satsuma Oranges-Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan '^'?^ P^^^" °^ !l the ruture OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU ^»^^»^M»*.»»^V« N^M^a <»^^f>n%yV^ THe Nut Nursery Company Monticello, Fla. For next season's planting we will have an extra large supply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can furnish a standard varieties — S/iiart, I'an Dcmnn, Sr/i/ev. Froisclier Piihsl, Money Maker ^ R>issell, Toung, Alley, Nelson, Hall. Bolton, Delmas and Others. At Monticello we have soil and climate which are peculiarly adapted to the production of high grade pecan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky than we have seen eLsewhere. Special prices on large sliipiuents and Car Load Lots. COR.R£SPONDENCE SOLICITED INSPECTION INVITED •«■« PECAN and R.OSE NURSERY FOR. SALE In Connection writh a Deli^Htful Home on BacK Baj*, Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted liealtli resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or le.ss, with a water front on Back Bay of over one half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over lt,0 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 budded roses for market of 1908 and of 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandijiora, figs and Japan persimmons. This property belongs to the Heikcs-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends. The comjiany has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsviile Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and tlie only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all busine.ss at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bajs on the Gulf Coast. Tliis is an unusual opixjrtunity of combining pleasure and business. Tliis property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on tlie Bay. Address W. F. HEIKES, Manager, nuntsville. Ala. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. SOO Acres in Pecan (60 are in Test Orchard) f^^TVJ** Tit is Com pan V makes r^ • " single (jeorgia specialty of Pecans VI/'E received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees "~ which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. T Convincing and valuable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseriesat DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. ^ Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with first-class trees — Wholesale and Retail. The Pecan Tree: How to Plant It, How to Grow It, How to ui/ It, (third edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Nut-Growkr when writing. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. THE NUT-GRO^VER Worth County (Georgia) Fair Sylvester, Ga., September 24-30, 1 908 This Fair offers an exceptional opportun- ity for seeing tlie varied products of Wire- grass Georgia and to meet the practical farmers and business men \vlio luive brought the county into deserved promin- ence. Worth county lands are not only suited to farming and stock-raising, but are ex- cellently adapted for pecan culture as well. Some of the largest nut orchards iii the state are in adjnining counties. Call on or Write to our Bureau of Information J. A. Kitchen, Gen. Mgr. of All Kiniis on JtftJl. i caQ hcve all ihe books yoi bv our plan Wnle for tbat ' beautiful! illuslreled and descriptive book. A Itooic tore in your home." It ii tree. Write today. We guarantee qualtly and value. Our i-r, CCS ihc lowest. VK'rite for C.ltal 7g. It is free. Tbe iarncsl mail order Bo,.k bouse in tbe world. 48 years in business. NG.29 IHt FKANKLIN-TUKNlK UO,, 65-71 Ivy St„ Atlanta, Ga SEEDS Buckbee's "Full of Life" Northern Gro\vn Pedigreed Seeds have a reputatioti of 3S years of successful seed growing behind them. It pays to plant the best. Seasonable Specialties: — BEAISS Earliest Red Valentine . . $3.50 Bushel Refugee — Extra Early . . $3.25 Bushel New Stringless Green Pod . $3.70 Bushel Wardwell's Imp. Kidney Wax l4-50 Bushel Davis New White Wax . . ^.75 Bushel Currie's Rust Proof Wax . $4.-50 Bushel PEAS Extra Early Alaska . . . $3.50 Bushel New Early Gradus .... $5 50 Bushel Horsford's Market Garden . ^3.50 Bushel Buckbee*s Lightning Express $5.00 Bushel Lettuce. Radish. Tomato and a full line of Seeds, Plants and Bulbs at lowest growing prices. Send for complete catalogue or submit a list of your requiremt-nts and will quote prices. Buy direct from the grower — Save Money. Write todav. Mention this paper. H. W. BUCKBEE IIU6 Buckbee St., Rockford Seed Farms, Rockford, III. FOR SALE— Four share.s stock iu Tlie G. M. Bacou PecHii Co. Address Lock Box 60, Maseys, Ga. The Southern Farm A Monthly, lliustralcd Agricultvra! emd Family Paper Devoted to every interest of the uiau and wouiau iu the coiiutry. Ou the Farmers' side of the fence always. Clean, enii.ser^ative, up-to-date aud re- liaWe. .\u aid to the Farm, Garden and Orcliard. Suited to Southern con- ditions. Send for sample copy, dub rates and terms to 'agents. P E O /\ M @ SOUTHEaN FARM JOURNAL AND NOTHING BUT PE- CANS. BEST VARIETIES. liartwell INurseries S. W. Peek, Hmp'r. Hartwell. Ga. Established 1882. Send for Catalogue. Tor Solo ! Standard varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and l*^uts ALso Biiddiug and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contraeis taLen for top-working seedling trees a,nd car- ing for groves. Our groves contain ov- er 4')00 budded trees of the be.st standard vjirieties and is tlie oldest liuddeil grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. Gill, Mgr. ALBANY, GA CHATTANOOGA, TENN. ject to (u-erflow, but I question whether the large, fine varieties of tlie Southland will fruit with us. I iiave no doubt, however, that the ordinary pecan as rais- ed in Illinois and Missouri will do well in the Nortnwest, for which purpose any good-sized pecan purchased at stores can Ije used. They are certainly worth a trial. Butternuts, black walnuts and hickory nuts grow nicely and hear fruit but have not much i onunercial value. In conclusion, allow me again to cflution you in your selection of either trees or 'Hu'ts. 'Ddn't take a dealers assertion for grant- ed unless you knThv him 'to be perfectly honest and relia1)le. Be sure you are right in your selection and then go ahead, and if you have secured the proper variety and generation and have selected the correct soil for planting, y«iu will never regret it. .a,-i Notwithstanding that I liave repeatedly stated that I have neither nuts nor trees for sale, I still continue to receive many letters asking me to quote prices. My experiments in nut culture are, and have been, partly for my own pleasure aud partly for the benefit of those wiio are in- terested or who desire to i)]ant and own a good nut grove. ( Y>T r/.W T/ON HE A D- Q CA R TERS Headquarters for the 1908 con- vention of the National Nut Growers' Association will be at Hotel Patten. The meetings will be held in the convention hall of the same hotel. The rates at this hostelry are $1.50 per day and upward, European plan. BOOKH AND CATALOGS Quincy Spray Mixture Co., of Quiucy, m., issue a 20-page illustrated catalog and price list which contains much use- ful information. What Forestry has Donc^ is the sub- ject treated of in Circular No. 140 of the Forest Service. It is a 32-page pamjihlet by Treadwell Cleveland, sum- marizing results obtained iu various for- eign countries. Eighteenth Aininal Ifefort of the Cal- ifornia State Board of Trade. Gives reliable and specific information as to the gerat resources aud possibilities of tlie state. Free to all applicants. State Board of Trade, San Francisco, Cal. Pecans as an /nvestment, is the title of a 4-page leaflet b}- J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga. It is issued iu answer to repeated recpiests for information as to the desir- abilitj' of this nut for investments. It also embraces some opinions by several well known growers ou the esti.uates utfered. THE NUT-GROWER Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees for Sale We have a complete assortment of tlie best varieties of pe- cans. We have two large nurseries devoted exclusively to the propagation of the pecan. Our Ocean Springs nursery is on sandy land and is one of the oldest in the country. Thousands of liearing pecan trees throughout the pecan belt came from our Ocean Springs nursery and show that our trees are, what we have always claimed for them, true to name and the best that can be produced. Our Lafayette, La., nursery is located on the Bayou Vermillion and is on strong land. Our nursery stock is propagated from our own bearing orchards. We have over three square miles of grafted and budded pecan orchard, from that planted last winter to that in bearing. Expect to plant one thousand acres this winter. No order for pecan trees is too small but what it will receive prompt and careful attention. Our prices, considering quality of trees, are right, whether wholesale or retail. Our pamphlet on "The Pecan Tree and Its Culture" is free for the asking. We will Plant Pecan Trees for Customers Anywhere in the pecan belt, where the acreage is suf- ficiently large, we will plant pecan trees, and if insurance is required, will guarantee them to live. If you have land you wish planted to pecan orchard and do not wish to do it your- self, write us at once fully what you desire an 1 we will go in- to full details with you. Promoters, Real Estate Dealers, Orchard Salesmen If you intend to deal in pecan orchards, sell them to small investors or syndicate them, but do not wish personally to en- gage directly in operative pecan orchard culture, you should at once write us in full your needs. We are prepared to furn- ish the pecan trees, plant them aul insure them to live and furnish managers to take care of your pecan orchards for one year, or for a series of years. We prefer to have you furnish your own land ; however, if necessary, we will secure first- class pecan land for y(ju. Address T*^- SOUTHERN NUT NURSERY COMPANY E. M. TREAKLE, General Manager LAFAYETTE, LA. Ivlassaci . ollege. the: nut-growbr Volume VU Number 3 Poulan, Ga., October 1908 5c per Copy 50c per Year FARM FORESTRY Tlie prodigal use and wanton destruction of our natural forest resources has ])een soing on for several generations at such a rate that tlie penalty wliich na- ture imposes for violation of her laws is now being felt in various ways with increasing severity as the years go by. As a nation, we are now using annually forest 23roducts to tlie extent of three times the yearly growth, with only about twenty years' supply left. The alternating of disastrous drouths and destructive floods are attrilmted, in part at least, to the changed climatic <'oiuli- tions resulting from diminished forest areas. During the past ten years we have ))egun to rec- ognize the gravity of the situa- ation and measures are being or- ganized for counteracting the waste and destruction with the incidental damages now evident and sure to increase if preventa- tive measures are not provided. The United States Department of Agriculture has an active For- estry Bureau. Various states — Georgia being one of them — have forestry organizations and schools with skilled foresters at work. These agencies are form- ed for the public good and are available for the assistance of individuals in various ways. There are now over four hundred technically trained foresters in the country where there were only a dozen ten years agf). The pi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper sliell pecaus and wlierc ten or twelve of the best know n varieties now being jiropagated by nurserymen ^^ ere originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of tlie finest pecan laud in tlie South. I have a very .special bargain in a forty-acre grovel Sat suma orange trees between tlie pecans) whicli includes 31), (.03 stocks for the coming .reason's grafting, a splendid opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad and a half mile fiMiit on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend tiie i)lanting of groves any wliere in South Jlississipin and Alaliama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between jecanswlien desired. Young grafted trees, grafting W(.od and fancy and commercial nuts in any quantity. Thanksgiving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attcniion. All graft- ing wood and trees grown from bear- ing trees in my own groves, lience al)SO- lutely true to name. No gue-?s-work — you get exactly wliat you Older. Pecaus tliis season especially fine. Send your (irdcrs early. FH f Plx7f^ Scrar\tor\, JacKson • "• L.l'VftJ Cotanty. Miss. r Sole ! Standard varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Muts Also fiuddiug and Graf ling W(.;od from bearing trees. Ccntracls lal.en for top-Working seedling trees and car- ing for groves. Our groves contain ov- er 400!) budded trees of the best standard varieties ai.d is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gill^rove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mjr. ALBANY, GA. BEST VARIETIES SPECIAL LOW PRICES TREES Bear's Nurseries, Falatkn, Fla. Nut- Grower Ads help Business THE NUT-GROWER ingiii order to reward the farm- er with a regular and ample wood supply. It requires no planting or cultivation but will take possession of any old field or out of the way place and be- gin growing. The one thing es- sential is to protect it from fire, as neglect of this precaution will destroy the crop wliiie the trees are small and greatly injure it at any subsequent stage of growth. 2. Plant c a t a 1 p a speciosa. This is a rapid-growing tree, well suited to the south and one tiiat is especially valuable for railroad ties. In from twelve to 15 years it attains a marketable size for the use mentioned. Mil- lions of these trees have been planted by various railroad com- panies during the past few years for their future use as ties. •^. Plant walnuts, hickories and pecans. Tliese can lie planted for tiie triple purpose of obtaining ornament, food and lutuiier. There are no trees more beautiful (U- hardy tiian tliese producers of e lible nuts. No tree is a greater revenue- producer than a budded or graft- ed pei'an of some select variety. No native lumber is so high in price as tlie walnut and none in greater demand than the hick- ory. It is not often that the farmer, like the ball-player, can make a double play, but the opportunity is open for him to do so in grow- ing eitlier the pine or the nut trees mentioned. Two harvests can be obtained from the pine, while annual harvests in due time are furnished by tiie nut trees until their final sacrifice for lumber. All of this comes from but one pitching of the crop. This not only sounds at- tractive on paper, but is sound agricultural sense. It is now up to the farmer and plantation owner to demonstrate their practical common sense in planting and caring for such trees as are here mentioned or others suited to their environ- ment. But in any event, plant trees. — Prize Forestry Essay, Thomas County (Ga.) Fair. Ke- printed from the Thomasville Times, Enterprise. THE CHINKAPIN What boy in east Texas or northern Louisiana has not had the delight of chinkapin gather- ing in the fall? Or what boy of mature years does not recall the delights of threshing the bushes when the first frosts came and the burrs opened in the older states east of the Mississippi? And yet how little is thought of this bush or tree and its cultiva- tion for the nuts and timber. It is a native of east Texas. Over a great part of the state it will flourish when planted. The nut is nutritious and has a fine flavor. The wood is close-grained and hard, making gO(",d fence posts. Both on account of tiie nuts and the wood this tree — or bush, for it does not liecotne so very large — siiould be grown. — Souf/iern, Orrlrtnls tiiifl I[o}nrs. ITEMS OF INTEREST The area of the bearing apple and pear orchards of the United States is estimated at five mil- lion acres. In California tlie mimlier of nut trees now in liearing is as follows : almonds, 1,13(5,984:; wal- nuts, 689,475. An item in a local paper re- ports that the 1908 crop from 200 acres of young budded pecans at Moultrie, Ga., has been sold for lifty cents a pound. The National Fruit Groirer says that 117,000 acres in the state of Washington are devoted to the cultivation of apples, pears, plums, peaches and clier- ries. The Walnut Club of McMinn- ville. Ore., will hold a walnut institute in that city during the early winter, at which lectures will be given relative to wal- nut culture, harvesting anil mar- keting, and a general school of instruction inaugurated during the three or four days of the ex- hibit. S6e NUT-GROWKR PUBLISHED ilOXTHLY EY C/ie NUX-GRO'WER COMPANY Entered as secoud -class matter at the Postoffice at Poulau, Ga., nudertlie Act of Congress of Marcli 'i. 1879. SiibscriJilioH, oO cents per .In num. Ailvertishiff Rales on AffUcution. NOTICE Wlieu this pa a , :ipli is inaiked it means that your subscription has ex- pired and tliat you are requested to re- new promptly, as postal legulatious uo not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The sub.scripiion price is 50 cents per annum, but if you wiU send $1.00 your account -will be credited for three years. OCTOBER. 1Q08 As far as reported to us, Mr. E. E. Kisieii holds the record for the earliest marketing of pe- cans. His first shipment left his place at Rescue, Tex., on Sep- tember 11. The National Fruit Grower says tliat practically half the profits in fruit and vegetable growing depends upon tiie mar- keting and that ordinarily one grower in every ten can sell his crop to advantage. (Jne of the advantages in plant- ing budded and grafted trees, and one wiiich is not generally recognized, is tiie fact that, as a rule, they are regular liearers, having no oil' years, as is the case with seedlings. This trait of regular bearing is one of the considerations which prompts the propagation of the now popular varieties. The selection of varieties suit- ed to any particular section of the ijecan belt is a matter of great importance and the diJh- cully experienced by the planter is in olitaining authoritive data, so few varieties having been thoroughly tested outside of the sections where tiiey originated. A good rule is to consult with those having bearing trees in the neighborhood. At the same time a few clioice trees from otii- er sections migiit Ije planted in an experimental way. THE NUT-GROWER THE NUT NOTES The monthly Nut Notes now being sent regularly to about one hundred and lifty of the leading agricultural papers of the country are accomplishing a great work in attracting atten- tion to this fascinating and- prof- itable feature of farm operations. This work is supported by direct contributions frt)m most of the leading nut nurserymen and \>\ several special plans which in- terested parties have oll'ered. Mention is made of two of these plans, as they suggest ways in which many others can aid in supporting the work to their direct advantage. Mr. Theo. Bechtel, of Ocean Springs, Miss., has a standing order for a number of copies lo be sent to him regularly each month. These he distributes i)y enclosing them with his corres- pondence. As the notes are furnished at nominal cost and are distributed by Mr. Beciitel's plan without extra cost of post- age, many others could adopt it to advantage. The Standard recan Co., of Bloomington, 111., use a diiler- ent method, which is more ex- tensive in its beneficial effects. This firm furnishes the nances of various publications of their own selection and have the notes mailed to them for a delinite period, paying to the Publicity committee an amount siillicient to cover the cost of printing, postage and labor incident to filling their orders. Thus at small cost a large numberof peo- ple in a given territory are reach- ed. Many farm crops are benefitted by the use of wood ashes. They are particularly useful when ap- plied to growing trees of all kinds. Among the practical results growing out of the recent work in nut culture is the great im- portance of top-working seed- ling pecan trees which for any cause are not producing satisfac- tory results. It is nul claimed that this is the most approved way to t)l)tain a profitable nut grove, Ijiit there is no longer any question that it is good policy to top-work seedling graves that are already started. "With any national l)ody which is distinctively representative of a calling or industry, there are puljlic responsibilities w h i c h place the members on a higher and more inlluential plane tiian that of personal advantage. This is particularly true of organiza- tions like the National Nut Growers' Association, where a new and prohtable industry is being evolved from a chaos of neglect and mistaken zeal and possessing the additional handi- cap of being weighted down by the prevalence of fakes and frauds. Each meml)er has a part to perform and needs to take a firm stand for that which is best, and not only avoid all fakes and rainliow-colored state- ments, but to expose all shams and fraud that menace the legit- imate prospect the business af- fords when properly handled. L'4r*« ^^MA/ VVnJ get a tree of the PRESIDENT, the - Best of all Pecans. FREE. iTS Large, Thin-shcHed. Full of Meat. Good Color. 1 pood Quality.and IT BE^RS ABl'NDANTLV i^V'nte fur caatalo^ of Truir and Nut trees, and fori information about joining ihe President Pecan Club./ flVVe have Ornamental and Shade trees, Hedges, / Rose bushes and Shrubbery too!' Address I The Griffing Bros. Co.. Nurserymen, Jacksonville, Florida I SUCCESS Natural Siz.'S The nut that has never fail- ed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends witli kernel of best quality. BECHTEL PECAN NUBSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS. THE NUT-GROWER Ocean Sprino^s Pecan Nursery Season 1908-1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedling's Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, Ocean Springs, Miss. 20,000 Grafted Paper Shell Pecan Trees 3 to 4; 4 to 5; 5 to 7, and 7 to 9 feet. Write me for book on pecan culture and prices on trees. G.A.YANCEY, Bunkie, ba. The Griffing Brothers Co., Jacksonville. Flortds SPENT twenty years learn- ing ihe Besi Varieties: to ^row l^e Best Bushes tlial ^ive Best Re'^uU.': and Mosl ^Roses. We have ihem. The Best ainental. Shade Trees. Hedges and Shrubbery too. Write for cataloc of the 69 BEST ROSES LowerSouih The Pecan Industry IS THE TITLE OF A BOOKLET WHICH WILLL I N T E R E S T YOU. DROP US A CARD AND WE'LL MAIL YOU A COPY Free STANDARD PECAN COMPANY BLOaMINGrON, ILL. Gainesville INurseries Gainesville, Pla. Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of sucli standard varieties as have a good rffcord beliind them. Our catalog will not only help in tlie selec- tion of varieties, but "will assi.st you iu the planting and culture. It's free for the asking. H. S. GRAVES, Prop'r, Gainesville, Fla. |-*iL*C>r\f^'^ Nothing Best Varieties Pecans Martwell INurseries Hartwell, Ga. S. W. Peek. Prop. Established 188:;. Send for Catalog. FOR SALE— Four shares stock in the (j. M Bacon Pecan Co. Address L ;ck Bo.\- CO. Maxeys, Ga. SEED PECANS StoikMiuud and first-class iu every particular. Choice graded Pecans for commercial purpcses. Large or small orders ciirefnlly filled. Prices reasonable as quality of stock and grade will per- mit. Best of references. B. M. WILSON, Rockdale, Tex. SEEDS Buck bee's "Full of Life" Northern GrowTi I'edigreed Seeds have a reputation of 38 years of successful seed g:Towing behind them. It pays to plant the best. Seasonable Specialties:— 3SAINS Earliest Red Valentine , . $3.50 Bushel Refugee— Extra Early . . $3. 25 Bushel New Stringless Greeti Pod . .f3.7o Bushel Wardwell's Imp. Kidney Wax $4 50 Bushel Davis New White Wax . . $4.75 Bushel Currie's Rust Proof Wax . S4.50 Bushel PEAS Extra Early Alaska . . . $3.50 Bushel New Early Gradus .... 55 50 Bushel Horsford's Market Garden . $3.50 Bushel Euckbee's Lightning Express $500 Bushel Lettuce, Radish, Tomato and a full line of Seeds, Plants and Bulbs at lowest growing prices. Send for complete cata-logue or submit a list of your requirements and will quote prices. Buv direct from the crower — Save Money. Write todav. Mention this paper. H. W. BUCKBEE 11% BuckbeeSt., Rockford Seed Farms, Rockford, III. jre Sncctsshilly and ProlilaUy Grown[ Near Ibc Lower AUuiUc and Gulf Coasi [We are leading Growers and Distribu- tors of Satsuma Orange. Nut and WFruit trees. Rose bushes and Omi- 'mental trees and SKrubs, Catalog free. Hie GriBliiQ Bros Co.. Jatomville. Fla. Xtit-Grov Ads In'Jp Business CHOICE LOCATION. No. 24. 400 acres near Mouticello, Fla. Two-tldrds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in pine and liardwood timbe ■ Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake. Price |10.00 per acre. Re.<.sonable terms. THE NUT-GROW- ER Co., Poulau, Ga. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. No. 26. Al location, first-class in every respect. 320 acres now being planted iu pe?an trees of clioice varieties. Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for five years at price accepted. THE NUT-GROWER CO., Poulau, Ga. Tlie Bndfie Book of the Nat- ional Nut Growers' Association is much more important than tlie casual observer might infer. The list of nearly two hundred mem- bers is something more than merely tlie names and addresses of so many persons. Every name represents a center of influence in favor of nut culture, as well as a progressive and thouglitful individual. All the members who have ever attended a con- vention bear witness to the ben- efits received iu various ways. Meml)ersliip iu the Association is a good investment, even from considerations of pecuniary prof- it. Since all engaged in nut growing, either as nurserymen or orchardists, are benefitted by the work, and the Assficiation can do better work with greater financial resources, it seems Imt fair tliat the active membership should !>(' ilouliled during the current year. Tliis can be ac- complished if every member puts his shoulder to the wheel as urged by the Norfolk conven- tion. The matter of varieties liest suited to a given locality is a constantly recurring subject. Eacli section has its favorites, but the Stuart, Van Denian, Frotscher and Schley are being planted largely from Texas to South Florida. Iu a few years valualiie results will be forth- coiniii;>: . BOOKS AND CATALOGS '/'III- Prcaii Industry, an 8-pa.ge leaflet, will he sent free by the Standard Pecan Co., Bloomiugtou, 111. The Barber-Fink Co., McClenuy, Fla. 1909 Catalogue, 40 pages, fine half- tone illustrations. Lists fifteen varieties of pecans, The Pomvroy Eni^Hsh Walnut, by A. C. Pomeroy, Lockport, N. Y., is a 16- page illustrated booklet, descriptive of this nut, as grown iu that locality. The General Catalogue of the Penn- sylvania State College for 1908-8 is a volume of 350 pages, giving much in formation about tlie institution. 6 THE NUT-GROWER The P. J. Berckmaiis Co., Augusta, Ga., catalogue of fruit trees aud orna- mental stock is finely illustrated aud up to date iu all particulars. Press Bulletin No. 163 of the Experi- ment Station, Stillwater, Okla., gives a concise description of the twig gird- ler, au insect whicli operates to some extent on nut trees. Proceedings of the Forty-eighth An- nual Commencement of the Pennsyl- vania State College are of interest, es- pecially to those giving attention to technical education. Catiilogue and Price List for 1908-9 : Gainesville Nurseries, H. S. Graves, jiroprietor, Gainesville, Fla. 30 pages, describing nut and fruit trees and orna- mtmtal stock offered. White's Budding T()i}l. a four-page, illustrated circular, descriptive of a pojiular implement, giving information regarding its use, will be sent on appli- cation to H. C. White, DeWitt, Ga. Glen St. Mary Nur.sery, Glen St. Mary, Fla. 1909 Catalogue; aliandsome- ly illustrated work of general interest to tlie Southern trade. It gives prom- inence to the pecan, describing nine well-known varieties. Department of Agriculture Year Book for 1907. Tliis volume is made up of a nundier of papers on subjects of impor- tance and interest to fanners and fruit growers. Many of them will be printed as separate bulletins and distributed. The Proceedings of tlio Fiftli Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Horticultural Society is a valuable i)am]ildet of ItH) jiages. An address on the pecan by Prof. H. E. Van Dcmau is a conspicuous feature of the publication. The 1909 Tree Catalogue of Griffing Bros. Co., Jacksonville, Fla., is a fine- ly illustrated, 80 page pamphlet, con- taining mucli information regarding nut aud semi-tropical trees. Fifteen varieties of pecans are described. Hoiu to (irotr a Paper Slie/l Pecan Crove; B. W. Stone & Co., Tliomas- ville, Ga. A 24 page catalogue and price list of nut trees and guide to fruit culture. Contains many useful sugges- tions and general information, .such as prospective customers need. Tiiis firm employs no agents and are able to make favorable prices on stock. IIoiv to f^av out Sithi(rfnin /Jome Grounds, by Herbert J. Kellaway; 8 vo., 124 pages, with numerous half tone engravings, maps and plans, cloth, $3.00. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Tliis is one of tlie most interesting and up-to- date works from the landscape garden- er's view -point that we have seen. It abounds in lielpful suggestions and is replete witli illu.strations wliicli will materially assist the home-builder in making Ins grounds beautiful. It is a work which can be studied to advan- tage, ratlier tlian merely read. FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses Our Specialties The Admiral Schley Pecan "^^^ P^^^" ^^ J t the ruture e OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU THe Milt Nursery Company | Monticello, Fla. For next season's planting we will have an extra large supply of Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees We can furnish a standard varieties — Slmnt, \'an Dcman, Schley, Frotscher Pnhst, Aloiiey Maker. Jlii.sscll, I'ouiiir, Alle\, iVe/son, Hall. Bolton, Delnuis and others. At Monticello we liave soil and climate winch are peculiarly adapted to the ])roduction of high grade pecan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky tlian we luive seen elsewhere. Special prices on large sliipments and Car Load Lots. co!\re:sponoence 5:olic!ted---inspe.ction invited I PECAN and ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection -uritb a DcIi^Ktful Home on BacK Bay-f Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted liealth resort, patronized by city peo])le and planters of the South in summer and Northern peojjle iu winter. 40;1 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one Iialf mile. Over 5'.), 000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100 000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 budded roses for market of 1908 and of 11)09. Also a fine stock of magnolia grand ijlora, figs and Japan persimmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nur.series Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends. The company lias no debts. It is operated as a branch of tlie Huntsviile Wholesale Nurseries, Hnntsville, Ala., and tlie only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsviile. This is an ideal rural home on one of t)ie most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address Vt'. r. HEIKES, Manager. Huntsviile, Ala. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. son Acres in Pecans DcWitt This Company makes (60 are /^ • " ■*''"■?''''" in Test Orchard) LrCOrgia Specialty \f Pecans \K/Vu received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees '" which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. T Convincing and valuable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseriesat DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. T^ Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices consistent with first-class trees — W/iolesale and Retail. The Pecan Tree: How to Plant It, IIow to Grow It, How to Buy It, (third edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Nut-Grower when writing. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. THE NUT-GROWER Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. We have 1 2000 trees in our four hundred acres of Groves. One hundred thousand Trees Estimates ftirnisHed on Application Results Guaranteed Budding and Grafting Wood for Sale I Rood Pecark Groves ' Albany, Ga. I One hundred thousand 1 rees I are growling in our Nursery. I Top"WorKing Pecan Trees ovr Specialty .OOD PECAN GROVES Albany. - - Ceorgia THE NUT-GROWER Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees for Sale We have a complete assortineiit of the best varieties of pe- cans. We have t^vo large nurseries devoted exclusively to the propagation of the pecan. Uur Ocean Springs nursery is on sandy land and is one of the oldest in the country. Thousands of hearing pecan trees throughout the i^ecan Belt came from our Ocean Springs nursery and show that our trees are, what we have always (daimed for tiieni, true to name and the best that can l)e produced. Our Lafayette, La., nursery is located (in the Bayou Vermillion and is on strong land. Our nursery stock is propagated from our own l)earing orchards. We have over three square miles of grafted and liudded pecan orciiard, from that planted last winter to that in liearing. Expect to plant one thousand acres this winter. No order for pecan trees is too small l>nt what it will receive prompt and careful attention. Our prices, considering quality of trees, are right, whether wludesale or retail. Our i)amphlet on "The Pecan Tree and ItsOulture" is free for the asking. We will Plant Pecan Trees for Customers Anywhere in the pecan belt, where tiie acreage is suf- licicntly large, we will plant pecan trees, afnl if insurance is required, will guarantee them to live. If yon liave land you wish planted to pecan orchard and do not wish to do it your- self, write us at once fully what you desire and we will go in- to full details with you. Promoters, Real Estate Dealers, Orchard Salesmen If you intend to deal in pecan orchards, sell them to small investors or syndicate them, l)ut do not wish personally to en- gage directly in operative pecan orchard culture, you should at once write us in full your needs. We are prepared to furn- ish the pecan trees, plant them and insure tliem to live and furnish managers to take care of your pecan orciiards for one year, or for a series of years. We prefer to have you furnish your own land; however, if necessary, we will secure tirst- class pecan land for you. Address ^»- SOUTHERN NUT NURSERY COMPANY E. M. TREAKLE, General Managrer LAFAYETTE, LA. AgricultULrf ©ollege. THE NUT-GROWER Volume VU Number 4 Poulan, Ga., November 1908 5c per Copy SOc per Year THE CHATTANOOGA CONVENTION ^^^^^^iBA'^rs address Nut Growers hold Seventh Annual Meeting in the Hisoric City on the Tennessee ■ Tlie seventli annual convention of the National Nut Growers' Association met at Hotel Patten, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Octo- ber 27, 1908. As the president was unable to attend, the con- vention was called tu order 1)y Mr. H. S. Watson, of Illinois, a member of the Executive com- mittee. Rev. J. W. Bad, man, I). D., of Chattanooga, involved the Divine guidance and followed the prayer witli some interesting remarks, showing tjiat nut cul- ture is an old and highly lionor- able calling, and that "trees bearing seed" were one of liii> sources of food for man as far liack as the garden of Eden. A telegram from President Burnette announced that the critical illness of his mother prevented him from l)eing i)res- ent. The roll call of states showed representatives present from Al- abama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, V 1 o r i d a, Georgia, Illinois, I n d i a n a, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mary- land, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia. Letters and reports were receiv- ed from Mississippi, Missouri. Oklahoma, South I'arolina and Texas. Various announcements were made l)y the Secretary, and dir- ections were given for each state represented to designate a dele- gate for each of the convention committees, viz., on Nomina- tions, Time and Place of Next xMeeting, and Resolutions. A recess was then taken till 2 p. m., the interval lieing given to the displaying and examination of exhibits. The afternoon session opened promptly, with Second Vice- President White, of Georgia, in the chair. The report of the secretary-treasurer was read and books and accounts submitted for examination. These were referred to the committee on Ways and Means for auditing. Several verbal reports of state vice-presidents were heard and others were received ijy mail. Tiie first formal paper present- ed to the convention was read l.y Mr. J. B. Wight, of Georgia, his theme l)eing Pecan Invest- nu'hts. The subject was treated conservatively, and tiie argu- ments used stressed tiie point that the pecuniary returns ob- tainal)]e depend upon the care, skill and patience bestowed up- on the orchard. The paper el- icited a lively discussion, the trend of which was an indorse- ment of the claims presented liy the speaker. Wednesday morning Mayor Crabtree, of Chattanooga, was present and gave the convention a hearty greeting. He express- ed keen interest in the industry represented by the convention, and said that while they had many conventions in Chatta- nooga, the nut growers impress- ed him as being the most able and earnest body it had ever been his pleasure to welcome to Chattanooga. Dr. C. A. Van Duzee, of Min- nesota, responded to the mayor's welcome, with earnest and elo- quent words, which evidently confirmed His Honor in the good opinion he had formed of the Association. Dr. Van Duzee showed the great heritage the (Continued on Pa gi .i.) Friends and Members of the Nat- ional Nut Growers^ Assoeia- tion: We have met again in annual convention to consider various phases of the nut growing indus- tries, to renew old acquaintances and to form new ones. While we are not meeting in a nut growing section, we feel that the selection of Chattanooga is a happy one, inasmuch as the points of interest, both scenic and historical, cannot but inten- sify our love of the Ijeautiful in nature, as well as increase our patriotism. Again-, who can tell what may develop along the line of nut growing in this immediate secti(ni from the missionary work that may lie started at this meeting? The general pnldic has not yet grasped the importance of the industry here represented. Every section of our great coun- try may produce one or the oth er of our numerous kinds of nuts, in fact does so, but their selection, culture and improve- ment seem to luive been greatly neglected. Outside of the pe- can, we have isolated instances where the native hickory, wal- nut and chestnut have been im- proved, but the field is very large and the workers very few. Commercially, the pecan and the English walnut are of the greatest importance. The de- mand for these is widespread, increasing and permanent. The finest varieties of the pecan have hardly reached the market as yet. The best varieties, when fully appreciated, sometime in the future will be known by their varietal names and valued accordingly. Each year large quantities of foreign nuts are brought into this country and a corres|)oiid- 2 ingly large uniount of money goes out. Thib; state ot atfairs may be largely remedied hy the development of the nut industry along correct lines. The possi- bilities of this industry are vast. This is now being recognized by many, and investments by care- ful men in nut orchards have been very largely increased dur- ing the last year. The growing of pecans has received greatly increased attention. Nurseries have increased their output, uuiny new orciiards have been set and the interest in flie .var- ious nut products have made wonderful strides. Tlie recent panic, so far as my information goes, has had no ef- fect upon the steady develop- ment of the industry. Right here is where the Nat- ional Nut (Growers' Association has done its work well. Its members have stood for tlie "square deal" first, last and all the time. Kational proceedure along thorougjily scieiitili<- and practical lines has been the watchword, and tlie conlidence of careful investigators and in- vestors (the very best men for the industry) has been secured. Meml)ers of the Association should feel ])roud of the re<'ord. Through its work, fraud and sharp nursery practices have been eliminated and the im- provement of the nut product put upon a sound l)asis. This must continue. It is to be regretted that the state experiment stations, up to the present time, have been un- able to plant nut orciuirds. That they have not been able to do so is not their fault. Nut orch- ards require considerable area, whicli will be permanently o<'cu- pied. Experiment stations, as a rule, have only limited area, with Tio chance for expansion and no funds for increased amount of work. Hence the difficulty. There are many problems to be solved in the pecan industry. Some of these are of a lx>tanical nature and require painstaking scientific investigation l)y a trained specialist, others relate THE NUT-GROWER to the soil and still others con- cern the range of growth, hard- iness of varieties, and the origin of new varieties extending the range of the highest types. This is all important work for the Association. This means that the Associa- tion should demand and receive tiie very heartiest s\ip])(irl. Members sliould not only be ac- tive members but should always l)e in "good standing." The meml)ei-ship fee is small and reasonable. It is to l)e regretted tiiat the publication of the Pm- ceciTnigts has been delayed l)y our tardy members. This should not be. A resolution concern- ing new members was passed at the Jamestown meeting: tlie old members took it upon themselves to bring into the fold, each a new one. The secretary informs me that the old meniijers have forgotten to comply with this resolution. The Association needs ample support. Let us see to it that this suppurt is giv- en. Voui- presiding ullirer \\ishes to tlumk the membei\s of the As- sociation for their hearty co-op- eration and support, and express- es the wish that the Association may always work for the trut progress of the industry, iiiaking it what it is destined to lie, a permanent and valualtle indus- try, a great l'a<'lor in the agri- cultural diversilication of our counlrv. 77/ a; CIJA TTANOOGA COX- VhWTfoX yl'oiiliiifUil fiiin /'(lu,- .') South possesses in the ejii;.)!-! un- ity for growing nuts, particular- ly the pecan, and urged that soutiiern interests should be alive to develop these resources, rath er than to seek foreign capital for the purpose. Mr. W. B. Koyster, secretary of the Chattanooga Chamber of (!onnnerce, aiily seconded the mayor's greeeting. At t i> i s juncture, Mr. Chas. T. Alexan- der recognized the psychological moment for his speech and the spirit promptly moved him. lie SEEDS Fresh, laliible, Pura Quaranteed to PItase Every Gardener and PlanterBhouldtCRt the ■upertof nieritBof Our Northern Grown Seeds. SPECIAL •FFKB FOR 10 CENTS we will Beud postpaid our FAMOUS COLLECTION 1 pkfT. <>0 Hay Tomato .... SOo t jiLg, Priacpsa Radish .... JOe 1 rkg. 8«-IMiro«iD£ Celerj . . . 20e 1 pke. Early Arrow-brad Cabbage . . .16a 1 pup. FiillertoD market I«ttu«fi . . . ]0e AUo 12 VarielloiChoIee Flower S«edi , . SSe 411.00 Writ* today! Send 10 cents to help pay pfstnge £iid packing and receive the abuva "Famo b Collt-cticn," to- gether with out New and Infitnictive (Jartien (;un1>- GREAT NORTHEKN SKi:i> <<». 1196 Kose St. Kockford. Illinois 5000 Grafted Pecan Trees These trees are grafted from the best l.eariiif; trees in my grove. VAN DEMAIN, STUART, COHJMBsAN and a dozen otiier clioice varieties. Pe- can nuts for sale in season, Apyly to JOHIN S. HORLBECK Charleston, S, C. For SGSisryrh. of 1908- 1909 l^nddeil and Grafted I'erans, LeConteand Kieller Pears, hardy Oranges, P I n m sb , Persimmons, Figs, Mnl berries, etc. A full line of Oriianiental and Shade trees. Quantity anil Quality. Oorres- poudeuce soliciied. Arcaclia Nurseries Monticello, Fla. Pecan Trees... Tiiat are jirojjerly grown is My Specialty... BUDHED and GRAFTED Xrees of the Best Varie- ties for .Sale Write for prices of trees and informa- tion as to nrowing and care of groves. J. B. Wig'Kt CAIRO GEORGIA Nuts for Profit ^ booklet of l.i8 pages; 60 iUnstrations. Pro])agatiou, cultivation, etc.. of nuts best adajited to the various sections. Interesting and instructive. Price, by "lail, 25 cents. JOHN R PARRY, PARRY, N. J. Prom Jan. ! to A]>ril 15, Orlando. Fla. Thf Griffing Brothers Co. JackMnvlUe, rioftda SPI-:NT tweiitv venrs leanw tng the Besl Varieties; to jjrow the Best Bushes lliar ;^ive Best Results and Most Roses. We have them. Tlie Best jMental. .Shade T»ee.s, Hedges and Shrubhery too. VWite lot cataloo of the' '69 BEST ROSESL-Jer^lollth N E W P L A N For growius Pecans, Pears. Peaches, etc. , at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, re- duction iu price of trees. Snre to live. Ko agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasville, Ga. Bvy a Pecan Grove Tlie be.st investment tliat can now be made iu tlie United States or elsevvliere. I will sell you one already establislied On Basy Terms planted to the best known ^'lafled .stand- ard paper shell varieties, one lo tljree years old. located on the Gnlf coast ;inated. I now have four {jTdves ready for de- livery and several ihou.-Hiid acres of tlie tinest pecan land in the South. I liave a very special bargain iu a t'orry-acre grove(Satsiinia orange irci s between the pecans) which includes ■J.J.OCO stocks for the coming season's giafiiug. a splendid opening for a combinati(m grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad and a half mile front on a running stream. Will al.so furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississipi)i and Alabama w est of Mobile. The Satsuma orange jilautcd between jiecaus when desireit. Young grafted trees, grafting wcod Kiid fancy and commercial nuts in any quantity. Thanksgiving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention. All graft- ing wood and trees grown from bear- ing trees in my own groves, hence ab.so- lutely true to name. No guess-work — you get e.\actly what you oider. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early. FH I F\n7I^ Scraiiton, JacKson • **• ^^ " ^^ County, Miss. 1 Standard varieties of Budded and Grafted Pcan Trees and INuts Also Budding and tiiafiiiig \Vo<:)d from bearing trees. Cc.ntiacis taken for top-working seedling trees and car- ing for groves. Our groves contain ov- er 400;) budded trees of tlie l.est standard varieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Giligrovc Pecan Nurseries J. P. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, GA. Blythewood Pecan Orchard Grafted trees of (ii)e varieties. Regular- ly iitspected. For prices apply lo Mrs. M. L. Randolph BAYOU COULA. )..A. THE NUT-GROWER was something oil the order of a gatliiig gun, being a member of tlie Association, vice-president for Tennessee, a resident of ( 'liuttanooga, the diplomat who secured the convention for his city aiitl the host at Hotel Pat- ten. His solicitude for the com- fort and pleasure of the meui- liers was amply demonstrated l)otIi before and after his speech. 'J7ie [/((iustri/ from the Vieio- jHi'int of the Xiirscrjimaii^ was the subject of a l)rief, but able paper by the veteran Alabama nurseryma)!, W. F. Heikes. Mr. Heikes' preniises were clearly defined and his conclusions logi- cal, showing that the nursery tiiau's business is to be on the lookout, that he should be the liist to recognize the trend ed' sentiment and that he should be skillful in anticipating the pros pective demand for stock. For several years past largely in- creased demands have been made for budded and grafted stock and the speaker believed that these c<)nditi(ins will continue. I'rof. C. G. Woodbury, of Pur- due University, Lafayette, Ind., spoke on 7'he Edible Nuts of Iiidiana. He showed what great resources that state possesses and how they had ijegun to sys- tematically develop them. It was news to many to learn that the Wabash valley produces great (luantities of seedling pecans, some of them of excellent quali- ty, and that large trees were formerly abundant. The woods- man's axe, however, has been l)usy, and but few of these mon- archs of the forest remain. Chestnut Culture was the sub- ject treated of by Prof. H. E. Van Dernan, who handled it will) his usual skill. This paper, has much of practical interest and value, and when published will make a substantial addition to the literature on this subject. Mr. A. C. Pomeroy, of New York, gave an interesting talk on the Persian walnut as an or- chard product in the western part of that state. One of the intensely interest- ing and scientific features of the convention was the paper by Mr. H. 0. White, of Georgia, on Nut Propagation. It occasion- ed much discussion and drew an avalanche of questions which the speaker was very apt in an- swering. Wednesday afternoon's session was taken up partly with reports of committees and business mat- ters. Among the papers present- ed, several were read by title and will appear in the nut jour- nals and the J*roccedini/i)incd next Month.) J5he NUT-GROWER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY Vhe NUT-GRO\irER COMPANY Entered as secoud -class luatter at the Postoffice at Poulau, Ga., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Siibscriftivn, 511 cents per Annum. Adveytising Jtales on Application. NOTICE Wlieu this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription lias ex- jrired and tliat you are roquested to re- new promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscrii)tion price is .jd cents per annum, but if you ^Yill send |1.00 your account will be credited for tliree years. NOVEMBER. IOCS As tlie season for planting ar- rives it is well to reinenilier that thousands uf trees plaiite: ,"> to 7, and 7 to '.) IVet. Write mp for bool; on jicran culturi' iuiil jiriifs mi trrc.N. G. A. YAINGEY, Bunkie, L.a. The Pecan Industry IS THE TITIiE OF A BOOKLET WHICH WILLL INTEREST YOU. DROP US A CARD AND WE'LL MAIL YOU A COPY Free STANDAPB PECAN COMPANY BLOOMINGTON, ILL. "iNVESlilENT OPPORTUNITY. Xo. 20. Al location, first-class in every 1 espeet. 320 acres now being planted in pecan trees of clioice varieties. Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be ( nred for for five years at price accejjled. 'J HE NUT-GROWER CO.. Poulan. Ga. Let us send \ on "Pecan Meals Picked Out" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All tlie essential information "(Jut of a Nut Plell." Investif:ate Pecans for ])leasiiie. Pecans for jm fit. Our plan of free expert su] erinteudence in plaiit- inj; larfie size pecans assures live tree.s and quii 1. ]irofils. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Kiethville, La. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Pajjer Shell Varietie.s Not tHe Most--OnI>' tHe Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss. PCGAN^ Beet Varieties And INothing but Pecans E E D S Buckbee's "Full of Life" Northern Grown PedigreL-d Seeds tiave a reputation of 3S years of successful seed growing befiiiid them. It pays to pl.int the best. Seasonable Specialties: — 4BEA1NS E.lrliest Red Valentine . . Jj.jo Bushel Refugee— Extra Early • ■ Si-^S Bushel New Stringless Green Pod . JjTo Bushel Wardwell's Imp. Kidney Wax {4 5" Bushel Davis New White Wax . . $4.75 Bushel Carrie's Rust Proof Wax . $4 5° Bushel PEAS Extra Early Alaska . . . J.T.So Bushel New Early Gradus .... $5 5° Bushel Horsford's Market Garden . $3.50 Bushel Buckbee's Lightning Express $5.00 Bushel Lettuce. Radiih. Tomato and a full line of Seeds, Plants and Bulhs at lowest growing prices. Send for complete catalogue or submit a list of your requirements and will quote prices. Buy direct from the grower— Save Money. Write todav. Mention this paper. H. W. BUCKBEE 11% Buckb««St., Rockford Seed Farms, Uockford, III tiartwell (Nurseries Martwell, Ga. S. W. Peek. Prop. Established 1883. Send for Catalog. SEED PECANS Stock sound and first-class in everv- particular. Clioice graded Pecans tor coniniercial purposes. Large or small orders carefully filled. Prices reasonable as nuality of .stock and grade will per- mit. Best of references. B. M. 'W^ILSON. RocKdale, Tex. Tl* inir« BEST VARIETIES 1 rVE*jr,3 SPECIAL LOW PRICES Bear's Nurseries, Palalka, Fla. liis famous San Saba pecan into public attention, if written out in full would furnish a history of rare luiiiian endeavor and achievement. We sometimes wonder what Mr. Risien's sensi- tive mind must have endured when the joy of discovering this fine nut was so soon allayed by the discovery that the tree, which he had only been able to olttain by purchasing the farm on wliicli it stood, had had all the limbs sawed otf to facilitate the gatiioring of tlie crop, which was entered in competition for a prize which he iiimseU' liad olt'er- ed. What a combination of in- i-ideiitsl His premium oiler dis- covered tlie nut. It also led to the mutilation of the tree produ- cing; it. In his eagerness to pos- ses the treasure, Mr. Risien pur- chased the farm 1111 wliicli it stood and tlieu to tiiid it de- spoiled of nearly all its branches nuisi jiave proved a terrible dis- appointment. However, the ul- timate and lasting good and the honor wliicli is now his aViundant- ly compensates for the tempor- ary trials and attlictions Mr. Risien has undergone. KCIIOF.S i-noM TlIKCOy- VEXT/oy Prof. H. H. Hume, in a letter to President Burnette said,"(.'on- vey to the meeting my sincere regrets for not being with tlieni. I should ha\e come had it been l)ossil)le." Rev. .]. VV. Bachman, of Ohat- tanooga, the eminent divine who participated in the opening exer- cises of the convention, regards nut culture as one of the highest and most honored occupations of man, and maintained his ar- gument with proof from the Scriptures. Mayor C'rabtree, of Chatta- nooga and Mr. Rdyster, of the Ohanilier of Commerce, exerted themselves to give the members a good impression of their his- torical and beautiful city. His Honor was so complimentary in his estimate of the intelligent, earnest and able appearance of 6 the perstimiel of the convention thut he felt it nec-eessury to as- sure a jolly group of meiiiliers, whom he encountered later in the hotel lolil)y, that he meant every word of it. This was un- usually high praise, when it is remembered that many of the most imposing, scholarly and scieiitilic members were for var- ious reasons prevented from at- tending. The unex]iected always hap- pens. At least Second \' It-e- Fresident White thiidr Good Quality, and IT BEARS ABUNDANTLY l^Vrite tor caatalog of Fruit and Nut irecs, and ^o 1 information about joining the President Petan C'luh 1 ^We have Ornamental and Shade trees, Hedges. Rose bushes and Shrubbery too" Address i The Criffing Bros. Ckt., Nurserymen, JacksonviVe. Florida vJf Natural .Size The mit that has nrvcr fail- ed to bear and never faiKd to fill at hofji euds vith krriif'l of hi'-it qualilv. BECHTEL PECAN NUfiSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS. Gainesville INurseries Gainesville, ria. Make a specialty of Budded aud Grafted Pecan trees of tjuch si andard varieties as have a good record behind t'leni. Our catalog will not only lielp in the selec- tion of varieties, but will assist you in the planting aud culture. It's free for the asking. H. S. GRAVES, Prop'r, Gainesville, Fla. THE NUT-GROWER f;UMMIT VW CHOICE ^ NURStnY STOCK ^^Ss MONTICELLO UR5ERIES MILLER g. GOSSARD Proprietors m^^^ws^ " FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges-Roses i Our Specialties i The Admiral Schley Pecan ^^^ P^^^" °^ '. -L the huture e OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. S"ii Arrrs in Pecans (60 are in Test Orchard) DeV^^itt 'J'liia Cdin/uiny wd/.rs Georgia S/o-cialty o/ Prcan.< ^^7 E received the only Medal awarded specilically for Pecan trees which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at 8t. Louis. ^Convincing and valuable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseriesat DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. ■| Binlded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities at prices c(uisistent with lirst-class trees — Wholesale and Relail. 'flic Pecan Tree: lliiic in Plant It, Ilotc to Gvov It, How to Binj It. (tliird edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Nitt-Grower when writing. Address any, Inc, . oacon recall DeWitt, Mitchell County, Ga. PECAN aiid ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection -witli a Delijj'Ktftil Hois^e on BacK Bajr, Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of tlie South in summer and Nortlicrn people in vviuter. 40 ) acres, more or less, %sith a water front cu Back Bay of over one half mile. (Jver .5 ).0C0 grafted pecan trees. Over 1(,0 000 i:e( an seedlings will be in fine ronditiou for grafting winter of 1908-U. Over 50,003 budded roses for market of l'.ti;8aiid of 1909. Also a fine si ock of magnolia grand iflura, figs aud .Japan Ijcrsimnions. This property belongs to the Heike.s-Biloxi Nur.series Co., Biloxi. Miss., aud i.s paying good divid.euds. The comjiauy lia.s no debls. It is o]^erated as a branch of the Huntsvide Wholesale Nurseries, Hnutsville, Ala., and tlie ouly reason for selling is tlie desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is au ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bavT. on the Gulf Coast. Tliis is au unusual oi)];orl unity of condiining jileasure and business. This iiropertv will adtnit of divisioa into eight lots, four fronting on the Bav. Address " W. F. H CiH BS, F»lanager. M untsvil !e, Ala. amn mags.^.O'm^.mi «|g^;*t««6»a Taag!^.g!nw.i- .. .■y^K»T:-.Ti-a iBCj-art^ssn i TKe Nut Ntsrsery Coinpany Monticello, Fla. For next .season's pLanting we will have an extra large sujijilv id' Grafted and Budded Pecas* Trees We can furnish a standard varieties — S/itari. I'mi Dtimm, Schley. Frol.icher Pnhst. Money A/nicr, Pii.<.':e//. I'omti;. A//cr, AV/,«t)«, Hall. Hollon. Dc/jnas and othei's. At Moiiticello we have soil and climate which are peculiarly adapted to the ])roductiou of high grade pevan trees. Our trees grow faster and more stocky than we have seen el.sewliere. Special prices on large shiimients and Car Load Lois. COR.RESPONDE.NCE SOLICITED INSPECTION INVITED 1 miur.vtxrxac! i i sgaara^zfTTig ^mts- --nrrga , THE NUT-GROWER 7 1 Rood Pecan Groves ' Albany, Ga. Standard Varieties of Bvddcd and Grafted Trees for Sale We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. We have I 2000 trees in our four hundred acres of Groves. One hundred thousand Trees are growing in our Nursery. Top-worKing Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates furnisKed on Application Results Guaranteed Budding and Grafting Wood for Sale ROOD PECAN GROVES Albany, - - Georgia L. THE NUT-GROWER Grafted and Budded Pecan Trees for Sale We have a complete assortnieiit of tlie Ijest varieties of pe- cans. We liave two large nurseries devoted exclusively to the propagation of the pecan. Our Ocean Springs nursery is on sandy land and is one of the oldest in the country. Thousands of hearing pecan trees tlirongliout the pecan belt came from our Ocean Springs nursery and show tiiat our trees are, wiiat we have always claimed for them, true to name and the best that can be produced. Our Lafayette, La., nursery is located on the Bayou Vermillion and is on strong laiul. Our nursery stock is propagated from our own liearing orchards. We have over three square miles of grafted and budded pecan orchard, from that planted last winter to tliat in bearing. Expect to plant one thousand acres this winter. No order for pecan trees is too small but what it will receive prompt and careful attention. Our prices, considering quality of trees, are right, whether wholesale or retail. Our pamphlet on "The Pecan Tree and Its Culture" is free for the asking. We will Plant Pecan Trees for Customers Anywhere in the pecan Itelt, where the acreage is suf- ficiently large, we will plant pecan trees, and if insurance is required, will guarantee them to live. If yon have land you wisli planted to pecan orcliard and do not wish to i)le and the plum are being made with the pecan. The ideal pecan is not yet. Many skilled horticulturists have their faces turned to the east, and the glimmering rays of light fortell the coming, sooner or later, of the full-orlied pecan in all its glory. Again, people want these nuts. They are willing to part with their silver anil gold to get them. Substantial purses have been filled with the sales from one tree, and this n(jt simply in a few isolated cases. Here and there all over our southern coun- try are individiuil trees that have enri(died their owners fifty and seventy-five and one hundred dollars a year. If one tree be- haves so, then why not a dozen? And if a dozen, why not as many thousand? Vriio will gainsay the soundness of this logic? And so, men, desiring to claim the gHttering shekels as their own, have set trees by the tens and the lumdreds and the thousands and the tens of thousands. And they do well if IJiey have learn- ed the whole lesson. But nuiny have seen the brown beauties on a tree, without hav- 'Rcail iit tiic National Nut Growers" cunvcutic II. ing ohserved the conditions of soil and fertility and space that produced theui. Many of these will, therefore, feel the fanning of many a breeze before their ship is wafted in. And many a ship that sailed with waving of handkerchiefs and Hying of bunt- ing will never make port. Are pecan investments safe? Is gold mining a paying busi- ness? That depends. Thous- ands may be maile in each and thousands lost. What will ],e the result in any parti<-ular case? Returning to a former figure, the man at the wheel, the i)er- sonnel of the crew and the seas traversed determines all. There is money to be made in pecan growing when it is judi- ciously conducted in a business- like manner. When the long life and healthfulness of the tree is considered, and the abun- dant time in which the nuts may be gathered and marketed. I do not know a more attractive field in all the realm of horticulture than this. The farmer or land- owner living anywhere in the pecan belt who fails to grow enough nuts for hisown use and also some f(u- market, is neglect- ing an exceptional opportunity. One or two trees grown on a city lot will furnish shade and also an ample supply of pecans for family use the year rouml. And a farmer who can put out a grove on his own land and care for it in person, has the ideal condit- ions for success. But the very attractiveness of the pecan proposition has led in a few cases, to overstatement and exaggeration of the profits that are to be expected in pecan growing. I do not discourage pecan investments on the part of non-residents. I know of one company which has exteiisive ondiards which they propose to (('oiidniiril on I'ugr J.) THE CfIA TTANOOGA COX- Vt'XTWX ( Coiiliiii/i'd.) By Thursday morning the (-(in- vention work was so far com- pleted as to admit of excursions to Lookout Mountain and C'hick- anuuiga Bark. Bapers on Ecrtilizcvn for the Orchard, by H. S. Watson and Theo. Bechtel and .1 lievicu' of X>if MorkcJs by Brof. H. Harold Hume, were read by title. Brof. H. A. Gossard, of Ohio, was interesting, instructive and encouraging in his address on Iiiscctit and Hoir to Ocereoine their Ravoflen. Clarence A Reed, of the De- part ment of Agriculture, outlin- oil Work now in progress in the interest of nut culture and ad- vised that results of investiga- tions be luade public as soon as practical)le. The ciimmittee on Trade Bub- lications submitted the follow- ing report : Tun NiT-GuowEU und tlie Amer- iciiii Frill I and Nut yoiiriKil have publishe.-l much valuable iuforma- tiou during the current year. We cnniiuond these two publications to the nut growfirs of the country as sources of relial le information. We further suggest that tlie members of the Association patronize these two journals in a liberal manner and recommend them to their corres- jiondents when occasion offers, thus sliowing our appreciation of the valuable services they have render- ed the industry. By this means we can enable them to fnrflier advance tlie nur gi-owing interests of the country. The committee on Noiuencla- ture and Standards made a re- port on the luiinber and (diarac- ter of exhibits. The dramatic scene of the convention occur- red during this report, when the cracking of successive samples of a beautiful, large and well-known variety showed it to be deficient as to plumpness of kernel. The reporter did not learn how these samples reached the coiiveiitiou, as the name of this variety did not appear in the list of exhib- its. The theory was advanced that local or exceptional condit- ions may have been responsible for the failure to fill. The committee on Place of Next Meeting reported recom- mending the selection of Albany, Georgia. The report was adopt- ed. Mr. H. G. White, in vacating the chair, thanked tiie conven- tion for courtesies extended to him and introduced the presi- dent-elect, Mr. J. B. Wight, wl.o made fitting acknowledgement of the honor bestowed upon him and pledged his best endeavors to carrying forword the import- ant work of the Association. On recommendation of tlie Publicity committee, a liberal sul)Scription was raised for car- rying on that branch of tlie work. The Executive committee ask ed that the special committee on Co-operation with State and Nat- ional Organizations be enlarged to five meml^ers and made a standing committee. The com- mittees on Publicity, Publish- ing of Proceedings and Trade Publications were also added to the standing list. The committee on llesolutions submitted the following report, which was adopted : Resolved, Tliat we hereby ex- press our aiipreciatioii of the life work of Mr. Felix Gilbert, of Cali- foruia, aud that we hereby enter his name upou our records as one who has done more than make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, and is therefore entitled to be remembered as one of the bene- factors of mankind. That we send to his family a copy of these resolutions. We desire to express our appreci- ation of the services of our retiring president, F. H. Buruette. We re- grot Ids inability to be present at this meeting on account of his moth- er's illness, and extend to him our sympathy and hope for her speedy recovery. Resolved further. That we hereby especially express onr appreciation of the long continued and faithful ser^'ice of our secretarj% Dr. J. F. Wilson. THE NUT-GROVi^ER Anil last, but far from least, br it resolved, Tliat to Mr. C. T. AleMin- der, manager of Hotel Patten, to the mayor of Chattanooga, to the Cliamber of Cuunnerce of said city and to its citizens we extend our heartiest tlianks for the handsome treatment we have received and the measui'es that liave been taken for our comfort and eniertaiiiment. PKCAN IN VliS TMI'jy TS (Ci»i/i!/i/rii from J'm^e 1.) increase, and wliic'h is composed entirely of residents of a nortli- western city. Tlie company is made up of friends who know and who have coiilideiice in ettcli other. Tlie capitalizatioti ol' tiie company is placed at the low i st possible figure, and its aifairs are conducted in a business-like manner. One of the stockhold- ers is business manager and litis personal supervision of all de- tails. There is no feasun why this company shonld not succeed as well as the best resident growers of pecans. ' -But the company that is or- ganized for purely spectilative purposes, and that represents to prospective customers tmniial profits of i'rom 500 to lOOO i)er cent on the nioi!ey invesled by shareholders, is doing a ciuestion- able business. To one chance that such inllated hopes will be realized, there are iiinely nine that apples of Sodom and not pe- cans will be the crop chiefiy in evidence. There is no more rea- son for salted pecan conixjanies than for salted gold mines. Un- derstand me; I do not wish to discourage the formation of com- panies for growing pectins; but I do say that the pecan [jroposit ion is in itself atirtictive enough without any exlrti touches of rainbow coloring to set oil' the picture. I iiave l)een aslved to gi\t' an opinion as to the value of peitin groves and of their worth when they come into bearing. To do this with any degree of accuracy is impossible, from the fact that the treatment given groves is so variable a quantity. But 1 ven- ture the following as a conserva- tive estimate of the value of pe- Fresh, Daliable, Pura Guarsnleed to Please Every Gardener and Plantrrshmild test the Buperinr merits of Our NordicrnGrowu Scf ds. S^ECinL SFFSR FOR 10 CENTS we w til Bend postpaid owr FAMOUS COLLECTION 1 I V~. CO Pay ToHiuto . . . . 20o I I ' K. r.incess Rudish . . . . lOe I I k(.-. Sflf-tirowlnstVlery . - . 2(to 1 [iki;. F.arly ArriiiT-lir-nil CahbBee . . .15c I )l:tT. l-'ullcrlon Market IpUhcu . . . 1''6 Also 12 Yarieli^B Choice FloHer Saedi . . g-''0 $l.ro Write today! Rpnd 10 cents to help- pay pnstcee_ niid jiaikiiig and receive th» aliovo "FnuiouB Collection," tu- ■atlier with our New nnd Instructive Garden (iuide. GRKATNOIITUKKN SEED <<>. 1186 Kose St. Bockford, IlUuois 5000 Grafted PeGan Trees Tlicsc trees are giatlcd f.vm the best bearing trees in my grove. VAiN DEMAN, STUART, COl^!j;v-.B3AIN aid a dozen other choice varieties. Pe- can nuts fcr sale in season. Apyly to JOHN S. HORLBECK CHafJestori, S. C For Season of i9C£- 1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeOonteaiid Kiefi'er I'ears, hardy ( )ranges, P 1 u in s , Persimmons, Figs, Mulberrit'S, etc. A full line of Drnaniental ai:d Shade trees. Quantity and Quality. Corre.s- poudt'iice solici ed. Arcadia Mtirseries Monticello, Fla. Pecan TreeSe.. That are iirojierly giMJWii is My Specialty... BUDS>ED and GRAFTED Xr«es of tKe Best Varie- ties for .Sale Write fur jirices of irocs aud intorma- tioii MS to nrow iiig aud caie ( f grtjves. J. B. Wigi^t o^g^l,^^ .Nuts for Profit ^ , -^J ^' '^^let illustrations. Projiaj^^atioii, cullivation, otc, of uuts T pst jidaptcd to the various sections. Interesting and instnu-iive. Prii-e. l,v mail, '^5 cents. JOHN R. parry; parry, N. J. From Jan. \ to A])ril 15, Orlando. Fla. The Griffinjj Bnitlicns Co., Jscli^onvllle. fluHda SPIiNl tvtenty yenrs learn- ing the Bcsi Varieties; in i^row the Hesf Bu.slies tlmt L'lve Best Results and Most Ro.ses. We have them. The Best aiiiental. Shade Trees, Hedges and rubbery too. Wntc for c3t:iIoE o( thr BEST ROSES For T h Lower South THE NUT-GROOVER N E W P L A N For growius Pecans, Pears, Peaclies. etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, re- dnction iu jince of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasville, Ga. Bvy a Pecan Grove The best iuvestmeut that can ikav be made iu tlie United States or elsp\vliere. I will sell yon one already established On Easy Terms planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper sliell varieties, cue to tliree years old, located ou tlie Gulf coast of Missir-sippi and in Jackson conuly. t!;c native heath of the pa] er shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the lest known varieties now being jiropa gated by nurserymen were originated. I now liave four groves ready lor de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecau land iu the Soiitli. I lia\e a very sjiccial bargain iu a forty !i< re grovel Sa I sunja orange frees bel%\cen the pecausi whicli includes 33.(00 slocks for tlie coming season's grafting, a splendid opening for a ctmbinatiou grove and nurs-ery. on the L. & X. railn ad and a half mile front rii a rnnuing stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the plautiug of groves anywhere in Soutli rilississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Sal snma orange planted bet\'\cen pecans wlieu desired. Young grafted trees, grafting w((d and fancy and commercial nuts in any quantity. Thanksgiving and Holiday orders ior nuts given special attentioir. All graft- ing wood and trees grown from bear- ing trees in my own groves,»hence abso- lutely true to iiame. No gues.s-work — yon get exactly what you order. Pecaiss tills season especially fine. Send your orders earl}'. .II. L£.WU County, Miss. Standard varieties cf Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Muts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taLeu for top-working seedling irees and car- ing for groves. Our groves contain ov- er'fOOO liudded trees of the best standard varieties and is the oldest budde^l grove in Georgia. ^ fovc Pecan Nurseries J. P. GILL, Mar. ALBANY, GA. Gainesville Nurseries Gainesville, hia. Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such standard varieties as have a good record behind them. Oirr catalog will not only help in the selec- tion of varieties, but will assist you in the p)lanting and culture. Ifs free for tlie asking. H. S. GRAVES, Prop'r, Gainesville, Fla. Gillgrc can groves. It should lie re- nieiiibered that up to the time tliat trees come into lieariiii^ tlie yearly increase in \alue as here given is prospective, rather than actual, as far as incoine is con- cerned. (iood land set in vigorous liud- ded or grafted trees, at the end (d'the lirst year is worth $J()().(I(I \'i'V acre. Add ^oO.UO to this value at tlie end of eacdi year of growth. With this as a liasis, land should therefore he worth: At tlie end of 5 years, $300.00 per acre. At the end of 10 years, $ 55 ).00 per acre. At the end of 15 years, .$830. CO per acre. "While varieties differ slightly as to age at whitdi they begin to liear, yet this intiy he safely put at from live to six years from the time the trees are transplanted. P.y the tenth year, when the val- ue us above is $550. (IU, tiie net income jier acre should be S per cent of this anioiint, or $t!.(IO. This is pr()l)ably about as early as tlie trees woiilil begin to iiay a reasonable income on the \alue as figured aliove. By the lif- teeulh year the net income should be $64.00 per acre, or 8 per cent on .$800.00. The twenti- eth year should show imu'e than a net income of $84.00 per acre. on an 8 per cent valuation of $1050. Ot) per acre according to the above estimate. By /wf in- come is meant what remains af ter deducting a reasonable am- ount for cultivating ai'id fertiliz- ing trees and foi- gatlnu-ing the nuts. Now, the above estimate is not liy any means visionary. While it has not been demon- strated with orchards ou a large scale, yet it has been shown to lie a very conservative estimate, both by luyself and otiier grow- ers of pecans. There are orch- ards of budded pecau trees iu most of the Southern states that cannot be bought on the al ove basis. Understand me that when I give you these figures I emphasize the fact that the trees must 1)6 properly cared for. Neg- lect will bring its full measure of disappointments. When per- sons learn that the pecan does not necessarily furnish a royal road to wealth, but that to suc- ceed the same care and foresight are necessary as in other lines of business, then there will have been made a distinct advance in the industry. Without the desire to pose as :i proidiet or the son of one, it is safe to predict tiiat in twenty years from now there will be thousands who will be glad over the fact that the question as to where tomorrow's food and shel- ter are coining from is not wor- rying them, and that poverty, that terror of old age, has lost its sting. These are they who years before set pecan trees, and who cared for them as they would a gardeti. But there will be u numerous company with sad eyes and sunken cdieeks whose bodies indicate an intim- ate ac(piaintance witii sack-cloth ami asiies. These also, years be- fore set pecans; but by reason of inditfereiice and neglect and over-conlicleiice in human kind, early hopes have not been real- ized, and there are many clouds in ■ the sky. And when the subject of pecans is mentioned there is a lietiviness around the heart. Thomasville, (leorgia, is work- ing for tlie (-'ity Beautiful, and the movement is ably supported l)y the 'J'iiiH's- hntei'ijrise, wdiitdi recently published tlie ftdlowing from a correspondent: Your recent editorial on the City Beautiful and tlie planting of shade trees, prompts me to suggest that the selestion of suitable kiuds of trees for street planting is an impor- tant part of the work. Permit me to advise that nut bearing trees are available for such use as well as for commercial orch- ard pilauting. They are beautiful, lo.ig-lived and in drre time will pro- duce crops, which will make them Interesting, particularly to the child- ren. When nuts are to be gather- ed, some peoijle of mature years are quite willing to be classed with the boys and girls. Your city fathers, iu directing this work of planting can well re- member that their work will live after them, and future generations will rise up and call them compli- mentary names if they plant choice pecans iu ditferent sections of your alreadv beairtiful citv. ^he NUT-GROW£R PlBLIb^HKD MONTHLY BY CAe NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as set'oiid-elass uiatter at the Postoffice at Puulau, Ga., iiiuler the Act of Congress of Maich 8, 1870. Stihscripiiflit^ SiO roits per Ainntin. Advcrfhimr Rates on Application. NOTICE Wlieu this paragraph is maikeil il lueaiis that your snbsjriptiou lias ex- pired aud tliat yoti are requested to re- new pruiuptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. Tlie subscription price is 50 cents }ipr annum, but if you will send $1.C0 your account will be credited for tluee years. DECEMBER. IQOS 111 the Georgiu-Florida terri- tory nut inirser.vnieii liave a la- Ijorious time in lifting stock as the rainfall for several months has been exceptionally light. The planting season is a busy time, but care should always i)e exercised in planting nut trees. Follow fully the instructions sent out by nurserymen and your loss- es will be much less than some planters have sustained. Mr. J. B. Wight's paper on Pecan rnvestnicnlsf^ reail at the C'hallanooga convention, which appears in this nunil)er of The KuT-{iRO\VER, carries with it the conviction that he presents his claims conservatively and logic- ally. The r^-ading of this paper aroused considerable discussion, but no one was able to controvert Mr. Wight's statements. The Department of Agricul- ture, recognizing the great com- mercial imporlance the pecan is attaining, not only in tiie South, but to the whole country, has made a special appropriation to aid in its development. The work planned and already in op- eration is along lines which the individual cannot do for himself yet is of importance to all con- cerned in perun production. THE NUT-GROWER ■as to iheir adaptal)ility to the soil and cliiuatic conditions of the locality, has been started liy the editor of The Niit-Grou-cr at Poulan, Ga. Several prominent nurserynien have contributed trees of aliout twenty varieties. The growth and bearing of these trees will be carefully noted and the statistics thus obtaiiKMl will be given wide public-ity. Two very luxuriant specimens of pecan, raised from seed planted in 1892, e.^ist on the campus, one being 33i feet liigh. Several otlier pecan trees were transplanted from nur- series, but did not recover from the transplanting as they were rather nntlirifty .specimens. The item above, clipped from a publicati(.>n entitled Forest ami Ornamental TreeH at CoUetje Station (Texas), seems to indi- cate but little interest in the most important tree to lie found in the state. In one of the papers jirepared for the recent Nut (Growers' con- vention is found the following in regard to pecans: "Where hiindretls of pounds were used a few years ago, thousands of pounds are used now. 1 was very mutdi struck by this fact a few days ago, when a [lecan grower made a remark 1o tin' ef- fect that his trade took his out- put m)w just as readily as it did years ago, though in the mean- time hiscrophad increased manv fidd." A test orchard for trying all the promising varieties of pecans Mr. Ohas. M. Barnwell, of Ra- conlon, Ga., has an orcdiard of ten thousand top-worked trees of the most popular vai'ielies of the pecan. These trees have been given the best of care and show growth and shapeliness which is a delight to anyone in- terested in nut culture. An added attraction is the fact (hat they have attained an age at which prolitable crops are in or- der. Tiiis grove is on the banks of the Flint river, a few miles below All)any, (Ja., where the next convention of tJie National Nut Grovters' Association will be held, and a trip by boat to tfiis place will likely be on the pro- Many people are investigating the prospects nut culture offers as an investment. This is a proper step to take, but it should be followed up carefully and the difficulties and dangers compar- ed with similar ctnnpromising features incident to other lines. Because pecan trees are attack- ed by the webworm ami occa- sionally are affected with rosette or scab, is no valid reason for concluding that the business will not prove prolitalile. The longer one studies the pecan, the more firmly will he be con- vinced that it will pay if proper- Iv handled. The founding of model and ex- perimental farms by several prominent railroad companies is a commendable move, and one that is capable of working out great good to the sections wdiere they are located and indirectly to the roads maintaining them. In southern territory the urgent work of testing varieties of the pecan in different localities might be^taken up in coopera- tion with the officers of the Nat- ional Nut Growers' AssTj.iation with profit, both direct and in- direct to the roads and great benefit to the public at large. The Nut-Growkr encounters difiiculties which do not ordin- arily apply to trade itiiblications. tJne of these is the withdrawal of advertisments for the reason that the advertisers' stock is sold out and that they cannot (ill orders. This state of affairs we reganlas a proof of efficient service to the industry. We . doubt however, that it is good policy on the part of our patrons, who are probaldy working hard to have a larger stock next year, to withdraw even temporarily from public m)tice. There is no doubt of the fact that this pub- lication has been influential in practically doubling the demand THE NUT-GROWER wo 6 P)o Co o)s

d as ati'ecting nut trees, there are by no means as many as prey on most fruit tfces. He stiys, from his observation, there is nothing particularly threaten- ing to pecan trees. J/A'AV: }!KXTl()X Among the new advertise- ments in this issue is that of AFr. T. S. McManus, of Waldo, Kla.- The Prncecflinr/s of the ]i)(»7 convention of the National Nut (irowers' Association are at last about ready for distribution, 'i'lie recent convention lixecl tlie price of tliis volume at $1.00. It is thought that this higher price might lead to an increase in the membership of the Association, as free copies are sent to all members in good standing. The hickory crop of Indiana was a failure. As a ustial thing, Indiana holds her own in this crop, but this year the long dry spell proved too much for it. Early in the season tlie trees were covered with nuts and the biggest crop in years was ex- pected. The first frost knocked the nuts from the trees and though to all outward appear- ances they were as good as ever, when cracked the kernel was found to be dried up. Walnuts and hazelnuts fared little better. The large pecan trees of the Wabash valley were a surprise to the growers who heard Mr. Nililack, of Indiana, tell aljout them at the convention. We have asked Mr. Nil)lack to write for us the substance of his report regarding one particular tree which he converted into Itimber before api)reciating its import- ance. INFOR2MA TIOX WANTED Editor Nut-Gkower : (Jiie of the largest, finest look- ing trees in my pecan grove has never borne. It is about 15 years old, has bW)onied six or seven years, and large numbers of nuts have formed; but they begin to fall about June 1 and by June 15 none are left. If you can suggest a remedy, I shall appreciate .your doing so; or it may be that some read- er will be kind enough to write me a remedy if you will publish this letter in your journal. J. M. BOXXKR. Camden, Ala. At the Chattanooga convention Prof. H. K. Miller, in discussing rosette, said that it does not ap- pear to be due to l)acteria, be- cause plant pathologists have 6 never been able to infect other trees from those already suffer- ing witli the trouble. A roset- ted tree, Mr. Miller said, niay be flianged to another soil and grow if all right otherwise. The disease is found in both wild and cultivated trees in all localities. Of two trees ten feet apart, one might lie affected and the other continue to remain entirely un affected. The speaker said he believed the trouble to be due either to lack of nourishment or to acute indigestion. Tiie Department of Agriculture is now making a systematic Inis- inessof collecting data in regard to the pecan. A census of tlie number of pecan trees in tlu' United States, with tlieir age, is now being made. L)ata as to cra(dung and storage of nuts is also being collected. BOOKS AM) CATALOGS Ford's Sound Seeds; Ford Bros., Ea- veuua, •). Catalog and Prii-e List cf seeds, plants and poultry. 7V/.S for Toiirisls in California is one of the Handbook Series being pub lishedby the California Pnmiotiou Com- mittee, San Francisco. It contains jxist such information abf ut the stale as tourists can utilize to advantage. I/ov.- to Plitnt and Care for an Uranus Oriluini ; a summary cf the es!-ential points. By J. W. Canada, editor Sou //• <•;•« Orchards and Homes, and S. Aral, manager Alvin Japanese Nursery. Price 3.J cents. J. W. Canada, Houston, Tex. Summit Nursery. M'mticello, ?'la., Miller & Gossanf, proprieltrs. Catalog and Price Li.st ; 20 pages, illustrated; devoted largely to descri]il if ns c f j ocai'S and iiistructic ns f ( r their culiivati(;n. ( ne of tlie finest Lut ca-alogs ve l;ave seen. Trade Mark DesicNS Copyrights &c. Anyone senrllnK a pkeuh mid riescrintinn may quickly ascertjiiii our ^.i-niuiii free whether an Invention is prohnbly priLentahle. Coniniuiiinil. tlonsntrictlyconfldential. HANDBOOK on Pateuta sent free. Oldest aireiiry for securing patents. P;tfents talien tliroueh Munn & Co. recelyi ipccialnotice, without charge, iutho Scientific flmericaju A handaomely illti^trnipd wefrkly. T.nrcest rir- ciJi;iti"ii nf HFiV Hcn.-iit:ti(^ .ii.Lirnal. M'tTrns. f3 a year; four niuntlis, ^1. Sold byall news-ieiilers. MUNN &Co.3«'«'"''«'"- New York Branch Office, 625 F St„ WashlDcton, D. C. THE NUT-GROOVER Ocean Sprin<>s Pecan Nursery Season 1908-1909 A\'ill be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, Ocean Springs, Miss. INVESTMENT ( iPPOPkTUNITY. No. 26. Al location, lirst-class in every respect. 320 acres now being planted in pecan trees of elioice varieties. Will subdivide into five acre Iracts. Will be cared for for five vears at price accepted. THE NUT-GROWER CO., Poulau, Ga. CHOICE LOCATION. No. l4. 400 acres near MonticcUo, Fla. Two-lliiiris of tlie tiact is in cultivation, balance in pine and liauhvocil timber. Locatt^d within half mile of new town and near a famous lake. Price |10 00 per acre. Rcisonable terms. THE N UT-GROW ■ ER Co., Poulau, Ga. S.\]MPLE NUTS of manyleading var- ieties for stud_v or exhibition j.Ui poses supplied at leasunablc lates. Seed nn.s furnislied only in United quortities. THE NUT-GROVVEK COMPANY, Poulau, Ga, SEED PECANS Stock s(,nud and lirst-class in everj" parlicuhu-. Choice graded Pecans ft r commercial pnr) cses. Large or small o;dei-s (-ircfully fillcil. Prices reasonaVile as qnalily of stock and ;.railc will per- mit. Best (if rt'tVre.ices. B. M. -WILSON, RocKlale, T-3M. Let us send you "Pecan Meats Picked Out" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know X\\ the es.i-ential ■nformation "Ont of a Nut Sliell " Investigate Pecans for jileasure, Pecans for ju-ofit. (lur jilan of free e.xperl suieriniendence in jdant- iiig large size ) et sins assures live iices and quick profi s. /(';■/ (■ '! odtiv Clingman Nursery ani Orchard Company, Lid. Kiethviiic, La. PECAN BEST VARIETIES SPECIAL LOW PRICES TREES Bear's Nurseries, Palalkn, Fla SacccsslaUy and Profitably GrownjJ Near Uic Lower AUaoilc and Gull Coasi |1 gCrowers and Diatribu- ma Orange. Nul and lose bushes and Oma- id Shrubs. Catalog free. GriWIna Bros Co.. JacksoBViHe, Fla. ALE! lOOO lbs. ^^"'nS^^t^'^^ 0\JKJ fiOS. SKell Pecans FrotscKer, Curtis &i Remdall varieties ■JOO Its-b Clay and 'Whip. IKJ^J tSU. poor-Will Peas Also ;i 90 acre farm adjoining my home i)lace, witli a new 6- i-dom dwelling, new liarn and ;55 acres in cultivation. 100 ytiung orange trees bearing on tlie place. Tliis property is well adapted to pecan culture. It is situated three and a lialf miles east of Waldo, Fla., and is liound- ed on the east liy Lake Santa Fe and on the west l)y Lake Hick- ory. T. S. McManus LaKe Vicvi' Pecau Farm Waldo, - Florida Satsuma Oranges Genuine Hardy Imported Stock Budded on Citrus Trifoliata FOR SIZES AND PRICES WRITE ALVIN JAPANESE buTding NURSERY Houston, Tex. PEG A MS r^othTn? ' -^ -■ " " ^ but Best Varieties Pecans Hartwell (Nurseries MartweH, Ga. S. W. Peek, Prop. Establislied 1S«2. Send for Catalog. THE NUT-GROWER .UMMIT J CHOICE - tws ali-ng the f<'nct'><. drive- ways or turnrows, where they can grow into majestic trees. They are deep rooted and do not much hin- der the growth of shrubs nor other trees. It is reasonable to suppose that these trees will be budded with fine varieties by the owner or a profes sional budder some time after they pass the first year, but if they are not budded, they are good anyway. Don't sav a word about the long time one has to wait for you have to wait anyway. The time is not long, if one buds from the Texas Prolific, (Sovereign) or other varie- ties that are known, or may be found, which bear young. Now, when it comes to talking about new varieties by name, it is like trying to name one's favorite among his children. I believe the Oliver, of Kimble county is the largest good pecan in the state. It has borne eighteen bushels at one crop, and the tree is very large. The Laney pecan, from Llano county, is not very large and of a dark, unattractive color, but the shell is very thin and the kernels rattle out like grains of corn For ease in shelling or cleaning, if I ever saw a pecan that will score 100 on these points, it is the Laney. The Burkhardt pscan is from near Falls City. Mr. James Hurt, of Austin, years ago handled many carloads of pecans. Since the or- ganization of our state society, he has had impressed upon hiin the value of superior pecans, and re- membered them of old and secured samples and grafts. lean hardly compliment it more than to say he i considers it a rival of San .Saba. It is long and slender. The Peerless is a huge, short, nearly round pecan, of a very light, clean, yellowish color, and very nearlv perfection on the inside. Mr. J. C. Bowman foimd it on the farm of Eugene Smith, on the Col- orado river, ten miles below Aus- tin. I consider it of great value. W. J. Millican and brother, of(j vSan Saba county, sent me samples^ of five or six pecans — all fine and one extra good. They ought to introduce them. There are many other good new pecans. They are coming to stay, and when they have come it will be a great day for Texas — happy healthful days for children and grown-up children; and days ful of satisfaction for him who thinks first of the financial side of a sub ject. — F. P. Ramsey, before State Nut Grosvers' Association, a' Brnwnsville. Texas. THB JSUT-ai^aWBR SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exlnbliiou purposes supplied at re.isonahle rates, Seetl nurs lurnislieil only in liniitid quantities, THE NU f-tiHOWER COM- PANY, Houlaii, (ia CHOICE LOCATION -No. 24 400 acres, near MoiitMvllu, Fla Two thirds of tlie tracr is in cultivation, balance in pine and hardwood tim- ber. Located wilhin half mile (d new town and near a famous lake Price. Slttoo jier acre. Reasonable terms. THK NI' r-( KOVVKR COVI- PANY, Poulan, lia INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY -No. 2(j. Al location, lirst-class iii every respect. 320 acres now beitip: jilanieil in jjecan trees t citfls anil a baiv\u, ml Aii.um. emU'ed "SOtlVli ^lu OK TMlfi WOKLP," size 6x8 iiiches, B* |iat;es. contaiiiiiiji Tn iiiieresrmtj and instructive views fiom ill o\e the worhl, Woman's World, ("hicago—Literary and family Siiccesslul Farmin};, DesVl..ine<— Asriculiure. Universal maiiazij'e. St Louis --Literary Household .louriml and Floral Life Ohio (ireat West Majiazine, lienv.-r- Educational The l''a'mer's vVife, St Paul- -Huusehold. The Meiropolitan and Rural Home, .\ew York, p.. uliry Topics. Lincoln. Neb— Pruilir> iiaper. (Jiiitlewoman, New York --Household, Kiorai. Evervilay Life, rhicaeo - literary and -lories. The abiive magazines have been carelnlh se- lected and are n all resiiecrs equal t« moat cd the 50cent inaL'azi es of their class choose tlie one you \> ant and send 2ri cents today Aiieiits wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY Nfi l.l Keystone HIdfr. Chalfanooga, Tenn. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. BDl \ mW (IROIH The Best Investment that can now be made In the United States or elsewhei'e. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted .stand- ara paper shell varietie.s. one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native health of ihe piper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated b.v nurserymen were oi'iginated. I now have four groves read.v for de- livery and sevei'al thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a verj' special bartjain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between the pecansi which includes 20.000 stocks for the comingseason'sgrafting. asplen- did opening for a combination grove and nurser.3'. on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnl.-.h trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsutna orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy ana com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All gratting wood .and treesgrown from bearing trees in my o^vn groves, hence absolutely true to name. Ko guess work— you get ex- aetl.v what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Scranton County, JACKSON, MISS. T iiH N III- c; /v' r > W ' 75 /v' SHAGBARK GRAFTS. Who Has Them in Bearing? Deak Doctor Wilson : -I wish ymi could ask through 'The Nut- Grower" for the results of shagbark grafting by men who have done this W(rk far enough back to have results in fruiting. A few men have put in shagbark grafts, but I cannot find anyone who reports upon the t ime required for fruiting, e.xcepting the case of Hales' paper- sheil, where twenty years elapsed between grafting and fruiting. The grafting wa^ upon young stocks. We ought to learn if tiie time is not shorter with some other varie- ties, and very much shorter when old trees were used as stocks. Yours truly, ROBT. T JIORIIIS. 6i6 Madison Ave.. New York. 5 Almonds for Texas. pi IT Sal .standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling' trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4.000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, (lA. Gainesville Nurseries, Gainesville, Florida. Make a specialty of Budded and Graff ed Pecan trees of such standard varieties as have aeood record behind them. Ourcat- alog will not only help in theselection of varieties, but will assist you In the plant- lug and culture. It's free for the asking. QAINESVlLLEj FLORIDA. African Edible Nuts. In answer to inquiries, Consul- General Robert P. Skinner, of Mar- seille, furnishes the following in- form;ition relative to some new edible nuts of the West Coast of Africii. The dyka nuts have no present commercial value whatever, and are not dealt in commercially, either in Marseille or on the West Coast of Africa. This mil is used bv the West Coast natives to some extent for the production of a veg- etable butter. Thus far, although complete knowledge is available in regard to the article, it has not been found possible to utilize it prac- tically. On the other hand, the fruit of the karite tree is now being han- dled in fair commercial quantities, for the production of a cheap type of vegetable grease, useful for the manufacture of soap and candles. The natives of Africa hull the nut, which somewhat resembles the chestnut, mash and boil the ker- nels, skimming oflf the floating grease, which has also an alimen- tary value. Another edible nut of commerce, comparatively unknown in the United States, is the acajou or ma- hogany nut, the kernel of which is solid, large and sweet, and resem- bles the almond in flavor. Some shipments of this nut have been made to the United States within the last year or two. - California Fruit Grower. CHARLES HERNDON. The almond nut, a native of the Mediterranean region and Western Asia, will also grow in East Texas and should be exteni^ively cultivat- ed. About six y-ears ago ,\lr. G. A. Owens, of Van Zandl county, bought of a Tennessee nurseryman a young almond tree and planted it. ju-t as an experiment. To his sur- prise it began to bear, growing more prolific each year. It is now about fifteen feet high and a half foot in diameter, and has been bear- ing for several years. The nuts are of good size and equal in qualit) to those bought in the stores. He says that the almond will grow wherever the peach will, for it be- longs to the same family. If this is so, there is no reason whj' the apricot and prune would not grow here as well as does the peach and plum, likewise the English walnut and the pecan. I believe there are many products of the soil that are adapted to our land and climate that are not yet grown. We have fallen into the habit of accepting the same old crops that have been handed down to us by our fathers, believing that only those will grow to advantage. But if the nursery- men and the fruit and truck men would experiment with all kinds of fruits and vegetables they would soon discover that in East Texas half the crops of the world will grow and flourish. Smith Co., Texas. Note — Almonds have been tested more or less carefully by many nurserymen and fruit growers of Texas. We now and then find a tree bearing nuts with a fair degree of regularity, but not one in ten has succeeded thus far. Some time some one will fall on a sort which will bloom late enough to escape late frosts in this section and the almond industry will be on a safe basis Agriculture, horticulture and kindred subjects of interest to the farmer will occupy more than 50 per cent, of the entire exhibit space at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo- sition, to be held in Seattle during the summer of 1909, June i to October 16. 6 THE NUT -GROWER PDBLISBKD MONTHLY BY rShe NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as secou'l-class matter at rlie PostotHce at Poulau, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. NOTICE When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew pi'omptly, as postal regulations do not pertnit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send .§1.00 your account will be credited for three years. JANUARY, 1909. Til B ^ U 7 - a R O \\B li The planting ol nut trees on school irnuuids lias much to com- mend it. Tlie editor got into :in ;irbor-dav program and exercises in his home town recently, by con- tributing a pecan li'ee to each of several class organizations, which assumed the work of planting and caring for them. A news item in another column indicates that some active work is being done in California in line of organizing the nut growers of that state as a part of the National organization. The Progressive Farmer (Ral- eigh, N. C.,) is a welcome addition to our exchange list. It makes a special plea for larger profits, with- out enlargfng the number of acres in cultivation. Active planting of trees is now the order of the day with nut grow- ers. Tliis should be done carefully and intelligently as that means a good stand and good growth the first seasoti. Lack of care means a poor stand and poor growth. By a letter in another column, Dr. Morris asks for names of par- ties who have Shagbark grafts in bearing. This is important in- formation, if there are results to report, or even failures to obtain re- sults will be useful if causes of fail- ure are known. The keeping qualities of nuts, which enable them to be held until a convenient time for marketing arrives, is a strong argument in their favor, as compared with com- mon fruits, such as peaches, pears or berries, where bad markets, bad weather or other accidents often result in serious losses after the crop has been successfully grown. All of these pit-falls have no terror to the man who has a crop of pe- cans or nuts of ;iny kind ready for market. There is a lack of authorative re- ports as to the percentage of pecan kernels obtained from a pound of nuts. The scale of points for scor- ing nuts does not specially provide for this data, but it is an important characteristic, especially wlien it runs as high as 59.37 per cent., a result obtained by a careful weigh- ing of a sample lot of the "Grace," a seedling found at the editor's iiome grounds. Several recent issues, as well as some succeeding numbers are given up largely to matters growing out of the Chattanooga convention, and in all of these the pecan fig- ures largely. The prominence at- tained by this "prince of nuts" has stimulated interest in other nuts as well, and our present program is to issue several special numbers dur- ing 1909, one to be a Hickory special, another to be devoted to the Walnut and a third lo the Chestnut, Much of the matter for these issues is already in hand and special contributions are being so- licited with a view to making them of much interest and value. An increasing number of ques- tions come to the editor each jear and with this number we resume the "Qiiestions and Answers" de- partment, giving it prominent and regular attention. These questions will frequently be referred to ex- perts for reply and as they cover a wide range of subjects, will prove interesting and instructive to our readers. Each succeeding year adds many new readers to our se- lect list and most of tiiese are be- ginners in the business. As this class need assistance more than the old-timers we propose to draw on the latter class for answers, which will enable them to make their ex- periences of public benefit. i Mr. Wight's famous Frotscher tree has made a new record with its 1908 product in yielding 169 pounds of nuts. This is the thir- teenth successive crop, although the tree is only seventeen years old Thus far it has produced 647 pound which have sold at fifty cents poinid to a regular customer. Thi tree cost two dollars in 1893 and the presumption is that Mr. Weight ha^ found a profit out of the bud- ding and grafting wooil il has been furnishing all these years but his records do not disclose the fact that his two dollars were well invested, even if he had obtained no returns from the nuts. It will not be sale for anv one to figure out his per- centage of profit as some. ves many, argue that there Is something wrong with any proposition which prom- ises more than the usual rate of in- terest. "New Pecans" was the subject of Mr. F T. Ramsey's address at the Texas Association's meeting at Brownsville recently. We take pleasure in reproducing this address as published in Farm and Ranch. Some of his observations are unique as well as interesting. His argu- ment fits so well one of the names he applies to pecans in comparison with other nuts that it seems worthy of general adoption, especially by those who think as Mr. Ramsey does. "Prince of Nuts" is a good and fitting name and we need such a title for general use with the public. We are willing for the walnut or nigger-toe to be called the king and will accept the almond or chestnut for queen, but the pe- can is our candidate for the title of "prince," as that potentate is al- ways a public favorite and has grounds for aspiring to the greatest usefulness and most commanding position. The demand for authorative data as to adaptation of varieties to dif- fei-ent localities becomes more urgent as the orchard area is be- ing increased. This information is wanted by the nurseryiuen, the planter, the farmer and the pro- inoter as well as those just be- ginning the business. A few days TUB NUT' a U a WB l< Mm/t ^wmmmwml R#ai This! >VK WOULD CALL, YOUR ATTENTION TO Thomas Phosphate PoAvder Total Phosphoric Acid 15 to 18 Per Cent,. [basic slag phosphate] A:VALYZI>(i Lime 35 to 50 Per Cent.. Magnesia and Iron 18to20PerCent>. This material is beino: largely u^ed by some of the most iiitelli);eut nut and fruit Growers in this country with spleudid results Why uotYoU? There is no material kuown that Si) stroiif^ly appeals to you as this, because: lu addition to the PHOSPHORIC ACID, it coutains also large amounts of LIME. MAUNKSIA and IRON, which are very necessary iu assisting in large production of fruit and at the same time keeping your trees healthy and vigorous. It is not treated with SUlPHURIC ACID like Acid )>hosphate and cannot destroy the humus matter in your soilsand make them sojr and uuproduciive, and many other reasons. This space is too small to tell you all about it. Write for descriptive pamphlet and prices. In addition to Thomas Phosphate Powder we impoit and handle NITRATE or POTASH MURIATE OP POTASH DRIED BLOOD PERUVIAN (jUANO SULPHATE OP POTASH NITRATE OP SODA KAINIT li'Sw Y#f k Clhii.rl#stoiia S. Oi ago the editor, in response td a telegram, fixed a date for a con- ference with an interesied pecan grower who lives about i300 miles away and when he arrived at the ap- pointed time, his chief object proved to be a heart to heart talk about varieties best suited to his locality. He wanted definite data on this line. While we have been diligent in collecting information in this particular for the past ten years, still our knowledge is very limited, but at llie same time claim that we are as well posted as the circum- stances will permit. Personal Mention. Mere Mention. The exhibit of Indiana pecans at the Chattanooga Convention ex- cited much attention. The Georgia Florida Nut Grow- ers will convene at Cairo, Ga., during the month of May. One of the most certain things in nut culture is the assurance of a regular market at remunerative price for all the choice nuts that can be grown. The Norfolk Proceedings. This complete report of the 1907 convention is ready for distribution and goes to all Life Members, and active membeis whose dues are paid for that year. Others can obtain copies for $1.00 of the Secretarj', at Potilan, Ga. Prof. 0. G. Woobury, of Pur- due University, Indiana, was a new but interesting and welcome addition to the association working force. Mr. Herbert C. White, of De- Witt, Gil., has arranged to devote his time more largely to the or- chard interests in which he is largely interested. Mr. A. C. Davenport of South Omaha, Neb., called at the Nut- Grower office recently, stopping over one train on a trip to see his Florida pecan interests. Mr. C. A. Reed, of the Department of Agriculture, during the past season visited different sections of the pecan ijelt in conducting expe- riment in cross fertilization of the standard varieties. Turkish Hazelnut Growing. Consul Milo A. Jewett, writing from Trebizond, furnishes the fol- lowing description of filbert pro- duction in Asiatic Turkey : The hazelnuts (filberts) of this part of Asia Minor, especially those of the Kerassund region, are considered as fine as any in the world, and form one of the most important articles of export of this consular district. The crop last year was below the average in quantitj' but of good quality. There were exported from this province in 1906, So, 000 hundred- weight (of 113 pounds each) of nuts in the shell and 85,000 hun- dredweight shelled There were sent direct to the United States 6.- 340 hundredweight, practically all shelled, valued at $63,834. Dur- ing the year the price of shelled filberts rose gradually from $8.70 to $14.50 per hundredweight. They are now held at |i6 to $16. So for the better grade of shelled nut. Along the south shore of the Black Sea the hazel tree (Corylus avellanaj flourishes and furnishes one of the chief sources of revenue of the province of Trebizond. The young trees begin to bear at the end of the fourth or fifth year, and are at their best when seven or eight years old. When fifteen or twenty years old the trees cease to bear and the orchard must be re- newed. It is estimated that 400,- 000 acres of land on the hillsides along this coast and extending ten to fifteen miles inland are devoted to filbert culture. The nuts are gathered in July and August. They are dried and sorted to some extent before being brought to the market. At Kerassand a mu- nicipal regulation imposing a fine on those who offer wet or rotten nuts for sale in the market has done much to improve the reputation of the Kerassund nuts. (continued in FEBRUARY NUMBER.) 8 THB ^UT-G1^()\\BH TEXAS NUT GROWERS. By F. T. Ramsey, Winter Meeting at Brownsville. A meeting of our State Nut Growers Association svas lield at Brownsville on J^mi'^irv '.V'^ ^"""^ and 14th, in conjunction with the State Horticultural Society and the Nurserymen's Association. Tiie attendance was better than any we have had yet and much interest was shown in the papers and addresses. Brownsville is right on the Rio Grande, at the extreme south point of Texas. The recent big cold spell and the meeting were on hand at the same time, but it registered only 28 degrees, so tlie citrus fruits were not hurt. The town is full of or- anges and lemons — large trees full of the yellow fruit. While it was 38 degrees there it was far below zero in the northern part of the state. The Society was entertained royally and in manv ways, includ- ing a trip across the river into Matamoros, Mexico. There are no wild pecans there, but a dozen seedlings planted twelve or fifteen years ago are ex- tra large for their age and demon- strate that the country is as good as the best for the business. Noth- ing grows there without irrigation and immense canals are being dug, since the railroad reached it two years ago. The exhibit of nuts was not so large as at Abilene last year, but very instructive. E. E. Risien was awarded first prize for general collection. Our annual summer meeting will be held with the Farmers' Congress, at College Station, in July. When we reached Brownsville telegrams awaited some of us an- nouncing the sudden death of Mr. C. Falkner, of Waco. He was one of our most enthusiastic and extensive planters of pecans and was the first president of our So- ciety. He shipped the first car of peaches out of Texas. The Society held memorial ser- vices at the hour of his funeral. — ^ Seed Catalog for 1909 — N. L. Willet Seed Co.. Augusta, Ga. ; 72 pages of particular interest to south- ern farmers. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, o^^^an springs, MISSISSIPPI. Proceedings f E C A N The following volumes of Pro- ceedings of the National Nut- Growers' Association can be obtained at prices whi:h were established at the Chattanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, ^ .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .50 per copy Norfolk, 1807, i.oopercop) J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, GEORGIA Crushing Filberts in Spain. From a c(jmmunication addressed to the American Consul at Trebi- zond, Turkey, by the consular agent at Tarragona, Consul-Gen- eral Frank D. Hill of Barcelona, extracts the following: The crushing of filberts is done to a large extent by hand labor (principally female, as being the more economical) in the districts where the fruit is grown. There is reallv no scientific machinery for efl'ecting the operation, but mer- chants and exporters have contriv- ed a shelling apparatus, no invent- or of which is known, and which, primitive as it is. gives satisfactory results. The crushing of the shell being ert'ected in an ordinary grimling or bruising mill, the kernel and shells run promiscuously by their own weight into the apparatus. The latter consists of a long caisson, fixed in a slightly inclined plane, its bottom consisting of wire net- ting whose meshes increase in size as it extends farther away from the mill and feeder. A long cone revolves within the caisson, and progressively impinges the filberts over the meshes, they falling through the openings of cor- responding size into a receptacle. A very small proportion of shell PitlntUa, - .-. ■. - Florirfn. Jtre Sncctsslnlly and ProllUMy Gronii|i \Ncar Ibc Lower AUapUc and Gull Coast T iWeare leading Growers and Distribu- tors of Salsuma Grange. Nul and|]| Fruit trees. Rosebushes and Omi- _ lental trees and Shrubs Catalog free jl ^'^TIieSriBlnq tns Co.. Jadmwvifle. n»j| Ml, — Jf.^ lii I iihi- ■ ■-" also falls through, which is picked out on large inclined tables, but by far the greater part is left behind in the caisson, whence it is emptied from time to time. These contriv- ances give entire satisfaction ;ind may be worked by hand :ower or by motor. The entire cost of the operation is reported to be less than 20 francs ($3.86) per ton. The cost of the apparatus is about 800 francs (| 154.40). ^ Nut Chocolate Caramels. ''Nut chocolate caramels are a rich, delicious confection, immense- ly popular," says Fannie Merritt Farmer, in Woman's Home Com- panion for December. "Put three and one-haif tablespoonfuls of but- ter in a sauce pan and when melt- ed, add two cupfuls of molasses, one cupful of brown sugar and one- hiilf cupful of milk. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, bring to tiie boil- ing point, add four and one-halt squares of unsweetened chocolate, and stir constantly until the choco- late is melted Let boil until, when tried in cold water, a firm ball may be formed in the fingers. Remove from the range, add one and one- half teaspoonfuls of vanilhi and one half pound of almonds, blanched and chopped Turn into a butter- ed pan. ci)ol anil cut into small scjuares." NEWS ITEMS. TUB NUT'GKOWBn NUT GROWERS OF CALI- FORNIA MAY ORGANIZE The 190S walnut crop in Soutli- ein Calit'orniu is valued at |2,ooo, 000. From 1,500 to 3,000 pounds to the acre is regarded as a good crop. The pecan in Northern Mexico is atlracting allention as a market crop. I'racticallv all all the pro- duct is sold in the United States. The chestnut crop in Tennessee came into prominence the past sea- son owing to shortage in other localities Mr Chus. M. Barnwell, oF Ba- contoii, Ga., has planted sixtv-five acres of additional pecan orchard, and has trees growing for two hundred and sixty-five acres more to be planted next season. The Flint River Pecan Co., of Albany, Ga.,has purchased a 2,000 acre tract in Lee county, Ga., and is now planting part of the tract. The winter meeting of Texas Nut Growers Association was held at Brownsville Januarv 131 h and 14th, in connection with the State .Horticultural Society and the Texas Nurseryman's Association. Practical farmers are wanted to take up 200,000 acres of govern- ment land for which irrigation will be available next season. The^e lands are located in various sec- tions of the west. Frank Wilson,- of Sunnvvale, Cal., has been experimenting for several years past with English walnut trees, and has at last devel- oped a new variety, which he claims is a strong blight resister, a late bloomer, so that it will be free from fronts, is a thin-shelled nut. which is very rich and sweet. It is a most prolific bearer and begins very early to fruit. Grafted trees in the nursery growing under diffi- culties began to bear the first vear. Twelve large nuts were taken from one tree and twenty-two from a two year-old tree. These nuts were enormous, according to the '•Cali- fornia Fruit Grower," one of them measuring 6f inches in circumfer- ence one way by 5J the other. Twelve of these nulh laid side by side covered a space over 32 inches long. This shows something of th.e bearing qualities of this new variety. Promotion Committee of the State Acts on Suggestion of National Body. Acting 0.1 the suggestion of the National Nut Growers' Association conveyed in a letter from the secre- t.nry of the organization. J. F. Wil- son, of Poulan, Ga., the California Promotion Committee has taken up, with those intere-ted, the idea of forming an organization among the nut growers of California. It is expected that word will be re- ceived within the next two or three days from the chamber f)f om- nierce of .Santa Barbara county giv- ing the views of the growers of that district, which is one ol the largest producers of nuts in the state. The committee points out that much good would result from the formation of an alliance among the producers of nuts in California, which in 1907 produced i2, coo, 000 poinids of walnii s and 2.000,000 pounds of almonds, Burbank Talks About Pecans. Luther i>urbank, the horticultu- ral wizard of California, is quoted as saying regarding the possibilities of the pecan industry in Texas : ■'If I were a young man I would ■ go to Texas, knowing as I do the possibilities of the pecan indu.'try, and devote my life in propagating new species of the pecan and doing the same work there in nut culture as I have done here in other lines of horticulture. Your pecan is su- perior to our walnut and you are standing in your own liglit : why not develop it? 1 cannot think of any kind of diversification likely to pay the vSouthern farmer as well as pecan growing. Cotton will not alwavs be ten cents a pound ; when it gets down to five and six cents again the income from a grove of pecans will be very acceptable. Cutlcni can be raided between the trees while they are small and when they get large enough to shade the land the income from them will be greater than that from a much larger area in cotton, ever, at pre-ent prices. fAnJ get a tree of the PRESIDENT, tk* | Best of all Pecans. FREE. I IT'S LarRc. Thin-stielled. Full of Moat. C^ood Color n Good Quality, and IT BEARS ABUNDANTLY I^Write tor caatatog of Fruit and Nut trees, and lor] information al,out joining the President Pecan Club / I ^We Iiave Ornamental and Shade trees. Hedges, Rose bushes and Shrubbery too" Address I The Griffmg Bros. Co.. 'Nurserymen. Jacksonville. Florida SUCCESS .NA.rUKAl. SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear andnever failed to fillat both ends with kernels of best quality. KKdlTEL PECA^ iXUItSERIRS OCEAN SPRINOS MISS. Barnwell Pecan Groves j^orBud: ded and (irafted trees "f the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Satsuma Oranges Genuine Hardy Imported Stock Budded on Citrus Trifoliata FOR SIZES AND PRICES WRITE Alvln Japanese Nursery, MASON Bl II^UIISG HOUSTON, .-. TKXAS. 60 YEARS' ERIENCE Trade Mark Designs Copyrights &c. AnTOne sending a skcti-li nnd description may ouiclily ascertain our oiuiuon free whether an liiTention is prohnMy rntentaWe. Conimunicn- tlons strictly contlde.il Inl. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest uirency for securing patents. Patents taken throush Munu & Co. recelTf tpecialnotice, without charee. in the Scientific flitterican. A. handsomely illnsfrnted weekly. 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Nuts of Caret, from Biloxi, Miss., forty- seven to the pound. Tliese two varieties were of large size and fine quality. Mr. W. N. Roper, Petersburg. Va.. showed specimens of Mantu- ra, a nut originating in Surry The Chattanooga Exhib it. The following is a catalogue of exhibits made by mein bars of the county, Va. A valuable nut, espe- Association with notes on them by cially for growing in the northern the Committee of Nomenclature range of pecan culture. and Standards: ^Ir. Herbert C.White, DeWitt, Ga. c -^ -KT • Tit .• n T71 Patent Budding Tools. Summit Nurseries. Monticello. i' la ^ Trees. Two year top on three year root, Schley, 8 feet long. Trees. Two year top on three year root, Delmas Trees. One year bud on two year root, Schley, 6 feet long. Trees. One year top on two year root, Stuart, 8 feet long. Trees. Standard 3-4 ft. grade, .Success. Trees. Standard 3-4 ft. grade, Delmas. Trees. One year bud on twn year root, Sweet Meat, 8 feet long. Trees. Standard 3-4 ft. grade, Van Deman. Trees. One year top on two year root, grafted, Schlc)'. Trees. Standard 3-4 ft. grade, Frotscher. Trees. Standard y^ ft. grade, Interesting specimens of annular, semi-annular and chip buds. Specimen nuts of Van Deman, Alley, Frotscher, Delmas, Schley and Rowe. Professor Van Deman exhibited nuts of Claremont and two sample clusters having seven nuts each. This variety originated at Farriday, La. The tree is 30 years old and yielded this year a crop of 300 pounds of nuts. S. H. James, of Mound, La , ex- hibited nuts of the variety Carman. ■ J. B. Wight, of Cairo, Ga., ex- hibited nuts of variety Frotscher, also two shells containing Brazil nuts. Professor Van Deman showed a few nuts of the variety Nelson, grown by B. \L Young, of Morgan, City, La. The nuts were very )ld c with pecan nuts tastefully mounted tree or ' to show form of nuts and kernels. Dewey. vT » -c /: ij . f larue, and bright color, but were Nuts, r roin 6 year old tree 01 " ' " u 1 , 1 • 1," nof)rlv filled. Schley bearing 5 lbs. 1 - _ XT ^ t;' ij . f The TefTerson Nursery Co., of Nuts. 1' rom 3s year old tree 01 ' -' ni 1 . • "lu Monticello, Fla., showed a case Clark bearing 100 lbs. Nuts. From 6 year i Delmas bearing 8 lbs. Nuts. From 6 year ( Moore bearing 30 lbs. Nuts. From 7 year old tree of Moore bearing 60 lbs. Nuts. From 7 year old tree of Dewey bearing 75 lbs. This is the original tree, owned by L. A. Morris, of Monticello, Fla. Nuts from 15 year old tree of Eggshell, bearing loo lbs. I rce of The varieties in the case were Moore No. i, Moore Xo. 3, Stiiatt. Schley, Columbia, Dewey. Delma-. and Pabsl. Three photographs, showing fruiting tree 7 years o'd, well laden with mils, (irafted pe- can 7 years oiil bearing in 19(18, 60 pounds of nuts. 6 year old iret- bearing heaxilv. Mr A. C. Poinerov, Lockport, N. v., showi-'il .| jars of Persian walnuts, 3 enlarged pictures and 4 photographs showing trees in fruit. Mr. J. G. Rush, of West Willow, Pa., showed specimens of Weikes hickoiy nuts, Persian walnuts and filberts. Mr. John S. Horlbeck, of Cliarles- ton, showed 8 jars of seedling pe- cans. Mrs. W'm. Buchanan showed a jar ol small pecans which ripened .September ist. W. S. Hogerson, Sumter county. Ga., showed nuts of a 30 year old tree which had never failed to pro- duce a crop for the la>:t 13 years. Tree 45 ft high and spreading40 ft. Gritting Bros., Jacksonville, Fla., showed 2 jars of nuts of variety President. This is a very fine full mealed nut. Mr. Niblack, of Vincennes,Ind., showed Japanese walnuts from or- chard of 1400 seedlings in Ellihart county, Ind. One jar of McAllister Hickons grown near Mt. Vernon, Posey county, Ind. : 7 jars of wild pecans, two varieties of fine quality and worthy of propagation for northern planting; 1 jar Mammoth Acorns. E. M. Treakle, of La Fayette, La., showed 5 lb. lots of varieties fewett. Van Deman, Centennial and Stuart. Tti6 Farm Trio The Nut-Grower, 1 year - - $ .50 The Farm Journal, 2 years - - .40 The Garden Magazine-Farmer 1.00 Total - - - - - - $1.90 All Three Publications for ONE DOLLAR . . . We make this advantageous offer to encourage renewals as well as for obtaining new subscribers to the Nut-Grower. The Garden Magazinc-rarmer Is a beautiful and useful publication. The Farm Journal Is unsurpassed, and can be called the "boiled down' farm publica- tion. The Nut-Orower Will sound its own praises, when read. Send order and remittance direct to The Nut-Grower Co. Pouian, Georgia. TIIU ISUT-GHOWBH 11 Books and Catalogues. IIastincs Seeds — Catalogue No. 37; H. G. HiiRtings & Co , Atlanta, Ga. ; 60 pages of impor- tant descriptions and illustrations. The Tree Saver — Scalecide — G. B. Pratt Co., New York; 16 illustrated pages of timely informa- tion. How TO Spray — Gauld's Manu- facturing Co., Seneca Falls, N.Y. ; 30 page finely illustrated Catalogue and formula. Telling about Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees — C. A. Yancy, Bunkie.La. ; 15 pages, with cut of the author and illustrations of several well-known varieties. Spraying Crops — Catalogue No 73; Fairbanks, Morse & Co,, Chicago, 111., gives many formulas for spray mixtures and describes .appliances they have for sale. Bayview Pecan Nursery, C. Ferkert proprietor, Ocean Springs, Miss — A six-page post card folder with fine illustrations of Pecan trees and nursery grounds. Bee Keeping for Sedentary Folk — An interesting booklet by T. Chalmei Potter, reprinted from The Interior. The I. A. Root Co.. Medina, Ohio. Griffing's S e m I - T ropical Catalogue — 32 illustrated pages. Griffing's Semi-Tropical Nurseries, McAldin, Tex. Nanz & Neuner — Illustrated catalog of seeds, plants, and bulbs, 76 pages. A Few Orchard Plant Lice — Colorado Experiment Station Bul- letin No. 133, Fort Collins, Colo. Hy C. P. Gillette ancJE. P. Taylor. Nineteenth Annual Catalog — C:irter Wire Fence Machine Co., Mt. Sterling, Ohio. Mixing and Placing Concrete BY Hand — Bulletin No. 20 of the Association of American Portland Cement M'f'rs., Philadelphia, Pa. Agriculture for Southern Schools — By J. F. Duggar. A most valuable elementary woik; published by the Macmillan Co., Atlanta, Ga. Price, 75 cents. This work covers a wide and important range of practical subjects. The author has used his twenty years of experience in teaching southern ag- riculture to advantage in this work, and it should be widely used in our common schools. It furnishes an excellent foundation for a thorough education in this field, where text books are few and rarely adapted to southern conditions. [K y <"¥■<' fi* ii ii ii ii'*n' »i >'i'>n''i iifiiyym mnni^^. ji FLORIDA MONTICELLO, Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses —OUR SPKCIAI.TIKS— The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of ■ the Future ;OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.I "'ii'itf -'i'-'-' ■fn'i-' ' I'll* 'r' 'ft' ' I' • '-• -• -'-' ' ' ifi Miassachiiisetts Agricu.lttjLral THE NUT^GROWER Veluma VII Numbar 7 Poulan, Ga., February, 1909. 5c per Copy 50c par Yaar NORFOLK PROCEEDINGS An Interesting and Valuable Publication. In common with young enter- prises and organizations, the Na- tional Nut-Growers Association has had much important work to perform, while financial support was not only inadequate but irreg- ular. Working on a basis of a safe and sound business policj', much has been left undone, and other matters delayed, until funds were available. This necessarily delay- ed the prompt publication and dis- tribution of the proceeding* of the sixth annual convention, which was held at the Jamestown Expo- sition, September 27 and 28, 1907. This volume was received from the press early in the present year, and is a neat pamphlet of 112 pages of select reading mattei and several pages of select advertising. It is a complete and well edited re- port of the convention, containing in full all the addresses by the dis- tinguished speakers, a stenographic report of the numerous discussions of important and interesting sub- jects, the reports of state vice- presidents as well as reports of all the convention's special and stand- ing committees. Prof. Burnette, in his address as president of the Association, re- viewed the work of the organiza- tion, showing what great and bene- ficial results had been accomplished which had given confidence to the industry "because the men who organized it and made up its mem- bership are men of information and men of experience." He gave a concise statement of the present status of the industry and enumer- ated some of the problems, which the future will bring into view. Prof. Hume's address on "the scale of points and its application" and the discussions following same occupy about ten pages. Any one reading this will surely have his interest in the pecan increased. Dr. Morris and the Shagbark Hickorj' puts on record the most scientific and interesting data, in this particular, obtainable at the date of convention. A paper of particular value to those just entering the business, by Dr. Van Duzee, should be widely read. The quotations following indicate the trend of the speaker's remarks : "Having trodden the unfamiliar pathways which the novice must follow, and knowing the dangers which surround him, it is a pleasure to contribute my mite towards the glorious effort which this Associa- tion is making to help every worthy man or woman to know, a{)preciate and enter upon the business of growing nut trees for the better- ment of the world, and for profit to themselves and those who live after them. * * * To those who con- template entering this inviting and most fascinating field I would earn- estly urge that you become a student of the literature available; that you subscribe to one or more jour- nals devoted to this particular sub- ject; that you become a member of the National Nut-Growers Associa- tion and that you come to our meet- ings." Prof. Close's paper on nut grow- ing in Maryland, shows the present and prospective importance of the work in that state, where the chest- nut is the leading edible nut. The papers by Prof. John Craig, Cornell University, and Mr. Henry E. Dorch, of Oregon, are well worth the price of the volume. The reports from state vice-presi- dents are a valuable feature of the volume, as the}' give local coloring and show encouraging progress. The actual working of the associ- ation, the present status of affairs, and prospects for the future aie all in evidence in reports of the eight or ten committees. As a whole this volume of pro- ceedings contains a great amount and variety of data, history and theory as well, which can hardly fail to be of absorbing interest and great benefit to a great ma- jority of those desiring information. It is offered to the public at one dollar per copy, while the edition lasts. Members in good standing are entitled to a free copy each. The price was fixed by the recent convention at the amount mention- ed in order to encourage member- ship as well as to increase the revenues of the association. REVIEW OF NUT MARKETS. BY H. H. HUME. (Continued from January Number.) Nuts are becoming more and more an article ot diet ;they are being used in the kitchen in ways unthought of and unheard of only a fesv years ago. New confections with nuts as the principal part of their in- gredients, are constantly making their appearance. To gain if pos sible some idea of how true the statement just made may be, I took the liberty of writing to Huyler's, of New York City. This firm, as perhaps most of us are aware, is the largest concern manufacturing candies and confections in this country, and while they are ad- verse to giving out difinite figures in connection with their business, they have given me the following general information : "All we can say is, that of prime quality, high class nuts, we undoubtedly use a great many more than any other confectioner. As to consumption, it runs into tons upon tons of each of the kinds mentioned." I had asked them for information about pecans, walnuts, almonds, hickories and Brazil nuts. What is true of this firm is also true to a greater or less extent of all the manufacturing confectioners of the country. Moreover, nut foods are now being placed on the markets by several firms, so that we now have a dis- tinct and constantly increasing list of manufactured foods and other products with nuts as a basis. While in the North this summer, I h.ad an opportunity of looking into certain phases of this market question. Perhaps the most note- worthy observation made was the fact that nut kernels of various sorts, pecans, walnuts and almonds more particularly, could be pur- chased by the pound just as rice, sugar or coffee might be, in all the large grocery stores of the towns Read by title at the National Nut Growers' Convention. THE, NUT-GROWJBR visited, and, of course, confection- ers have been handling them in this way for a number of years past. All of us can remember the time when nut kernels could be purchas- ed in screw-top jars, usually with a little salt added. The fact that they can now be had so generally and brought home in a paper sack, without having to pay for a glass container, is decidedly to the ad- vantage of the house-wife and it is no wonder that she is becoming more and more interested in nuts and their uses. There is just one phase of this question, which may be lost sight of by venders, i. e., it is just as essential that walnut and pecan kernels should be kept in cold storage as it is that butter and cheese should be so kept. It appears from present tenden- cies, as I stated before the last meet- ing of this association, that the pro- ducer of manufactured products has done more to popularize nuts than all other agencies combined. Huyler says, ''Roughly speaking, we presume that in our line of busi- ness, nuts go into at least 50% of the different kinds of confections we manufacture." Most of the nuts used are not cracked by the manufacturer, and by far the great- est quantities reach him as extract- ed kernels. In reply to the ques- tion as to how supplies are pur- chased, Huyler replied : "The only way in which we buy these nuts is in the shape of the nut meats, with the exception of the walnuts, which we open ourselves " Hence, we can see that the mod- ern tendency in marketing nuts is to supply them to the confection- er, the baker, the food manufacturer and the house wife ready for use. We are too lazy or too busy doing other things to crack our own nuts, and the delightful occupation of sitting by a crackling fire, cracking nuts and eating the kernels or pre- paring them for he next day's kitchen mixtures is soon to become a "back-woods" recreation and a lost art. The extracted kernels ■ can now be purchased at about 60c per pound. This tendency has called into being, two new industries, the making of power nut crackers and the extracting of nut kernels. Crackers are now made to be driven by electrical, steam or gas power and the percentage of perfect half kernels turned out by them is very large. Factories have been estab- lished for the sole purpose of ex- tracting kernels. Hence, we see that several industries of different kinds have sprung into being as a result of the present day tendencies The Nut Industry trom the Viewpoint of tlie Nurseryman. BY W. F. [Read at the Chattanoog:a Convention.] . Those who assigned the subject on which I am to speak evidently desired to have some nurseryman engaged in the propagation of nut trees outline his views in a general way as to the present condition of the nut industry- and its prospects Nut culture in the United States has made rapid strides in recent years and is now one of our im- portant industries. My own ex- perience, covering a number of 3'cars in the propagation of the pe- can, convinces me that the pros- pect for the development of the nut industry is quite as bright as it appears to be the most sanguine. The statistics of the English walnut production on the Pacific Coast alone show remarkable increase, and judging by the high estimate placed upon the improved varieties of the pecan, it may be safely pre- dicted that no planting of them, however large, will meet the mar- ket demands for decades to come It is less than ten vears since the first planting of improved varieties of the pecan was made on any con- siderable scale. Of course it is reasonable to pre- in this comparatively new field of horticulture. Thus far I have dwelt entirely upon the commercial market out- look. In reference to the dessert nut trade, we may say that up to date the demand has been more than the supply-. Good dessert nuts are in demand at remunerative prices and we believe that this market will long continue to take the supply. A large portion of this trade is private, and the product does not find its way into the general market. Where hun- dreds of pounds were used a few years ago, thousands of pounds are used now. I was very much struck by this fact a few days ago when a pecan grower made a remark to the effect that his trade took his out-put just as readily now as it did years ago, though in the mean- time, his out-put had increased many fold. From present appear- ances, there will be little dit^culty in marketing the nut crops of the country, home consumption and foreign trade will take care of the out-put for j'ears to come, and in my opinion, indefinitely. HEIKES. sume that he who grows trees for the planter keeps himself well post- ed as to what is being done by others propagating the same char- acter of stock and as to the number of trees planted throughout the states, in order to form an intelli- gent opinion as to future demands. No nurseryman is going to under- take the propagation of any stock without the expectation that there will be a sale for it at a remunera- tive price, bearing in mind that its propagation will be profitable for but an uncertain period, if at all, unless the planter of it is ultimately benefitted. The nurseryman, though obliged to consider the pecuniary side of the question, should also be morally supported by the belief that his production may prove not only a benefit to the planter, but a blessing to the section where the planting is made. It is hardly necessary' to call your attention to the fact that but com- paratively few trees of the improv- ed varieties of the pecan planted for commercial purposes have come into bearing, and that as the num- ber increases an added stimulus will be given to further planting. I am speaking chiefly of the pecan, as it is the most important nut of the South in relation to the market, and as I have greater familiarity with its culture than with that of other nuts. In the course of the meeting oth- er members of the vSociety will doubtless have something to say in reference to the merits and propa- gation of other nuts grown in the states. Every nurseryman in good stand- ing is likely to keep in touch with what is being done in the field of horticulture, and should conse- quently be well informed as to the varieties that would best meet the requirements of his business and able to advise the planter as to the stock most suitable for his particu- lar section. I think it therefore important that the judgment of the experienced and responsible nur- seryman should be deferred to whenever the question arises as to selection of kinds and varieties of trees it is advisable to plant in any locality. He should be one of the principal leaders in creating a de- mand for such stock as can be most profitabi)' planted. Right here I want to emphasize, at the expense of repetition, that too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of selecting the right varieties to be planted — clim- ate, soil and locality being consid- ered. Many new varieties of the pecan have been introduced within recent years, several of which have proven to be of real merit. In making a choice of these varieties a nursery- man should be free from unselfish bias, and select only the most ap- proved for the locality and purpose for which they are intended. The assistance of this Association can- not but be very helpful to both the nurservinan and orchardist in de- ciding upon the merits of the sever- al varieties presented for consider- ation. The planting of the improved varieties of the pecan has thus far been confined chiefly to the Gulf States, but I see no reason why some of them should not succeed well much farther north, and also in those sections of California, Ore- gon and Washington where the English walnut thrives, and even in localities where the climate is too severe for the English walnut. My faith in the great value of the pecan and well sustained belief that the plantings, both for the home and commercial grove, would rap- idly increase, induced me to begin the propagation of the improved varieties in as large numbers as practicable in connection with my efforts along other lines of the nur- sery business. In the preparation of these notes my thought was that the mention of the several points touched upon would give rise to a discussion that might be of value to the members of this Society. TUB NUT-GROWER 3 The Editor's Test Orchard. CLASSIFIED In iSSi Mr. Felix Gillel, of Ne- vada City, Cal., top-grafted with Proeparturiens scions a walnut tree which was 21 years and over two feet in diameter. Up to that time it had borne in all only iS nuts. In 18S7, or six years after grafting, the crop of nuts from the tree was five bushels, all grown from the de- velopment of the grafts. - Oregon Agriculturist and Rural Northwest. The land selected is an ordinary averaged tract of piney-woods, a sandy loam with clay subsoil. It is rolling, with uniform slopes to the west and south, partly ridge and partly level, reaching round a branch head, fed by springs. The location is on the east line of lot No. 310 of the seventh land dis- trict of Worth count)', Ga., south- west and just outside of the corpor- ate limits of the town of Poulan. The trees are planted in hexago- nal form, at the rate of twenty-five to the acre. Contributions of trees were made by tiie following well-known par- ties : Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., six "Taylor." These were fine trees, 3 to 4 feet, on splendid roots, and were planted in- east end of row number four. Dr. J.B. Curtis, Orange Heights, Fla., six "Curtis," planted in row three. These were grafts about 3 feet, and had the best root system of any trees received. Grifling Brothers Co., Jackson- ville, Fla., six "President" planted in row one; six "Bradley" planted in row six; six "Krakezy" planted in row five. These were all fine trees in every particular, five to six feet and branched. B. W. Stone & Cq., Thomasville, Ga., six "Mobile" planted in row- two. They were fine, five to six feet trees, somewhat branched. Chas. E. Pabst, Ocean Springs, Miss., eleven "Pabsts," planted in row nineteen. These were grafts, two to three feet with fine roots. Theo. Bechtel, Ocean Springs, Miss., six "Success," planted in row sixteen. These were elegant, six-feet trees. J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga., six "Frotscher," planted in row seven- teen. These were remarkable trees for swift and vigorous growth, buds on well grown stock, and appeared to be top heavy, being ten or twelve feet high and not a single indication of branching. It was a problem how to treat them, but our curiosity to see what they would do prevented their being cut back. Jas. S. Bear. Palatka Fla., four "Teche," planted in row twenty- (Continued on Fourth Page.) BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. A Department for the Buyer and Seller. la this column we firive place to advertisements from subacibers who have orchard, Farm Products. Live Stock or Implements to seU or exchange, as well as make inquiries for tilings wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urped to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leadins; varieties for study or exhdiitlon piirposes supplied at reasonable rates. Seed nuts lurnished only in limiteil fiuantities, THE NUT-(iROWER CO.M- PANY, Poulan, i;a CHOICE LOCATION-No. 24 400 acres, near Mouticello, Fla. Two-Lhirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in pine and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake Prico, S 10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUT-GKOWER COM- PANY, Poulan, (_;a. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, tirst-class in every respect. 320 acres now being planted in pecan trees of choice va- rieties. Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for live years at price accepted THE NUT-GROWER CO.^IPANY, Poulan, Ga. SEED PECANS— Stock sound and tirst-class in every particular. Choice grafled Pecans for commercial purposes. Large or small orders carefully tilled. Prices reasonable as quality of stock and prade will permit. Best of refeience. li. M. WILSON, Rockdale, Texas. WANTED— An experienced budrier for pecans Apply, with reference, to RiLPH B. SMALL Macon, Ga. 2t WANTED— Copies of March, May, June and December, 1907, and February, March and April, 190l<, of The Nut- Grower. Budding Wood. During the latter part of March and in April SAM. H. JAMES, of Mound, Louisana, will have buds of all leading varieties of Pecans for sale, held in cold storage. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most"=Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss -LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingiuon Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. KeithviUe, La. THB JSUT-GROWBR Questions and Answers. No. 5. I am looking for any kind of a nut that can be grown successfully north of the 47 parallel in the Missouri Valley, North Da- kota. F. R. SixEOus. Ans. The best guide will be to study the native or cultivated kinds of edible nuts. In the absence of data of this kind, experiments might be made with hickory. Per- sian walnut and filberts. No. 6. I have plenty of data on most of the nuts except one, and that is the much neglected hickory. Can you refer me to data on this one.? M. S. D., Utah. Ans. Fuller's Nut Culture. Dr. Morris' paper on the Shagbark, in proceedings of the Jamestown Con- vention, and several back numbers of The Nut-Grower gives informa- tion on the hickory. No. 7. Please advise me as to the cost of membership in the Na- tional Nut-Growers Association. V. L., Texas. Ans. Membership fee is two dollars, and annual dues the same amount. The initial fee pays for first year. Life membership at present is ten dollars. Turkish Hazelnut Growing. (Continued from January Number) There are three varieties of fil- berts, the round, the pointed, and almond. The round nuts are most abundant and furnish tiie basis for prices. The so-called "almond" •filberts are few, being especially large, perfect nuts, and sell for 30 per cent, more than the round. They are shipped in the shell to Marseilles, Odessa, Trieste, and !Hamburg. The "pointed" nuts are shipped in the shell. They are used for dessert, keep better, and xost 10 per cent, more than the jound. They are shipped to Alex- ander, Odessa and to other Eu- ropean points. The "round" nuts, which constitute about 70 per cent. ■ of the whole product, are mostly •exported shelled. One hundred pounds of nuts in the shell give from 43 to 50 pounds of kernels. Shelling effects a saving of about 50 per cent, on the freight. It also furnishes employment for several thousand persons, mostly women and girls, who receive about one cent for every three pounds of kernels. A woman can shell from ■60 to 120 pounds per day. The nuts are first sorted into three sizes by means of revolving screens. They are then run through a stone mill, one size at a time, the stones being adjusted just far enough apart to crack but not to crush the nuts. The kernels are then picked out from the shell and generally the different sizes are mi.xed to- gether again. The shells are used here for fuel and a small quantity is exported to Europe, where they are said to be used in adulterating spices. Many of the nuts are bleached by fumigation before they are ex- ported. It improves the color, but injures the llavor, and the nuts are said not to keep as well. Fu- migation is effected by putting the nuts in a large box having a double bottom of perforated sheet iron and burning sulphur in the lower compartment. The nuts are ex- posed to the sulphur fumes over night. The artificial bleaching or "coloring, "us it is commonly called here, is of no utility. It adds un- necessarily to the cost, injures the flavor of the nuts, and may make them less wholesome.- -California Fruit Grower THE EDITOR'S TEST ORCHARD Continued from Third Page. one. These were fine trees, four to five feet and nicely branched. The other sixteen rows of the plot were planted from the editor's list of varieties which he has grow- ing on his home grounds, and in- cludes Stuart, Van Deman, Geor- gia, Schley, Frotscher, Aloney Maker, and Pabst. These trees were partly buds and part grafts and ranged in size from one to three feet. With the exception of a few Stuart, Pabst and Money Maker, they were all grown in Georgia on soil similar to the orchard plot. All trees were carefully planted during January, 1909, and later were treat- ed \vith about two pounds each of ordinary commercial fertilizer. All the varieties mentioned are in east end of their respective rows and can be easily located, as the numbering begins at the north side of plot, which is the corner nearest to the town, and but fifty yards from a point where three public highways cross each other. In our April number we will report how they started into growth. It seems natural that the "Presi- dent" should be placed in row num- ber one. and that "Curtis" should be in row three ; however the allot- ment of positions was entirely a matter of convenience in planting and it was only after the planting had been finished that the co-inci- dent was noticed. FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Qrafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges, Plums, Per- simmons, Figs. Hulberries, Etc. A full line of Ornamental and Shade trees. Qiiantity and Q^ialitv. 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Th» aboTa magazines hav« been carefully se- lected aud are m all respects equal t» mobt of the 50ceiit magazines of their class. Choose the one jou wauc and send 25 ceats today. Agents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY Sa. 15 KeyiWna Bids;. Chattaneeos, Tann. THE NUT^GROWBR New Plan For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE I CO , Thomasville, Ga. m \ nm \m^ The Best Investment tliat can now be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell vax-leties. one to three years old, located, on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20.000 stocks for ftie coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and faucy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention. All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess Tvork— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially tine. Send j-our orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Scranton County, JACKSON, MISS. Wmw Sal®! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded groye in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, (lA Gainesville Nurseries, Gainesville, Florida. Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such standard varieties as have agood record behind them. Ourcat- alog will not only help in the selection of varieties, but will assist you In the plant- ing and culture. It's free for the asking. QAiNBSviutEj Florida. Fertilizers for Pecan Trees. H. S. Watson. Florida. In considering the eftect of fer- tilizers upon pecan trees it is neces- sary to have a clear understanding of the character of soil, inethod of caring for the trees and the purpose to'be accomplished. The soil of Central Western Floiidabest suited to pecans inay be described as a sandy loain soil with a moist sandy-clay subsoil. In putting out an orchard we prefer to plant the trees first and later fertilize them. As soon as planted the ground aroimd the trees should be put in good tilth and kept so during the early part of the growing season. No amount of fertilizer will take the place of careful cultivation. After the tree is properly plant- ed we find that a forkful of well decomposed stable manure spaded in around it, just beyond the roots, is of great benefit. It is usually considered that the tree requires the first season to be- come well established and that lit- tle growth need be expected. But with good cultivation and proper fertilizer a fair growth can readily be obtained. We find that a good rule to follow is : First season one forkful of ma- nure and one pound of complete fertilizer, each year thereafter add one forkful of manure and one pound of complete fertilizer and the tree will have all it needs. After the tree has made its main growth the ground should be planted with cowpeas. This will add humus to the soil, enrich it and keep down the growth of weeds. At the proper time this may be cut for hay or plowed under as best suits one's purpose. The fertilizer we like best is one composed of about equal parts of nitrogen, phosphate and potash. A ^-5-5 formula is good. Part of the nitrogen shoidd be in an im- mediately available form as nitrate of soda. This will give the tree a cjuick start in he spring. It should be applied only a week or ten days before the trees are ready to break bud. All fertilizer, when applied, should be covered either by hoeing or discing. We like the genuine Peruvian guano as a basis for fertilizers, it being a natural rather than an ar- tificial fertilizer. The commercial fertilizers begin feeding the trees early in the season and the stable manure shows its effects later. A study of one's orchard will soon detect any error made in fer- tilizing and a change of ingredients can readily be made. Cultivation should stop in the fall in time to let the trees harden up the growth and go into winter quarters in a well ripened condi- tion. As the trees reach age sufficient to bear the fertilizer should be changed so as to shorten the wood growth and produce fruit buds and spurs. You should lessen nitrogen, but continue stable manure. There is nothing that will take its place as a nut producer. Mere Mention. A Van Deman tree at Ocean Springs attained a growth of twenty-five feet in height and a spread of twenty feet with its si.xth year and also gave a fine crop of nuts at that age. During 1906 the original Success tree at Ocean Springs, Miss., was badly injured by the storm which visited that coast in September. Recent reports advise that it recov- ered and bore a heavy crop in 190S. Mr. J. B. Wight's Frotscher tree was planted in 1893 ; four years later it bore a single nut. Since then it has the following record r 1S97, ylbs ; 189S, lojlbs; 1899,. 13-Jlb; 1900, 2Slbs; 1901, i61bs ; 1902, 45lbs; 1903, Solbs ; 1904,. i2ilbs; 1905, i3ilbs ; 1906, 961bs;. 1907, 3olbs ; 1908, i661bs. In the secretary's report at 1908 convention it was stated that four names had been dropped from the^ membership roll, three had been, transferee! to the life list, six hadi retired, nine resigned and two had died, making a total of twenty-four. During the previous year forty- seven names were removed, as that was the first revision since organ- ization of the association. Regarding the Rush Walnut, a letter to the Chattanooga conven- tion advised that arrangements had been made with a Southern nur- seryman to propagate them exten- sively, but tliat none would be for sale 'till fall 1910. THE NUT -GROWER PIBLISHKD MOSTHLY BY ■J3he NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as seeoiid-class matter at the Postoffice at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. >JOTICK When this paragraph is marked It naeans that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. FEBRLTARY, 1909. The fertilizing of trees is ever a live subject. Two important papers on this subject were read by title at Chattanooga and await publication in early issues of The Nut-Grower. TUn NUT-GROWBR The commercial nut is now re- ceiving more attention than the larger ones which but recently held popular attention. It is now con- ceded that there are other features of a pecan, rather than size, which inake it most desirable for orchard planting. In a later issue we will have a summary of reports bearing on this subject. Many interesting letters were re- ceived at the last Nut Growers Convention from prominent mem- bers, who were unable to attend. They all evinced great interest in the work. As space permits some of them will be given place in our columns. The new dress and 50% of addi- tional matter in our January num- ber will, we trust, compensate in part for its tardy appearance. However, the matter we are giving our readers has good keeping qual- ities and does not lose its value as promptly as some kinds of news. Until one has passed through the experience it is hard for tlie read- ers to sympathize with an editor who is not independent in the di- recting of his printing. The Nut- Grower does not own an equip- ment of its own, and consequently changes, with incidental delays, have repeatedly occurred. "One of the essentials to success in ■any calling is to stick to the busi- ness and not swerve from a fixed purpose. This is particularly need- ed in nut culture, since the years of waiting for profits, requires courage as well as money and labor. The reward, however, is sure and more than compensates for the sacrifices and trials the planting and care demands. Tiie extent to which the Schley pecan has figured in this season's planting of commercial orchards, seems to have been limited only by the number of trees available. In Southwest Georgia and West Florida results are being obtained by this variety, which accounts for its popular favor. Its early bear- ing seems to be a strong point in its favor. Its quality has been conceded for several years. Few people recognize the great changes in nut culture during the past few years. At the beginning of tliis ycung century a commercial orchard of pecans was not known, and onl}' a few budded and grafted trees were grown. Now there are hundreds of orchards on thousands of acres, while the trees run up well m the hundreds of tiiousands. The great changes however is in the modern methods which assure early and profitable crops, while the old time seedling was slow and uncertain. We have frequently called atten- tion to the safety and profitableness of investments in pecan culture when properly directed. Of equal if not greater importance is the permanent character of the invest- ment. It lasts for generations and does not depreciate in value as the years go by, as so many gilt-edge stocks are subject to. Mines soon- er or later are worked out, ma- chinery wears out and so on through the entire list. Even life insurance stops, and policy is paid but once at best. Not so with the pecan, it goes on and on indefinitely, with- out stopping for transitory events or political up-heavals. One can af- ford a few years waiting for such an investment to grow into paying conditions. A number of matters of public interest were placed in the hands of the committee on resolutions at the Chattanooga convention, but all the time was so employed that outside issues failed to receive any consideration. Among them which the secretary had placed on file were the following: "A resolu- tion approving the plans and pur- poses of the Conservative League of America." "A request from the Farmer's National Congress for endorsement of Congressman Davis' bill, providing for educa- tion in agriculture, mechanics and home-making in secondary schools. "A request from the Association Economic Entomologists, for en- dorsement of proposed Federal Legislation, preventing the adul- teration or misbranding of Fungi- cides and Insecticides." "A reso- lution by the National Board of Trade dealing with a National policies for irrigation and reclama- tion of arid lands." "A request from the National Grange for sup- port of means asking for federal aid to improvement of public high wavs.' ' Mr. C. Falkner, of Waco, Texas, died at his home January 12th, 1909. He was well known and highly esteemed in nut growing circles, was one of the pillars in the Texas Nut Growers Associa- tion, and at the time of his death the Texas vice-president of the National Association. At several conventions he was a conspicuous personality, and made a host of friends by his cordiality and ear- nest work in a cause to which he was devoted. The following clip- ping from his home paper shows how he was esteemed : "The life that closed this morning in the sudden passing away of Mr. C. Faulkner, is one that will ever be memorable in the horticultural circles of this State, for he was a discoverer of no mean order. He succeeded where others, equally as well situated, made complete and disastrous failures. "Upon this community this life has left a mark deep and lasting. The man's constructive genius and his desire to do good to all men have had a telling effect; they will speak his praise for long years to come. Anything that tended to up- lift the community had his earnest j. support. I "C. Falkner did his duty in whatever station he was placed; he enjayed the respect, the confi- dence and the love of men, and he worshipped the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; that is the sum total of all that's worth while in this vale of tears." THn NUT-OROWBR ut ^r®w#rsi R©ai This! >VE >VOXJLD CALL YOUR ATTEXTIOX TO Thomas Fhospliate Po^vder [basic slag phosphate] Total Phosphoric Acid 15 to 18 Per Cent.. ANALYZIXCi Lime 35 to 50 Per Cent*. Magnesia and Iron 18 to 20 Percent.. This material is being largely usert by some of the most intelligent nut and fniit Growers in this coHntry with splendid results. Why not YOU? There is no material known that so strongly appeals to vou as this, because: In addition to the PHOSPHORIC ACID, it contains also large amounts of LIME, MAGNESIA and IRON, which are very necessary in assisting in large production of fruit and at the same time keeping your trees healthy and vigorous. It is not treated with SULPHURIC ACW) like Acid phosphate and cannot destroy the humus matter in your soils and make them soar and unproductive, and many other reasons. This space is too small to tell you all about it. Write lor descriptive pamphlet and prices. In addition to Thomas Phosphate Powder we import and handle MTRATE OP POTASH MURIATE OP POTASH DRIED BLOOD PERUVIAN liUANO SULPHATE OP POTASH NITRATE OP SODA KAINIT Till #a-M#rilmer The nut nurserymen are and have been the moving spirits in the com- mercial nut orcharding. To them is due great credit for their skill in propagating budded and grafted trees of the best known varieties, as well as energy and success in placing to advantage all the trees they have been able, thus far, to produce. While recent results seem large, still there is reason to believe that we are only getting a good start, and that in a few years much greater things will be brought about. Now is the time to get ready and that is what the nursery- men are doing as rapidly as practi- cable. Dr. Curtis, at one of the Florida Horticultural Society meetings, talked about the pecan and was re- ported as saying : •'So far as exhausting the de- mand for pecans by planting trees, I do not think that this can be done. I believe that there will be as good demand for pecans a hundred years from to-day as now, despite the fact that there are to be a great many trees planted in the near fu- ture. It is a demand which grows faster than the supply, and there are so many uses for the nuts in so many parts of the world, that I ap- prehend no danger of glutting the market. "When you have a pecan grove, you have something which is not hurt by the cold. You have trees which are not bothered by the white fly, of which we have been hearing so much during this convention. The fact is, it is a safe tree, and if you have a good one at the start you have a tree that will produce for you to the end. There is noth ing in the climate to interfere with the pecan. "Only one year out of twenty have I seen my crop of nuts cut down by weather or other condi- tions. That was several years ago. The trees were in bloom and a cloud- burst struck us. This cloudburst washed a great many of the blos- soms from the outside of the trees and reduced the yield for that year considerably. But that was one time in twenty, and I do not look for a cloudburst every decade, eitiier." Personal Mention. RowsviLLE, S. C, Feb. 15, '09 The Nut-Grower, Foulan, Ga. Gentlemen : — Enclose please find P. O. money order for one dollar, for which please extend my sub- scription for three years, as per your advertisement. I find your paper very valuable to me, although I have been plant- ing the pecan for over 50 years. I find something interesting in your paper. 1 have never bought but 13 trees in my life — ten from a Georgia nursery and three from a North Carolina nursery. 6 or 8 died, and wish all had died, for I never have been so badly humbug- ged in my life. I raise only seed- lings, from a distinct variety, got- ten from the forest in Alabama, and which I have improved, and is now considered as fine as any that grows; cannot raise one-tenth of what I could sell. Have tried the budded and grafted trees but can do nothing with them at all. My trees commence bearing young, from 5 to 7 years, and are now pay- ing nicely. Yours truly, JuDE Robinson. Mr.C.Forkert, of Ocean Springs, is sending out a folding post card which has cuts of Success and Van Deman trees and other views taken at his Bayview nursery. Mr. J. B. Wight, of Cairo, Ga., who was' selected President of the National Nut Growers' Associa- tion, at its meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn., in October, is one of the leading independent nut growers of the South. He has been a grow- er of pecans, both in nursery and in orchard, for several years, and his skill and industry have resulted in marked success. He is decidedly conservative and never "goes wild" in contemplating pecan culture. He has demonstrated, with satis- faction to himself and all those who have visited his nurseries and orchards, that pe an growing will bring no disappointments to those engaged in this industry, where skill and energy are united. He is prominently identified with educa- tional and religious work in the state, and devotes much of his time to matters of public interest. He is a clear, forceful speaker and %vriter, and his experience as pre- siding officer over many associa- tions and conventions, fits iiim ad- mirably for his work at the meet- ings of the nut glowers, in whose interest he has been a tireless and valuable worker since the body was organized. Mr. Wight is a true type of the Southern gentleman, and there is no hospitality more genuine than that extended those who visit his splendid home in Cairo. 8 SEEDS Fresh, Reliable, Pure Guaranteed to Please Every Gardener and Plantenhould test the anporlor merits of Our NorthernGrown Seeds. SPECIAL SFFER FOR 10 CENTS we will send postpaid our FAMOUS COLLECTION 1 rkg. 60 Vhj TomKto .... 20e I I kp. Prlii<«ss Radish . . . . 10« I {b?. S«)f-«rowlnfrC«Urj . , , 20e 1 pbg. EktIj Arr«w-h«»d CabbftS* • • '^^ t t'k?- I^nilertoH Market L«ttn«* . . . 10s a:»o 12 VarietUs CholM Flower Soda . . gSo $1.00 Writ* 4od»y! Send 10 cent* to help pay postage ond packing and receive the above "FamonB Collection." to- gather with our New and InBtructive Oarden Guide. GREAT NORTHERN SEED €0. 1196 Rose St. Rockford. Illinois THE NUT-GROWBR Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, "^^fS-rVT^' The Georgia and Florida Nut Growers. This local organization occupies a field of particular interest to the pecan interests. In November, 1907, the initial meeting was held at Thomasville, and the following May the organization was perfected at Monticello, Fla. The following parlies have thus far been identified witli the move- ment : Albany, Ga.— C. M. Rood, J. P. Gill. ' Baconton, Ga. — C. M. Barnwell, O. P. Mears. Cairo. Ga. — W. C. Jones, J. B. Wight, D. L. Williams. DeWitt, Ga. — H. C. White. Lamont, Fla — A. A. Rich. Monticello, Fla.— H. K. Miller, W. \V. Barrett, J. S. Granger, R. C. Simpson, H. S. Watson, J. H. Girardeau, Jr., S. McRea, D. P. Armstrong, Glen W. Mever, Jr., W. H. Armstrong. Newport, Fla., — N. Brewer, Jr. Orange Heights, Fla. — J. B. Curtis. Poulan, Ga.— J. F. Wilson. Thomasville, Ga. — M. I. Mcln- tyre, H. J. Blalock, C. Holds- worth, John O. Parker, C. S. Par- ker, G. W. Parker, C. W. Winter, A. N. Luch, Chas. Ouzts, B. W. Stone. Washington, D. C. - C. A. Reed. Mr. W. C. Jones, of Cairo, Ga., is president, and Ray C. Simpson, of Monticello, Fla., is secretary. Aside from the general meeting held semi-annually, the work is carried on by several standing com- mittees. Proceedings jP E C Al N The following volumes of Pro- ceedings of the National Nut- Growers' Association can be obtained at prices whi;h were established at the Chattanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, ,$ .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .50 per copy Norfolk, 1807. 1. 00 per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, CEORCIA The one on Memembership is composed of D. L. Williams, Cairo, Ga.; C. M. Rood, Albany, Ga. ; J. H. Girardeau, Jr., Monti- cello, Fla. On Statistics : C. M. Barnwell, Baconton, Ga. ; H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla. ; C. M. Griffing, Jacksonville, Fla. On Markets and Transportations : H. C. White, DeWitt, Ga. ; B. W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga. ; H. S. Watson, Monticello, Fla. Arrangements are now being made for next meeting which will be held at Cairo, Ga.. May 19th and 20th. The following subjects and speakers insures an interesting and profitable meeting: "Fertilizing the Pecan," by H. C. White. "General Outlook on the Pecan Industry," by H. K. Miller. "Cost of a Pecan Orchard," by J. F. Wilson. "What I Have Seen and Learned About Pecans," by C. A. Reed. A general discussion of varieties and question box, will figure in the exercises, as well as excursions to the local orchards and nurseries. -T^XpTirEfCJ BEST VAJilHTIES Bear's Niirseries Paint Ua, Ploritlu. /lARDftK^re Satttssluily Md PniUMly Srexd Y 'ifnTAnKT* ' '^\''"^ *^* Lower AUantlc sod GbU Coact J ' JwiviwfgjKj^C^e are Ic.-idingGrowera and Diatrio "*^^ ^^jlora of Salsuma Orange. Nul andll ^Fniit trees. Rose trusties and Oma-l| ymental trees and Shnjljs. Catalog frec-]| The Grilling 9ns Co.. Jatjuonvflk, Ftijj TI16 Farm Trio The Nut-Grower, 1 year - - $ .50 The Farm Journal, 2 years - - .40 The Garden Magazine-Farmer 1.00 Total $1.90 All Three Publications for ONE DOLLAR . . . We make this advantageous offer to encourage renewals as well as for obtaining new subscribers to the Nut-Grower. The Garden Magazine-rarmer Is a beautiful and useful publication. The farm Journal Is unsurpassed, and can be called ] the "boiled down" farm publica- tion. The Nut-Orower Will sound its own praises, when J read. Send order and remittance direct to The Nut-Grower Co. I Poulan, Georgia. NEWS ITEMS. An order for Persian walnuts to plant loo acres near Philadelphia. Pa., is reported. A subscriber at Chester, S. C, reported that the Schlev was a fine grower wiih him. The Georgia-Florida Xut Grow- ers Associatian will meet at Cairo. Ga., May 19th and 20th, 1909. The 1909 convention of the Na- tional Nut Growers Association will be held at Albany, Ga., about the middle of October. Arrange- ments are already being made for a large and important meeting. The Louisiana Crop Pest Com- mission's report for 190S, says that the greatest increase in nursery stock in the state is in pecans, and is practically 100 per cent, greater than in the previous year. An important meeting lof the Executive Committee of the Na- tional Nut Grower'; Association was held at Thomasville, Ga., Feb. l6th. The date selected for 19C9 convention is October 12th, 13th and i4tli. More than 2,000,000 fruit trees will be planted iu eastern Wash- ington this spring and next fall, according to A. F. Crowell, deput)- State Fruit Commissioner, station- ed in Spokane and of these, he says, the majoritv will be apples. Reports trom some of the almond orchards in Sutter county, Cal.,aie to the effect that the bloom is lighter than usual and very irregular. Some varieties show little or no bloom, and on others there is not more than one-half the usual prolific bloom. This is not the case in all orchards, but the general outlook is for a short almond crop in this locality, if the blossoming of the treescount for anything. Theshort- age in bloom is probably on account of the dry season last year, when the trees did not make the usual amount of new growth. THE NUT^aROWBR of your issue containing Mr. Wight's excellent article on pecan orchards and their value? This I recall was presented as a paper at the last meeting of the National Association of Nut Growers. Yours sincerely, John Craig. WOTM LETTERS. Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. S, 1909. Dr. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. My Dear Dr. Wilson : Can you favor me with ten or a dozen copies October 24, 1908. Dr. J. F. Wilson, Sec'ty. National Nut Growers Association, Poulan, Ga. Dear Dr. Wilson : I very much regret that I find it will be impossible for me to attend the Chattanooga meeting of the Association, as I had planned to do until yesterday. Matters have come up that will require my presence here during the coming week. Our Mr. C. A. Reed, who is now in the South continuing our ex- perimental studies of self-sterility, etc., of the pecan, will be present and can outline the work we are undertaking In connection with this, we are endeavoring to secure data regarding pecan orchards in the South, as per the enclosed card and circular, of which you have no doubt previously received samples. We desire to locate as many pecan orchards as possible, with a view to determining what varieties they consist of and the proportion of seedlings in such or- chards. We lecognize that a large acreage of pecans is now from ten to fifteen years of age and, there- fore, coming into bearing. It ap- pears to me of the utmost import- ance tiiat the seedling orchards should be carefully studied with a view to locating promising new sorts that are likely to be found in them. I enclose, herewith, postal money order to cover mj' membership fee for the the current year and mail carbon of this letter to you at Hotel Patten, Chattanooga. Wishing the Association a most interesting and successful meeting and regretting mv inability to be present, I remain, Yours very truly. W. A. Taylor, Pomologist in charge of Field In- v88tigations. fAnJgeta tree of the PRESIDENT, the 1 I ,. Best of all Pecans. FREE. I IT'S Large, TTiin-shelleA Full of Meut. Good Color 8> Good Quality, and IT BEARS ABUNDANTLY ] l^VVnte tor caatalog of Fruit and Nut trees, and tori ^information about joining the President Pecan Club , \ ^We have Ornamental and Shade t.--ees, Hedges. Rose bushes and Shrubbery too" Address The Criffing Bros. Co.. Nurserymen. JacksonuiUe. Florida SUCCESS NA.TUUAL SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to filial both ends with kernels of best quality. BE(HTKL PECA^ iMRSERIES OCE.\N:iPRlNr;S. MISS. Barnwell Pecan Groves ^oTiui ded and (j rafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. 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Mr. President, Officers and Mem- bers of the National Xul Grow- ers Association : I regret very much to have to de- ny myself the great pleasure to be with you at this 190S Convention of nut growers Circuit court will be in session the last week in October and first week in November in our county capital and the sheriff has sent me notice that I have been drawn as a juror, and so I have to go to Scran- ton instead of Chattanooga, which I deplore very much. Regarding the pecan industry in Mississippi, facts and figures to the exact e.xtent are dfficult to ob- tain, but the industry is extending fast, existing orchards have been enlarged, new ones have been start- ed and are in contemplation, and many a small beginning has been made in planting pecan trees, also the nurseries have enlarged and increased their acreage in nur- sery stock and several new nurser- ies have been inspected this fall bj- the horticultural inspector, all of which shows that the pecan indus- try is gaining in Mississippi in general and in the Gulf Coast re- gion in particular. It has to be a wonderful thing in the line of pe- cans which this section could not beat. In the September number of the Nut-Grower an instance is cited where a Mr. Brown, of Arkansas, planted a Georgia variety of pecans from which he sec;ired a bunch of five nuts the second year. I pro- cured scions of a Texas variety and top-worked a seedling tree about l^ inches in diameter five feet from the ground. This graft bore a bunch of five nuts the first year. Does not that beat the Arkansas party. Brown.' The Gulf Coast section of Mis- sissippi has brought forth several of the best varieties of pecans grown to-day, and we do hope that in the near future we will be able to show something better from this same section than we now have. Respectfully submitted. C. FoRKKRT, Vice-Pres. Ocean Springs, Miss. THE, NUT-GROWBR Report of Executive Committee. Recommends the amendment of the constitution separating the of- fices of secretary and treasurer. We recommend that the commit- WANTEDvA RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district tc , , ,, , , ^.r> -7,—, : — ^_-™ w ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "Kanper bicycle famished by us. Our agents everywhere are making money tast. Write for full particulars and special offer at once. NO MONEY UEQUIKK1> until yuu receive and approve of your bicycle. Weship to anyone, anjTvhere in the U. S. ivitlwut a cent deposit '\n ^Axznzt.PrePay freight, and allow TEN DAYS' X'KEE TKIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put It to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the hicycle slup it back to us at omt ^x^tm^ z^XiA you will not be out one cent. FAPTARY PRIPF^ ^^ furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make ■ Hw I vn I r niwktf at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save Jic to $^5 middlemen's profits by bu>'ing direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar, antee behind your bicycle. DO NUT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learri our unheard of factory Prices and remarkable spccuil offers to rider ag'ents. 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TAAQTrD RDAICrQ single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and l/lrHdlklt-DnHntdf equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. $il|0 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF ^h U SELr-HEALlNu TIRES jotmRaDucE,aHLY r The regular retail price of these tires is — S.S.SO per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $4. SOicash with orderS4.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. OESCfttPTIOM: Made in all sizes. Itislively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allov ing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from sati; fiedcustomers stating that their tires ha veonly been pumped uponcecrtwice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinarytire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers otthin. specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is$S.5o per pair, but for advertising purposes we are makinga special factory- price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship G. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price 8«4.65 per pair) if you send FULL, CASH WITH OBDEK and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk in sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OUK expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. mp V/)ff/ MitrFn VtDF^ don't buy any kind at aay price until you send for a pair of tr ■ CrCr fwfcfc£r f #n£0 Hedgethom JPuncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue wh* ^U describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. m^g^ ATAT" U/ilfT* but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle mM%M fwC## wWM\i m or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO. ILL. Nottce the thiok robber tread •'A" and puncture strips *'B" and "D," also rim strip **H" to prevent rim cutting. Tills tire n'iU outlast anv other malie— SOFT, ELASTIC oud EASY KLDING. tee on co orporation with State and National organizations be enlarged by the addition of members who will be influential in inducing the Department of Agriculture to give nuci culture the same consideration as other branches of horticulture. We recommend that all special committees be made standing com- mittees. With a view to encouraging in- creased interest in nut culture, in v^arious sections of the country, we advise that the secretary collect data bearing on the advisability of establishing sections in which spe- cial attention can be given to va- rious nuts in the various localities in which they find the most prom- ising conditions and report same at next convention. H. C. White, J. F. Wilson, C. P. Close, H. S. Watson, H. E. Van Deman. -THE- Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA. PINEY PARK NURSERY POULAN, GEORGIA. Ornamentals, Climbersi Trees, Shrubs and Roses. California and other varieties of Privet. Spanish Bayonets, Eulalias. Etc. : : : : Whelasala and Rslall Trada aelioilad J. F. WILSONp M'g'r. THB NUT^GROWGR 11 Books and Catalogues. Gi-ENwooD Nurseries — Win. H. Moon Co., Morrisville, Pa. Wholesale Trade List ; 33 pages. Nuts and Their Uses as Food —By M. E. Jaffa. Farmers Bulle- tin No. 332. Can be obtained from the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C. A Summer with the Gladio- LAS — By Arthur Cowell, Berlin, New York. A handsome pamphlet of twenty pages, witii fine colored plates. Pecan Cake. Four cups sifted flour, i pint su- gar, I cup butter, 6 eggs, i small teaspoonful baking powder, i^ lbs. seeded raisins, i full quart choice pecan meats, 1 nutmeg, i wine- glass genuine cane syrup. Bake two hours. French Nougat. Three cups sugar covered with water, one tablespoonful of glucose (syrup is largely glucose). Let cook until nearly a syrup. Have one large ;up of sugar covered with water, and cook until it threads. Then have the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth and pour in, first, the syrup mixture on the froth, and beat hard in a bowl, then add the other mixture and beat. Add one-half teaspoonful of vanilla ex- tract and one cup of broken pecan meats. Beat until it begins to thicken like icing, then either pile up into mound or make loaf and slice. Nut Salad. Four tart apples peeled and cut into sniiill dice; two cupfuls of celery chopped fine, two cupfuls of nuts, mix and pour over a dressing made of one cup of good vinegar, one tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, pinch of salt and pepper to taste, the yolks of two eggs. Put the vinegar in saucepan rvith half cup of water, add the butter and sugar, beat the yolks well and stir in quickly, re- moving from the fire before they curdle, and pour hot over the salad. Serve cold. R'iinnnii^ifHi^;i»nnmnnnni^Miniiifiii|i|i|i»iiiynnimiMi)iiMitnig fS:UMMIT ■^y CHOICE kJS NURSERY STOCK RSERIES MILLER t GOSSARD Proprietors wm^ FLORIDA fr MONTICELLO. Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses ; —OUR SPECIALTIES— The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of - the Future " "-■'■' ;OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU. t .t ,. ., .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .^ .. ,. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ^ The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. 800 Acres in Pecans (60 are in Test Orchard) DEW ITT, GEORGIA. This Company makes a single Specialty of Pecans ^ATE received the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees which were ' » planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. , Convincing and valuable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseries at DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities, at prices consistent with first class trees — WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The Pecan Tree—How to Plant It, How to Grow It, How to Buy It. (Third Edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Nut-Ghoweb when writing. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc., DeWiLt>, Mitchell County, Georgia. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Hocne on Back Bay. Biloxi, liiss. Bilo.xi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends. The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W, F. HEIKES, Manager, Huntsville, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County, Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co-Oporative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. ^ir"For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 12 THn NTT^.GROWBR 88 ^ '-■EB^' ^tM Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia* MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Nut Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan i rees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. Write us for any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY. :-: :-: GEORGIA. 83 85 Agrictjltxarfcil College. NUT^GROWER Volum* Vl( Numbar S Poulan, Ga., March, 1909. 5o per Copy 50c par Year NUT PROPAGATION. By Herbert C. White, Before the Association at Chattanooga. You are by this time more or less f;iiiiiliar with the propagation of nut trees by the planting of the seed and raising the uncertain seedling, as well as by raising the seedling and subsequently convert- ing its top into a specific variety by one of the several processes of budding and grafting known to propagators. Some of the more common ways of propagation by budding or grafting and otherwise were set forth in a paper read by me at this Association's Conven- tion at St. Louis, in 1904, and pub- lished in the proceedings of the As- sociation. RESULT FROM CHIP BUDDING. I do not know that there has been anything of importance discovered in the propagation of nut trees by budding or grafting, from a me- chanical point of view, in the last few years. A method known as chip budding, and described in some of the old books, has been tried on the pecan with very suc- cessful results. The method is the same as that alluded to on previous occasions by Mr. Kirkpatrick, and practiced by him in Texas, as well as by Mr. C. L. Edwards, of Dallas. The result of a trial of chip-bud- ding of 3,000 trees in Georgia, un- der my direction, was a 77 per cent, stand of living buds. The success was the more striking on account of the fact that the stocks on which these buds were placed consisted of virtually an abandoned block of seedlings which had generall)' over- grown in diameter, an ordinary and convenient commercial size, and had received no cultivation the previous year. The work was done be seven different men, all without previous experience in this partic- ular method. The percentage of living buds varied among them, but the average percentage was 77, which, for an nveragc, must be ■considered good in propagating the pecan. This work was done after the regular grafting season had closed and after the seedling stocks were in partial, and in some cases almost full leaf. The work com- menced on March 31st, and was concluded on April 4th, but in all probability it might have been con- tinued several weeks longer judging by the results obtained on the last lot of buds put in. THE PRIME PREREQJUISITES. The prime requisites in this method of propagation are perfectly dormant scions, careful fitting and wrapping. I found that the largest wood, from half inch upward, gave the best results. Trees up to 2 inches in diameter were success- fully budded, and the trunks or branches of any size tree can be worked by this method where the bark is smooth and healthy and perhaps not too thick. Various methods of ^vrapping the chip buds were tested. Some were tied with No. i wax thread, over which was bound the ordinary adhesive wax budding cloth ; oth- ers were tied with a No. 2 wa.x thread, and grafting wax applied over the thread and cuts; many were wrapped with wax cloth alone. As a matter of fact the average of living buds in each case was approximately the same. In- asmuch as foliage has formed, and the growing season commenced, the tree is constantly enlarging in diameter and each moment the ten- sion of the wrapping material in- creases, pressing the cambium lay- ers of the chip and stock closer to- gether as a result of which they quickly unite. The sap moisture from the tree-stock keeps the chip alive while the process is going on. THE SLIP TWIG METHOD. Some of our friends are very suc- cessful in grafting large stocks and branches with what is known as skin grafting or what has been called the slip twig method. This consists of paring off a long slop- ing cut from a dormant scion, sometimes leaving a shoulder, and pushing it in between or beneath the bark of the tree and the sap wood. This is done after the sap starts in the spring, and usually necessitates cutting of the stock or branch squarely off where a scion Continued on Second Fas*. Hickory — Hickoria — Carya. * Pecan—Carya Olive— formis - Ol- ive formed hickory- — from the shape or form of its fruit is the largest of the hickory branch of the walnut family. The tree is known as pecan in all the Southern States, but in Louisiana it is also called pecan-nut, pecan tree and pecanier. Along the Illinois shore of the Mississippi river it is known as Illinois nut. The pecan is a large thick limbed tree with broad top. It frequently reaches a height of 150 to 175 feet, and a diameter of from 4 to 7 feet. The bark is rich reddish brown and broken into plates. The branches are smooth, buds are small and pointed, yellow in color, while the flowers are greenish, the staminates growing in long catkins and very abundant; the pistillates are terminal and growing in spikes. It is found that the buds are formed the preceding year for the production of the blooms which appear from the loth to the 20th of April. The male or staminate blooms form on the tip end of last year's growth of wood, while the female blooms, which are very modest and inconspicuous in appearance, come out on the new growth of wood sometimes a week or ten daj's later than the catkins. There is a female bloom for every Decan but the number of male blooms cut no figure. The fruit or nuts grow 3 to 11 in a cluster, pointed at both ends, and are smooth, thin shelled and cylin- drical. The kernel is sweet, rich, and delicious. The leaves are 12 to 20 inches long having 9 to 17 leaflets; they are bright, short petiolcd lanceolate, and bright green above, paler below. Avenues of pecan trees may be seen in some of the southern cities and no handsomer shade tree can be found, but its chief value is its nuts. The wood of the tree is heavy and hard, not brittle and coarse grained ; in color it is light brown tinged with red, having thin light sap wood. The wood is of little value except for fuel and as a sub- stitute fer the higher species of its family. A, cubic foot weighs about Paner read by Mr«. Thomas A. Bannins. before the Fore»try Clasa of the Chicaco Woman'i Club. THB, NUT-GHOWGR 49 pounds. Old and large trees are verj' similar in appearance to wal- nut trees, the limbs being thick and blunt. In winter, when the leaves are off, this resemblance is very marked so that a close observer cannot always distinguish the one from the other, especially when the pecan trees are wet, as this gives them a walnut color, and even ex- perienced timbermcn are sometimes mistaken in the identity of the tree. A prominent walnut dealer re lates an amusing instance which occurred when he had a walnut camp on the Osage river several years ago. One cold, snowy day in mid-winter his foreman sent an experienced walnut hunter up the stream to locate suitable walnut logs for export, which in those days meant big logs. There were about six inches of snow on the ground, and "Andy," as the scout was called, traveled through it all day, keeping his eyes open for wal- nut, tramping for miles through the woods, passing from tree to tree, circling around and sizing them up, that he might report cor- rectly to "the boss." He returned to camp at evening seeming much elated over his success in finding a particular bunch of extra fine wal- nuts, twentj--five or thirty of the highest type he had ever found on the river. Next day the woodsmen went with him to commence cut- ting the trees, but in the meantime the atmosphere had changed and their surface had dried off, giving them a different appearance ; on re-examination all Andy's walnuts proved to be huge pecans. His tracks were still quite visible in the snow where he had walked round and round the trees while scanning them, but he repudiated the foot- marks utterly, though he treated the gang because he could not lo- cate the walnuts again. The earliest investigators of the flora of our country appreciated its economic value, and frequent refer- ence is made to it in early writings as an article of food for the Indians, early travelers and explorers. It is an e.xceedingly prolific tree and long lived Some trees are known to have lived to the age of 500 years, and Mr. Risin, of Texas, thinks some of his trees were grow- ing when Columbus discovered America. After it begins to bear it increases in productiveness until 50 or more years of age. It is so firmly rooted, having a tap root which runs down many feetstraight into the ground that stormc seldom destroy it. It is more free from in- sect pests than any other fruit or nut trees. Mr. Herbert C. White, of De- Witt. Ga., ^vho is conceded to be an authority on pecan horticulture, in discussing the pecan, says: "Its actual origin is unknown. It may have originated in Mexico, Texas, Alabama, or Louisiana, but as the common wild volunteer pecan is found only along the rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and above tidal influence it is more reasonable to suppose, if not to concede, that the pecan of to-day originated in Illi- nois (meaning Isle of Nuts) and that the self planted trees of to-day resulted from the floating and lodg- ment of nuts along the streams leading to the Gulf." This view of Mr. White as to the origin of the pecan in Illinois is also strongly suggested by the Cen- tury Dictionary which defines the "Illinois nut" as the pecan. The nut is also distributed by crows, woodpeckers and bluejays over a vast area far distant from the river bottoms. The pecan thrives best along the river bottoms, but also thrives on the sandy loam and clay soils of the uplands, and many are of the opinion that this soil is bet- ter suited to the production of fine nuts. The pecan will grow and bear wherever the cotton succeeds, but the tap root must find water, and many think this of more im- portance than the kind of soil in which to plant it. It is said that no tree will die sooner when de- prived of water than the pecan tree. The pecan is to day tlie most valuable and important of all nuts. Mr. Wm. A. Taylor, U. S. Pomo- logist, in charge of field investiga- tion, says: "Of our native nut- bearing trees none promises to become of such pomological impor- tance as the pecan within the region in which it is well adapted for cul- tivation, namely, the Gulf States, including Texas, and as far north as St. Louis." He says further, "No other nut tree, native or for- eign, or introduced, can be consid- ered as fairly in competition with it." Few of our early settlers appre- ciated the importance of preserving our native nut trees and thousands of fine bearing trees have been de- stroyed to make room for a crop of cotton or sugar cane, when one of these trees, so ruthlessly cut down and which needed no more labor to secure a rich harvest each season than a delightful nutting party, could have furnished in value much more revenue in one season than a whole acre of cotton. For years pecan trees have been girdled by the axe of the pioneer and in other ways destroyed. A few years ago one of our farm journals was asked to give the result of poisons to kill pecan trees effectually as the in- quirer had fine cotton land on which were many large pecan trees that he wished to kill more quickly than he could by girdling. During the past 15 or 20 years there has been a general awakening to the importance of preseiving and propagating this valuable tree, and to this end our horticulturists in the South have been searching out and locating the valuable trees, those which bear fine nuts, and are regular and prolific in their habits. From these the cultivated trees are introduced. One tree owned b)' Mrs. Mary B. McLean, Lexington, Miss., and known to be about 50 years old produced in 1906 5^ flour barrels of nuts in a single season, which is about 500 pounds, reck- on these at 10 cents a pound. One tree in Berrien county, Ga., be- tween 60 and 70 years old has a spread of branches of 133 feet, and a trunk circumference of 17 feet at 3 feet above the ground, and 9^ feet at 5 feet from the ground. It bears from 12 to 15 barrels of nuts annually, thus furnishing from $70 to $90 for the crop. CONTI.VUED IN APRIL NUMBER NUT PROPAGATION. CONTINUED PROM FIRST PAGE. is inserted. With some trees, the orange for instance, it is not neces- sary to cut off a stock or limb, if a mere oblique slit is made in the bark and the scion pared down on one side and pushed in, it will usu- ally lis'e. It is of course, a sine qua non, that in all forms of bud- ding or grafting the pecan above ground, all cuts and wounds be as near as possible hermetically sealed. This is not so essential in root graft- ing paiticularly where whip and tongue method is used, it being in most cases only necessary to bind' the splice together with a light thread. With the various methods of pro- pagating the pecan, it is frequently- found that, with two propagators of equal skill, that one may prefer one method and the other a different one. There is little doubt, how- ever, that in the propagation of young nut trees on a commercial, or nursery scale, root grafting by the whip and tongue method in the winter and spring, and the annular and semi-annular method of spring and summer budding, will remain in vogue. CONTIfJUED IN APniL NUMBKR THE NUT^'OROWER Nut Culture for Physicians. Dr. R. T. Morris, in Medical Council. In The I^Iedical Council for May, iqoS, I find, in the ''Practical In- vestments" column a reference to my work in nut culture, and the statement that I follow the study for recreation and scientific inter- est only, and not with the expecta- tion of financial reward. It is quite true that the remunerative side is a matter of secondary consideration, and j'et my two hundred acres of nut orchards near New York should be yielding a net income of at least twenty-five thousand dollars per year when I am ready to retire from the active side of professional life at, say 65 ; and that will about pay my running expenses in the city. Consequentl}' I look, upon the mat- ter as a good investment, aside from the fun and the satisfaction of doing new and constructive ^vork in a branch of horticulture for fill- ing recreation hours. There are very few acres of tilla- ble land in the United States that will not yield f 100 worth of nuts to the acre per year with less care than" would be required for almost any other crop. I recently read the pathetic story of a poor old col- ored man in Louisiana who was just able to make a living with cot- ton and corn on his small farm dur- ing the years that he was young and strong, but now that he is old and too feeble to work, the pecan trees which he set out bring him four times the income that he ever obtained during his working days. The same story can be applied to many a doctor in the future ; re- placing cotton and corn with grate- ful patients, and pecan trees with almost any sort of nut tree adapt- able to his locality. While almost any acre of land will yield $100 worth of nuts annually, special acres under special cultivation and with special kinds of nuts are at present yielding in the neighbor- hood of a thousand dollars net profit per year. At present the de- mand is so far in advance of the supply that we import many mil- lions of dollars worth of nuts an- nually, and the very highest price nuts do not even reach the New York market. It will be a great many years be- fore overproduction will interfere with profits, for the reason that so many men who are interested in the subject are "going to take it up some time," and the some time does not begin. Almost any one can have an income of a few thousand dollars per year from nut orchards if he really cares to bring his ini- tiative to bear upon the subject. The investment differs from in- dustrial stocks in this way : The industrial plant is decreasing in value from the moment the invest- ment is made, and the expense ac- count for wear and tear and for expansion takes more and more money. The nut plant attends to its own wear and tear and expan- sion from the moment the invest- ment is made. CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES The View Point. In fruit production, there are several factors that are essential in securing maximum profits. They include location, climate, varieties, soil management, fertilization, pruning and spraying. Each must be right. Of those under man's control, no one can be singled out and made to carry the load of oth- ers left undone. Any one or part of one neglected may become the crop-limiter of that orchard and the extra care devoted to the others is lost. The truth of this principle is emphatically shown in figures which we have recently collected in a study of costs and profits in fruit-growing. These figures sho^v that in the case of the apple net profits have actually increased with expenditures up to more than $300 per acre for producing and market- ing the crop. Thus in fruit-gro\v- ing as elsewhere one gets returns exactly in proportion to what he intelligently puts into it. To in- crease this intelligence, we look into one of the most complex of these production-factors, orchard fertilization. — Pennsylvania Bulle- tin on Orchard Fertilizing. 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 meats and knead well with hands. Put on plates, smooth and cut into squares. A Department for the Buyer and Seller lu this column we pive place toadvertiseuients from subscibers who have Orchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient anti profitable. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts lurnished only in limited quantities, THE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, (Ja. CHOICE LOCATION— No. 24 400 acres, near Mouticello, Fla Two-thirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in pino and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake Price, $10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUT-liROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. INVESTiWENT OPPORTUNlTY-No. 26. Al location, first-class in every respect. 320 acres now being planted ill pecan trees of choice va. rieties. Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for tlve years at price accepted THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY, Poulan, Ga. SEED PECANS— Stock sound and first-class in every particular. Choice graded Pecans for commercial purposes. Large or small orders carefully tilled. Prices reasonable as quality of stock and grade will permit. Best of reference. B. M. WILSON, Rockdale, Texas. WANTED — An experienced budder for pecans. Apply, with reference, to RALPH IS. SMALL, Macon, Ga. 2t WANTED— Copies of March, May, June and December, 1907, and February, March and April, 1908, of The Nct-Gkower. CATALOIillE 1909-1910 Ready and will be sent on request. , . Alvin Japanese Nursery AfASOA- BLILUIXG HOUSTON. .-. TKXAS. A bearing grove of best varieties. Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POUIAN, GEORGIA. PINEY PARK NURSERY POULAN, : GEORGIA. Ornamentals, Climbers* Trees, Shrubs and Roses. California and other varieties of Privet. Spanish Bayonets, Eulalias. Etc. : : : : Wholesalo and Ratall Trada sollcitad J. F. WILSON, M'g'r. THB :XUT-GRO\VBR Questions and Answers. Xo. S. I would like to get your estimate on the "Pride of the Coast" pecan said to be identical with Columbia. Ans. Its single claim to merit is its size and size is not now re- garded as so essential as t'ormerlj'. No. 9. Franklin, N. C. The Nut Grower, Poulan, Ga. Gentlemen : — I want to graft some English walnut scion on the ordinarj' black walnut trees. Can you tell me if this will prove suc- cessful and if so what variety of tlie English walnut do you recom- mend.? I had considered the Pom- eroy English walnut. Considering the progress which the chestnut blight is making can you advise me .oset out an or- chard of Sober Paragon chestnut trees and later graft on to the ordinary mountain chestnut. The altitude is 2,000; soil is well adapted to walnut and chestnut trees. Thanking you for any informa- tion you may give me on this sub- ject. I remain. Your Truly, C. A. D. Ans. Dear Dr. Wilson : Returning to my office this morning after an extended trip, I find your letter with enclosure ask- ing about nut trees for planting in North Carolina. In reply I would say that it is perfectly practicable to graft black walnut trees with scions from the Persian walnut. I have never had any experience with Mr. Pomeroy's English walnut, but I think any of the standard English sorts will give satisfaction. I have never been able to see the financial side of planting a chest- nut orchard, particularly in this country. I see reports in the pa- pers that the recently reported chestnut disease is killing off a large number of chestnut trees in "certain localities, but it has not yet struck the mountains of Wes- tern North Carolina and I do not expect it will give any trouble there for a long time. There are annually produced in the moun- tains of this state thousands and thousands of bushels of chestnuts. They are gathered by the mountain people and form quite a valuable product. As the native chestnut is so much better flavored than the foreign varieties or even the im- ported varieties crossed on native, I think a chestnut orchard would hardly pay. So much for nut orcharding. I would say, however, that in Western North Carolina there are the best opportunities in the coun- try for commercial apple orchard- ing. Apples are grown in our mountains to perfection and our farmers are beginning to appreci- ate their great natural resources in that direction. I will be glad at any time to send literature on this subject to any of your correspon- dents. With best regards, I am. Yours Truly, W. N. HUTT, State Horticulturist, Raleigh. N. C. Food Value of Nuts. It is a matter of wonder when we think of the artificial foods used by civilized people, when na- ture has prepared for us certain foods that contain within them- selves all the elements necessary to sustain the body---to give life and vigor — this, without the use of fire or condiments, or -without con- binations with other foods, which sometimes lessen their food value and in numerous instances detract from their wholesomeness. Nature has spread before us a vast and diversified store of fruits and nuts, which draw their sub- stance from the generous bosom of our common mother earth, and come to us the crystalization of dew, sunshine and pure air. THE Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges, Plums, Per- simmons, Figs, riulberries, Etc. ::::::: A full line of Ornamental and Shade trees. Q_uantity and Quality, Correspondence solicited. AJonticeJio, JFlorida. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is my Specialty. . BinWeil aiirt (grafted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, "^JS°.c.A. NutTfor Profit tJ'Z.-ZZ trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc.,. of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. ^The Griffing Brothers Co., jBckBonvllle. Florid* ^PENT twenry years learn- ing the Besi Varieties; lu _ ■ i^rovv tile Best Bushes that' I ^'ive Best Re?;ulls and Moiii' -'Koses. We havf them. The Best nental, Shade Tree.*;. Hed^^es and Sliriibbery too. Write for catetoc of the 69 BEST ROSES LowersouiH Pecans And nothing but Pecans. Best Varieties .... liartwell Nurseries, S. W. PEEK, Prop. Hartwell, Ga. Established 1882. Send for Catalog. 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all who send us 25 cents for one year's sub- scription to any one of the '25c monthly Maga- zines named be'lew we will send, absolutely free pictures of 42 of the world's most beautiful girls, a picture of 397 babies, 10 song post cards and a baautlful Album, entitled "SUUVENIR OF THE WORLD," size 6x8 inches, 64 pages, containing 75 interesting and instructive views from all over the world. Woman's World, Chicago — Literary and family Successful Farming, DesMoines— Agriculture. Universal magazine, St. Louis — Literary. Household Journal and Floral Life, Ohio. Great West Magazine, Denver— Educational. The Farmer's Wife, St. Paul— Heusehold. The Metropolitan and Rural Home, New York. Poultry Topics, Lincoln, Neb— Poultry paper. Gentlewoman, New York — Household, Floral. Everyday Life, Chicago— Literary and Stories. The above magazines have been carefully se- lected and are in all respects equal t« most of the 50cent magazines of their class. Choose the one you want and send 25 cents today. Agents waatsd CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No. 15 Keystone Bldg. Chattanaoa*i Tann. THE, NUT^GROWBR New /^ Plan^ for growing Jr'ecans, rears, Jr'eaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B.W. STONE & CO., Thomasville, Ga. BUV A PECAN GROVE The Best Investment that can now be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson countj', the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange ti'ees between the pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for the coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention. All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Scranton County, JACKSON, MISS. Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. OILL, Mgr. AL6ANY, OA. Gainesville Nurseries, Gainesville, Florida. Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such standard varieties as have agood record behind them. Ourcat- alog will not only help in the selection of varieties, but will assist you In the plant- ing and culture. It's free for the asking. Gainesville, Florida. Fertilizers for Nut Orchards. BY THEO. BECHTEL, MISSISSIPPI. In order to make this article as brief and as comprehensive as pos- sible I will begin with the planting of an orchard and touch on the various stages of development. In the inain there are two dis- tinct types of soil which need fer- tilizing in order to produce profit- able nut orchards, namely, those naturally poor in plant food and those made so through continuous injudicious cropping. Soils poor by nature as well as those worn out bjf cropping for many years, must be supplied with a certain amount of nitrogen, phos- phoric acid and potash. Right here let me state that the more sandy soils usually require more potash than those composed of a considerable amount of claj-. I know of no better fertilizer than pure fine ground bone, well incorporated with the soil among the roots when planting the trees. About five pounds of this per tree will usually produce a very fair growth on the trees the first year. After this first fertilizing, if the land is cultivated between the or- chard trees and planted in truck or some low growing crop for which the land is thoroughly fertilized, the trees will help themselves to their share of the nourishment. However if the soil is not fertilized for other crops, the trees should be supplied with about five pounds of fine ground bone each year for the first three years after which time the amount should be increased from one to two pounds each year as may seem necessary. Great care should be exercised to see that the fertil- izer be distributed at the ends of the roots and not close to the stem of the tree. Continued fertilizing too near the trunk of the tree has a tendency to congest the roots in- stead of allowing them to spread out as they ^vould do under natural conditions or where the fertilizer is properly distributed. Where barnyard manure, cotton seed or any of the fertilizers that may be accumulated on a farm are available, these may be use in suf- ficient quantities to produce a rank growth of cotton or whatever crop may he suitable to your section or markets. To bring poor land up to a high state of fertility, either before or after planting nut trees there is nothing better than cow peas or velvet beans. In growing either of these in an orchard however, great care must be exercised to pre- vent the vines climbing over and choking the young trees under their rank growth. If your land is quite poor or worn out, it will be a good plan to fer- tilize for the leguminous crop with 500 to 600 pounds acid phosphate to the acre. The crop should be harvested and saved for hay, but if this is not practicable the vines should be al- lowed to die down and lie on the ground until ready to prepare for another crop. When trees become large enough so that stock cannot injure them, a very good plan is to plant cow peas as early as possible and graze the crop down instead of mowing. By this plan the entire crop is convert- ed into fertilizer in the most avail- able form for the use of the trees. In the South where oats may be planted in the fall for winter graz- ing, enough should be grown after the cow peas are off to keep the cattle on green pasture all winter. By no means allow oats to mature the giain in an orchard, as it is dis- astrous to the trees. Vetch ma}' be used in conjunc- tion with oats and being a legume are also beneficial to the soil besides adding materially to the grazing, both in quality and quantity. Mere Mention. Co-operation means working to- gether and sharing together. Owing to the ruling of Execu- tive Committee, a. number of mem- bers whose annual dues have been neglected failed to receive a copy of the Jamestown Proceedings. A Success pecan ^vas top worked at Ocean Springs. Miss., and is now in its seventh year. It began bearing the second year after graft ing and has given crops every year since. The advertisement of the Coe- Mortimer Co., which has been run- ning several months, is of particu- lar interest at this season of the year. Each year growers are giving in- creased attention to this important feature of orchard management. The Hawaiain Pine Apple Grow- ers' Association will feature their products at the Alaska-Yukon-Pa- cific Exposition, to be held at Seat- tle next summer, and the display to be made at the coming fair will be beyond question the most elaborate and complete that has yet ever been attempted. CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. THB NUT^GROWBR THE NUT -GROWER PCIBLI3HED MONTHLY BT B/)e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription, 50 cants per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. NOTICK When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account -n-ill be credited for three years. MARCH, 1909. A nut orchard is a real estate in- vestment, and a productive one, with all the security which land offers. Dr. N. R. Smith, of Jonesboro, La., writes: "Have just started a test orchard myself of eleven va- rieties. I appreciate what you are doing in this line and eagerly await your reports." Opportunity has been described as the power to see and recog- nize the importance of common- place circumstances and conditions. The few who appreciate the poten- tials of pecan growing see an op- portunity for permanent profits. At the Chattanooga Convention the following new meinbers were enrolled : Dr. C. P. Munday, Keithville, La. ; Jefferson Nursery Co., Monticello, Fla. ; Prof. C. G. Woodbury, Lafayette, Ind. ; Albert C. Pomeroy, Lockport, N. Y. ; Dr. W. H. Doughty, Augusta, Ga. ; A. J. Showalter, Dalton, Ga. ; Frank A. Humphries, Worcester, Mass. ; J. T. McKinnon, Siloam, Ark.; Rev. J. D. Canaday, Earlsboro, Oklahoma: Robt. S.Walker, Chat- tanooga, Tenn., and T. S. Mc- Manus, Waldo, Fla. These came from nine different states. Since the Convention four others have paid the fee and been enrolled, and they come from widely separated states and show how the interest is reaching all over the country. They are as follows: A. C. Davenport, SouthOmaha, Neb.; Victor Labadie, Dallas, Texas ; Lawrence Connell, Portland, Oregon ; Jno. P. Weaver, Anniston, Ala. ; Percival P. Smith and Dr. F.S. Crocker, Chicago, 111. Prof. Hume talked to a conven- tion of agricultural commissioners at Richmond, Va., not long ago, and his subject was the pecan. His opening statements, as well as final word, are heartily endorsed by all ■ intelligent public men who have studied the subject as thoroughly and as conscientiously as he has been doing for more than a decade. We clip the following from tlie address : "Throughout the region in which it may be grown no fruit tree is worthy of more serious considera- tion than the pecan. Combining as it does all the requisites of an ex- cellent shade tree with the produc- tion of an appetizing and nutritious food material, it must be regarded as one of the South's most useful trees. ***** "As yet the pecan industry is young, very young; it has not yet reached its majority as a cosmopol- itan horticultural industry in its pos- sible range of cultivation, but al- ready forces are at work which augur well for its future, among which, the attention which it is re- ceiving from Experiment Station workers and the organization of the National Nut Growers' Association, are noteworthy. ***** "To those who live where pecans can be grown for fruit, let me say, as my parting word of advice: Plant pecan trees; plant them as shade trees, plant them as fruit trees, in your yards, on the streets; plant budded or grafted trees if you can, if you can't plant seedlings— but plant pecan trees. ' ' Regarding specimen nuts of the standard as well as new varieties of pecan, there is an increasing de- mand for them, from various sources as well as for various purposes. We have sent a great many of these nuts to almost all parts of the world, and doubtless many nurserymen have been doing the same for sev- eral years without receiving any direct compensation therefor. We have helped impose this burden upon nurserymen by advising cor- respondents where they could ob- tain particular varieties. However we are gradually changing our program, and with the co-operation of producers can convert this ex- pense into a source of revenue. It is a simple business matter for The Nut-Grower to furnish patrons with desired sample and specimen nuts, at prices sufficient to re-imburse us for time and postage expenses, and where producers see proper to refer inquirers of this kind to our supply department rather than give the nuts we can afford to pay them a fair price for those needed to fill such orders. People who really need these specimens are willing to pay for them — others may not deserve them gratuitously. The large army of both men and women, who work on a fixed salary in all large cities and industrial points, are, as the years go by, fac- ing a problern which must cause the thoughtful much concern, if not serious apprehension for their evening of life. Too many of thisJ class, and they are nearly all excel- lent people, live up to their earn-J ings, and save little or no reserve for the days which are sure to ever-j take them. This is an age of in-; dustrial commercialism in which the young and active crowd out the true and tried just as soon as age or infirmity interferes with their effi-j ciency. It is only in rare cases when faithful employees are retiree on a pension. Sentiment does no^ weigh much when dollars are con-^ cerned. It is a difficult propositior for one to get a new position afteii the imprint of mature age is stamp4 ed upon the brow. Still these same persons, with all their experienceJ vigorous health and earnest desire to work and be independent, havel years— and their best years—to spend — how? That is the problem. Fror our viewpoint the judicious investi ment in pecan orchards of the sav3 ing say of io% of earnings for tec years, will effectually solve the problem. Note that it is th^ judicious investment, as there are pitfalls in this as well as any busil ness, but by being directed by coml petent and reliable parties, success is assured. We sometimes see figures show ing how money makes money when put in the savings bank where il will draw 4%, compounded seniM annually. A dollar a week for teif years is said to grow to six hundred and fifty dollars and over fifteen, hundred in twenty years. This il all very well for those who cannol do better, but with pecan growinf as well established as the saving bank business proposition, the inl vestor can have all the securityj with better profits, and can cuj down the period of saving to fivf THE> NUT-aJROWBR >VE \\'OULr) CALL YOUR A.TTENTIOX TO TtLomas Phosphate P*ow^der Total Phosphoric Acid 15 to 18 Per Cent.. [basic sl,ag pdospbate] Lime 35 to 50 Per Cent*. Magnesia and Iron 18 to 20 Percent.. This material is being largely used by some of the moat intelligent nut and fruit Growers in this coautry with splendid results Why not YOU? There is no material known that so strongly appeals to you as this, because : In addition to the PHOSPHORIC ACID, it contains also large amounts of LIME, MAGNESIA and IRON, which are very necessary in assisting in large production of fruit and at the same time keeping your trees healthy and vigorous. It is not treated with SULPHURIC ACM) like Acid phosphate and cannot destroy the humus matter in your soils and make them sojr and unproductive, and many other reasons. This space is too small to tell you all about it. Write for descriptive pamphlet and prices. In addition to Thomas Phosphate Powder we import and handle NITRATE OP POTASH MURIATE OP POTASH DKIED BLOOD PERUVIAN OUANO SULPHATE OP POTASH NITRATE OP SODA hAINIT "ii #riliin®r years if he so desires and still make double the rate of interest. A dol- lar a week for five years will, in competent hands, cover all cost of bringing an acre of choice pecans into bearing, when it will begin to pay, according to Mr. Wight, 8% and keep on increasing in value at the rate of fifty dollars a year, and keep paying the S% on the en- hanced value for years to come. There is another difference, besides the doubling of rate of interest ; with the orchard you stop paying in and saving in five years, but that does not stop the increasing of the value of the investment. With the bank you only get the 4% on what you put in, supplemented by the accruing interest. With the orchard, the rate of interest contin- ues to increase so that in five years it is paying about 10 per cent, and at ten years iS per cent, and reaches 25 per cent, by the fifteenth year. This looks good even if it did not keep going on increasing for ten years more. The best thing about this is the fact that it is not a theo- retical estimate, but is a logical de- duction from accomplished results. At the same time it requires a thor- ough, practical knowledge of the business, with favorable location and patient care and labor to work it out, and this is what makes the acre of pecans cost $350 by the bearing age, but it is worth it, while a fifty dollar an acre grove may be a losing proposition. Pecans on Hickory. Dr. J. F. Wilson, Secretary. Dear Sir : — I hoped it would be so that I could attend the conven- tion and meet the members. I am not much of a speaker but can ask about as many questions in the same length of time as the next one, and am as willing to tell what little I know and answer inquiries. I want to say for the benefit of the many inquirers I see in the lead- ing nut journals, that pecan bud- ded on hickory is a success. I have trees bearing that were budded a little over two years ago in August, 1906, but there is a lot to learn. I will mention something that I am having trouble with, and that is they blow off so badly, not where the pecan is budded but where the new sprout comes out on the old tree. VV^ould be glad for you to in- quire of the members of the asso- ciation if they have any suggestion to offer. I believe if the small trees say 2 to 4 inches in diameter are worked, that is cut off about 8 feet high and the new sprouts worked, that the success would be greater than budding large trees. I have just read one of Dr. Robt. T. Morris' articles in the American Fruit and Nut Journal, "Sunday in the Nut Orchard," and enjoyed what he had to say, as I always do when I read his articles. I would have liked so much to have met him. Would like for you to inquire of any success any of the members have had with filberts. I have five varieties, all planted last season and growing nicely. Wishing you a successful and profitable meeting, I remain. Yours Truly, W. L. Watkins, Tyler, Tex. Personal Mention. Mr. M. B. McNeely, of Chicago, is making a good start with pecans in southeast Georgia. The names of S. W. Peek, of Hartwell, Ga., and Mason J. Nib- lack, of Vincennes, Ind., were ac- cidentally omitted from the 1908 Association Badge Book. Rev. V. G. Thomas, of Corpus Christi, Texas, says he planted ten acres in pecans last winter and every tree is growing. He expects to plant a larger area next season if he can get trees that will suit him. Mrs. Thomas A. Banning, of Chicago, is not only a member of the National Nut Growers Associa- tion, but a working member as well. In addition to having a nut orchard in Alabama, she recently read a paper before one of the prominent society clubs of her home city, in which she gave much interesting data, which shouki carry a knowl- edge of the fine varieties of the pe- can into homes of the most wealthy and cultured families. This is im- portant werk, and it is impossible to foretell results which time alone will bring to more public notice. 8 th:b nut~growbr SEEDS Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery 1^. Fresh. Rellible. Pure X CD U Fresh, Rellible, Pure Guaranteed to Please Every Gardener and PlanterBhould test the Buperlor inerlts of Our Northern Grown Seeda. SPECIAL OFFER FOR 10 CENTS we will eend postpaid onr FAMOUS COLLECTION 1 pfeg. 60 Day Tomato .... 20o 1 |.tt. Priiircii Radlik . . . .IDs 1 ptg. Self-Growing Celery . . . 20« 1 pbg. Early Arrow.head Cabbage . . . l&o 1 pbe- FuUerton Uarbet Lettaee . . . lOo AUd 12 Tarietios Choice Flower Seeds . . 85e $1.00 Write today! Send 10 cents to help pay postapo and packing and receive the above "Famous Collection," to- gether with our New and Instructive Garden Guide. GREAT NORTHERN SEED CO. 119G Rose 6t. Rockford, Illinois Executive Committee Meeting. A quorum of the E.xecutive Com- mittee of the National Nut Grow- ers Association, met at Thomasville, Ga.. February' i6th, 1909. The date selected for 1909 con- vention to be held at Albany, Ga., is Oct. i3th, I3lh and 14th. Messrs. Wilson, White, Hume and Watson were appointed as program com- mittee. The association year was defined as e.xtending from the first day of the annual convention till the first day of the succeeding convention. Names of members in arrears for annual dues were removed from the mailing list, such names to be re- stored and copy of proceedings fur- nished to those who respond to the treasurer's call for payments. Call to Almond Growers of California. Responsive to expressions of approval from different parts of the state, The California Promotion Committee hereby calls the almond growers of California together in a meeting to be held at Del Monte, Monterey county, on May 7th, next, for the purpose of taking steps looking to the formation of a state association of almond growers. Impressive demonstration has been given to the success of organization of co-operative effort in lines horticul- tural, industrial, commercial and finan- cial in California. Many advantages might be gained in united action in sell- ing, in eliminating competitive selling among growers, in the purchase of sup- plies such as sacks and sulphur, in the discussion of methods in care of or- chards, curing crops and kindred ques- tions that enter into the business. For instance, "Dust Spraying, "in orchards is a live question for discussion. The time and place was chosen for the reason that on the following day the eleventh semi-annual meeting of the Counties Committee of the Califor- nia Promotion Committee is to be held there, and those who wish to attend the Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, ^^SfiSpT'' Proceedings P E C JV iV I The following volumes of Pro- ceedings of the National Nut- Growers' Association can be obtained at prices whi:h were established at the Chattanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, $ .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .50 per copy Norfolk, 1S07, i.oo per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, -:- GEORGIA meeting of the almond growers can get the benefit of the reduced, one and one- third fare rates, for the round trip, on all railroads, from any part of Califor- nia, by attending the Counties Com- mittee meeting the following day. When purchasing tickets buy for the going trip, taking a receipt, this when certified by the Secretary of the Counties Committee, will entitle the holder to ticket for the return trip at one-third rate. The Committee would ask that this matter be brought to the attention of the individual members of your associa- tion. Please advise the Comm ttee at the earliest possible date how many will attend the meeting at Del Monte, sending their names and addresses. In the interest of California almond culture, I am, Cordially Yours, RuFus P. Jennings, Chairman. Mere Mention. CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE. Fertilizers are but one of several factors that aflFect success in or- charding. The others include va- rieties, location, soil management, spraying, pruning and general or- chard care. S. W. Peek says the pecan is very hardy and long-lived, succeeds on a great variety of soils, grows to immense size and bears abundant crops of nuts that find a ready mar- ket at such prices that render trees that have reached maturity almost fabulously profitable. ■T^XJT? T^ ^ BEST TAR/EX/ES Special Low J^rices -J3ear*s Nurseries Palatka, Floridt m^ ^S^z^^s^MS ^ac^ Are SuccessluUy and Prolilably Grownifl ^ Near ibt Low«r AUantlc mud Cull Coasi ,1 i\Ve are leading Growers and Distnbu- ^ tors of Satsuma Orange. Nut and I Fruit trees. Rosebushes and Oma-Ui mental trees and Shrubs. Catalog ff^c.jfl me CriHtng Bros Co.. Jacksonville. FlaJll :;^,'^^'-^"^^ I 11-" — i-T ii- ^ TI16 Farm Trio The Nut-Grower, 1 year - - $ .50 The Farm Journal, 2 years - - .40 The Garden Magazine-Farmer 1.00 Total $1.90 Ail Three Publications for ONE DOLLAR . . . We make this advantageous offer to encourage renewals as well as for obtaining new subscribers to the Nut-Grower. Tlie Garden Magazine-rarmer Is a beautiful and useful publication. The farm Journal Is unsurpassed, and can be called the "boiled down" farm publica- tion. The Nut-Grower Will sound its own praises, when read. Send order and remittance direct to The Nut-Grower Co. Poulan, Georgia. THn NUT-GROWER News Items. J. B. NefF, of Anaheim, Cal., is having 200 walnut trees in his or- chard top-grafted. The Jefferson Nursery Co., of Florida, and R. J. Sawyer, of Michigan, are new advertisers this month. It will be seen by a notice in this number that the movement to organize the California almond growers is making substantial pro- gress. Tne State Commissioner of Hor- ticulture for the state of Washing- ington, reports that there are gro\v- ing in that new state 7,677,073 apple trees, 3,126,232 peach trees, 1,313,290 pear trees, 1,138,491 plum and pecan trees and nearly 1,000,000 fruit trees of other kinds. The date for 1909 convention of the National Nut Growers Associ- ation has been fi.xed for Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday, Oct. I3th, 13th and 14th. The place of meeting is Albany, Ga. In this lo- cality there is a larger area of pecan orchards of the budded and grafted varieties than in any other section of the country. Good Roads. Congressman Sulzer, in urging national aid, said in part : "Good roads mean progress and prosperity, a benefit to the people who live in the cities, an advant- age to the people who live in the country, and it will help every sec- tion of our vast domain. Good roads, like streets, make habitation along them most desirable ; they enhance the value of farm lands, facilitate transportation, and add untold wealth to the producers and consumers of the country; they are the milestones marking the advance of civilization ; they economize time, give labor a lift, and make millions in money ; they save wear and tear and worry and waste ; they beautify the country — bring it in touch with the city ; they aid the social and the religious and the ed- ucational and the industrial pro- gress of the people ; they make better homes and happier hearth sides ; they are the avenues of trade, the highways of commerce, the mail routes of information, and the agencies of speedy communication ; they mean the economical transpor- QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY, Our stock for the coming seasons delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very laest varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, : : FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower.) Eggs and breeding stock for sale. Season of 1908-09 my birds won 41 out of a possible 49 first and second prizes where shown. For beauty and utihty they have no equal. Write for Catalogue. R. J. Sawyer, Menominee, - Michigan. tation of marketable products — the maximum burden at the minimum cost ; they are the ligaments that bind the country together in thrift and industry and intelligence and patriotism ; they promote social in- tercourse, prevent intellectual stag- n.Ttion, and increase the happiness and the prosperity of our producing masses ; they contribute to the glory of the country, give employment to our idle workmen, distribute the necessaries of life — the products of the fields and the forests and the factories — encourage energy and husbandry, inculcate love for our scenic wonders, and make naankind better and broader and grander." Almond Growers to Organize. Responsive to expressions of ap- proval from different parts of the state. The California Promotion Committee has called a meeting of the almond growers of California for the purpose of taking steps looking toward the formation of a state association of growers in the interests of the almond industry of California. The meeting is to be held on May 7th, at Del Monte, Montgomery county, where on the following day will be held the eleventh semi-annual meeting of the Counties Committee of The California Promotion Committee. ^tJOlM fAnd get a tree of the PRESIDENT, the \ Best 0/ all Pecans, FREE. ITS Large, Thin-shelled. Full of Meat. Good Color. Good Q;iality.and IT BEARS ABL'NDANTLV l^Write for caatalog of Fruit and Nut trees, and for] ^information about joining the President Pecan Club J I CJWe have Ornamental and Shade Ue-^s. Hedges. Rose bushes and Shrubbery too" Address ' I The Griffing Bros. Co., Nurserymen. J JacksonvH)e, Florida SUCCESS NATURAL SIZE The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BE(HTEL PECAN NURSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS. MISS. Barnwell Pecan Groves ^oTi'^. ded and Grafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address. CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most===OnIy the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C.FORKERT.Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss 10 THE j^UT-GROWBR Report of State Vice-President for Arkansas. Arkansas is slowly aw.ikening to her opportunities in the line of nut growing, especially as regards pecans. We have not got beyond the experimental stage yet, but hope to reach definite conclusions soon. Qjiiite a number are testing varieties with the idea of planting largely when the}- can be sure of the ones best adapted to our cli- mate. Most of the planting is be- ing done by professional and busi- ness men as yet, but I know of several farmers who are planting in a small way. The farmers are watching the experiments close- ly, however, and are likely to come in with a rush if they see that it pays. I am unable to state from person- al observation just what the fine varieties are going to do here as I do not know of any trees that have been in bearing over two years. Mr. W. G. Vincenheller, director of the Experimental Station, writes that in his travels in the central and eastern parts of the state he finds occasional trees of the fine thin shelled varieties in bearing and they do very well. With a few exceptions the fine varieties from the lower south start growth a little earlier in the spring and hold their leaves a little later in the fall than our native trees, but as yet have not been damaged by late or early frosts. Compared with our native trees some of the fine varieties are a little tender as re- gards overflows and should not be planted on very low land that re- mains under water for a long time. Others will stand nearly as much water as our natives. The great opportunity for quick returns in Arkansas lies in the great number of native trees suit- able for top working. Up to a few years ago it was the custom of -our people to cut down the pecan trees in order to gather the nuts. In this way doubtless many fine varities were lost. During the last fifteen or twenty years, however, there has been a growing disposi- tion to protect the pecan trees and the result is a large number of young trees suitable for top work- ing. There are also a vast number of sprouts coming up in the fields tgNTEMJIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district tc , T , — ,i — J — T ,. r, "7.";": 7 ^— — ™ ■wv^^H ai ^ ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "KansTcr bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are making money fast. ;; rite Jor full tarticulurs and special offer at once. NO MONEY KEQUIKISU until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U. S. '°'"e actual factory cost. You save gio to J25 middlemen s profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- antee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyom at any price until you receive our catalogues and leam our unheard of /acton prices and remnrkable special offers to rider agents. VOH W?lL RE flSTONKHFIl "''^^" you receive our beautiful catalogue and fUU nSt!. D£ HSIUniOnCU ^mdy our superb models at the wonderfully /," also rim strip **H" to prevent rim cutting. Tills tire ^vill outlast any other make-SOFT, ELASTIC aud EASy KIDLlSG. that are cut back every year in cultivating. If these were allowed to grow and be top worked to fine varieties, nearly every farm in the bottoms would soon have a surplus of nuts to place on the market. Arkansas is the home of the hickories, having 9 or 10 species that are indigenous. Most of the species do not bear edible nuts, but pecans and shell bark are of fine quality and doubtless with a care- ful search varieties could be found suitable for commercial planting. The black walnuts are also plentiful and some very fine varie- ties are found. There is one strain of the black walnut that does not appear to mature its nuts here. The tree chinquapin grows wild in the mountains, but it is said they are being rapidly cut out for post timber. The American chestnut has been tested here and the trees grow well, but all complain that they do bear well. The English walnut and the -LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write oday. Clingmon Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La, Japan walnut are being planted here in a small way and they ap- pear to do well but they are not yet in bearing. Taking all in all, the outlook for the nut industry here is bright, but of course considerable pioneer work will have to be done before it can be established on a firm commercial basis. G. M. Brown, Van Buren, Ark., Oct. 26th, 1908. 1 THB> NUT-GROWER 11 Books and Catalogues. The Jefferson Nursery Co., Monticello, Fla. — Pecan, Citrus and other fruits. Catalogue and price list, i6 pages finely printed and illustrated. Rankin's Seed Book for 1909 25TH Year — Farm, vegetable and flower seeds. A large and well ar- ranged catalogue and price list. Rankin's Seed House, Shenandoah, Iowa. Greider's Illustrated Cata- log OF Pure Bred Poultry, for 1909— Price, 10 cents, by B. H. Greider, Rheems, I'a., is an elegant book of about one hundred pages, illustrating and describing many of the standard breeds of fowls. Rawson's Florists Book, for 1909 — Seeds, plants and bulbs. Catalogue and price list W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, Mass. Manda's Novelties and Spe- cialties, for 1909 — 16 illustrated pages. \V. A. Manda, South Or- ange, N. J. Roses — Descriptive alphabetical list and classified price list. The Leedle Floral Co., Springfield, O. The E. G. Hill Co. — 32-page catalogue and price list of Roses, Carnations, Mums, and Bedding Plants, finely illustrated. Rich- mond, Ind. The Proceedings of the thirty- second meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society, is a neat volume of 130 pages, issued by the State Board of Entomology. In the catalogue of fruits, nuts are given prominent mention, twenty or more varieties of pecans being classified. m^i^n^^»v*»»«v^p<^^»^r^*»^¥^^F^w^^vw^»^»^*^^w^'*»^w»v^p^^ll Pecan Notes. There are many thousands of people all over the country who have never seen any of the choice nuts now being grown, let alone eaten any, for they are rarely sold at a price at which ordinary persons can afford to eat them. The fine nuts are as easily grown as the small ones. Persons starting into pecan culture now, can do so with a certainty of success if they will buy good trees. In horticulture (for profit) as in all other business matters, the best generally proves to be the cheapest, especially where permanent results are desired. A pecan tree lives to an indefinite age (300 to 700 years) and generation after generation will enjoy the fruits of what we are planting, therefore plant the best you get and leave a permanent monument of your good judgment. — Northwest Pacific Farmer. CUMM v^y CHOI ^ NURSERY MONTICELLO, '""^^^^ FLORIDA Nut Trees—Satsuma Oranges—Roses • —OUR SPECIALTIES— The Admiral Schley Pecan l^! %Xgi ■ :OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: "■'■' •' ' ■' ■• ■• ■' - ' - itifti^niiiiii' - 1' • ■' - 1\- ■• -f [• -1 •• f ■' •' ■■■■■^■' ■■ ■• ■■ ■' ■• •• -^ The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. 800 Acres In Paeans (60 are In Test Orchard) HEWITT, GEORGIA. This Company nyakes ■ singia Spseislty ol Pecans WE receivt-d the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees which were planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. Convincing and valuable object lessons on all phases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseries at DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities, at prices consistent with first class trees — W^HOI.ESALE AND RETAIL. The Pecan tree—How to Plant It, How to Grow It, How to Buy It. (Third Edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Nut-Gboweb when writing. Address The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc., DeWit^t., Mitchell County, Georsia. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Home on Back Bay. Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and' is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch, of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for- selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast.. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address w. F. HEIKES, Manager, Huntsville, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County, Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co-Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA. 12 THn NUT-GROWBR gg — SS Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Nut Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Workmg Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw- berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. Write us for any Information. ROOD PEOAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. 83 8§ ^L Co] THE NUT^GROWER Voluma VII Number • Poulan. Ga., April. 1909. Se p«r Copy 50c p«r Vmw The Proper Use of Nuts as Food. Read before the Medical AsssoeiatioD of Geor^'a, at Macon, by Geo. M. Miles, M. D., Atlanta, Ga. Up to a comparatively recent date nuts were considered by most people either a luxury or as tit-bits to be eaten out of hand at odd times. They had no fixed standing as to food value, often being unjustly blamed for indigestion brought on by other causes. During the last two decades, how- ever, both from a dietetic and an economic standpoint, they are be- coming more appreciated, as evi- denced by their increased consump- tion. With this greatly augmented de- mand the Southern states are much concerned, for two of the principal nuts, the peanut and pecan, are largely Southern products. It may surprise this association to be informed that the total quan- tity of nuts imported into the United States in 1907 was 86,238,- 000 pounds, witli a value of over six million dollars. From Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee the yield of peanuts alone was 225,ooo,ocx) lbs. The exact yield of pecans could not be obtained, but it was large; and when the many groves now grow- ing in Georgia come into bearing the pecan crop alone will hold a respectable place among the re- sources of our state. The increased cost of the various meats exacted by the packing trusts has quickened interest in the eco- nomic value of nuts, many special nut foods, such as malted nuts, nut butters, and meat substitutes, with nuts as a basis, being now on the market at reasonable prices. Again, there is a fairly large number of our population who. for different leasone, abstain from meat. In this connection might be men- tioned the Seventh Day Adventists, a growing body in the South, whose teachings are opposed to the use of meat in any form. I feel, therefore, that a brief sur- vey of this somewhat neglected field will be of both interest and profit to my hearers. The term "nut" is applied some- what loosely to certain varieties of fruits or parts of fruits, and implies a more or less fibrous covering sur- rounding a kernel or meat. They are produced in the most diverse manners, from vine-like plants, as the peanut, up to the giant pine or beech. One variety, the water chestnut, is supplied by a water plant. To enter into a description of the many native and imported nuts available for food consumption would exceed the limits of this paper, so I shall consider only a few of the best known. The flavor of nuts depends prin- cipally on the oils they contain, though in some there are specific flavoring agents. Some of these oily constituents easily become rancid, imparting a most disagree- able taste or odor. The peculiar flavor of the roasted peanut is due to browned oils and starches. The pungent or bitter taste of almonds, as well as peach and plum pits, a family botanically allied, is due to a cyanic acid yield ed glucosid. The chestnut, espe- cially when roasted, has a charac- teristic starchy taste, betokening its main ingredient. The flavor of nuts, as well as their size, can be greatly improved by judicious cultivation. The composition of nuts has been investigated at several of 4;he agri- cultural experiment stations in this country, and I wish in this con- nection to acknowledge valuable data furnished me by Prof, M, E. Jaffa, of the California station, and Mr. Charles D. Woods, of the Maine station. The following shows the compo- ContiHued on Second Page. The Nut Industry and the Press W. N. Roper. Virginia. • Since the organization of this association in 1902, we have wit- nessed a great increase in interest in the nut industries in many parts of the country. The walnut in- dustry in the West, particularly in California and Oregon, has assumed larger proportions, the chestnut and shagbark in the North have come in for a larger share of attention, and we have had a rennaiscence of pecan growing in the South, The economic causes lying at the bottom of this renewed interest are several. Among the most important are, a largely increased population a pe- riod of great prosperity, the de- mand for new things or more of the old on our tables, the condition of the older fields of horticultural endeavor and the interest that hu- manity always has in opening up new ones. The growth of these industries has, in the main, been solid, though there have been mistaken ideas ad- vanced and many have entered the field of nut culture with visionary ideas of the difficulties to be over- come, the profits which will result and the time at which they will begin to come in. In bringing these industries before the public, and in presenting reliable informa- tion, several of the experiment sta- tions have taken a live part. Notable among these are the stations of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Maryland. Oregon, California, the National Department of Agricul- ture and the departments of agri- culture of Pennsylvania and Texas. The information given out by the workers in these several institutions has in the main formed the basis upon which the nut industries have made their more recent and active growth, practically all their publi- cations having been issued within the past ten years. While it must be conceded that the publications issued by these authorities have at first hand reach- * Read at Chattanoosa Convention. TUB NUT'GROWBR ed large numbers of people, and served a very useful purpose, still the great mass of the people who have become interested in nut growing have not been reached by them. The general public has se- cured its information from the press, either from publications devoted in the main to nut growing or from the general horticultural and agricultural press. In fact we are safe in saying that a very large portion of the present impetus in nut growing is due to work on the part of the press and it must be given praise as well as blame for the good and for the modicum of evil done. That misleading state- ments have been made is doubtless true, for such are made in regard to any and every industry under the sun, but in the main the state- ments issued have been conserva- tive. In all press work danger is removed when we stick to facts, it is only when we get on the ground of the promoter, with nothing to promote, that we become danger- ous. The one difficult task in news- paper work has been the lack of extensive detailed information. It is a fact that touching many points relating to nut growing, definite information has been lacking. But it is the hardest problem under the sun to secure good average infor- mation touching any industry ef the soil. We are beginning to get on a more stable and certain foun- dation in relation to nut growing and we are happy to say, that ail that has heretofore been published is not error alone. More and more, the grower, the planter, the investigator and the nurseryman can serve the public better by giving out the facts in an industry in which we are all inter- ested. Tell the truth about it. If it hurts some special interest, if it goes contrary to our former opin- ions and ideas, well and good, let it be so, if it coincides with pre- viously conceived notions be happy, but let the truth be told and through the press given to the public. The truth in nut growing is all that is necessary for the upbuilding of a stable industry. We are ready to do our share in helping an industry to grow on a safe basis, for it is one which promises much for the coun- try at large. THE PROPER USE OF NUTS AS FOOD CONTINUED FROM FIKST PAGE sition of some of the nuts most used, as compared with a few of the staple food products : RBFUBE EDIBLK PORTION CAKBOHYDRATKS FUEL Valor KINDS OF FOOD BUOAB, OBODB FIBEK WATER PROTEIN FAT BTAHOH, ETC. ASH per pound I'er CeBt. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. Percent. calories Brazil Nut ...49.35 .... 4.7 17.4 ...66.0 5 7 .... 3 9 ... 3.3 3.120 Chestnut as. 40 . 6.1 .... 7 8 8,8 ....70 1 2.9 ... 2 4 . 1 840 Coco^nut 34 m ....13 0 .6 6 .. 56 2 13 7 ... 8.9 .. . 1.6 ..2.840 Hickory Nut 62 M 3.7 ...15 4 ... 67 4 ..11.4 2 1 ... 2.2 ..3 345 Peanut ... 27. U4 . 7.4 ...29 8 ...43 5 ....14 7 2.4 2.2 2.610 Pecan. ...5C.10 3 4 12 1 70 7 8.5 ... 3 7 1.6 ..3 300 Waluut ... 58.88 3 4 ...18.2 60.7 ...13 7 2.3 1.7 ;3 075 Beef Steak (round) .. . 13 6 1 1 950 27.4 65.0 27.7 .... 12.4 . 56.8 ....10.7 ...41 3.7 .2 145 Bugs, boiled ... 11.20 7 .. .61*0 White Bread ...3.^ 3 ... 93 ... 13 ... 55 2 .... 5 1 1 ..1 215 Beans, dried 12 6 22.6 18 ....556 4 4 3 5 ..1 6l'5 . 20.00 .... 78.3 .... 2.2 .. .1 ..18.0 4 10 .. 3!<5 You will observe from this comparison that nuts, even the starchy chestnuts, furnish much more fuel value per pound than either beef, eggs or cheese. They are rich in protein and fat, containing some starch and but little water. The pecan is the richest in fat, though the Brazil nut, hick- ory nut and walnut are not far behind In protein the peanut easily leads, containing 29.8 per cent, per pound, while round steak contains only 19.8 per cent. The chestnut has much the largest carbohydrate content, 73 per cent., though the peanut shows nearly 18 per cent. CONTINUED IN MAY NUMBER NUT PROPAGATION. By Herbert C. White, Before the Association at Chattanooga. CONTINUED PROM MARCH NUMBER INFLUENCE OF STOCK ON SCIONS. I wish now to take up what is to me a more important feature in nut propagation, to which few of us in the past have apparently given suf- ficient thought and attention ; it is the question of the vitality of seed nuts, and the influence they pro- duce on trees raised therefrom, as well as the influence of the seedling stocks on scions. After extended observation, and experience with nut trees, and more especially with the pecan, I am coming to the conclusion, even if I have not already arrived there, that the variations in the earliness of bearing, prolificness, vigor of growth and even time of ripening of budded and grafted trees in the same locality, and growing under precisely similar conditions, must be very largely the result of stock influence. Dismissing for the mo- ment, for the sake of argument, the question of soil, culture and en- vironments, we frequently find in in an orchard some trees which commence bearing much earlier than others of the same variety, same age, same soil, same culture and environments. We find among the older trees some heavier bearers and more vigorous growers than others, sometimes even with a slight difference of the size and quality of the fruit. This must be ascribed to either stock influence, or we will say unfortunate selectinn of the buds or scions used. We seldom find a tree which bears all fruit the same size. There are gen- erally some extra large fruits and some undersized, while the bulk ot the crop will be fully up to the standard. VARIATIONS ON SAME TREE. Experience shows that .some limbs habitually bear smaller fruit than others, and that some limbs will habitually bear more fruit than others, while it rarely happens that some limbs do not fruit at all. Scions, taken from trees or limbs of trees with any of these character- istics are more than apt to perpetu- ate their good, bad or indifferent qualities regardless of stock influ- ence, which of itself may even in- tensify the particular character- istics. On the other hand we have cases where several trees of the same age, size and vigor are budded with buds from the same stick of bud wood, and that from a good bearing tree Some will grow faster than others, and some bear earlier than others, while the fruit itself may vary a little. We can hardly ascribe this to anything but stock influence, the full solution of which will take time to work out. In the realm of horticulture, there are many cases with trees and plants where certain stocks are used to obtain certain results either in vigor of growth, dwarfing, early THH NUT-GHOWBR fruiting; and hardiness, etc. A common illustration is the use of the citrus Irifoliata as a stock for other members of the citrus family, the trifoliata stock exerting its in- fluence both as regards hardiness. and to a certain extent, dwarfage. UNCERTAINTY OF SEKDMNG PECANS The seedling pecan is perhaps the most uncertain of all nuts in reproduction. There are perhaps no two seedling trees in the coun- try producing nuts alike, and those of us who attended the Convention at New Orleans, will remember a wonderful display of some hundred or more Centennial seedlings in which an appreciable difference exists in every case. In planting 1,000 seed pecan nuts (if bv any streak of good luck you should be able to get them all up), we would likely have 1,000 different forms or types, while some would be early and good bearers and others worth- less. The pecan crosses so freely and indiscriminately with other pecans, that when we plant a pecan nut large or small we may get the Composite of a thousand of its progenitors. The walnut is a little better behaved In the planting of large quanti- ties of nuts, such as constitutes a commercial nursery, and if bought at random in anv of the large com- mercial nut centers, such as New Orleans, San Antonio, St. Louis, etc., nuts from perhaps 5,000 dif- ferent trees are intermixed. An exceedingly variable and uncertain percentage of first class, thrifty seedlings are produced and they are subsequently grafted or budded and sent out to the world. One graft is put on a seedling stock raised from a tree noted for its wonderful prolificness, another graft is put on another stock raised from a notoriously poor bearer. Qiiery — which is the the best tree? SET.ECT SEED NUTS WITH CARE. Those of us who have had much experience with pecan trees, and have taken care to observe the growth of seedlings from diflferent trees, know that the nuts from some produce uniformly more vig- orous seedlings than others, and if those trees are good bearers and healthy, in the light of our present knowledge we are doing everything that is possible to produce the best possible tree; vigorous growth and good bearing qualities being the very first requisite. Too much care can not be exer- cised in the selection of seed nuts and scions used for perpetuating the world's finest nuts and perhaps, for that matter, all other nuts. The mere mechanical work of bud- ding or grafting by any method is of infinitely less consequence than the exercise of the great principal of "selection" from the ground up. Hickory — Hickoria — Carya. * CONTINUED FROM MARCH. Mr. .Sliles recently saw a tree in Mexico fully five feet in diameter which bears regularly from 12 to 15 sacks of nuts. An item from Mexico states that there are trees there with a spread of 75 feet and some have been known to bring as high as 1 1 50 a tree for nuts for a single season and many wild trees supposed to be 500 years old are still bearing. Prof. V^an Deman, who was for a number of years connected with our Agricultural Department at Washington, says that the seedling pecan tree lives and bears nuts profitably for a century or more, but they do not compare in value to the cultivated nuts. He exam- ined a set of nuts from 100 seedling trees of the very good varieties and said that there was not one like the original and scarcely one as good. Texas probably contains more native trees than all the other states combined, and most of these are found in a very few counties. A house in San Antonio. Texas, is said to shell 100 carloads annually. St. Louis has one house which shells 25 car loads a year, and the annual value of nut meats sold there is valued at $350,000. Texas ships out 500 carloads of nuts annually, while cultivated nuts are just be- ginning to reach the markets. Mr. Burbank says the improved pecan is the most valuable of all nuts, that the walnut, chestnut, or any other nuts can never be com- petitors wilh the pecan. Few in- vestments says Dr Stubbs, Direc- tor of the Louisiana University and Agricultural Colleges, promises larger profits than an orchard of well selected pecan trees pioperly cared for to the time of bearing. We are all familiar with pecan nuts, but few consumers thus far have been able to procure nuts grown from grafted trees, as 95 per cent, of the pecans on the open market aie from seedling trees. The culti- vated nuts average from 30 to 50 to a pound, while the seedlings average from 80 to 200 to the pound, making a vast difference when the kernel is considered. As the fine varieties of this nut become known the prices increase and the demand is far greater, and increasingly greater than thesupply. Nuts that CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller lu tliis column we give place to advertisements from subscibers who have orchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for things wanted The rate is One Cent a wurd tor each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. SAMPLE NUTS— Of man.v leading varieties for stu'ly or exhibition purposes supplied nt reasonable rates, Seed nuts -nrnished only in limiti^d quantities, THE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga CHOICE LOCATION-No. 24 400 acres, near MoiJticello, Fla Two thirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in pine and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile cif new town and near a famous lake Price. .$10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, tirst-class in everv respect. 320 acres now being planted in pecan trees of choice va- rieties Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Wjll be cared for for five years at price accepted THE NUr-GROWER COMPANY, Poulan, Ga. WANTED— Copies of March, May, June and Decenber, 1907, and February, .March ami April, 1908, of The Not-gkowee. mrnm \m-\m Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery AlASOtl BUILDING HOUSTON. .-. TKXAS. A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POU AN, GEORGIA. Paper read by Mrs, Thomas A. Banning, before the Forestry Class of the Chicago Woman's Club. PINEY PARK NURSERY POULAN, : : : GEORGIA. Ornamentals, Climbers< Trees, Shrubs and R.oses. California and other varieties of Privet. Spanish Bayonets, Eulalias. Etc. : : : : Wholesale and Retail Trade solicited J. F. WILSON, M'g'r. THB NUT-GHOWBR Questions and Answers. No. lo. How does "Rosette" affect pecans, and at what season of the year is it most apparent? Ans. Pecan 'Rosette" is a con- dition best observed about the mid- dle of the growing season. The tree sends out numerous short branches at the terminals, tlie leaves are lacking in chlorophyl and verj' much constricted. When observed against skylight the leaves show many light colored blotches giving it a sieve-like ap- pearance. This condition is not unlike that of "Spike" in the pine- apple and is possibly induced by the same influences, viz : improper soil conditions or unbalanced ferti- lizer. It does not appear to be a serious trouble as was first sup- posed. H.K.Miller. No. II. Do you think there is any virtue in whitewashing the trunks of pecan trees to keep in- sects out ; it so would arsenic added to the whitewash be of any benefit.? Ans. Some advocate the use of whitewash for pecan trees but I do not think any special benefit is to be derived from whitewashing the trunks of the trees. H.K.Milleii [E.xtract from letter sent to Chattanooga Convention.] No. 12. In gathering the nuts of some thirty-odd varieties that we have in bearing, we notice this year that many of the larger varieties such as the Stuart, Frot- scher, and in some cases, the Van Deman, have not filled as well as in normal years. This is especially noticeable in the Stuart variety. The kind we have found that have filled the best this year, have been the medium to large and small nuts, such as the Curtis, Teche, Bradley, Krack-Ezy and that class of nuts. Would like to hear from others along this line. C.M.G. East Florida. Ans. Reports from others so- licited. Hickory— Hickoria—Carya. OONTI.NUED FBOMTHIKD PAGE a few j'ears ago sold for from 5c to 15c a pound now bring from 1 ^c to 25c, and Louisiana nuts bring from 25c to 50c, while the budded and grafted varieties sell for from 50c to $1.50. and even bring as high as !]!=; a pound for fine specials. Cur- tis, who made a tour of our pecan orchards, says many people of the North and West really do not know what a first class pecan is. Our importations of nuts, which are constantly on the increase, now amount to over $5,000,000 annu- ally. This should allay any fears that our market will be over stock- ed in the near future. Our exports amount to but .130,000, so that the foreign market has not yet been touched. Owing to its fine keep- ing qualities the pecan does not have to be handled rapidly, or hur- ried to the consumer. The pecan tree is one of the most prolific as we have said. Trees from 15 to 18 years of age yield an- nually I27 to ^-,6. There are nuts in Texas that are engaged during the lifetime of cer- tain persons at 50c a pound, and a tree in that state has paid the owner from .$So to $300 a year for 18 out of 19 years. The demand, says Robert J. Morris, for cultivated pecans is su much in excess of the supply that the highest priced nuts of this species do not reach New York. Florida is in some places aban- doning oranges in favor of pe- cans. A cold wave does not injure them. They are not perishable if left for a short time unharvested. The market is never overstocked, and there are few "off years." Profits increase as the labor de- creases, and the demand grows faster than the supply. The aristocracy of Europe have come to use the pecan in preference to the walnut, and at the Paris Ex- position it attracted much atten- tion. The late Gov. Hogg said, "I want no monument of stone, but let my children plant at the head of my grave a pecan tree, and at the foot of my grave a walnut tree, and when those trees shall bear nuts let the pecans and walnuts be given to the plain people of my state so that they may plant them and make Texas a land of trees." Seedling trees do not come into bearing until they are from 12 to 13 years old, while the budded and grafted trees frequently yield at the ages of 4 to 5 years, and in many instances yield profitably at 7 years of age, and when 10 years old should produce from 10 to 20 and up to 50 pounds of choice nuts which sell readil)' for from 50c to 75c a pound for mixed nuts, and from 75c to .1)1.50 a pound for naiTied varieties, such as Schley, Stuart, Van Deman and others. CONTINl'KD IN MAY NUMBER FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges. Plums, Per= simmuiis, Figs, riulberries, Etc ::::;: : A full line of Ornamental and Shade trees. Quantity and Qiialily. Correspondence solicited. A^rcatdla Nurseries Montlcello, h'loricla. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is mv Specialtj'. Kudded and (ilrufted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of tree^ and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves . J. B. WIGHT, "JK-o,.. Nuts for Profil fJ'^'S^ZZ trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. FromJan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, la. I The Griffing Brothers Co., JackftonvlUc. Fla-rldo SPENT iwenty years learn- ing (he Best Varieties; lo (/row the Best BusSei iliai give Best Re.'JulL": and MoKl Roses. We have them. The Best nlal. Shade Treeii, Hedges and Shrubbery too. Write for catalog of the ni7CT DnCl7C ^^'^ The bC/dl KUoI!^0 Lower South U KST V A R I VJFi KS WriLe for Price List>. Nursery Established in 1882 S. W. PEEK. : Hartwell, Ga. 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE T*i all who send us 2.T cents fornne jeai'ssnl)- soription to any one of the Mc monthly Ma^a- jines named Iw lew we will send, ihsolntely free, p ctnres of 42 nl the world's most heautitui Eirls, a picture of •311. bahies, in Mmn post cards and a baaut nl Album, entiiled "SOUVBMK OK rHE WDlll.D," size 6x8 inches, (;4 pasjes, oontaining To intBresting and instructive views from all o\e the world. Woman's World, 'hicaco-- Literary an-1) --Poultr\ paper, (i.-ntlewoiuan, Now York •-Household, Fh^ral. Everyday Life, 'hicairo - T iterary and -lories The above raatiazines have been rarefulU se- lecteil ami are n all raspectseqiial ■• mo>t of the .50reiit m itrazi es ot their claso *,'hoos« tin- one you Mant and send 2o cents toilay, .\f:ents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No 15 Keystone Bliit;. Chattanooga, Tann. THH NUT-GJROWBR New For growing Pecant., Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE I CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. m A nm grove The Best Investment that can now be madfl in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the piper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by iiui'serymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsunia orange trees between I he pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for tne coming.season'sgrafting. aspleu- dld opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama w^est of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Scranton County, JACKSON, MISS. Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4.000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, CiA. Gainesville Nurseries, Gainesville, Florida. Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Pecan trees of such standard varieties as have agoodi-ecord behind them. Ourcat- alog will not only help in the selection of varieties, but will assistyou in the plant- ing and culture It's free for the asking. CSAiNESVILLEf fl.0Rlt»A. Imports of Nuts for Consumption A conspicuous feature of the ac- companying table expressing the imports of nuts for consumption into the United States during the last nine years is the marked in- crease in the quantity. Inference is plain that the edible nuts are en- tering inore generally into consump- tion as food, and this fact must be regarded as encouraging to the growers of nuts in this country. This value is not a value for the United States, or any part of the United States, but is the sum of the values in the foreign countries from which the nuts were shipped : 1900 13,484,699 1901 3,756.137 1902 4,214.676 1903 5-038'726 1904 5H73.306 1905- 6,154.515 1906 7,338,607 1907 9-315,891 1908 9,563,742 Pecan as a Factor in the City Beautiful. It has been suggested that both beauty and utility are combined in the pecan tree and that it would greatly contribute to the beauty of "the city beautiful" if trees which are to be planted are of this kind. Boosters of the pecan tree and of the city beautiful wax eloquent over the idea and picture every street during the fall months the scene of nutting parties of school children. What could be more de- lightful? In the spring and sum- mer the grateful shade and tender green of the leaves, in the autumn the garnering of the succulent nuts ! The pecan is making progress. It is being cultivated foi profit in many places in the counties of Georgia and Alabama. Thorsby, Ala., is coming to the fore as a producer of pecans. It is here that the groves of the Ala- bama Pecan Grower's Company are located. This company has one tree, that in eleven years attained a height of thirty feet, a width across the limbs of twenty feet and a trunk thirteen inches in diameter. The sixth crop was taken during the i^ast fall. The company exhib- ited some fine speciinens at the state fair. Pecan growing is predicted by many to be destined for the leading Mere Mention. Prof Van Deman, although con- servative, believes in an alluvial soil for the pecan. He recently reported having found an old tree in his locality which is said to have borne 14 barrels in one season. C. M. Griffing, in the National Nurseryman, says: "The general interest taken by almost every home owner and farmer in the fine va- rieties of pecans will in a few years make pecans the leading horticul- tural product of the Wiregrass sec- tion. No tree is more valuable or more desirable for a roadside or street tree. They should be as uni- versally used for this purpose throughout the South as the maple is in New York. industry of the South. No tree responds more readily to careful, sj'stematic cultivation. It has few equals among nut trees and no su- periors. No other nut has been found to produce more revenue. The culture of the pecan already is an important industry and more and more attention is being given to it each year. The experimental stages have been passed. The confectionery trade and the table requireinetits demand the finest nuts, but up to the present the supply has been entiiely in- adequate. The pecan is therefore easy to sell and may be held for a high price. The trees grow well in middle and southern Alabama. The best nuts are of tremendpus size, with very thin shells, good keeping qualities and delicious flavor. The average yield per tree, trans- planted, sometimes runs as high as 10 pounds in the fifth year, the sixth year 15, the seventh 25 pounds. The tenth year after set- ting out a yield of 50 to 150 pounds may be expected. The nuts sell at 50 cents and upward per pound. Selected specimens for planting bring 75 cents to $3.00 per pound. During the holidays the wild nuts brought as much as 60 and 75 cents per pound in Birmingham. Those interested in the pecan industry regard it as a superior investment to oil or mines. The coinpany suggests that a few acres planted with pecan trees and tended by them will provide the owner with an ever increasing pension for life. The pecan industry has the endorse- ment of the country's leading horti- culturists.— "News," Birmingham, Ala. THB NUT^GRiJWBR THE NUT -GROWER PUBLI8HKD MONTHLY BY 7?/»e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Ctonptress ot March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. NOTICK When this paragraph l.s marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as po.stal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. APRII., 1909. Inquiries come frequently for in- formation regarding the register- ing of varieties of nuts, witii a view to placing before the public desir- able data regarding them. This matter may reach the next conven- tion, through the committee on Nomenclature and Standards. "Getting back to Nature," may be a fad in many of the populansms of the day, but is a commendable move when falling into line with nature's mode of supplying food of the most concentrated and delight- ful character, such as is found in edible nuts like the fine pecan. With this number we begin the publication of some interesting statistics prepared for The Nut- Grower by Mr. George K. Holmes, statistical expert of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. These figures offer a most convincing argument in favor of the industry in this country and those who fear an over production of pecans, can see in these tables no cause for their apprehensions. Regarding the importation of nuts, some may wonder to what extent, this is counterbalanced by exports. The balance of trade in this particular is against the United States to the extent of having fifty times as much imports as exports. This is pretty heavy considering that we grow so many different kind of nuts as well as the best. become speedily available, if the funds saved are promptly and wisely invested in pecan orchards. The Statistical Scientist of the Department of Agriculture, in a letter to the editor, says : "The nut growing movement in this country interests me extremely and I feel positive that it is destin- ed to have a definite and probably prosperous expansion, perhaps in the case of some kinds of nuts in combination with agricultural pro- duction along other lines. Please regard me us always at your ser- vice." Alfalfa, as a cover crop for pe- can orchards, merits careful trial. It may require some skill and ex- perimenting to grow it successfully in some pecan localities, but since it is a legume, as well as a profit- able crop, it will be well to give it an extensive trial. This can form a part of the association's work, when the contemplated test or- chards are established in all the stiites. For some unexplained reason our September, 1906, edition of The Nut-Grower was suddenly exhaust- ed. It developed later that a single form of two pages had run short at time of binding. So many requests were filed for copies of this issue that we planned to re- print the missing pages, but it was discovered that the subject matter of the missing pages had previously been printed in a volume of the Association Proceedings. Conse- quently enough copies were bound up, without pages seven and eight, to fill the orders. Some of these de- tective copies are still on hand and will be furnished free to any of our old subscribers who may request a copy. The saving habit becomes more agreeable and efficient, when some specific purpose or plan is in mind. Possibly it was some life insurance promoter who advocated the fol- lowing reasons for saving. As the story goes there are three things every man should undertake and follow up regularly: First, he should save enough to care for him- self and family in old age. Second, he should save enough to care for his family in event of his early death; and third, he should save enough to care for himself and family in case of sickness. These are all good reasons for saving, and For the past eight or nine years the importation of nuts into the United States, has been increasing, not only regularly, but enormously. It is now — in value — over three times as great as it was at the be- ginning of the present century. There are substantial reasons for this annual increase. One of them is the inadequate local supply. An- other is the more general recogni- tion of their value as a food product, and still another is the extended new uses to which they are found adaptable. Any one of these cau.ses are sufficient to consume all the in- crease from crops for j'ears to come, so the importations are likely to continue to keep on increasing in- definitely. The publicity work of the Asso- ciation was heartily endorsed at the Chattanooga convention. The Secretary asked for sixty dollars for the work during the current year. Two-thirds of this amount was pledged within five minutes time and direction given to call on other members for additional funds. The following subscribers to the fund have already paid the amounts indicated : C. M. Barnwell, Baconton, Ga , I5.00; Jefferson Nursery Co., Monticello, Fla., $5.00; The Stan- dard Pecan Co., Monticello, Fla., $5.00; Huntsville Wholesale Nur- series, Huntsville, Ala., $5.00; J. B. Wight. Cairo. Ga., $5.00. This important work was started in iQ07and the appropriation made by the Association was supple- mented by contributions from Grifiing Brothers Co., Jacksonville, Fla.; Glen St. Marys Nurseiy, Glen St. Marys Fla. ; J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga. ; The Nut-Crower Co., Poulan, Ga. ; Miller & Gossard. Monticello, Fla. ; Simpson Broth- ers, Monticello, Fla. Most of us have recipes into which nuts enter largely, and are acquainted with their delicious flavor. Many of our meat and fruit salads and other confections would lose much of their piquant flavor if we should leave out the nuts. THB NUT'GHOWBR Nut r#w@ R®ai ThI ■WE WOULD CALL YOUR A.TTENTIOX TO Thomas Fhospliate PoA^v^dei* [basic sl,ag phosphate] Total Phosphoric Acid 15 to 18 Per Cent,. A.XA.LYZirV'. and IT BEARS ABL'NDANTLY j IqWrite tor caatatog of Fruit and Nut trees, and for/ 1 niformabon alioiit joining tlie President Pecan Club j 1 ?VVe have Ornamental and Shade trees. Hedges, Rose bushes and Shrubbery too!' Address I The Griffing Bros. Co.. 'Nurserymen, j Jaetsonuine, Florida SUCCESS NATURAL SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to till at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL PEC4^ NURSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS MISS. Barnweli Pecan Groves Z'i^^. ded and (-i rafted trees nf the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: CEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most-=Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT.Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss 10 Tim NlJT^GUOWnU Report of Vice-President for South Carolina. Secretary Nut Growers Associ;ition: Owing to unavoidable circum- stances I regret I cannot be present at the annual meeting of tlie Nut Growers Association. I hardly have any report of in- terest to make as vice-president for South Carolina. I have made every effort to get the few interested in pecan growing to make an exhibit of their pecans without success; there seems to be very little interest shown in advancing the pecan in- dustry in this state during the past twelve months. I have planted out 50 acres of grafted pecans two-thirds Van De- man and one-third Stuarls. The former is the nut for this section and has done better with me than any grafted pecan that has come into bearing. Will ship you to- morrow samples from my groves for exhibition and shall express same to Hotel Patten, care of Mr. Alexander. Oblige by representing me at the meeting and by making such a re- port as my letter warrants. John S. Houi.beck, Vice-Pres. for S. C. Letter From Indiana. Editor The Nut-Grower : Dear Sir: I am taking the lib- erty of mailing to you the Eighth Annual report of the State Board of Forestry (Indiann) in which, on page 69, I have an article on Nut Orcharding with particular reference to the pecan. I have not written this article with the view of being technically correct, but to give greater impetus to the movement, only too lately sprimg up in Indiana, to preserve for propagation the best varieties of the native wild nuts and to de- velop other and better varieties if pos-^ible, for the purpose of grow- ing ihem in orchards. 1 am very glad to say that our recent General Assembly has pro- vided the Indiana Experimental Station, at Lafayette, with quite ample funds, to be continued an- nually, to carry on with its other work, extensive experiments in all the lines of nut culture, propaga- tion, orcharding, etc. This will enable some of us who have been carrying on this very pleasant and very expensive work to retire some- WAJHEB-SHIDER AGENT" EACH TOWN and district te - - »i^ ,— ; .._- — •^— - — » ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "Kanjcer bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are making money fast. Write Jor /uii particulars and s^eciai offer at once. 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They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of^thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is ^.50 per pair, but for advertisingpurposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. !>. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found tliera strictly as represented. We will allow a caefh discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price *4.5G per pair) if yuu fiend FULL CASH WITH ORDIi:C£ and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk in sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OlIK expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. mp V/lfff MFFf% T#DFO ^^^^'^^^y ^^y^i^^^^^^V Pi^<^c until you send for a pair of mF m %Jf" fwttt/ a MniL^ Hedgethom Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial nt the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue wl''-'!, describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. g^g% Af/ir Vi/A/T t^ut write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips *'i$'* and "D," also rim strip " H*» to prevent rim cattln{>^. This tire will outlast any other niaUe-SOFT, lilLASTIC aud EASY RIDING, offers we are making. or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new aud wouderiul It only costs a postal to leam everytbiag. Write it NOW. J. L MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL what and turn it over to the state with tlie hope and full expectation of Kitting more reliable, geneial and systematic results. Verj' sincerely yours. Mason J. Nihi.ack. Vincennes, Ind. -THE- Bubbies with Rainbow Coloring. They were not copied from Nut- Grower advertisers. Thev refer lo the pecan : When the trees begin to bear these dividends should steadily in crease until they reach 600 to 1,000 per cent, in twenty to twenty-five years. A tree will )-ield from five to sev- en barrels annually when it reaches its full bearing age. At I90 a bar- rel 1 he annual income from a tree amounts to I450 to $630 per tree. Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA Record Price for Orange Grove. Lindsay, Cal., Ai)ril 3. A re- cord in orange grove prices was reached here this week when C. O. Cowles sold an eight and one-third acre grove of 14 year old Valeii- cias for ,'j!4,ooo an acre, to Arthur VVilley^ of Denver. This is the highest price ever paid for an or- ange grove in any district. Mr. Cowles bought the grove in 1905, paying .|i.ooo an acre. The 1906 crop brought $9,577; 1907 crop, 9, 181 , and last year's crop, .1!i4,500. THB NUT'GHOWBH 11 Bdoks attd-Catategtiesr." Bulletin No. 142 of the Col- orado Experiment Station, Ft. Collins, Col., has 16 pages de- voted to tillage, Fertilizing and cover crops for orchards. Alfalfa Culture is the title of Circular No. 91 of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio. An Spage de- scription of its requirements and cultivation. Orchard Fertilization — Bul- letin No. 91 of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station, State College, Pa., has i8 pages of orchard tests description. The Annual Report of the Florida Experiment Station, for the year ending June 30, 1908, is an interesting volume of 150 pages, illustrated and has a full in- dex. Strange to say it contains no reference to nut culture in the state. The Eighth Annual Report OF THE State Board of For- estry, OF Indiana, is a hand- some illustrated book of some 200 pages. It gives much information regarding work in hand. One of the conspicious features of the book is the article on Nut Orcharding by Mr. Mason J. Niblack, of Vin- cennes. The native pecan of that state comes in for conspicuous men- tion. Pecans and Other Nuts in Texas— Bulletin No. 2, Texas De- partment of Agriculture, Austin, Texas, 50 pages, contains various addresses and papers, read at suc- cessive meetings of the Texas Nut Growers Association. An inter- esting and instructive publication. |gti»MiM»>yt*»itnitif iitir'»'»'r'i'ii'tni»i*'tiiifii|iini|T'irn-|nmtmf>Tin Fruits that have ripened into lus- cious beauty, through spring and summer sunshine; vegetables that rival these in flavor and attractive- ness; nuts that supply the fats nec- essary to sustain the body ; all wholesome and toothsome, that should be satisfactory had not the human taste becume vitiated through indulgence in animal foeds. rich and spicy condiments, foreign sweets and acids. We have in our wonderful state a nut, which for many decades has been considered a prodigal growth of no especial importance, but one which in recent years has attracted attention to the extent that it is be- ing widely cultivated and husband- ed, as among the most profitable and important pruducts of our rich soil and balmy clime. (CUMMIT ^^ CHOICE ij;-^ NURSERY STOCK At A^,i MONTICELLO, FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses • —OUR SPECIALTIES— : The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of the Future lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: *" • ■ ■ ■!' ' ' ' ■' ■• ■' I M' »• I'iKiii' I' I' I' 'iihrtrtiil t'g rtf iiif >ltl>l'lH«|tHllll m^kS The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc. 800 Acros In Pecans (60 are in Test Orchard) l)E\HTT, GEORGIA. This Company makes a sinQio Specially of Pecans ^^E receiv. d the only Medal awarded specifically for Pecan trees which were ' ' planted and growing on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. » onvincing and valuable object lessons on all pUases of Pecan culture and propagation are to be seen in the Company's orchards and nurseries at DeWitt, Ga. Visitors always welcome. Budded and grafted trees of meritorious commercial and home varieties for sale in small or large quantities, at prices consistent with first class trees — "WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The Pecan Tree-'How to Plant It, How to Grow It, How to Buy It. (Third Edition) will be mailed free to those interested. Mention The Ndt-itROwer wnen writing. Address The C. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Inc., DeWit>t>, Mitchell County, Georgia. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Deligtitful Home on Back Bay, Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by eity people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,900 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F. HEIKES, Manager, HuntsvUle, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., ===z:^^z^ OFFERS A VARIETY OF z======z Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. fft^For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 12 THB I^UT'GROWBR Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Nut Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw- berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. Write us for any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :•: :-: GEORGIA. eA -eg Massachusetts Agricultural College. THE NUT^GROWER Voluin* VII Number 10 Poulan, Ga., May, 1909. 5c per Copy 60c per Year Department of Agriculture The Proper Use of Nuts as Food. Work in Interest of the Realizing the great commercial importance the pecan is attaining not only to the South but to the whole country, the United States Department of Agriculture has seen fit to make a special appropriation to aid in its development. In a general way, the work which the Department plans to do is that which the individual cannot do for himself, yet which is of im- portance to all concerned in the pecan production. Experience has already met with several problems which the grower has been compelled to accept as unsolvable and to therefore shape his affairs accordingly. In the matter of what makes va- rieties, more negative information than positive is to be had. It has cost years of patience and expense to learn that varieties do not re- produce true to seed. VV^e know what we will not get rather than what we will get. That there is a factor, thus far obscure, determining the variation in seed production, cannot be doubt- ed. When after a series of fruit- ful years a variety suddenly fails for a season, tlie presence of a hid- den factor again becomes evident. The fact that a variety fills well in one section and poorly in another, andthefact also that during the sum- mer months nuts drop badly sug- gests the influence of some invisible agency. It is the solving of these and other problems that the De- partment seeks to explain. Granting that each nut repre- sents the product of two parents, it is but logical to suppose were the matter of pollenation under- stood when the parentage is known it will be possible to predict what characteristics an offspring will possess. By carefully managing the pollenation taking place be- tween distinct varieties for a series of years, it is believed that the Pecan by C. A. Reed. — * cause of a failure after years of regular bearing, or a lack in filling qualities as well as possibly serious dropping during the summer months, will be known and when understood a remedy may soon be applied. It may be found that one variety, or all of several varieties, produce nuts of better qualities when pollen of the same variety is used than when pollen from another has been admittfd. or the converse may be found true, in which case it will be necessary to go further to de- termine which varieties make the most satisfactory crosses, again it may be that a variety will be found kicking in a sufficient pollen supply for i:s own pistillate service, and that, therefore, the cause of the so-called "drop" is due to insuffi- cient pollenation. When these problems are understood the plant- er will know whether or not it is necessary to take the matter into consideration, when planting an orchard, and if so he will know which varieties can best be set in proximity to each other to obtain the benefits of cross pollenation. Another matter which the De- partment already has under way is the taking of a census as it may be called, of the number and age of pecan trees now in the United States. Cards have been printed and are being mailed at present time to the several hundred pecan growers whose addresses are on file in Washington, asking for the number of trees of the leading va- rieties, number of seedlings grown from nuts of those varieties, and seedlings of other parentage, to- gether with the ages ot all such trees. When these cards are filled Continued on Second Page. * Read at Chattanooea Convention. Read before the Medical Asseociation of Geor^a. at Macon, by Geo. M. Niles, M. D., Atlanta. Ga. CONTINUED PROM APRIL NUMBER Nuts are also well supplied with mineral matter. The ash of the walnut, almond, etc., is rich in phosphoric acid, comparing favor- ably with some of the cereals. As to the digestibility of nuts, I am free to admit that they are in some disrepute. The cause of this, however, is mainly due either to insufficient mastication, to crowd- ing the stomach with them after a hearty meal, or to eating them at unseasonable hours. Wiien they are accorded a proper place in the dietary, doubtless they will soon overcome this disfavor. Prof. Jaffa reports on a number of investigations carried on with a fruit and nut diet, some on vege- tarians, some on fruitarians, and some on subjects who iiad previ- ously lived on an ordinary mixed regime. The general results as to the co-efficients of digestibility of nuts showed protein 90 per cent., fat 95 per cent, and carbohydrates 97 per cent. As most of the experiments re- corded at the California and Maine experiment stations comprised some nuts not in general use in the Southern states, I decided to form an intelligent opinion as to the di- gestibility and economic value of the peanut, the pecan, and the Bra- zil nut, these three being the ones most in favor with us. For this purpose I enlisted the aid of Messrs. J. I. Matthews, J. G. Devane, W. L. Morris, G. D. Thompson, S. A. Kirkland and E. S. Deaver, all these being students at the Atlanta School of Medicine. These young men voluntarily of- fered their co-operation, and deserve much credit for the painstaking manner in which they followed my directions. Tliey were allowed a sufficiency of carbohydrates, as bread and fruit, but took no meat, eggs, butter, peas or beans. Their digestive functions, which were tested before going on this diet, were found to be normal. Each day they were weighed, their general condition was noted, and their urine and feces carefully examined. THE, NUT'GROWBR This diet was kept up four days with five of them and three days with Deaver, this young man be- coming somewhat upset and nause- ated at the end of that time. He dis- continued the nuts by my direction, though entirely willing to go on with them. The following table will give only the main findings, as an elab- oration of all the figures for each man each day would be tedious : Department of Asrriculture. CONTINUED FROM FIKST PAGE NAME Nirrs KG. DAYS LBS USED WEIGHT AT START WEIGHT AT FINISH COST RUUAKKS Devane Morris . . . Pecan. .. Pecan Brazil Brazil Peanuts Peanuts .. 4 4 414.... i% llO.O.S OZ. 159.11 OZ. 140.04 oz. 168.05 oz. 135. C6 oz. 160. OS oz. 141 10 OZ. 159.06 OZ 140.01 OZ. 168 .00 oz. 133.14 OZ. 162.04 OZ. 75 ctS 80ctS 8,5 CtS 55 CtS 80 CtS 73 CtS Normal Tondition Thompson Deaver — Kirkland.. Matthews.. 4 3 4 4 Koriual Condition Somewhat Nauseated Normal Condition It will be noted that two gained in weight; that three remained about the same, there being a loss of a few ounces; while only one lost weight appreciably, that be- ing only one and a half pounds. That the calories furnished were sufficient showed in tlieir feeling of strength and bouyancy. Thev had no disturbance of either stom- ach or intestinal function, with the slight exception mentioned. The co-efficients of digestibility, as shown by the feces, were protein 93 per cent., fat 90 per cent., sugar, starch, etc., 93 per cent During each day of the experi- ment these young men seemed "fit" in every way; and when the cost of these results, bearing in mind the amount of heat and energy produced, is compared with the cost of a given amount of meat necessary to generate the same heat and energy, it is enough to make a thoughtful observer sit up and take notice. As has been shown by the fore- going, as well as proved by other observers, the rich content of pro. tein and fat in nuts can be e.xcel- lently assimilated, but their place in the diet, like that of any other concentrated food, should be care- fully regulated. Any diet, to be normally pro- pelled through the digestive canal, should possess a certain bulkiness; and for this reason nuts can be best used along with foods containing a proportion of cellulose, such as fruits, vegetables, breads, crackers, etc. Always remember that they should constitute an integral part of the menu, and not be superim- posed on an already sufficient meal. It is told of a Georgia merchant that, on a recent trip to New York, he was dined and wined at frequent intervals during the day and night by some of his commercial friends. Undet the seductive influence of tempting viands, good fellowship and sundry mixed drinks, he taxed his stomach to a wonderful degree, and just before retiring he partook out and returned to the Depart- of a small bunch of grapes. In a ,nent they will be put on file and few hours the pains ot an outraged 1 .. j r r J,- „.^; ^ „ f J 1- ^ kept ready for reference at any time digestive apparatus forced him to ^ •' ■' call in a physician, whom he =*^ ''^^ "pecan census of 1908." gravely informed that some GRAPES, Should any of those present fail eaten the night before, seemed to get such cards or should know actiially to poison him. of others who are overlooked, the 1 he moral IS obvious. t\ ^ ^ ■,, , Department will greatly appreciate having its attention called to the matter. In addition to the perfecting of an herbarium collection of speci- men nuts of all varieties and seed- lings of prominence, at the present The thorough mastication of nuts time the Department is asking the is also essential, the co-efiicient of growers for five pound lots of nuts digestibility being increased, and for a cracking and storage test to the liability to discomfort being be conducted during the coming decreased by care in this particular. ^-jnter. It is of great importance The popular belief that salt ad- that the nuts so sent be of orchard- ded to nuts improve* their dieesti- j .. 1 . j • j , Kiijf,- ;- „„f u^ ► u • ^ .• "■"" ^*"" "Ot selected, in order that bilitv is not borne out by investi- gation, though, to many" persons. ''"* comparison of varieties be fair salt renders them more palatable. '" every way to each variety. The limits of this paper will not For such lots the Department is permit me to enter into details re- g^.j to pav commercial prices. In garding tne specific uses ot differ- , . , ' , . , % ent nuts and nut preparations in '^''' '''' '^''^ "'^'S'^^ °^ "^^^''^ =^^ varying conditions of human need. compared with the weight ot the Their nutritious qualities have whole nut will be recorded, and been taken advantage of by num- from time to time samples will be erous institutions and individuals tracked and the keeping qualities m the building up of wasted and , ,- , ... impoverished tissues; their charm- compared ot the various varieties ing iiavors have enabled the con- f'^O"-" different sources compared, fectioners to utilize nuts in many Of equal importance at the pres- of the delicious sweetmeats so allur- ent time is an effort to secure ing to the maiden's heart; while records of actual yields of each va- the housewife and caterer have riety for as many years back as is found them invaluable in the pre- possible from the different pecan paration of countless daint)' dishes. sections. While records of iiidi- Let me. in conclusion, stress the vidual trees are of equal value, it is fact that the vegetable proteins are far more desirable to secure records free from many of the toxins with for whole orchards, which the flesh foods abound, and Realizing that it is difficult for that they less readily undergo most growers after years of suc- putrefactive changes in the intes- cessive planting and occasional re- tine. Moreover some of the purest planting to give the desired data and most readily digestible forms in acres, therefore, the figures are of fat are those derived from nuts, asked for in number of trees, to- being provided as nut oils, or in gether with age and distance apart, the emulsified forms as nut butters. And such record sent to the De- People vary in their food require- partment will be most gladly re- ments, as do stoves, furnaces, or ceived and used to mutual advant- locomotives, in their fuel require- ments; and, in our efforts to scien- tifically furnish tlie requisite cal- ories, we should endeavor to in- crease the endurance and efficiency of the body, as well as relieve mor- bid states of nutrition. Permit me, therefore, to com- mend to you the study of nuts and their food value, believing this subject entirely worthy of your sober consideration. age. In conducting its work of pecan investigation the Department of Agriculture realizes that it must ask many favors, yet it stands ready at any time to pay for such expenses as it may put the individ- ual to. When specimens of desired va- rieties are to be sent to Washing- ton franks and boxes will be freely furnished. Tim AUT-GHaWBH Hickory — Hickoria — Carya. * OIINTINOED FROM APUIL KUMBER Thousands of bearing seedling trees are now being top-worked with grafts and buds from fine va- rieties, as these always come true to graft and bud, and seedlings cannot be depended upon to even reprcduce themselves. It lias been hard to induce far- mers to syslematicallj' plant out pecan trees owing to tiie long wait for a crop, but the introduction of tiie improved and cjuick be:iring tree is convincing them of its im- portance as one of their farm re- quisites. The pecan tree requires close attention up to its bearing age, but as they should be planted from 40 to 60 feet apart the ground is cultivated, and should be care- fully cultivated, bet ween the trees, thus producing valuable crops until tlie pecan begins to take the place of the shovel and the hoe products. With this new industry in tiie South there has come a loud cry for more skilled labor along horti- cultural and forestry lines. One nurserv ha; given young men from our own city an opportunity t(j se- cure a liberal education in the cul- ture of the pecan by taking a course at their nur.series in Georgia, and many others are likely to follow their example. Realizing the vast impoitance of this industry to the South our gov- ernment recently m:ide an appro- priation of a sum of money to be used in experiments in the propa- gation and cultivation of this profitable tree, and the surround- ings necessary to its proper growth and production. Previous to 1900 almost all or- chards were of seedling trees, al- though a few efforts had been made prior to that time towards propa- gating species by budding and grafting. Since 1900, however, the interest has spread to all the Southern pecan bearing states, and now the cultivated pecan is to take its place among the tree "aristoc- racv." It took more than a cen- liu'y to evolve the Pippin, Jona- than and Hellflower apples from little seedlings, but the Stuart, Van Deman. Schley, Froischer, Delmas, SiK"cess, and many other fine pe- cans have already made their entry into the circle of the elect. The pecan known to-day as the Centennial, after careful research by Prof VVm. A. Taylor, and many others, is known as the first variety to be propagated by grafting. Dr. A. E. Lolomb, after several unsuc- ce>sful efforts to graft scions from Paper read by Mrs. Thomas A. Banning, before the Forestry Class of the Chicago Woman's Club. this tree, took cuttings from the original tree which stood on the Anita plantation of Mr. Emile, Bourgeoise, on the east bank of the Mississippi river, in St. James Parish, Louisiana, to Mr. Roman, owner of Oak Alley Plantation, also on the east side of the river. Mr. Roman's slave gardener, An- toine, succeeded in grafting 16 trees near the mansion and quarters in the winter of 1S46 or '47, and a year or two later Mr. Roman had 1 10 grafted from the original tree in his pasture which was "40 ar- pents" or Sfco feet from the river. By the close of the civil war in 1865 there were 126 grafted Centennial trees in bearing on tliis plantation. It, however, changed hands, shortly after the war, and the late plant- ings of 1 10 grafted trees were cut down to make way for sugar cane, ;i It hough they were just reaching their most |)roducti\e age, and the nuts from them were selling for from 50 to li!75 per barrel. This was the first variety to be planted in commercial orchard form with a definite view to producing nuts for sale, and it was one of the first trees to be catalogued and offered for sale. Two of the first 16 trees were still standing and were thrift)', productive and in fine con- dition when Prof. Taylor visited the plantation a few years ago to verify statements. All of these statements are vouched for by him. The date of their grafting in 1S46 or '47 by the slave Antoine, under Mr. Roman's direction, ma: ks the beginning of tnodern pecan culture. In 1876 Hubert Bonzano, who then owned Oak Alley, exhibited nuts from these trees at the Centen- nial Exposition, Philadelphia, and was awarded a diploma in which the variety was commended for its "remarkable size, tenderness and very special excellence." This is supposed to be the origin of the name "Centennial," and it was first catalogued so by the late Rich- ard Frotscher, of New Orleans. Among the pioneers in this work may be mentioned, Mr. Wm. Nel- son, Sam H. James, and the late Col. Wm. R. Stuart, who today is known as the father of pecan cul- ture, owing to his untiling eft'orts in bringing this fine product to per- fection, and they in turn have been followed by dozens of other men, such as G. M. Bacon and Herbert C. White and Mr. J. B. Wight, of Georgia; Mr A G. Delmas, Theo. Bechtel, Mr. Pabst and others, of Mississippi ; Prof. Van Deman, of Louisiana, and E. W. Kirkpatrick, E. E. Risien and others, of Texas. CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE. CLASSIFIED BUSIiNESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column we };ive place to advertisements from subscibers who have orchard, Farm Proilucta, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries tor things wanted. The rate is One Cent a wurd for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liljeral use of this space, as it will be found conTenient aud profitable. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts luinisbed only in limited quantities, rHE NUT-iiROWKR COJI- PANY, Poulan, lia CHOICE LOCATION-No. 24 400 acres, near iMiiMtKN'llo, Fla Two thirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in j'ino and hardwood tim- ber, [.ocated within halt mile of new town and near a famous lake Prion. $10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUt-GKOVVER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, first-class in every respect. 320 acres t>ow being planted in pecan trees of choice va. rieties Will subdivirle into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for five years at price accepted THB NUr-GRUWER COMPANY, Poulan, Ga. WANTED— Conies of March, May, June anii December, 1907, and February, March and April, 1908, of The NuTtiKowEK. mmm im-\m Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery MASON HIULUING HOUSTON, .•• TKXAS. A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POU AN, -:■ GEORGIA. PINEY PARK NURSERY POULAN, : : : GEORGIA. Ornamentals, Climbers* Trees, Shrubs and Roses. California and other varieties of Privet. Spanish Bayonets, Eulalias, Etc. : : : : Wholesale and Retail Trade solicited J. F. WILSON, M'g'r. 4 THB NUT^GHOWBH Questions and Answers. Suggestions for the Control of Pecan Phylloxeras. Attack by the more injurious species of phylloxera affecting pe- can, such as Phj'lloxera notabilis Perg. and Ph. perniciosa Perg., is confined to the foliage, petioles and tender twigs, and if only a small per centage of these portions of a tree are affected the damage under ordinary circumstances should be immaterial. If on the other hand the tree is badly infested its vigor of growth may be somewhat check- ed, but is extremely doubtful if the life of a tree is ever in danger. Quite a number of our correspond- ents since 1903 have remarked on the fact that affected trees appear to be otherwise perfectly healthy and have fruited well in spite ot the leaf galls. Others, however, claim injury or are apprehensive of damage. Without knowing all of the circumstances, it seems hardly probable that remedial operations are generally demanded. As with very many other insects this species is subject to great fluctuation in numbers and as a consequence the amount of injury will vary consid- erably froiTi year to year. One of the causes for this variation in abundance is due to the fact that the insect, like other species of aphides, is held more or less com- pletely in check by natural enemies, prominent among which are varimis forms of mites. As a general safeguard against reinfestation in future years such leaves as may be noticed badly in- fested and which can be readily reached with the aid of a ladder and a twelve-foot pruner should be clipped oft' and burned. This should be done befoie the adults issue to fly out and establish new colonies. If the co-operation of neighbors who also have pecan or hickory could be secured, it seetns probable that this would be all that is necessary. In fact, the practice of some such measures is advisable, especially when the trees are found to be suffering also from the attack of caterpillars and other defoliators, borers, disease, or from adverse conditions such as atmospheric. There is some doubt as to wheth- er or not the insect could be r<;acli- ed with kerosene emulsion or soap spray while it is in the hibernating egg stage attached to the bark, al- though this has been advised. If employed, kerosene-soap emulsion should be applied to the trees after the leaves have fallen or before they appear in the spring as strong as one part of emulsion in five ot water. If whale-oil soap is the agent it should be diluted in about the same proportion. F. H. Chittenden. Hickory — Hickoria— Carya. CONTINUBD FROa PAGE THREE Two women who are pioneers in this work should be mentioned also : Mrs. C. W. Jacocks, of Formosa, Fla., who has introduced one of the very largest pecans, the "Ja- cocks;" and the widow of the late Col. Stuart, who is now engaged in pecan culture in Beaumont, Texas. The Stuart pecan is suc- cessfully cultivated over a wider area than anv now known, but has many rivals in excellence, such as the Schley, the Russell, the Van Deman, the Frotscher, the Alley, and a host of other good crackers. The Nut-Grower, a periodical, is issued monthly at Poulan, Ga., for the dissemination of information to people interested in the culture of pecans and other nuls. This is edited by Dr. J. F. Wilson, who has also inaugurated an experi- mental pecan orchard for the pur- pose of testing out varieties and studying the habits of trees in the interests of nut culture. A National Nut Growers Asso- ciation was formed seven or eight years ago and has held a yearly — three days— session each fall for the past seven 3 ears at the following cities: Macon, G.i., 1902; New Orleans, 1903; St. Louis, 1904; Dallas, Texas, 1905; Scrauton, Miss., 1906; Jamestown, Va., 1907 ; Chattanooga, 1908. in concluding this brief sketch, let me express the hope that I have, at least in a slight degree, awak- ened vour interest in an industry that is rapidly assuming large pro- portions in the Southern states, and that is destined to produce and present to our tables, from a tree native to this countrv onlj- and originating probably in the soil of our own fair state, a nut that nuist occupy the highest place among all the nut products furnished by the forests of the world. FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges. Plums, Per- simmuiis. Figs. Hulberries, Etc :::::: : A full line of Ornamental and Shade trees. Qiiantity and Qiiality. Correspondence solicited. A^rcadia Nurseries XIanticello, fl. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. I'EEK, : Hartwell, Ga. 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all wliDsend us '2ri cents for «)ue yeai'ssub- [ scription tu any one of the ;,*^c monihly Maga- zines named iM'iew we wiU send, ibst of the | 5'ireiit mitruzl es ol Lhetr class Ohoosw the one . you want ami send 2i cents today. Aj^ents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No 15 Keystone Kld^;. Chattanooga, Tenn. THB NUl-GHOWBR The Editor's Test Orchard. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. m A PIJCAN KROVH The Best Investment that can uow be made In the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where teu or twelve of the best known varieties no"w beiner propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a ver.v special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsunia orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for the coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nurser.y, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecaus when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts In any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention. All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name, ho guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially flue. Send j'our orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Scranton County, JACKSON, MISS. Vmw Sal®! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Urafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. Gainesville Nurseries, Gainesvilla, Florida. Make a specialty of Budded and Grafted Fecau trees of such standard varieties as nave a good record behind them. Our cat- alog will not only help in the.seleution of varieties, but will assistvou in theplant- ing and culture. It's free for the asking H. 1. GEAVESg IPp@pJp., (SAiHESVILLE, FLORIDA. On i\lay first we exiiiiiined the trees recentlj' planted in our test orcliurd, of wliich mention has been made in January and February numbers. Interesting features are already beginning to appear, some of which will be mentioned at close of this report. In order to appreciate the start- ing into growth of these trees it will be well to give a brief sum- mary of weather conditions from the time of planting to this date. This climatic data is obtained from record kept at a Co-operative Ob- server of the weather bureau sta- tion at Poulan. January was unusually warm unlil the last two days of the month and had an averaged temperature of 55 degrees, or eight degrees above the daily average for the past eighieen years. The rain fall was below the normal, being but .36 of an inch, while the normal is 3.71 inches. Most of the trees were planted during the month of January, but the Success, Frotscher and Teche did not arrive'lill early in February. The month of February was also warmer than the average, having a mean of 54 degrees, which is four degress above the usual tempera- ture. From the ninth to eighteenth of the month there were several good rains, the total for the month being 3.09 inches, although this was two and a half inches below the normal for this month. The maximum temperature for the month was 84 degrees and was three degrees above the maximum for January. The minimum was 17 degrees, and within one degree of the January minimum. March had a monthly mean of 60 degrees, and still warmer than the normal by two degrees. Rain full was 5.03 inches, slightly in excess of the average. Maximum and minimum were S5 and 33 degrees. The mean for April was 65, which was but one degree above normal. Rain fall, 3 71 inches, being nearly an inch above the average. Maxi- mum wa'i 88 with minimum down to 35 on the tenth of the month with light frost. About the middle of March there were signs of growth, particularly with nearly all the Taylor trees. A week later three of tiiem had lost nearly all of their buds, a care- less plow-hand having got on a tree row and stripped the trees with single-tree. April first, a good many trees began to put out, hut were held up by the cold on the tenth of the month, and it was over a week before growth again started, while many tender shoots were killed. At this date. May first, nearly all varieties have started into growth, the Taylor, Curtis and Success being the most advanced, while Stuart, Krak-Ezy, Frotscher and Teche have only swelled buds. The Teche was the latest to be planted, while the Frotscher buds seem to have been hurt by the cold on April loth. Some Stuarts have not put out, but are alive and ready to grow. A few treess are evidently dead, but in nearly every instance the cause is in evidence. One Mobile is dead, and the one next to it does not look promising. Both of these are close to an old house and on a clay bed which has been used as a walk and road for many years, and from appearance has never berat broken up. One small Stuart was found broken off below the graft. Several died from exposure of the roots after planting, as rains wash- ed the soil away on one ot the slopes where the furrows marking the rows had considerable fall. A number of smaller trees as well as some larger ones, show a dead stem, but all have put out vigorous bubs near the crown, while one has a sprout evidently from the stock, and little prospect ot growth above the poirit where grafted. TO BE CONTINUED IN JUNE NUMBER When eaten nuts should be thor- oughly masticated and should not be eaten in large quantities. Sci- entists tell us that two ounces of pure fat is enough to supply the demands of a normal body for twenty-four hours, from this one many form an idea of the quantity of nuts that may be eaten in a day. 6 THB NUT'GROWBH THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISHKD MONTHLY BY ^/>e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as secoud-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Constress of March 3, 1879. Subscripllon, 50 cents per Annum. AdvertiGing Rales on Application. XOTICI-; When this paragraph is marked It means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The stthscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for throe years. M«VY. 190J). Importations of pecans into the United States were not reported prior to 190S. In that year i,n8.- 071 pounds were received vah'.ed $83,181. The Pure Food agitation con- tinues and the American Medical Association is taking a hand in support of Dr. Wiley's warfare on benzoate of soda and other chemi- cal preservatives. All this con- troversy will not hurt the cause of nuts as a food product. In traveling about the country we frequently see oats growinj^ in pecan orchards We strongly in- cline to the opinion that all serial crops should be excluded from the orchard, except as a winter cover for the ground, and early pasture, or for turning under before seed- ing. Cowpeas, alfalfa, and any of the leguminous plants are not only preferable, liut more profitable for orchard use. The selection of varieties of pe- cans for propagation, is not an ea.sy matler. The Summit Nursery's catalogue, Monticello, Fla., has the following paragraph on the subject : "Out of the vast number of bear- ing seedling trees in existence there are periiaps not more than one hundred that are considered of suf- ficient merit to warrant propaga- tion. Of I hese it may be safely said, not more than a dozen arc worthy of extensive planting. The perfect variety is yet to be discov- ered or introduced by the plant- breeder. However, there are a number of varieties which are re- cognized as standards and one can safely plant these, knowing the fruit will always find a inarket." The time will necessarly come when commercial investments in commercial pecan culture will be largely in the stocks of orchard companies. When these corpora- tions are carefully and honestly managed the stock will take on en- hanced value with the added years of growth. The temptation will come to sell or speculate in such stocks but these operations are at- tended with risk and worry which have no terors for the actual holders of the stock who relies on divi- dends for profits. Wise invest- ments in pecan orchards are safe and profitable. Speculation is risky. While gambling in nut stocks or food crops should be prohibited. whether he establishes an enter-" prise which will last for a century or longer. This is a strong feature of the pecan and an argument which may very properly be used." Prof. John Craig, of Connell University, comments editorially in the National Nurseryman on Mr. Wight's valuation of a pecan orchard. After quoting Mr. Wight's figures from the Decem- ber Nut-Grower he say-s : "Our judgment is that these fig- ures are too low for the ten year old orchard. We think it would be very difficult to find an orchard properly cared for, planted witii good grafted varieties, that could be bought for twice that amount. Apple orchards in Oregon and the west, which will in the nature of things be short lived as compared with the pecan, are selling at from $1200 to .$3O0O per acre, and ex- changing hands quite rapidly. If this represents real value in the case of the apple, tiien our judg- ment is thai the pecan should be rated somewhat on the same basis, and would certainly give a good return on an ecjual capitalization. There is no doubt that manv of the claims made for pecan culture are absurd and extravagant, but so it can be said of apples, oranges and grapes. The whole question is one of man:igement coupled with va rietie^ and soil. It is true that we know less of ihe behavior of graft- ed pecans than we do of the other orchard fruits propagated in the same waj', but there is no reason to suppose that they will not re- spond equally well. Indeed, such information as experience has g.ithered, demonstrates this beyond reasonable doubt. Added to all the other good points is the natural life of the tree. It makes a great difference whether one may expect to replant his orchard in ten to twenty, thirty or forty years, or "Running a Trade Paper" is the title of a leaflet which came to our desk some time ago. We com- mend the "Golden Rule for busi- ness men" which it contains, to our patrons, and suggest that it applies to nut growing interests as well as other lines : "If anything happens of impor- tance, give the news to your trade press. Then it will be published as you wish it published and it should be published, and not, per- haps as your competitor wishes it published. "If a combination is made and large interests all over the country are involved, call in your trade papers. Be frank ! Tell them your future policy; through them take the trade into your confidence and so disarm your competitors, who are certain to misrepresent you if you give them the chance. "Remember always that public- ity is a force which, rightly used and directed, is of inestimable value, and it can neither be evaded nor avoided, neither faked nor fixed. Remember this is the age of public- ity, whose light beats upon the throne of an Emperor as clearly and boldly as it does upon the hearth of the humblest peasiinf. Remember, finally, that an editor can as little muzzle the truth as you can I" In Our Foreign Commerce. Twenty years ago the importa- tions of fruits and nuts amounted in value to 3of' million dollars, while domestic exportations there- of were but 2| millions, purchases of the f. 'reign product being thus over seven times as much as sales to foreign countries In 1 he fiscal year ju^t ended importations were about 3^ millions and exportations 17;^ millions, American sales abroad of home-produced fruits and uuls being thus practically one-half as much as purchases of the foreign product. In the period from 1SS7 to 1907 imports of fruits and nuts have increased but So per cent, while exports of domestic products have incereased about 340 percent. — California Fruit Growei'. THB NUT-aHOWBR Letter from Louslana. Editor The Nut-Ghower. Dear Sir: — Mr. W. L. Watkins, in hii' excellent article on "Pecans on Hickory," asks a question that I can answer. I asked this same question in the Rural New Yorker over ten years ago, and there was no man who would or could answer it. Then I went to work and worked the matter out for myself. Mr. Watkins says: •'! will men- tion something I am having trouble with, the shoots blow oft' so badly, not where the pecan is budded, but where the new sprout comes out on the old tree." I suffered great lo?s from this for several years. Then I tied pieces of quarter round, or plank or spilt boards, or poles, or anything that will serve as a sup- port to the main body of the tree. I tied tliese in several places, anil I let them extend up through the tree some distance then I tied the top of the buds to these supports. I worked like magic There is one point in this tying that it is very important to learn. In fact it is imi)ortant to learn it in lying to. matoes or any other thingyou wish to support with a pole. It was taught me b)- a negro truck grower in Miss., and is about the onlv valuable thing ] ever learned fiom a negro. It is this; in tying, tie first tightly to the pole, and then tie loosely around the pecan bud. After the tree gets too large to be supported by the pole get a larger pole (willow is best), put it in the ground and let it extend up near the budded tree, so it will not rub too much, then keep the budded tree tied to this willow pole. Thus you have two trunks to your pecan tree. If this pole is planted in winter it will live and form a per- petual support. You ha\e to keep the limbs trimmed off the willow. 1 have nearly' every one of mv budded trees supported by these double supports, and now when a storm comes I lose nothing. For- merly after a storm I would go out and see about five hundred dollars worth budded pecan trees lying flat of their backs This is the grandest thing I have found out in my long experience in pecan grow- ing. The next inost valuable thing is that Lespedza striata is the best thing to plant a bearing pecan grove in. Truly, Sam H. Jamks Mound La. Pecan Trees- Budded and Grafted -Pecan Trees WK HAVE thl:m in all the VARIETII<:S ^VORTH ^VI^ILE The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFIED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDER i^OW TO 8AVE UlSAPPOI^TllE^T 19013-1910 PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or $45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55-00 per 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75-00 P^"" '0° 5 to 6 feet size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUR (;UA.KA.NTK1-: If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 70 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDCNDS — A< T NOW — ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacoi\ Pecan Company, DeWiLt,, Mitchell County, Georgia. Growing Pecans With Better Roots. Every one who has grown pecan seedlings from the nuts, knows their proneness to send down a long, shanky tap-root, with few or no laterals. This habit causes loss in transplanting. With a view of lessening the percentage of loss, I have been trying to grow pecan seedlings with a better root system. Two years ago, I bedded a lot of nuts between folds of gunny cloth, covering them with about three inches of soil so that they might be belter observed. During the pro- cess of germination, by raking off the soil with a hoe, and turning back the upper fold of the gunny cloth, the nuts, nice and clean, were easily exoosed to view. As they sprouted, it was easy to plant them where I wanted them to grow. But during a piotracted rainj' period in the spring of 1906, the ground was too wet to handle for two or three weeks. So when clear weather came, I found on ex- amining my nut-bed that a lot of sprouts had made their way through the meshes of the gunny cloth, and were beading downwards for the center of the earth. Although using great care in re- moving these sprouts, or getting them out from the meshes of the cloth, several of them broke off — some quite close to the apex of the nut. Though I felt sure that these broken spouts were spoiled, I did not throw them away, but planted them to themselves in another place. To my surprise, they came up promptly and grew all right. On examining them later, I found they had branched or forked roots. So last year I cut off the sprouts from every nut planted ; those cut shortest or nearest the apex of the nut giving best results. I shall adopt the same method with nuts bedded for this spring's planting, — cutting off to one-eighth of one- sixteenth of an inch. Some others I shall cut short off at the small end of the nut. Unless I am much mistaken, this plan is a distinct step forward in growing young pecan trees with better roots, and the loss in transplanting will be materially reduced. If some of the nurserymen who are growing young pecan trees for commercial purposes will try the experiment as above outlined, I should be glad to have them report results later along through Farm and Ranch. — Chas. L. Edwards, in Farm and Ranch. 8 THB NUT^ GROWER Letter From Texas. The Nut-Grower. The Texas Nut Growers' Asso- ciation will hold its summer meet- ing at College Station, on July 27th to 30th, in conjunction with the State Horticultural Society and other associations that make up the Fanners Congress. Everybody in- vited. Come out and see Texas. F. T. Ramsey, Pres. State Nut Growers Ass'n. Austin, Texas. Nut Salad. Four tart apples peeled and cut into small dice ; two cupfuls of cel- ery chopped fine, two cupfuls of nuts, mix and poirr over a dressing made of one cup of good vinegar, one tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, pinch of salt and pepper to taste, the yolks of two eggs. Put the vinegar in saucepan with half cup of water, add the butter and sugar, beat the yolks well and stir in quickly, re- moving from the fire before they curdle, and pour hot over the salad. Serve cold. Of imported lemons Italy is still the chief source of supply, having contributed practically all of the four million dollars' worth import- ed, but showing no substantial gains over her figures of 1887. Pre- served fruits imported come chiefly from Spain, with considerable quantities also from France, Cuba, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom. Imported figs come chiefly from Turkey in Asia, grapes from Spain, walnuts from France, Almonds from Spain, Italy and France, and cocoa nuts from Colum- bia, Cuba, British West Indies and Central America. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, %fs"sS?P' Proceedings F* B C A N The following volunies of Pro- ceedings of the National Nut- Growers' Association can be obtained at price- whi:h were established at the Chiittanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, $ .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .50 per copy Norfolk, 1807, i.oo per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, -:• ■:- GEORGIA Until recent years nuts have been used commonly in compounding various confections, or as the last article of diet on an incongruous menu, in an effcjrt to counteract the ill effects of a so-called "good dinner." For a long time they rested under the ban of a harmful food, being considered indigestible, and justly so, when eaten at the finish of an already indigestible meal of rich and varied foods. When taken as a food they are among the most delicious, health- ful and hygenic articles that grace our tables. They are rapidly gain- ing in appreciation and popularity. Importation of ISTiats YEAR ENDING, JUNE 30 lOOO. 1 901 1902 . 1903 1904. I90.S 1906. 1907 1908. nofiOANOTS IN hHELL $ 705,261 804,126 832,079 908.226 970,918 1,102,1 12 1 .299,322 I ■349-380 • .439.589 fXlCOANUr MEAT PALM MTTS AND KEKNELS 1378,352 449,140 316,068 488,362 408,529 688,303 570,049 530,186 864,138 $6,384 8,707 6,430 3.655 1,663 1.839 3.573 3.350 2,250 ItTIIEK NUTS NOTSfECIFlhD ■1'io7.353 98.832 201.^81 201 ,070 226, 184 217,022 323-836 445.731 344,021 nnrpEfCf C: HliST V'AUIIiTlKS '*- -»VXLvA-/v;5 SpfciaJ /-ow i'rices Bear*s Nurseries Paliitka, - .: : - floritla. /t41l0^^^Satcess!iiiiy mi! ProUUMy Groxnll jWe arc leading GrovvePB and DiatTib'j tor3 of Satsuma Orange. Nul andl| 'Fruit trees. Rose bustles and Cm.i-IB 'mental trees and Shrubs, Catalog frce.|J Tht trilftxi Bros C«_ Jidmavtllt, r THE NDT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers, fruit growers. Nursery men antl investors can read it with profit. As an adverlisini^ medium it is particularly vnhiiihle, asnopadiiing of circulation figures fixes t he rntes. Descriptive circulars sent on re- quest. THe NuiGrower Goinpantj Poulan, Georgia THB NUT-GKOWBH News Items. The seventh National Irrigation Congress meets at Spokane, Wash., August 9-14. 1909. Boston, Mass., announces a Worlds Fair for 1920 to be known as the "Pilgrim Tercennial Exposi- tion." The Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Ex- position at Seattle, Washington, will run from June first to Octo- ber 15th. The executive committee of the American Pomological Society has accepted a joint invitation tendered by the Ontario Fruit Growers' As- sociation, the Niagara District Fruit Growers and the St. Cather- ines Horticultural Society to meet at the city of St. Catherines lliis year. Arrangements are rapidly progressing for a reunion of un- usual value and interest at this attractive place on September 14- 16, 1909. A New Texas Variety. I have a new pecan -the Just pecan — under observation and test, about the size of San Saba, but heavier in oil content, a stronger shell, and held by many of superior flavor, but unfortunately this year, being out in the woods without care and attention, it suffered almost an entire crop failure along with all north Texas trees and the weevils got the balance. I am doing extensive top-working for quick results with nuts and bud-wood and expect to plant ex- tensively of the Just pecan in the next tew years to thoroughly Ic-t it out. Next crop I shall send you some sample specimens and get your judgment as to its qualities. The mother tree is a very upright grower, but this habit might have been forced upon it as, until now, it was in thick woods and has had to fight for its existence, but I am clearing the ground and expect to see a couple of new lower branches, already sprouted, develop prop- erly. I had intended joining the asso- QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY, Our stock for the coming seasons delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO. : : FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower, i Partridge Wyandottes Egp;s and breeding stock for sale. Season of 1908-09 my birds won 41 out of a possible 49 first and second prizes where shown. For beauty and utility they have no equal. Write for Catalogue. R. J. Sawyer, Menominee^ - Michigan. elation a couple of years ago, but inadvertently put it off. Respectfullj', Victor Labadie. Dallas, Texas. Nut Markets. AValiuits are practically gone. It is stated on £{ood aulhorit}- that there are absolutely no No i soft shells available in first hands. A few walnuts have been bought up to hold speculatively and are being held for an advance over quotations. Almonds are getting into about as small compass as are walnuts, and in growers and packers hands it is understood there is not much more than a car available. Qiiotations are firmer and con- siderably higher on some lines than recently, with I. X. Ls topping the market at I3fc. The quantity of fat producing elements in nuts, varies of course with the amount of fat in different varieties ; in some nuts as in al- monds, Brazil nut, peanuts and cocoanuts, the inner covering should be removed before eating. fAnd get a tree of the PRESIDENT, the] Best of all Pecans. FREE. rS Ljirfre, Thin-slielled. Full of Meat. Good Color. Good QuDlitj'.ind IT BEARS ABUNDANTLV I^Write tor caatalog of Fruit and Nut trees, and for/J information about joining the President Pecan C-lub. / [ ^We have Ornamental and Shade trees. Hedges, Rose bushes and Shrubbery too!' Address ' [ The Griffing Bros. Co., Nurserymen. JacksonviHe, Florida SUCCESS .NATURAL, SIZE The lut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BCCHTPJ. PECAK KIIRSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS. MISS. Barnwell Pecan Groves ^oTbuI ded and (Trafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON. :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the iV\ost"=Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Misi 10 TUB :SUT~GJ^O\VISR Mere Mention. The President pecan nut we be- lieve to be one of the best nuts that has ever been introduced. It is not the largest nut but its color, quality, size and plumpness are good and it is prolific. So many of the nuts that are good in other respects fail in this. This year the parent tree produced about 145 pounds of nuts although standing in a crowded row of other pecan trees. It is a tree of very vigorous growth, now having almost all of its foliage on it. The pistache nut (now grown in California) has long been used and is prized bj' confectioners for its delicate flavor and attractive green color, 3'et it is by no means com- mon. The nuts are small, not un- like a bean in size and shape, though more pointed, and before marketing are freed from the pods in which they grow. The individ- ual nuts are covered with a gray or purplish skin, and are blanched be- fore they are used. A Florida nurseryman, in the National Nurservman, says : "Tiie thousands of budded and grafted pecan trees of standard varieties, that are shipped out by us eacli season, represent to us the fruits or our labor along one of the most difficult and expensive lines of propagation known to the general nursery work." That there has been a marked development in the pecan industry of the state of Georgia recently is shown by the report of State Ento- mologist E. L. Worsham. 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We are satisfied with ^i.oo profit above factory cost. ^, , BICYCLE 1>EAL.EKS* you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate al ' double our prices. Orders filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from S3 to IS8 or SIO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at luxl/ the usual retail Prices. COASTER-BRAKES, 8 50 HEOaETHORN POIOTURE-PROOF ^h iQ SELF-HEAL!Ne TIRES ^o/^Sf.,'S^l? Notice the thick rubber tread ••A* and puncture stripR **U" and "O," also rlrn strip " U" to prevent riin cuttiiit;^. This tire tfUI outlast any othvr make-SOFT. E1.ASTXC aud KASV RIDING. The regular retail price of these tires is SS. 50 per pair, but to introduce ive uull sellyouasamplepairior$4.S0\tashu-iihorderS4.S3). 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We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence tins remarkable tire olTer. .M» \^0%mf AfiPXm TJI9CO <^C)n't t>uy anv kind at any price until you send for a pair of fjr W%M%0 nE.^i^ ff J«fc^ Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trinl rt the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue wi'''U describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. jn/1 Af/>7 tM/Atf but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicvrle &#Cr tw%M M ww/*g M or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wouticriul offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everythini^. Write it NOW. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COiPAHY, CHfOIGO, ILL 1908 were ^S6,6oo as atrainst i77'- 02S in 1907. The figures for other varieties of nursery stoci< are : Peaches, 916,750; apples, 715,675 ; -THE ^^,275; pears, 1S4.500; strawberries, 81 5,- plums. 10^ cherries, 58. 250 000: Carolina poplars, 39,9110; grapes, 97,900 ; miscellaneous, 324,- 900; total, 3,741,948. Mr.E.W.Kirkpatrici<, at one of the Texiis nut groweis' meetings, gave tlie following results of tests made with difl'erent varieties of pecans : Buckeye Subscription Agencyj For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J.F.WILSON, AGENT I POULAN, GEORGIA Name of Variety of Pecans Gross Wfight ill Giains Net Wtight. in o mil Stuart Russell 158 120 131 150 169 152 133 82 129 97 143 105 113 150 77 65 70 79 94 72 72 52 73 56 88 57 f)9 67 48 7 53.3 53.4 52.0 55 47 3 54 63.4 56 6 57 61.5 54.3 61 44.6 36 48 Wolford Oklahoma Success Pabst Hollis 44 47 40 46 52 85 Willingham Halbert Schley Mantua 54 72 48 66 Gregg Columbia 61 46 LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED Oyi'l Fcr Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of I a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans fori pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of I free expert superintendence in planting | large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. WHITE TODAY. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. THE, NUT-GHOWER 11 Books and Catalogues. R. J. SAWVKlt, Menomin'wee, Wis.— Issues a 30 page illustrated Show Record and Price List of Partridge VVyandotte Fowls. Pennsylvania State College Report, for year ending, June 30, 1008, is a cloth bound volume of -75 pages. Concrete Construction on THE Farm - 63- the Atlas Portland Cement Co., of New York, has many suggestions available for or- chard grounds. The Florists' Scrap Book — John C. Moninger Co.. of Chicago. 111., contains a large number of clippings conveniently arranged for florists' use. Colorado State Board of Ag- riculture, Fort Collins, Col. Report for 1908 is an interestino- volume of 150 pages. Brazil Nut Trade. For the information of American importers who make inquiries re- garding the Brazil nut at nearly all the consulates in the republic. Con- sul General George E. Anderson, of Rio de Janeiro furnishes the following report : The whole trade in these nuts is in the Amazon valley, in the Para consular district. The nuts are practically unknown in Rio de Janeiro not only to commercial houses as an article of export, but to Brazilian markets for Brazilian consumption, n o tw i t h s tanding which inquiries for quotations are quite common at this consulate- general. None of the Amazon country products, sucii as these nuts, is h.indled in Rio de Janeiro. Freight rates between the Amazon country and Rio de Janeiro, for example, are higher than rates between the Amazon points and Europe and the United States, so that to send such goods to principal export points in Brazil, other than Para, would in- I volve heavy and useless freight charges. If such goods could be ! profitably handled by the export houses in Rio de Jane'iro, their dis- tribution over the" world would be more direct and the trade would . probably greatly increase. I The exports of Brazil nuts from I Para, Manaos and Itacoatiara in , 1908 amounted to 480,603 bushels valued at $1,121,378, of which about 54 per cent, went to the L'nited States, the balance going to England and the Continent The trade to the United States is in- creasmg.-California Fruit Grower. '""''^ ''''*'*"'" '" ''"'''''"i''*l|i)i'PTT|l|i|i>ipr^|l|inHH>ip|iTriHi,ioy|.>,yi,jj MONTICELLO. ^^^p" " FLORIDA Nut Trees—Satsuma Oranges-Roses : --OUR SPECIALTIES— The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of the Future -OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: Mufc^tlMte^MH^ '*'*"•'"" ''"••^■^' ■ •• 'If lll>lliriill1llilllilili|T| THE LOUISIflNfl NUT NURSERIES J. F. JOXES. Manager aud Proprieter, .lEAXKRETTE. - - LOTISIANA. Headquarters for Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees in the South- west illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Home on Bach Bav. Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bav of over ore-half mile. Oyer 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition tor grafting winter of 1908-9. Over50,®00 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. .^Iso a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss and 13 paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling IS the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville, This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bavs on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay Address w. F. HEIKES, Manager, HuntsvUle, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., == OFFERS A VARIETY OF Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co-Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. R WILSON, POULAN, GA 12 THB T^UT-GROWBR Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBEKS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Nut Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. Write us for any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. B Nlassachtasetts Ag-rl cultural College. THE NUT^GROWER Volume VII Numbsr 1 1 Poulan, Ga., June, 1909. 5c per Copy 50c per Year THE GEORGIA-FLORIDA Pecan Growers Second Annual Meeting, Held at Cairo, Georgia, May 19th-20th. The second annual meeting of this local organization was well at- tended, and interest showed the increasing importance of the pecan in the territory embraced, which includes Southwest Georgia, West Florida and Southern Alabama. About sixty growers and pros- pective growers, coming from foo(l tarm of about fifty acres at ulenn- more, lia , ten miles from W aycr ss He wants to have it planletl in pc ans, anil will make It an object to pome good farmer who will handle the place in a suitable manner. Mrs. Thos. A. Banning, 553^ Monroe avenne, Chicago, will have a ilesiiabie position to offer the right man to superiuiend her orchard and live stock interests in Southern Alabama. This place is well equipped, has good buildim;8, partly furnished. The position will be open Hrst of the year Mr. J. B. Wight's Uhattauooga address, four six by nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words. This is a careful and very conservative review of the commei-cial opportunities this nut offers, and supplies ,iust the in- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 S4.S0 500 2.S0 250 1-50 100 75 SO 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. i THB NUT-GKOWBR Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers Meeting COKTINDED FROM FIKST PAGE The committee on Statistics re- ported 6,950 iicres of pecan or- chards in Georgia, and 3,247 acres in Florida, with some localities not reporting, making a total of 10,- 197 acres. The same committee reported a large increase in amount of nursery stock and that advanced orders were fully double what they were a year ago. Mr. J. W. Canada, of Texas, was elected an honorary member of the Association. Jacksonville, Fla., won in the contest with Qjiitman, Ga.,for the next annual meeting. The semi- annual meeting for the present year will be held at Albany, during the sessions of the National meeting. Election of officers resulted in the choice of H. K. Miller, of Mon- ticello, Fla., for President; H. W- Smithwick, Americas, Ga., Vice- President; R. C. Simpson, Monti- cello, Fla., Secretary, and C. S. Parker, Thomasville, Ga., Treas- urer. The standing committees on Membership, Statistics, Transpor- tations and Markets were contin- ued as previously appointed. Thanks were voted the Cairo members and citizens for courteous treatment. An interesting feature of the meeting was the excursions made to orchards and nurseries, on the morning of the 20th. Carriages were supplied by Cairo citizens and an early start was made and the full morning was profitably spent in the work. The first stop was made at Mr. Wight's orchard of budded trees. These are largely of the Frotscher variety, and many things of interest were observed in the few minutes spent there ; farther out the seedling grove of about thirty acres proved interesting, especially the historical features, which Mr. Wight gave of his early venture in the work which has given him a national reputation. This grove received his care and study for the past twenty years. Near by, his store house, drying rooms and large nursery came in for attention. Space at this time will not admit of interesting details. A hurried drive followed to the farm of W. C. Jones, where large blocks of fine nursery stock and or- chards of choice varieties were shown. Dr. Van Duzee's place was the next stop. This is an elegant property, showing at every turn thoughtful care and up to date meth- ods. About 225 acres are already in orchard, and a large block of trees will provide for extensive enlarge- ment. Returning to town various trees of interest were shown the visitors, then a hurried dinner, and rush for the train ended this pleas- ant and profitable gathering of kin- dred spirits, all of whom contem- plate a renewal of acquaintance, and the formation of new friend- ships at Albany next October. CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller Letter from Florida. Editor The Nut-Grower. Dear Sir — The writer has at last had an opportunity to carefully read the paper which you read at the Georgia-Florida Nut Growers Association at Cairo, Ga. From our own experience in planting and growing for large acreage of pecans, will say that we have found it much more expensive than we originally contemplated and do not consider your figures for the actual work and cost unreasonably high, and we daresay that the ma- jority of the people who undertake to invest in a pecan grove, in hir- ing the work done and contracting, will see that it will cost them nearly if not quite as much as you estimate. Looking at it, however, from the standpoint of the farmer or plantation owner, improving his property with pecan trees, in which case the cost of management to- gether with several of the many contingent costs, which you have entered, would be practically or wholly eliminated, it would bring the cost of the grove down to the point that would not seem high to any one investing in so stable an investment. However, looking at it purely from the investor's stand- point where all expenses and contingent costs must be paid, we cannot see that you are far out of the way and the writer believes that a series of articles along this line in The Nut-Grower would do much towards correcting an er- roneous opinion that has been con- ceived relative to the cost of a grove. Yours very truly, C. M. Griffing. lu this column we give place to advertisements from subscibers who have Orchard, Farm Products, Live Stoclt or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are ureed to make liberal nse ot this space, as it will ue found convenient and profitable. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts lurnisbed only in llraitud quantities, THE NUT-HEOVVKR COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga CHOICE LOCATION— No. 24 400 acres, near Moiitiuc'llo, Fla Two ihirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in piuc and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake Prict^. S 10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE SUl'-UKOWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITV-No. 26. Al location, tlrst-class in every respect. 320 acres now being planted iu pecan trees of choice va- rieties Will subilivide into live acre tracts. Will be cared for for live years at price accepted THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY, Poulan, Ga. WANTED— Copies of March, May, June ami Deceirber, 1907, and February, March and April, li)08, of The NotGroweb. CilTALO(i[li 1909-1910 Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery HOUSTON, .•. TKXAS. A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POU.AN, GEORGIA. PINEY PARK NURSERY POULAN, : : : QeOROIA. Ornamentals, Climbers« Trees, Shrubs and Roses. California and other varieties of Privet. Spanish Bayonets, Eulalias, Etc. : : : : Wholssala and Retail Trade solicited J. F. WILSON, M'gV. TUB NUT^ GROWER Questions and Answers. No. 13. Editor Nut-Grower. I have a small orchard of Stuart and Centennial budded pecan trees that are seven years old. They are situated in a rich bottom and are fertilized with stable manure broad- casted and plowed in in the fall, planted to oats in fall and corn in June ; they are healthy and thrifty growers, and have bloomed for three years but fail to produce any nuts. Can you tell me what is the matter and what to do for them? I have never _seen trees look any healthier or have more blooms, but they just won't set any nuts. Any information given me will be appreciated. R. L. S. Ans. It would appear that this orchard fails to set fruit because of the manner of fertilizing. The trees are evidently making a heavy wood growth which is contrary to fruit production. I would with- hold stable manure and apply only sulphate of potash for a few sea- sons. One would hardly expect a pecan tree on rich bottom lands to fruit earlier than the seventh year ; besides, Stuart and Centennial do not tend to such earty fruitage as some other varieties. H. K. MiLT.KR. The lowly peanut, tiiough of hum- ble origin and growth, is not to be scorned, for it possesses most ex- cellent food properties, equal, if not superior to many of the most ex- pensive varieties. Of late years they have been exploited as having wonderful curative properties. It is recommended as a cure for tuber- culosis, as a remedy for nervousness and insomnia, and perhaps for other diseases. Pine nuts, which grow in the cones of a number of varieties of native and foreign pines, are now fairly common in our markets. The Indians have always known and appreciated them and have passed on their knowledge to the white race. Then, too, many immigrants who came to this country know the pine nut, for it has long been much ealen in Italy and other parts of southern Europe where there are a number of nut-yielding pines. A variety of pine nuts is used in In- dia by natives and Europeans some- times pounded and mixed with honey and sometimes like other nuts as dessert. Pecans on Hickory. Editor The Nut-Growrr. Regarding my work in this line may say that I have thirty hickory trees top-worked with pecan and most of them have nuts on them this year. I had five trees to bear last year that were budded in 1906. I believe I have better success with buds on hickory than on the pecan. Would recommend small trees, say from one to four inches in di- ameter in preference to large ones. I had about fifty trees but have lost about twenty, from many causes. It is no longer an experiment, and one wishing a pecan grove to come in early and has good land with small hickory trees, has a valiitible property. Many things are yet to be learned, but my experieece is encouraging. Yours truly, W. L. Watkins. Tyler, Texas. I know a pecan tree in this sec- tion, eight years old, that the own- er has been offered $25 a year for the pecans for the next ten years. He has anotiier pecan tree fifteen years old for which he is offered $50 per year for the pecans. When you remember that pecan trees get to be four to five hundred years old, you can get an idea of what a pe- can orchard would be worth. In most countries in buying farm lands you have to pay part of the purchase price down, here a man can buy lands with an agreement on the part of the parties to sell without any payment down and take one-half of the crop at market price to be applied on the purcliase price and interest each year until paid for. Why are they sale in doing this? Because of the cer- tainty of the crops. —Home and Farm. LET US SEND YOU "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. WRITE Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La, FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges, Plums, Per- simmons, Figs, riulberries, Etc :::::: : A full line of Ornamental and. Shade trees. Quantity and Qjiiality. Correspondence solicited. A.rca. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK, : Hartwell, Ga. 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards aod an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all whosentl us 2r, cents fur one ye:ii's sub- scription to any one of the :;dc montiily Majia- zines naiued bdew we will send, absolutely free, pictures of 42 ol the world's most beautiful girls, a picture of 3U? babies, 10 sonti post curds and a baantilul Album, entiifed "SOUVKnIR OF THE WORLD," size 6xH iiicbes, (^4 iia^es, containing,- 75 interesting and instructive viewB fruni all o\e the world. Woman's World, rbicago— Literary and family Successful Farming, DesMoine*— Agriculture Universal macazine, St Louis -Literary Household Journal and Floral I-iie.Obio Great West Magazine, Denvfr-- Edncatinnal The Farmer's vVife, St I'aul--H()usehuld. The Metropolitan and Rural Home, Aew York. Poultry Topics. Lincoln, Neb --Poultry paper. (Jentlewuman. Now York --Household, Floral. Everyday Life, Chicago - Literary and stories The above magazines have been carefully se- lected and are .n all respects equal inmost of the SOcent magazines of their class Choose the one you want and send 2.^ cents today. Agents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No. l& Keystone Kldg. Chatianooga, Tenn. TUB NUT-GHOWEH Imports of Nuts for Consump- tion, 1900-1908. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE I CO., Thomasville, Ga. M h nm mm The Best Investment that can now be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell 5-oa one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the bpst known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the piper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (SatsuTTia orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20.000 stocks for the coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove aud nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish tx'ees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grafting wood and trees gi-own from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. mw standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees or reliable known varieties. Our catalog con tains information on selecting, planting, cul- ture, etc., and is free for tbe asking. Gratiwood lor sale ; our orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRIErOR. Gainesville, Florida. ALMONDS, NOT SHKLI.ED Year Kndine;, June 30 QUANTITV VALUE Import val- ue per unit Pounds Per Pound 1900.. 2,556,331 $183,583 $ .072 1901 . . 1,767.655 154,299 .087 1902.. 3,784,902 247,358 .065 1903.. 2.331,382 162,520 .070 1904.. 2,724,745 180,325 .066 1905.. 5,542,246 411,000 .074 1906. 6,119,301 411,463 .067 1907. . 5,714,207 441,141 .077 1908.. 8,515,688 689,728 .081 ALMOVUS, SHELLED Pounds Per ponud 1900.. 4,814,442 $ 841,355 $ .175 1901 . . 3,316,934 767,831 .231 1902.. 5,588,606 976,373 .175 1903.. 5,586,854 1,102,549 .197 1904.. 6,063,210 1,020,464 .169 1905.. 6,523,228 1,1.35,144 .174 1906.. 8,299,035 1,317,517 .159 1907.. 8,717,952 1,773,709 .204 1908.. 8,556,162 1,659,261 .194 Mere Mention. The pecan industry is of a very long lived nature and in the long run is exceedingly profitable. The nursery provides the quick returns, and side crops will take care of in- cidental expenses. Pink Nuts. (Pinus, various species.) — There are twelve Ameri- can pines which bear edible nuts of market value. Some introduced species are also valuable for their nuts. In this coimtry the market crop is from the southwest, and from wild trees. The flavor of nuts is very largely dependent upon the oils which they contain, though in some there are also specific flavoring bodies. The nut oils readily become rancied, the very disagreeable flavor of spoiled nuts being due to this prop- erty. Some nuts, for instance, the chestnut, have a starchy flavor as well as a "nutty" taste. We write and speak of the fact that tliousands of adults in the United States have never seen a pecan nut, and many more thous- ands have never seen any but the small, thick-shelled, colored nuts. The writer, a few days ago, had the pleasure of noting the facial expression of revelation on one of the latter class on seeing, touching and tasting her first "real pecan." And if there be such thousands and thousand who have never been so tempted, and the sudden fall of this Eve be any test, all that we Southerners have to do to set up another" forbidden fruit monopoly" is to' make our Southland a pecan grove of Eden and send out sam- ples— the world will be ours. — Dr. Munday, in Southern Fruit Grower. Food Value of Nuts. Scientists have been studying the effect of animal food upon the hu- man system, and some have come to the conclusion that many of the diseases to which man is heir, come direct from eating animal food. A German scientist advances the the- ory that children fed upon meat be- come quarrelsome, ill-natured and disposed to fight, taking on animal instincts with the habit of an ani- mal diet. Scientific investigation has open- ed our eyes to many evils of which our forbears never dreamed. The diseases of animals, which were little known, their effect upon the human system when taken into the stomach, and recent investigations into the quality of meats put on the market together with the work of health officials, conduce to make one a little chary of accepting meats exposed for sale on the pub- lic markets. For these evils there is a remedj' —the use ot nuts, which are among the best and most wholesome food products known to science. They average from fifty to seventy per cent, fat, and from fifteen to thirty- three per cent, proteids, therefore if measured by their chemical food values, as a natural substitute for meats they are superior, for no other reasons their purity and cleanliness. However, that which makes nuts such an excellent article of food is that their nutritive elements are al- most perfectly proportioned, that is to say that a normal body requires so much water, proteids, carbohy- drates, mineral salts and fat, to sus- tain it healthfully each twenty-four hours, and in nuts these elements are found more correctly propor- tioned, according to the require- ments of the body, than in any other article of food known to chemists. They have done their part in the past, in that they furnished a great part of the food of primitive men, bringing them up from a barbarous people to a state of intelligent and intellectual manhood. 6 THB NUT^GHOWBR THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISHKD MONTHLY BY JS/}e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the PostoflBce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress ot March 3, 1879. Subscription, 50 cants per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. NOTICK When this paragraph is marked It means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price Is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. JUNB. 1909. The conviction that pecan grow- ing will prove a paying business is spreading widely and among many classes of people. We recently published the record of Mr. J. B. Wight's famous Frot- scher tree in which the type said i66 pounds was the crop for 190S. Mr. Wight has since advised that it should have read 169 pounds. As time passes it becomes more evident that the overproduction of nuts is a great way off in the future. With all the plantings and stimu- lated call for the native nuts, prices are steadily increasing, while the importations are growing rapidly. For some time we have been collecting data for the special is- sues on chestnuts, walnuts and the hickory, which are to have the right-of-way in the July, August and September numbers. Orders for extra copies of these issues should be sent in, in advance of publication. A typographical error crept into the new advertisement of the G. M. Bacon Pecan Co. in our last is- sue, which might be construed to the detriment of the industry as well as the advertiser, if not cor- rected. They do not want the im- pression to go out that seventy per cent, of their trees may fail to grow and that they will replace them, as their advertisement read, but will replace all over seven per cent, which die from natural cau.ses. This shows their own confidence in their stock, and makes a good guarantee. Not long since we referred to pe- can growing as having the elements of safety in securing an investment, which is conceded to belong to real estate. Another viewpoint is to look at the permanent improve- ment and enhanced value which comes to land properly planted in trees. We see no reason why real estate owners and dealers, could not make handsome profits in this way entirely aside from the crop prospects which now entirely prompts the planting. At the Cairo meeting of tiie nut growers the editor, at request of the committee of arrangements, read a paper on the "Cost of a Pe- can Grove." It excited consider- able discussion on the floor of the convention and a good deal of com- ment outside. We did not offer to publish the paper and no one re- quested that it be given greater publicity. In fact we publicly stated that it would not be publish- ed, except as advertising matter. The discussion developed ttie f.ict that there is much divergence of opinion and seems to indicate that the subject is not as thoroughly un- derstood as its importance demands. Mr. W. C. Jones, of Cairo, Ga., president of the ■ Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers Association, in his annual address, presented in an in- teresting and forcible w.ay, the advantages of pecan culture in the territory embraced by the organiza- tion. Pie took pains to warn the meeting of the dangers and detri- ment to the industry, caused by enthusiasm not supported by facts; counseled moderation in describing its advantages, and preceded forth with to picture such a glorious fu- ture for Grady county, that visions of easily made fortunes shut out the rainbow coloring which others sometimes give to tiie prospect, lie rounded up his argument by expressing the opinion that tiieir iii40 an acre lands would increase in price to iji2oo an acre, when their value for pecan growing is fully recognized. This promises well for Grudy county farmers, whether they plant pecans or not. Attention is called to the pre- liminary announcement for the 1909 convention, which appears in another column. Albany is an at- tractive place for a meeting of nut growers, and every one interested will find it greatly to his advant- age to be present, from the opening session till the last item of business is completed. We expect to have more to say on this same line in subsequent numbers. A few days ago the Georgia- Florida Nut Growers Association held their annual meeting at Cairo, Ga. Last year they met at Monti- cello, Fla., and among other things they took stock of the acreage planted in budded and grafted pe- can trees in Western Florida and Southwest (jeorgia. It aggregated over six thousand acres. At the Cairo meeting this week these sta- tistics were brought up to date, and showed a total above ten thous- and acres, or an increase of fouri thousand acres in one year, 01 65% increase. The reports from nur- serymen indicate a still larger in- crease for next season, as fully double the orders are booked than was the case a year ago. As far as authorative data is obtainable this section of country leads the world in this popular industry. We like the plan for mutual helpfulness practiced by several of our advertisers. It works so well that we advise all nurserymen to give it a trial. The clipping below is from the catalogue of a well known grower who sends us larger lists every year. It would not do to tell how many names he sends in annually as that might lead to cal- culations as to the e.\tent of his buisness. However, we can recog-" nize the fact that he evidently is selling an increased amount eaci year : "The Nut-Grower, publish- ed monthly at Poulan, Ga., is the official organ of the Nation- al Nut Growers' A-^sociation. No pecan grower can afford to miss the practical information it contains. That my custom- ers may get the benefit of this publication, I send the paper free for one year to each one who purchases nursery stock to the amount of $10 or more.'" THH NUT-GROWBR One extreme follows another 'till the center point is finally obtained. In the editor's work in line of pruning pecan trees, he followed for years the generally accepted opinion that they did not need pruning. Experience taught that in many cases he could get a better and larger tree in a given time by cutting away the entire trunk and training up a sprout. Then, with the advent of top-working trees, the cutting back of every limb to the trunk, seemed to give added vigor to growth in many trees, but more recently we have been taking stock of the trees which re fused to keep up the fight, and in one orchard nearly ten per cent, of them have lost a year's growing if they are not dead. Several years ago we had to replant a block of seedlings, vi'hich were headed back to a uniform height at time of planting. Now we are cautious and it is only when particular and sound reasons are in evidence that we allow a tree to be given a shock or back-set of any kind. At the same timf we believe that the val- ue of the tree depends, to a consid- erable extent, upon the judicious pruning it receives after it is once well established in its orchard loca- tion. Many trees are now valuable for the buds and scions they furnish, but this is a temporary use of the tree and may be followed with last- ing and detrimental results from the view point of regular crops. We need to know more about this prob- lem as well as others which the or- chardist encounters. Recorded re- sults rather than theory is necessary. When the Association is rich enough to undertake the great amount of experimental work awaiting attention, the pruning of nut trees should be carefully studied. There are more than fifty varie- ties of the pecan grown in the South, that we have in our very homes, so to speak, a food product that as yet we have not properly appreciated. As food, nuts are best used without cooking, though we find them adding both richness and toothsomeness to our cake and can- dies, indeed as an adjunct to most sweets, they are an acquisition to be desired.— Farm and Ranch. Gritli':"' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORUEK i\OW T() SAVE mSAPPOli^TtlE^T ii)ot)-i9io PRICE list: I to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or $45.00 per 100 3 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55°° P^'' '°'-' 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75°° P^"" ^°° 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUU (iUARANTKE If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIOeNDS— ACT NOW—ORDER TO-DAY. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWiLL, Mitchell County, Georgia. Personal Mention. II. W. Smithwick, of Americus, has designed and is testing a tool for transplanting buds. Mr. C. M. Barnwell, vice-presi- dent for Georgia, is gathering sta- tistics of orchards for his report at the 1909 convention. Mr. W. J. Canada, of the South- ern Orchards and Homes, Houston, Texas, recently made a tour of South Georgia and Florida, in the interest of his publication. Mr. W. C. Jones, the former president of the Georgia-Florida Pe- can Growers Association, does not loose interest in the industry, even if some of his neighbors think he will have to wait till 'the next gen- eration arrive to reap the profits. Mr. C. S. Parker, of Thomas- ville, the new treasurer of Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers Association, is so conservative as to his express- ed opinions, regarding the pecan, that he gives the impression that he knows more than he is will- ing to tell about it. There seems to be no doubt but that he has had the experiences, which fall to the lot of pioneers. Of foreign-grown fruits consumed in the United States, bananas sup- ply fully one-third of the total. Of the year's importations of bananas, aggregating nearly 12 million dol- lars. Central America (chiefly Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama) sup- plied about six million dollars, the British West Indies about 4^ mil- lions, and Cuba considerably over one million dollars. Italy is the al- most exclusive source of supply for the lemons imported into the United States from year to year. Imported currants are chiefly of the Zante variety, produced in Greece. Twen- ty years ago the United States was importing over two million dollars' worth of raisins annually, chiefly from Spain, but the entire importa- tions in 1907 were less than a half million dollars. In 1887 Italy con- tributed nearly two million dollars' worth of oranges to the markets of the United States; British West Indies, Spain and Cuba together supplying an additional half mil- lion dollars' worth ; but in the year just ended the entire imports were but 400 thousand dollars, of which Italy supplied about one-third. 8 THE NUT-GI^OWBR THE 1909 CONVENTION. Preliminary Announcement. Members of the National Nut Growers Association, and all in- terested in the industry : On behalf of the officers of the Association, as well as the local committee of arrangements, I am pleased to extend a cordial invita- tion to all interested parties to at- tend the Eighth Annual Conven- tion of the National Nut Growers Association, at Albany, Georgia, October 12th, 13th and 14th, 1909. Nut culture is not only a most profitable and pleasant pursuit, but it is also rapidly becoming an im- portant agricultural specialty, with opportunities which appeal to and are within reach of many classes of citizens who look to rural life for homes, occupation and profits. It is alike attractive to the farmer and to the investor. It appeals to the ladies forcibly, not only as a source of revenue from crops, but also on account of the domestic uses of nuts as food. Professional people, in all parts of the country, find it a sate and desirable way in which to invest their savings, and thus have a home and independence in their evening of life. Dealers of all kinds are interested on account of the trade which follows the growth of any new industry. All these classes and others will find much of interest in this convention. In fact, it is a great school in which the distinguished speakers are the teachers. It is the place where kindred spirits, from all parts of this broad land come together for mutual benefits. This convention is held at Al- bany, Georgia, partly because it is the place where the first organized steps were taken which resulted in the formation of this national body eight years ago ; but the special fitness of the place is because of the thousands of acres of orchards, large nurseries, and bearing trees which are easily reached from this point. It will be a part of the con- vention work to visit places of the greatest interests to nut growers. If you are not already a member of the association, and are at all Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, ^^iSfs'^sSpT'' Proceedings JP J5 C A A^ The following volumes of Pro- ceedings of the National Nut- Growers' Association can be obtained at prices whi;h were established at the Chattanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, $ .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .50 per copy Norfolk, 1S07. i.oo per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, GEORGIA interested in the industry, you are urged to attend and become identi- fied with this organization, which is accomplishing far reaching and highly beneficial results. The cost of membership is only $2 00 per year. All present members, as far as circumstances permit, will be ex- pected to attend. Begin at once to arrange for the meeting. Full particulars as to exercises, rate of travel and hotels will be announced September first, while the program and Badge Book will be out early in October. Yours for progress, J. F. Wilson, Secretary. The agricultural department of our national government has pub- lished a phamphlet upon the subject of growing and budding the pecan, so in a few years we hope to see, not our Texas prairies alone, but much of the western and southern country, set to this grand nut, laden with its healthful food, beau- tifying the landscape, and affording refreshing shade to man and beast. 'T^ rp TZf Ef ^ BEST VAKinTftifi -*- -*»-J_vA-/vr» Special /,ovv /»i-ices IBear's Nurseries Palatka, I-'Ioririu, m^ Saccessfally and ProlUably Gr«wa| Near tbe Lower AUanilc and Gull Ca&») , iWeare leadingGrowersandDistribu- I Itors of Satauma Orange, Nul andjjj Fruit trees. Rosebushes and Oma- tal trees and SKrubs. Catalog free. | Crifflng Bros Co.. Jacksopvine. THE NUT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - -50c Three Years for - $L00 Farmers, fruit growers. Nursery , men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medium it is particularly valuable, as no padding.', of circulation figures fixes the rates. Descriptive circulars sent on re-j quest. Tiie Nui-Grower' Goinpann Poulan, GeorgiaJ THB> NUT-GROWBR News Items. This year promises to be a good year for nut production in North Carolina. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Farmers Institute Workers is to be held at Portland, Oregon, during August. The Chicago Pecan investors will soon commence the erection of a handsome Club House on their groves south of Albany, for the use of their patrons. Weather for May, 1909. Maximum, 93 Minimum, 44 Mean, 7^ Rainfall, 1.86 Normal, 3.16 • Nuts Advancing Abroad. In their recent review of the for- eign fruit and nut situation, Ar- guimbau & Ramee says: "An im- provement in demand for all lines is to be noted, though the dilatory and vexatious tariff" delay continues. The past week has brought cables from Tarragona showing a steady rising market for almonds, and the same applies to shelled from Spain, Italy, etc. This is no doubt due to unfavorable climatic conditions prevailing at a critical period. Sicily filberts also continue to ad- vance abroad for the same reason." » The Planting of Pecans. In Texas, which produces now ninety per cent, of the pecan for commerce, the planting of the mi- proved varieties has not been given the attention it deserves. This is due, more than likelv, to the fact that hitherto there h.is been almost no knowledge available as to the pecan industry as a commercial proposition. It has been merely theory. Men have reasoned that a grove of any of the best varieties will begin to yield in a certain number of years, and that the re- turns will be such as to make such a grove a fine investment. There were no available facts on which to support a hypothesis. But now there are facts from groves in other states, especially in Georgia and Missis-.ippi, that show what may be expected of a grove in any given number of years. Also the records of the past two or three QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming seasons delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very- best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower.) Partridge Wyandottes Eggs and breeding stock for sale. Season of 191)8-09 my birds won 41 out of a possible 49 first and second prizes where shown. For beauty and utility they have no equal. Write for Catalogue. R. J. Sawyer, Menominee, - Michigan. years show, in many cases, at what ages these improved varieties may be expected to bear, and the yields of trees at the various ages. From time to time data from such trees and groves will be given in the Journal, and it can be shown, al- most as conclusively as in the case of otiier fruit crops, what may be expected of the iinproved varieties under any given conditions. There is want of a good term for designating these varieties of bud- ded and grafted pecans, a dozen or more well known, from the ordi- nary seedlings. Commercially they are not abundant enough yet to require a market designation. The term "papershell," is incorrect in many respects. The best varie- ties generally have good thick shells, and some of the small seed- lings have what might be termed a papershell. The qualities of a pe- can are not in the shell, but in the kernel, and the term papershell is a misnomer. Some better term should be used. The improved varieties as fast as grown are taken up by a choice trade at prices ranging from 1^0 cents to |i.oo a pound. It is doubtful if they ever sell for much less than these figures, for the gen- eral price and demand for pecans increase more rapidly than any plantings of these varieties can sup- ply for a long time to come. — South- ern Orchards and Homes. jfsfS^^g f And get a tree of the PRESIDENT, the I Beat of a)} Pecans. FREE. IT'S Large. Thin-shelled. Full of Meat, Good Color. I Good Quality.and IT BEARS ABUNDANTLY | IqWrite tor caatilog of Fruir and Nut trees, and forlj 1 information about joining the President Pecan C'lub.l \ ^We have Ornamental and Shade trees. Hedges. , Rose bushes and Shrubbery tool' Address I The Griffing Bros. Co.. Nurserymen, | Jacksonvilie, Florida SUCCESS The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL PECAM ^TRSERIES OCEAN SPfllNGS. MISS. Barnwel! Pecan Groves o^rBudi ded and Grafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the /Vlost===Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mis» 10 THB NUT'GHaWBH The Editor's Test Orchard. OONTINOED FROM MAT NUMBER Among the out of ordinary, is one of the Success trees which had a cluster of male blooms, well start- ed when the frost of April loth terminated its precocious effort. A Curtis, however, holds the pennant thus far for rapid growth, it having formed a branched head with several limbs twenty inches long at date of this report. We often hear of environments, and as this tree has environments distinct- ively its own, and as far as we know, this is the only pecan tree so situated. This warrants the narration of following particulars : When orch-ird was plotted we remembered that the trees are a permanent fixture, while the sev- eral shacks of buildings, garden fence, etc., were not allowed to mar the symmetry of positions de- sired tor trees. It so happened that a dilapidated wagon shed cov- ered the spot where this first tree in the Curtis row was planted. This shed was a simple, uninclosed lean-to, on the north side of a small log barn. The negro tenant ob- jected to having his wagon give place to a tree, but the exchange was made, and hostilities averted by the rather indefinite promise of a better shed elsewhere. However, the wagon was to-day on the wood- pile and the Curtis tree under the shed has made more than double the growth of any other tree in the orchard, and has branches within a few inches of the sheltering boards overhead. This shelter doubtless protected the tree from the frost of April loth, and being near the barn is in a rich spot. Still these incidents hardly suffice to account for the early and rapid growth. Our Florida friends grow tobacco under shelter. Does this incident that other crops or trees may be equally benefitted by such protec- tion? We would like to note re- sults further, but this particular shelter has to be removed or ele- vated at once to give tlie tree room. We recall that all the trees of this variety had exceptionally fine root system, but they were all alike. While they have all started into WANTEPrA RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district tc - _, , 4 .,_ _______ w ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "Kanper" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere ar« making money fast. Write /or full Particulars and special offer at once. NO MONEY REQUIKK1> until you receive and approve of your bicycled We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U. 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Tliis Curtis tree was not subjected to these influences, while others in the same orchard, planted at the same time, died back nearly to the graft or bud. On looking back to the mention of maximum temperature in March and April and then remembering that sun-scalds are not improbable when there is no protection, espe- cially where soil is sandy and clear of any mulch, may we not infer that temporary shelter from the direct rays of the sun to newly planted trees will greatly reduce the losses often sustained in plant- ing.? It is our purpose to note and -THE- Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA Pecan Trees £:fted THE LEADING VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, ""^.^l^" comment upon any and all inci- dents we are able to observe in this orchard. Our deductions may or may not be coriect, but the record- ing of observations may enable others to give their true signifi- cance. ' THB, NUT'OROWBR 11 Books and Catalogues. Diseases of Deciduous Trees — Bulletin No. 149 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C 80 pages finely illustrated. This volume is of interest to nut grow- ers as it treats of the diseases of the chestnut, walnut and hickory, and renieilies for such troubles. We will reproduce some of the descrip- tions in our special numbers for July, August and September. Report of the Nebraska Seed Laboratory — The Nebraska Ex- periment station has just issued Bulletin No. no with the above mimed title. The bulletin may be liiid free of cost by residents of Ne- braska on application to the Agri- cultural Experiment station. Lin- coln, Neb. .This bulletin contains a large amount of information con- cerning agricultural seeds, together with descriptions and illustrations of the more common weed seeds. (ifT'Tif>t'fiT"'nn^''y*">i'iiinMi'iii'»i|iin"iiT"HWmn>*'f' iiinnni>'innnnniim"('<'»i»ja The Nut and Its Quality. The Halbert Pecan is almost round, somewhat oval, a little fiat at apex or blooin end ; of a rich nut brown color with streaks of black at apex. They run with average of tree, under normal con- ditions, 60 nuts to the pound ; when selected and taken from newly budded trees, w'th small tops and large roots, 50 nuts will make one pound. The shell is the thinnest of all types ; they can be easily cracked with two nuts in the hand, and kernels extracted with the fingers, entirely whole and free from the bitter pith ; the kernels are firm in texture, of a rich sweet flavor, very plump and full; in fact, no nut yields a greater pro- portion of kernel, only two (the Schley and San Saba) that will do anywhere as well, so far as I have found Selected specimens of the Halbert will yield 66| per csnt. kernel, and the general run will go largely over 60 percent. Its round oval shape gives it a great advant- age over the long or cylindrical pecan of equal thinness of shell and same number of nuts to the pound. Any parcel done up in a round shape will take less covering than in a cylindrical form. The common wild pecans yield 35 to 40 per cent, kernel, while very few of the large standard varieties will reach 50 per cent kernel. CUMMIT •Jy CHOICE l^C: NURSERY STC'C UR5ERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors MONTICELLO, ^d J^:^^'' FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses • —OUR SPECIALTIES— The Admiral Schley Pecan J^: ^1^?u^f ; lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: *'•■ ' •' ■■ •' •' ' ■' ■' f 1' ■' •' ■' f f ■' ■' ■' • ■' ■' [' 1' li' ■' •' ■' I ' •' •' ' - ■■ THE LOUISlflNft NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprieter, .ieani<:rette. - - loitisiana. Headquarters for Budded and Orafted Pecan Trees in the South- west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wi8hing-to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Home on Back BaVt Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,900 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F. HEIKES, Manager, Huntsville, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. ^^"For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 12 THB NUT-GHOWBR Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Ceorgia* MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Nut Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in NuKsery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. Write us for any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. C9- g3- M;aL®®a.ctiti®ett® Oollegre, NUT ROW Vorum« VII Number 12 Poulan, Ga., July. 1909. 5c per Copy 50c per Year CHESTNUT CULTURE. BY H. B. VAN DBHIN. • The growing of chestnut trees being but a fraction of this country for their nuts has been more or less there has been a growing desire to a business in Europe and Asia for extend its culture. There are only centuries. In France, Italy and a few places west of the Missis- Spain, this nut is a common article sippi river, and these in the Ozark of diet, although generally in va- mountains of Arkansas, where a rious cooked or otherwise prepared dwarf species of the chestnut, call- conditions. The same is true to ed chinkapin, grows niiturally. A some extent in Japan and other closely related genus, castanopsis, parts of the Orient. However, like is found in the mountain regions of most of the growing of nuts in for- the north Pacific Coast, and tliis is eign countries, the trees are in a rare and of little consequence as a .ecan orchard for sale at a Bargain. The proposition is an attractive one and will pay the investor over 10 per cent- from the very first. 'I'his is an investment opportunity not to be missed It will not be open long, write today for lull particulars to The Orchabd Ikvest^ MENT Co , Moutiuello, Fla. WANTED— A partner in a pecan orchard de- velopment propusitiun. An opportunity for the investment ui a few hundred dollars where it will earn an enormous pmfit A snap for some one. Address P. O. Box No. 27, Monticello, Fla. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may earn a good income corresponding for newspapers; ex- rience unnecessary. Send stamp for full par- ticulars. Empire Press Syndicate, Middleport, N. V. (septSt.) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Culver Pocltry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts lurnishen only in limited quantities, IHE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga CHOICE LOCATION— No. 24 400 acres, near MoMtiCc-lIo, Fia Two thirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in pine and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half raile of new town and near a famous lake Price. $10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUr-(*!KO\VER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, tirst-class in every respect. 320 acres now being planted in pecan trens of choice va- rieties. Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for five years at price accepted THE NUr-GROWER COMPANY. Poulan. Ga. WANTED— Copies of March, May, June and December, 1907, and February, March and April, 1908, of The Nut-Grower. A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SAI^E Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POU AN, GEORGIA. PINEY PARK NURSERY POULAN, GEORGIA. Ornamentals, Climbers, Trees, Shrubs and R.oses. California and other varieties of Privet. Spanish Bayonets, Eulalias. Etc. : : : : Wholesale and Retail Trade solicited J. F. WILSON, M'gV. T/iJ3 :\UT*GH()\\BH by pres<;iiig soft clay over the vplii-e and nearly up to the top nf the ^cion. By this means there will he very little chance for evapor.n ion until the cell j^rowlh causes \ii;il union. No robber sprtiuts slidiihi be allowed to yrow from the jjiafi. After one vear's growth the trees are ready In he set in the orcharit. The distance apart to set chestnut trees should not be less than 50 feel and more dislaiice may lie needeil wheie the trees altain \er\ larf>e si/,e. unless ihe plan of seliinji- close and cutting oiil to a perma- nent stand is followed. 'I'his re- quires greater nerve than many possess. The other method of chestnut culture is the grafted sprout plan. In a place where there are wild sprouts ot small size distributed oyer the tract evenly enough to make a grove they may be grafted to choice varieties with profit in soTne cases. The more nearly smooth and free from all but the chestnut sprouts the better. All else must be cleared away perfectly so there will be nothing serious to obstruct the growth of the grafted sprouts and notliing to carry forest fires. More than one sprout at each stump may be left at the start but only one eventually. One may be left for a few years merely to furnish scions. None but very thrifty sprouts should be grafted, and these not very large. Those of only one or two year's growth are preferable to older ones. It is better to cut down trees and large sjirouts and wait a year or two (ov young wooti to graft on than to at- tempt to work on the old wood. In very windy locations some of the dealing away of undesirable growth may be left for a few years to serve as protection to the grafts while they are getting firmly fas- tened on the stocks. But the final clearing out of all but the grafted trees must be done and all brush burned, to give them all the sun- light above and plant food below, and to make sure that no fires can destroy the trees. One of the first large grafted groves was destroyed by fire and is now a wild tangle of brush, with only a good tree here and there to show what might have been. The same style of grafting as that recommended for nursery grafting is best for top-working the sprouts, that is, the tongue method. It makes a more complete union than the split or cleft grafl. The scions should not be more than about three inches long. If each one has two buds il is suflicienl . It is nnich iietter to kuep the scions dormant and do the grafting alter the stocks become active than to do it early I have used the bark method ot grafting on the chestnut with some success. This is done by trimming the scion ail from one side, to a long wedge with a slim point anil inserting it inuler the bark at the top of the stump. In either casj the scion should be lied firmly to the slock with cotton twine or raffia and waxed over perfectly, or bet- ter still, bound with waxed clolh tt^rn in strips. The trees should be headed about like apple trees, not too high nor too low, and if the head is not of good shape at first cut it back al- most to the graft and start oul a new one. The chestnut will do better on stocks of ils own species than oth- erwise, that is, American on Amer- ican, etc. It is developing that Paragon tops on our wild sprouts are dying back to place of union, especially in cases where very heavy bearing occurs. Whether this heavy lieiring is the cause of the dying or the failing in vitality causes the trees to make dying ef- forts to produce fruit is a point that it may not be easy to decide. But there is no doubt that the tops do die back to the place of union with the stock, in some cases mak- ing a sharp line that can easily be seen on the back. In view of this fact the Rochester and other varie- ties that are pure or even partly American will do far better as per- manent trees than those of any for- eign species when grafted on wild sprouts or seedlings of that blood. Mr. Engle, of Pennsylvania, long ago preferred to graft seedlings of Paragon to use in grafting to pro- duce trees for planting. I have a lot of Paragon nuts now bedded down to use in this way. It may not be known to more I han a few that the chesnut will grow when grafted on some species of oak, but while this is true I am in doubt about trees that will endure being made in this way. Howev- er it may be tried as a mere experi- ment. The great bane of chestnut cul- ture is the weevil. There are two species of insects that infest the nuts, one much larger than the FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Qrafted Pecans, ' LeConte and Kieffer Pears. Hardy Oranges Plums, Per- simmuiis. Figs, riulberries, Etc :;:::: : A full line of Ornamenlal and Shade trees. Quantity and (Quality. Correspondence solicited. A.rcae Besi rnaDienta!, Shade Trees. Hedges and Shrubbery too. Wnie tor catalog of thr For The Lower South BEST ROSES PECAINTS BEST varii-:tiks Write for Price List.. Nursery Established in 1882 S. W. PEEK, : Hartweli, Ga. 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all who send 119 2.'j cents for one year's sub- scription to any one of the ri5c monthly Maga- zines naraed helew we will send, iliaokuely f ree. pictures of 42 ol the worurs most beautiful girls, a picture of .31*? babies, 10 sonii post cards and a baautilul Album, entitled "SOUVEMR OF THK WORLD," size 6xK inches, 64 panes, containing 75 interesting and instructive views from all over the world. Woman's World, Chicago— Literary and family Successful Farming. DesMoinei— Agriculture" Universal masazipe, 8t Louis— Literary Household .lournal and Floral Life, Ohm Great \\ est Magazine, Denver- Educational The Farmer's \Vife, St Paul — Household. The Metropolitan and Rural Home, .New York. Poultry Topics. Lincoln. Neb --Poultry paper. <;entlewnman. New York---Household, FUiral. Everyday Life. Chicago - Literary and :*lories The above magazines have been carefully se- lected and are in all respects equal te most of the .'VOcent magazines of their class Choose the one you want and send 2.t cents today. Agents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No. 15 Keystime Rlrtg. Chattanooga, Tann. THE NUT'GRaWBH For grewing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B.W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. m A nm mm The Best Investmeut that can now be in.adft 111 the United States or elsewhere. I win sell you one alrendy established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard ijaycr shell varieties, one to three ye.ars old, located on the Gulf coa.st of Mississippi and in Jaekson county, the native heath of ihe paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves read.v for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between ihe pecans) which Includes 20,000 stocks for the coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and uurser.v, on the Ij. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of gloves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in anv quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing ti-ees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work — you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season «S3pecially fine. .Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackaon County. SCRANTON, MISS. Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Burtiled and Grafted Pecan Trees "If reliable known varieties. Our catalog con tains inforiitarion on selefcting. planting:, cul- ture, etc., and is free for the askinp. GraftwooU tor sale; uur orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. other but both exceeding trouble- some in all sections where wild chestnuts abound. The larger spe- c i e s , Ballaiiinus proloscidens , seems to be the most abundant of the two. The beetle has a very long snout or proboscis, which is armed on its point with two sharp teeth that are used in cutting a hole in the young nut. The length of the snout of the female exceeds that of the male and allows her to reach the kernel through the long spines of the burr and place her eggs in the holes made in the ten- der nuts. These develop into larva in about two weeks. The eggs are laid singly but sometimes nearly a do/.en of this species are placed in one nut and 40 or more of the small weevil. I'lie lesser weevil, B. rectus, infests the same nuts along with its larger relative. The chinkapin, castanea pumila, is usually so affected with the larva of these weevils that its nuts are almost worthless. Soon after the nuts are ripe and fall to the ground the larva mature and cut their way out of the nuts and enter the ground. Here they lie and transform into perfect bee- tles the next summer, in time to come out and lay eggs in the next crop of nuts. Where no wild chestnuts exist there are none of these pests and if the soil and climate are suitable to the growth of the trees such loca- tions have a decided advantage for chestnut culture over those regions where they do abound. Therefore the native home of the chestnut is not the best place for chestnut orchards, because of the weevils. And there are no very practical ways to fight them. They do not feed on anything that can be pois- oned to destroj' them in the beetle stage, nor can they be killed by any outward applications. There is but one natural enemy so far as is known, and this is a little para- sitic fly that does them but little damage. The treatment of the nuts as soon as gathered with bisulfide of carbon is an effctive remedy and its cost is small. It is used as a fumigant by enclosing the nuts in a tight barrel or anything that will not leak gas, .md putting at the rate of half an ounce of the liquid to one bushel of nuts in an open cup on top of them, then covering very tightly and leaving so for 24 hours. The fumes will reach every recess where air goes and is deadly poisonous to all that breathes, but it does not hurt vegetable life, nor does it injure the flavor of the nuts. Scalding and drying afterwards is effective but the degree of heat may be too great or continued too long, or the drying be imperfectly done and the nuts become dam- aged. Refrigeration in a cold storage room will arrest all development of the eggs and larvae, so that they will finally die, but the flavor of the nut is injured by it. Within the last three years fun- gus disease of the chestnut tree has become apparent in Long Island, N. Y., and has spread rapidly in all directions. It is not certainly known whether it is of American origin or an introduction from abroad. As it started where the Japanese chestnut was first intro- duced it has been suggested that the disease came along with it, but this would seem strange in view of the fact that this specie is free from it, so far as can be discovered. Both the American and European chestnuts are affected by it and the fear is that the disease will continue to spread and eventually destroy all the native chestnut forests and the trees planted for their nuts, shade and ornament as well. This would be a great calamity. Wheth- er or not the malady can be arrest- ed is a serious problem and is en- gaging the closest attention of the officials of the National Depart- ment of Agriculture. It is known to have extended into Connecticut, up the Hudson as far as Pough- keepsie, and into northern New Jersey. In the vicinity where it started there are almost no chest- nut trees left except those of the Japanese species. The disease is very similar in its action to the pear blight. It is called the "Bark Disease of the Chestnut" and is scientifically known as Diaporthe parasitica (Murrill), for it works only in the tender parts of the bark or cambium layer between the bark and wood. The germ linds entrance througli Continued on Ninth Paffe. 6 7 ///i .X U / - a HOW IS 1^ THE NUT -GROWER 11 BLISHKD .MONTHLY BY XS/>e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at, the Postofflee at Poulau. Georgia, binder the Act of Congress of March 3. 18iS<- Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertisino Rates on Application. XOTICK When this paraCTaph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- <"d and that you are requested to I'euew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class i*atps. The subscription price is 30 cents per annum, but if you will send $l.o Half page, !ii2.50' Fourth " $1.50. Eighth " .l!i.oo Respectfully, >' J. F. Wilson, Secretary. THIS NUT~aua\\lSH Mere Mention. The Aiiiericiin chestnut is a rap- id growing, handsome tree, attain- ing very l;irge proportions, when standing aiune w ith room for de- velopment; branches long, slender and upright in growth ; burr small and opens in four sections ; nuts small, very sweet, with very thin skin ; hull generally covered to a large extent with fuzz. The flavor of this nut is better than any other of the chestnuts. The tree is mag- nificent for lawn or roadside plant- ing, and the young trees are valu- able for stocks, on which to graft the improved varieties of European and Japan nuts. No improved varieties of superior merit have yet been introduced. The seedlings are about as good as the so-calleii im- provements. European chestnuts make a handsome, low- headed tree, with broader spread in proportion to height ; buds more prominent ; leaves larger and thicker; burrs very large with tliick, heavy husk. The nuts are larger than the Amer- ican, bright brown in color, and generally three to a burr; not so sweet as tiie American In eating it the skin should be removed, as there is an unpleasant astringency about it. Chestnuts in California deserve more attention. The European varieties, or those imported from Japan, form highly ornamental trees, and, with the ever growing demand for nuts as food, they will liave added value. The chestnut stands heat very well, some of the largest trees in the state being in the Thermalito colony, near Oro- ville. Chestnuts of different species can be grown from the Gulf of Mexico to;C;inada. The chestnut blight, probably introduced from the Ori- ent, is going to wipe out all Amer- ican chestnuts and most of the European varieties in this country i within the next ten years. The Japanese sorts seem to be re- sistant to the blight, and orchards of these will bring large returns after the year 1915. Most of the Japanese chestnuts are of inferior quality, but^there are fine types to be had bv aiiv one who cares to ^Trit'd':"' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORUEil \{)\\ TO SAVE DISAPPOINT tlE^T i9oy-i9io PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or .$45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55-00 per 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size. So cents each, or 7'i-oo per 100 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUR CiUARAN'TKK If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before J^'ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS—ACT NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWitjt>, Mitchell County, Georgia. take the trouble to do the right thing. The Japanese chestnuts begin to bear at a very early age, sometimes when two years old. — Dr. Morris. The water chestnut, or horn chestnut, an aquatic plant, produces a seed or "nut" which somewhat resembles two curved horns united in one. the kernel of which is largely used as a food by the in- habitants of Asiatic countries. This so-called nut is also on sale in the United States, but chiefly in Chinese shops. Another water plant is also known as the water chestnut, but in this case it is the corm or bulb that is eaten. It is not unlike a chestnut in shape, and has a tough, brown skin. This is grown in Asia, but is imported bv the Chinese in this country. A three-cornered pointed nut or seed, the pit of the Chinese olive, is also on sale at Chinese shops in the United States. The kernels are oil}' but palatable, and are used in Java for inaking a nut milk much thought 01 for infant feeding. — Ag- riculture Department Year Book. The chestnuts form an important list of nut bearing trees. Some of tliem have been cultivated for centuries in Europe and the Orient, but most of these foreign chestnuts are inferior in quality to our native ones. Some of the foreign chest- nuts are much larger than our native nuts, but they are chiefly used for cookiog purposes. Including the chinc|uapins in this group, we have six kinds of chestnuts in America : the common sweet chestnut, the alder-leaved chestnut, the golden chinquapin, the cominon chinqua- pin, the bush chinquapin and the tree chinquapin. The nuts of all the group are valuable, and two of the trees, the common sweet chest- nut and the golden chinquapin, are magnificent forest trees of great timber value. Some trees of the common sweet chestnut bear re- markably large and fine nuts, and these are to be used for grafting. — Dr. Morris. Personal Mention. Mr.E.VV. Kirkpatrick, of Texas, will be at the Albany conventioti if his health permits. President Wight's address at the Convention will be a review of the present status and the future out- look for the pecan industry. Tim K UT^ OH O WISH The Two-Lined Chestnut Borer. Nature oJ I>aiuage and Mamierof Work— Ity Dr. F. H. (,'hittenilcn, Oeparlment ot Afrnciirture. The two-lined liicstnul bdier works, in its larval stage, just un- der the bark of the tree, making galleries which run mainly trans- versely beneath the bark and which are, when completed, from 6 to lo inches in length. Although none have been observed that completely encircled a tree, the result, through the combined efforts of many indi- viduals, is practically that of gird- ling. From the manner of the insect's work it cannot be otherwise than injurious when it occurs in exces- sive numbers, it undoubtedly stops the flow of sap, cuts oft' the natural supply of plant food and moisture, and thus greatly weakens and eventuallj- kills the tree. The lar- val galleries occur from the base of the tree well up toward the top. It is obvious that only the earlier stage of the larva is passed between the bark and the wood; indeed, it is likely that the entire life of the insect may be passed, in some in- stances at least, entirely within the bark. A knowledge of the full life his- tory of the species was not obtained, but it is approximately as follows : In the District of Columbia the adult beetles make their appearance in May and the early part of June, the particular season for their ap- pearance varying according to sea- son and locality, and deposit iheir eggs upon I he trees. The larvae work under the bark in the manner previously described, and bv the following spring construct a cham- ber which, as far as observed in living trees, is always in the bark ; but, in the case of small, dead trees, they work also in the wood under the bark, and in the cells thus form- ed transform into pupae. The pu- pal stage lasts about two weeks or more, according to locality and season, when the beetles again issue from the trees and lay eggs for an- other brood. The Chestnut. From .Heed Time and Harvest Since we are learning about fruits and seeds, let us read what Mrs. Dana, in "Plants and Their Chil- dren," tells us about the chestnut and some other nuts. What fine October days this pict- ure brings to mind — clear, cold mornings when we arm ourselves with baskets and a club, and go chestnutting. Usuall)' the boys Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, ^iTsSpT'' climb the tree, and shake the branches till the open burrs rattle out their contents. But sometimes a teasing cluster refuses to set loose its treasure. Then the club comes into play. If it strikes the great burrs, and raps out theii tat chest- nuts, shouts of joy follows. What a delight it is to hunt in the long grass for the glossy brown beauties just after a sudden shower from above ! No one speaks. All are bent low in breathless search. 1 know of nothing much more perfect in its way than an open chestnut burr still holding its two or three fine nuts. Its green, prickly outer covering makes a fine con- trast to the velvety brown lining; and within this beautiful case the shining nuts are laid with the daintiest care. Perhaps the chestnut burr is even safer as a seed case than the apple. While its seeds (the chestnut) are young and unripe, it does not stop to plead, "Praj' do not destroy my baby nuts!" but it seems to call out sternly, "Hands off !" and promptly punishes the boy or girl who dis- obeys this rough command. But when the chestnut seeds are quite ripe, then it opens as wide as it knows how ; and very tempt- ing it looks as it unfolds its con- tents. A chestnut tree in October looks like one great invitation. The acorn, the seed of the oak tree, is pretty enough as a play- thing, but less pleasing than the chestnut. Only the squirrel seems to find it fair eating. The trees which hide their seeds in shells, contrive in different ways to send them abroad. Many of these nuts are hoarded as winter food by the squirrels Often in a moment of fright these little creat- ures drop them by the way. Again, they forget just where they depos- ited their hoard, or for some reason they leave it untouched. Thus many nuts are scattered, and live to change into trees. r BCA N /in ip r:f Ef cj hhst i-akihtihs J- J»-X^J_^C5 SpecinJ /-oiv 7'r/oes Sear's JSiirseriGs r'nlutkn, AAk SuccsssfHUy and Protitably dnvtti ''' \ Near llM Lower AUmmUc and GnU Co«»i J ilWe are leading Growers and Distribu- j Htor9 of Satsuma Orange. Nul and I SFruit trees. Rosebushes and Orna-^ ymental Jrces and Shrubs. Catalog free. I The Grtfliiifl ftros Co.. JacksoavDlc. ftajl THE NDT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers, fruit growers. Nursery men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medium it is particularly valuable, as no padding of circulation figures fixes the rates. Descriptive circulars sent on re- quest. TUB Nut-Grower GoinDanu Poulan, :-: Georgia T//H ^iUT-GROWBR News Items. The Standard Pfcaii Co., Bloom- ington, III., are sending out a hand- some calendar for the current sea- son. Weather for June, 1909. at Pou- laii station : Maximum 98, mini- mum 61, mean So degrees, rainfall 4.02 inches. One of the largest nut orchards in South Carolina, is that of Mr. \V. W. Watson, at Oranoel)urg. He has .i.sck) pecan trees. The Jeffenson Nursery -Co., of. .Monticello, Fla., is top-working about 2.000 trees in what is known as the Kedney seedling grove, in Jefferson county, Florida. Among the recent additions to our advertising space is the an- nouncement of Mr. J. F. Jones, of Louisiana, who was formerly a regular patron, but in changing location and starting up new, had nothing to offer the trade 'till he could grow it. He now has the stock. An orchard of 1,000 San Saba and Sovereign pecans in vSouih Carolina was planted in 1902. One of the Sovereign trees has a record of maturing 75 nuts the third year from planting. Unfortunately the scab has attacked these varieties, and results are not materializing at present. Mr. A. A. Rich, of Lamont, Fla., sends an interesting post card, showing one pecan tree of a block "f 125 trees planted in March, 1905. The tree is ig feet high, with spread of 15 feet, when photo- !n» H'»i '>'*'< 11 i'ii I'l'IH^a CUMMIT Vj) CHOICE 11 ..-^ NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO. ^^^^^^^^ FLORIDA Nut Trees—Satsuma Oranges— Roses —OUR SPKCIALTIKS— The Admiral Schley Pecan ?h'e' '' fuLI i -OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.I ii>a.ii-»i-»iii-^^.i-' ■' ■ftf^j' -i' ■■|i- t'li'j'^^'jiij^tijifctjm^iiji^itjiij.iHiiiiL '. THE lOUmm NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manatier and Proprieter. .ii<:a!vi:rette. - - loichsiana. Headquarters for Budded and firatfed Pecan Trees in the South- west. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees l.o live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Coni\t'ction with a Delightful Home on Sack Bay. Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50, #00 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This properly will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F. HEIKES, Manager, Huntsville, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lament, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticuitural and Business Management and ample Capital for carryini^ out in spirit and letter such contracts as the}- accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. t^FTor Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 12 THB NUT^GROWHH 85 Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBERS = National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Nut Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. Write us for any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :•: GEORGIA. S5 ^^griculturj College. THE NUT^CROWER Voluma VIII Number t Poulan, Ga., August, 1909. Se per Copy SOc per Year THE ENGLISH (PERSIAN) WALNUT By A. E. PoMEBOY. ■•• The English walnut was intro- duced from Persia into Greece at At an early date, where it was known as the Persian or Royal nut. Taken from Greece to Rome it be- came Juglans (Jupiter's Acorn or The Nut of the Gods). From Rome it was distributed throughout Europe, reaching Eng- ind about 1362. The English walnut was first introduced into this country a century or more ago probably by the English. It was then called, for the first time, the English walnut. There is an orchard of several hundred acres, near Santa Barbara, Cal., which is said to be the largest in the world. Some years ago this orchard was producing from .$400 $1,000 per acre a year. My own experience dates from the Centenial year 1876 My father, visiting the Exposition in Philadelphia, noticed a fine large tree in the yard of his host. From this tree he propagated a few trees and planted them on his farm at Lockport, Niagara county, N. Y. The irees he thus started began bearing at an early age, and have since been bearing nuts of excellent flavor, fair size and ihin shell. This variety, called '"Pomeroy," has taken first prize several times at nut exhibits. It took first prizp at the Pan-American Exposition, held at T^Jiiifalo, N. Y. — a gold medal. Besides ihe original trees planted by my father, are many young trees about the farm, besides a new grove of about eight acres, set two years ago. This variety is very hardj-, some winters here being so severe as to freeze and kill peach trees and grupe vines, but the "Pomeroy" English Walnut goes through all ot our winters so far uninjured. The first year or tvi^o after trans- planting the tree grows more to Lockport. N. Y. roots than top. After becoming well rooted, it then begins more rapidly to grow a top, and will in- crease its spread eight feet and add four feet to its height in one sea- son. Trees at the age of four or five years are handsome enough to at- tract attention, the foliage, glossj^ dark green, trunk and limbs smooth Hglit gray in color, making them very ornamental. Some of my oldest trees have produced over .$100 worth of nuts a year. Being a cleanly tree, it is very desirable for a lawn or dooryard. The nuts are in clusters of two, three and four, and occasionallj' five. Here in Niagara county, N. Y., the nuts fall free from their shuck the last of Septemter and the first of October. Nuts can be gathered and put into sacks until used, no more care being necossar\' than is required for black walnuts. Here in Western New York are manj' young trees of the "Pomeroy" va- riety, in bearing and growing finely. Nuts as food are increasing very fast. There is a financial future for those that plant nut trees now. Trees may be planted either in the fall or spring. A Fair Average. Editor Nut-Grower : The season has been splendid for pecans, we had sufficient rain : yes, almost too much for low places, but all trees have made a fine growth. The trees in the nursery are excel- lent, a fair supply will be ready in due season. The crop of pecans will be faiilv good, while some- what uneven, many trees are well loaded, while those which bore heavily last year have a minor crop this season. The crop will be a fair average. Sincerely yours,' C FOREKT. Ocean Springs, Miss. THE CONVENTION. President J. B. Wight's Invita- tion. The eighth annual convention of the National Nut Growers Associa- tion will be held in Albany, Geor- gia, October 12-13-14. Albany is a thriving city, situated on the Flint river, and of easy access by railroads extending in seven diff'er- ent directions. It is in the midst of a prosperous agricultural section and is noted for its excellent hotel facilities, up-to-date wholesale and retail mercantile establishments, manufactories, electric light and power plants, etc. Its chief inter- ests, however, at the above time is the fact that it will be the Mecca of all nut growers. Last year seventeen states were represented at the annual gather- ing at Chattanooga ; but this year's meeting promises to far exceed any previous one, both in interest and attendance. A most interesting program is being arranged for this meeting that will practically cover all phases of nut growing. It will mean much to meet and talk with those who have made a life study of the nut business. There is no more enthusiastic body of men any- where than the members of the National Nut Growers Association. To a man they believe in the busi- ness and possibilities for profits and development that it offers. Wheth- er you are a large or small grower of nuts, and even if you are only thinking of becoming interested it will pay you to be on hand. Tliere are more pecan orchards within seventy-five miles of Albany than within s\ny other equal area in the world. This fact brings added interest to the occasion. The people of Albany are taking a very active interest in this forthcoming meeting, and they assure to all who go Ihe opportunity of seeing the THB NUT'GHinvnU principal groves and nurseries in the country surrounding the city. They also purpose to give a "smoker," where all the members in attendance will have the oppor- tunity of meeting in social inter- course. While the situation of Albany will cause particular interest to cen- ter on the pecan, yet attention will be given to all varieties of nuts. Membership in the Association is only two dollars per year, which includes not only the privileges of membership but all the amenities and civilities that will he extended « to the convention at Albany. You are most cordially invited to be present. If you have been with us at former meetings, then you may have soine idea of what it means to miss this one. You can rest assured, that if you are interested directly or remotely in nut growing, you will be well re- paid for your attendance. Special rates will be given by hotels and by railroads to those in attendance. If further interested, address the Secretary, at Poulan, Ga. J. B. Wight, President, Cairo, Ga. The Texas Nut Growers Society president's address The existence of our society for these four years has called the at- tention of the great mass of our citizens to the value of pecans as nothing else within our power could have done. We have gotten ac- quainted with each other and with the products of the different sec- tions of tiie state. Thousands of men, women and children have been interested to a degree that prompted them to plant either some trees or some nuts. When one does this he adds to the riches and beauty of his country and to the comfort of its inhabi- tants. Thousands have learned that a seedling pecan never bears nuts like the one planted, and they have been taught how to bud and graft them More Texas literature has been produced and disseminated during these four years about pecans per- haps than the total of all the years preceding. Attention has been called to dozens of new varieties, some of which, as the years go by, will hold out the scepter of prosperity and pleasure to us and to those who will take our places. In the years to come, intelligent men will make pilgrimages everv tall up and down the streams of the state looking for new pecans. They will find varieties that never fail to bear. The very few trees that bore in 1908 should be remem bered and a record made of the crops in succeeding years The Texas Nut (jrowers Society has taught many the value of an indifferent pecan grove, if good sorts are budded on it, and it has taught the man with some poor hickory hills that he can bud pecans on hickories and make his land rate in value with the best in the state. The publicity given to the value of nuts and the necessity for crack- ers and the other machinery has stimulated inventors, and they have given us conveniences and time savers. And this is not all ; in some cases, by design, in others by desire and in some by acciilent, we have dem- onstrated that pecans will glow on thousands of acres on which it was supposed that they would not do well. We have swapped experiences in keeping pecans. Our society has not bad the funds with which to collect statistics con- cerning quantity and value of crops. This will follow later by the socie- ty or by the Department of Agri- culture. We have taught the producer who has small pecans ihat he can shell out the kernels with a small, cheap machine and thus fealize nearly as much per pound net for his nuts as he usually gets for the lew fancy nuts he may have. These are only part of the good things that our society has promot- ed, started or accomplished. Phose of us who, for the love of the work, have toiled a little may feel satis- fied ; and whether we. in the future, accomplish much or little it is grat- ifying to sum up the work of the past. F. T. Ramskv. Austin, Texas. For Sale One hundred acres of land now in shape for any agricultural use desired, located in Poulan, Worth county, Ga. Experts claim that this land, properly cultivated for nut growing, will produce ten dol- lars for each one invested in cultivating within ten years. Editor of this paper will show land to any prospective buyer. For further information, correspond with the owner, John W. Corcoran, 2S S, Albany Ave,., Chioajfo, iJ/. Real Estate for Sale In Different States If interested in buying or sell- Dirt, write for Sample Copy of Poag'sKeal Estate Monthly. Subscription, per year, only 50 cents Then you can keep better posted in what is going on in the Real Estate World. In addition to this you will se« interesting reading matter on other subjects J. EDGAR POAG, Broker Rock Hill, S. C. "Cuts the Cartti to Suit Your Taste." MTALoiiiiii mum Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery M/%S02V BUIhliiyG HOUSTON. .■. TEXAS. Pecan Trees J'r^fL THE LEADING VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. I. RAMS A Y, M,"",„S,p"" Proceedings The following volumes of Pro- ceedings of the National Nut- Growers' Association can be obtained at prices whi:h were established at the Chattanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, .i! .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .50 per copy Norfolk, 1907. i.oo per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, CCORQIA THB rrtunity for the investment 01 a few hundred dollars where it will earn an enormous pr fit A snap for some one. Address P. O Box No. 27, .Monticello, Fla. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may earn a good income corresponding tor newspapers; ex- rience unnecessary Send stamp for full par ticulars Empire Pres-s syndicate, Middleport. N. V. (sept M ) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Cui-veE Poultrv Farm, 10:14 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts larnisheo only in limit.;d (luanlities, IHE NUr-l,ROWER CO.M- PANV, Poulan, lia CHOICE LOCATION -No. 24 400 acres, near Monticello, Fla Two ihirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in \nno and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake Price. .$1000 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUr-«KOV* EK COM- PANY, Poulan, (ia. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. »,. Al location, first-class in every respect. MO acres now being planted in pecan trees of choice va. rieiies Will subilivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for live years at price accepted THE NIir-ttRew York. Poultry Topics. Lincoln. Neb --Poultry paper. Gentlewoman, New York --Household," FloraL Everyday Life, Chicago - Literary and -stories The above mat^azines have been carefully se- lected and are in all respects pqual r» most of the 50ceDt matrazi es ot their class Choose the one you want and send 2o cents today. Agents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No !5 Keystone Kldg. Chattanooga, Tenn. TUB, NUT-GHOWBH New Plan HARDY ENGLISH WALNUTS. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B.W. STONE & CO., ThomasvillcGa. m \ nm mm The Best Investment that can now be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- aid paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf eoaj^t of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath oflhep^per siiel] pecans and whei'e ten or twelve of the hest known varieties now being propagated by nurserj'tnen were originated. I no^\' have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between Ihepeeansl which Includes 20,000 stocks for the coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination gi'ove and nursery, on the L.. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere ill South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All gratting wood and treesgrown fro6i bearing trees in my own grove.s, hence absolutely true to name. Ifo guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especiall.y fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Orafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. The Maderia nut, improperly called the English walnut, is well adapted to the mild climate of the Pacific coast, and is hardy along the Atlantic as far north us New York. Even in Central New York a few trees have been grown which have fruited. Frotn this it would nat- urally be expected that the eastern shore of Lake Michigan should be suitable for these trees, since it is adapted to the tender peach. Thus far, however, this has not proven ture. At the South Haven experi- ment station the trees have been raised, but they do not liear. Such being the ca^^e, the mem- bers of the State Horticulttiral So- ciety were quite surprised during their winter meeting at Almont to be shown a voung tree which had borne three crops in succession of English walnuts. More than this, one of the nuts had been planted and produceLl a lusty tree which had made a growth of more than three feet the past season. Almont is in Laper county, in the eastern part of the state. If the tree will bear here, it certainly should do as well in many other localities of tlie southern counties. The success with the English walnut has been small in Michigan, but it is suggestive of what can be expected. It should be possible to develop a tree that will be fruited as well as hardy. The peach has been induced*to grow far beyond its native climate, for it is in reality a sub-tropical tree, though its most important commercial region is now far north of that. The efl'orts to extend (he limits of the citrus fruits have attracted J. P. GILL, Mgr. AL5ANY, OA. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES. GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Gil I grove Pecan Nurseries P@®fflii liiw@siM®mts Mr. J B. Wight's Chattanooga address, four six by nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words. This is a careful and very conservative review of the commercial opportunities this nut offers, and supplies just the in- formation pi-ospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 $4.50 500 2.50 250 1.50 100 75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulant Georgia. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees of reliable known varieties. Our catalof^ con- tains informarion on selecting, plantin^r, cul- ture, etc., and is free for the asking. Graf iwood f()r sale ; our orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. no little attention. All this is com- mendable, and the results have been good. But would it not be as well to give as much attention to a nut tree that is almost as hardy as it is.' A few years of systematic work should result in adding a valuable nut to those we now have. — F. D. Wells, in Farmer's Voice. Importation of Nuts. WALNITI'S, SHELLED Year Ending, June 30 QUANTITY VALUE Pounds 1900.. a 2.090,624 a $ 287,051 1901 . . 2,224,874 344,218 1902.. 2,594,288 .309,829 1903.. 3,035,970 508,683 1904.. 3,579,941 548,994 1905.. 4,178,010 519,730 1906. 4,948,175 798,975 1907.. 7,199,988 1,163,409 1908.. 7.098,958 1,180,765 WALNUTS, NOT SHhLLED Pound 8 1900.. b 14,932,138 b $ 793,919 1901.. 9,702,559 560,544 1902.. 10,394,048 555,773 1903.. 8,936,439 537,014 1904.. 19,454,012 1,084,485 1905.. 16,312,138 905,131 1906.. 15,029,724 1,044,330 1907.. 23,036,646 1,490,423 1908.. 21,427,853 1,530,650 (a) included in walnuts, shelled. (b) including filberts not shelled. The Rush walnut originated in Lancaster county, Pa., where the tree is perfectly hardy and a heavy bearer; the original tree having borne one hundred pounds of fancy nuts when 13 years of age. The Rush has a light colored shell, which is thin and soft ; cracking quality is good. The kernel, which is of e.xcellent flavor, being easily extracted. Among the rocky and hilly woods, from Main to Kentucky, the chestnut flourishes. Thomas Jefferson was the first to introduce the European chestnut into Vir- ginia. The American species is the same as the foreign, but pro- duces smaller fruit. The nuts form an important part of the food of the poor of Southern Europe. They are eaten roasted, boiled, ground into flour, from which bread is made, and take, to considerable extent, the place of potatoes. Con- fectioners Review. THB :NUT^Gl^i)\\nR THE NUT -GROWER I'lIBLISHKD MONTHLY BY S/)e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class mattei- at the Postofflce at Poulau, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. NOTICK When this paragraph is marked it means that your suDscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mall to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be'credited for three ye"ars. AUCiUST. 1909. The walnut is an attractive proposition in many ways, in many localities. Our space is inadequate for presenting much available data. Special attention is called to President Wight's invitation to the convention as well as to the announcement of arrangements found in this number. The Albany convention should be largel)' attended. Every subscriber in the state of Georgia, Florida and Alabama should be present, not only for the personal pleasure and profit tliey will thus receive, but also to show the association that the honor of meeting them is recognized and appreciated. As convention time approaches the interest increases, and every indication points to a large attend- ance. The prospects for seeing the large orchards and nurseries, seems to be a drawing card. An entire day is given up to this work and a special train is contemplated for reaching points of interest. The time may not yet be at hand, but is soon to come, when a di- rectory of nut orchards, nut grow- ers, etc., will be needed. The annual Badge Book of the Associa- tion is now in part performing the functions of an industrial directory, and during the past year a steady demand for copies has kept up 'till the reserve supply was exiiausted. We are ready to produce the direc- tory when the trade conditions warrant the necessary expenditure. The matter of obtaining certifi- cates showing the payment of full fare in going lo Albany is very im- portant. Those who neglect this requirement on part of the railroads, will not be granted the reduced re- turn rate. The promoters who are working pecan propositions are doing a vast amount of advertising, and are making known the good qualities of the nut. The Nut-Growe.r is one of the indirect beneficiaries of this work for many new subscrip- tions are traceable to them. Ill the preparation of special numbers now running, we have made more liberal use of the '■shears" in clipping from various sources many of the items used. While some of them may not emi- nate from recognized authorities, and others may be out of date, still the}' serve a good general use in these numbers. A well known nurseryman says •'There are only three requisites that are absolutely necessary to success in pecan culture ; proper soil, best budded or grafted trees, and proper care of trees after planting.'' This may be true, but we move to amend, by including some ready money, with which to pay for the soil, trees and give the essential care. In fact all these re- quisites cost money, and "there's the rub." for we find easy sailing in starting an orchard when ample cash is at hand. If there were many more like the Oklahoma minister who writes the following paragraph, the National Association could accompHsIi a wonderful amount for the general welfare for all sections of the country : I am a regular itinerant of the M. E. Church, vSouth, and joined the association, life member, be- cause of the conviction that nut growing is to be one of the lead- ing industries of the United Stales. I desire to keep inform- ed as to its progress and bj' my name and the membership dues contribute my mite to the cause. Mere Mention. The Japan walnuts, as the name indicates, were introduced from Japan, and they bid fair to become of great importance to our nut- growing industry. They are as easily transplanted as an apple, be- ing abundantly furnished with lat- erals, and making practically no tap roots at all. What we know as the English walnut is reallj' the Madeira nut or Persian walnut. We imported it from England and called it the '•English" walnut. England im- ported it from the Madeira Islands and called it the •'Madeira." As a matter of fact, it is a native of i Persia, and was introduced into ' Europe by the Greeks. The English walnut (Juglans regia) was introduced from Persia into Greece at an early dale, where It was known as the '"Persian" or ■'Royal" nut. Taken from Greece to Rome, it became "'Juglans" ("Jupiter's Acorn." or the "Nut of the Gods"). From Rome it was distributed throughout Europe, reaching England about 1562, where it was called "Ihe Walnut." We are convinced that this ac- climated English Walnut tree will do well on any soil or in any clim- ate where the black walnut, but- ternut or oak thrives. It makes a handsome shade, as well as orna- mental tree. Unlike other nut trees, we have found it to be prac- tically free from worms and insects. The leaves are not shed until after the frost in the fall, at which time the nuts also fall from their outside shuck, which resembles that of the black walnut, but is only about half the thicknes.-i. A Hybird or cross between the common California Black walnut and the Persian (English) walnut. The tree is a tall, rapid grower, much hardier than the Persian wal- nut. The nut has the appearance of our common black walnut, but the shell is not quite so thick, while there is very much more meat or kernel in the shell, and of a less oily and rank flavor than our com- mon walnut. Originated by Lu- ther Burbank, of ,Sanla. Rosa, Cal. THE. NUT-GROW BH The yapan walnut is one of the finest nnl trees for Louisiana. The flavor of the nut is equal to the pe- can, and will keep a long time without drying up or getting ran- cid. The tree grows very fast and will bear in three jears after plant- ing and makes a beautiful shade tree. We had a tree at our nursery in Washington, La., which at ten years old measured fifty-four inches in circumference two feet from the ground. The spread covered forty feet. The nuts grow in clusters of ten or more. We planted some nuts two years ago this month and man}' of the trees are now eight feet high and two inches in diame- ter at the ground. Proceedings Lousiana Horticultural Society. Persian Walnuts (^Juglatis rcgia) — The next best paving crop is the Persian walnut, commonl}- called English walnut, for the reason that the tree did not come from England originally, and the bulk of the market nuts are from France. The home of the tree was Persia. It is hardy from California to Massachusetts, but is capricious about soil. The be-^t nuts of the species with which I am familiar come from tlie Grenoble district in France and from a triangle with points at Philadelphia. Buffalo and Boston in the United States. The largest quantity of nuts of this tree in this country are at present raised in California. Grafted trees, suit- able for ditferent latitudes, are ob- tainable fiom nurseries. Some of the varieties come nearly true from seed. Grafted trees commonly coine into bearing at about eight years of age. — Morris. Black Walnut {Juglans nigra) — The black walnut can be grown in almost any part of the country. There is always a deinand for the nuts, but at low prices so far, be- cause select tj-pes have not been grown. Grafted black walnuts of desirable types will bring fancy prices; not obtainable from nur- series yet. One must do his own grafting, or send scion from a de- sirable tree to one of the California nurseries, where they will be graft- ed on California black walnut stocks for him. Seedling black t'aHe/!'' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDEIl XOW TO SAVE DISAPPOINT tf EXT iyot)-i9io PRICE list: I to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or 1^45.00 per 100 3 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55°° P^"" '°'-' 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75 00 per 100 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per lOo OUR CUA.RANTKE If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DBLAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS—ACT NOW—ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWiLt., Mitchell County, Georgia. vvalntits come into bearing in from five to fifteen years. Grafting causes precocious bearing. I have grafted trees from one parent wliich bore fourteen bushels of nuts when eight jears of age. This is, of course, a freak, but one can have a thousand acres of this sort if he wants, and with seventeen trees to the acre, with nuts selling at the lowest market price of $1 per bushel, a fair income can be figured out. — Morris. Heart Nuts (Juglans cordi- formis) —This rapid-growing, beau- tiful and precocious bearing tree is from Japan. Mr. Burbank's proph- ecy that tliis would be one of our most promising introductions led to setting out orchards in Califor- nia. The trees, however, went mostly to wood on the Pacific coast. Some of the eastern trees are bear- ing heavy crops of the delicious nuts. The tree should be hardy from Texas to Ontario, but we shall have to learn about its range. Juglans codiformis is obtainable from many of the large nurseries, but about two-thirds of all custom- ers will be disappointed. The reason is because tiiree different species of Japanese walnuts are be- ing sent to this country, and the nurserymen are apt to get them confused. Two species have nuts of excellent quality, but with such thick shells that they will not be desirable. Insist upon getting the heart nut, with a guarantee that trees will be replaced by the nur- seryman if he sends the wrong species. — Morris. Walnut Blight — Since the ad- vent of the blight, given a specific name by those who have studied the disease, the theory has been promulgated that some French va- rieties would be immune because growth is later in starting in the spring. As this same disease is very prevalent in France, and as these varieties have only been plant- ed in California to any extent for comparatively few years, and are in new, rich soil, there is nothing to warrant the assertion. We need to work out our own salvation in regard to the walnut as in other things, and should not tie ourselves 8 TUB NUT~GIiO\VISl^ too securely to :i record of expe- riences liad under totallj- difierent conditions. The best of the Cali- fornia raised walnuts blossom rath- er early, hull freely, and mature early, being in the sack before the hulls of some French varieties have cracked. The French varieties start in to grow later in the spring and are less liable to be injured by frost or late rains in consequence. But thej' are very late in maturing as a rule, and are apt to get caught in the fall rains. Growers must choose between the two chances, but, for myself, 1 would, if possi- ble, determine what walnut trees are most profitable in a given lo- cality, and plant the same. The blight undoubtably may be con- trolled largely by propagating from grafts of the root stock, and also keeping the trees vigorous by the best of care and abundant manur- ing or fertilizing. Theje are many details, here barely alluded to, which the successful grower can point out to those in search of knowledge. The walnut requires rich soil and abundant moisture at the root. A climate midway between the ex- treine heat of the San Joaquin val- ley and the fog of the coast line is to be preferred. The Walnut— California pro- duces annually at the present time about 12,000,000 lbs. of walnuts, in comparison vifith which the pro- duction from other states is not worth mentioning. The Persian (or so-called English) walnut has been planted in several Eastern and Southern states for more than a hundred years, but it is still consid- ered merely a curiosity Its non- adaptiveness to those regions is due due to the great extremes in climate. The tree thrives and bears well in France, England, and other Eu- ropean countries. In the former country selected seedlings have be- come fixed types for many years, and from these trees others are pro- pagated by the ordinary process of budding and grafting. All trees and plants are amenable to climatic influences. Hence, seedlings raised from trees which have been trans- planted into a climate where con- ditions are less favorable than those to which they have been accustom- Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, ^^SifpVT'' ed, will have a tendency to become hardier than the parent. Plants adapt themselves or become accli- matized to a much greater extent than is generally believed. Take, for example, two species of euca- lyptus— E. corynocalvx and E. rudi-i. Both have roundish leaves, changing slightly as they get older, but the former, being used to a cool climate, carries its leaves horizon- tally, enjoying all the sunshine it can get ; while E. rudis, finding itself farther in the interior, under the ravs of a hotter sun, swings its leaves over — hanging vertically — to escape injury therefrom and to retard evaporation. So we find many seedlings of the walnut first planted in California bearing good annual crops of first- class nuts, while the parent trees were very unsatisfactory. Some of these have long been recognized as varieties, such as Santa Harbira Paper Shell, Ford's Improved, Placentia Perfection, and others, man}' thousands of trees having been grafted from the original ones, but unfortunately, many more thousand seedlings have been grown which has resulted in the protluc- tion of a large percentage of second grade nuts. As I have on other occasions stated, it is a grave mis- take to imagine that these varieties do not succeed and bear well in al- most any good fruit section in northern as well as southern Cali- fornia. The trees first planted, more than half a century ago in Sonoma and Napa counties, never bore well, and it is claimed the trees were frequently dicKcious, neither is there any record of their success elsewhere, but only of some of their selected offspring. fBCAN TI-^T^Ff^ BEST \AItll-TIKS ■* '»-«-V*-Vw-» Special l^niv Hrioea I-'lorinnnn>^iii'i>i|iwii iiiii II >i II fi iiyi<^i^iiin>y>nini>iii>iii|ii>i>niiiii>i>ii ft^^mpTK Walnut Culture in Oregon. Walnut culture in the Pacific Northwest has successfully passed the experimental stage and is fast attaining the dignity of a horticul- tural pursuit. Repre'-entatives of the three or four hundred acres of walniil orchards in Yamhill county have an active walnut club which holds frequent meetings at Mc- Minnville and is doing mucli to further the interest in this pi.ifit- able industry. The secretary, W. H. Latourette, rej^irts many in- quiries, in regard to the best va- rieties, and details as to soil re- quiremgnis, culture, etc Individ- ual trees scattered throughout Yam- hill county, and which have been bearing for some years past, indi- cate that the whole region is well adapted to the culture of the nut. One tree has a spread of forty-Hve feet and a trunk diameter of twenty inches five feet from the ground. Neither its leaves or twigs indicate any injury during the.se years from blight or frost. Under the stimu- lus of lands at $60 and less per .icre, the enthusiasm of the Mc- Minnville club for walnut planting is very great. Mayette and Fran- quette are the principal varieties grown, although experiments seem to prove that others of the French type do equally well. — California Fruit (irower. f;UMMIT v^ CHOICE ,-^ MURSERY STOCK URSERIES MILLER Sc GOSSARD Proprietors MONTICELLO. ^^^^^ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges -Roses : —OUR SPKCIAI/riKS- : The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of the Future ZOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: iMii ll>lllll>iH(iiw^ti^t<i*l«l« < THE LOUISIflNfl NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprieter, .ikani<:retti<:. - - lottisiaxa. Headquarters for Budded and firalted Pecan Trees in the South- west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same fur a period of years. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection wMh a Deligtttful Home on Back Bay. Blloxi, liiss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in tine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,900 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This properly will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F, HEIKES, Manager, HuntsvUle, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co-Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capit.il for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA 12 THB NUTpGROWBR Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Nut Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. Write us for any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. 'SS J^gTiCXlltUT' College. THE UT^GROWER Voluma VIII Number 2 Poulan, Ga., September, 1909. 5c per Copy 50c per Year Pecans on Hickorv as a Commercial Proposition. PARKS AND PARKING. * By DR. C. P. While the iivuilability of hickory stock for budding or grafting pe- cans has been long known, such use has been only occasional, com- paratively speaking. There are individual trees scattered through- out the pecan growing area said to have been grafted on hickory, and concurrentl}' with the development of pecan culture in later years quite a few instances of small grove top- working. One of the oldest individual trees known to the writer is the Bilbo tree at Lake Charles. The writer's first information as to the possi- bilily of grafting pecans was con- nected with the account of the grafting of a young hickory tree that stood between his pioneer house and the shore of Lake Charles by Mr. Jos. Bilbo. As the story went, two grafts were inserted in the young hickory stub, close to the ground; one died, one lived and made the majestic, full-bearing pecan tree that the writer had known from earlj- boyhood, one reach of long limbs extending to- ward the half-century old cypress roof, the other over the shell road that wound with the curves of the lake shore. Memory of this tree has always made it possible to smile over the stated and printed reasons why it H is not possible or feasible to utilize hickor}' trees as a stock for pecan propagation. In the same manner Columbus was discouraged from sailing "beyond the world," and , the impossibility of a white man || "nailing the flag," or flying in a heavier than air machine proven countless times by the negative im- agination sometimes called pessim- ism. I know of no better way to pre- sent the proposition of the avail- ability of the countless number of MUNDAY. hickory trees as a foundation for pecan culture, from the one tree here and there in pasture or fence corner to the small groups or e.x- lensive groves along the creek bot- toms and hammock lands than to write briefly of the experiments made at Keithville, La., in hickory top-working, and the plans of ex- tension of the work. In the last four years, from small beginning, several hundred hickory trees have been budded and graft- ed experimentally, to determine the possibilities and b.est methods. Practically all methods of budding, which promised success, have been used. The first nuts were obtained last season from two-year-old growth, being typical .Stuarts. The trees have been cut off in winter, with insertion of grafts, two to four, according to size of tree. With failure of graft the shoots have been budded the following spring and summer. The princi- pal part of the work, until the past season, has been done in a small grove of hickories, while this sea- son nearly every hickory tree that could be found on the place, no matter where located, has been util- ized. The growth has been highly satisfactory, the older trees having replaced the original top in many cases. The increase in nut produc- tion this year over last was sur- prisingly large, although extremely drv weather has been responsible for loss of a large part of these nuts. The work this season has been con- fined to a new method of grafting which has given such superior re- sults that its originator, Mr. A. K. Clingman, feels justified in begin- ning the extensive propagation of pecan on-hickory as a commercial top-working proposition. * Prepared for the Albany Convention. CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE F. T. Ramsey, at Texas Nurserymen's Banquet. A few years ago we all, at least some of us, when we spoke of parks thought of geometrical beds with flowers in them and gravel walks. They rested one to some extent because they were out of doors, but everywhere was evidence of civilization or rather of formalities, the conditions we have at home and from which we want to get awaN'. Now a great cool wave of differ- ence is engulfing the situation. We now long for a big tract of land, part smooth and part rough, part den.sely vvooded, part in cool shades and part smooth grass and some;,clumps of flowers and flow- ering shrubs around the edges of the thickets. We like high and low land because our lives are made up of ups and downs. And we want some running water. And we want some still, deep water that looks like it had fish in it. It is all the better if it looks just like the place where we used to fish with a sycamore pole. Oh! those good old days before we knew there was such a thing as a jointed rod and a double-geared reel and an artificial minnow! I remember one evening I went to the creek and cut and sharpened a fine sycamore pole (it was the size of a tree that sells for 75 cents now). I could not find any frogs, even after knocking two rocks to- gether to make them holler; sol pushed the pole down ia a soft bed of drift and mud and it grew. The best land for a park is usu- ally the cheapest land in the neigh- borhood. The town or city that procures and sets aside such a tract now is to be congratulated. The philanthropist who gives such a tract confers a lasting blessing. Think how much greater is the TUB Nur~aua\VBu ni-li tliat drives along luunanity now than it was when we first be- gan to observe. What will it be in another generation? The golden rule applies to the next generation just as much as this one. If it is good political economy for a city to pay a health officer it IS right to use public money in ac- quiring and maintaining parks. Texas sumjners are never iiot, but they are long, so no state rleeds parks anv more than we. Let us talk parks and make parks. Coax the birds to staj- in your parks. Get the boys to coax them Go singing something like this: Come out where the larks their op'ras sing From dawn 'till glorious noon, And the mocking birds sing them oyer again At night by the light of the moon. Come out in the air away from your care. Where all harsh -sounds are still: And the scent and thelightof the moun- tains' height Will never fail to thrill. The flowers are wild and the sky is blue — There's never a sigh nor a frown. Come away from the sordid human gang; Come away from the dusty town. Come lie on the grass or rest "in the shade — Hear the children's voices ring; Or swim or fish or splash or wade Or walk or ride or swing. Come out where the larks their op'ras sing From dawn 'till glorious noon. And the mocking birds sing them over again At night by the light of the moon. Mr. Toastmaster, a few years ago the World of Letters decided that Thomas Bailv Aldrich could write the sweetest line. I presume it meant that his was sweetest of those onlv with whom it has an acquaintance. Seeds as Food. I want you to think for yourselves why it is fortunate for us human be- ings that many plants store away in their seeds so much baby food. "Because without this the little plants would die, and we should have no new plants to make the world beautiful to live in," some child replies. That answer is a good one, but it is not just the answer that I wish. Can vou think of any other way in which we all benefit bv the large supply of food that is packed away in certain seeds? If the right answer to this cpies- tion does not 6ccur to you, try to remember which of those seeds we iiave been reading about have been supplied with a specially large amount of food. — Seedtime and Harvest. Pecans on Hickory as a Com- mercial Proposition. OONTINUKD FKt)M F[KST PAGE A tract of 2^o acres of creek bot- tom land, covered with hickories from 2 inches in diameter to 2 feet or more, has been selected. The heavy oak timber has been largely removed in tie-making. The hick- ories are estimated to average 15 trees per acre. These, from 2 to 10 inches, will be cut off this winter. 10 to 15 feet high, the exposed sur- faces being well covered with paint, and from two to four grafts insert- ed later by the special method above mentioned. Budding will be done in some cases, but the graft- ing method will be relied on prin cipally. Support of the young pe- can shoots by hickorj' limb or strip splints, pruning of the superfluous pecan wood, clearing of the adja- cent growth, fertilization of the in- dividual trees, and other attention will be given onlj' as, but when needed, according to the judgment of tlie manager of the grove. The labor used will be negroes, having more or less experience through nursery work and the previous top- working. Similar work on 01 her property has been contracted for on a basis of h.iU' ownership of the re- sulting grove. The property will be wire-fenced, and used as a win- ter pasturage on account of lux- uriant growth of cane and winter grass. The results expected are the most rapid possible conversion of land worth $10.00 per acre into bearing pecan groves easily worth a luni- dred fold in ten to fifteen years. Such is a brief outline of what a few men have done and purpose to do toward consumating the prob- lem of raising pecans for the satis- factory prices always to be obtain- ed for an inadequate supply for an insatiable demand, unless controll- ed by trust methods in m.anufacture or the necessity tor a forced mar- keting. Happily the pecan is to be eaten largely raw, and mav be kept the year round. The writer would not have one word here written discourage the planting of a pecan tree in any available place, through intention of top-working any iiickory, pig-nut or pecan seed- ling, for "Two spots there are in all the world to me" tor pecan tiees— the spot where one mav be ph'.nted. the spot where one may be budded or grafted. Both ought to be taken advantage of; neither need conflict with the other. For Salo One hundred acres of land now in shape for any agricultural use desired, located in Poulan, Worth county, Ga. Experts claim that this land, pi-operly cultivated for nut growing, will produce ten dol- lars for each one invested in cultivating within ten years. Editor of this paper will show land to any prospective buyer. For further information, correspond with the owner, John \V. Corcoran, Real Estate for Sale In Different States If interested in buying or sell- D rt, write for Sample Copy of P..ag'sKeal Estate Monthly. Sul)si'ription, per year, only 50 cents Tlieii you can keep better posted in what is g^ing on in the Keal Estate World. In addition to this 3'ou will sew interesting reading matter on other subjects J. EDGAR POAG, Broker Rock Hill, S. C. "Cuts the Earth to Suit Your Taste." CAT^Liiiiiiii mum- Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery AIjXSON HUIKIJISG HOUSTON, .'. TKXAS. Proceedings The following volumes of Pre ceedings of the National Nut, Growers' Association can bl obtained at prices whi;h vverJ established at the Chattanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, !f; .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .30 per copy Norfolk, 1907, i.oo per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec' POULAN, CEORQK THE, NUT-GROWBR Halbert's Letter. To THE Nut Grower : I noticed Mr. W. L. Watkins' interesting letter from Tyler, Tex., on Budding Pecans on the Hickory, Mr. Watkins deserves credit as a pioneer on a large scale in this section — paying out $50 as the buds were placed on fifty hickory trees, when his neighbors, who were nurserymen, claimed that pecan buds could not be made to grow on the hickory. At that time, neitlier Mr. Watkins nor my- self, wlio did the work for him, knew of a single successful instance of a pecan budded on the hickory. This work was done in August, 1906, and the trees bore nuts in 190S, and now have their second crop of pecans. I noticed Mr. Watkins questions how to prevent the natural limbs, bearing the buds, from blowing oft" where they join the trunk of the tree — not where the bud wood and natural wood join. In the latter the uniting is so strong that the limb will break anywhere as soon. But there is an element of we^ikness from which 1 as well as others have suffered much loss, and more this year than all previous years combined, from the natural limbs being blown off just where they grow out from the parent tree. Especially is this the case in large trees witli verj' rough bark. In small, young trees it seldom occurs. If you take the pains to e.xamine these blown off limbs you will find that not more than i- to ^ of the base of the limb is attached to the tree and this rough bark or cuticle is under the base of the limb pre- venting it from making a solid union with the trunk. Knowing this fact the remedy naturally sug- gests itself, to-wit, keep this cuti- cle cut off to the inner bark of the tree as the limb comes out. Do this with a sharp hatchet for a cir- cle of an inch or two around the base of the limb. Then c-is the limb grows it can make a solid union with the trunk and will never blow off so easily. Yet as the trunk of a large tree is firm and the limb shaken by the breeze It causes great leverage to prize the limb off at this point. I did not see Mr. Watkins' in- quiry until I was on the eve of starting on my summer budding tour over the state. Have just re- turned home after an absence of two months budding the Pecan Hickory and Pignut for the public. I am now working on my own trees. In the meantime I see that Sam H. James, of Mound, La., has given a very good artificial method of preventing limbs from blowing of!'. His method is alright for a few years to work in connection with mv more natural and perma- nent methods. After this, treated as I suggest, the limbs will stand ordinary winds. Yours truly, H. A. Halbert. CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller Growing Filberts. We have heard for many years that the filbert will succeed well in California, but I have not been able to find any of the bushes in bearing until I found them recently in Nevada county. I am now pre- pared to say from actual observa- tion that this nut can be fruited to perfection in the mountainous dis- tricts of the stale, though the bushes I observed did not have half as many nuts as did the native hazel nuts of Sierra county. I was told that a nursery in Nevada City is the only place where filbert plants are propagated for the trade. I visited this nursery and saw the process of layering under way. First, in raising plants this way the mother bush is established and al- lowed i;o grow and surround her- self with long, willowy shoots. These sprouts are bent down and fastened with pegs, the tops being allowed to resume erect form and remain attached to the parent till fall. At this place I saw fifty to sixty young layers around each mother clump. The plants sell at about 35c each, and Oregon takes all this nursery has to offer. The layering is done in the fall, always from the new growth, so the pro- cess takes just a year for comple- tion. Filberts can be raised from seed, but the proprietors of the nursery told me it was a long wait to bearing and that the seed does not come true to name, especially in a country where hazelnuts are grown. — J. W. Jeffrey, in Los Angles Times. lo this column we pive place to advertisements from aubscibers who have tjrchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implemeuts to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent a wurd for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. PECAN ORCHARD BARGAIN.- We have an interest in a necan orchard for sale at a Bargain. The proposition is an attractive one and will pay the inve-*tor over 10 per cent, from the very first. This is an investment opportunity not 10 be missed. It will not be open long, write today for lull particulars to The orchard Invest- ment Co , Monticello, Fla. WANTED -A partner in a pecan orchard de- velopment proposition. An opportunity for the investment of a few hundred dollars where it will earn an enormous pr.ilit A snap for some one. Address P. O Box Xo. 27. iMonticello. Fla. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may earn a goofl income corresponding for newspapers ; ex- pedience imnecessary !-end stamp for full par- ticulars. Empire Press syndicate, Widdleport. N. Y. (sept 3t.) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Culver Poultry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Xeb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts lurnisheo only in limited quantities, IHE NUT-(,UOVVER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga CHOICE LOCATION— No. 24 400 acres, near Monticello, Fla Two Ihirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in yiuc and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake Price. $10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NU C-(.:KOW EK COM- P.\NY, Poulan, (ia. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, tirst-ciass in every respect. 320 acres now being planted in pecan trees of choice va- rieties Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for live years at price accepted THE Nllr-GROWER COMPANY. Poulan. Ga. WANTED— Copies of March, May, June and December, 1907, anil February, March and April, 1908, of The Ndt-Grower. Seed Pecans For the accomodation and convenience of patrons we buy and sell Pecan Nuts for seed purposes. PineyParkNursery J. F. Wilson, Manager Poulan, :-: Georgia. A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO.. POULAN, GEORGIA. THE, NUT^Gl^OWBH Edible Nuts and Their Scientific Value in Cell-Life. Dr. A. B. Dennis. Cedar Rapids. In Iowa Horticulture, We have for many years advoca- ted nut culture in Iowa, and in a small way have put our advice into practice by planting a few trees and seeds, and from a plant breeder's standpoint, have had a small share of success in hardy seedlings. We have, however, been disap- pointed in not succeeding in arous- ing public interest in nut culture for Iowa. These nut bearing trees deserve niore attention than nurserymen and fruit growers in Iowa have so far seen fit to besto»v upon them. I am sure if we propagate and plant them more extensively, they will not alone add to our income in dollars, but enhance the health and enjoyment of every lover of nut food. The nut industry is growing in other states at a wonderful pace. Twenty years ago there was not a book or bulletin published in the United .States. Today we have the splendid bulletin put out by the Department of Agriculture, many state bulletins, and the fine book on Nut Culture by the late \. S. Fuller, and Prof. Hume, of Florida, has recently published a fine work on the Pecan and its cul- ture. There are at least three monthly journals devoted to this branch of fruit culture. There is also a National Nut Growers organization represented by eighteen states, and tens of thousands of acres in the South are being planted into pecans, and many hundred acres of chestnuts in the eastern states; and it pains me to realize that Iowa has practically done nothing, I am aware that Iowa land is extremely valuable for farm pro- ducts, but we have one hundred thousand miles of public roads, and every one of these should be lined on both sides with hickory trees, and the legislature should cf)mpel every railroad in the state to line each side of their road beds. These public roads can only be reached in this wealth producing improvement by the state; but the rough lands along our streams that are unfit for farming, should be utilized by the owners in planting nut trees, also every city and town should plant them along their streets instead of Cottonwood and soft maple. I think in the south half of the state the chestnut should be added to the hickory. Both these nut bearing trees are beautiful, and their rooted system is not destruc- tive to other crops like the black walnut. This tree should be planted away from crops, for it is a regular glutton, and no crop or tree will thrive and grow near it. The hickory it the best tree for us to plant all over the state ; the quality of the nuts are equal if not superior to the best pecans and will gruw in every county in Iowa. There are many bearing now, that each county should select, and pro- pagate and plant as I have stated. It is very difficult to graft the while hickory, but if the red hickory is used as a slock, it can be success- fully grafted, and this bitter nut will grow three times as f:ist as the white hickorv, hence will make a very desirable root to grow our best bearing trees. I really believe if the pecan is worked on this root it will give us a good chance to grow some pecans also, especial!)' in the southern portion of the state. Chemists have found that edible nuts are extremely high in food value, and make excellent substi- tutes for animal meats, as they are rich in fats and all the chemical ele- ments that are especially valuable to the teeth and other parts of the human skeleton, and right here is where this subject becomes more intensely val- uable to each one of us, than any commercial value alone could possibly be, for if nut food is one of the factors by which ill health and old age can be avoided or postponed for year.s, we should welcome nut orchards as well as other fruits and make edible nuts so plentiful that even the poorest can have them as daily food upon their tables, as the rich to-day alone can have this health giving luxury. Our bodies. like our trees, are made up of living cells. These life ceils make our bones, our mus- FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges, Plums, Per- simmuiis, Figs, Hulberries, Etc :::::: : A full line of Ornamental and Shade trees. Qjiantity and Qiiality. Correspondence solicited. A.rcadla NursGriGs PECAN TREES That are properly grown is mv Specialty. Budded .and (iratted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, CAIRO, CEORCIA. Nuts (or Profll L\Zi^«Z trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. FromJan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. The Griffing Brothers Co., JaclMODvllle. Florida SPENT fvienty years learn- ing the Besi Varieties; ii> 1,'row the Best Rushes llial j^ive Besi ResiiUf: and Mosl Koses. VVe have them. Thf Best aiiienlal, Shade Tree.i, Hedges and Shrubbery too. Write for catalos of ihf dL J 1 ROStS Lower South HEST VAUII<7i'IES Write for Price Listi. Nursery Established in 1682 S. W. PEEK. : Hartwell, Qa. 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and aa Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all whoseiul us 2r> cents for one >ear's sub- scription to any one <»f the 'inc monthly .Maga- zines nanietl i")ew we wi'! send, ihsoUitely free. p etilres of 42 ol Uie world's most heautilul girls, a picture of 3S)j babies, 10 sonn post cartls ami a baant lul Ai>>nm. entii'ed "SOUVEnIR UK THE WORLD," siz-; 6xK inches, ti4 pai:es, containing 75 interestiup; and instructive views from all o\e the worhl. Woman's World, r-iiicap;" - Lirenry and family Successful Farniintr. DcsMoine*— Agriculture Unlver-ial niacazipe. Sr Louis -Literary Household Journal anrl Fli»ral Life Ohio Great West Magazine, Denver- Educational TheFa-mer's Wife, St Paul- -Household The Meiropolitan and Knral Home, .New York. Poultry To()ics Lincoln. Neb --PouIfr> pai)er. (Jentlewonian , New York --Hnusebcld. Floral. Everyday Life. Thicaeo- Literary and -tories The above magazines have been" carefully se- lecte'l and are in all respectsfqual iw most of the 50cent maeazi es of their class Choose the one yon want and send 2.i cents today. Agents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No 15 Keystone Bldg;. Chattanooga, Tenn. THB NUT'GUaWEU For growing Pecanb, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. iiiii \ ncAN mm The Best Investment that can now be maclB in the United .States or elsewhei'e. I will sell you oar already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- afU paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Qulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of ihe piper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now beinij propajarateti by nurserymen were originated. I now have four o^roves ready for de- livery and several thousand aci'es of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain In a forty-acre grove (Satsuina orange tn-es between ihe pecansi which inelude-s 20.000 stocks fur the comingfseason'sgrafring. asplen- did openi ng for a combinarion gi-ove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running srream. Will also furnish Trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama West of Mobile. The iSalsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grafting wood and treesgrown from beai-ing trees In my own groves, hence absolutel.v true to name. iNo guess work— you get ex- acrly what you order. Pecan's this season especiall.y fine. .Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. ¥mw S®|©! Rt.andard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and ' (rafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4.000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Biukled and Grafted Pecan Trees ol reiialt'e known varieties. Our cataloj; cnn tains inlorniaiion nn setecrine planiiut:. cul tnie, etc , and is free for tlie asTiirg Graf [wuod liir sale ; uur (iroliards cnntain (ivi-r fiirtv named varieties. H. S. GRAVES. PROPRIEiOR. Gainesville, Florida. cles, our brain and nerves, and in heiiltli are constantly worn out. It is the work of the blood to carry this dead matter to the secreting organs to be cast off to make room for living cells manufactured out of our food, and the secret of health and perpetual youth is for the blood to keep a perfect balance in this wonderful work of waste and repair of our bodies. This can only be done by proper food and strenuous exercise of the muscles, biain, nerves and bones. The older we become the greater the necessity for activity, for this alone breaks down these cells to make room for the new to build up dur- ing sleep and rest, for the skeleton holds all the rest of the body like the foundation ot a building. If this gives wav, as it so often does in accidents that befall us, all the symmetry, beauty of form, and elasticity of step disappears. Man, because of his erect position, and the law of gravitation that constantly pulls him to earth, seems to shorten ;iB the years go by. but there is a scientific cause for this outside of the other two, and that is the wear- ing away of the small, rubber-like disks or cartilages between the veriebra bones in the spinal column. The thinner these get the shorter we become and the less graceful our bodies move, we then .are old and stiff; but this is not the only bad feature. In our spines are t wentj--three of these cartilages that leave small window-like openings in each joint. Through tlie-e pass thirty one pairs of nerves that bianch from the spinal cord, tlie ihinner the cartil- ages the smaller the openings for liiese bundles of nerves to pass through, and radiate to all parts of the body ; and if pressed for want of room the result is loss of power, mental and piiysical, and when one realizes there are fifty miles of nerves in the human body, we be- gin to see the importance of the necessit}- for proper food and e.x- ercise for tlie cartilages. And there is no better food than oilv nuts and fruits that contain oi!s, like the olive and avocado, and constiint exercise so as to keep up the waste and repair of these elastic cushions in our spines, and give these fifty miles of nerves plenty of room to keep them active and do service wherever the brain directs. You will note this paper has not been strictly devoted to nut culture. For a number of years, including last year, I gave that subject full scope, and these papers are pub- lished in the state reports. I can- not see that they have made much impression on the nurserymen, who must first grow the trees before the people can plant nut bearing trees, so I have hit upon this plan of food value in nut fruits, and the won- derful influence they have upon the arteries and cartilages in the human skeleton, and it may be, I shall in- fluence some of these aged nursery- men to renew their youth and grow the trees, and I feel sure if they do, there will be plenty of buyers, and best of all, dedicate themselves to the great work in this reform move- ment for more healthful and brain refining food for our race, than the hideous cruelty of slaughter-houses now give us. I beg to submit the following conclusions : First. — The nut is a valuable ar- ticle of food, containing in a con- centrated form all the essential ele- ments of a proper ford. Second. — The principal objec- tions to the nut as a food product are the alleged ditfioulty of digest- ing them, and the tendency to be- come rancid if kept for any con- siderable time. Third — Owing to the large per cent, of oil, in nearly all the varie- ties, nuts should be well inasticated, and partaken of with other food. Under such circumstances they are not only highly nutritious but aid in digestion. Fourth. — Their digestibility, and hence their nutritious proper- ties, are enhanced by proper pre- paration and by combinations with other food, and by cooking. Fiftli. — The usefulness and value of the nut as a food product is be- coming more widely known and appreciated by sanitarians, fruit- growers, capitalists and connois- seurs in the art of cooking, and the belief is expressed that in ihe near future the demand for this fruit will be such as to greatly encourajje its cultivation. THE, NUT^GROWBJR THE NUT -GROWER PDBLISHKD MONTHLY BY G/>e NUT-CROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Ailvertising Rates on Application. ><)TICK ■When this paragraph i.s marked it means that your subscription has exjiir- ed and that .vou are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send Si. 00 your account will be credited for three years. SKPI'KMBl'Ili, 1909. Nuts of all kinds are a merchant- able product and rind ready sale now as a luxury. As thej- enter more largely into the realm of staple foods, the demand for them must neces- sarily increase rapidlj'. Mr. C. A. Reed, of the United States Department of Agriculture, is studying the varietal adaptability of the pecan and making detailed records of bearing trees in different sections of the country. The grower of perishable crops, must have great business skill and be very active in order to sell to ad- vantage his produce. The nut grower, however, can take his time, get quotations and sell when the market suits, and runs no risk by judicious delays. The hickory as well as the chest- nut and walnut, furnishes much interesting matter for these special numbers. This is only the begin- ning of our efforts in its behalf, and contemplate a more thorough and extended treatment of this old time favorite, as soon as space will permit. We knew it well, long before seeing a pecan, and when still a school boy in the Buckeye state, pictured and orchard of hickory nut trees, which has, after many years, been realized to a great extent in tiie bearing pecan trees which surround our Southern home. To those who cannot enjoy the pecan, in all its glory, the hickory appeals strongly and as science is applied to its development, we may expect great things from it in the future. The editor had several hundred seedling pecan trees top worked during the past season by the Rood Pecan Grove crew. It might read like an advertisement if we were to describe results, but we are willing to give due credit, provided interested parlies will examine the work for themselves. We will then help them to form a favorable opinion of it. With pecan on hickory results are of particular interest and are begin- ning to show up encouragingly. Rood Pecan Groves, of Albany, Ga.,have sent this office a fine Stuart pecan grown on a hickory limb, which was budded in summer of 1907. Three nuts were produced on this limb, while other limbs produced a crop of small and irregu- lar shaped hickory nuts. The con- trast between the seedling hickory and the budded pecan is so marked, that we have asked Mr. Rood to have them photographed and cuts made so that our readers can better appreciate the importance of the result of his experiment. Mere Mention. Shellbark Hickory. (Hicoria laciniosa.) — Shellbarks belong chiefly to the Mississippi watershed. The nuts are very large, but thick- shelled and coarse in quality. The trees bear iieavily, and the nuts, though low-priced, will give good gross returns. Carolina Hickory. (Hicoria Carolina septentrionalis) . — A small but delicious nui that is promising. Range not yet known, and no grafted orchard for data. Among the twelve species of hickories in this country there are occasional trees of other species than the ones noted, which bear desirable nuts. For thirty-two years the Georgia State Horticultural Society has been a potent factor in the devel- opment of fruit growing and kin- dred industries in the State of Georgia, Through its efforts the fruit growers of Georgia have re- ceixed untold pecuniary gains from the work of this Society. We have several species of hick- ory (Carya or Hicorya) in Arkan- sas, all of which are of economic importance. But two species will be mentioned here. Legend has it that the name Carya was given by the Greeks to the walnut in honor of Carya, the daughter of Dion, King of Laconia, whom Bacchus changed into the walnut tree. Hicorya was the name derived from powcohicora, an Indian name giv- en to the liquor made by pounding the kernels of these nuts. Hickory is used largely for mak- ing handles. In late years the handle industry has reached enor- mous proportions and the output is phenomenal. At Vanndale, Cross county, there are two handle fac- tories with large capacities and a hard wood mill that cuts timbers. The timber is sawed into blocks and taken to the factory where it is sawed into small timber and turned into handles of various kinds, ox-bows and other timbers. Theie is a large wagon factory at Fayetteville, and in several other cities in the state. Hill hickory, mock hickory or black hickory (Hicorya nigra) is common on Arkansas uplands. It is of a scrubby growth, broad, straight branches, often hanging nearly to the ground; bark heavy, black, deep furrowed, thick. The nuts are usually large, thick-shelled, with thick outer covering, contain- ing a very sinall kernel, hence the name mock hickory. The wood is valued for fuel, the ashe; for fertil- izers, but the tree is usually knotty, difficult to split or saw into boards, hence seldom used for lumber or handles. It is tolerant of rocky or gravely soils and may be foiuid growing on the sides of mountaijTs. Our most important species is the shellbark hickory or shagbark (Hicorya avata, Carya alba). This yyell known tree reaches a height of from 75 to '-5 feet; is slender, straight, with shaggy bark of light gray. The tree branches profusely when standing alone, but like the walnut, assumes a tall, straight up- right form in the crowded forest. The wood of the shellbark hickory is strong, tough and durable. When protected from moisture it becomes very firm and almost immune from THn NUT-GHOWBR destructive bacteria. This valuable timber is very abundant in all of our bottoms, hence a source of fjreat rcNCnue to our state. Like the walnut, the shellbark is much priz- ed for the rich, thin shell nuts and nultint^ is the favorite pastime in the good old autumn days The tree propagates best from the nuts lliough young trees may be set. The shellbark makes a splendid shade, will grow on most rich moisl soils and is therefore a favorite for parks. Shagbark Hickoky. (Hicoria ovata.) — The shagbark can be grown from Texas to Ontario. It is mv personal opinion, and per- haps wrong, that the sha:;bark is to rank next to or alongside of the pecan in commercial importance. The reason why it has not vet taken that position is because of the diftn- culty of grafting, but grafting can be done without much trouble if one enjoys becoming expert at any- thing. The ordinary mixed lots of seedling shagbai ks bring about three dollars per bushel, and it re- quires about twenty jears for the trees to come into bearing. Some grafted varieties will bring .f;:;o per bushel, and some of the graft- ed varieties mav be ex[)ected to cotne into bearing at five years of age, if we take our analogy from the pecan hickory. This is new work, and confequentlj' has speculative features. — Dr. Morris. Foremost among North Ameiican nuts undoubtedly stand the hick- ories, of which the pecan (H.icoria Pecan) is without rival, if we con- sider both its fine qualitv, and its abundance. There is but one spe- cies, of pecan, excluding the so- called bitter pecan, which is in- edible. The tree is a noble one, occasionally reaching well toward two hundreW feet in .height and twenty feet in circumberence, but its timber lacks in elastic strength for which the hickories are noted. It grows in the richest soil of the Mississippi Valley, as far north as Iowa, and extends soutiiward into Mexico. It is, commercially, prob- ably the most important wild edible product of the United States. Its quality and commercial rating are in direct ratio with the thinness of Budded and D^ ^ .«* *• 77-- ^ ^ « Grafted ... "ecan Irees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDEil \{)\\ TO SAVE l)ISAPP«I\T»IE\T iyoj)-ii)io PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or ,$4^.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55-0" P^r 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or . 75.00 per 100 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— A(T NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWit-L, Mitchell County, Georgia. its shell, in connection with which the flavor and richness seem to vary. Its cultivation has been extensivelv undertaken. — Country Life in America. Personal Mention. Mr. C. A Reed, special agent of the Department of Agriculture, called on The Nut Grower recentlv. Mr. H.W. Smithwick, of Ameri- cus, has top-worked to pecans some large hickorv trees, forty-five feet" above the ground. He also has pecan tops on a number of hickory water .sprouts. Mr. M. Falkner, a son of the late C. Falkner, of Waco, Texas, succeeds his father as President of the Te.xas Nut Growers Associa- tion. He e.xpresses a desire to do all he can for the industry. Mr. C. L Whitney, of Warren, Ohio, has 100 acres of pecans, be- ginning to bear, at Thomasville, Ga., and he is now arranging to make his home in Georgia. His varieties are : Frotscher, Stuart, Van Daman, Schley, Mobile, Louisiana, Young and Nelson. The Nut Fruits of Iowa. To the People of the .State: The undersigned believe that the time has fully come that a united and vigorous effort be made to save the remaining most valuable nut fruits of the state, which are every year being cut down and destroyed. Fruits that it has taken in the process of natural selection a thous- and years and more to produce, and if we permit their destruction will require hundreds of years to restore with the best scientific skill at our command, to their present state of perfection. We refer to the hickorynut, the butternut, and the black walnut ; and the pe- can in the eastern and lower part of our slate should be included. Also the selection and improvement of the chestnut and hazelnut. ,So much time is required for the development of these fruits that a zealous, patriotic purpose should be aroused to save these valuable fruits from further destruction. The national government is doing all that it can to aid in saving the highest types of the pecan which 8 THB NUT^GHOWER abound in the soutli, and which has required centuries to bring to their present higii state of perfec- tion. And shall we of Iowa, and the north, not bestir ourselves to save the hickory nut, a hardy and enduring tree, the equal in quality of fruit of any other nut tree ; and of which nature has bequeathed to us large ones and almost as thin shelled varieties as the English walnut? We have reason to hope thai the same character may be discovered in the butternut and black walnut it we make diligent search for them. Many of these best nuts of all sorts have already been destroved ; bit enough are left to warrant both the outlav of time and money to preserve them. We should per- petuate this notable legacy of native fruits for future generations. May we not hope that by a unit- ed and timely effort on the part of our horticulturists where these fruits most abound, mav be induced to offer to the boys and girls under sixteen years of age such liberal premiums as will discover the best of these fruits; and with the fur- ther purpose that they will exhibit the best of them in the rotunda of our State House at Des Moines, at the meetings ot the State Horti- cultural Societies next winter, and thus show to the people in this public way this most valuable and very greatly neglected natural product of our slate? CiiAS. G. Patten, S. A. Beach, C L. VVathous, Tho.mas H.Macbride, A. B Dennis, W. M. liOMBRRGEK, W'esi.ev Gheene, — In iijwa Horticulture. Recipe for Cream Nut Pie. One baked pastry shell, one pint milk, three whole eggs and two whites, one tablespoonful corn- starch, one cu[)fiil sugar, one tea- spoonful almond extract, one pint of whi|)ping cream, and one cup- ful English walnuts, ground fine. Way of preparing: — Heat tie wliole eggs and the whites until thick, then addthesugar and corn- starch sifted together. Then add Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, ^^SfiSpT'' FOR sale: GRAFTEDPECAN TREES These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. : : : : : VAN DEMAN, STUART aiiil a dozen other chiace va- rieUfS Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston, S. C. LET US SEND YOU "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Wiio Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. WRITE Today. ClingRvan Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La, VXSre SDCctiSlaU-y mi ProHlal)ly (irownf ' ' KeAr lb« Ijuvjcc AUanilc scd SoJi 0=i' \ iWc are leading Growers anJDistnb jll ■ors of Satsiinia Oransc, N'jl ar.Liili i^ruit trc'jft. Rosebushes and Cm- [j . :ital U' ja and Shrubs. Catalog free )S .-.i Sfjlfc,.! Br.-a Cc.. J3ttsi«nvil!f . FlaJi the milk Place this mixture in a double- boiler and cook, stirring all the time. When thick remove from fire and allow it to cool. When cold add the llax'oring and nuts and fold in one-half of the cream whipped until stifl'. Then place this in the shell. Flavor and sweeten remaining h.ilf of the cream and whip verj- stifl'. Place this on top of the cream nut mixt- ures, sprinkle with chopped nuts and serve. This .is very rich and will serve eight persons. P BCAN ''I^f? f^ f^ ^ «/5S'r VATiinTIKS -* -tVAwt^vrj Special /.oiv J-»rices J3 ear's KurseriGs PV®#fflM iilW@SiM#lll8 Mr. J B. WiKhf.s Chattanooga address, four six by nine inch pages, with flfceen huudred words This is a cai'eful and very conservative revit^w of rhe commercial opportunities r.liis nut oljers, and supplies .just the jn- forination prospective Investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates; 1,000 $4.50 500 2. SO 250 1.50 100 75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. NDT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . • - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers, fruit growers. Nursery men and investors can reatl it with profit. As an advertising medium it is particularly \aluiible, as no padding of circulation figures fi.xes the rates. Descriptive circulars sent on re- fpiest . 1116 Nui-Grower GOIllDaOl! Poulan, :-: Georgia THB NUT-GROWBH News Items. The new planting of pecans at Cairo, Ga., the coming season will be fully lOO acres. Weather records for August at Poulan were : Maximum 96, min- imum 67, mean Si, rainfall 3. 68. The Southern Nurserymen's As- sociation held an important meet- ing at Huntsville, Ala., August i8th-20th. The Texas nut growers held an interesting meeting at College Sta- tion early in August in connection witli the Farmers Congress. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming seasons delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us ; we have the goods. A * 'SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Vv rite for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. ' Propagation of the Hickory. Paftrid^C WyflndOttCS By Dr. Morris, in the National Nurseryman. At present I cannot say what snagbarks can be propagated best. There are about a dozen kinds gritfted, in m)- experimental or- ciiard, including some not yet trans- planted. Not one of tliese is ideal. Some have extremely thin shell, but deficient in other features. Some are very large— some of liigh quality — some with perfect cleav- age, but not one that combines more than two notable features. I am still looking for the ideal shag- bark. Some of the best are from trees that are shy or intermittent bearers. Perhaps the very best nut of mII is from a tree in Maryland that bore a good crop in 190s, and none since. Another of the very best, fills onh' a pari of the nuts, some rem:iining empty shells. 1 do not know of any section where shagbarks have been culti- vated, but have heard of individual trees here and there, and some men write that they have recently graft- ed shagbarks. No varieties hnd tlieir way into commerce from plantations, so far as I can learn. Sometimes the yearly crop from some one tree is engaged b)- a dealer, but the mar- ket lots are mixed wild nuts gener- ally. There ;ire no nurserymen carrying important slocks of grafted shag- barks to niv knowledge. Hale's pa|;er shell is not an ideal nut. The size is very large, but the shell is much thicker than that of some others. The quality is not of the highest, but the nuts have remarkable keeping quality. Cleav- Eggs and breeding stock for sale. Season of 1908-09 my birds won 41 out of a possible 49 first and second prizes where shown. For beauty and utility they have no equal. Wrire for Catalogue. R. J. Sawyer, Menominee, - Michigan. HELP WANTED Mr. A. B. (Tonrtenow. of Puiehra, Canal Zone, has a tiiKKi tariii of about fifty acres at 'ilenn- more. 'ia . ten miles f mm Waycr^ss He wants to have it planted in pe'-ans, and will make it an ohjert to i-onie good farmer who will handle the place in a suitable manner Mrs. Thos. A. Bannintr. 553^ Monroe avenue, Cliicatro, will have a desiiab'e position to offer the ri^rht man to superintend her orchard and livestock inrerests in Southern \labama. This place in well equipped, has pood buildit t:s, iianly furnished. The position will be open first of the year age of this nut is onlv fair. The variety so far as I can learn is a shy. late and irregular cropper. By comparison with the thousand and one wild nuts, Hale's is remarkable, and Mr. Hale is worthy of perma- nent fame for his efforts to get peo pie interested in grafting this nut. He has kept at the subject persist- entlv, and can be called the father of shagbark grafting. I have some 3'oung grafted tree; of this variety. Thomas Meehan & Sons, of Ger- mantown, Philadelphia, keep a few of them in slock. They re- quire a great deal of care when transplanted, and oflen die unac- countably. In a few years I shall be able to report upon 1 he behavior of a good number of varieties of grafted shag- biirks, and presume that as with other kinds of trees, some will prove to be very profitable, while others will not. I shall try bud- ding extensively thi-; summer. rAmJ get a tree of the PRESIDENT, the I Best of all Pecans. FREE. rrS Large, Thin-ehelleA Full of Meat. Good Color. . GoodQuality. and IT BEARS ABUNDANTLY i IflWrite for caatalog of Fruit and Nut trees, and for/i 1 information about joining the President Pecan Club ! 1 ^We have Ornamental and Shade trees. Hedges. Rose bushes and Shrubbery tool' Address j The Criffing Bros. Co.. Nurseryman. J JacksonviVe. Florida SUCCESS NATUKAl. SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL PeC4M NURSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS MISS. Barnwell Pecan Groves o^rBudi ded and (irafted trees oT the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the (V\ost"=Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, MUs 10 THB NUT^GUOWBR Importation of Nuts. FILBEKTS, SH ELLED Year Ending, June 30 QUASTITV VALUE Pounds 1901 . . 492,836 $ 54,240 1902.. 656,748 58,395 1903.. 676,827 78,147 1904.. 695,316 70,746 1905.. 915,227 87,058 1906. 1,155,734 130,336 1907.. 1.553,332 203,573 1908. . 1 ,343,594 153,044 FILBERTS, NOT SHELLED Fouuds 1901.. 4,565,316 $ 287,653 1902.. 6,915,659 331,923 1903.. 7,441,083 371.566 1904.. •8,042,692 343,650 1905.. 6,669,857 376,715 1906.. 13,414,887 730.852 1907.. 9,960,280 611.740 1908.. 8,997,246 519,217 (a) included in walnuts, not shelled. HICKORY. Hickories belong exclusively to North America. So far as we at present know, there are eleven species and manv varieties. At the present time the pecan is perhaps the most valuable member of the group, and thousands of acres of cotton and corn land in the South are now being turned over to pe- can culture. More than two hundred dollars lias been paid for the crop of a single pecan tree in a single year. The tree reaches its highest degree of development in the Gulf States, but I know of two trees in New Jersey which have borne crops of excellent pecans for about a hun- dred years. The demand for culti- vated pecans is so much in excess of the supply that the highest priced nuts of the species do not even get so. far as the New York market. The shagbark hickory is, per- haps, the next most important iriember of the family. It has not as yet been cultivated, but I am lo- cating the most desirable trees of the species through prize offers in the agricultural papers, and have orchards of grafted trees under wiiy. The largest hickory nut we have is the western shellbark. The nut is really of excellent quality, al- though rather coarse, but the thick shell will prevent this species from becoming of great value in the market unless I can find for culti- vation some individual tree of the species which produces thin-shelled nuts. I shall also cross the shell- bark with the shagbark. in the hope of getting a very large nut of finest quality. The nutmeg hickory is a south- ern species. The meat is dimin- utive, while the shell is so thick that it makes the boys laugh when they look at it, and it may make the squirrels weep. The water hickory is also u soutli- ern species. The meat is bitter and inedible, as a rule, but occasionally we find a sport of the tree bearing excellent nuts, and I have found one tree of this sort which will be used for cultivation. There is the small, sweet-nieated Carolina hickory. I am looking for trees of this species which will give high quality nuts, which can be cracked like hazels at the table with a small hand cracker. The pignuts and the mockernuis are very large in many cases and the meat is sweet, but inclined to have too strong a flavor. The tiiickness of the shells of these species is such that the nuts are not valuable as a group. The trees, however, are very beautiful and valuable for their wood, and an occasional tree bears thin-shell- ed nuts. The bitternut hickory has a thin shell and plump meat, but it is not good enough to be used for food. This tree is valuable for its timber, and is the best grafting stock for other hickories, unless we except the pecan. Pecan Trees ^f;;/,^ THE LEADING VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, °^,^^,.,ff;;Z" WANTEPtA RIDER AGENT^S^^ sample Latest Model "Ranff^r" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are making money last. II 'rite /or JuU farticutars and special offer at once. NO MONEY KEQUIKlfil) until you receive and approve of your bicycle? We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U . S. -witliotU a cent deposit in advance, prepay freight . and allow TUN UAVS' FIIEE TKIALduiing which time you mayride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and >£?« will not be out om cent. FikCTARV PBIPF^ *' furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make rHVIvni rnivfca at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save SiQ to $25 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- antee behind your bicycle, DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices and rejnarkable special offers to rider agents. Vfltl Wll I RF AQTnMIQJlFn when you receive our beautiful catalogue and ■ VU niLL DC HaiUniOnCU study our superb models at the -wonderfully low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any oth^ factory. We are satisfied with ^i.oo profit above factory cost. ,^_ BICYCLE PEALEKS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at ' double our prices. Orders filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but , usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from S3 to !S8 or SIO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. rnACTCD DDAKrC S'ligle wheels, ituported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and bUHOICn-DnlinCO, equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. 8 y HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF SELF-HEALING TIRES'" ^'"^"^^ "^'^ The rez^ilo.T retail price of Diese tires is SS.30 per Pair, but to introduce we t ill sellyouasample pair for $4.S0Kcashwilkorder$4 ^j) NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacka or Gliiss will not lut the ftir out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last ytar Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use OESCRfPTiON: Madeinall sizes. It islively and easy riding, very durableand lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allow- ing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satis- 6edcustomers9tatiug that their tires ha veonly been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers or thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is ^.50 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represeuted. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price St4.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH OUDElt and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk in sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OUU expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that w'hen you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. «H %M^g%§g MFFn ^iDF^ don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Mr ■ Crw fwtc€/ M tnt^ Iledgethom Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue wh' ""h describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. f^g^ gkgg%'r \MiAir but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BtJYING a bicycle Notice the thloh rubber tread **A" and puncture strips "B" and " U," also rim strip " H" to prevent rim cutting*. Ttiis tire will outlast any other make— SOFT, £LASXXC aud £ASV BIDING. offers we are making. or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. THB NUT-GROWI^R 11 Books and Catalogues. ii |i |i r'riti I' II II II II |iinii|ii»i|i)nnmn''^ ii >nt iimn^jg Department of Agriculture — Year Book for 1908, 830 pages, containing reports of secre'tarj', special articles on a wide range of subjects, with review of work dur- ing previous year. The appetuiix give statistical information and lists names of state and national agricultural officials, as well as so- cieties and associations engaged in promotion of agricultural interests. Rood Pecan Groves Cata- logue and price list of pecans and general nur=ery stock, Albany, Ga. P.J. BehkmansCo , Augusta, Ga. — Illustrated catalogue for 1909- 1910, 50 pages of interesting de- scriptions. The Louisiana Nut Nurser- ies— J. F. Jones, manager. Jean- erette, La., price list of budded and grafted pecan trees. IlUistraies and describes the standard varieties. Gainesville Nurseries — Cat- alogue and price list 1909-1910, H. S. Graves, proprietor, Gainesville, Fla. Pecans and general nursery stock. Education for Agriculture — Is the subject of a University of Missouri bulletin. It is a finely illustrated pamphlet, gives informa- tion regarding the state university at Columbia, Mo. The National Magazine, for August, exploits "Glorious Old Georgia." A conspicuous mention is made of the pecan and the com- mercial orchards of Southwest Georgia. The Monticello Nurseries responded generously tothecdl for subscriptions to the publicity fund. Four firms pledged two-thirds of the amount reported at the conven- tion. -THE- Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order bv mail. Write for quotations on any ne- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA vCUMMIT VV CHOICE ■, ■-- NURSERY STOCK URSERJES MILLER &. G05SARD Proprietors I MONTICELLO, ^-^ "'^ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses ■ —OUR SPKCIALTIKS— The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of t the Future " OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.I *'■'•'■' I'l'-' 'i-\ 'it'll' Yf'i'i'i'r'-''' ■■!' ■• ' ' ■' I- ■'■■■■■■■' '■■ -f ■ THE lOUmm NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONE.S, Manager and Proprieter, .ikani':rette. - - lothsiana. Headquarters for Budded and firaffed Pecan Trees in the South- west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a perioil of years. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Home on Bach Bav, Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,800 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine ^ock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F. HEIKES, Manager, Huntsville, Ala. ■ The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carry inir out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 12 THB NUT*GROWBR Rood Pecan Groves ASbany, Georgia. MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale, Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurseryman's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. "V- ■'■• ;> — » Jl 1 -A^griculturMJ Coilegfe. THE NUT^GROWER Voluma Vill Number 3 Poulan, Ga., October. 1909. Sc per Copy SOc p«r Year THE ALBANY CONVENTION Editorial Report of the 1909 Meeting of The National Nut Growers Association. TlieEiglilh Aniuml Convention of this joiing, but influential boiiy, convened in I he Elks' Hall, Albany, Ga., October 12th, 1909. Promptly at 10 o'clock in the sions followed closely the regular program as far as circumstances would permit. A letter from E.W'. Kirkpatrick advised of his disappointment in morning President Wight called being prevented from attending on the meeting to order and intro- account of ill health. It was a dis- ducedRev. Chas T.Wright, Rector appointment to the convention and of St. Paul's Episcopal cht.rch, of his many friends as well, and later Albany, who offt red prayer. This the commit tee on resolutions recom- was followed bv a cordial welcome mended the sending of a letter, ex- lo the cify by Hon. H. A. Tarver, pressing sympathy and esteem. Mayor. The roll call of states showed that members and others were pres- ent from the following states : Ala- bama, .Arkansas, District of Colum- bia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota. Missi-isippi, Mr. M. J. Niblack, of Indiana, was also prevented from attend- ing, but his paper on the "Large Pecan Trees of the Wabash Val- ley," was read by title. Convention work became active at this session and various state Nebraska, New York, North Caro- vice-presidents, as well as the sec- lina. Ohio, South Carolina, Te.\as retary and some of the standing and Wisconsin. committees, made their reports. The President's address was a Most of these reports will appear review of the prese it and future in this and succeeding issues of this outlook for the pecan industry. He journal. rapidly sketched the early history The Qjiestion Box was also start- of the Association; followed its ed early in the convention, but the growth and widening influence; pressure of program and business outlined the pa-t and present Work, matters did not allow much time and while not ignoring difliculties for this interesting and profitable to be encountered, gave encourage- feature of the program. ment and rich promise for the fu- ture for those who followed in the safe lines which experience is making plain. After ihe address, various busi- ness matters received attention. Announcements were made and directions given for the holding of that locality stale caucuses to nominate the reg- ular convention committees. The recess which followed, and all other intervals during the lime of convention, were full of social and business interests. A host of new and prospective members were soon imbued with the proverbial spirit of fellowship, which has been u marked feature of all conventions. The afternoon and evening ses- At the evening session the paper of Prof. W. N. Hutt. of North Carolina, on pecan growing in that state, was a prominent number. He reviewed the present and pros- pective interests, giving much data which will be of great value to The paper of Dr. Geo. M. Niles, of Atlanta, Ga., on -'Nuts as a Substitute for Flesh Foods," was a carefully prepared and scientific presentation of an interesting and important branch of the associa- tion's work. More reports of vice-presidents were read at this session and more C()NTIN'UED ON TltlHD PAOE The Search for New Varieties. By Theo Bechtel, of Mississippi. * With so many choice and very profitable varieties of pecans as we now have under cultivation the first idea that might suggest itself to most of us would be, why look for other or new varieties, why not let good enough alone P However true this may be no variety of pe- cans or any other kinds of fruit have yet been introduced which might not be improved upon by combining some of the most supe- rior qualities of one sort with the almost perfect ones already pos- sessed by that of another variety. Another and a very worthy mo- tive in the search for new varieties would be to widen the area over which pecans may be successfully grown that more homes may enjoy the pleasures of the shade of the pecan tree in the hot summer days, of gathering the nuts in the fall, and last but not least, the luxury of using the delicious pecan nut all the year round. Granting then that there are good and sufficient reasons for continu- ing "The Search for New Varie- ties," I feel that a word of caution might well be put in here as the introduction of new varieties of pecans and the naming of some varieties which do not possess merit superior to those we already have introduced is very likely to be overdone in some sections. We should always bear in mind that the introduction of an inferior ar- ticle is likely to prove to be as much to our detriment as the in- troduction of a superior product is to our credit. Since the successful introduction of the Success pecan numerous varieties of seedlings varying in degrees of merit, have been brought to us with the sug- gestion that they be given a name and introduced, evidently with the thought that they might become as popular as that variety and others • Read at the Albany Convention. THE ?iUT~aHO\VBH which have proven well worthy of propagation and introduction. Our answer to all is that we will never advise introducing a new variety unless it is at least a little superior to what we alreadj' have. Why.? Because a long list of varieties is only a source of confusion and be- wilderment to the orchardjst, who has not the time nor the oppor- tunity to test half of them before going into the business. The list of varieties being propagated by the various nurseries has grown within the past five years to such an extent that one would now need an orchard of several acres for test- ing alone if all are to be included. As said before, no nut is so near perfect but that some improve- ment might be suggested, there- fore, we should all be on the search for new varieties of superior merit and be sure that we place our standard of the ideal nut very high, for we certainly have a number al- ready which rank well along to- ward perfection in many points. In this connection we might ask. What constitutes the ideal pecan? This question will probably never be definitely settled since there are so many uses for the pecan that the ideal nut for one purpose would be far from the ideal nut for some one or more of the other pur- poses for which they are used. For instance, could a nut be too large? No, not for some purposes, and yes, for some other purposes. Could a pecan be too rich in oil? For the manufacturer of pecan oil it could not. Who knows but what many years hence we may be growing entire orchards for special uses? As an illustration, last fall a candy manufacturing concern of St. Louis made an offer of ifi.ooo for a thousand pounds of nuts of one special variety and rejected other choice sorts because this one suited their purpose. But at the present time what seems to be the ideal nut to the most of us is an all-purpose nut combining good size, quality of kernel, cracking qualities, vigor of tree and enor- mous productiveness. As most of you know, the method of obtaining new varieties is to plant the nuts and get the variations from the parent trees which in manj' instances is very great. Here is where the scientific hybridizer gets in his good work by polenizing varieties ot superior merit with another possessing some other special quality with the view of obtaining the hiippy combina- tion in the trees produced by plant- ing these nuts. Mr. Chas.Forkert, assisted by mvself. is now carrying on this work of hjbridizing at Ocean Springs and we understand there are others who are making similar efforts along these lines. The day may not be far distant when the name of some of these gentlemen becomes famous as the creator of some very choice varie- ties. Nature too is continually carrying on the work of hybridizing and as we already have such choice nuts obtained from this source, who knows but what we may yet find a better one produced by chance? I have some such chance seedlings now under test which promise good results but will not be intro- duced if not an actual improve- ment on what we already have. It would be well, therefore, to be on the lookout for choice pecans and when such a nut is found hunt up all its faults as well as its good qualities before deciding to intro- duce and add its name to the al- ready too lengthy list. It is my opinion that we should have a very thorough accquaintance with the tree and its product before giving it to the public as something to be depended upon. Had Mr. Burbanks thoroughly tested the Wonderberry before allowing it to be introduced by Mr. Childs, I feel sure he never would have allowed so worthless a production to go out with his recommendation, and thus would have saved himself much severe criticism and loss of esteem. Let us therefore not allow the greed tor money to induce us to rush something into the market before we are thoroughly satisfied that it will be to our credit to do so. On the other hand let none of us be so egotistical as to believe it would be impossible to improve upon the varieties we already have but go right on working the best available and also keep up the search for new varieties, which at the same time are better varieties, and I might add that it was this resolution that brought me Success. FOR SALE! GRAFTEDPECAN TREES These trees are grafted from the best; bearing trees in iny grove. : : : : : VAN DEMAN, STUART and a dozen other choice va- rieties Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston, S. C. Pecan Trees at?Ld THE LKADIXG VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, "ELfC" For Sale One hundred acres of land now in shape for any agricultural use desired, located in Poulan, Worth county, Ga. Experts claim that this land, properly cultivated for nut growing, will produce ten dol- lars for each one invested in cultivating within ten years. Editor of this paper will show land to any prospective buyer. For further information, correspond with the owner, ^ohn \V. Corcoran, •is S, AViuny .4 I'e , CJi/oaa o. 111. Real Estate for Sale In Different States If interested in buying or sell- Dirt, write for Sample Copy of Poag's Real Estate Monthly. Subscription, per year, only 50 cents. Then you can keep better posted in what is going on in the Real Estate World. In addition to this you will see interesting reading matter on other subjects. J. EDGAR POAG, Broker Rock Hill, S. C. "Cuts the Earth to Suit Your Taste." •LET US SEND YOU- ! "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUF For Those Who Want to Know By Those WKo Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. WRITE Today. Clingmon Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. KeithvUle, La. I THB, NUT'GI^OWBR The Albany Convention. OONTINDED FUOM FIRST PAGE reports of committees, and a dis- cussion on varieties rounded out the full day's tran^^actions. Tlie seci)nd day was given up to the excursion to orchards and nur- series, and when day-light liad dis- a[ipeared the "smoker" was readv. Tiiese special features will be given more extended notice in the No- vember issue. Business began promptly on Tliursday morning. Reports of vice-presidents were finished. 'Ihese, taken as a whole, showed prosjierous and promising condi tions, althougn it was evident that pecans are not entirely free from all the insects and fungi, which horiiculturisis in general ha\e to combat. More commiifees had their reports ready by this time. Dr. Munday's pa|jer was heard at this session, as well as the address of Mr. C. A. Reed, of I he Depart- ment of Agriculture, whi> described and reported on some liiies of orig- inal n search in which he is en- gaged. A synopsis of his paper will appear later. Mr. H. K. Miller was listened to wiih close attention as he talked of orchard and nursery operations, and many questions were pro- pounded to him at the close of his adiiress. • Mr. J. \V. Canada, of Texas, editor of Soutiiern Homes, was the next speaker. He described pub- licity m.itters in the lone star state, and uryed active cooperation in exploiiing the resources of South- ern Slates, in various sections of the country vvhire the attractive- ness of nut culture is not known. Theo Hechtel, of Mississippi, read an inieresling paper im the "Search for New V^arielies." This paper was followed by a general discussion on varieties, in which a number of the more prominent ones were discusseil, the purpo-e of the discussion being to develop jiractical informal ion as to varietal ad.iptalion as well as to g.iin in- forni.ition as to bearing qualities of the nil St largely planted varieties of pecans. Such varieties as Success. Mobile anil Curtis, came in for con- spicuous attention, not only on ac- count of their good qualities, but largely because the introducers of each were on the convention floor, and not averse to saying good things about their favorites. The Stuart, Schley, Frotscher and Van Deman still maintain their leading positions in wide adaptation, and extent to which they are planted, in commercial orchards. By noon on Thursday the gener- al work of convention was so well in liand tliat plans were made to complete the work and program so ns to obviate a night session, as con- templated by the program, as this course would allow many of the members to take evening trains for returning home. During the noon recess the deferred reports of com- mittees were prepared, and on re- convening many matters were brought up and given consideration. Election of officers was soon dis- patched as those reported bj' nomi- nation committee proved satisfac- tory. But few changes were made in the personnel of executive of- ficials. The committee on time and place for next meeting gave careful con- sideration to pressing invitations from points in Alabama, Texas, New Jersey; Florida and several other states, and a telegram from Los Angeles, inviting the associa- tion there, arrived after the com- mittee had reported in favor of Monticello, Fla. Monticello was selected and the exact d.ite will be determined later bj' the executive committee, with prospect that it will be held later in the season than the second week in October. President Wight announces the standing committees for the year as found in another column. The matter of "Markets and Marketing" came up several times during the convention and culmi- nated at the closing session by the adoption of a resolution, providing for the establishment of a bureau for obtaining and distributing market data. The committee on Nomenclature and .Standards catalogued and re- poried on the various exhibits shown during the convention. The committee on Resolutions embraced sundiy pertinent matters in their renort. Mr. M B. .VlcNeely. of Little Rock, Ark., was appointed tem- porary treasurer the first day of the CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column wee:ive place to advertisements from aub^cibers who have -Jrchard, Farm Frodncts, Live Stock or Implements to sell or excban(;e, as well as make inquiries for thinpa wanted. The rato is One Cent a w..rd for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found couvenient ano profitable. PECAN ORCHARD BARGAIN.- We have an interest in a necan orchanl forsaleat a Bart^ain. The propusifion is an attractive one and will pay the inve-t'»r over 1(1 per cent from the very first. I'his is an investment tipportunity not to be missed It will not be open long, write today for lull parii'uiars to The Orchard Invest- ment Co , Woniiuello, Fla. WANTED-A partner in a pecan orchard de- vel"pinent proposiMon An opiiortunity for the investment or a ffw hundretl dollars where it will earn an enurnioiis pr fit A snap for some one. Address P. O Box No. 27. Monticello. Fla. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may earn a jjoo'l income correspondint; tor newspapers; ex- pe-^ience •iiuiecessary -end stamp for full par- ticulars Empire I'reas Syndicate, Middleport. N. Y. (aept3t ) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Ciilver Potltky Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties f(tr stuMy or exh'bition purposes supplied at re.tsonable rates. Seed nuts 'umisheo only in Iinitf- (1 quanrities, IHE NUf-uROWER COM- PANY, Poulau, Ga. CHOICE LOCATION -No. 24 400 acres, near Mo .tui.'llo, Fla Two. birds of the tract is in cultivation, balaiict- in pine and bardwDod tim- ber. Located wii hill halt mile of new town and near a famous lake PricR. $10 Oi) per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NU T-WKOVN KR COM- P \NY, Poulan, (ia. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY -No. 26. Al loeat on, tirst-ciasi in every respect. 320 acres now beinp platitc.i in pecan trees of ehiice va- rieties Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for five vears at price accepted THE NUr-OROVVER COMPANY. Poulan. Ga. WANTED-Coples of March, May, June and Decea her. 1907, and February, March and April, 1908, of The Nur-tiRowEw. Seed Pecans For the accomodation and convenience of patrons we buy and sell Pecan Nuts for seed purposes. PineyParkNursery J. F. Wilson, Manager Poulan, :•: Georgia. A Bearing Grove Of llie Best Var eties. Four Hundred Trees FOR KAI.E Good reason for felling. Ask for piirlicuhirs of THE NUT-GROWER CO., THB NUl^^OHOWBR convention ;ind proved so efficient tiiat lie was duly elected to the office. We enrolled new members and collected dues to such an extent that the troublesome indebtedness, which has regularly occurred on ac- count of work performed costing more than the receipts, was wiped out and a substantial balance left for starting the new convention year. More members were enroll- ed at this meeting than at any pre- vious gathering of the association, while the attendance was nearly double that of any previous con- vention. As a whole the conven- tion was a marked success, and will doubtless amply repay the city of Albany for her generous and hospitable entertainment. Report of Georgia Vice-President Mr. President of the National Nut Growers Associotion : 1 herewith hand you my report of the pecan industry for Georgia, which is as full as my time and circumstances will permit. There were planted up to last year, 7.210 acres — 177-390 trees. Amount to be planted this year, 2,5^0 acres — 74,200 trees. My re- port coveis chiefly the territory a few miles above Albanj' and ex- tending south to Thomasvilie and Cairo. I have personally examin- ed over 60% of these places and am glad to report their condition is very much improved. In most instances they have abandoned the plan of cultivating cotton and corn on the same rows as the trees, and do not let the renter or cropper come within from two to five feet of the trees. The tree rows are cultivated sep- arately by the owner of the groves. 1 notice tiiat they are planting larger and better trees and I un- derstand are using more and better grades of fertilizers. I know of only one seedling grove being planted out to be top-worked. 1 hear of a very large portii)n of seedling trees about ten to twelve years old being top-worked. When I first came to Georgia, several years ago, I used to hear, "All a man needed to plant a pe- can grove was to have a post-hole digger and a bag of nuts." I and most other men who are largely engaged in this business, find a big bank account absolutely necessjiry and several small ones not at all in- convenient. CiiAS. M. Haknwki.l. Secretary's Report. Your Secretary reports a year of increasing interest in nut culture. Our membership roll has been sub- stantially enlarged, although a number have dropped out by failure to pay annual dues. Many people in all sections of the country are awaking to the im- portance of the pecan as a com- mercial proposition, and invest- ments in nut orchards are assuming a leading position in the in- dustrial world, especially in the territory in which this meeting is held. Your secietarv has regularly fol- lowed up the purposes of this As- sociation in giving public and private information as to the status and prospects of the industry, as far as resources at his command would permit. The sale of proceedings of con- ventions has been larger than in any previous year, and copies of the St. Louis, Scranton and Nor- folk conventions are still in stock and for sale at prices fixed by the 190S convention. As about 75° copies are yet on hand, the prob lem of converting them into cash merits attention The publicity work has proved very efficient in extending the in- fluence and popularity of the Asso- ciation. Particulars will reach you regarding this work from ourstand- ing commiltees having this in hand. In a general way, the nursery operations and promotion of com- mercial orchard companies are in- creasing rapidly. At the Chattanooga conveniion your secretary was instructed to devise means for extending the usefulness of the Association to all parts of the country, as our great work is largely centralized in the South — I he natural home of the pecan The recommendations he ofiFers will reach you tlirough the committee on publicity. Our organization and working force is such that practicallj' all the matters, reciuiring your considera- tion, will come before you from the various standing committes in tangible shape for your deliberate action. I beg to impress upon the con- vention the great importance of our work, and bespeak the contin- ued support and encouragement which is so esfential to make the work of your secretary productixe of great and beneficial results to you as individuals, and to the public which looks to this body for coun- sel, encouragement and timely help. Respectfully submitted, J. F. Wilson. FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges, Plums, Per- simmons, Figs, riulberries, Etc :::::: : A full line of Ornamental and Shade trees. C^uantity and (,J_ualily. Correspondence solicited. A.rcadja Nurseries A/ontieei7o, hltnitlu. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is mv Specialtj'. Kiidtled and (iraftPil Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of gloves . J. B. WIGHT, CAIRO, CEORC1A. NlilS lOr rrOIll 158 pages; 60 illus- trations. Propaeation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. P.ARRY, Parry, N .1. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. s',: The Griffing Brothers Co., Jacksonville, rlorids PENT twenty years Icarn- g the Best varieties; tu t;row the Best Biishei iliai give Best Results and Mosi koses.Wehave theni. The Best ental. Shade Trees. Hedges and Shrubbery too. Write for cataloc of thf BEST ROStS Lower South BEST VARIITOKS Writ.e for Price List>. Nursery Established in 1882 S. W. PEEK, : Hartwell, Qa. i 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all wIiDseinl tis 2.T cents fornne year's stib- scripiimi t«.> any one of tlie r25c uiontjily Maga- zines nanteil lii'lew we will send, ibsolntely tree. |i ctnres of 42 ol the worlu's most beautiful girls, a picture of .3ii? liabies, in »nnu post canls anil a baantlul Allium, entiiteU "SOUVK^IR OK I'HK WORLD," size 6x8 inclies, 04 paites, oootaining 75 interestinj; and instructive views ftftni all o\e- the world. Woman's World, rhicat;"— t.i'eriry and faiidly Successful Farminj;. DesMoine i— .Agriculture Ucilvcrsal niaL'azH'e. St Louis -Literary H(nisehoUI .Jonrpial and Floral Life, Ohio. Great West Magazine, Denver-- Eilucati.mal The Fa'uier's »Vlfe, St Paul- -Hou^elioiil. The Metropolitan and Rural Home. .New Vork. Poultry Topics, Lincoln. Neb --PouIir,\ paper. iJentleWoman, New York --Household, Ploral. Everyilay Life, rhicago - Literary and -loriei The above magazines have been carefully se- lected and are in all respectseqnal is< most of the 60cent inagazi' es of their class Choose the one you want and send 25 cents today. Agents wanted CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY No 1.5 Keystone Bldg. Chattanooga, Tonn. THE, NUT-GROWBR Planting Pecan Trees. For grewing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE I CO., Thomasvillc, Oa. Bii^ A nm mm The Best Investment that can now be madH in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old. located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of ihe piper shell p'ecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being: pi-opagated bj nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between Ihe peeansi which includes 20.000 stocks fur the comingseason'sgrafting. asplen- did opening for a combination grove and nurser.v, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancj' and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All gratting wood and treesgrown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. Wmw Sal©! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and 'drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts talien for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4.000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees 01 reliable known varieties. Our catalog con tains information on selecting:, planting:, cul ture, etc , and is free for the asking Graf iwood tor sale ■, our orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES. PROPRIErOR. Gainesville, Florida. It is the prevailing opinion that when pecan trees are transplanted a large percentage will die. Such, however, is not the case if proper care is given to planting. The loss may in some instances be due to exposure of the trees before they reach the planter or to their being defective, but rarely is this the case when trees are obtained of reliable nurseries. By following a few simple directions the loss of trees may be reduced to less than one per cent. In the first place, everything should be in readiness before the trees arrive and failure to make this provision has been responsible for the loss of many trees. The ground should be prepared deep with a two-horse plow, and har- rowed smooth. The tree rows may ne.xt be laid off straight, and a stake driven in to mark the location of each tree. Either the triangular or the rectang- ular method may be adopted, but care should be taken to have the stakes in line in each direction the rows may run. This will make after-cultivation easier, besides it looks much better to have the trees in good alignment. The distance apart should not be less than forty feet, and in rich soil sixty or even seventy feet will be close enough. In most cases fifty feet will be found about right. Dig a round hole where each tree is to stand, having the stake the center. The hole should be at least two feet across and of equal depth, and in case of very stiff clay soils the hole had best be larger. Having everything in readiness the trees may be carried to the field in the original package and plained as they are taken from the bale. In any event the roots must be kept moist. It is well to dip each tree in a porridge i>f mud and water as it is taken from the bale, first trimming the roots to a suit- able length, and cutting off all bruised ends and broken roots. Avoid exposing the trees to the wind or sunshine while planting is in progress as much as possible. Have one man hold the tree in place while another fills in the earth, placing the tree in the cen- ter of the hole, and In such man- ner that the tree will be planted at same depth it stood in the nursery. A small quantity of moist surface soil should be placed in the hole and the lower lateral roots extend- ed in a normal position. This is to be tramped firm and then a second addition of earth made, the roots being extended as before and the tramping repeated. Continue in this manner until the whole is filled to within five inches of the surface. About two pounds of a fertilizer con-tisting of bone meal and sulphate of potash is now ad- ded around the outer rim of the hole, a little soil added and mixed with the fertilizer, avoiding con- tact with the root and the filling may be completed. After packing thoroughly, loosen the surface soil around the tree with a rake to-re- tain moisture. Trees planted in this manner will almost invariably start off nicely in spring and make a good growth provided they are all right at time of planting. This should be followed with thorough cultivation during the greater part of the growing season. December is the month for planting pecans, but January plantings are almost as satisfactory. — H. K. Miller, in American Fruit and Nut journal. News Items. The Gulf Coast storm Sept. 20th injured the pecan crop as well as trees in various places. The pecan orchards at Cairo, Ga., which are under control of Dr. Van Duzee, aggregate 225 acres. The weather report for Septem- ber, at Poulan, was : Maximum temperature 96, minimum 41. mean 77, rainfall 1.29 inches. Withiu one week from the clos- ing of the 1909 convention, the Albany Herald reported the organ- ization of two pecan companies, both of which will begin planting largely this earning season. THE NUT -GROWER I'lBLISHKD SIONTMLY ItY tShe NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as seconrl-class matter at the Postolfli'e at Poulaii, Georgia, under the Act of Congress ot March 8. 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Adverlising Rales on Application. NOTICK When this paragraph is marked it meaus that your suDscriptiou lias expir- ed aud that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regul.ations do not permit iis to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is .50 cents per annum, but if you will send .iil.OO your account will be credited for three years. OCTOBKR. lOOn. Tun T^UT'GHOWBH A Louisiana mirseryman says in No one of t!ie thousand and one liis catalogue, referring to the pe- products of its agri-and-horticulture, can, •Make good care of your trees e_^,,ibi,ed at the most successful State Fair of Louisiana, just held The editor of the Nut-Grower lias been invited to judge the pecan exhibits at the Thomas County Fair, Thomasville, Ga., November lotli and I ith. The Pecan Veteran, E. W. Kirk- patrick, of Texas, was prevented from attending the convention on account of illness. His letter, which will be found on another page, in- dicate his firm and abiding faith in nut culture. The matter of "Markets and Marketing" nut prodixts, came up for discussion at the convention and resulted in the passage of a resolution to appoint a committee to look after the interests of the members and tlie industry in this respect. .Subsecjuently President Wight appointed the committee as follows: A. A. Rich, chairman. Lament, Fla. ; J. B. Curtis, Orange Heights, Fla.; J. F. Wilson, Pou- lan, Ga. It is the marketable product of mines, factories or of the soil which adds wealth and prosperitj' to the nation. Most farm products are the direct results of l:ibor perform- ed during the crop year, but in the realm of horticulture, the labor of one year in planting trees, furnishes marketable crops for a succession of years or during the bearing period of the trees planted. Thus the longer the life and bearing of a tree the more valuable it becomes. From this view point the pecan, with its hundreds of years of bear- ing, is unrivaled in recompensating the labor of its planting. and in vour declining years they will take good care of you." The budding of Persian walnut on black or other nalive walnut stock has been advised for several years, but as yet we have no re- ports as to who is making the at- tempt, or what results have been obtained. Any one who can re- at Shreveport, excited the interest, won the admiration and prompted the questions, wise and olherwise, mure than did the displays of pecan nuts and trees. This interest ranged from the man who has sold this year hun- dreds of barrels of seedling nuts, cheap at ten cents a pound, and port on this proposition will serve , , . . ^ ■ J • • r has thousands of young seedling a public interest in advising us oi . ,, I- r -1 trees that he would pay big money results or or failure. fie, j to have budded or grafted to the An Iowa correspondent inquires, pedigreed varieties, to the lady "Do you know of any pecan trees who is going to plant one of those for sale, and can you advise me ''^rge pecan trees in her city front how to get a start in the pecan yard, if she has to make her husband industry?" Our reply was that the digi'P o\h" trees to make room for nurserymen who advertise in the '*• T'l'^ admiration ran from the Nut-Grower have approxmiately a wistful look of the little child that million of the trees, and that the could hardly be dragged away, to way to get started right in the in- the proud grin of extravagance of dustry is to read the current and the country darkey who left his jj back numbers of this same publi- cation. These anssvers call to mind some observations noted at the Albany convention. There were at that convention a goodly number of prominent and influen- Dulcinia waiting up the aisle while he came back to buy "two bits wuth o' them big uns, please, boss." And the look of disbelief which Dulcinia tossed sour-grape high. tial men, who are widely known was worth photographing, when in the industry, who started in just told, "they don't sell 'em, but the as we advi-ed the Iowa corres- geniman says dem big pecans's pondent While they have had wuth nickel apiece." trials and tribulations still they '^'I'e questions ran the gamut, have made rapid progress, and are f^om those to which the simple, abreast with the pioneers who truthful answer was beyond the struggled for twenty years or more belief of the questioner to those before the advent of the association which any one may ask that a wise and its official organ. Many who '"'»" could never answer. One read these lines will silently ac- gentleman, looking as prosperous knowledge the help and encour- as a millionaire in 1908, asked agement obtained from this source. where he could buy a barrel of the There is much yet to do, and mu- tual help is needed. Personal Mention. Mr. W. L. Bencroft repre.scnt- ed the Standard Pecan Company, at the convention. big ones, and not deigning to ask so vulgar a thing as the probable price, volunteered the information that he would be perfectly willing to pay twenty-five cents a pound for them. But interest, questions and admiration proved that people of all classes are becoming seri- Prof. John Craig, of Cornell, sent ously interested in this growing, the convention an interesting and important pecan industry, are encouraging letter. hungry for the nuts it produces, H. S. Watson, of Bloomington, desirous of first-class trees that III., has been a regular attendant will produce the nuts, and eager to at conventions for years but was obtain all the helpful information unable to be at Albany. possible. — Dr. Munday. Tim NUT~GROWBR Mere Mention. 'i'he Rood Pecan Groves give their estimate of young trees as fol- lows : "The estimated yield of a peeini tree is 5 pounds the fifth year. 15 pounds the seventh year, i;o pounds the tenth year. There will be a few nuts the third and fourth years." One of the large old Louisiana pecan trees has a spread of over 100 feet and over 100 feet high. The trunk measures 15 feet in cir- cumference 4 feet above the ground. This tree stands on Linden Planta- tion near Jeanerelte and is now the property of The Standard Pe- can Co. The Southern Nurserymen's As- sociation was organized in Chatta- nooga, Tenn., eleven j'ears ago and has never missed an annual session. The object of this Association is to bring together the nurserymen of the South for a discussion of all questions of interest to the South- ern Nurserymen, to exchange ideas, learn from each other what we can, help to solve the knotty problems that confront us all. This Asso- ciation has accomplished much good for the Southern Nurserymen and it is the earnest wish of its officers that its usefulness increase with its age. J. B. Wight, in his trade cata- logue says: "Twenty-two years' experience with the pecan has con- vinced me more and more of its profitableness. The demand for the best nuts is constantly increas- ing. Trees from fifteen to two hundred years old are annually producing their crops of nuts to the delight both of the palate and pocketbooks of their owners. A grove once established, a pound of pecans can be grown more cheaply than a pound of cotton; and the grower has twelve months of the year in which to sell them, and the world for his market. Over-pro- duction need not be feared in this generation nor during this century. Budded and D^ ^ .^ «« T^ ^ ^ a Grafted ... "ecan Irees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDER \0\V TO SAVE 1)ISAPP0I\T1IE\T 190i>-1910 PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or $45.00 per i(X3 2 to 3 focft size, 60 cents each, or 55 o" P^"" '0° 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75-00 P^^ 1°° 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUR <.i;a.uanti:e If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before t'ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— A(T NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWiLt,, Mitchell County, Georgia. Two Superior Pecans. CHAKLES L. EDWARDS. VN'ith increasing interest in nut growing^ people are becoming con- cerned as to what kinds are best suited to their particular localities. The two varieties mentioned are both native Texans, originating in San Saba county. The specimens are from trees transplanted in the spring of 1903, on the residence grounds of Mr. W. M. Robinson, in Dallas. These trees were set in a deep, fertile sandj' soil, under- laid with clay, and upon a hillside sloping eastward. They have had good attention, are both well above twenty feet in height. The Texas Prolific be^an to bear in 1906, giving a crop of 33 nuts; while the San Saba made its first showing of fruit a year later. Last season's crop, v^'hile not weighed, might be conservatively estimated at five pounds for the Texas Pro- lific, and three pounds for the San Saba. By actual weight, the nuts of the Texas Prolific ran 64 to the pound, (average of the tree), and the San Saba about 60 to the pound. Their actual sizes and shapes are shown in the accompanying illus- trations, and both grow larger on bottom lands. These trees matur- ed their crop without artificial watering, and it will be remem- bered that around about Dallas, the season was quite dry in the late summer and fall of last year. Trees of these two varieties have been propagated by leading nur- serymen for several years and have been widely disseminated. That they have grown off and fruited well on upland, and in this latitude, are facts of importance. The San Saba is the older va- riety, and good reports of it have come from localities widely sepa- rated. The rather small size of this nut is well compensated in its ex- ceedingly thin shell, thin partitions, plump kernel, easy cracking, and fine quality. By nut experts, it is accorded the standard of excel- lence amongst pecans. In the points of flavor and richness of kernel it stands first, and is as nearly all meat as any nut grown. The Texas Prolific comes from a seedling of the San Saba, but is fully a third larger. The shell is thin for a nut of its size, is also quite brittle and cracks easily. Like 8 THB NUT-GHOWBM San Saba, llie shell is of a fine nut- brown color, the kernel bright, pliniip, lich, firm and of fine text- ure; flavor splendid, and quality strictly orood. Trees of this variety have the strong points of very early and regular bearing. liuddeil on large trees by top- working, a show- ing of fruit is sometimes made the second year, and it is not unusual to hear of small trees beginning to bear the third year. Both this va- riety and the San Saba has taken well in spring budding', by the method described in a recent issue of Farm and Ranch, but the Texas Prolific is often stubborn. These kinds deserve a place in eveiy pe- can orchard. In addition to other qualities, they ripen early and are easilv gathered. Nut Paste and Nut Preserves. Pastes which are used by con- fectioners for candy making and in oth.er ways are made fiom nuts with the addition of sugar. Sometimes water and starch are added, but such admixtures are inferior to the nut and sugar pastes. The most common material of this sort is the almond paste, which is manufact- ured in large quantities in the United States and is also imported. It is used for making cakes, can- dies, etc., the highly ornamented cakes called "marzipan,'' so popu- lar with the Germans, being one of the very well-known almond- paste confections. Macaroons are also well-known cakes made from ground almonds or almond paste. Cocoanut is also used for the same sort of cakes. Chestnuts preserved in candied syrup and then dried, the marons glace of the confectioners, are es- teemed a delicacy and are eaten alone or are used in confectionery, etc. Thus prepared they are a com- mon commercial article. Much less common are the English wal- nut meats preserved in syrup, which are manufactured in Europe and exported to this country in limited quantities. Preserved nuts which are similar to these are made in this country, particularly for the soda-water trade. Often maple Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, °^,gf>g,ifpVT'' fECAN Benr's Nurseries h'niiitkn. jH^mDv^R Soncsshdly and ProHtabl7 Cnwii| F**jj — — ^^ *?SAn««i Ihc Lower AUanUc and Cull C*»»! jl J -fiJlvHriiJ^jl^^e are leading Growers and Distribu- 1 ■ ^"^ FfcJ fc'^^RjiP^" °^ Satsuftia Orange. Nul and | -T^^^HSM^^'^ treeg. Rose bushes and Oma-|r ^yVnental trees and Shrubs. Catalog free 1| TheGrilflflg Bros Co.. JactsooviHe, Flajl "itjfi if II iiiJ- I ilr - — m syrup is used instead of ordinary syrup. Nut syrups, in which the ground nuts are incorporated with the syrup, are also vvell known for the same purpose, and are quite similar to the nut bisques or simi- lar pudding sauces made at home. As the data in the table on page 12 show, such nut preserves are rich in carbohydrates, owing to the added sugar. In Germany walnut meats and spice are often added to the plum butter, which is in such quantities in many homes. In the Tropics a thick, sweet pre- serve is made from cocoanut and sugar which is much liked locally, though those who are not familiar with it consider it very sweet and insipid. The Turks make several products from walnut meats and grape juice which are considered wholesome and palatable foods. In one of these the nuts are strung on a strong thread and dipped in thickened grape juice until well coated with it. — Prof. M. E. JafTa, in Farmers Bulletin No. 332- Mr. J B. Wight's Chattanooga address, four six by nine inch page.s, with flfteen hundred words. This is a careful and very conservative review of tlie commercial opportunities this nut oflTers, aud supplies just ttii- in- form.ation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 S4.SO 500 2.S0 250 1.50 100 75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Csorgia. THE NUT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers, fruit growers. Nursery- men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medium it is particularly valuable, as no padding of circulation figures fixes the rates. Descriptive circulars sent on re- quest. TUB Nui-Grower GoinDany Poulan, :-: Georgia TH B JSUT-GUOW JS H Officers and Standing Commit- tees Elected and Appointed at Albany Convention. President, J. B. VViglit, Caiio, Ga. First Vice-President, J. B. Cur- tis, Orange Heights. Fia. Second Vice-President, H. C. Wliite, DeWitt, Ga. Secretary, J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. Treasurer, M. B. McNeely, Lit- tle Rock, Ark. KXECUTIVE COMMITTEE J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga.; J. B. Curtis. Orange Heights, Fia.; H. C. White, DeWitr, Ga. ; J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. ; M. B. Mc- Neely, Liitle Rock, Ark.; Theo Bechtel, Ocean Sfirings, Miss. ; E. W.Kirkjiatrick, McKinney, Texas H. S. Watson, Bloomington. 111. Robt. T.Morris, New York. N. Y. B. W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga. WAYS AND MEANS. H. S.Watson, Bloomington, III. M. B. McNeely, Little Rock, Ark C. E Pabst, Ocean Springs, Miss. J. S. Horlbeck, Charleston, S. C. T. S. McManus, Waldo, Fia. NOMENCI.ATITRE AND STANDARDS. VV. A. Taylor, Washington, D. C, ; H. E. Van Detnan, Washing- ton. D. C; H. H. Huine, Glen, St., Fia.; W. N. Hutt, Raleigh, N. C; C. P. Close, College Park, Md.; C. A. Reed. Washington, D. C; P. F. Williams, Auburn, Ala. TRADE PUBLICATIONS I H. K, Miller, Monticello, Fia.; E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinnev, Texas; H. S. (iraves, Gainesville, Fia. ; W. C. Jones, Cairo, Ga. ; H. W. Smithwick, Americus, Ga. MARKETS AND MARKETING. A.A.Rich, Lamont, Fia.; J. B. Curtis, Orange Heights, Fia. ; J. F. Wilson, Poulan. Ga. CO OPERATION WITH STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIO.VS. Chas. A. Van Duzee. St. Paul, Minn. ; W. A. Taylor, Washing- ton, D. C. : Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes Ind. ; Robt. T. Morris, New York, N. Y. PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS. J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga. ; W. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WEHAVETHEQ U Aj-JTy ' Our stock for the coming seasons delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Vvrite for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO , MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower, t Partridge Wyandottes Eggs and breeding stock for sale. Season of 1908-09 my birds won 41 out of a possible 49 first and second prizes where shown. For beauty and utility they have no equal. Write for Catalogue. Re J. Sawyer, Msnominee, - EMichigan. THE Buckeye Sul]Scriptlon Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA HELP WANTED Mr. A. B. (iooflenow. of Cnlebra, Canal Zone, lias a pood tanuofalmut fifty acres at 'ilenn- niore, 'la , ten miles from W'aycr 'SS- He wants to have it planted in pe'-ans, and will make it an object to fome fj;uod farmer who will handle the place in a suitable manner. Mrs. Thos A. Hanninp:, 55:iT Monroe avenue, Chicago, wdl have a desirable position to offer the ritiht man to superiotend her orchard and live stock ituerests in Southern Alabama. This place is well equipped, has trood bulldit t;s, partly furnislied. The position will be open fii'st ol the year W. Carroll, Monticello, Fia. ; C. N. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. ETHICS. H C. White, DeWitt, Ga.; H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fia.; Cliff A.Locke, Eiifaula. Ala.; M. O. Danl/,ler, Orangeburg, S. C. : N. Brewer, Jr., Newport, Fia. PUHI.ICITY. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. ; IL A. Barrows. Monticello, Fia. ; A. C. Davenport, Sotitli Omaha, Neb. '«IOIM jAnd get a tree of the PRESIDENT, the \ Best of aV Pecans. FREE. IT'S Large. Thin-shelled. Full of Meat, Good Colo Good Quality, and IT BEARS ABUNDANTLY J I^Write tor caatalog of Ftuit anil Nut trees, and for/ iLiforniauon about joining the President Pecan Club / I QWe have Ornamental and Shade trees, Hedges,, Rose bushes and Shrubbery toot' Address I The Griffing Bros. Co., Nurserymen. J Jacksonville, Florida SUCCESS XA.TUUAL iSIZK The nut that has never failed to bear andnever failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. imwni PK(]4^ i\lRSERIES OCEAN SPKIN'GS. MISS. Barnwell Pecan Groves oto^Bud: ded and Grafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BAR.NWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most===Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Sptings.Miss 10 Tim I^UT'GHOWIZR Importation of Nuts. I'tANUTS, NOT SHh.LI.KD Year Eiicliiie, J II lie 30 gilANTITV VALUE Pounds 1900. 206.858 $ 5,668 1901 . . 738,718 18,762 1902.. 1,034.633 23.909 1903.. 2.523,816 67,309 1904.. 3,337,378 100,893 1905.. 3,404,557 109.262 1906. 2,325,259 74,374 1907.. 10,432,828 371,968 1908.. 6,498.202 255,346 PEANTIS, SHELLliU foil ml ^i 1900.. 7,422 $ 215 1901 . . 55.621 1.938 1902.. .38,049 1,048 1903.. 64,170 2.166 1904.. 1,147,131 46,927 1905.. 1,935,260 71,988 1906.. 704,978 33,631 1907.. 4,780,054 244,709 1908.. 1,779,946 88.370 Mr. Taylor's Letter to Convention \Vashingtox,D.C.,Oci. 12, '09. Dit. T- F. Wilson, Secretary National Nut Growers Ass'n , Albany. Ga. Dkar Dr. Wilson : It is with regret that I have to advise you that it will be impossible for me to attend the Albany nieet- injr of the Association. I have but recently returned from an extended absence in the west and matters here requiie my attention the whole of the present week. As chairman of ihe committee on Nomenclature and Standards. I would say that no meeting of the committee has been held since the Chattanooga meeting of the Asso- ciation. I believe no varieties have been called to the attention of ihe committee in an official way for scaling. So far as we are advised, Ihe code of nomenclature, adopted by tiie Association in 1903, is being fairly well adhered to by propa- gators and introducers of new va- rieties. There is still a dispositiim in some quarters to catalog Colum- bian in distinction from Rome, notwithstanding the f.ict that the name Columbian was applied to the vaiiety many years after it had been disseminated in the form of budded and grafted trees under the name Roine which thus became establisiied for it. At the present stage of develop- ment of the industry, it ap|)ears to me higiily desirable that promising seedlings should be carefully exam- ined for determination of merit be- fore they are extensively propa- g ited for dissemination. The fact that thousands of seedlings grown from the improved varieties are now coining into bearing through- out the Smith renders it extremely probable that some choice sorts will soon come to notice among them and, in the interest of the welfare of the iiidustay as well as of the in- di\iduiil disseminator and the indi- \\d\ al planter, it ajipears to me that the Association might profit- abiv urge upon its members that specimens of their priinising seed- lings be submitted to the committee for examination and report. Of course an ex.iinination of a sami'le of nuts alone ciinnot de- termine entirely the value of a va- riety as its productiveness, resist- ance to disease, hardiness ami ot her important chararteristi.-s cannot be determined by examination of the nuts. But ill the present stage of development of the industry, it ap- pears certain that unless a variety ranks fnirlv high in size, plump- ness of kernal, cracking quality and des'-ert quality, it cannot long prove pnifitable to planters no mat- ter how productive and hardy it may be. I trust that the Association will have a largely attended and profit- able meeting. With regards to President Wight and the member- ship, I remain. Very truly vours, Taylor. Pomologist in charge of Field In- vestit;ations. mmm \m-\m Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery HOUSTON. .-. 'IKXAS. WA^TED-A RIDER AGENT^S"« sample Latest Model "Ranker" bicycle furnished by us. Our amenta everywhere ar« making money fast. Write /or full particulars and special offer at once. NO MONEY REQUIKUO until you receive and approve of your bicycler We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U. S. withmii a cent deposit in 2A\^\iZ^, Prepay freight, and allow TEN l>Ai'S' FKEE TRIAL duiins which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wiih to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense ^tiA yowwill not be out ont cent. CA^TADV PDItf^P^ ^^ furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make rHOIUnl rnlvCw at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save ^lo to $25 iiiid-,lleint-n's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar* anice behind your bicycle. pO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any Price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of /actorjf prices and retnarkable special offers to ritler ag^ents. mUfll I D17 ACTAIIICtlCn when you receive our beautiful catalogrue and niLL Da. AdlUnidnCU study our superb models at the wonderfully lo^v prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any oihu* factory. We are satisfied with ffi-oo profit above factory cost. ^ BICYCLE 1>EALEKS« you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double^ our prices. Orders filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES.. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from Sit to S8 or 810. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. I^AACTrQ RPAKFC single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals* parts, repairs and 8 equipment of all kinds at half ihe usual retail Prices, y HED6ETH0RN PUNCTURE-PROOF SELF-HEALING TIRES The rezular retail price of tnese tires is $S.50 per Pair, but to introduce "u-e wtll sellyouaiamplePair{or$4.^0\cashwUhordet$4.o5) NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PyNCTURES | NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty ttjoiisand pairs sold last year Over two hundred thousaud pairs now in use DPSCWIPr/OWr Made in all sizes. Itislivelv and easy ridinjj, very duiabk-and lined inside wit a special quality ol rubber, which nevtrr Itecoiui porous and which closes up small punctures without allow- ing the air toescape. We have hundreds of letters from satis- Notloe the thick rubher tread *'A" and puncture strips "H" and " U." also rim strip "II** to prevent rlin cuttlnij:. This tire will outlast any other niake-!«OFT, t;L,ASTIC and EASt KIDIA'G. fiedcustomersstating that their tires haveouly been pimiped uponceortwice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resislingqualities being given by several layers of^thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is ^.50 per pair, bu t for advertisingpurposeswcaremakingaspecialfactorypriceto .. ^ ^ -^ the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. n. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price S4.S5 per pain if you send FULL CASH WITH OKDIill and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk m sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OIJK cvpense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectlv reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than anv tire vou have ever used or seen at any price, w e know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. . ,,. ^wrt,mm mi^^t% •nr%F^ don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair ot Ir Yfttf Iwttl/ f frifcO Hedgethom Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue wh-a describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. „,„„ . . , «» mm^m- tafMir but write us a postal today. UO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicyclf DO nUi WW/XII or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderlul offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICACO, ILL THH ALr7-GJifOW15R 11 Books and Catalogues. The Pecan Industry — A twen- ty page booklet, by the Standard Pecan Co., Blooinington, III. Bayview Pecan Nursery — C. Forkert, proprietor. Ocean Springs, Miss. Price list and de- scription ol" standard varieties for season of 1909 and 19:0. The Second Annual Report of the State Board of Horticulture, of Missouri, by W. L. Howard, secretary, Columbia, Mo., is an in- teresting volum.e of 324 pages It has many illustrations and a tuU index to contents. lif^^r'^^^^^^ir^^^^'v^* m Nuts and Nut Products For Diabetics. Nuts and nut products are often recommended as foods for diabetics and others from whose diet starch and sugar are excluded, or at least materially reduced. On this sub- ject the following statements are made by A. L. Winton, in a re- port of studies made at the Con- necticut State experiment station of the composition of diabetic foods, chiefly commercial products : "Most of the nuts, including wal- nuts, Brazil nuts, almonds and fil- berts, since thev contain no starch and only small amounts of sugar and dextrin, but are rich in protein and oil, are valuable additions to the diet of diabetics. Almond meal is used in the preparation of various biscuits and bread substitutes. The chestnut is a notable exception among nuts, in that it is rich in starch and poor in fat, the compo- sition of the shelled nut being much the same as that of wheat flour; it is therefore entirely unsuited for the use of diabetics. * * * "The peanut, * * * although very rich in oil, contains about 11 per cent of starch, sugar, and dex- trin, of which about half is starch." Proceedings The following volumes of Pro- ceedings of the National Nut- Growers' Association can be obtained at prices whi;h were established at the Chattanooga Convention : St. Louis, 1904, $ .50 per copy Scranton, 1906. .50 per copy Norfolk, 1907, i.oo per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, .:. .:. GEORGIA SUMMIT Jy CHOICE ■--< NURSERY STOCK NURSERIES MILLER 8. <:iOS5AP0 Proprie to--: MONTICELLO. ^^^ ^' ^^ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses —OUR SPECIALTIKS— The Admiral Schley Pecan It '''fIVI I lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.I THE LOUISIflNfl NUT NURSERIES J. F. JOXES, Manager and Proprieter, .lEANIORETTE. - - LOUISIANA. Headquarters for Budded and Graifed Pecan Trees in the South- west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Home on 5ack Bav. Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50, §00 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs tn the Heikes- Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville, This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on t;he Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F. HEIKES, Manager, Huntsville, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., ==^^^=z OFFERS A VARIETY OF z=^=^=^ Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. fjt^For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 12 TUn ^iUT-GROWBl^ SB Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. 83- National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees. Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nurserv Stock and Nurservmen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :■: :-: GEORGIA. THE NUT^GROWER Volume VIII Numbar 4 Poulan, Ga., November, 1909. 5c per Copy 50c per Year PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS At the National Nut Growers Association. Albany, Georgia, October 12th, 1909. Eight years ago in tlie city where we are now assembled, four persons met and inaugurated the movement which resulted a year later in the formation of the National Nut Growers Association. Conditions then were very diflFerent from what they are now. At that time few budded or grafted trees had been set, and what orchards existed were almost entirely of seedling trees. Pecan nomenclature was in a very confused condition and little was known of the merits or demerits of the few varieties that had then been introduced. It is chiefly due to the efforts of this Association and to its members that interest in nut culture, particularly the pecan, has rapidly advanced. To-day there are thousands of acres of groves where there were then but hundreds, and there is a wider in- terest in nut culture than ever be- fore. We have made a good beginning. The infant of seven years has grown lusty and strong; the period of cholera infantum has passed; the youth is getting well along into "ba-ker" of the old Webster's blue- back. To-day, in the city of her conception, we have present a larger number of persons than were ever before at the opening session of an annual convention. To this Association more than to any other agent is due the fact that' "we are coming to an era of intelligent nut culture that promises great results for the future. What matters it that we have discovered a few in- sects and fungi that like nuts.? Our enemies are fewer and less foi'mid- able than those that have to be met in any other line of horticulture. A healthy mind and body some- times likes a fight. We have just enough enemies to keep us awake to the fact that in intelligent nut culture we have an industry which, ni its scope, in its permanency, in its substantial returns, and in its com- bination of the beautiful and use- ful, is unsurpassed in all the range of world-wide horticulture. To- morrow through the courtesy of our host, the city of Albany, we will have ocular demonstrations of some of the truths of this statement. Our field is a broad one, and in- cludes within Us scope as much the almond and English walnut groves of the west, the chestnut and hick- ory groves of the east, as it does the pecan plantations of the south. Meeting, however, as we do in this city which has within a radius of seventy-five miles more pecan groves set by men than has any other equal area in the world, our attention will be directed more particularly to the pecan. I con- gratulate you on the fact that we have with us at this meeting many of the men who have done most to place the industry on a firm foun- dation. These pioneers have striven against difficulties and have made mistakes; but to-day many of them wear the laurel that bedecks the head of him who conquers, and to them belong the honors, no matter whether they have been \von on a bloody or bloodless field. As nut growers we are richer and stronger on account of the knowledge these bring us. To )'0U. gentlemen, we acknowledge our indebtedness and pay our homage. And those of you who are young in nut culture, and are here to draw inspiration from men who have been pioneers in the industry which is j'et in its infancy, have an opportunity that is almost invaluable. It would have been worth thousands of dol- lars to me had this privilege been mine twenty years ago. The situation that confronts us is an encouraging one. There is no organization of which I have any knowledge that is composed of men who believe more strongly in the future of their business than do those who are counted as members of this Association. In nut grow- ing we are supplying a need for CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE A Few Remarks on the Pecan. * BY R. C. SIMPSON. Our worthy president, Mr. Henry Chase, asked me to read a paper on "Improved Pecans" and as he did not limit me to any special branch of the subject, I have decid- ed to simply make a few short, dis- connected remarks on several dif- ferent phases of pecan culture. Most of the paper will touch on points of the industry which have come to my notice during the past year or so, and which I thought might be of some interest to my fellow nurserymen. The pecan propagator must start at the begining, i. e., the seed, and if he makes a success of the busi- ness it is important that proper seed be selected. Now, the right kind of nuts for the Florida nur- seryman may not be the best for the Texas or Louisiana grower, and likewise what gives the Texan the best satisfaction may prove un- profitable to the Georgian. At Monticello we have found that the native Florida pecans usually give us the best results. Last winter we planted both Florida and Louis- iana nuts in the same field at the same time. There were two dis- tinct types of the Louisiana nut — one, a medium to large nut with a fairly thin shell, the other, a very small nut with a thicker shell. The Florida pecans were up at least two weeks before the Louisiana seed had started, and they have kept this lead all summer, being at present considerably taller than the others. The larger Louisiana nuts when they did come, were a better stand and showed, perhaps, a little more even growth than the Florida pecans. The small nuts, however, were still slower in starting and at one time it looked as though they would be almost a total failure. They sprouted so late in the spring that the hot sun kept burning them back time after time and most of them did not get up until July when we had a long spell of wet, cloudy weather. These seedlings, though they have at last given us a fair stand, will of course, be too small to graft until two years old. * Read at meeting of Southern Nuraerymen. THB NUT'GROWBR We have never tried the Texas product, but a number of our neigh- bors have — almost always with poor results. They often give a poor stand, seem especially subject to rust and grow very slowly with us. One of our Monticello nur- serymen told me that he planted a thousand pounds of Texas seed this year which have proved almost a total loss. It therefore seems quite evident that the best seed for the Florida nurseryman is the home- grown product, which, of course, for best results, should be selected from good, thrifty, healthy trees. In growing pecan trees on the sandy soils of Florida, unless we happen to have an unusually rich piece of land, we find it very ne- cessary to thoroughly prepare the ground which is to be used for nursery purposes. If possible, we try to give two seasons to this pre- paration, the first one being given up to growing a crop of velvet beans and the second to cow peas. We usually plow under the beans in the winter after they become dry although they make a very fair hay when properly cured. We expe- rience little difficulty in turning un- der the large mass of vines by using a good rolling coulter on a heavy plow. The following year we cut the cow pea crop for hay as it is best not to have too much trash on the ground which is used for a seed bed. In planting cow peas in Florida it is best to sow them in drills rath- er than broadcast, since the soil is often not rich enough to give them a good growth unless they are cul- tivated a little. We have also noticed that the wilt leaf affects peas in rows much less than when sown broadcast. In fact, by thor- ough cultivation of some peas which had become affected with this disease this year we were able to bring them out alright and se- cure a nice crop of hay. If this same crop had been sown broad- cast and not cultivated we feel quite sure it would have been al- most a total loss. The question of fertilization is always an importhant one, and one about which we do not know enough. I have come to the con- clusion that the best and most eco- nomical method of fertilizing the pecan is to fertilize the peas which are sown before the nuts are plant- ed. This summer we put under each acre of our peas about four hundred pounds of acid phosphate and sulphate of potash. The vines are now making a magnificent growth and have that dark green, almost black, look that gladdens the heart of the agriculturist. I believe this method of fertilization will make enough more hay to pay for fertilizer used, besides making the pea roots store up a much great- er amount of nitrogen than they could possibly do without this help. The nitrogen will also be in a much better form for assimilation by the pecan roots than it would be if ap- plied in chemicals. Moreover, the ground will be in a better physical condition and will contain more humus than would be the case had an ordinary crop of peas been grown. Then, should it be desir- able to use a considerable amount of chemical fertilizer on the seed- lings or grafts thereafter, the soil will be in a better condition to re- ceive it and give it up, for having had the fine crop of peas on it first. When they can be obtain- ed, organic manures from farm stock or poultry, especially the lat- ter, may of course be very profit- ably applied either to the trees or to the ground before the crop is put in. However, we usually have to depend chiefly upon the chem- ical fertilizers and leguminous crops for our sources of plant food. TO BE CONTINUED IN DECEMBER NUMBER FOR SALE! GRAFTEDPECAN TREES These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. :::::_ VAN DEMAN. STUART and a dozen other cheice va- rieties. Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBPCK, Charleston, S. C. Pecan Trees g17L THE LEA.D1NG VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, °ss;,;fsS" For Sale One hundred acres of land now in shape for any agricultural use desired, located in Poulan, orth county, Ga. Experts claim that this land, properly cultivated for nut growing, will produce ten dol- lars for each one invested in cultivating within ten years. Editor of this paper will show land to any prospective buyer. For further information, correspond with the owner, John W. Corcoran, •2S S, Albany Ave., Cbiaago. 111. Report on Place of Next Meeting ReolEstate forSalc In Different States The committee on time and place ot next meeting considered invita- tions from The Publicity and Pro- motion Bureau, of Mobile Ala., from the Atlantic City Publicity Bureau, including the Atlantic City Board of Trade, the Atlantic City Hotel Men's Association and the Atlantic City Business League and from Monticello, Fla. After con- sidering each place, it was unani- mously decided to recommend Monticello, Fla., for the next an- nual convention, upon the assurance from Monticello delegates that a sum of $ioo would be raised to de- fray the expenses of the association. The time ot meeting to be de- termined by the Executive Com- mittee, after consulting the wishes of Monticello. Since the committee held its meeting, Mr. Canada presented some very cordial invitations from Houston, Texas, which you have heard. Conventions of the National Nut Growers Association have now been held in Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Vir- gina and Georgia. Herbert C. White, H. H. Mn.LER. If interested in buying or sell- Dirt, write for Sample Copy of Poag's Real Estate Monthly. Subscription, per year, only 50 cents. Then you can keep better posted in what is going on in the Beal Estate World. In addition to this you will see interesting reading matter on other sabjeots. J. EDGAR POAG, Broker Rock Hill, S. C. "Cuts the Earth to Suit Your Taste." LET US SEND YOU "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUf For Those Who Want to Know By Tho*e Who Know All the essential information "Outol a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in plantidg large size pecans assures live trees aiM quick profits. Write Today. Clingmon Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. THE NUT-GMOWBR PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. OONTINUED FKOM FIRST PAGE food that is universal ; and the food that we furnish is in a form so palatable and attractive that it can- not be surpassed even by the best efforts of our most accomplished cooks. The present generation is calling for moreuuts, because there is no healthier food than nuts. It is learning that in order to be physically strong we must get back to nature ; and getting back to nature, the demand for nuts grows faster than the supply. Were nut growing a fad, it might fail, as all fads have their day. But based as it is on human needs, there should be no apprehension that the de- mand for nuts will drag so long as there are appetites to satisfy, or mouths to be filled. Some have indulged the fear that there might be an over-production of nuts. The same fear confronted our apple and peach growers. When from a few trees grown about the yard men began to plant orchards of fifty and one hundred and five hundred acres, the alarm that was then felt about over-production in these lines was widespread, but it has never materialized, and never will. Mod- ern transportation gives us the world for a market. Careless growers have lost money in think- ing that there was nothing to do but put out an orchard, and their fortunes would be assured. There IS no room for the careless and in- different in nut culture, nor in any other line of horticulture. The pe- can in particular is an unknown quantity to the people of the world, 'this generation and the next will pass before it is likely that this queen of nuts will be known to the world. When and wherever it has been introduced it has held its own, When the wheat and corn fields of the west cease to be profitable; when there is no longer any de- mand for the fleecy staple of the south, and when the spindles in our factories cease to turn because there is no need for their products, then and not 'til then, need the nut grower fear for his indiisdry. We are here to stay. And while the outlook is so promising, yet there aie problems to be solved; and it is to help solve these that we are gathered to-day. We know little of the adaptability of different varieties to the several sections of cur country. We are little beyond our "A B Cs" so far as the effort of various fertilizers is concerned upon the quality 'and quantity of our products. Much is to be learn- ed as to the best manner of con- trolling insect and fungus troubles. These are but a few of the prob- lems that confront us, and urge us forward to their solution. Lack of funds in the past has prevented any systematic work on the various lines of experimentation that have been suggested. Fortunately for us the United States Department of Agriculture has undertaken to solve some of our problems. For nearly two years Mr. G. A. Reed, who has been designated by the Depairtment for this purpose, has been working along lines that promise much for the future. The National Government is in a posi- tion to do much in solving the ques- tions that confront the thoughtful nut grower. We are thankful to "Uncle Sam" for his co-operation, and bespeak for him a still wider and deeper interest in the questions that pertain to one of our greatest industries. In this connection it is suggested that a bulletin from the Department of Agriculture giving a succinct account of what has al- ready been done in intelligent nut culture would be very profitable. In accordance with the recom- mendation made by this Associa- tion some years ago, several of our Experiment Srations have under- taken work along similar lines. This is especially true of the North Garolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Marylaryd Experiment Stations. We welcome these as allies in our work, and urge that other states in the pecan belt take up the same line of experimentation. Two years ago the policy was adopted of issuing monthly Nut Notes, which has been sent to the agricultural and general press as well as to the members of tiiis as- sociation. Much credit is due to our secretary. Dr. J. F. Wilson, who has had charge of this work, for what lias been done. Through these Notes much interest in nut culture has been developed, and much good to the industry has re- sulted. I bespeak for these Notes and also for the Nut-Gkowrr. the official organ of the Asoociation, your most careful consideration and encouragement. These have done a work that would otherwise have remained undone. Financially, the treasury has never been in tne condition where funds were more plentiful than our needs. I am glad, however, to congratu- late you on the fact that to-day our finances are in a healthier condi- tion than they have ever before been. With the hearty cooper.a- Continued on Tenth Page. CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column we g:ive place to advertisements trom eubacibers who have orchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as ^ell as make inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. PECAN ORCHARD BARGAIN.-We have an interest in a uecan orchard for sale at a Bargain. The proposition is an attractive one and will pay the investor over 10 per cent, from the very first. This is an investment opportunity not to be missed. It will not be open long, write today for lull particulars to The Orchard Invest- ment Co., Montiuello, Fla. WANTED— A partner in a pecan orchard de- velopment proposition. An opportunity for the investment or a few hundred dollars where ic will earn an enormous profit. A snap for some one. Address P. O. Box No. 27. Monticello. Fla. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may earn a good income corresponding for newspapers ; ex- perience unnecessary h^end stamp for full par- ticulars. Empire Press Syndicate, Middleport. N. Y. (sept 3t.> BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. CuLver Poultry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for stu:ly or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts lurnished only in limited quantities, THE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, PoQlan, Ga CHOICE LOCATION-No. 24 400 acres, near Moiiticdllo, Fla Two-thirds of the tract is in cultivation, balance in pine and hardwood tim- ber. Located wiihin half raile of new town and near a famous lake Pric*^. $10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUr-(^KOWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, first-class in every respect. 320 acres now being planted in pecan tre*^s of choice va- rieties Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for five years at price accepted THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY. Poulan. Ga. WANTED— Conies of March, May, June ami Decent bar. 1907, and February, March and April, li>08, of The Nut-Grower. Seed Pecans For the accomodation and convenience of patrons we buy and sell Pecan Nuts for seed purposes. PineyParkNursery J. F. Wilson, Manager Poulan^ :-: Georgia. A Bearing Grove Of the Best Var eties. Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POU AN, GEORGIA. THB NUT-GROWBM Away from Home to Learn. BY J. W. CANADA. My best ideas I get from other people. Life is too short, and there are to many things to do for us to stop and think out for ourselves the best things always. The other man thinks of things we do not think of, gets points of view beyond our lim- ited range. What he thinks, what he learns can and should be avail- able for us, and by taking a little time and thought we can make use of his e.xperience and his knowledge just as well as if it had been gained by long effort and much cost on our own part. The man who accom- plishes most is the one who makes every other man contribute to his own work. Therefore, in making a journal, in planting orchards, in doing all I can to further my own interests and the interests of the men who are planting pecans and fruits in the South, I make it a point to travel as much as possible and to meet the men who are doing things. I want to know what they are doing and how they are doing it. I want to profit by their ex- perience and to avoid mistakes they have made. For this reason I go away from home to learn. Now and then I find a man who says he is too busy to read my jour- nal. And yet that same man is not too busy to spend hundreds of dollars and do things in ways that he would not do if he would have spent a few minutes even in read- ing how other men do or do not do the things he is trying to do. He forgets that a dollar saved through the other man's experience is a dol- lar made for him. He owes it to himself to get the best results in what he is trying to do, and this he can do onlj- by bringing to bear all the intelligence along his certain line that he can. This intelligence is partly his own and partly the ex- perience of the other man whose knowledge he is willing to assimi- late. I have come to this great gather- ing of men interested in the plant- ing and cultivating of pecans and other nuts in order to learn for my- self what they are doing and how they are doing. I have come to Albany, the centre of the pecan planting industry, in order to see for myself how these men are mak- ing thousands of acres of fine or- chards. I shall go away with knowledge gathered from these dis- cussions and these observations that will be worth hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars to me in my own plantings, and I trust worth as much to the thousands of people who read my journal each inonth. I shall not attempt a review of any of the addresses and discussions here. Enough that we all of us carry the points of the various dis- cussions home with us and act on them. Enough that we go away with a greater enthusiasm and a keener interest in the planting and cultivating of pecans, and a more intelligent idea of how this should be done. As a man deeply interested in the development of every phase of the agricultural and horticultural life of our southern states. I want to impress one fact upon all who hear me, and that is the fact that we need to do more to interest the men and the money in the northern states in our country. Pe;an plant- ing is destined to become one of the great lines of endeavor and profit in all the Gulf Coast States. The conditions are right, there is a demand for all the nuts that can be grown, and at constantly increas- ing prices, the lands are abundant and cheap, the investment is a stable and a certainly profitably one. There needs to be, in order to develop it fully, the very best sort of advertising and the bringing of this industry of pecan growing to the attention of men in other states who are ready, even willing and anxious to be convinced of the desirability of such investments. A gathering like this, a state- ment of actual cost obtained by pe can growers, who have now passed the experimental stage, will do more than all else to bring our in- dustry, in which every one of us are putting money and brains and effort, to the attention of others. A fine start has been made here, as the tens of thousands of fine bear- ing trees in this county show. Similar beginnings, or on smaller scales, have been made at many other places in this and other south- ern states. The planting of pecans has already begun, and the growing for market of a considerable quan- tity of pecans of the best varieties will be an established fact in a few years. Each year sees an advance in the price of the native nuts of Texas and Louisiana and other states. Each year sees a greater demand for the best varieties for a special tiade which will grow as the supply grows. I am frequently asked, in view of seemingly large acreages of these varieties in certain localities, if there will not be such a supply in FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Qrafted Pecans. LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges, Plums, Per= Simmons, Figs, flulberries, Etc :::::: : A full line of Ornamental and ' Shade trees. Quantity and Quality. Correspondence solicited. A^rcadia Nurseries ! AfontioeHo, KJorida. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is my Specialty. . Budded and (jrafted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, ^'^L^^Ro.A. BEST VARIETIES Write for Price List>. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK, : Hartwell, Ga. SEETHE H«OTS SUCH \| TREE^< liveV Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries scU such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grallcd trees, erf best quality and best producing varieties. Some ol the biggest, thlnncst-ahefled nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Grif fine's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our VBrJelieH are Ilentl Gold Medal awarded our PccMk al Jameilown Exposition Handsome Pecan Catalog Free GriffingBrosCo. Jacksonville, Florida We also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbcrf. ROSES I THE, NUT-GROWBR a few years that the price will not be a remunerative one. The day will never come when it will not be a remunerative one. The day will never come when the South can or will raise enough good pe- cans to make an over-supply. The demand grows by what it feeds on. The pecan is recognized as the best nut of all that grow. As it becomes better known, and known to more people, the demand for it will in- crease, and the demand for the best varieties, among a class of people who are willing and able. to pay any price for what they want, will always take up all the good pecans that can be grown. New uses and new calls for pecans are coming up every day. The area of native pecan trees is not widening, rather it is narrowing by the using of lands for other purposes. The in- creased demand for nuts must be supplied by the plantings that are made. These plantings are being made by such men as I see gather- ed here. They will reap the re- wards of their foresight and effort in the growing of one of the staple articles of commerce. I have come a long ways to see the pecan groves about Albany, and to meet with the pecan growers gathered here from many states. The coming has been a wise in- vestment on my part, and I feel sure that every man here feels as I do. I am sure that every man who is here will go home and plant more pecans and urge his friends and neighbors to do likewise. New Committee on Varieties- The following named persons have been selected by Pres- ident Wight for the committee on "Varietal Adaptation," as author- ized by the recent convention : C. A. Reed, Washington, D. C. R. C. Simpson, Monticello, Fla. Chas. A. VanDuzee, St. Paul, Minn. J. F. Jones, Jeanerette, La. J. S. Horlbeck, Charleston, S.C. Morris Falkner, Waco, Texas. By planting pecan trees among orchard trees of shorter lived fruits, it is entirely practical to carry on extremely profitable operations on the land between the trees, and at the same time be growing a pecan grove that will be worth, by the time it needs all the space, fully $2,000 per acre. — Te.xas Depart- ment of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 2. Letter from Mississippi. Ocean Springs, Miss., io-4-'o9 Editor Nut-Grower, Poulan, Ga. Dear Sir : — I have just received the Nut ■Grower for June and note that you will not print the speech you made at the Georgia-Florida Nut Growers Convention, which I think is a mistake, and would surely do a great deal of good to those who are thinking of investing in pecan growing. I, for my part, and from own ex- periences, can not understand how it IS possible to plant and take proper care of a pecan orchard for those prices some Companies ad- vertise it can be done for. Would be pleased to receive a copy of your speech if you are will- ing to give it away. I am. Very truly yours, Al.B. B. ACKANDER. Texas Nut Growers' Association. The fourth annual meeting of the Texas Nut Growers' Association was held at College Station Thurs- day morning, July 29. Nut culture is one of the coming industries of Texas and one in which there is plenty of room for growth. After the annual address and the report of the secretary-treasurer an assessment ot $10 was made toward the indebtedness of the Farmers' Congress. A paper was then read by H. A. Halbert, of Coleman, in which he recommended that the plains country be planted to pecans. Mr. Halbert aroused an exceedingly warm discussion regarding seedling trees, saying that from one-third to one-fourth of the seedlings would reproduce the original nuts in qual- ity, etc. This statement was chal- lenged by Prof. Kyle and others who cited several instances to prove their point, chief among which was the planting of 1,000 nuts in the orchard of Mr. Hamilton, in De- Witt county. From these 1,000 nuts 4S0 trees were secured and not a pecan in the whole orchard re- sembled the original nut except in color. Others on the program were L. P. Landrum, Hereford ; John F. vSneed, Tyler; E E.Risien, Rescue, and Judge H. E.Edwards, Dallas. The following oflicers were elect- ed : Morris Falkner, Waco, presi- dent ; H. L. Edwards, Dallas, vice- president ; H. B. Beck, Denton, secretary and treasurer, and E. W. Knox, representative to the execu- tive committee of the Farmer's Congress. New Plan For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., ThomasvillcGa. Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery MASON BVILDIXa HOUSTON, .'. TKXAS. m 1 PECAN mm The Best Investment tbat can uow be made In the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties uow being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the .South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for the coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nui-sery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama ■west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention. All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess Tvork— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early, F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. (lillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. THB NUT-GROWBht THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISHKD MOKTHLT BT XaAe NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cants pef Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. NOTICK When this paragraph is marked It means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. N'OVEMBER. 1909. The Thomas Phosphate Powder came in for favorable comment at the Albany convention. In an early number we will re- port on the past year's experience with varieties in our test orchard. Several additional favorites are slated for an additional planting. In this issue we give place to President Wight's address at the Albany convention and have to defer the promised report of the visit to the orchards, which occu- pied so profitably the second day of the meeting. If will how- ever follow soon in the December issue. In this issue we print a letter from Mississippi which again brings up the subject of cost of a pecan orchard, ap-^. the paper read — but not pub, .shed — at the Cairo meeting of the Georgia-Flor- ida Pecan Growers meeting last May. As the matter is of vital importance, we think the time will soon be at hand when this paper will be given to the public. Some interesting letters were read at the recent convention. One commission merchant said he want- ed to buy io,ooo to 20,000 pounds of extra large cultivated pecans, and asked for the address of any parties who had them for sale. He did not say how much per pound he would pay. However, the can- vas of members present as to pres- ent crop of this kind of stock, did not show enough in sight to supply this one purchaser. The Mobile pecan is showing up well for early and abundant bear- ing. A single tree in the Thom- asville locality gave 20J pounds for its first crop the 5th year. The Nut-Grower is the recog- nized medium for the promulgation of practical information, news and interesting data regarding nut culture, especially as applied to the pecan. Its columns are open for such contributions, reports and dis- cussions of pertinent subjects, as the editor may consider of public interest. Texas has a new covenanters so- ciety, in which the members cove- nant and agree to study Texas, to talk Texas and work for Texas. This should produce results for the state. The pecan growers in the South have been doing the same thing for the nut industry for the past eight years with marked success. In some lines of horticultural operations, especially with the apple, the tendency is towards the use of young nursery trees in or- chard planting. There are various and substantial reasons for this change, which apply with equal force to the pecan. The young trees show a smaller percentage ot loss, are easier handled, become established more promptly and earlier and make more satisfactory growth. With the January, 1909, number we added four pages to I he size, which made 50% additional space. During the year increasing demands on space, both for reading matter and advertising, has developed, and the present twelve pages are not sufficient for present business. This seems to indicate the need for another enlargement, and we are ready to add four more pages or an increase of 33^% on the present size just as soon as additional ad- vertising patronage, sufficient to meet the increased cost, is forth- coming. We need some subscribers also and all our patrons can help in extending our circulation. The year 1909 has been showing gains, but we want more people to enjoy and profit by our work. An item in a New York trade paper, with date line of Sherman, Texas, says : "Recent experiments show that the soil and climate of Texas are better adapted to raising pecans^ than any other section of the United" States. Grafting has produced! nuts very much larger than those! seen on the market." Several other states are produc-i ing improved pecans and make th« same claim. There is a vast difference betweei starting and establishing a nut orJ chard. It is an easy matter to ob4 tain and plant a few indifferen^ trees, on any kind of land, anc then leave it to the tender mercied of some cropper to make what ha can off the land. It is anothea thing to see that everything is righS at the start, and that it be kepfl right for five years. This is where the cost creeps in and where th^ firm determination to stick to it ia required. To those who first counl the cost and are then willing td work while they wait, the orchard! are so attractive that thoughtful men in increasing numbers are enl gaging in the business. Pecans on Hickory. In a recent issue mention waj made of a top-worked hickory irea in which Mr. Rood obtained fine pecans the second year, and showed samples of the hickory grown oB No. 1 No. 2 the same tree the same season, our suggestion these nuts wfei photographed, and cuts made which we are able to use with thi reference to the work. Nos. onfl No. 3 and two are the hickory type, while No. three is the pecan. THB NUT-GROWBR News Items. , Hickory nuts brought from $3.00 1 to $3.50 per bushel in New York. Bronwood, Texas, reports about half a crop of pecans. Prices ranged about ten cents. The Southern Commercial Con- gress convenes at Washington, D. C, December 6th and 7th, 1909. The crop of walnuts in Tennessee and Kentucky was light this year. Hickorj' nuts were about an aver- age crop. The deficiency in rainfall in many parts of the country inter- feres with the work of lifting nur- sery stock. The Georgia Fruit Exchange has compiled a list of 1,300 peach growers in this state and adjoining districts in Alabama and South Carolina. Pecan culture is attracting in- creasing attention in Mexico. H. C. Stiles, of Texas, is directing some large plantings there. A New Orleans dealer has asked Georgia growers for prices on pe- cans, stating that the coast crop was almost a failure this season. The chestnut crop began arriving at New York the first of October and sold for fancy prices a few days, but rapidly declined to about I4.00 per bushel. Chestnuts are plentiful in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are marketed largely at Baltimore. In some localities dry weather has di- minished the crop. The Rood Pecan Groves, of Al- bany, Ga., are propagating the English walnut on native black walnut stock and expect to have trees for 1910 delivery. The Texas Prosperity Club, of Fort Worth, are broadcasting the country with neat pamphlets de- scriptive of the industries and pros- pects of the Southwest. The Albany Herald reports the application for charter of the New York-Georgia Pecan Development Company, with capital stock of $50,000, and office at Albany, Ga. During recent years, western North Carolina has been working up trade in chestnuts. Some heavy shipments went to Birmingham, Ala., during October. Prices ranged about 10 cents. fri&li':"' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDER ^OW TO SAVE DISAPPOIXTMEM 1909-1910 PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or I45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55-00 per 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, So cents each, or 75-°° P^'' ^'^° 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUR OUARANTEE If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before l<'ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter DeUvery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— ACT NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWit*t<, Mitchell County, Georgia. The first shipments of chestnuts to Baltimore during latter part of September sold for $15 per bushel. Weather for October at Piney Park, Ga. : Maximum, 95; min- mum, 34; mean, 65; rainfall, .21 inches. Italian chestnuts began arriving at the New York market early in October ; only half a crop is expect- ed and prices for good stock was 7^ cents. The Thirty-Fourth Annual Ses- sion of Georgia .Horticultural So- ciety will convene in the city of Sparta on Wednesday and Thurs- day, January 26th and 37th, 1910. The pecan crop in Lampassas county is turning out better than earlier reports indicated. The crop is being marketed now and the nuts are said to be of unusually good quality. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, Mere Mention. GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees of reliable known varieties. Uur catalog con tains Information on selecting, planting:, cul- ture, etc., and is tree for the asking. Graftwood for sale ; our orchards contain over forty named Tarieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. The pecan rivals the elms of New England in stately grandeur. It makes a noble avenue, street or roadside tree and should be much more generously planted than it is now. The choicest member of the Bra- zil nut group is the true butternut of the tropics, which is very seldom found outside that region. Its flavor is very delicate and delicious, but it does not keep well ; and even if it would bear shipment successfully the available supply is at present very small. There are few articles that enter into a larger number of dainties, that only women know how to pre- pare, than the pecan. When they are grown at home, and are had for the gathering, they can much more frequently be used in this way. And there is a double pleasure that comes when the mistress of the house can point to the fact that she grew the pecans that enter into the delicacies she sets before her family and guests. 8 TUB NUT^GROWBR All kinds of poultry can be raised in the nut orchard with advantage, rather than detriment, to the trees. The pecan tree seems to like com- pany. At least there is no more congenial place for it than about the yards and gardens of our homes, convenient alike for what it is to receive from the home and what it is to give in return. Here it can most readily receive the attention of the mistress of the house. Estimates indicate that in south- west Texas about 3,000 acres of land have been set recently in or- ange and pecan trees. H. C. Stiles, a well known horticulturist who represented California at the World's Fair at St. Louis, is super- intending the setting out of 1,000 acres of pecan and orange trees in the gulf coast country. Around Brownsville a tract of 1,000 acres near Monte Cristo has been pur- chased by Oklahoma parties who will set out pecan trees extensively. Owners of peach, pear, plum, fig, orange and other groves are now finding it advisable to fill in these groves with the finest of budded and grafted pecan trees, as these trees will come into bearing about the time that the other trees die out from old age. The income from a bearing pecan grove is far superior to that of anything that can be grown. In 1905, Burton H. Allbel, of New York, said of the pecan : "Among domestic nuts, the pecan is next in importance, and with the improved methods of culture now being introduced and practiced, it may wrest the first place from pea- nuts. Their leap into popularity has been even more rapid, and is only just begun. The invention of machines for cracking the pecan so that the kernels are almost intact, has done wonders toward increas- ing tiieir consumption. The nut is liked by all consumers, but the fact that it cracks badly in unskilled hands has had much influence in preventing a liberal sale. A vast- majority of nut consumers never heard of the pecan. Outside the large markets pecans are almost un- known, consequently they have not reached that point of consumption which they might, had more people known them. As an ingredient of Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, <"^SfS!?pT'' confectionery, and in many other ways, pecans are increasing in pop ularity, and as the nut itself is im- proved under better culture, there will be a steady increase in con- sumption. Every one who partakes of the pecan, likes it, but as yet there has been little attempt to push its sale singly. It forms the prin- cipal variety in mixed nuts, and in some instances is sold separately. The fact that consumers do not know it well enough to call for it very often, shows that it still has much to gain. A few years ago it was unknown in the larger centers of trade, and only in the South and Southwest was its true value under- stood as a nut. .Since then it has been successfully exploited and has taken its place among the well- known nuts whose consumption is steadily increasing. Mr. J. B. Wight's Chattanooga address, four six by nine inch pages, ivith fifteen hundred words. This is a careful and very conservative review of tlie commercial opportunities this nut otfers, and supplies .lUst the in- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 $4.SO 500 2.50 250 1-SO 100 75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. PROCEEDINGS The following volames of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Grower's Association can be obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Louis, 1904, 25c per copy Scranton, 1906, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907, 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 50c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, -:• -:- GEORGIA Partridge Wyandottes Eggs and breeding stock for sale. Season of 1908-09 my birds won 41 out of a possible 49 first and second prizes where shown. For beauty and utility they have no equal. Write for Catalogue. R. J. Sawyer, Menominee, - EMichigan. -THE- Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA TOE NDT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - -50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers; Fruit Growers, Nursery- men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medium it is particularly valuable, as no padding of circulation figures fixes the rates. Descriptive circulars sent on request. The Nut-Grower Co. Poulan, Georgia THB NUT-GROWBR Personal Mention. A correspondent says : "Every earnest nut grower — and I know none other — is a kindred spirit of mine." Mr. Charles L. Edwards, a pe- can specialist, of Texas, says : "Georgia is my native state, and forty-odd years ago put in some work as a healthy and vigorous private in her 33 regiments of vol- unteers." Mr.W.S. Hagerson,of Americus, Ga., reports a pecan tree, at that place, which is 45 feet high and has a spread of branches equal to its height, and is six feet in circumfer- ence three feet from the ground. It produces a fair-size, thin shell nut, and is said to never fail to bear a full crop. The Nut-Grower frequently has curious names, as well as pe- culiar localities to deal with. Some months ago we enrolled a subscrip- tion from far away New Zeland, and it seems to be doing good work over there, as the following new enrollments indicate. It requires some practice to write these names and addresses rapidly. Try it from dictation and see how you get it : "Ivar C. Aspuland, Conley Park, Taranki, Rahetu, New Zeland." "A. H. CockajMie, Biological Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Wellington, New Zeland." Budding Punch. Americus, Ga., July 5, '09. Editor Nut-Grower Dear Sir : — I am sending you a budding punch under same cover, with my compliments. Try it. and let me know what you think of it. I have added to it a small spoon- pointed pick to remove buds from wood or punch in case it slicks after being cut. The pick folds into the lever and is opened out like a knife blade. I think this tool will be more successful on spring budding than on buds of current season's growth. I have some buds set in the top of a large hickory April 15th, that are now five feet long. The punch idea was suggested QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming seasons delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A ' 'SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. ) to me by Prof. Kirkpatrick and did not originate with me. I will write you later what success I have had with it. The main advantage of this method is that buds can be taken from a tree and transfered to an- other without cutting the limb, leaving the limb on the tree to de- velop whatever fruit it may be car- rying. Of course the scar made by removing the bud should be covered with something to keep out insects, etc., while it is healing over. I use budding cloth which seems to answer very well. This being a hand-made tool, is crude as compared with the ma- chine-made punch, but it will an- swer as an experiment. Should they prove successful, they can be more neatly and accurately made. Yours trulv, H. VV. Smititwick. HELP \VANTED Mr. A. B. Uoortenow, nf Culebra, Canal Zone, has a ^ood tarm of about fifty acres at <;lenn- more, Ga . ten miles from Waycruss He wants To have it planted in pe'-ans, and will make it an object to nomy j^ood farmer who will handle the place in a suitable manner. 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all who send us 25 cents for one year's sub- scription to any one of the :;.'^c monthly Maga- zmes nameil Iteiew we will serid, ihsolutely free. 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Chattanooga, Tann, RECAN /X^ ip TEC' Pf CJ BEST \'A.ItlETIES -*- -lVJ-Vi:*C5 Special Low frices BGnr*s Nurseries PalatUa, I^lorlda, Barnwell Pecan Groves oto^Budi ded and Grafted trees nf the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BAKNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Nuts for Profil t^T.l-ZZ trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. SUCCESS .NATURAL SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL VfU\ ^TRSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS MISS. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the IVlost===OnIy the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss 10 THB NUT-GROWBl^ PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. OOKTINUED FROM PAGE THREE tion of everyone present, I may safely say that we will close this convention without a debt hanging over us. To-day we have with us those who belong to a class that has been facetiously called the "Primary Class." VV^e welcome those to this meeting. To them I may say that we have nothing too good for you. The lessons that have cost years of toil may be yours for the asking. The fellowship of men who have begun at the bottom, and have worked out their own financial sal- vation is open to you Being here we know that you will absorb some of the knowledge that is within such easy reach ; and going away that you will do so as ardent friends of an industry that has not pulled down a single man, but has been a blessing to everyone who has en- tered it with business foresight and common sense principles. There is room enough for all. In conclusion, let me say that while this Association does not en- courage the irresponsible boomer whose only interest in nut growing is, bv unwarranted statements and extravagant estimates of profits, to deceive the unwary ; yet we do most heartily welcome as allies all who want to assist in developing the industry along helpful lines. Nut culture is strong enough to rest its claims on actual facts and well founded conclusions. Our purpose is to moke everyone hap- pier who touches the business, be- cause it will make him financially more independent. We ai:n t3 beautify every farm home (and city home as well where there is room) by supplying shades that are the equal in beauty and stateliness of any in the land. We want to make a little heavier the pocket-book of every one who grows a nut tree. We will not be satisfied until our people become a nul-eating people, and thus are stronger in body and clearer in mind than those who live on heavier and coarser articles of diet. Gentlemen, I bespeak for you the most pleasant and profitable meet- ing in all the history of this Asso- ciation. The United States Census. The Thirteenth General Census of the United States will be taken beginning April 15th, 1910. About 65,000 enumerators will engage then in the huge task of counting every man, woman and child in the country, and of ascertaining for each individual the color, sex, age, conjugal condition, place of birth, place of birth of parents, number of years in the United States, citi- zenship, occupation, whether or not employer or employee, and if employee, whether or not employed at the date of enumeration, and the number of months employed during the preceeding calendar year. All of this, and certain addition- al information, is a part of the cen- sus of population, and must be as- certained for every one, regardless of occupation. In addition. Con- gress has provided for the collec- tion of detailed information re- garding the three principal pro- ductive industries of the country — agriculture, manufactures, and mines and quarries. These three great branches of industry repre- sent so large a propiiri iun of ihe total wealth of the country that their progress from decade to de- cade is an accurate index to the material development 3f the coun- trv as a whole. Preparation of Land. If the land whereon you intend to plant pecan trees has been crop- ped for several seasons, perhaps the; ground is in good condition and noj other preparation would be neceS'sl sary than to lay off the rows i proper distances, 50 to 60 feet apart. New land, however, unless natur-" ally loose and rich, is best prepared by cultivating at least one season ahead of planting, and if only a strip 5 or 6 feet wide first, the dis- tance apart you want to plant the trees, plow and replow several times and get the ground in good condition. 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You save ;Sio to $25 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- antee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BDY a bicycle or a pair of tires from awycrt* at any price until you receive our catalogues and leam our unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. VAII llfll I Dr ACTnillCUrn when you receive our beautiful catalogue and I UU WILL DC HOlUnidnCU study our superb models at the ivonder/ully loiv prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any oth^ factory. We are satisfied with Ji.oo profit above factory cost. ,^^ BICYCLE DEALERS* you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at ' double our prices. Orders filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but ^ usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from 83 to 88 or 810. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. tf^AHCTrD DDJIirrC ^itiSl*^ wheels^ imported roller chains and pedals* parts, repairs and vUHdlLII'DnHIVCOf equipment of all kinds at half ilie usual retail prices, iAiO HEDBETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF 8 SELF-HEALING TIRES '^ ^^'^"^^ "^"^ XoMoe the thick robber tread ••A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip ''H" to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make-SOFT. ELASTIC aud EASY RIDING. The regular retail price of these tires is ^.50 per Pair, but to introduce we will sellyouasamplepairfor$4.S0{cashwithorder$4.S5). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Taok8 or Glass wlU not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. OESORIPTIOM: Made in all sizes. It islively and easy riding, very durableand lined inside with ft special quality ot rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allow- ing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satis- fiedcustomersstating that their tires haveonly been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of^thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is^.50 per pair, but for advertisingpurposeswearetnakingaspecial factory price to the rider of only J4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price ®4.56 per pair) if yoU send FULL CASH WITH ORDKiC and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk In sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OUB expense if for any reason they arc not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. W'e know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. , g^ m^0%mm ma^^g% '^fB^O don't buy any kind at any price until you Send for a pair OX Ir WttU ntttM I Int^ Hedgethom Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial ct the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue wl'''ll describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. _ _ uA-r tm/M ir but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicyclr MMO IwUl WWMII or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL THB NUT'-GROWnR 11 Books and Catalogues. mniinmi)nnniiiiinir*nirii''^^^'^*^^''^^^»'»n'<'*'*ll Barbikr & Co.— Nursery trade list for 1909-10, 90 pages. Orleans, France. Ohio Nursery & SOpplv Co., Elyria, Ohio — Wholesale price list for season of 1909-10. Orchard Insurance — An 8- page folder regarding "Scalecide." B. G. Pratt Company, New York. Biltmore Nursery — Trade list for season of 1909-10, 56 pages, embracing a large list of trees and shrubbery. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of Chicago, 111., have just issued a very complete catalogue on wind- mills, Tanks and Pumps. Top-Working Fruit Trees- Is the subject of Bulletin No. 147 of the Colorado Agricultural Ex- periment Station, Fort Collins, Col. Transactions of the Massa- CHUSETTES Horticultural So- ciety FOR 1908. —Part II is a care- fully prepared and useful pamph- let of 150 pages. The Coe-Mortimer Companx, of Charleston, S. C, will send lit- erature regarding Basic Slag Phos- phates to those inquiring for same, by mentioning this publication. Eradication of Farm Needs — By the use of sulpate of iron, with description of its efTect upon vege- tables and useful plants, 16 pages, illustrated. American Steel & Wire Company Chicago, 111. Pecans — The bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture for September, 1909, by W. N. Hutt, 50 pages, illustrat- ed. A more extended notice of this bulletin will appear later. Importation of Nuts. dreau and brazil nuts YeM EndiDK, JUDeSO QUAKTirr VALUE BaRhels 1900. 166.048 $175,400 1901 . . 103,965 194.160 1902.. 191.661 346,152 1903.. 293,786 595.929 1904.. 215.168 462.802 1905.. 277.686 514.460 1906. 241.789 477.292 1907.. 280,633 685.556 1908.. 310,418 754.155 SUMMIT v 1.1.1 .A a THE LOUISIANA NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprieter, JEANERETTE. - - LOUISIANA. Headquarters for Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees in the South- west. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. PECANandROSENURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Delightful Home on BacK Bay. Biloxi, Hiss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people m winter, 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be m fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50, 000 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. . „ ,»., - ,»• J This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address W. F. HEIKES, Manager, HuntsvUle, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF =z Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co-Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as* they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 12 THB NUToGROWBR BS ^ c5 Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBERS =:^= National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale, Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurservmen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. -09 -S5 THE NUT^GROWER Volume VIII Number 5 Poulan, Ga., December, 1909. 5c per Copy 50c per Year THE NUT GROWERS EXCURSION One Hundred and Two Nut Growers Aboard Special Train from Albany to Baconton and DeWitt. The special train with 102 nut growers aboard left the Union Sta- tion at Albany at 8 :30, Oct. 13th. The first stopping point was at Hardaway (P. O. Putney). The train ran slowly through the 1,200 acre one and two year old orchards of the Albany-Georgia Pecan Co., where the system of leaving a five- foot space on each side of the tree rows, free from crops, and con- stantly worked by the company's mules, is in vogue. The trees in their second year showed a fine growth and color, while most of rows of the 1909 planting showed up well with every tree living. This is to-day the largest pecan orchard in the country and (we were informed) over 1,000 acres more will be planted the coming winter (1909-1910), trees for that acreage having actually been pur- chased. After passing through a body of virgin long leaf yellow pine tim- ber the train again slowed up to view the orchards of the South Georgia Pecan Co., where rows of trees over a mile in length were visible from the train. The color of the foliage, their growth, and the geometrical precision in which the rows are planted excited much favorable comment. The avenue of magnolias over a mile long through the center of the plantation attracted much attention. The method of not planting farin ciops nearer than five feet of the trees and assiduously cultivating the tree rows during the growing sea- son is also practiced here. It has been found necessary by both the above companies to di- vorce the general farming and or- chard interests, and mules are em- ployed on both places to do noth- ing but constantly cultivate the trees. The clean tree rows show- ing among the cotton and corn was an excellent and valuable object lesson. The journey was then con- tinued through the large orchards of the G. M. Bacon Pecan Co., Inc., and the Bartow Investment Co., at DeWitt (where later a de- lightful barbecue was served) to one mile south of Baconton, where an inspection was made of the young orchards of Mr. J. P. Gill, and one owned jointly by Mr. H. C. White and Mr. James Gill. Many trees on which places are being top-worked, originally be- ing set out as seedlings. On ac- count of it not being decided to visit these orchards until the eleventh hour, the owners were not able to have roadways mowed through the crops or to entertain the visitors as they would have otherwise done. After a stop of about 30 minutes the train returned to Baconton, where accommodations in the way of wagons, buggies and automo- biles were in readiness to convey the visitors to the several large or- chards in that locality. A drive of six or eight miles, consuming over two hours, passing through orchard after orchard ; over beautiful land, and at one time along the east bank of the Flint river, brought into view pecan in- terests which speak volumes for the industry. The men who are introducing this great object lesson were each the center of a group, and questions and answers were so numerous and constant that a score of reporters would not have sufficed to make the record complete. Soon after leaving the train the orchard of C. M. Barnwell was reached, with its ten thousand top- worked trees in a solid body. This work has all been performed dur- CONTINCED ON SECOND PAGE A General Consideration of Nuts as a Subtitute for Flesh Foods. By Geo. M. Niles, M. D. . Lecturer on Physiology, Atlanta School of Medicine, Atlanta. Ga. From Southern Cultivator. Permit me to assure my hearers at the very beginning that it is not my purpose to foist on them any fad- distic theories, nor, with the mis- taken zeal of the vegetarians, hold up my hands in holy horror at the mention of meat. Flesh has been eaten by human beings since the foundation of the earth, and probably will continue a staple part of the human dietary until the end of time. They, who will search the records of the world's greatest achieve- ments, and note those people who have been written the largest on the pages of history, will find them among the nations who were large consumers of meat ; while the vegetarian nations lagged behind in the arts of both peace and w^ar. In getting at my subject, there- tore, it is well that I should cover briefly a few bed-rock dietic prin- ciples, so that my remarks will be better understood. Among the elements of nourish- ment essential to animal life is protein, which includes the album- inoids, such as the white of egg, the lean part of meat and the gluten of wheat ; the gelatitzoids, as occurring in tendons and skin, and familiarly seen as gelatin; the extractives, being the principal con- stituents of beef tea and meat ex- tracts. The proteins, especially the al- buminoids, are of the greatest im- portance to the animal economy, for they help to build up new tis- sues, and repair the old, impaired by the wear and tear of the vital processes. They are also burned up in the body along with other essential food elements, being im- portant as a source of energy and heat. Of lesser moment is the fact that some protein maj' be convert- ed into fat. and stored away in the THB NUT'GROWBl^ body for future use, but this is a small consideration, for, if I may use the simile, protein is the work- ing and energetic food element. Fats and carbohydrates, as exem- plified in vegetables and sugars, may repose in idleness in protected portions of the body, filling out angles, and increasing body weight, working, it is true, but ever watch- ing for a chance to retire from strenuous participation in the bodily activities by joining the "re serve." The protein, on the other hand, is at all times up and doing, keeping hot the human furnace, giving strength to the muscles, and imparting vigor to all voluntary and involuntary movements. We might with propriety com- pare each human body to an in- dustrial plant, continually under- going destruction and repair ; con- tinually converting its raw mate- rial into power and heat and build- ing material. This power and heat of our bodies is derived from the food, which is oxydized or burned just as coal or wood is burned in a furnace. Now, oxidation takes place in the body or in the furnace either perfectly, imperfectly or not at all in accordance with suitable- ness of the fuel, the conditions un- der which it is furnished and the availablesupply of oxygen. We may safely assume that men vary in their food requirements as do different kinds of furnaces in their fuel re- quirements, and when we find that combustion is imperfect, there is need to either change the fuel or regulate the furnace, whether it be alive or the inert part of some heating aparatus. Having, I hope, made myself plain, I will give a short table showing a comparison in protein value of some standard meats and a few of the best known nuts : Article Per cent, of protein. Round Steak 19.8 Corned Beef 14.3 Veal 15.4 Mutton 13.8 Pork (ham) 14.2 Chicken 12.8 Goose 13.4 Turkey 16.1 Brazil nut 17.4 Chestnut (dry) 10.7 Hickory nut 15.4 Peanut 29.8 Pecan 12.1 Walnut 18.2 I have advisedly omitted in this table the other chemical costitu- ents, but will say that in nuts the watery and waste percentages are very much less than in the other articles mentioned. You will observe that the pro- tein in the meats run from I3% to 20%, while in the nuts it runs some- what higher, in the peanut reach- ing nearly 30%. The protein con- tent is low in the chestnut, as this nut is mainly a starchy food. Other of those nuts contain much fat, as the Brazil nut, the hickory nut, and the pecan — the last named showing the largest proportion in any of them — 70%. We may describe nuts as a highlj' concentrated class of food, and, as in dealing with any other highly concentrated article, certain intel- ligent rules should be observed, so as to obtain the maximum nutri- tive value with the minimum amount of labor on the organs of digestion. Regarding the comparative di- gestibility of meat and nuts, I must admit that the latter are not in as good repute. Much of this, how- ever, is undeserved, for, while evervone expects to eat more or less bread or vegetables with meat, and to stop eating it when the appetite is satisfied, it is not uncommon to see large quantities of nuts eaten alone ; or to see, after a full meal, a generous dishful supply consumed around some iiospitable board dur- ing a protracted ^05< /ra«(^/o!/ con- versation. As when eating meat, we habit- ually take with it some of the more bulky foods, thereby facilitating its propulsion through the digestive canal, so we should remember that nuts, being much more concentrat- ed, should be used in connection with such articles as fruits, vege- tables, breads, etc. [continued in jant'ary number.] The Nut Growers Excursion. CONTINOED FROMFIK3T PAGE ing the past four years and many of the trees have already borne a few nuts. In the north of this or- chard Mr. Barnwell has 400 acres which is partly planted in select budded trees, and his nursery has the stock growing suflicient to com- plete the planting of this additional area. On the south and adjoining Mr. Barnwell's place is the large plant- ing of the Keystone Pecan Or- chard. Here also were seen top- FOR SALE! GRAFTEDPECAN TREES These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my gfvove, : : : : : VAN DEMAN, STUART and a dozen other choice va- rieties Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston, S. C. Pecan Trees ^^7^ THK LEA.UING VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, ^w::,^;^!" For Sale One hundred acres of land now in shape for any agricultural use desired, located in Poulan, Worth county, Ga. Experts claim that this land, properly cultivated for nut growing, will produce ten dol- lars for each one invested in cultivating within ten years. Editor of this paper will show land to any prospective buyer. For further information, correspond with the owner, John W. Corcoran, '2S S, Albany Ave., Cbtoaaro, 111. Real Estate for Sale In Different States U interested in buying or sell- Dirt, write for Sample Copy of Pciag'sKeal Estate Monthly. Subscription, per year, only 50 cents Then you can keep better posted in what is going on in the Real Estate World. In addition to this you will sew interesting reading matter on other subjects J. EDGAR POAG, Broker Rock Hill, S. C. "Cuts the Earth to Suit Your Taste." •LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. THB NUT~GRO^VjBM worked trees in promising condi- tion. The Jacicson Brothers' several plantings, running into hundreds of acres; the Baconton Pecan Nut Orchard Company and other smaller places, each had interesting features. About ten o'clock Mr. Barnwell and his nephew, Dr. Barnwell, served light refreshments, which were spread under a magnificent magnolia tree, which is probably the largest of its kind in South Georgia. It was while at this lunch . and the entire party was together that a group of photographers got busy. If any of them got good pictures they will furnish history for the industry. Time passed rapidly and it was after one o'clock before all were back to the tram, and a short run of three miles on return trip landed the party at DeWitt, a place nota- ble in the annals of modern pecan culture, for the pioneer work and workers, the place where the stu- dent can see and learn as well as trace the transition from seedling to bearing budded and grafted trees. A history of the work at this place when written out in full, will make interesting reading. On leaving the train at this point the first and a most enjoyable part of the program was the delightful barbecue lunch served by the G. M. Bacon Pecan Co., the DeWitt Supply Co. and others. After lunch the party broke up into squads, and under the pilotage of officers and employes of the com- panies, went in different directions, some in buggies but mostly on foot, to see things which interested them most. DeWitt was the objective point on the journey and here the party remained as long as the schedule would permit. Owing to the vast acreage in pe- cans through which the train passed (close to 4,000 acres) and the lim- ited time at our disposal, it was impossible for the whole party to see everj'thing of interest, yet the day was full of usefulness and value to all who were fortunate enough to go. The train returned to Al- bany about 5 p. m. with a pretty tired crowd. A Few Remarks on the Pecan. • BY R. C. SIMPSON. CONTINUED FROM NOVEMBER NUMBER Another point I have been notic- ing lately is that of cutting back young trees in the nursery which are to be carried over another year. Some pecan nurserymen contend this should not be done, or say at least that it is unnecessary. It is true that a tree, say 2-3 feet high, when cut back will not grow quite so tall the next season as it would if left alone, yet, if properly culti- vated and fertilized it will get tall enough and will be so much straight- er, stockier and smoother that it becomes a much more desirable tree for planting. When these trees are cut back in the spring it also gives any near-by smaller trees or grafts, just put in that winter, a much better show than they would otherwise have. A pecan tree is very partial to the sun and when shaded down by its neighbor, does not do well. When the trees are cut back, therefore, the growth of all in the row, which may be made up of dormant buds and grafts as well as small trees left from the past season, is made more uniform. The cut-backs, however, are some- what more subject to being blown off by wind than those not so treat- ed, but if properly staked little loss will result from this source. It has been our experience that cutting back has so many more advantages than leaving the trees as they are, that we do not hesitate to recom- mend the practice to any who have not given it a trial. I do not think however that a tree four feet high should be disturbed, as this is most too large to cut to the ground. It is seldom, indeed, though that the pecan nurseryman has to carry over any trees larger than the 2-3 foot grade. The proper method of pruning or cutting back pecan trees to be set in the orchard is worth our considera- tion. How should a pecan tree be pruned when transplanted to the grove? In considering this ques- tion it must be remembered that cutting back these trees presents a different proposition from cutting back trees in the nursery row whose roots remain undisturbed. There is a considerable difference of opin- ion in regard to this pruning. Some growers say a pecan tree should not be cut back at all ; neither top nor tap root; some say about half of the top should be cut off; others contend that only about one-third should be removed. Un- til the past year I was an advocate of the last method, but I have changed my views recently. Of course, we all agree now that it is not injurous to cut the tap-root, so we will confine the subject to the top. * Read at meeting: of Southern Nurserymen. [continued in jani'Ary number. 1 CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for^the Buyer and Seller lu thi3 column we ^ive place to advertisements from subscibers who have Orchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for thio^ wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient ana profitable. PECAN ORCHARD BARGAIN.- We have an interest in a i'>ecan orchard for sate at a Bargain. The proposition is an attractive one and will pay the investor over 10 per cent, from the very first. This is an investment opportunity not to be missed It will not be open long, write today for full particulars to The Orchard Invest- ment Co., Monticello, Fla. WANTED— A partner in a pecan orchard de- velopment proposition. An opportunity for the investment of a few hundred dollars where it will earn an enormous profit. A snap for some one. Address P. O. Box No. 27, Monticello. Fla. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may ears a good income corresponding for newspapers ; ex- perience unnecessary Send stamp tor full par- ticulars. Empire Press Syndicate, Middleport, N. Y. (sept 3t.) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Culver Poultry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts lurnished only in limited quantities, THE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. CHOICE LOCATION— No. 24 400 acres, near Monticello, Fla Two-thirds of the tract Is in cultivation, balance in pine and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake Price. $10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, tirst-class In every respect. 320 acres now l)eiug planted in pecan trees of choice va- rieties Will subdivide into five acre tracts. Will be cared for for live years at price accepted THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY. Poulan. Ga. WANTED-CoDles of March, May, June and December, 1907, and February, Marcn and April, 1968, of The NutGboweb. HELP WANTED Mr. A. B. Goodenow, of Culebra, Canal Zone, has a good farm of about fifty acres at Glenn- more, ija., ten miles from Waycross. He wants to have it planted in pecans, and will make it an object to some good farmer who will handle the place in a suitable manner. A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling, particulars of . . . Ask for THE NUT-GROWER CO., POUIAN, GEORGIA. Ackander on Cost of Orchard. Editor Nut-Grower : Dear Sir — Please find enclosed your paper returned and accept my sincere thanks for letting me have it. I consider it a splendid paper and the best I have read in regard to the expenses of grow- ing pecans and now I think still more it should be printed and giv- ing the people a fair idea of what they can expect and not giving "Gold bricks" as people in general are afraid of those things and will not even investigate. It is more in line of what I have figured out before from own experiences of my own orchard and I am now more satisfied that I was nearer to the right than others claimed it could be done for. I hope you will work up to a full discussion of it before long. I have shown your paper to oth- ers and they are of the same opin- ion as I am. Pleasing to know the work of the Assotiation as well as the Nut-Grower is in a fine con- dition. In one of my orchards of 240 trees planted March 1904. 124 trees are bearing this year and I have picked 50 lbs, of nuts so far and more on. One Russell tree bearing 3 lbs. of nuts. Yours very truly, Alb. B Ackander . THB NUT^GROWBR 100,000 pounds annually, as long as the price was not over 30 cents. "I will give you a few figures to show you what it costs to pro- duce a pound of shelled pecan halves, about one-third will be pieces ; in other words, three pounds of medium sized pecans such as you get in your native groves will produce one pound of halves and one-fourth to one-third pound of pieces. I figure the price at 7 cents per pound for the un- shelled nuts as that is about an average in a good crop year : 3 lbs. of pecans unshelled at 7 cents 2ic Shrinkage 2 per cent 0042 Cracking Jc per lb 015 Shelling 3 lbs 07 Cartons 01 Casing 005 Factory cost 10 per cent 02 i Shelled Pecans. E. W. Knox, in paper read be- fore the Texas Farmers Congress, said in part : "The president of the largest pe- can shelling concern in tliis coun- try told me that when the jobber's price for shelled walnuts or almonds runs 25 cents per pound that the buyer would give the preference to shelled pecans at 35 cents per pound for halves. But he also told me that from 35 to 40 cents per pound for shelled pecans was about the limit, for just as soon as the price advances above 40 cents the buyer would go back to walnuts and almonds, "The limit in price for pieces is about 30 cents. He told me of one customer who used them in a cer- tain kind of candy and bought •3352c "This, as you see, gives the shel- ler a pound of shelled halves and one-fourth to one-third lb of pieces, that costs him a little over 3J cents. The pecan sheller has been a great benefit to the grower as he will use up all the medium sized pecans and thus make prices much better for the large nuts, provided you will sort them out as I explain- ed before and hold them for fancy trade." JPECAN /T^iaif E^C^ BEST VARIliTlES J- iVjIirOC* SpeciaJ f-ow ^»r/oes Bear's Nurseries 42 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 397 Babies, 10 Cards and an Album ABSOLUTELY FREE To all who send us 25 cents for one year's sub- scription to any one o£ the 35c monthly Maga- zines named belew we will send, absolutely free, pictures of 42 ot the world's most beautiful girls, a picture of 391 babies, 10 soni: post cards and abaaut'lul Album, entitled "SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD," size 6xK inches, B4 paries, containing 75 interesting and instructive views from all ove the world. Woman's World, Chicago— Literary and family Successful Farming. DesMoinei— Agriculture Universal magazine, St Louis— Literary Household Journal and Floral Life, Ohio Great West Magazine, Denver- Eilucational The Farmer's ffite, St Paul-.-Household, The Metropolitan and Rural Homy, ^ew York. Poultry Topics. Linc(IBER. 1909. A Florida :iurseryman was pur- suaded by a friend to attend the Albany convention. He was sur- prised to find how desirable a place it was and later was pleased, as he sold a thousand dollars worth of stock while at the meeting. When we have several thousand subscribers like Mr A^^M. Garrett, of Louisiana, we will have occasion to feel that our work is appreciat- ed. While we have many evidences of approbation, and many sub- scribers who follow the plan he uses, still he carries his good will into the future by paying his sub- scription in advance. Besides, he never waited 'till a bill was ren- dered. About a year ago he paid for three years, and now he repeats the same operation, so that his ex- piration date is as far in the future as the proposed completion of the Panama canal. Some of our subscribers have been having trouble with the scab on pecan trees, and apprehend dis- aster to the industry. While this is probably the most serious disease thus far encountered, still the fact remains that the apple, which is subject to numerous diseases of this kind as well as many other troubles, still is grown in largely increased quantity. Resistant varieties of thev pecan and the top-working of seedlings, subject to the disease, will keep it in control. It is pos- sible that some localities are more subject to it than others, or it may be more prevalent in sections where the trees were obtained from points having different environrpents. Some one has said that advertis- ing is the fertilizer for business. We like the idea, and will be glad to have the Nut-Grower used largely as a business builder. We are build- ing business all right, but want a living out of our work as we go along. With next issue we will have additional space at command, and promise to enlarge the amount of reading matter as extensively as the advertising patronage permits. We are making good time in at least one particular with our test orchard, which was started early in 1909. During the past summer the Curtis, Success. Mobile and Money- Maker trees had produced new growth sufficient to supply a few buds, which were set in two-year-old stock in our home nursery. A good percentage of the buds started into growth promptly and are now so well established that they will be set in orchard during the present season. A good bargain is said to be one in which both parties are gain- ers. It is too frequently the case that while one gains the other loses. This obtains always in gambling operations, and is often the result of speculation. The nut grower is on the right kind of a foundation. Sales of his products add to his wealth, while affording profits and pleasure to his purchasers. Both are benefitted and this makes busi- ness a pleasure, and removes it from the tension incident to many callings. A writer in the National Maga- zine for August, 1909, says of the pecan : "A tree that will live from three to seven hundred years, that will fruit practically all its life, that will attain to a height of a hundred and fifty feet, that is sus- ceptible to neither drought nor other climatic irregularities, thai has no vital enemy, a tree that com- bines the beauty of the magnolia and the symmetry of the pine with the stateliness of the oak and the fecundity of the walnut, the pecan is certainly one of nature's greatest gifts to the the South." It is interesting to note in con- nection with the report of the nut growers'exciirsion to Baconton and DeWitt, found in this number, that the grafting and budding of the pecan began at DeWitt in 1902 and the small stock that year of but two or three thousand trees were prac- tically all sold, and the planting of commercial orchards with other than seedling trees did not even begin 'till 1903 while the first com- mercial company was not formed till 1906. If the initial three years can show such surprising results, what will the next ten years pro- duce? However, DeWitt and Bacon- ton is but a small fraction of the pecan area, which embraces other states and larger areas than the Flint valley of Georgia affords. It matters not whether this valley continues to lead the world in this pursuit or not, for her commanding position is secure as the birthplace of the orgrnization, which has wrought out great things in nut culture for all the lands, the impor- tance of which is not yet recognized. In our News column will be found the report for the 1909 crop on Mr. Wight's Frotscher tree. This one tree, when viewed from an investment standpoint, works out surprising results. At ten cents a po;ind it pays this year 8 per cent on $440.00 and an acre of such trees would be worth $8,800.00. But this is not all. The most crit- ical will admit that these nuts will J bring fully 35 cents a pound in ■ any market, while it would spoil our calculation to tell how much he actually received, for sales made. At 25 cents it is two and a half times the figures given, making the acre a property valuation of twenty-two thousand dollars. Mr. Wight claims that if one tree will yield such returns, a dozen, will do the same, and if given proper at tention, a hundred, or a thousand will be correspondingly profitable English Walnut Creams— Use French cream as above. Make ball of the cream about the size oi the walnut. Have ready English walnuts, shelled so as not to break the meats. Place a half nut meat on either side of the cream, pres ingin, and lay aside to dry. ^ J THE NUT-GROWBR Nut Growers! Read This! WE WOULD CALL YOUR ATTENTIO?? TO ^#wi@r Total Phosphoric Acid 15 to 18 Per Cent.. [basic slag phosphate] AN'ALYZINti Lime 35 to 50 Per Cent.. Magnesia and Iron 18 to 20 Per Cent.. This material is beinp lareely used bv some of the most intelligent nut and fruit growers in this country with splendid resnlts Why not YOU? There is no ujaterial known that so strongly appeals to you as this, because: In addition to the PHOSPHOKIC ACID, it contains also large amounts of LIME. MAGNESIA and IRON, which are very necessary in assisting in large production of fruit and at the same time keeping your trees healthv and vigorous. It is not treated with SULPHURIC ACID like Acid Phosphate and cannot destroy the humus matter in your soils and make them sour and unproductive, and many other reasons. This space is too small to tell you all about it. Write for descriptive pamphlet and prices. In addition to Thomas Phosphate Powder we import and handle NITRATE OP POTASH MURIATE OP POTASH DRIED BLOOD IMPORTED PISH (lUANO SULPHATE OP POTASH NITRATE OP SODA KAINIT The Coe-iVIortiiiiei? Company, New York Charleston. S. C. Mere Mention. Nut bearing trees planted along all the small brunches and in the fence corners will increase the beauty and value of the farm. Probably no other field of unde- veloped natural resources in all the wide domain of diversified produc- tion offers richer and happier re- sults than does nut culture. The trade paper has a field of its own. It is the medium between the manufacturer and jobber and the retailer. It is the powerful force that creates the demand with the retailers. Plant pecans. It will beautify the place better than any other thing you can invest your money in ; buildings are all the time de- preciating. Pecan trees are always increasing in value without cost. Nut growing in the Southwest is an awakening industry, and will claim more attention later on. Peo- ple are learning more of the value of the simpler foods and we see a re- turn to the nut and vegetable diet of our great forerunners. Adam and Eve. The pecan ranks first as a table nut ; it ranks first in quality of fat oil ; it ranks first in food value per pound over all nuts. It is acknowl- edged by confectioners as the rich- est and most valuable. In the pro- duction of oil it gives the greatest quantity of the richest nut oil. J. B. Wight says, "Briefly put- ting it. there is money in pecan growing, for the one who knows his business and takes care of his trees. The careless and ignorant man, who thinks a pecan tree should be set and cared for as a post, can find other methods for throwing away his money that are just as satisfactory." The pecan may well be termed the King of Nuts. In the forest it rears its stately head above its fel- low trees, as if proud of the load of riches it carries in the form of sweet, luscious nuts, the like of which will, where the best, thin- nest-shelled and most prolific varie- ties have been selected and plant- ed, become the leading, most sta- ple and remunerative horticultural enterprise of the South. There is no legitimate invest- ment that promises more safety than does a' pecan orchard. It is easily managed, at small cost and at minimum risk, and by cultiva- ting the land in other crops during the waiting period, the business can be made self-sustaining from the start, while the enhanced val- ue of every acre of land planted, would each year amount to as much as the cost of the land. One can afford to w^ait a few years for profits, when the cost of invest- ment is sure to be returned, togeth- er with large annual profits for a period measured by generations. The advent of the budded and grafted pecan has removed the greatest uncertainty in the pecan industry. One may now not only be sure that his trees will bear, but that they will do so at a reasonably early age. And further he may know that in the quality and quan- tity of the product he will have something that is worth while. The pecan shellers prefer the or- dinary or medium sized pecans and will not pay any more for the large ones, therefore it behooves all growers to sort their pecans as they are gathered, sell the medium sized to the shellers and the large ones to the dealers who will pay you a bet- ter price, as they ship them into the eastern markets, where they are sold to the fancy trade for cracking and eating out of the shell. Caucasa is a soluble saccharate of copper and lime, coming into use in Europe in place of the rath- er cumbersome Bordeaux Mixture. When ^prayed on the trees, the thin layer of the solution is readily changed by the atmosphere, as in the case of Bordeaux Mixture, into the insoluble film of copper com- pound that has the specific power to kill fungi. The thinness of this film has the advantage of interfer- ing all the less with the important functions of the foliage, and also of sticking very close — which was found in one case to be for three months after one spraying. 8 THB NUT^GROWBR News Items. Monticello, Fla., has six large nurseries, and each make a special- ty of pecans. The Standard Pecan Co. won the Blue ribbon at the Jefferson county (Fla.) Fair. North Carolina won on pecans at the recent Horticultural Exhibi- tion at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Weather for November at Piney Park, Ga. : Maximum temperature 87, Minimum 25, Mean 61, Rain- fall 44 inches. The 1908 yearbook of the De- partment of Agriculture describes several new varieties of the pecan. Taylor, Kennedy, Hodge, Bolton and Carman are in the list. San Saba, Texas, is a prominent pecan market. In one day, during the past season, 66,iSo pounds were bought by local merchants, at prices ranging from 8 to 20 cents. Up to the present time I have gathered 349 pounds of nuts from my Frotscher tree and there are still a few scattering nuts yet to be gathered. The circumference is 62 inches. — J. B. Wight. Local pecan growers at Albany, Georgia, are planning to organize. The purpose is to hold annual con- ventions and advertise the resources and work of that locality. Judge Smith and W.C Scovill are pushing the project. The proceedings of the Albany Convention of the National Nut Growers Association is in press and will be out soon. Copies can be obtained from the Secretary at Poulan, Ga. The price to the public is fifty cents per copy. During the year that closed with the shipments of October 31, more than 40,000 cars of oranges and lemons were shipped from Califor- nia, a larger crop by more than 20 per cent than has ever been pro- duced, aggregating over 15,000,000 boxes. Plant Nut Trees. Nature has so arranged it that some kinds of nut will thrive in al- most every locality. The hickory nut does well in the North, the chest- Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1908=1909 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, "'^.gfs^sSpT'' nut in the Central States, and the pecan in the South. Walnuts thrive well everywhere. All of these are profitable for nuts and timber and are ornamental for shade. — Texas Farmer. Lay by in Store for the Children The dream of every father is to lay up something for his children that they may enjoy after he is gone. Now, here is one thing he can lay up. A pecan grove is better than stocks or bonds. Local ties are strong and there is a mysterious tie that binds us to a tree that will live on through generations yet unborn, and always bless the heir that in- herits.— Extract from address by Dr. J. B. Hunnicutt, editor South- Cultivator. The San Saba pecan may be de- scribed as follows : Size small, 85 to 90 nuts per pound, individual specimens measure about ifx|^ inches; ovate, slightly flattened toward the apex ; color bright, red- dish-yellow, marked with purplish- brown splashes; shell very thin and brittle; partitions thin; ker- nels easily removed, plump, smooth, deeply and broadly grooved, bright straw-colored, solid, fine grained; flavor delicate, rich, sweet : quality excellent. THE Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees of reliable known varieties. Our catalog con tains information on selecting, planting, cul ture, etc., and is free for the asking. (Jraftwood for sale ; our orchards contain over fortv named varieties. H. S. GRAVES. PROPRlEfOR. Gainesville, Florida. SUCCESS -NATURAL SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL PEC4K NURSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS MISS. THE NUT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . • -50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers; Fruit Growerb, Nursery- men and investors can read it with pro tit. As an advertising oiedium it is particularly valuable, as no padding of circulation figures fixes the ratef. Descriptive circulars sent on request. The Nut-Grower io. Poulan, :-: Georgia THH NUT~GROWBH 9 How a Large Orchard was Planted. For lining of the tree rows we used a steel wire which would stand the necessary strain without stretch- ing, and cut the wire into lengths so that the links when tied would be just fifty feet apart. The tieing was carefully done so that there would be no stretching of the line and good anchors were attached to the ends. A base line or row was carefully staked off and care was taken in setting the anchor each time to see that the first link was placed directly in line with the stakes marking the first row, other- wise all links on the wire would be out of the line and the stakes mark- ing the places for the trees would not line up properly. Half as many men as there were links on the wire, or rows to be staked, were given sharpened stakes about eight feet high, with a piece of white muslin attached to the tops so that the)' could be readily seen at a dis- tance. The end slakes being set and a man placed at end or base row to see that the stakes lined up properly, the stakes were set in rotation, beginning with tlie one farthest from the base row, and with signals or motions of the hand, the man "sighting the stakes" had them placed in line; then the wire waslified and carried from the preceding row and an- chored close to, and in line with, the stakes just set. Small stakes to mark the place for the tree were quickly stuck down close to the wire and opposite the links mark- ing the row. In this way about 75 acres per day were nicely staked off ready for the men digging I he holes. — J. F. Jones. Nut Culture. AtAmer'can Pomolngical Society. The subject of pecan culture was admirably treated by H. H. Hume, Glen Siiinl Mary. Fla.. and S. H. James, of Mound, La., both papers treated the possibilities of pecan culti.re in a sensible, reasonable manner. The glamour and ro- mantic possibilities mav be said to have been peeled off and the great future of ihe industry sketched without exaggeration. Both be- QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A ' 'SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO-, MONTICELLO, : : FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower, i lieved that there was a large future foF pecan culture in the South West and that when the propagat- ed varieties came into the market the demand for the improved nut would increase very rapidly. A pecan investment might be regard- ed as a staple and permanent one. Chestnut culture was treated by Mr. J. C. Reist, of Pennsylvania. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., ThomasvillcQa. Wmw Sate! St;andard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. (iillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, , Mitchell County, Georgia. The National Nut Growers Asso- ciation. The'meeting of the Nut Growers Association this year was the best one in its history, there being more than one hundred representative Nut Growers from many states in the Union in attendance at the meeting at Albany, Georgia. This gathering has grown within the past eight years from just a few pioneers in the business until now it is a strong body of enthusiastic and progressive men. The most interesting feature of the meeting at Albany this year was the visit to the thousands of pecan trees growing in that region. These trees are now, many of them, old enough to begin profitable bear- ing, so that the money to be made from the planting of pecan trees has passed beyond the conjectural age Next year the association goes to Monticello, Fla , where are to be seen perhaps the finest native seed- ling trees in point of age and profit- able bearing that are to be found anywhere in the south. By an- other year the association will likely come to Texas. The interest in pecan planting in Texas is clearly on the increase, and the coming of such a body of men will do much to stimulate the planting of the im- proved varieties in the state, which now produces by far the greatest per cent, of commercial pecans. — Southern Orchards and Homes. PROCEEDINGS The foUowmg volumes of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Louis, 1904;. 25c per copy Scranton, 1906, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907, 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 50c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, •:- GEORGIA Seed Pecans For the accommodation and convenience of patrons we buy and sell Pecan Nuts for seed purposes. PineyParkNursery J. F. Wilson, Manager Poulan, :-: Georgia. THn NUT-GROWBR 11 Books and Catalogues. Mr. T. V. MuNSON, of Denison, Texas, has a new book, entitled, "Foundation of American Grape Culture." E. Fromhold & Co., Saxony, Germany. Wholesale price list of choice German Flower Seeds, for season 1909-1910. R. Warnock, of Independence, Mo., in a small booklet, advertises a "Tree Paint," which he claims efficacious in preventing horticul- tural ills. Griffing's 1910 Tree Cata- logue— Griffing Brothers Co., Jacksonville, Fla., 30 illustrated pages, listing fruit trees, orna- mental stock and thirteen varieties of pecans, with other nut trees. Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, Glen St. Mary, Fla. 1910 cata- logue and price list, 50 finely illus- trated pages. Eight varieties of pecans are listed and described. Transactions of the Massa- chusetts Horticultural So- ciety, for the year 1909. Part I, 150 pages, contains various papers of timely interest to all horticul- turists. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of Chicago, 111 , have just issued a new catalogue of Wood and Steel Windmills. The theory and details ot construction are analyzed and published completely tor the first time in this book. Turkey Creek Nurseries, Macclenny, Fla. — Descriptive cata- logue for 1909 1910, is a handsome 40-page pamphlet, profusely illus- trated. Fifteen varieties of pecans are listed, several of them however are not desirable for coinmercial planting. P®c®an taw®slH@nis Mr. J. B. Wight's Chattanooga address, four six t)y nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words. This Is a careful and very conservative review of tlie commercial opportunities this nut offers, and supplies just the in- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1 ,000 $4.50 500 2.50 250 1.50 100 75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Caorgia. m^*i^^^i*VW^FW^^^ihUf ^m^ Vv fi V V ff vv ^i vv ^ mv^^vi*vi*^f^vi\f*"if^tif^iin^^iin$ll LUMMIT NURSERY STOCK UR5ERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors MONTICELLO, >^ ^JX FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses —OUR SPECIALTIES— The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of the Future lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: |M»l*|t . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. ^. ,. .^. ^.. ,. |.^|. .. .. .. ^. ^. ,. '■'•'■'■'■'■'■'•'■'■•■'■"* THE LOUlSlflNfl NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprieter, .lEANERETTE. - - LOTTISIANA. Headquarters for Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees in the South' west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. PECAN AND ROSE NURSERY FOR SALE In Connection with a Deligtitful Home on Back BaVf Biloxi, niss. Biloxi is a noted health resort, patronized by city people and planters of the South in summer and Northern people in winter. 400 acres, more or less, with a water front on Back Bay of over one-half mile. Over 50,000 grafted pecan trees. Over 100,000 pecan seedlings will be in fine condition for grafting winter of 1908-9. Over 50,000 budded roses for market of 1908 and 1909. Also a fine stock of magnolia grandiflora, figs and Japan per- simmons. This property belongs to the Heikes-Biloxi Nurseries Co., Biloxi, Miss., and is paying good dividends The Company has no debts. It is operated as a branch of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala., and the only reason for selling is the desire to concentrate all business at Huntsville. This is an ideal rural home on one of the most beautiful bays on the Gulf Coast. This is an unusual opportunity of combining pleasure and business. This property will admit of division into eight lots, four fronting on the Bay. Address w. F. HEIKES, Manager, Huntsville, Ala. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., Z3=^^^^^^= OFFERS A VARIETY OF z=^=^^=^ Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. "For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA. 12 THB NUT^GROWBR Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBERS = National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale, Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. eg - eg GO '"^ Co 3S THE NUT^GROWER Volumo IX Number 1 Whole No. 90. Poulan, Ga., January, 1910. 5c per Copy 50c per Year F. W I I.SOX. THE COST OF A PECAN ORCHARD ^he search for New VarieUes. ByTheo Bechtel. Ocean Springs, Miss. * With SO many choice and very profitable varieties of pecans as we now have under cultivation, the first idea tiiat might suggest itself to most of u.s would be, why look for other or new varieties? Why not let good enough alone .^ How- ever true this may be, no varietj' of pecans, or i\ny other kind of fruit, has yet been introduced which might not be improved upon by combining some of the most su- perior qualities of one sort with the almost perfect ones already possess- ed by that of another variety. Another and very worthy motive in the search for newvarieties.would be to widen the area over whicii pecans may be successfully grown that more iionies may enjoy the pleasures of the shade of the pecan tree in tiie hot summer days, of gachering the nuts in the fall, and last, but not least, the luxury of using the delicious pecan nut all the year round. Granting then, that there are good and sufficient reasons for con- tinuing "The Search for New Va- rieties," I feel that a word of cau- tion might well be put in here, as theiintroduction of new varieties of pecans, and the naming of some varieties which do not possess merit superior to those we already have introduced, is very likely to be overdone in some sections. We should always bear in mind that the introduction of an inferior ar- ticle is likely to prove to be as much to our detriment as the in- troduction of a superior product is to our credit. Since the successful introduction of the Success pecan, nuanerous varieties of seedlings, varying in degrees of merit, have been brought to us with the sug- ; gestion that they be given a name and introduced, evidently with the thought that they might become as popular as that variety, and others which have proven well worthy of propagation and introduction. Our answer to all is that we will never HV DH. J. Ml!. President and Fellow Workers : The cost of a pecan orchard in- cludes everytiiing which enters into its establishment and care up to a time, say five years, when initial crops may be expected. The actual amount of cash used does not necessarily represent liie full cost, as other things besides money are essential, but they too frequently are not given full or proper consideration, but they swell the figures at which the actual in- vestment stands. It is not my purpose to show how easily one can obtain a pecan orciiard or how cheaply it can be established or even consider what it is worth when at bearing age. I shall also ignore all reference to in- cidental profits made from the or- chard land by cultivation of inter- mediate crops or other auxiliary methods which are not strictly in line with the best interests of the trees. The growing of necessary trees for planting belongs distinctly to the nursery business. The obtain- ing of a desirable and suitable site may necessitate the services of a real estate dealer, while the inci- dental supplies and labor are sub- ject to varying trade conditions. It is simply from a common sense business viewpoint that I shall treat the subject. The scripture injunction to "Set down and count the cost befoie building," applies to the making of a pecan orchard as well as to arch- itectural structures. I may be allowed to say that this theme is not one of my own selec- tion for this occasion and should my views and figures not seem en- couraging or even be regarded as detrimental to the best interests of the industry, the blame, if any, must rest upon the shoulders of those who proposed the subject and were instrumental in having me as- signed, as your program indicates. However, I recognize the im- portance of the subject at this ^tage of our industrial career as pecan growers and appreciate the com- pliment paid me. It should be clearly understood that my treatment of the theme is purely from a commercial view point and does not apply to the farmer who plants simply as an ad- junct to his usual operations or to those who plant for other consider- ations than direct profit. It matters not whether mv per- sonal judgment is correct in the particulars mentioned or not, but we need to know the truth about such matters as show so wide a range in estimates, as we have been having in this very particular. We need to know at least I he approxi- mate truth, even if it hurts tempo- rarily. It is the investor wl'.o looks to pecan growing for dividends on his capital or savings from year to year, who must reckon with each and every one of at least ten separate cost Items, we shall mention, and he looks to us, the advocates and representation of the industry, for facts. He also l3oks to us to carry into execution such plans and pros- pects, of our own designing, as he may select. It is not good business for anyone to engage to perform certain duties until he knows vvhat it will cost. The items I shall men- tion all belong to the orchard and cannot be be ignored or slighted without sacrificing the business prospects. The figures which follow cannot apply with equal force to different localities and are liable to vary from year to year, owing to general in- dustrial conditions, but they are • Read at 1909 meeting of the Georgia-Ptorida Pecan Growers. (See editorial note on page 8.) foNTISl'KD ON SE<'i»SD PAGE Rejid at the Albany Convention. THB NUT^ GROWER advise introducing a new variet)' unless it is at least a little superior to that wliich we alreadj- have. Wliy? Because a long list of va- rieties is only a source of confusion and bewilderment to the orchardist, who has not the time nor the oppor- tunity to test half of them before going into the business. The list of varieties being propagated by the various nurseries has grown within the past five years to such an extent that one would now need an orchard of several acres for test- ing alone if all are to be included. As said before, no nut is so near perfect but that some improvement might be suggested. Therefore we should all be on the search for new varieties of superior merit, and be sure that we place our standard of the ideal nut very high, for we certainly have a number already which rank well along toward per- fection in many points. In this connection we might ask. What constitutes the ideal pecan? This question will probablv never be definitely settled since there are so many uses for the pecan that the ideal nut for one purpose would be far from the ideal nut for some one or more of the other purposes for which they are used. For instance, could a nut be too large? No, not for some purposes ; and Yes, for some other purposes. Could a pecan be too rich in oil? For the manu- facturer of pecan oil it could not. Who knows but what many years hence we may be growing entire orchards of special varieties for special uses? As an illustration, last fall a candv manufacturing concern of St. Louis made an offer of $i,ooo for a thousand pounds of nuts of one special variety, and re- jected other choice sorts because this one suited their purpose. But at the present time what seems to be the ideal nut to the most of us is an all-purpose nut combining good size quality of kernel, crack- ing qualities, vigor of tree and enormous productiveness. As most of you know, the nietii- od of obtaining new varieties is to plant the nuts and get the varia- tions from the parent trees which, in many instances, are very great. Here is where the scientific hybri- dizer gets in his good work b\' po- lenizing vareities of superior merit with another possessing some other special quality witii the view of obtaining the happy combination in the trees produced by planting these nuts. Mr. Chas. Forkert, as- sisted by myself, is now carrying on this work of hybridizing, at Ocean Springs, and we understand there are others who are tnaking similar efi'orts along these lines. The day may not be far distant when the name of some of these gentlemen becomes famous as the creator of some very choice varie- ties. Nature, too, is continually carrying on the work of hybridi- zing, and as we already have such choice nuts obtained from this source, who knows but what we may yet find a better one produced by chance?. 1 have some such chance seedlings now under test which promise good results, but will not be introduced if not an actual improvement on what we already have. It would be well therefore, to be on the lookout for choice pecans, and when such a nut is found, hunt up all its faults as well as all its good qualities be- fore deciding to introduce and add its name to tiie already too lengthy list. It is my opinion that we should have a very thorough ac- quaintance with the tree and its product before giving it to the public as something to be depended upon. Had Mr.Burbank thoroughly tested the Wonderberry before al- lowing it to be introduced by Mr. Childs, I feel sure he would never have allowed so worthless a pro- duction to go out with his recom- mendation, and thus would have saved himself much severe criti- cism and loss of esteem. Let us, therefore, not allow the greed for money to induce us to rush some- thing into the market before we are thoroughly satisfied that it will be to our credit to do so. On the other hand, let none of us be so egotistical as to believe it would be impossible to improve upon the varieties we already have, but go right on working the best available, and also keep up the search for new varieties, which at the same time, are better varieties, and I might add that it was this resolu- tion that brought me Success. The Cost of a Pecan Orchard. OONTINUED FKOM F[KST PACE based upon experience and obser- vation in the territory embraced within the bounds of this Associa- tion. We are warranted in assuming that our prospective investor wants not only a safe and permanent prop- erty- but also one which will return as large a percentage of profit as the business will legitimately afford. Tiiis means that character and quality in all the constructive feat- ures of the orchard shall take pre- cedence over the cost. The time to practice economy in a pecan orchard does not come until the end of five years as it is all investment and no expectation of profits for this period. In order that the administration expense of fixed charges may not be out of due proportion we will base our calculation on one acre of a hundred acre planting. First is the land, which we in- voice at .'i!40 oo per acre, this price contemplates choice land suitably located in thorough cultivation, well fenced, stumped, and with such buildings as are needed for the size tract mentioned. The price of land is a considera- tion which often receives more at- tention than it deserves. The dif- ference of a few dollars per acre should not weigh against the more important features of convenience, which eliminate annually enough of actual expense and inconven- ience to make up the difference per acre if the cheaper place is a mile or more from town or a railroad depot. It is a mistaken idea to plant pecans on land which is not suitable for other and regular farm purposes, no agricultural lands are too expensive for such a valuable and permanent use as a pecan or- chard. Second item is 20 trees of such character and size that the Nur- seryman is justified in asking at least |i. 50 each for them. This amounts to $30.00 per acre for the trees, four or five years from the seed and two or three years from the bud or graft. This admits of a selection of the best trees and I believe the Nur- seryman will not feel over paid at the price indicated for the trees se- lected. [CONTI.NUED IN FEBR"ARY NUMBER.] THB, NUT'GROWnU A few Remarks on the Pecan. ' BY R. C. SIMPSON. ^OONTINM'ED FROM DRORUbKR NUMBER] For the past three or four years I liave been carefully nolicinj^ the be- havior of trees which have been cut l)ack at plantinjr tjnie and that of trees untouched. I have noticeii that when a tree is cut back, espe- cially if it is a small one, its growth is usually checked a good deal. While it may make more actual new growth than the tree not top- ped (though this is by no meajis to be depended upon), it is not enougli to bring it up to the height of Ine other trees and this difl'erence seems never to be 'juite closed up. More- over, wlien a tree is cut back, un- less it is a large one, the head is formed too low to remain perma- nent. To raise this head to the proper heiglit will now recpiire from one to three years of careful pruning and training, and even then the result is not entirely satis- factory as the trunk is often left more or less crooked. These years of additional care mean a large ex- penditure of work, worry and time which could otherwise be put on something else. After careful ob- servations and considerable expe- rience in planting commercial pe- can groves, I have come to tiie con- clusion that a tree should not be cut back at all unless it is unusually slender or already higher than where we wish to form the new head. That is, if we wish our tree to start its top five feet from the ground, do not cut it back at all unless it is over five feet high. If it is over that height, cut it to five feet and the new head will then start right where 3-ou want it, and will require very little more prun- ing, lithe tree is less than five feet do not cut it at all — except, of course, the side branches if there are any — as it will then keep grow- ing a straiglit shoot which can be topped wherever desired, thus giv- ing us a straight, smooth trunk. These smaller trees, when not cut back, often form their tops just about where you want them and in such cases no care of the knife is necessary. Of course, if a tree is very slen- der it should be cut back somewhat or it will become top-heavj-. A crooked tree must also be cut to the first top bud whose upward growth will make the tree trunk straight. These cases, however, YOUR LAST CHANCE of buying PECAN TREES of us as we have sold to the AMERI- CAN PECAN COMPANY, Palatka, Fla , an Incoipoiated Com- pany that will plant l.UOO or more acres to the finest Pecans and increase the Pecati Nurseries in proportion. If you are interested in PECAN CULTURE and not in position, personally, to look after an orchard, get in touch with thern and look over their Prospectus. Only experts will be em- ployed to manage the different departments, wliich will be a big advantage to the stockholders. The expense per acre will be low on account of the large acreage. Samples free. On the other hand, if you want PECAN TREES for plant- ing now, we will till your orders for ten or more trees, while our slock lasts, at THOUSAND PRICES, to increase the Company's mailing lists. Ask for prices to-day. Graft Wood furnished. BEAR'S PECAN NURSERIES, Box Q3 -:- Palatka, Florida. are exceptions and their treatment must be decided by the individual planter. It is claimed bv some authorities that a pecan tree will start growth sooner and more readily from a terminal bud than from one farther back on the stem. If this is true it woulci be still another argument in favor of not cutting back. The fact, however, that the pecan has such a long tap-root — often longer than the top — makes it less neces- sary to trim back the top to balance the root-pruning. Still another advantage gained by not cutting buck is the fact that the tree is less likely to be skinned or broken dow n by the cultivators. Many a short tree hidden by weeds or grass has been hit bv the plowman which would have escaped with a whole skin had it been a little higher where he could have seen it. Before closing, I wish to make a few remarks on one or two new va- rieties. About two years ago the attention of our house at Vin- cennes, Indiana, was called to a very superior pecan which is grow- ing near that place. Upon inves- tigation we found it to be a nut of medium size — large for that section of the country — thin shell, excel- lent flavor, well filled and a good hearer. We have secured grafts from this tree and have propagated it for two seasons with fair success. ^Ve think this variety, which we have named the "Indiana," will prove especially valuable for north- ern planting as there are at present no varieties on the market which are hardy so far north of the cot- ton belt. Another nut which has lately come into considerable local promi- nence is the Moore. Although this is not a new sort it has only recent- ly been taken up commerciallj'. It is not a large nut and it is proba- bly from this fact more than any- thing else that it has not received the attention it deserves. * Read at meeting- of Southern Nurserymen. For Sale About 300 lbs. Stuart, Van De- man, Teche and Curtis varieties of pecans Also, A 90=Acre Farm, adjoining where these pecans glow, with all necessary im- provements ready to be set out in trees. The place has 165 young orange trees just coming into bearing Write for pai- ticulars .::::::: T. S. McManus, WALNUTS Successful Grafting Method For Walnut. By Claud I). Tiibble, ElK (J rove, Cal. Scions — One of the mo^t iinpor- lant considerations is the selection and care of the scions. Wood of last season's growth is used. It sliould be round and full around the bud, with the buds not too far apart as scions are usually pithy where buds are fara[iart, and wood <;liould be chosen which has very little pith when possible. Of course two year and pithy scions can be used, but these will be a very small percentage grow. Do not choose tlie long downward growth as this never bears many nuts anti by se- lecting it you will have barren trees in a few years. The upright growth will make upright trees, while tlie droo[)ing limbs vice versa. TIME OF CUTTINC;. Leave scions on the trees as long as possible because they are better cared for on the tree than if cut. Thev must be cut while dormant. Place in layers, in a box of moist sand. Not too wet or too dry. but moist enough to keep them in a iiealthy state. Place in a cool place such as a cellar or basement, where the}- will remain dormant. Better have sand too wet than too dry. TIME OF GRAFTING. We begin grafting just before the sap starts and work for a month or six weeks. Our greatest per- centage is made fifteen days after the sap starts. If one has only has a medium amount of grafting to do it is best to wait till tlie sap starts. Nursery trees should be grafted just before or just as the sap starts, as they are liable to "bleed" if grafted too late. HOW TO GRAFT. The first requisite is the best and sharpest tools obtainable. For cutting scions we use a budding blade also to cut out the stock for fitting the scion. For splitting the stock we use a knife made from a cross-cut savv blade, making it very sharp. To do the splitting we use a hardwood maul like a potato masher. In sawing off the stock THB NUT^GHOWBR use care not to disturb the bark. walnuts are marketed from trees in If grafting a large stock say 2 or 3 western Arkansas with great pro ■ inches in diameter we split through fit. Over 50,000 lbs. of walnuts, and drawing our knife triangularly amounting to several carloads, have we cut the bark on each side of the been shipped from Rogers this fall. split. This prevents the bark from The nuts bring ic lb. They are slipping and sometimes the wood picked mostly by women and chil- may split crookedly. We have a dren. series of hard wood wedges suita- - ble for different sizes of stocks. iZ-vrtftart Franquette and May- y. ■ -,, 1 .-n fi , 4, VJfClfteU ette Walnut Trees Drive in with a maul till the stock g,^^, g^j^^g p,.^^^ resistant. Guaran- opens to half the diameter of your teed true to name. Scions, $3.00 per ■.T • 100; trees 3-4 ft. 90c each; 4-10 ft., scion. Now prepare your scion, «j jq g^^j^ cutting straight from ji.t the least 'y,^.^^^^ Brothers, T.u?o7.f bit below the bud and cut straight ' t-<.;,/orma. (not concave) three fourths of the way to bottom of the scion, then Fruit Trees, Shade Trees cut with a little concave to the end. j^,jp (Walnut scions can not be cut con- ^-v . r 01 i > ,., ,, c^ , ,T Urnamental Shrubbery cave like other grafts. ) Now pre- - pare your opened stock to receive ^^^^^=^^^^ =^=^ the scion. Make the stock fit the Field Grown Rose Bushes scion on each side, and if you use two scions remove the wedge. We Before you place your order write use paper to fill up the crack be- us for prices and one of our : : : tween scions as it waxes over eas- DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES ier and better, and is not liable to cause air cells which often burst Turkey Creek Nur sery, and admitting the air to kill the ^°^ ^Z, McClenney, Fla. scion. In cutting the scion use two C. F. Barbek, Pres. j. E, Bakbe". Sec'ty. buds and cut off 2.} inches below the lower bud. Cut too a wedge ^ J W^ sharp as above, cut thinner on the i^C€Cl A^CCCLllS inside than the out so the sap ring . or cambium layer will unite or so FortheaCCOmmodationand the pressure will be on these, when COnvenienCG of patronS We the wedge is removed. In cutting buy and Sell PeCan NutS the stock begin the same distance for Seed pUrpOSeS. below the top of the stock that the __, _j 1 »r length of the scion from the bottom riixey rarknurseYy to the first bud, where the cut be- J. F. Wilson, Manager gins. 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'"» an ove_ the worhi, ' ' ' ' Woman's \Vorlil,<"hica};o--I.iterirv and family 1905-06 15.009.326 24,917.028 Snccessml Kamiing. De8Moinej-Af.ricnltnre ^nfia (\n ^A 000 cio "jo co'7 coo ITniver^al maL^azii'e. St Louis --Literary 19Ub-U^ 14,^i3.3,t)lo ciZ,t)9/,t)9i: Household .Journal and Floral Lite, Ohio. 1907-08 17,144,968 28,887,110 <;reat west Magazine, Uenvvr- Educational. lOAQ 00 11 OOQ AO\ oc 1 r:'7 CiY^ 'I'b^ Fa'uier's vVite, St l*aul--Household. i»U8 Ua ll,\}Cd,'ii.\. Zb,iOi,OUo •r|,e Metropolitan and Kural Home, .New York. — I'onliry Topics. Lincoln. Neb --Poulrry paper. TI \f Ktrino-fpllnwr nf Fov(»tt lientlewoman , New York --Household,' Floral. 11. At. StringtellOW, ot 1 .Ijett- Everyday Life. Chicago- I.iterarv and stories vllle. Ark., is demonstrating that ,,:';^»^:;rL:;S';^,e?^aS\,:rro?^;e English walnuts can be grown ^^-^^.H^^^^'^r^'tl^.^en^ wl^a^d here profitably. He has a number CENTRAL NEWS COMPANY of trees bearing heavily. Common no. is Keyst.meBidg. chaitanooga, Tonn. THn NUT-GUOWBU CHESTNUTS The Plea of the Chestnut. A domestic nut that is deserved- ly popular is the chestnut. Some consumers think that it is the best of all nuts, and the}' have trood ba- sis for their assertions. It is easily cared for, can be handled cheaply, and keeps well under poor condi- tions. Moreover, the proper meth- od of getting the kernel from the shell has never been misunderstood. All have recognized that, afler the nut leaves the bur, it is the most inviting of all nuts, being so easily shelled. Early in the season chest- nuts sometimes command extraor- dinarily high prices in the markets. Some first arrivals in New York have sold as high as %i^ per bushel, while later arrivals not infrequent- ly sell at $io. The study of the chestnut is sirengthening its value as a profit- able product of the soil, and is also having its eftect in expanding sales Cultivation, too. is helping. Larger and better nuts are being produced under more favorable conditions, aiul the trees yield abundantly. Hence it would be well to study the situation careful- Ij' and see what can be done to make the business still mure pro- fitable. A New York receiver of import- ed chestnuts says that he does not believe the removal of the duty on that fruit has been a good thing, for the reason that it has brought to that market, particularly from Naples, a large quantity of stock consigned to many new concerns, some of which are not in the fruit business. "These concerns have nothing to pay but the freight charges," he said, -'and as they do not know how to handle the nuts, the result is that the season has been a very unsatisfactory one for ihe receivers. The chestnuts from northern Italy, Spain and France cost high this season. Prices on arrivals from France have been very satisfactory, as the fruit has reached here in good shape They sold at .Is to +7 a crate and cleaned up quickly. The French chef blanches and shells ihe chestnuts by slitting each shell across with a verv sharp knife, cooking for one minute in boiling water, draining and drying. Then he adds two teaspoonfuls of butter to each quart of nuls, shakes them over the fire for five minutes, then removes the shell and skin togeth- er. He opens one at a time, keep- ing the others covered with a cloth and they are soon ready to be made into various dishes. ground chestnuts is an important food product year in and year out for the peasants of southern Europe. For the well-to-do French the chestnut is converted into cro- quettes, salads, sandwiches, stuff- ing for fowl and game, puddings, cakes and sweetmeats. The chestnut tree for j-ears was used only for shade and ornamental purposes. Originally a native of Asia ]Minor, it has found its waj' into Sardinia and southern Europe, and during the past ten or a dozen years this chestnut of foreign culti- vation has worked a wonderful im- provement upon our native wild variety. In certain districts in Spain and Italy the chestnut takes the place of rice, rye and oats. Flour or meal made of dried and Throughout the center of France, from the Bay of Biscay to Switzer- land, there are large plantations of chestnut trees. The nuts are large and during the fall and winter the poor often make two meals a day on steamed chestnuts, eaten with salt or milk. Physicians sav they are wholesome, hearty, nutritious and fattening. PECAIVS BEST VARIETIES WriCe for Price List>. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK, : Hartwell, Ga. I The Secret of Success I Is Self -Development... g [iJ Prepare for future success — gieatuess, prosperity, and happiness KJ fy — by developing 3'ourself NOW. 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The right [}{ application of the simplest powers of the normal mind insure the greatest m success in all things Every man and woman known to be successful in life fy has directed these SIMPLE powers in the same general manner, and our course of instruction is formed for the one purpose of creating this success- ful, conquering attitude of mind in the individual student, together with the full development of every faculty necessary for success. Seiifl ill this Coupon today ciud receive our free Booklet "The Science of Success" FREE BOOKLET COUPON THE PROGRESS SELF-HELP UNIVERSITY. Rand-McNally BIdg:.. Chicago, Gentlemen: — Without obligation on my part, send me your free booklet, "The Science of Suc- cess." In The Nut-Grower, The Progress Self-Help '^"'"^ » t • -x P- O. Box University, st. no. a Rand-McNally Bldg.. Chicago. 111. ^_ Issa asasasasasasa'^ rJRHsaHasasssasesasr'asasdsasasasas^ THB NUT'GROWBR HICKORY Value of Hickory Trees. Automobile and carriage manu- facturers, along with the men of the allied vehicle industries are giving very serious consideration to the question of the future sup- ply of hickory timber. This wood, which is one of the most impor- tant of all woods, since no satis- factory substitute for it has been found, plays a more important part among the commercial timbers than many people realize. For automobile and carriage wheels, where strength, toughness, and resiliency are essential quali- ties, no other wood has been found in this country that will take the place of hickory. Manufacturers say that no steel or wire spoke has yet been found that will withstand the wear and tear of the hickory spoke and for this reason the wel- fare of the vehicle industry seems dependent upon the conservation of the hickory supply. Three of the largest associations of hickory users in thecountry, the National Wagon Manufacturers Association of America, the Car- riage Builders National Associa- tion, and the National Hickory Association have completed a se- ries of co-operative tests with the United States Forest Service .and the trade considers the results high- ly important. Such practical results as are giv- en in the report, which a letter to the Forest Service at VV^ashing- ton will secure free for anv one who wishes it, show conclusively the value of such studies in solving problems connected with the grad- ing of stock, tiie utilization of new for old woods, and the conserving of our future supply of timber. The supply of good hickory trees in the United States is known to be verv limited. The cut last year for lumber was a little less than 150 million feet, and it is estimated an even greater amount was used for automobile and carriage wheels, axle caps, gears, axles, poles, sin- gle trees and neck yokes, and it is figured that at the present rate of cutting the supply will last about 15 years. Reports was made from time to time of the discovery of suitable substitutes for hickory in foreign countries. In the meanwhile, American hickory users will be obliged to conserve the present supply and take steps to guarantee a future supply by encouraging private planting of the tree, whose wood is becoming more precious each vear. hickory as on anotlier pecan. The possibilities of this industry are simply boundless. A Splendid Investment. A first-class tree, 13 years old and upward, will produce more and the product will sell for more than anj'thing else growing on the same amount of land. Again, the man who plants a pecan tree and takes care of it, or who has a nat- ural tree worked over, has an in- vestment that will last a life-time and increase in value steadily. There are trees in Texas a hundred years old, producing from 300 to 500 pounds a year, that are to all appearances in their prime. And what about changing our untold thousands of native hickories into first-class pecan trees.? The pecan buds grow off just as well on the '•No wood will be more difficult to replace when the approaching shortage in the supply of hard woods overtakes us than the hick- ory," one of the foresters in the employ of the government recently said. The truth of this statement is not realized by any one more than the practical men of the va- rious trades whose future prosperi- ty is measured by the available. Nut Oil. In 1901 , 363,747 gallons of nut oil were imported, valued at ports of entry in the sum of $169,892. In 1902, 403,031 gallons were import- ed, valued at $177,145. The in- crease has steadily continued. All varieties of pecans contain a rich, delicate and nutritious oil in profit- able quantities, but some varieties contain much more liian others. To demonstrate the richness in oil of the pecan, we suggest that a kernel be placed upon a piece of wire and lighted. The half kernel of one good pecan will burn brightly for from five to ten minutes. titi""' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDER M)\\ TO SAVE OlSAPPOHTttEM 1901)-1910 PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or $45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55 o" P^"" 1°° 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per lOO 4 to 5 foot size, So cents each, or 75-°° P^"" '°° 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUR fiUARANTKH If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS — A( T NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWiLt*. Mitchell County, Georgia. THE, NUT-GROWBU NEW AND RARE NUTS The Romantic Hazel. Tlie Inizel among the Romans, like tlie olive among the Jews, was regarded as the emblem of peace, and this estimation of it was trans- mitted to the people of a later per- iod. Hence, in popular works of fancy on the language of flowers. this is recorded as its symbolic meaning; and in ancient times a hazel rod was supposed to have power of reconciling friends who had been separated by disagree- ment. The~e superstitions con- nected with the hazel, and more particularly the one relating to ihe hazel rod, named the Caduceus. as- signed by the gods to Mercury as a means of restoring harmonv to the human race, probably gave origin to the divining rod, which was first made of hazel and afterwards of the witch-elm. The hazel, under which Menal- cas invites his brother shepherd to sit, is a tree of considerable size, while tlie American hazels are mere shrubs, seldom over-topping a rus- tic stone wall. There are two New England species, both delighting in the shelter of rude fences, and produc- ing their flowers before their leaves. The whole nut of the hazel with its envelope resembles a bird's head and beak. Bot!) species are particularl}' worthy of protection and preserva- tion. They produce a valuable nut without our care; they are or- namental to our fields and by- roads; thev feed the squirrels and shelter our birds, and tliey add a lively interest to natural objects by their spontaneous products. The hazel is associated with many pleasant adventures in our early days, with nut gathering and squirrel hunts, and with inany pleasant incidents in classical poe try. The hazel has been a favorite of poets, especially those of ttie Mid- dle Ages. In the songs of that period are constant allusions to the hazel bush, probably from its fre- quency ill natural hedge rows, and its valuable fruit. Our own na- tive poets have made the hazel the subject of some delightful verses, particularly Mr. Whittier. the Qiiaker bard of precious memory. In 1907 the United States im- ported 5,500,000 pounds of un- slielled almonds, and of shelled al- monds over 8,500,000 pounds, in spite of the duty of 6 cents a pound on shelled almonds, and 4 cents a pound on unshelled. The English or white walnut is a valuable crop of southern France. The best orchards are from 600 to 900 feet above the sea level. Per- fect nuts are produced only on the outer or exposed limbs. Careful cultivation is necessary. Brazil or cream nuts are import- ed from South America, and to the native Brazilian they form an im- portant article of food. Man)' at- tempts have been made to intro- duce this highly sensitive tree into southern Floiida, but it is too loyal to its native heath to succeed so far from its home. This pleasant flavored, oily nut is well-liked in the United States. Large quantities of the almonds of commerce are imported from France, Italy and Spain, although considerable of the almonds used in Philadelphia, Pa , are grown in California, where the climate is favorable. When eaten in the green state the almond is delicious, that is when the seed is fully form- ed, but before the hull is hardened. With us it is seldom eaten that way. but upon the European table in the early summer green almonds are a common article of diet. The Jordan almond is the most valu- able variety, and is most generally selected for salting and relish The almonds, both sweet and bitter, flourish in southern Europe. Many acres are planted in almonds in California. CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Nut Culture. This leads me to talk about nut growing — a business which I am sure is to be a great feature ot future farming. We are to get a good share of our muscle-making food from trees. Prices ot meat are soaring, and thousands of people learn each year that thej' can keep up their strength and do more and better work when they substitute nuts for meat in part or entirely. I am not trying to argue for vege- A Department for the Buyer and Seller tu this column we pive place to advertisements from subRcibers who have orchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as niabe inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. Mammoth and Himalaya Giant Blackberry, Logan and Phenominal berry plants, flozen S?l.25 post paid Best larpest antl earliest berries grown. Trilible Bros., Elk Grove, Oal. PECAN OI^CHARO BARGAIN.- We have an interest in a necan orchard for sale at a Bargain. The proposition is an attractive one and will pay the inve-tor over Hi per cent, from the very first. This is an investnieut opportunity not to be missed It will not be open long, write today for lull paniculars to The Obohard Ikvest- MKNr Co , Moniicello, Fla. WANTED -A partner in a pecan orchard de- vebtpment pnjpc'Siiion An ojiportunity for the investment or a few hundred dollars where it will earn an enormous profit. A snap for some one. Address P, O. Box No. 27. Monticello. Fla. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may earn a good income corresponding tor newspapers ; ex- perience unnecessary >end stamp for full par- ticulars Empire Press Syndicate, Middleport, N. Y. (sept 3t ) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Ci'lvkr Poultry Farm, 1034 Beed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for sruly or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts uirnished only in limit^il quantiMes, IHE NU f-iiROWEK CO.M- PANV, Ponian, (ia. CHOICE LOCATION— No, 24 400 acres, near Mo tio.-llo, Fla Two-thirds ot the tract is in cultiv.ition, balance in pine and hardwood tim- ber. Located within half mile of new town and near a famous lake Prion, $10.00 per acre. Reasonable terms. THE NUC-GKOWER COM- PANY, Poulan, (ia. INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY-No. 26. Al location, tirst-class in everv respect. 320 acres now being planted in pecan trees of choice va- rieties Will subdivide into five acre tracts. U'lH be cared for for five years at price accepted THK MI r-(iROWER COMPANY. Poulan. Ga. WANTED— Conies of March, May, June and Deceu'ber. 1907, and February, March and April, l',K)8, of The Ndt-Urower. tarianism but merely stating facts. The demand for nuts is sure to in- crease If you plant a nut grove to- day, before it comes in bearing you will find demand ahead of supply. A few men realize what is coming, and are interesting themselves in improved varieties of nuts — such as hickories, chestnuts or pecans. I am sure there are many farmers who have on their farms trees which yield nuts superior to the average. The time has now come when these superior nuts should be known and propagated. The Baldwin apple started as a chance seedling - so did Grimes Golden and many others. Be sure that in the future some of these improved nuts will rank as food producers with our best varie- ties of fuits and vegetables. I want to help in this nut campaign. If any who read this know of trees bearing superior nuts will they kindly write me.? I think we can start a campaign hardly second in importance to that of the Apple Consumers' League. — Rural New Yorker. THB NUT^GHOWBR THE NUT -GROWER PCBLISHKD MONTHLY BY XsAe NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 conts per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. N'OTICK When this paragraph is marked it ■ means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are reques':ed to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. JANUARY, 1910. With our January, 1909, number we enlarged The Nut-Grower from eight to twelve pages, an in- crease of 50% in the size. With this issue another enlargement goes into effect, with four more pages, making the publication twice the size it was thirteen months ago. During the past year three special numbers were devoted to the chest- nut, walnut and hickory, but even these were inadequate to meet the increasing demands tor general information in all lines of nut cul- ture. With the additional space now at command, we have allotted a page to each of the above men- tioned nuts and one to new and rare nuts and these special pages will be a regular feature for the year. Some other minor changes and improved customs are being intro- duced, such as a table of contents, index to advertisers and consecu- tive numbering of pages, during the year, with a view to making an index available at the end of the volume. In order that our volumes may correspond with calendar years, a new volume is begun with this issue. It is a source of gratification to acknowledge that the increasing patronage, both in subscription and advertising, makes these enlarge- ments and improvements practica- ble. The increasing importance of the industry we represent bears witness to the importance of our work. Still there is much more we hope to accomplish as the months go by and earnestly solicit still more liberal and generous pat- ronage. A new contract with our publish er promises a more prompt and up- to-date service than was practicable during the last year. Mr. M. Falkner, President of the Texas Nut Growers Association, writes that the recent meeting at Henderson was a very profitable one. Interest centered largely in top-working of hickory to pecan. According to the following prin- ciples, the pecan pioneers are pos- sessed of great riches, whether they recognize it or not. We do not know who the author is, but have an idea that there is merit in the saying: "He is the richest man who enriches mankind most." The Annual Edition for Decem- ber, 1909, of the California Fruit Grower, is a splendid number, of nearly 100 pages reviewing fruit trade conditions on the Pacific Coast for the past year and several pages of statistics are given. Sev- eral articles and items from this issue have been clipped for future use. The "Nut Notes," published monthly by the N. N. G. A., is serving a good purpose in calling public attention to the industry. This work is carried on by volun- tarj' subscriptions of members, who recognize the direct and indirect advantages which are sure to follow the continued operation of the plan. There is a subtle influence ema- nating from all horticultural work, and especially from its highest plain, which embraces nut culture, that lifts man above the sordid ruts of commercialism and gives him a keen enjoyment in his employment. As a class these men and women as well, are a peculiar people, and remarkably free from selfishness and pride, are inclined to generous impulses and as opportunity offers rapidly built up a fellowship feel- ing, which ennobles thought and action. All nut growers do not measure up to this standard, because selfish motive or the prospects for easy profits tempt many to enter the pursuit. The Nut-Grower is the only publication devoted exclusively to the industry. It has a record of eight years of helpful service, and the rapid growth and improved methods could hardly have been ob- tained in so short a period without such aid as this publication fur- nishes. Many more people need to read it and we ask all our sub- scribers to speak a good word, and help swell our subscription list. Mr. Geo. M. Brown, of Van Buren, Arkansas, is doing pioneer work in that state in pecan culture. Some of his budded and grafted trees began bearing the past season, and some specimen nuts were sent for identification, as the}' did not seein to be like the nuts his records indicated. The variety submitted proved to be the Columbian. In the accompanying letter Mr. Brown said the variety seemed to be well adapted to his locality, giving more promise than others of the same age. Prof. H. K. Miller, of Florida, was on his feet promptly at the Albany convention, when the Scjiley pecan was called in the in- teresting discussion of varieties. In his opinion the Schley is "the best nut in the world." He did not even admit that there might be better ones on some other planet or place. All vvho know Prof. Miller will concede that he has had experience with this variety, as well as many others, and that his commendation has a substantial basis. Among the editor's seedling trees which are coming into bearing, is one which in 1908 bore a few nuts which looked so well that it was exempted from the top-working, which is now going on. In 1909 it bore a largely increased crop and the nuts were larger than previously noted. It shows a number of de- sirable traits, and is particularly rich in oil. As we may propagate it to some extent in an experimental way, we named it the "Gem," since its general appearance, form and size warran's that appellation. We make this reference to it be- cause we have been advised that sample sent to Cornell University had been placed in the "Morris Collection of Edible Nuts of the World." THB NUT'GROWBR Nut Growers! Read This! >VE WOULD CALL YOUR A.TTE.NTIOX TO Total Phosphoric Acid 15 to 18 Per Cent.. [basic blag puosphate] AXALYZIXCl Lime 35 to 50 Per Cent>. Magnesia and Iron 18 to 20 Per Cent-. This raateriiil is beinp: lartrely nsert bv some of the most intellitrent nut and fruit growers in this country with splendid results Why not YOU? There is no material kuown that so strongly appeals to you as this, because: In addition to the PHO.-^PHiiKIC ACID, it contains also large amounts of LIME. MAGNESIA and IRON, which are very necessary in assisting in large production of fiuit aud at the siime time keeping your trees healthy and vigorous. It is not treateil with SULPHUKIC ACID like Acid Phosphate and cannot destrov the humus matter in yonr soils and make them sour and uniiroductive. and many other reasons. This space is too small to tell you all about it. Write for descriptive pamphlet and prices. In addition to Thomas Pliosphate Powder we import and handle NITRATE Of POTASH MURIATE OF POTASH DRIED BLOOD IMPORTED FISH OUANO SULPHATE OF POTASH NITRATE OF SODA KAINIT The Coe-iVEortinier Corapany, New York Charleston. S. C. The lessons which come home to the nut growers from tlie trip vis- iting orchards and nurseries are varied and will doubtless work out in the years to come in various ways. One point which stood out prominently in viewing the South Georgia companies' work, was the evidence that the managers were building for permanent results, and in order to accomplish this they were giving good cultivation. With such plans and work, a square deal with patrons becomes a cardinal feature of tlieir operations. The cost of a pecan orchard, is a live subject among a large por- tion of our readers. We confess that we have some experience, both theoretical and practical, and have learned that it is the continued cost up to profitable bearing age which amounts to figures some above the common estimate. Some months ago weenumerated ten cost items in a paper read be- fore the meeting of the Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers, at Cairo, Ga. So many requests have been received for copies of the paper that it is regarded as being in the best interest of the industry to make it public. It should be borne in mind that the subject was presented from the viewpoint of an investor who has to paj' the intrinsic value of the property, rather than from the po- sition of the southern farmer who with his own land, farm equipment and personal labor, supplemented by use of land for intermediate crops 'til the size of the trees ren- ders it impracticable, can reach the same results at a comparatively small outlay of actual cash. The cost is there all the same, but is divided up in such a way that he does not feel the expense. He in fact earns the orchard rather than pays for it as does the investor. One installment of this paper is found in this issue and the balance is on the hook for the next number. We do not expect that everybody engaged in tiie business will en- dorse our position, neither do we suppose that our figures will apply with equal force to all sections of the country or to varying condi- tions and prices from year to year. The cost items mentioned, how- ever, are all proper, yes, necessary, for the best results, and any one can readily attach his own figures and arrive at conclusions which must prove convincing. Any apprehension that the in- dustry may be injured by giving publicity to such a matter is un- founded. A full discussion should demonstrate the truth or error of the contention. It matters not how much an or- chard may cost provided it returns a fair rate of interest on the invest- ment. If a farmer can, owing to his favorable opportunities, obtain for a cash outlay of fifty dollars as good a paying property as the in- vestor paj's four hundred for, that is simply his judicious use of oppor- tunities, while the other has, at the higher price, a profitable and per- manent business. Table of Contents. Page Almonds, Imports, 4 Bechtel, Theo, 1 Books and Catalogues 15 Brown, G. M 12 Buds, Starting in Spring 12 Chestnuts 5 Cost of a Pecan Orchard 1 & 9 Classified Advertisements 7 Editorials 8&9 Fruitland Literature 11 Hazel, The Romantic 7 Hickories 6 Hickory Trees, Value of 6 Investments 6 Letters 13 Mere Mention 10 New and Rare Nuts 7 New Year's Letter 14 News Items 11 Nut Oil 6 Nut Receipts 7 Nut Culture 7 Nuts as Food 12 Niles, Dr. Geo. M., 12 N. N.G.A 14 Personal Mention 11 Search for New Varieties 1 Simpson, on the Pecan 3 Societies 14 Transplanting Trees 13 Van Deman, H. E 13 Walnuts 4 Walnuts, Importations 4 Wight, J. B., 14 10 THB NUT^GROWER Mere Mention. Labor saving macliinery will soon be a marked feature of the cultivation of larger orchard acres in the pecan section. As the demand for pecans in- creases, the Mexico crop is becom- ing more and more, a factor in the trade, especially during recent years, as prices have advanced. An e.xclusive nut diet caiiuot be recommended, because alone pro- tien and fat are abundantly pres- ent at the expense of starch and sugar, and so constitute a concen- trated, unbalanced ration. There is one more thing to this trade paper business. The trade paper is the best "booster" that the salesman of today po'-sess. No matter whether a man is on the street, on the road or behind tiie counter, the trade paper is working for him day and night. We have little idea in this coun- try to what extent nuts are consum- ed in foreign countries, says the Philadelphia Record. We try to teach otiier nations that Indian corn is an excellent article of diet, but most of the European peasantry still believe that maize was created for the live stock. Those people will sit down to a dish of steamed chestnuts with n)uch relish, and are content if they have nothing else. Not until within recent years were the arts of budding and graft- ing common pecan trees with the finer sorts worked down to the point of practical utility. Years of patient experiment were required and other years of watching and waiting. The degree of success that has been attained furnishes ground for a just pride, if not a pardonable vanity, on the part of the pioneers in the new industry. Throughout the southern states no fruit or nut tree is better adapt- ed for general planting or more worthy of careful cultivation than the Pecan. It is to the South wiiat the apple is to the North — worthy of a place in every fruit-garden, on every lawn, and the most iinpor- tant fruit tree from the standpoint of the orchardist. The Pecan fits well into the general farming of the regions to which it is adapted. It must be planted farther apart than any other fruit tree, leaving ample space for the cultivation of general farm crops. These crops may be grown advantageously, witii bene- fit to the trees, and will more than cover the cost of maintenance, until they commence to bear. "Plant breeding," says Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell, "is a plain and serious business, to be conduct- ed by carefully trained persons in a painstaking and methodical \vay. It is not magic. There are persons who have unusual native judgment as to the merits and capabilities of plants and who develop great man- ual skill ; but they are plain and modest citizens, nevertheless, and their methods are perfectly normal and scrutable. The wonder mon- gers are the reporters, not the plant breeders." At present it is claimed on good authority that the Southern states have a monopoly on pecans, as well cotton, but as there is quite a var- iance in the period of maturity in the several different varieties, and like all other life in the vegetable kingdom, susceptible of improve- ment along any. line, when guided by the intelligence of man, a vari- ety of pecans may vet be discover- ed or originated that will mature in the short period and rigorous climate of the Noithern states. Then all the vast hickory forests of North America can be made to bear profitable crops of this queen of nuts, instead of their own inferior products. FOR SEASON OF 1908-1909 Budded and Grafted Pecans, LeConte and Kieffer Pears, Hardy Oranges. Plums, Per= Simmons, Figs, flulberries, Etc :::::: : A full line of Ornamental and Shade trees. Q_uantity and Q_uality. Correspf)ndence solicited. A^rcadia Nurseries Af ontioe/7o, I'Juruiii. THE PECAN TREES That are properly grown is my vSpecialty. . Budded and (irafted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, CAIRO, CEORCIA. HELP WANTED Mr. A. B. Goodenow, of Culebra, Canal Zone, lias a poorl tariu of about tifty acres at dleiin- inore, 'ia , ten miles from V\aycr''S9 He wants to have it planted in pe.<-ans, and will make it an object to poiue y;oo(l farmer who wil' handle the place in a suitable manner. Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA SEETHE ROOTS SUCH \| TREESyt Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with enlire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries sell such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, of best quality and belt producing varieties. Some of the biggest, tWnncst-sheHcd nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our Vnri«'*ie» «re Bph* Gold Medal awarded our Pec Handsome Pecan Catalog Free GriffingBros.Co. Nurserymen Jacksonville, Florida Wc also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES 60 YEARS' lENCE Trade Mark Designs .... Copyrights Ac. Anyone sending a skel ch nnd description may oulckly ascertain olir opinion free whether an Invention la probably pjitenfahle. Conimunlca- Uonsstrictlyamtidentlal. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest apency for soeurmB patents. Patents taHen throuKh Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, la the Scientific flmerican. Ahanrt8omolyillii«lratPd wookly. I.nrcest clr- culati.m of any BcicntlUi- Jcurnal. 1 frius. 13 a year- tour nii.ntUs, tl. Bold byall news.loulerj. MUNN &Co.36'Bro.dway, New York Branch Office. 626 F St.. Washlniilon, D. C. Personal Mention. THB NUT^GROWBhi News Items. The Secretary of N. N. G. A., has been appointed a member of tlie Advisory Board of the United States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Company. C. L. Whitney, formerly of War- ren Ohio, has one iiundred acres of budded and grafted pecans at Thomasville which will be old enough to produce a crop in 1910. E. L. Worshain, State Entomol- ogist for Georgia, was on the pro- gram for the Georgia Horticultural Society meeting at Sparta. His subject was '-Insects Effecting the Pecan." Mr. G. M. Brown, of Van Bu- ren. Ark., writes that the Colum- bian pecan conforms so well to the seasons in that locality that he is thinking of top-working some of the seedlings to this variety. Nut Receipts. Deviled Chetnuts — Take one pint of chestnuts, two ounces of butter, one-half teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of cayenne pepper. Shell and boil tiie nuts until they are ten- der; dry them. Melt the butter, and when it is hot put in the nuts, tossing them continuously over the fire until they are a golden color. Sprinkle them with cayenne before serving. Individual Nut Pie.— Line little patty tins with a rich crust and for filling one cup of nut meats chopped fine, the yelks of two eggs beaten light, one half cup of pow- dered sugar, one tablespoon lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Fill the crusts with thisand bake in a brisk oven ; when cold heap meringue or whipped cream on top and serve immediatel)-. Nut Pufks. — Boil one cup of maple syrup with two cups of pow- dered sugar, and one-half cup of cream. Boil without stirring until a spoonful will form a soft ball when tested, then remove from fire, and beat to a creamy consis- tency. Add a teaspoonful of va- nilla or almond essence, and stir in chopped nut meats of any kind. Drop from the tip of a spoon on to buttered paper. The DeWitt Pecan Co.. of De- Witt, Ga., has 300 acres in com- mercial grove. The Standard Pecan Co. are ar- ranging for a large planting in Louisiana in the fall of 1910. Mr. J. A. Bear, of Palatka, has sold his interest in groves and nur- sery to the American Pecan Com- pany. Three hundred and fifty-two pounds is the complete record for Mr. Wight's Frotscher tree in 1909. Dr. Munday, of Louisiana, is topping 5,000 trees in his "Hickory Patch," preparatory to budding ihem to pecan. Seven cash prizes, aggregating $20, are offered for pecans by the Texas Nut Growers' Association, for e.xhibits at the Henderson meet- ing. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Com- pany's So acres of nurserj-, at De- Witt, Ga., kept the nut growers busy during the stop tlieie at lime of the Alany Convention. Weather at Piney Park for De- cember, 1909, was: Maximum, 61 degrees; minimum, 33 degrees; mean, 47 degrees; rainfall, 3.52 inches; rainfall for year, 34.86 inches. An interesting exhibition of native Indiana pecans was recenti)' held at Alt. Vernon, Ind. The ex- hibition brought out a large display of nuts and included many varie- ties which appeared to have con- siderable promise. Tiie exhibition was under the auspices of the De- partment of Horticulture at Purdue. It is said that between 1; and 20 car loads of pecans are shipped out of the Mt. Vernon district of Indi- ana each year. Attractive Fruitland Literature. The Fruitland Colony Company, which is developing Fruitland, in Echols county, Georgia, has issued some highly interesting literature regarding that section of Gsorgia, so attractive to colonists and set- tlers because of its fertility, climate and other striking natural advan- tages. The full story of Fruitland itself, is told in facts and figures, and the general facts about south Georgia will prove a fine adver- tisement for that section as the lit- erature, which is illustrated, will be widely circulated. Special at- tentioD is paid the south Georgia pecan industry. 11 FOR SALE! GRAFTED PECAN TREES These trees arj grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove, : : : : : VAN DEMAN, STUAR.T and a dozen other choice va- rieties. Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston, S. C. Pecan Trees ^17/,^ THE LEADING VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, ^l^^Xi:;'' Real Estate for Sale In Different States if interested in buying or sell- Dirt, write for Sample Copj' of Poag's Real Estate Monthly. Subscription, per year, only 50 cents. Then you can keep better posted in what is going on in the Real Estate World. In addition to this you will see interesting reading matter on other subjects. J. EDGAR POAG, Broker Rock Hill, S. C. "Cuts the Earth to Suit Your Taste.' LET US SEND YOU "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know Bv Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La, A Bearing Grove Of the Best Var eties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SAI^E Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POU AN, GEORGIA. 12 THB JSUT'GHOWBR Starting of Buds in Spring. By G. M. Brown. Van Buren, Ark. The spring of 1909 was rather lute and the pecan buds were slow about starting. They did not maintain their relative times of starting as well as usual, but this was no doubt partly due to the after effects of the overflow. It will be noliced the Frotscher has started at about the same date for the past three seasons. Others appear to be controlled by the prevailing temperature. The three Georgia giants on row i were killed by the overflow and I have had to select another from an orchard row. Two of the Georgia Giants were killed outright and the third one (No. 6) was killed below the bud and has come up a seedling. As this was the late starting one, 1 am keeping a record of the seedling to see if it was the influence of the stock that caused this one tree to start late. All except one of the Van Deman and Pabst on row 3 died back dur- ing the winter. These started so very late that 1 failed to take them down. Row Tree 1907 1908 1909 So So. liar. Apr. liar. .*|ir. liar. \\n. 1 3 Georgia Giant 13 17 \^'M lij 15 " "13 17 uvprno« 1 9 Russell 13 17 24 1 1 Monarch 16 26 5 1 8 Frotscher ... 20 20 24 1 16 Wild Tree... 20 23 28 1 16 Ga. Giant graft 23 31 3 1 Van Deman.. 17 died back 3 7 Pabst 20 3 9 Pabst 20 ** 1 6 Georgia Giant 23 kMunull'* 'O 1 15 Stuart 27 6 1 4 Wild Tree.... 29 5 1 4 Ga. Giant graft 29 4 3 6 Pabst 8 12 5 1 Georgia Giant 24 1 6 Seedling 6 On the two large trees partially top-worked to Georgia Giant the buds did not start quite as even as usual, but liCar enough to show the influence of the stocks. On row i. tree No. 16, the native buds started first on the lower limbs, but up in the top where the Georgia Giant branches are they started at the same time as the Georgia Giants. On row I, tree No. 4, the Geor- gia Giants started slightly aiiead ot the natives, though a few scattering buds on the native branches started as soon as those of the grafts. -» A General Consideration of Nuts as a Substitute for Flesh Foods. By Geo. M. Niles, M. D., Lecturer on Physiology, Atlanta School of Medicine. Atlanta. Ga. CONTINUED FROM DECEMBER NUMBER Most nuts are rather tough in consistency, not being easily acted on by the gastric juices, unless thoroughly masticated, but if as much care is given to chewing up nuts as is bestowed on moderately tender meat, thev' will generally be digested and assimilated without difficultv. While from a standpoint of ac- tual physiologic economy the flesh foods furnish protein in a more ideal form than those from the vegetable kingdom, it must also be admitted that the former are more prone to set up putrefactive processes in the course of digestion. Often this is followed by a long train of morbid symptoms, as headache, languor, muddy skin, eyes dimmed of their luster, "biliousness," and other phenomena which the observant physician will recognize as arising from faulty protein combustion, this last mentioned condition often leading to intestinal auto intoxica- tion with its protein miuiifestations. In such instances there may be a good furnace, but it is being fed with unsuitable fuel, and to carry on the comparison, we have "clink- ers in the grate " There are many an oft-recurring case of sick headache, many an at- tack of so called "biliousness," many a supposed rheumatic seizure with stiff" joints or lame back, many a jaded appetite,unlempted by juicy steak or succulent slices of ham, many a chronic "grouch," with its pessimistic viewpoint of the world at large, and many other obscure ills, which, if well studied, could be traced back to "clinkers in the grate." In such conditions it will often be found that if the sufferer will for a length of time abstain from meat, supplying the needed pro- teins with nuts, he will not only keep his wonted strength [ind vigor, but will find many of the discomforts arising from putre- factive intestinal processes disap- pear with astonishing rapidity. Last year I engaged in a short series of dietetic experiments with six healilu' young students of the Atlanta School of Medicine. These young men were allowed a suffi- ciency of carbohydrates, as bread and fruit, but were given no, meat, butter, nor beans and peas, the last two being prohibited on account of their protein content. With the meals were given from three-fourths to one and a fourth pounds (gross) daily of either pecans. Brazil nuts or peanuts, thorough mastication being enjoined. The subjects were instructed also to pursue their usual routine of exercise and study. This was kept up for four days, and they. witli a slight exception, suffered no inconvenience. Tlie actual figures of this series of experiments have been reported in a previous paper (Some Remarks on the Proper Use of Nuts as Food, Charlotte Medical Journal, May 1909) and will not be repeated here, but I may s.iy that these' students responded to the change with comfort and satisfac- tion, mainlaining both their weight and vivacity fully as well as on a mixed diet. [continued in febk-ary number.] GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Buikled and Grafted Pecan Trees ul reliable known varieties, (jiir catalog' eon tains iiilurniation on selecting, plantint;. cul- ture, etc , and is free fur the asking (iiatrwood fur sale ; our orchards contain over forty named varieties. _ . ^ ,, H. S. GRAVES. PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. SUCCESS NA.TURA1> SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. nECUTKL PK(]A\ i\URSERIES OCEAN SPHINGS .MISS. PROCEEDINGS The following volames of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices whicli were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Lonis, 1904, 25c per copy Scrantou, 1900, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907. 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 5()c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, ■:■ ■:■ GEORGIA Ml-. J B. Wight's Chattanooga address, four six by nine Inch pages, with fifteen hundred words. This is a careful and very conservative review of the coiuiuercial opportunitiies T.his nut, ofTeis, and supplies .lust the In- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 S4.SO 500 2.50 250 1 50 100 -75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. THB NUT'GROWBU 13 LETTERS Fki!riday, La., Jan. 2S, 1910. My Dear Dr. Wilson. Since the holidays have past, I came here to the pecan orcliard \ and nursery to attend to the busi- of planting and grafting in person, as I always do. We are cutting wood from our pecan trees in the big orchard now for grafting in nursery, and it is splenditl, thrifty wood, too, and we have more of it than we will need for our own use. There are only a very few varieties and they are the very best that are known. For the first three jears the trees did not make much growth but now that their roots are deep down in the moist soil they are making up for lost time. Two years ago I got a lot of native walnuts from Texas and plantetl them in nursery rows to see how I hey w-ould do for stocks for graft- ing the improved varieties*of the Persian (incorrectly called English) Walnuts. They came up well and made nice stocks but I could not get enough wood to graft them all, tor 1 would not put in anything but the very choicest varieties. However, 1 got some scions of the very best variety known, the famous San Jose, which is of the Mayetle strain and unexcelled in quality of nut and is also hardy in tree, earlv in bearing and late in blooming, so it escapes injury from late frosts. We put them in with doubt as to the success of the operation but nearly everyone grew and we have a splendid lot of trees. Some of them are over six feet tall, and there is not a sign of injury from the winter, whicli has been unusu- ally severe for this region, and everything is sound to the topmost bid. 1 feel very proud of this lot of -rare and valuable trees. 'I"he variety is not only the best of all the long list of varieties of juglans regia but the stocks they are graft- ed on are liie best that they could have. They have the best root sys- tem of all the juglans genus and are just right tor orchard purposes. And we have more trees than we need for planting on our own grounds. If you want a few for your trial orchard, let me know. Another very rare variety of nut trees we have in the nursery is a choice hickan, which is a cross be- tween the sweet hickory and pecan that I got from Missouri, called the Carrolton. It is a splendid nut in every way. I got the first and only scions that were ever cut from the original tree and grafted them on pecan roots and they nearly all grew. I can send you one of these if you desire it. And I have some choice named varieties of the American persimmon too, that lean let you have a tree or two of if you want them. Most sincerely, H. E. Van Deman. Directions for Transplanting. A prominent Nurseryman sends the following to purchasers of his trees : When trees arrive set out as soon as possible. If this cannot be done promptly, remove tiie packing and heel in the trees in a moist place, being careful to firm the soil well about the roots. When taking the trees to the field for setting they should be carefully wrapped in wet sacks, or otherwise protected from drying out. This is very important. Only one tree should be removed at a time from the package, and this set at once in a hole previously dug, which should be of generous size. Cut ofl" the ends of all lacerated or broken roots with a sharp knife, place in a hole as deep as the tree stood in the nursery row, or an inch or two tleeper; fill the hole with well pul- verized top soil, packing this well about the roots, the firmer the bet- ter, but leaving an inch or two of loose soil on top as a niiilcn. If the ground is very dry when the trees are set, a bucket of water poured about the tree when the hole is partially filled and allo%ved to soak in, will be helpful. When trees are more than three or four feet high, it is safer to cut back the top within tliree feet of the ground after the tree is set. While this is not imperative, yet when it is done, the tree has a bet- ter chance to live and grow off promptly. especially should the spring following the setting be a dry one. Jf the soil is poor, a handful or two of guano or a little stable ma- nure may be well mixed with the soil as the hole is being filled, but the fertilizer should not be allowed to come directly in contact with the roots of the tree. If due care is taken as to these points in setting, and the trees are kept well cultivated during the growing season, there need be lit- tle trouble in getting trees to live and start into vigorous growth. Take good care of your trees in transplanting for several years af- terwards until they are well estab- lished ; and in the end they will take care of you. Barnwell Pecan Groves o^orBu'd: ded and Grafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. PBCAN T'T^T^T^ m «EST 1-.4R//JT/KS Benr's JStirseries Paint Ua, Plorlttu. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, re- ductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Tiiomasvillc. Ga. Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the lVlost===Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT,Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss 14 TTin NIJT^CUOWBK SOCIETIES QUALITY TALKS The Al:ib;mi;i Horticiillur;il So- ciety convenes at Hessenier, Jan. 28th, and 29tli, 1910. A meeting of the National Coun- cil of Horticulture is called for January 17th,, to convene at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, 111. The date for winter meeting of the Texas Nut Growers Association is January I3th and 13th, at Hen- derson. This will be a joint meet- ing with the state Horticultural Society. The Thirty-Fourth Annual Ses- sion of the Georgia Horticultural Society is to be held at Sparta, Ga., January j6th and 27th, 1910. Two numbers on the program refer to the pecan. In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO , The President's New Year's Letter. The members of the National Nut Growers' Association have cause for congratulation over tiie fact that financially the Associa- tion is in a better condition than ever before. Money is on hand to di.scharge every obligation; and with a reasonable advertising pat- ronage for the forthcoming Pro- ceedings of the Albany Conven- tion, this volume can be issued at an early date, as the type-setting is nearly complete. In this connection T wisli to call attention to the desirability of these Proceedings as a valuable advertis ing medium. They are very widely dissemina- ted, and the demand for them is constantly increasing. Our recent Albany Convention was the best, both in attendance and interest, of any previously held, and plans are already on foot to make the loio Convention better than that at Al- bany. J. B. Wight, President. National Nut Growers Meet in Georgia. That increasing interest is being taken in Nut Culture and especially Pecan Culture was strikingly evi- denced at the eighth annual con- vention of the National Nut Grow- MONTICELLO. FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. ers Association held at Albany, Ga., Oct. li, 13 and 14. The at- tention of the convention was cen- tered almost exclusively on the pe- can. There was a moderate dis- play of the better varieties of this nut and many valuable facts were brought out in the discussion on varieties. Various points of cul- ture includingdeep vs. shallow cul- tivation, insects and diseases at- tacking the pecan were also dis- cus.sed. The general feeling among the nut growers regarding insects and diseases is a very optimistic one. They are not troubled over the fact that a few insects and fun- gi like nuts. Rather they congrat- ulate themselves that their enemies in nut culture are fewer and less formidable than in any other line of horticulture. As the guests of the city of Al- bany the nut growers were shown by special train through some of the larger interests along the At- lantic Coast Line Ry. Stops were made at various points of interest as at the South Georgia and Al- bany-Georgia company's and con- veyances provided for more thor- ough inspection. An old time Barbecue at Dewitt proved a most agreeable feature of the day's pro- gram. A smoker and theatre party at night ended tiie pleasures of the last day. Forty new members were added to the roll of the association. Sub- stantially the same officers continue to serve the association the ensu- ing jear. Next convention at Monticello, Fla., 1910. — C. H. Tomlinson, in National Nursery- man. mmm mm Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery HOUSTON. .-. TKXAS. Nuts for PrOfil ISS pages; eOinus- trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, bv mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY," Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. Buy k nm krovI Tlie Best Investment th.at can now be made In the United States or elsewhere. I will sell yon one alre.ady established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ara paper shell varieties, one to three years old. located on the Qulf coa.st of Mississippi and in .Jackson county, the native heath of the piper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being projiagated by nurserymen were originated, I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the llnest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsnma orange trees between the pecansi which includes 20,000 stocks for the coining season's grafting, asplen- did opening for a combination gi'ove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts In any qtiantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nut.s given special attention All gratting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work-you get ex- actly what vou order. Pecans this season especially tine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. THH NUT'GHOWEM 15 Books and Catalogues. ■ Nanz & Newner, Louisville, Ky. — 1910. catalogue of plants .ind seeds. So pages. Stumpp & Walters Co , New York--\V!iolesale catalog of flow- er, vegetable and gra=s seeds for spring of 1910. 32 pages. Better Farming — is tiie title of an So-page book, descriptive of the John Deere Farm Implements. It also contains a number of timely articles on farm subjects. The Nebraska Experiment Sta- tion has just issued BuUeton No. 112 on Experiments witii Corn. This bulletin is a report of the ex- perimental work with corn which has been carried on at the Station for several years. Copies may be obtained free of cost bv residents of Nebraska on application to the Agricultural Experiment Station, Lincoln, Neb. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chi- cago, 111., have issued new and very interesting catalogue on their small engines from i to 12 horse power, in which they describe for the first time their new i horse powerengine "Jack Junior." This is a practical durable 4 cycle en- gine, water cooled, made to meet the demand for a small reliable en- gine for running light machinery. North Carolina Department OF Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. — Pecans is the subject of Bulletin No 9, for 1909, by Prof. W. N. Hutt, a 50-page finely printed and illustrated pamphlet, descriptive of the present conditions and pros- pects for the commercial growing of the pecan in this state. The publication shows a careful review of the industry and is valuable for the general farmer and investor. Practical Farming and Gar- dening— This is a book of 500 pages, 9x7^ inches to the page. It is a complete farmer's instruction book. Soil fertility, drainage, grain crops, gardening, truck growing, grafting, budding, in- jurious insects, plant diseases, spray- ing, c;>ttle, sheep, horse raising and feeding, treatment for diseases, silos and silage, poultry, handy rules and farm cookery, are a few of the subjects. Theieare eighteen three-column pages of index, Ad- dress, Hale Publishing Co., 3550 \'ista Ave, St. Louis, Mo. CUMMIT V^y CHOICE .^v NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO, NURSERIES MILLER fi. GOS5ARD Proprietors FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses ; -OUR SPKCIALTIES— : The Admiral Schley Pecan It' ^ Futu"! ■ lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.r '■'if' f' f I' -i' •'-■^■■-■i' I'll' ■ ■■ ■' ■■ ■■ ■■ ■ ' - ■'■'■■' ■' '^ ' ■' •' •' •' •' ^ Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1910=1911 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, "'^SfssSpT'- THE LOUISIflNfl NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprieter, .ii<:axi]retti:, - - Louisiana. Headquarters for Budded and flraffed Pecan Trees in the South- west illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offeied by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orcliard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., ■=^^^z=^^=z OFFERS A VARIETY OF ;:;:^^^3^3^::^^^ Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 16 THB NUT^aHOWBH eg eg SS 65 Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. JVIEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw- berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurservmen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :•: GEORGIA. S8 ^^ ^85 »J.V-tJl.J_» ,A-gricTi3t THE NUT:»GROWER Volume IX Number 2 Whole No. 91. Poulan, Ga.. February, 1910. 5c per Copy 50o per Year THE COST OF A PECAN ORCHARD BY DR. J. F. WILSON. * (continued FROM JANUARY number) toam'veat our tenth element of Our third item, plotting position cost : of trees, digging large and deep We have land at 140.00 , , , ,, ,, , .,r Trees 30.00 holes and planting the trees with piantine 2 50 all the care and attention merited. Fertilizer 50 „,, . .^ T ! ^ ii Cultivation 5.00 1 his Item I place at the conserva- Management 12.00 live price of i3Ac per tree, or $3.50 Taxes 3.00 Insurance .25 per -'C re. Incidentals 1.75 Fourth, 2 pounds of fertilizer per With a total of $95.00 tree of a formula well suited to If our investor had not put this starting them into good growth, money in pecans, he \vould have costing i|!25 per ton, amounts to 50c had it drawing interest doubtless per acre for the first year. at the rate of 10%. This is a proper Fifth, cultivation, this we place charge, so we- add $9.50 to the ■'i!95 at ,$5 per year, which figure may be and have a total investment at the either raised or lowered as circum- end of the first year of .'i!i(>4.5o. stances require, tiut the work needs So this acre which many of us have to be thoroughly performed. claimed was worth liiioo has cost Si.xth. We have the business at this stage this amount and some and horticultural management of more besides. orchard before us. Some one per- Now, that the first year has past, son must know what to do in these we must face four more with fur- particulars and be responsible for ther investment and no revenue their proper and timely execution. from the orchard for all this time. n t u i A- c »u The second year we escape entirely as well as to be custodian oi the „ ■' . \ -V , , , r one ot our ten items, the cost ot property. A person capable of i-.nd, but the others remain, one of filling this position vvill command them much reduced, three standing a salary of |i, 300 per year, prorates at the same figure and the others to our one acre annually $12. slightly increased. c »u ci t J ,. •. From various causes a number of Seventh. State and county taxes , , , , r 1 . -^ the trees must be replanted, a lourth must be paid on the property. Sup- ^f j,,g original number are replant- pose the land is returned at .$35 an ed at a cost of I7.50 for the trees acre and the rate is i^, it will arid 50c for their planting, making amount to over .$3.00 *8 for a starter. This year we T7- 1 .1 I , •,,• double the fertilizer bill, raising it Eighth. Insurance on buildings , , . . , ^ •^ . f to .|i, cultivation and management IS another item not to be over-look- ^j^,,^ .„ j^e same figure, taxes are ed and $35 a year or 25c for our double as the valuation of the land single acre is the regular charge. is placed at $50. making $6 for this Ninth. Then the incidental ex- item, insurance to be the same, 25c, penses which attend any and every while incidentals naturally increase business which no man can estimate to ^3,75, this totals $35, which with certainty in but one particu- added to the $105.50 for the first lar, and that is it will amount to year makes $140.50, to which $14 more than expected. We will for interest is added bringing the place it at $1.75 per acre so that cost at end of secondyear to $154 50. our total will come out in even dol- Starting in the third year, we lars. find that 01. e of the trees re-planted Thus far we have nine items and failed to grow and one of the origi • are not yet through with the first nal which started first year failed year's outlay, but add these in order to put out again. This cost for • Read at 1909 meeting ot the Georgia-Florida trees and planting : Pecan Growers. continued on page 18. Some Important Insect Pests and Plant Diseases Affecting the Pecan. E. L. WORSHAM. ATLANTA. GA. The pecan is perhaps less sub- ject CO seriously injurious insect pests and plant diseases than almost any other fruit in which we happen to be interested. It is probable that these will become more serious from time to time, because the common insects attacking other fruits and other crops have seemed to grow worse from time to time, and in addition, others have been introduced, which have proven se- rious. There are about tort)' spe- cies of insects known to attack the pecan, but only about two diseases of any consequence. In a paper of this kind I will only attempt to discuss those which are destined to cause most trouble with the pecan growers in this section. In combatting all insect pests it is necessary for one to have some knowledge of their life history in order to know when to apply the remedies that can be relied upon for satisfactory results. THE PECAN BUD MOTH. (Proteopteryx delundana.) This is a very small worm or caterpillar, yellowisli or pale green- ish in appearance, with a dark head. There are several species of this insect, but all very much alike in appearance and quite alike in habits, all species having several generations a year. There is one species quite common in Georgia, and it attacks young buds, tender twigs and leaves. The life history oF this insect has not been carefully worked out, but Prof. Chittenden, nf the U S. Bureau of Entomolo- gy, thinks there are about three and possib'y four generations a year. As there are several generations of I his insect, the best time to fight it is when the first brood puts in its appearance in May. Spray th.oroiighly with arsenate of lead before the insect has a chance to get down into the buds. If it should happen to be very serious, careful observations should be made 18 THB NUT^ GROWER on later generations, and sprayings made at times when they will be most effective. PECAN CASE BEARERS. (Acrobasis Nebulella Riley & Coleophora coryae- folielia Clem.) There are two species of this in- sect which are known to attack pecans. The former attacks the tree in a very similar way as the bud worm and can be controlled in the same way. The case which these insects form around them- selves are for protection and are similar in construction to the cuses which the bag worm makes about itself, and which is so common on apples. The}' winter over in tne larval state and come out in time to attack the young buds. The latter of these two insects injures the trees by biting holes in the leaves and devouring the blos- soms. It can be controlled by the use of arsenicals applied when it puts in its appearance. It has been observed on trees from April until June. [CONTIN0ED IN MARCH NUMBER.) The Cost of a Pecan Orchard. CONTIKDED FBOH PAGE 17 Planting $3.25 Fertilizer, 4 pounds per tree 1.00 Cultivation, same as former years, 5.00 Management 12. 00 Taxes increased to 8.00 Insurance, same 25 Incidentals 2. 50 Total for third year $ 32.00 Add former two years 154.50 Total $186.50 Add interest one year 18.50 $205.00 We probably have a perfect stand of trees by this time, so for the fourth year we have the same cultivation, charges, management and insurance and fertilizers, which aggregate ^ 18.25 Taxes everlastingly increases . . 10.00 While we economize on incidentals 1.75 Making for the fourth year if, 30.00 Add our previous investment 205.00 And we have 12351)0 Then interest, which gets in full time 23.50 Andweha\e |258.50 By this time it takes courage to face another year of equal cost. In anticipation of some tree bearing we increase the fertilizer bill to $1.50, are able to hold taxes down to previous year, become careless about incidentals as this is the last year of the out go of capital. However, it all amounts to I32, which added to $258.50 gives .$290,50 to which the eternal inter- est .I29. 50 must be added, swelling our investment to the astonishing figures of $320.00 which is a higher figure than Mr. Wight's estimate of the value of an acre at this age. This seems enough but from the view point announced and suppos- ing the work is done by contract we are obliged to add something for profit for this individual who, unlike the Nurseryman, always looks out for his profits. Ten per cent on the amount expended would seem to be a fair compensation, this added $32.00 to our .I320.00, making $352.00 and )et this is not all. A contractor in figuring a job always adds about 25% to his esti- mate for accidents, losses, etc., which can not be accurately deter- mined in order to be on the safe side, should they occur, this would swell the total |88.oo more, mak- ing a grand total of $440.00, a fig- ure more in keeping with the im- portance of the pecan as a com- mercial product than our present methods indicate. It belongs to the Promoter and Contracter to show hpw the indi- rect orchards profits during this period can cut down the figures given but I insist that the actual cost, the investment on which div- idends are expected, must not be compromised, by auxiliary opera- tions. You can cut down or change my figures as you please but you can not eliminate any of the items mentioned without impairing the ultimate profits. I am aware of the fact that some things, even a pecan tree, will stand a certain amount of pruning and possibly some of you, my interested audi- tors, are ready to apply the cut- ting down process to my figures. For the purpose of enforcing my argument, I mav be allowed to an- ticipate as many as I can of the things which can be cut back and note the efiect from our commercial view point, because this is what we must face if the business is to be conducted on such lines, for it can- not attain prominence in any other way : First, you may take off tiie con- tingency item of $88. 00 on the the- ory that you can figure so closely on the expenditures which run for a period of five years, that such provision for the unexpected is not necessary and that you are willing to run the risk. You can also eliminate the mod- est compensation allowed the Con- tractor,$32. 00, and let him look out for graft for he will certainly not work for nothing. You can cut down the interest charge if your credit is good or security ample to 6% which will take off' *3S.oo. You can cut out the insurance, which only takes off $1.25 and carry the risk yourself. You may even dispense with the manage- ment and have the Nurseryman, who sold you the trees, go outside of his particular business and work for nothing in giving spasmodic attention to the orchard to save $60.00. These five items amount to within a few cents of $230.00, which is just half of the $440.00, our commercial total. This still leaves a cost above the supposed extravagant figure at which con- tracts are now offered for perform- ance of the necessary work. All this array of figures may be useful in another way by helping the orchard promoter to a more equita- ble compensation for his services than has thus far been granted him. Present customs compel him to earn his living and profits by grow- ing inter-mediate crops and by competing with the regular nur- seryman in growing trees. The highest attainments, however, are reached by specialists in the or- chard, nursery or on the farm. If one acre of pecan orchard costs S440 up to bearing uge, and this fact is recognized by the financial public, we have room to believe that our most serious obstacle in the way of securing investmenis does not, in fact, exist. To illustrate, say we offer to plant and care for an orchard for five years for $100 an acre and assure our prospective customer that in a few years it will pay him 100% annually. In 99 cases out of every hundred they will say that it is too good to be true and decline to even investigate. Tell the same man that the orchard costs approximately $500 up to bearing age and that thereafter profits will aggregate about 20% per annum for many years and he becomes interested at once and looks into the prospects carefully and finding it all that was repre- sented invests freely and confident- ly, because this smaller per cent, of profits he regards as within the bounds of reason. If the actual cost of an orchard is twice as much as the most daring planter has ventured to ask, we need to know it and act accordingly. If by asking a commensurate price for our work and orchards the pub- lic will take more readily to invest- ments in our line, its seems as though we are up to a point where somebody needs to sit up and take notice. We have in the shape of a co-incident a warrant for sugges- tion that we "move on" as our abrupt close occurs on page "'23" of our manuscript. THE, NUT-GROWBH 19 A General Consideration of Nuts as a Substitute for Flesh Foods. By Geo. M. Niles, M. D.. Lecturer on Physiology, Atlanta School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. [continued prom JANUARY NUMBER.] I would not advise those who liave long included meat in their daily regime to attempt leaving it off entirely and for all time, sub- stituting nuts in its place, unless they do so by sound and well-con- sidered medical counsel. Such ill- advised dietic excursions would probably result disastrously, and would bring nuts into further dis- repute as standard articles of food. I contend, however, that when nuts are eaten understandingly, as an integral part of a meal, and not crowded into an already full stom- acii ; wiien they are chewed suffi- ciently, and delivered to the di- gestive apparatus along with bulky foodstufls, so that their concentra- tion will not cau.se distress, their sterling nutritious qualities will be more fully appreciated. This general sugge.stion might with propriety be offered : As an occasional vacation or cliange of scene will rest and brace up a tired body, so often a temporary cliange of proteins will greatly rest that part of the digestive system whose special care is for that particular food element ; for the organs, which transform inanimate nourishment into living, moving and thinking tissue, pursue an orderly co-oper- ative plan, whereby each constit- uent part of that which is eaten finds suitable provision made for its proper digestion and assimila- tion. The National Nut Growers As- sociation, as it studies the culture and production of nuts, will find it highly pro.itable to also investi- gate their food value, in order that the masses of nut consumers may be instructed regarding their dietet- ic possibilities as well as their economic advantages, information which will carry more from such a source, than if promulgated by in- terested institutions with special nut [)reparatic>ns to be marketed or special axes to grind. There is a popular paraphrase of a Scriptural expression which reads '•JS'lilk for babes and meat for strong men." Many strong men and strong na- tions have owed much of their vig- or to a liberal consumption of meat, but thousands of healthy- Americans of today have learned that there is bone, sinew and muscle in other articles of food, and as a rational vub- stitute for meat the staple nuts, so bountifully provided by Nature, w ill deservedly hold the foremost place. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -:- -:- Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. Nut Trees as Shades and Orna- mentals. H. B. BECK. Austin. Texas. The subject assigned to me "Nut Trees as Shades and Ornamentals" I take up with great pleasure, for with the single exception of the Live Oak there is no other long lived tree that can favorably com- pare with the pecan and black wal- nut in any save very limey soils, in Central Texas, and by Central Texas I mean that area within one hundred miles of Austin. These nut trees are of good form, strong wood, robust constitution, and not troublesome in littering the ground, as their season of growth is prompt in starting and equally prompt in maturing and going into tlie period of rest. They are con- servative in knowing when to get busy and when to quit. They are less subject to plant diseases than other trees, and are more nearly proof agaiiist the plague of mistle- toe than any of our native trees. While assisting Professors Bray and York in their mistletoe investi- gation, we discovered but one in- stance of the parasite nuisance on the pecan and that was but a small growth, while most all other shade trees were from slightly to fatally injured. The nut trees are usually slow growers, yet a pecan tree in the yard back of the old City Na- tional Bank at Austin, grew from seed in nine years to be a tree thirty feet high and over twenty feet spread of branches, and I firmly believe the position taken by Mr. Baker of Ft. Worth, that while the pecan is young and sending down its root system, its growth may seem slow, yet at eight to ten years of age it will be as large as the average shade tree of the same age, wiili this advantage, it will last as an ornament, and a blessing when the other is forgotten. The planter of today has many varieties to choose from. He can plant long, slim, liglit colored paper shells on one side of his bungalow, short dark, round types on the other, and large, fiat, free shellers at his back porch. He can have early varieties and late ones that do not fall until after frost, and as he cracks them for his friend from down town, he can go back in memory to the time when pecans were all mere wild nuts before those true patriots, Falkner and Kirk- patrick. had toured the whole na- tive pecan country in the interest of ••the survival of the fittest," when Risien was regarded as a well meaning freak, and Ramsey and Knox were supposed to have the monster pecans they were con- stantly exhibiting manufactured somewhere in Connecticut. Then our great Governor Hogg made the nut trees famous by expressing the last earthly desire that his monument should be like his life, full of usefulness, and the pecan ■ind walnut should mark the place where lays the remains of Texas greaiest Governor. CONTINUED ON PAGE 29. 20 THB NUT^GHOWBjR WALNUTS Walnut Growers, Attention ! Under direction of the Depart- ment of Horticulture of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., I am making a study of the botanical and cultivated forms of juglans regia (walnut). My purpose is (a) to study the botany and evolution of this valuable group of edible nuts in the older countries of the world, and (b) to supplement this history with an account of the com- mercial development of the walnut industry in this country, with spe- cial reference to the adaptation and acclimatization of varieties to dif- ferent soils and varying climatic conditions. May I ask the assistance of the readers of The Nut-Grower to ren- der what aid they can in the fur- therance of this important work? I am desirous of obtaining 3 or 4 specimens of all the different varie- ties of juglans regia (walnut) grown in the United States for sys- tematic study. Samples of prom- ising seedlings would also be much appreciated. I trust that every grower will feel that it will be my pleasure to reciprocate to the fullest extent by returning to those who have aided in the investigation such informa- tion as I may gather. Yours sincerely, in the interest of walnut culture, C. C. Vincent. Ithaca, N. Y. Successful Grafting Method for Walnut. By Claud D. Tribble. Elk Grove, Cal. (CONTINUED FROM JAKCARY NUMBER) Waxing — Now wax over the entire top of the stock, tips of scions, on sides, taking care to wax thoroughly around each graft ; leave no air holes. Wax at least two inches below where the split in the bark ceases. In a few min- utes the wax will harden then re- wax on sides, between scions and around each scion. Wax covering the bud will not do harm. It is understood that melted wax is used. We wrap paper around our stock and tie, allowing it to extend above the scion four inches then double down and pin with a split stick clothes-pin fashion, be careful not to disturb scion. Nursery stock can be grafted as above, by cutting off just above the ground, say one or two inches, and proceed as above. Where '.he stock is 5-8 ot an inch or less the ordinary whip graft is the best used. Some nurserymen use this method up to an inch in diameter. We prefer the split or cleft graft for the latter size. By cutting off a small portion of the tip of the stock and a small portion of the bottom of the iscion the sap ring can be seen so plainly that one can't help but make a perfect un- ion. Wax all exposed cut surface. Grafts put in the top of a limb that runs out horizontally seldom grows. They should be put on the side of such limbs. Care OF Grafts — Open paper often to see if the work needs re- waxing or that it is not cracking. Keep off all sprouts or suckers, as they will take the sap from the scion and kill it. We never pinch grafts back but allow all the growth that can be made. We protect these from blowing out by nailing slats on the stock or driving stakes in the ground and tie the growth to these. Six or eight feet is usually the proper length for these slats and they should be cov- ered with cloth where the graft is tied to prevent rubbing. Nursery — It is not recommend- ed to graft yearling trees, as they are nearly always small and 50% is considered an extra good stand, while 75 to 90 per cent, is a stand for two year stock. It is not to be recommended grafting below the surface of the ground as the root is of a spongy nature and does not make a good union, and it is not necessary, as the surface is easier, better work and one can get excel- lent results by these methods. Our Work — During the past season three of us grafted through the season for grafting and made an average of a little over 76 per cent. In some one or two places the writer made only 40 per cent; one was in an English orchard (top grafting) where the pistillate flow- ers were in bloom and the other was grafted on some very large trees where the owner was afraid to climb up to the grafts on ac- count of height and the shoots kill- ed many of the grafts, and many blew out. Good scions are one re- quisite for a large percentage. These methods apply to all varie- ties of the walnut. Recipe for Wax — Rosin, 6 lbs. Beeswax, i lb. Finest charcoal, i^ lbs. Linseed oil (raw, ) i^ pint. Melt rosin and beeswax together. Mix charcoal in oil and stir in wax. Let cool till it will run quite thick then pour into greased pan as a mould. It can then be broken off and melted as needed. Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. W« also carry a s<'iieral line «>f Fruit aurt Oniaiiieutal Trees. Barnwell Pecan Groves foi's'^ ded and Grafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most===Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Spiings, Miss COUNTY AGENTS WANTED :F0R: Brook's Improved Hand Pump With Sprinkler and Suc= tion Attachment. A Complete Hand Appa- ratus for Throwing Water, Made of Brass with Steel Plunger and 3 -ply Rubber Hose. It is invaluable for ex- tinguishing fires and wetting roofs near fires, spraying trees, washing windows and carriages, watering gardens, sprinkling lawns, white- washing inside of poultry houses, and as a veteri- nary syringe it has no equal. THOUSANDS already in use for spraying purposes alone. Hundreds of recommendations received. Write for prices and terms. J. M. SANDERS, GENERAL SOUTHERN AGENT, OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA. THI^ NUT-GROWBK 21 CHESTNUTS The Chestnut Bark Disease. About five years ago chestnut trees were observed to be dying in the city of New York. The cause, then unknown, has since been found to be a fungous disease of the bark. This disease is very fa- tal to the trees, and it has since spread so as to completely infest the are:is lying near New York City in the states of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. It has been found in scattered areas in the eastern states from Rhode Island to Virginia. Where it be- comes thoroughly established it de- stroys all the chestnut and chinqua- pin, but no other species. In For- est park, Brooklyn, over 16,000 trees have been killed. One com- petent authority estimates the loss from this disease in and around New York to be over $5,000,000. This disease has been studied by scientists of the United States de- partment of agriculture, and the department has issued a report on it (bulletin 141, bureau of plant indus^try.) It is believed that this disease was brought to this country from Japan, although this has not been positively demonstrated. Its spread has resulted mainly from the sale and shipment of nursery stock. Young chestnut trees are sent out from many eastern nurseries, in which the disease has recently been found. The department recom- mends, as a preventive, the careful inspection of nursery stock. It also advises, as a means of check- ing the spread of the disease, that all affected trees be cut down, and utilized, care being taken to burn all the brush. Health Notes. By A. I. Root. I wisii to give you an illustration of the value of nuts; and please do not make fun of me nor stick up your nose, any of you, at my illus- tration. When my father first moved into the woods of Medina county, he chopped down the trees and cleared a piece of land and built a log cabin for his young wife and the children that came string- ing along. I was the fourth one, and my early recollections are all about that log house and the forest trees around it. There were great hickories with their wealth of shell- bark nuts; and there were beech- trees that gave such crops of beech- nuts that it was a common thing to raise pigs to be fattened on these same nuts. If I am not mistaken, everybody used to call the pork produced by fattening the pigs on nuts or •'shack" the very best qual- ity of pork — even better than that where they were fattened on grain. Now, do not protest when I tell you that I am fattening up on the nut diet, just as the domestic ani- mals got tat on the nuts that they rooted out of the leaves in the woods. I think we can call chestnuts and other nuts God's medicines. He caused them to ripen at just the time we need them, to make a "balanced ration" with the fruits and grains that ripen in autumn ; and if you are inclined toward a vegetarian diet the nuts will take the place of animal food better than anj' thing else I know of. Do vou say that not everybody can afford chestnuts when they are 20 cents a quart.? Mv good friend, it costs me about two cents a meal for my chestnuts, and I use more than most people care to. May be the price is a little greater than for some other kind of food, but not much if any more than eggs; and if you can manage to have the nuts lake the place of the medicine you have been using, I am sure you will find them cheaper than medi- cine; and, oh how much nicer than any medicine ever invented! The nuts are not only God's medicine, but (jod's gift. If you should get a fit of enthusiasm to plant some chestnut-trees, and grow your own "medicine, "then that would be bet- ter still. A few days ago a nice voung lady came into our neighbor- liood with some chestnuts that she had picked up under the trees on her father's farm, only a few miles from Medina. It gave me the "fever" to go chestnuting just as siion as I found out that there is a sjindy ridge where chestnuts were growing and in bearing in our own count v. p The Secret of Success I Is Self -Development... S Prepare for future success— gieatness, prosperity, and happiness ^ __by developing yourself NOW. Your circumstances are only the JO expression of your mental development and habits, and it is im- ffi possible to improve your surroundings unless you FIKST IM- ffi PROVE YOURSELF. ^ The Science of Success m covers every point of necessary development. It will show you HOW in TO WIN in the simplest and clearest manner. 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Gentlemen:— Without obligation on my part, send me your free booklet, "The Science of Suc- cess." In The Nut-Grower, Name P. O. Box St. No. Progress Self-Help University, S Rand-McNally Bldg., Chicago. 111. ^^^^ ^^^^ [iSHaSHSHSasaSHSBSir'JSHHHHHSHSESaSHSHSr ESSBdSSSBSSB-aSi c 5Hs] 22 THB NUT-GHOWBM HICKORY Pecans on Hickory. The paper-shell pecan heads liie list now for profit and beauty. Every one enjoj's airing_his [views now and then so I would like to give mine on budding pecans on hickory. I prefer the small hick- orys from two to four inches in di- ameter. Top them in the winter so you will have a nice lot of ten- der sprouts to select from and al- ways select the onest, but le:ive the others until your bud has .start- ed. I like one bud to the tree ; it makes a more symmetrical tree, takes less time to do the work and is easier to protect from the wind. In a few years you would hardly notice where it was budded, 1 want to say to t he farmers of East Texas, leave the little hicko- ries this winter in clearing your new ground and bud them to pe- cans. It won't bother in cultivating the land for lo years and then, well, you will have one of the prettiest and most profitable pieces of real estate iuuiginable. Did you wish to sell, you could get lo times as much for it in a pecan grove as in any other one thing that grows. You would like to have your house in the middle of it, but I hear some one say pecans grow so slow they are too long about bearing. They are not a slow growth and they bear early when budded. — Farm & Ranch. Should Grow Shellbark Trees. There are so many waste lots on farms that could be better growing trees than producing next to noth- ing, that the wonder is that the many valuable nut trees are not thought of for planting therein. Just now the thought with us is for the shellbark, a tree always in demand for both its nuts and its timber. The nuts vary in price from year lo year. The present season sees their price $2 per bush- el, as handled by commission men, and for many years past it has been about the same. Confectioners use a great many in their business, and a great quantity is sold in gro- cery and provision stores, especial- ly at about the Christmas season. It would be a rare occurrence that one who had nuts to sell could not dispose of them at a profit. And this says nothing of the value of the timber, which foi wagons, axe handles and like uses is among the best of the hickories. The best way to start a grove of the shellbark or any other hickory would be to plant the nuts where the trees are to grow, because it is If a hickory tree of little or no value can in a few years be con- verted into a paper-shell pecan tree of great value, we should be will ing to go to some little trouble to bring about such happy results. The new shoots will grow so rap- idly after becoming thoroughly in- corporated into the old tree, that some watching and bracing will become necessary for tlie first year or two, after which they will read- ily take care of themselves. so difficult to transplant seedlings, Owing to their long tapro >is. To provide against failure, place two nuts in each hole. Should both grow one must be taken out, and possibly it could be used in some place where both had failed to ger- minate. Were it not that rodents are apt to destroy the nuts, they are as well set in the tall as any other time. However, if the nuts are kept in damp soil all winter in a not too warm place, they will be in good condition for spring planting. They should be planted as soon as the weather will permit. Their growing is a questi(Hi ol their hav- ing taken up sufficient moisture lo cause the shells to crack open read- ly when the time comes for the nuts to germinate. Should the seedlings n(5t appear when other seedlings are sprouting out of the ground, no alarm need be felt, for hickories are quite awhile appear- ing above ground. A medium sized nut is as good for planting as a larger one. Large nuts cannot be relied on to produce trees that will bear huge ones, as often the large nut is but the product of a young I ree.-- Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa. Hickory groves, now of little or no value can in a few years be con- verted into orchards more valuable than California orange groves, and become a source of wealth and prosperity lo the owner and to the country. ^Gfati''"' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDEIl ^OW TO SAVE I)1SAPP0I\THE\T 1900-1910 PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or I45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55 00 per 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per lOO 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75-00 per 100 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85 00 per 100 OUR (.UAIJANIKK If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out b&fore February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— ACT NO'X'— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWibt., Mitchell County, Georgia. THB NUT^GHOWBR 23 NEW AND RARE NUTS In many western portions of our country pine nuts are consumed largely. Several species yield abun- dantly on the Pacific Coast and as far inland as Colorado and New Mexico. In the commerce of most of the California cities these nuts are very important. For flavoring and confectionery purpo-es the pistachio nuts are most vaUiabie. The tree is a na- tive of Syria and. while the nut now grown in America, in Califor- nia and tiie Gulf States is larger than the .Syrian variety, it is not so delectable. The kernel is prized for its dainty green coloring and ihe flavor. Some nu^s, like the native hazel- nut and beechnut, have practically no commercial value and, though palatable, are almost never offered for sale, doubtless because they are so small and difficult to gather in quantity. The chinquapin, a small nut allied to the chestnut, finds a limited sale in southern cities, but is seldom seen in other markets. Beechnuts. (Fagusferruginea.) — The beech thrives from the mid- dle South to Ontario, on a great variety of soils, but it seems to fill nuts well only when the soil con- tains lime. This can be added ar- tificially. Most beechnuts are too small for market purposes. I have grafted stock from one tree bear- ing large nuts. Hazelnuts. {Corglus America- na.)— There is to be a large mar- ket for this species of hazel as soon as orchards are developed from grnfted bushes which bear particu- larly thin-shelled and large nuts. The quality of this native hazel is superior, but most of the wild nuts are small and thick-shelled. I do not know the soul hern range of the species (probably Texas,) but have found it in Ontario, and have found a relative, Corostrata, abun- diint. clear to Hudson's Bay. European and Asiatic hazels bring excellent incomes to their owners in their native countries, but these fine nut shrubs, when introduced into this country, are usually de- stroyed by a blight which our own hazels resist. ' Cocoanuts consumed here are mostly imported ; but of the 300,000 cocoanut palms planted in Florida about 20 per cent of them are al- ready in bearing. The immature nuts form the basis for the valuable medicinal ointment. The jelly which lines the shell of the more mature fruit furnishes a food pro- duct of great delicacy and high nutritive value. The milk itself is a delicious arlicle of food. The f.imiliar condimental substance known as East Indian curry has grated cocoanut tor its basic con- stituent. Butter is made from the cocoanuts, and the fat itself is val- uable for cooking purposes. The solid edible portion of the nut is highly oleaginous and contains considerable starch and sugar. The Almoud. — The almond was the first of the 'nuts' to become of commercial importance in Califor- nia, and owing to climatic condi- tions this State will always enjoy a monopoly in its cultivation. Suc- cess, h.>wever, has been from the start rather uncertain, although added experience and a record of some partial and total failures, may now be taken advantage of and mistakes therefore avoided by those who are engaging in the production of this crop. The earlier planted varieties consisted of the Langue- doc, imported from France, and the Tarragona from Spain. These were not generally profitable, and the almond industry languished until it received a fresh impetus on the introduction of the Hatch seed- lings in 18S5. Since then other good seedlings have been grown, so that at this time we have as standard varieties I X L, Nonpa- riel, Ne Plus Ultra. Lewelling, Drake. Peerless and Texas (Texas Prolific.) The almond has beeti an uncertain cropper owing to its early blooming, rendering it liable to injury during spring storms or frost, and to the more or less self- sterility of the blossoms of some varieties. BEST VARIKTIES Write for Price List>. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK, : Hartwell, Ga. Index to Advertisers. Page A. B. &A. R. R 19 Alvin Nursery 27 Arcadia Nurseries 20 Barnwell Pecan Groves 20 The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co 22 Bay view Nursery 20 Brooks' Hand Sprayer 20 Buckeye Agency 26 Classified Advertisements 23 Clingmans Nurseries 23 Coe-Mortimer & Co 25 H. S. Graves 28 GrifRng Brothers Co 26 Grove for Sale 26 Johns. Horlbeck 27 Increase Pecan Co 31 Jefferson Nursery 27 Louisiana Nut Nursery 31 F. H. Lewis 27 T. S. McManus 28 Mead Cycle Company 30 Nut Grower 28 Nuts for Profit 27 Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery 31 JohnR. Parry 27 S. W. Peek 23 Pecan Investment 26 Piney Park Nursery 28 Proceedings 26 Progress Self-Help 21 R. T. Ramsey 27 Rood Pecan Groves 32 Scientific American 26 Summit Nurseries 31 J. B. Wight 26 CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller Id tbis column we give place to advertisements from subscibers wlio have Orchard, Farm ProUacts, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal nse of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. Mammoth and Himalaya Giant Blackberra, Logan and Phenominal berry plants, dozen $1.25 post paid Best larpest and earliest berries grown. Tribble Bros., Elk Grove, Cal. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may earn a good income corresponding for newspapers; ex- perience unnecessary. Send stamp for full par- ticulars. Empire Press Syndicate, Middleport. N. Y. (sept 3t.) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Culver Poultry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts lurnished only in limited quantities, THE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga. LET US SEND YOU "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. WRITE Today. Clingmon Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La, 24 THE NUT-GROWBU THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISHKD MONTHLY BY XS/>e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as secoud-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rales on Application. NOTICE When this paragraj)h Is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptlj', as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account ■will be credited for three years. FEBRUARY. 1910 We again call attention to the classified column for various adver- tising. It costs but a small amount and puts interested persons on notice as to what you offer. Attention is called to the circu- lar letter from Prof. C. C. Vincent, of Cornell Agricultural College, regarding his studies of the walnut. All our readers who are interested in this nut, should get in touch with him. Orange growers in Florida were not the onl}' sufferers from freezing weather during the past December and January. California. Arizona, Texas and Louisiana all suffered, and in some localities storms sup- plemented the injury by cold. The Eighteenth Annual Conven- tion of the National League of Commission Merchants was held at Norfolk, Va., during January last. The nut growers' committee on "Markets and Marketing," has opened correspondence with this body with a view to establishing relations which may be of material advantage. The cost of an apple orchard is receiving attention in some of the iigricultural journals. A Rhode Island apple grower, in Rural New Yorker, figures the cost of bringing it into profitable bearing in twelve years, at .'};4oo per acre. This in- cludes the cost of land, which is in- voiced at $50. Those who regard the pecan proposition as too expen- sive and requiring too long a wait should take notice. President Wight has appointed the following well known members to act with the Monticello commit- tee in arranging for the 1910 con- vention : C. M. Barnwell, Bacon- ton, Ga. ; J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. ; B.W.Stone, Thomasville, Ga. Among the resolutions passed at Albany convention, the following expreses the consensus of opinion of men competent to judge : "Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that pecan culture in Southern territory, when properly conducted, promises substantial and permanent returns." Membership in the National Nut Growers Association has proved to be very pleasant and profitable to a large number of growers. However, hardly one in ten of tliose planting pecans are yet members. Send to Secretary or Treasurer for applica- tion blanks and get in the push in time to enjoy the 1910 convention. In an effort to replenish our stock of specimen pecans, we sent an or- der to a well known Mississippi grower early in January. His re- ply was promptly received and reads: "Am out of all varieties. Demand big this year, prices best we ever had and I was fortunate in having a fine crop." This looks encouraging for those having the best varieties planted. Some advertisers regard the cost of space they use as an item ot ex- pense. This may be correct in part, but are of the opinion that properly handled it becomes a judicious in- vestment rather than an advertising expense. The regular use of rep- utable mediums, suited to the nature of the business, skillfully presented, has a cumulative effect which in due time builds up trade rapidlj^ Prof. Craig, of Cornell, thinks Mr. Wight's figures as to the value of a ten-year-old orchard are too low, and suggests that a properly planted grove of good grafted va- rieties would be hard to find at double Mr. Wight's valuation. The apple orchard of Oregon of this same age sells readily at from $1,200 to $2,000 per acre. Besides, ajjple orchards are short lived as compared with the pecan. Mr. A. C. Newell, of Oregon, pays a iribule to tiie nut growers, as no other line combines nursery- men and horticulturists as generally as is found in the pecan operations in the South. He says, in part, in the California Fruit Grovver : "The fruit grower and nurseryman divide honors in following the most ancient of all human callings. When Father Adam was placed in the Gar- den of Eden and commanded to dress and keep it, it is said he began serv- ing the world as the first nurseryman and horticulturist, thus combining the two lines, as is often done in the present age. No other occupation in which man is engaged can trace its history quite so far back into the past." The element of security in an in- vestment is of vital importance to any one who cannot afford to take the risks which attend speculation. Many people have the idea tint anything which offers more profit than 4 or 5% is risky and should not be considered. This may do for a general principle, and serve to place savings, where others c;m use them, still it is not true, for there are many industries which pay much larger dividends. Prop- erly managed pecan orchards will not only pay larger dividends but the security, as well as dividends, increases with the added years. Nature keeps up the repairs as well as adds to the value of property. The Atlanta Constitution, in commenting on the use of pecans as a substitute for meat, says : "The majority of nuts are ad- mittedly nutritious. Few of them are uniformly expensive. The crop is almost unfailing. "Pecans, just now beginning to develop as an industry in Georgia, class high with other nuts as a nourishing form of diet, easily di- gested when ordinary precautions are observed. "Candidly, we do not look for them to supplant meat, though we yield to no man in love for their juicy succulence. "There is a sort of divinity that hedges a tenderloin, especially that grown in Georgia upon Georgia food-stuffs, a lingering, mouth- watermg, convivial, undying, tra- dition, that extends also to hog jowl and peas, pork sausage, spar- Tim NUT'GHOWBR 25 Nut Growers! Read This! AVK >VOUL,0 CALL YOUR ATTENTION' Tt) 'i@mas Pi®i Total Phosphoric Acd 15 to 18 Per Cent. [basic slag phosphate] ANALYZINC; Lime 35 to 50 Per Cent.. Magnesia and Iron 1 8 to 20 Per Cent. This material is being larcelyused bv some of the most intelliKent nut ami fruit growers in this country with splendid results Why not YOU? There is no material l(uown that so strnnuly ap|ieals to you as this, l)ecause : In addition to the PHOSPHOKIC ACID, it contains also large amounts of LIME, MAGNESIA and IKON, which are very necessary in assisting in large production of tiuit and at the same time keeping your trees healthy and vigorous. It is not treated with SULPHURIC ACID like Acid Phosphate and cannot destroy the humus matter in your soils and make them sour and unproductive, and many other reasons. This space is too small to tell you all about it. Write for descriptive pamphlet and prices. In addition to Thomas Phosphate Powder we import and handle NITRATE OP POTASH MURIATE OF POTASH DRIED BLOOD IMPORTED fISH OUANO SULPHATE OF POTASH NITRATE OF SODA KAINIT The Coe- Mortimer Company, New York Charleston. S. C. ribs and a few other of those meats that Georgia should produce in defiance of the trust. "These beatific gustatory quali- ties will for many years resist the onslaught of even the seductive Georgia pecan. "But as an adjunct to Georgia- raised ham or meat of any charac- ter, a sort of concentrated nour- ishment, a happy seasoning with every meal — "Waiter, bring me a pecan steak, quick!' " The following letter received some time ago, from an official of of the forest service, will be of in- terest, especially to the nut grow- ers who are making regular phe- nological observations : "Dear Sir:— I looked over with great interest the outline of the National Nut Growers' Associa- tion for taking observations on nut-bearing trees, contained in your enclosures of June 5. I take pleasure in sending you a set of the Forest Service forms and in- structions for making observa- tions on trees, which will proba- bly be of interest to you. You will notice that these forms are not so detailed as yours. It was found by experience that it does not pay to ask too many questions, and the answers are usually more reliable and definite when you have only a small number of sim- ple questions. It is planned to secure the data regarding climate from the records of the nearest weather station, and merely ask for the address of the nearest Weather Bureau station. I thank you very much for your outline which I did not know of before. It ■ is extremely instructive and use- ful. Very truly yours, Raphael ZoN, Chief." Personal Mention. Mr. H. K. Miller, of Albany, reported verbally for the Commit- tee on Trade Publications, stating that the service rendered by the Nut Grower weis highly beneficial, and merited liberal support and encouragement. President Roosevelt once said: "Real estate is the basis of all wealth. Every person who invests in well-selected real estate, in a growing section of a prosperous community, adopts the surest and safest method for becoming inde- pendent." J. F. Leyendecker, ofFrelsburg, Colorado county, died on August 8. In less than two months he would have been 70 years old. He was born in Neuhansel. Germany, and emigrated to this country with his father and family in 1843. His section of the state is better be- cause he lived in it. Anyone who knew him was made better. His useful, contented, happy life is a model worthy of being commended to all men everywhere, both young and old. In his quiet waj' he has kept up a good nursery for about thirty-five years, and was one of the first in the state to become pro- ficient in budding pecans. Edward W. Knox, San Antonio, Texas, says : According to the last United States census reports, Cali- fornia produced in 1S99, in round numbers, 10,700,000 pounds in English walnuts, 7,000,000 pounds of almonds, and the total crop of pecans in the United States was 3,300,000 pounds, making a total of only 21,000,000 pounds of nuts produced in this country tor that year. The imports for that same year were 24,000,000 pounds, thus showing that we are not producing one-half the nuts consumed in this country. The United States for that year, as you see, produced 17,700,000 pounds of walnuts and almonds, and only 3,300,000 pounds of pecans, just about 16 percent. Now then, when I tell you that the people will pay more for shelled pecans than they will for shelled almonds or walnuts, you can readily see that we are only touching the outer edges of the nut trade. ^ Table of Contents. Page Almonds 23 Beachnuts 23 Books and Catalougas 31 Chattanooga Climate 27 Chestnuts 21 Coca Nuts 23 Cost of a Pecan Grove 17 Double Flowering System 28 Editorials 24 Chas. L. Edwards 28 Grafting the Walnut 20 Hazel Nuts 23 Health Notes 21 Hickories 22 Insects • 17 Letters 29 Mere Mention 26 News Items 27 New and Rare Nuts.. 23 Nuts as a Substitute for Flesh Foods 19 Nut Trees as Shade and Ornament. . .19 Pecans on Hickory 22 Personal Mention 25 Reports 28 Report from Arkansas 28 Shellbark Trees 22 Societies 30 Test Orchard 28 Tribble, Claud D., 20 Texas Nut Growers Meetmg 30 Vincent, C. C, 20 Walnuts 20 Walnut Growers Attention 20 26 Mere Mention. The Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., says : Pecans are a valuable asset in this state, and yet they are only in the infancy of their possibilities. All that is required to make peo- ple consume enormous quantities of nature's most perfect and high- est grade food — nuts — and a suffi- cient supply- of same is to produce them. Tiiere need be no fear as to an over-production in tiiis or future ages, for the great body of mankind has not yet even tasted the king of all nuts — the pecan in its best form. "Plant breeding" is now univer- sally admitted to be an important factor in successful horticulture. There are scientific men through- out the world who devote their time to a more or less comprehen- sive stud)' of the improvement of plant varieties, and there are others who are content to follow Nature's suggestions in some specific line with the same object in view, though narrowed in scope. A comparison of Pecans with Apples remind one of the objection which Prof. Craig has recently made to President Wright's esti- mate of the value of a pecan grove. Prof. Craig points out that a len year old apple orchard is worth a thousand dollars per acre, and has to be replanted in from twenty to forty years ; while a pecan grove is planted for forever and a day. Therefore, there is no reason for selling a pecan grove at less pro- portionate price than the apple or- chard brings. Do not let your grove or around your trees grow up in grass or weeds. Keep them clean, plow or harrow them, cultivate them, hoe them. Do not let grass and weeds take vour fertilizer after you have put it there — your trees and nut crop need it. Also they need all the moisture. Cultivate and keep the trees clean until July, then sow a cover crop of peas, and in the fall plow them in. While the peas are growing keep all around the trees hoed clean for from five to eight feet from trees all around. The machines recently invented for cracking the nuts and turning out the kernels in halves have the same meaning to the nut growers of THB NUT^GROWBH today that Whitney's cotton gin had to the early cotton growers. Our association and its co-workers in other States are building up a new industry for the South, one requiring less outlay of capital and labor than any that has ever been within the reach of our people. Our efforts may be slow in gaining ground, but ground will be gained, and from tiiis day forward, from year unto year, we shall be able to make better and better showings of results accomplished and of hopes realized. — Chas. L. Edwards. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is my Specialty. . Budded and (irufted Trees of the best vnrieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves . J. B. WIGHT, "5k^°Rc.A P®@ffln taw@sin©mis Mr. J. B. WlBht's Chattanooga address, four six by nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words This is a careful and very conservative review of tlie commercial opportunities this nut offers, and supplies just the in- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 S4.SO 500 2.50 250 1-50 100 75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. PROCEEDINGS The following volumes of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Louis, 1904, 25c per copy Seranton, 1906, 25e per copy Norfolk, 1907, 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 50c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, -:• ■:- GEORGIA THE Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA IpPpSE^l! SEETHE ntOTS Pecan Growing MADE EASY by pUnting trees dug with entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries seU such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, ot best quality and best producing varieties. Some of the biggest. thinncst-sheBed nuts don't bear. Beware of them, Griff ing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our Varieties ore Best Gold Medal awarded our Pecni> ai Jsniettown ETpo.siiion Handsome Pecan Catalog Free GriffingBrosCo Nuraerymen Jacksonville, Florida We also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties, Four Hundred Trees FOR SAJ^E Good reason for selling. Ask for particulars of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POULAN, GEORGIA. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Mark Designs .... Copyrights Ac. Anyone sending a sketch and description may aulcWy ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention Is probably pfitentiihlo. Coniiuunlca- tlons strictly confldentlal. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest aeency for securiugpatentB. Patents taken tbroueh Munn & Co. recelv* rpecial notice, without eharee, In the Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. I.arcest cir- culation of any scientlBo louma . a eniis, 13 » year- four months, IL Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN SCc^e'^'"""^^- New York Branch Office, 626 F St., Washington, D. C. THB NUT-GHOWBH 27 News Items. Sam H. James, of Louisiana, re- ports a very prosperous winter. The Monticello nurserymen are preparing for future trade by put- ting in 400,000 grafts. Florida orange growers were damaged by freezing weather the past crop season. The Experiment Station, at Au- Inirii, Ala., has a Bulletin on the pecan in preparation. A Monticello nurseryman has ar- ranged to plant 250 acres of fine pecans near Albany, Ga. Estimates as to the season's plant- ing of pecans in Arkansas and Texas is placed at 200,000 trees. An offer of ijiSo.ooo for an eighty- acre pecan orchard in Lee county. Ga , was recently declined. S. J Jones and S. W. Smith, of Albany, Ga., have contracted for a 300 acre pecan orchard in that locality. J F. Wilson and H. S. Watson have been appointed members of the National Congress of Horticulture as representatives of the Nut Grow- ers Association. li is reported that R. H. Terrell and J. G. McDonald will set out 100 acres in pecan trees in bottom land near Camden, Ark., as an ex- periment. From available statistics it ap- pears that in 1905 the total quantity of almonds, cocoanuts, Brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts, walnuts, and oth- er nuts, shelled and unshelled, im- ported into the United States was, in round numbers. 86,238,000 pounds, with a value of ,$6,138,000. In 1903 the total almond crop in California reached 4,300,000 pounds and the walnut crop 12,- 800,000 pounds. The richest yield of peanuts was reported from the Southern States, chiefly Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee, and amounted to 225,000,000 pounds. ♦ Temperature and Rainfall at Chattanooga, Tenn. OFFICIAL IIEPOIIT. Average spring temperature, 60 degrees ; summer temperature, 77 degrees ;autumn temperature, 61 de- QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees^ as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted. JEFFERSON NURSERY CO , MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. * FOR sale: GRAFTED PECAN TREES These trees are graftpd from the liewt bearing trtres in iny grove. : : : : : VAN DEMAN, STUAR.T and a dozen other cboice va- rieties Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston, S. C. Pecan Trees ^^7^ THE LEADINO VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, °^S^,-.if,';Z" HELP ^VANTED Mr. A. B. (ioodcBow, of Culebra, Canal Zone, has a pood farm of about fifty acres at filenn- more, f4a., ten miles from Waycross. He wants to liave it planted in pecans, and will make it an object to some good farmer who will handle the place in asuitaL)le manner. grees ; winter temperature. 43 de- grees ; average annual temperature, 60 degrees. The coldest month is February. The warmest month, July. The highest temperature record- ed was loi degrees, on August 14, 1902. The lowest tetnperature recorded was 10 degrees below zero on Feb- ruary 13, 1S99. The annual rainfall is 50 33 inches. Average date killing frost, in sjjring, April 2nd. xA.verage date killing frost, in autumn, October 26th. The earliest date of killing frost, in autumn, September 30th, 18SS. The latest date killing frost, in spring. May 14th, 1895. CAT^IiOlillll 1909-1910 Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvjn Japanese Nursery MASnX HVIKUIXG HOUSTON. . . TKXAS. Nuts for Profil fC.™..."' trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. Buv A nm mn The Best. Investment ttiat can now be made In the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the fluest pecan land In the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsu7na orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for tlie coming. season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nui-sery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own proves, hence absolutely trtie to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what vou order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson Coanty, SCRANTON. MISS. 28 THB NUT^GROWBR REPORTS The Test Orchard. Six Frotscher, eight Van De- man, nine Stuart and one Mobile were replanted. The Frotschers were evidently killed by cold, just as they were putting out. The Mobile seems to have been sun scalded. Stuart and Van Deman were small trees and suffered in cultivation of the land. Report from Arkansas. OVERFLOW OF THE ARK. RIVER. In 190S the grafted pecan trees in Row No. i were killed or badly damaged by an overflow of the Arkansas river, that completely submerged them from May 24th to June 19th. None were able to stand submersion as well as our native trees but there was a differ- ence in the varieties in this respect. The following list was made shortly after the water receded, and was intended to represent tlie ability of the varieties to withstand over- flows, judging by the distance the trees were killed buck. Be- ginning with the more hardy : Native Trees. Frotscher. Russell. Hall. Monarch. Young. Stuart. Georgia Giant, all killed. Hicoria Minima, all killed. Row No. I is on a sloping bank where the water was deeper than on the rest of the orchard. The rest of the trees were submerged only three daj's which caused them to drop their leaves but otherwise they appeared uninjured. How- ever, they made a very poor growth during the rest of the season, and during the winter of 190S-09 all of the Van Deman, two out of three of the Pabst and three out of eleven Georgia Giants were killed back. This seems to indicate that the Van Deman and Pabst are at least as tender in regard to overflow as the Georgia Giant. INSECTS. After the overflow of 190S I noticed that some of my young trees were being stripped of their leaves. I could find nothing at work on them and was at a loss to account for it. Happening to pass one evening after dusk I was at- tracted by a buzzing noise about the trees. The cause then became apparent ; there was a swarm of brown beetles feeding on the leaves. The beetles were like the common brown beetle that fly about a can- dle after nigiit — the ones that pro- duce the white grubs — except that they were smaller and lighter col- ored. They seemed to prefer the mature leaves but would eat the new ones after the mature o.ies were gone. In no case did I see where they injured the terminal bud, but they kept the young trees defoliated and materially retarded their growth. The past summer (1909) I saw the same beetle at work on the large trees but they did no appreciable damage. The young trees they did not appear to molest. They work only at night and go into the ground during the day. *.- Double Flowering System. As a matter of information to some it may be mentioned that the pecan has a double flowering sys- tem like the oak, the chestnut and a number of other trees. The male blooms hang down from the branches in clusters, which are call- ed catkins, from a supposed resem- blance to the tail of a cat, while the female or bearing blooms are at the terminals of the small branches. These male blooms or catkins us- ually appear one or two seasons be- fore young trees come into bearing. By the way, it has seemed a sort or wonder to me that some of our scholarly botanists have not given to male flowers of this kind a bet- ter designation. The term ''cat- kin" is uncouth and barbaric, as well as inapt in meaning. A cat's tail stands up most of the time, while the flowers mentioned hang down all the time. In view of the knotted, combined and often out- landish Greek and Latin nomencla- ture that has found its way into modern botanv, it is in order for some good man to rise up and offer a sensible substitute for the word "catkin " In tiie way of sugges- tion, how would it do to give this class of flowers the name of "pen- dels?" The new word would fall in the same class 'with "pendu- lum." a derivation from the Latin verb "pendeo," to hang. In my judgment it would be an improve- ment, to say the least. Chas. L. Edwards. For Sale About 300 lbs. 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We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. m^ V^lff ff Af iPC",n ^t^e^ don't buy any kind at any price until von send for a pair of Mr Y%M%M fV&C£/ § Mr%tL^ Iledgethorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. M%^% Af#l^ tMFAir but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bics'cle CiCr fwC/# WwS\B 8 or a pair of tires from anyone until yon know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW, J. L MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICilO, ILL I I THE NUT-GHOWBR ;3l Books and Catalogues. Walnut Cake. - |gtififniif»fwr^^»*wi"*i»'fni not blame the facts. Blame me for seeing them wrongly. Behold a pecan — shell, meat and bitter cork. It is emblematic of the industry. To classify the dif- ferent parts for proper usages is ex- pedient and fair. From outside appearances it is beautiful and at- tiactive. But to show you the beautiful only all the lime, it grows monotonous. How is the meat in- side? How well filled? How sweet, rich, nutty, etc? Then there is the bitter cork in the pecan, in the industry for preservation . I say emblematical, for some be- hold the beautiful fruit and stop. Rome have the large, rich, luscious kernels picked out for them by others and conclude that the indus- try is loo per cent good meat. In fact, "struck oil." Still there are others who get stuck in the cork. They can't see anything but objec- tionable features about, such as shy bearing, diseases, failing to fill and over-production. The pecan is beautiful because it is hardy, vigorous, stately, long- lived, meaty and rich. It is beau- tiful becau.se it sometimes produces over 500 lbs. of nut^ in one year and makes the owner feel the taste of riches. The pecan is corky when we find we have the wrong variety planted ; when a storm blows off every nut and some of the limbs ; or when the pecan scab quitely asks the nuts down before maturing. The pecan industry is no new industry. We have giant nut trees of the forest supposed to be over 400 years old. As to location — cotton belt is pecan belt. There are large old pecan trees all over Georgia. Loamy soils in South M Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. '■ Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- "■'-- -> Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. Georgia will grow a lUee in three years as large. as a five year tree in North Georgia. But the stiff soils of North Georgia will hold and sus- tain it better naturally after size is attained. This section that vigor- ously grows a good per cent of nut trees naturally should be adapted to pecan growing. Best soils. The statement that a pecan tree can be made to grow on any soil in one sense is true, but for practical purposes it is not. All practical men know what good strong soil is, and know that a long-lived tree should be planted only on such soil. A soil that nat- urallv grows mammoth trees, pre- ferably oak and hickory, is a strong soil AH such soils have a uni- form clay sub-soil, preferably red- dish, and next is a good yellow sub-soil. Soils that never grew large trees of any kind, with sub soil irregular, sandy soil, pipe- clays, muck pockets, seapy pl.aces, etc., will never grow a profitable pecan grove. Such soils can be used for more shallow-rooted short- er lived crops, but not for deeper rooted long lived pecan trees. Any soil can be built up with fertilizers, but your neighbor on naturally good soil will surpass you ten to one in economical results. GKOKGIA AS COMPARED TO OTHER SECTIONS Pecans do not want wet feet, but respond to plenty of rain-fall. Texas pioduces one-half of the pe- can crop, .but the cafloads come off of the river valleys. Some in Tex- as are irrigating their trees with good results. Some lands further West are two to three times richer than ours, but they are also two to three times higher in price. It probably is best to never boast, but pecan trees in Georgia are not stripped by storms as of ten as those of other sections. One often sees Louisiana boasting of wild pecan trees four to five feet through. Georgia instead boasts of four to five hundred pounds of nuts to the tree. The combination of quali- ties necessary in a soil for best re- sults, seems to be in our Georgia soils. CULTIVATION. I have mentioned wild tree of the forest so much that you might in- fer than pecan trees did not need cultivation. A party recently wrote me and asked : "Should a pecan tree be dug around." I answered him, "Yes, and keep it up one hundred years — just as long as you expect good results, keep dig- ging, keep digging, unless you have a specially well adapted soil that will. allow you to resort to the mulch system. We do not need the mulch system yet in South Georgia. FERTILIZATION. The fertilizer question is not difficult to handle— except the pay- ing for it That is not so serious a matter when we consider the fact (OOKTINUKD ON PAGB 47) 36 THB NUT^GHOWBR WALNUTS Walnut History. The English walnut (Juglans re- gia) has been grown for centuries in western Asia, especially Persia, whence it has been introduced by invaders and traders to various parts of Europe, namely, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Eng- land; and it is moreover variously named, after all these countries. From Europe it was introduced into America and for over a hun- dred years walnuts have grown in different parts of New York State, and farther south; but the large planting has been in California. There the industry was introduced by the Spanish friars, who brought with them the .Spanish strain, which is a soft-shelled type, such as tiie .Soft Shell and the Santa Barbara. Walnuts have been in- troduced into South America also. In later years French strains of such varieties as the Franquette and Mayette have made their ap- pearance, and the introduction of these bids fair to revolutionize the walnut industry in America. Not only will they be grown here in Oregon, but the chances are that the French nuts will in the near future be the chief nuts grown in California itself. They are the hardier nuts and come from cli- mates much like our own. Walnuts. By. R. E. Smith. To the interested observer it is apparent that the business of Eng- lish walnut growing is at present at a stage which comes to most horticultural industries before they reach a condition of complete sta- bility and permanency. This is wliat we may term the period of standardization. Tree culture of any sort almost invariably begins witii the seedlings and progresses to the grafted tree. "In walnut culture," recently boasted an old- time grower, "we plant the seed and pick up the nuts." Ideal con- dition! Fortunate industry! No fussing with insect pests; no spray- ing, fumigating or pruning; no ex- pense or bother with fertilizers; no problems of irrigation or culture. Good crops, high prices, unlimited market ; ease and contentment for all concerned. Such a time has been in this, as in most other new horticultural industries, but in all alike the halcyon days pass on and grim adversity begins to show its face. The successful walnut grower is no longer able to plant the seed and pick up the nuts ; he has many other things to think about before a satisfactorj' produc- tion of his orchard takes the form of cash in hand. Cold Weather Walnuts. What variety of English walnuts is best adapted to cold weather? What kind will bear freezing in winter, and what bears fruit earl- iest, and at what time? — Subscrib- er, Calabasas. If by cold weather is meant the mid-winter season when all are dormant, any variety will stand the climate of any fruit growing section of California, but if late spring frosts are considered, that is, at time of blossoming, then the later bloomers should be planted. The Mayette or Franquette, we believe, are preferred for such sit- uations in the north. But at Cala- basas the soft shells grown in the south should prove satisfactory es- pecially the Eureka variety. There are also a number of new varieties now being introduced in the north- ern part of the state which are suc- ceeding well. Any grafted variety will bear within a very few years after planting. The grafts placed on large trees will bear a crop the second year from grafting. Prof. Miller said at the Georgia Horticultural Society: We have scattering trees of English walnuts from middle Alabama, perhaps from the Florida line, to New York State ; but there seem to be some troubles to overcome, and recent e.xperiments have been made by grafting the English walnut upon the black native stock, with the hope of more success. I have heard from parties in South Carolina who have had considerable success by grafting these trees for a num- ber of years on black stock, but I think that possibly one of the greatest troubles in the Southern part of the country is the tendency of what we call "winter kill." Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. | Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. We also carry a general line of Fruit and Oruanieutal Trees. Barnwell Pecan Groves oto^uV ded and Grafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the iVlost"=Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, MU» COUNTY AGENTS WANTED 1 :FOR= Brook's Improved Hand Lump With Sprinkler and Suc- tion Attachment. A Complete Hand Appa- ratus for Throwing Water, Made of Brass with Steel Plunger and 3 -ply Rubber Hose. It is invaluable for ex- tinguishing fires and wetting reefs near fires, spraying trees, washing windows and carriages, watering gardens, sprinkling lawns, white- washing inside of poultry houses, and as a veteri- nary sy^-inge it has no equal. THOUSANDS already in use for spraying purposes alone. Hundreds of recommendations received. Write for prices and terms. J. M. SANDERS, GENERAL SOUTHERN AGENT, OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA. THB NUT'GHO WBR 21 CHESTNUTS History of the Chestnut Bark Disease. The U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry. In IQ04 Mr. H. W. Merkel, of the New York Zoological Piirk, observed a disease which was de- stroying large numbers of chestnut trees in the city of New York. This disease is what is now known as the chestnut bark disease. Even at that time it is certain that it had spread over Nassau county and Greater New York, and liad found lodgment in the adjacent counties of Connecticut and New Jersey. No earlier observaticin than this js recorded, but it is evident that the disease, which would of necessity h;jve made slow advance at first, must iiave been ii; tl:is general lo- cality for a number of years in or- der to have gained such a foothold by 1904 Conspicuous as it is, it is strange that the fu.igus causing this disease was not observed or collected by any mycologist until Ma\ , 1905, when specimens were received from New Jersey by Mrs. F. VV. Patterson, the Mycologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry. In the same year Dr. W. A. Murrill began his studies of the disease, publishing the results in the sum- mer of 1906. By August, 1907, specimens received by this Bureau showed thai the disease had reach- ed al least as far south as Trenton, N. J , and as far north as Pough- keepsie, N. Y.. and was spread generally over Westchester and Nassau counties, N. Y., Bergen couni\ , N. J., and Fairfield county, Coll n Health Notes. By A. I. Root, in Gleanings in Bee Culture. I am greatly enjoying chestnuts that we buy now at a moderate price at our grocers. After my trip through the West I was for some time out of sorts. I had no appe- tite, and nothing tasted natural. When chestnuts were in the market, however. I felt instinctively they would hit the right spot, and they did. I roasted them on the stove . or in the oven, and at the close of each meal I ate a pretty good-sized handful; and these, with half a cup of milk, are to me the most delicious food I ever found ii. this whole- wide earlh. i.They should be roast- ed just right, and put on the table hot. It isa little slow work getting the shells! oflF, it is true ; but this gives you an excellent opportunity to have each nut thoroughly masti- cated. Now, you just try some roasted chestnuts and milk, and see if you do not agree with me that these nuts are one of God's greatest and most precious gifts. Just as soon as I got hold of them my ap- petite began to come back, and my strength began to come up. They are exceedingly nutritious, and I have always found them easy of di- gestion when thoroughly chewed, and not swallowed until the nuts are a smooth, creamy mixture. Try it. ye friends who have a poor ap- petite and impaired digestion. 1 have been having a good-sized handful of roasted chestnuts afier each meal (three times a diu), and it has just built me up strong and well. Instead of getting tired of them, as Mrs. Root thought I would. I enjoy them more and more, and just now I feel like saying. 'Doubt- less God might have giyen us a more luscious food than chestnut, but doubtless he never did." The rest of the family eat them occasion- ally, but they do not share my en- thusiasm and keen lenjoyment for them. I might be tempted to think I am peculiar in this respect. But look here, friends. You go into any of the large cities in this country at this season of the year and you will find Italian venders of roasted cnestnuts everywhere. They would not carry on the business to such an extent if there were not a uni- versal demand for the nuts. A few days ago, in ordrr to catch a car I had to tro without my sup- per. I had only two minutes ; but I looked up a vender of roasted chestnuts and told him to pour ten cent's worth into my pocket, and they made a very good meal. Do not chide me for making so much ado over something to eat. Chest- nuts are my medicine ; and I greatly prefer medicine, when I have to take it, in the shape of something good to eat — say grains, fruits, and nuts; and I am sure it is largely if not entirely due to chestnuts three times a day that I am now strong and well, and fleshing up •very day. With chestnuts I always want a cup of cold milk. Without the chest- nuts I would not crave the milk : and without the milk I would not crave the chestnuts so much. One •seems to supplement the other, and they both iligest perfectly. The Queen tff Fashibn's Richtst and Choicest Creations are most elegantly and perfectly reproduced on the Standard Rotary. The World's Best Sewing-Machlna The only machine which makes abso- " lutely perlfct lock and chain stitching on the same machine. 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Edwards on top work- ing, both on pecan and hickorv. I got a young man — a school boy — to go out with me on several Saturdays during said February and also March, and put in some- thing like 35 buds after tiie Ed- wards methods. About all these buds died. In June 17 to 24th following, I had him to bud 140 young hickory bushes that were scattered about over my farm, using the cir- cular method. Of these 68 lived; but .'ome of them being too close together, I had a few of the sorriest cut down this last summer, one of which I show you. Again this year I had buds put to the young hickory sprouts in my farm, by the same young man, but results were not as good as last year, not saving over 25 per cent of the 140. Some of these were put in in April, and two of them made a growth this year of two feet each : most of them made a growth of two inches to fourteen inches. I show you here a photograph of one of June 1908 buds, that made a growth this year of five feet two inches. I have another that made the same growth, but it is simply a straight switch budded about one foot from the ground, so that is now something over six-feet tall, but as I said it is only a straight switch. All of my 190S budding made good this year, from sixteen inches to fifty-four inches. I taught this young man, the school boy, how to bud, neither of us having ever seen any pecan bud- ding before. Taking this fact into considera- tion, I think we did remarkably well to save as many as we did. — • Hickory timber to be servicable must be heavy, clear and straight grained. To this very essential qualfication, custom and tradition have added an unnecessary burden in the shape of grading rules which discriminate against red hickory, and also against iron streaks, small bird pecks, and hard knots in the wood, which may not really affect the strength at all. Hickory ranks only twelfth among the hard woods in the country's annual timber cut, ac- cording to the census report for 1906. So far as quantity is con- cerned, it is not to be compared with white oak or yellow poplar. But it is used to-day for a number of purposes which require great toughness and great strength, and no other wood occurring in consid- erable quantity combines these properties in a greater degree than do some of the hickories. Peculiar interest is given to the situation by the fact that hickory is distinctively an Americao genus. It occurs only in the eastern part of the United States, and large quantities of hickory handles, spokes, wheels and other parts of vehicles and farm implements are exported each year to all parts of the world. THE Buckeye Subscription Agency •For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any pe- riodical desired. J. F. 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Box St. No. University, m Rand-McNally Bldg., Chicago, 111. n] vol o ' Tovin State IssHasasasasasasaaciHasasasasasasasastasascisasHsasasi I sail THB NUT-GHOWBR 39 NEW AND RARE NUTS A nut which seems to be grow- ing in popuhirity, though still un- common, is the Paradise nut of South America, which resembles a Brazil nut ira appearance and flavor. Butternuts thrive from the mid- dle South to Ontario. The nuts are always in demand in the mar- kets, but at low prices. Choice grafted varieties will bring fancy prices. One must do his own grafting, or have it done at a nur- sery. Filberts are the fruit of tiie cul- tivated hazel tiee. the term filbert means "full beard" and is so named on account of its having many long "beards" of husks. The kernel is quite oily and nutri- tious. In this country we depend largely upon the wild hazel, but the cultivated variety, the filbert, is produced in large quantities on the Asiatic shore of the Black Sea. The clnifa, nut grass, or earth almond is a small tuberous root of a sedgelike plant and perhaps should be classed with the vegeta- bles rather than with nuts. Beechnuts are triangular in shape and resemble buckwheat. Immense areas in Ohio and Indi- ana, were formerly covered exclu- sively by the beech tree, and the nuts in the early days formed the principal food for swine. A species of pork of peculiar and highly prized flavor is produced where the hogs feed upon beech nuts and acorns. The celebrated hams and bacons of the southern Appalachian ranges were pro- duced from the razor backs fat- tened principally upon chestnuts, beechnuts and acorns. Most of the animals th:it store food for winter hide quantities of beech nuts, which are often discovered in cut- ting the forests in winter. While beech nuts are not abundant in our markets they are consumed largely by those who live near the beech nut woods. port on the increased attention given to the cultivation of almonds in Spain : The method in former years of raising almonds in this region was similar to that obtaining in the production of olives. Trees were planted in the poorest soils or in out-of-the way places considered incapable of producing any other profitable crop, and were left al- most entirely without care or culti- vation. However, the persistent depreciation of vine products, both wine and raisins having now reached a value limit at which it is impossible to produce them profitably, has turned the attention of farmers to almonds, which not only maintain values, but show a tendency to advance. Almond trees are now being planted ;imong unprofitable vines and trees and are submitted to careful and inten- sive cultivation. As a comparative test of the production of almonds under the same conditions both with and without fertilizers a prominent grower of Alicante divided .his or- chard last year into two equal partSj soil and age of trees being identical. One section of the plantation, after the usua' superfi- cial cleaning, weeding and prun- ing, was left to the unaided pro- cesses of nature, and to the other the following fertilizers per hectare (2.7 acres) were applied : Three hundred and seventy-five kilos (kilo means 2.2 pounds) super- phosphates, 90 kilos nitrate soda, 90 kilos sulphate of ammonia, 500 kilos kainit (Strassfurt salts, large- ly composed of potassic chloride.) The results were remarkable. The section of the orchard unfer- tilized yielded 457 kilos of almonds per hectare, while the part treated with fertilizers produced 1,721 kilos per hectare. The cost of the fertilizers was 119 pesetas (about !)!25.4o) and the net profit on the experiment was 443 pesetas (about $75.30) to the hertare. Index to Advertisers. Page A. B. &. A. Railway 35 Alvin Japanese Nursery ....46 A Bearing Pecan Grove for Sale . .46 Arcadia Nurseries 36 Bay view Nursery 36 Brook's Improved Hand Pump 36 Barnwell Pecan Grove 36 Buckeye Subscription Agency 38 Bechtel Pecan Nurseries 42 Classified Advertisements 39 Clingman Nursery & Orchard Co . .45 Gilgrove Pecan Co. 43 Gainesville Nurseries 45 Griffing Brothers ... 44 Help Wanted 34 Horlbeck, John S., 44 Jefferson Nursery Co 43 Lewis, F. H 43 Mead Cycle Co 46 Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery . . . 47 Parry, John R., 44 Pecan Investments 42 Peek, S. W 39 Piney Park Nursery 44 Proceedings 45 Ramsey, R. T., 34 Rood Pecan Groves 48 Summit Nurseries 47 Standard Sewing Machine Co 37 Scientific American 37 Stone B. W. & Co 39 Turkey Creek Nursery 41 The Increase Pecan Co 47 The Louisiana Nut Nurseries 47 The Progress Self- Help University 38 The Nut-Grower Co 43 Tribble Brothers 43 The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co 42 The Coe-Mortimer Co 41 Wight, J. B., 45 CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In tliis column we give place to advertisements from subscibers who have Orchard, Farm Products, Live Stoclt or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for eacli iusertion Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient ami profitable. Camant SIdawalks, Buildings, Elc.-Portland cement sidewalk construction ; concrete hlock buildings; making and la.ving concrete blocks: estimating, profits, etc. Practical book for con- tractors giving details in full. Second edition. Postpaid 50c. De Graff Pub. Co., Peona, 111. Mammoth and Himalaya Clant Blackbernf, Logau and Phenomiual berry plants, dozen i\.a post paid Best larpest and earliest berries grown. Tribble Bros., Elk Grove, Cal. ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON may ears a good income corresponding for newspapers ; ex- perience unnecessary Send stamp for full par- ticulars. Empire Press Syndicate, Middleport, j^ Y^ (septSt.) BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS-Shipped safelv anywhere. Culver Poultry Farm. iO.)4 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of manv leading varieties tor atuily or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates. Seed nuts ">"iished only in limited quantities, rHE NUl'-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, (ia. a/ PECANS Almond Growing in Spain. Consul Charles S. Winans. of Valencia, sends the following re- For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE I CO , Thomasvillc, Ga. BEST VARIETIES Write for Price LisC. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK. : Hartwell, Ga. 40 THI^ NUT'GRUWBH THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISH KD MONTHLY BY T5/}e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Q'eory:ia. under the Act of Conprress of March 3, 1879. Subscription, 50 cents par Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. NO'l'ICl'". When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription lias expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. -MAKCII. 1910 The Atlanta Constitution says: "The market for pecans is almost inexhaustible." A letter from Cairo, Ga., savs: "Nursery stock at this place was sold out quite closely this year, there being very little stock to carry over to next year. ' ' Several progressive railroad com- panies in the South are waking up to the proper use of the pecan pros- pests, in advertising their lines, in the North and Wsst. The Library of the Georgia State Agricultural College has been added to our mailing list for duplicate copies. We are glad to place The Nut-Grower in such institutions, when, as in this case, request is made for it. We are greatly indebted to many of our subscribers for items of in- terest and news regarding nut cul- ture, which contributes largely to make The Nut-Grower interesting, We will be glad to have many more of our readers remember us in this way. P. J. Berckmans, in an address at the the Georgia State Horticultural Society, said: "There is some dif- ference of opinion as to whether Ag- riculture or Horticulture was man's first occupation, but fruit growers contend that, as Adam was the first man engaged in that partiular art, and his location being in a garden called Eden, we, as Horticulturists, may claim priority; and that, while we have made considerable progress in advancing this art. still we recog- nize that advancement in any of the arts, pertaining to the soil, has been in inverse ratio with their an- tiquity" John D. Rockefeller is credited with the advice to "Look for safety of principal as first requirement of in- vestments." This looks like a good argument in favor of pecan culture, as few opportunities combine safety and profit to the extent that a first class pecan orchard affords. While we have a brotherly regard for all honest nut growers, a still deeper chord is touched when a brother physician shows up in the roll of a "Pomological Farmer," with pecans as his specialty. Dr. F., of Alabama, is in this class and his oc- casional letters show an appreciation of our work, which lightens its bur- den. The activity in pecan planting and the formation of many new orchard enterprises in the Albany, Georgia, district, since the recent convention, furnishes the strongest kind of proof as to the great importance of that meeting. In a future issue we may be able to report the acreage of the new enterprises, and enlargement of others. Organization and system, which are demanded in all commercial and manufacturing lines, are equally beneficial to the orchardist, and hor- ticulturist. The doing of the right thing at the right time, and in the right way, vvill produce desirable re- sults, which cannot be obtained, without some practical system. Regarding the lite of a pecan, Prof. Craig has the following to say in its favor: "It makes a great dif- ference whether one may expect to replant his orchard in ten to twenty, thirty or forty years, or whether he establishes an enterprise which will last for a century or longer. This is a strong feature of the pecan, and an argument which mav very prop- erly be used." Among the many people who vis- ited Albany during the 1909 conven- tion, was a lady from a South Geor- gia town who has a pecan orchard of eleven acres in bearing. Although they are seedling trees, the nuts are fine and the yield so fair that she recognizes the value of the property to such an extent that flattering offers to purchase the grove were re- fused. Several Georgia papers have recently reported that she refused 120,000 for the property. Another lady, residing in Lee county, is re- ported as having refused $80,000 for an 80-acre orchard. It is a curious fact, that a large percentage of the capital now being invested in commercial nut orchards, is furnished by non-residents, while land ovraers and capitalists, living in the favored belt of country, seem slow to recognize the opportunities at their doors. It reminds one of the old but true saying, that "a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." The ordinary investor, on assuring himself of the security offered by a client, next concerns himself as to the amount of interest, or profit the proposed venture offers. Just at this point many turn away from the pe- can proposition because the interest does not begin to come in for several years. However, time more than compensates for the initial delay, by abundantly rewarding the investor with increasing and large returns, when the necessary faith in the busi- ness has been demonstrated by plant- ing and caring for the orchard, through the period demanded. Subscribers and advertisers enable The Nut-Grower to carry on its im- portant work. The industry is grow- ing as rapidly as this publication is gaining in size and influence. How- ever, more subscribers and more ad- vertising will make the journal bet- ter and larger. So if all our friends and patrons will lend a hand it will not be long until the frequency of publication can be changed and more timely service be rendered. One patron has sent in nearly a hundred subscriptions since the first of the present year. If many others would do as well it would mean much Gleanings in Bee Culture has thi following about subscribers: "Opinions differ, which is fortu nate, as this is what makes horse^ racing possible; but what I want for a good subscriber is a live reader who will applaud good work when it is worth applause, who will criti- cise bad work, and be always alert and alive to the best interests of himself and his field. With such a man there will be no difficulty about his subscribing for the paper, if it is the right kind of a paper, and there will be no trouble about his paying for a paper that is worth his while. He will be looking for new ideas, and will, therefore, be open to sug- gestions of advertisers, and will read, or at any rate will look over, the advertising pages; and the only good subscriber is the man who reads the advertising pages, and has the abilitv to buy or direct the buy- ing of adverti.sed goods." T/iJS NUT'GROWBH 41 iNut Growers! Read This!! ■WE WOULO CALL YOlHt ATTKNTION TO Total Phosphoric Acd 15 to 16 Per CenC. [basic slag piiospuatk] ANALYZINTKK If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before t'ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— ACT NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacoi\ Pecan Company, DeWit>t«, Mitchell County, Georgia. THB NUT'GROWBM 43 News Items. Along the Coast country increas- ed attention is being given to the Satsuma oranges, as an adjunct to pecan culture. Weather at Piney Park for Feb- ruary. 1910: Mean temperature, 50; maximum, 79 ; minimum, 30; rainfall, 4.92 inches. Albany, Georgia, parties have purchased six hundred acres of land in east Dougherty county and will plant same in pecans. The Fourth Annual National Corn Exposition is announced to be held at Columbus, Ohio, for January 30 to February 11, 1911. Theo Bechtel, of Mississippi, re- cently filled a single order for 8,000 grafted pecan trees They were consigned to a syndicate operating in southern Alabama. A nut which seems to be grow- ing in popularity, though still un- common, is the paradise nut of South America, which resem- bles a brazil nut in flavor. Still less common is the vSoutli African cream nut though it is sometimes shipped to this country, FLORIDA ORANGE CROPS 1884-1885 600,000 1885-1886 900,000 1886-1887 1,260,000 1887-1888 1,450.000 1888-1889 1,950,000 1889-1890 2.150,000 1890-1891 2,450,000 1891-1892 3.761,000 1892-1893 3,450,000 1893-1894 5,500,000 1894-1895 6,000.000 1895-1896 75,000 1896-1897 100,000 1897-1898 150,000 1898-1899 200,000 1899-1900 350,000 1900-1901 1.000.000 1901-1902 1.250,000 1902-1903 750,000 1903-1904 1,600,000 1904-1905 1,850.000 1905 1906 3,000,000 1906-1907 3,500.000 1907-1908 4,000.000 1908-1909 4,800,000 NUT CANDIES. One of the most extensive uses of nuts IS the manufacture of candy of various sorts, such as sugared almonds, burnt almonds, nut choc- olates, caramels, pinoche, nut brit- tle, etc. While there are some QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO , MONTICELLO, : -. FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. differences in the process of manu- facture followed in these candies, they all in the main consist of nuts and sugar in varying proportions, with flavoring extracts, and in some instances butter and flour. Standai-d Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Plant Fruit and Nut Trees. Doctor, as far and wide as your influence extends, let the year 1910 be marked by you advising all who can to plant a tree wherever there is a place for one. If trees are to be planted for shade, select some one of the beautiful and useful nut- bearing trees, suiting them to the locality in question. Every unoc- cupied corner should be occupied by a productive tree. — Medical Council. Also Budding and H rafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY. OA. Bill h PiCAN GROll The Best Investment tbat can now be made la the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the fluest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between ihe pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for tThe coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in .South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention. All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— vou get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially flne. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jack.on County, SCRANTON, MISS. PoUlan, |J**/Trr^W Franquette and May- VlfUfCCU ette Walnut Trees and Scions. Frost resistant. Guaran- teed true to name. Scions, $3.00 per 100; trees 3-4 ft. 90c each; 4-10 ft., $1.10 each. Tribble Brothers, ?*,,,^-?:: THE NUT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers; Fruit Growers, Nursery- men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medmin it is particularly valuable, as no padding of circulation figures fixes the rates. Descriptive circulars sect on request. The Nut-Grower Co. Georgia '44 rHB NUT'GROWMR REPORTS LATE FROSTS, AFTER THE BUDS - START IN THE SPRING, AT VAN BUREN, ARK. , 1908. Mar. 12. Q_uite heavy; no damage. " 21. Light frost " " ", 24. " " " .\ Apr. 30. " " " " 1909. Mar. 12. Light frost; no damage. •' 30. Qiiite heavy ; " " Apr. 2. Light fro,«t " " S. Heavy frost. Some of the buds on small trees of Georgia Giant, Russell, Frctscher, Monarch and Stuart were nipped. No dam- age to native trees and no damage to Georgia Giant, Stuart, Alley, Schley and Columbian top-worked on large trees. Apr. 9. Light frost ; no damage. May I. " " " " " 12. EARLY FROST IN TIIK FALL. 1908. Sept. 28. Light fro.st was report- ed at exposed places in the neigh- borhood but none at this place. Oct. 19. Light frost. Nov. 12. Killing Fro>-t. " 13. Freeze) 20 degrees 'F. 1909. Oct. 13. Light frost. 24. Nov. 17. Killing frost. '• 18. " ■ '■ DATES WHEN SHUCKS OPEN IN FAI I. Rovi Su. Tree So. IMS 1909 I 4 WildTree, Sep. 21. Oct. 7 I 4 Ga. Giartt, Oct. 24. Nov. 7 I 27 WildTree, Oct, 16 I 27 Columbiiin grafts, Oct. 24 In 1909, the nuts ripened over two weeks later than they did in 1908. Whether ^he ripenirtg^was delayed ^Vthe droutlrof the past season or whether the crop of 190S was advanced by the cool weather in September of that vear. are ques- tions to be determined by observa- tion. Some Important Insect Pests and Plant Diseases Affecting the Pecan. E. L. WORSHAU, ATLANTA GA. [continued from FEBRUARY NUMBDR.] THE FALL WEB WORM. (H')phiiatura cenrea.) These are grayisii or brownish caterpillars and they, together with their white webs, are very conspic- uous in the fall on many different kinds of trees. When almost ma- ture these caterpillars desert their webs and go to other parts of the tree, and for this reason, it is best to fight them before they leave the webs. The best and most effective way of controlling these insects is by burning them. Burning can be accomplished by means of torches made by soaking cotton rags in kerosene and fastening on long poles, or -by a good lightwood torch. THE PECAN LEAF CATERPILLAR. IDatana integerrlma— G. & R.] When matured, this ,is rather large, dark colored and with long, gray hairs. The young caterpillar is reddish with dark stripes. Just prior to shedding their skins or moulting, they leave the branches on iwhich they have been feeding and congregate on the trunk of the tree in ball-like clusters. While thus congregated they can be kill- ed by means of torches, but they can be killed before this by spray- ing with arsenate of lead. There are quite a number of the leaf-eating caterpillars found on the pecan at different times through the season, but the careful grower will keep a watch on them, and be ready to apply arsenicals when tiiey promise to do any appreciable damage. PECAN TREE BORER. [Se3ia scitulo Hani.] This insect is somewhat similar to the peach-tree borer, but differs from it as to habits. It attacks the tree above the ground and as a tuile remains in the. sap wood. If fhese borers should get to be abundant in the tree, the sap wood is injured on all sides, and the ef- fect is the same as if the tree was girdled They usually make their entrance where the tree has been injured or where it has been budded. The best know remedy thus far. is to remove insects by digging out with a knife wherever practicable. The wounds or decayed places on a tree should be covered over with grafting wax in early spring, for it is about these places that the adult moths deposit the most of their eggs when they begin to emerge in the spring. FLAT-HEADED APPLE TREE BORER. tChrjsobothriB femorata. Fab ) This insect is quite common on apple trees, and as a rule only at- tacks pecan trees that have been weakened from attacks of other borers, or have been weakened from other causes. The digging out process is re- commended. (CONTINUBD ON PAGE 45) FOR SALE! GRAFTED PECAN TREES These trees are grafted from the best bearing trees in my grove. : : : : : VAN DEMAN, STUAR.T and a dozen other choice va- rieties Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston, S. C. Seed Pecans For the accommodation and convenience of patrons we buy and sell Pecan Nuts for seed purposes, PineyPa rkNursery J. F. Wilson, Manager Poulan, :-: Georgia. 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G. H. Blackmon, Read before the Texas Nut Growers Association. Top working the pecan and hick- ory has been the topic of much dis- cussion in the last few years, and from these discussions we have learned many valuable points. At one time it was thought that the old pecan and hickory trees been introduced, some began to think of a plan by which the old worthless trees could be rendered useful. This top working was then begun. The requisites for top working large pecan and hickory trees are a were worthless. A tree was thought strong. light ladder, a pair of to be useful only when it produced pruning shears, a saw and an axe. nuts of an extra good quality, or It there are small trees to be work- when the trees were so located that ed over, a strong, but light, step they could be utilized by enclosing ladder will be found to be very them in with a hog proof fence, useful. Some take a chain along and then turn the hogs in and let and take two or three turns around them eat the nuts. But in the last the tree just below the place where few years these ideas have been the top or branch is to be cut off. completely changed, and at the present time top working is prac- ticed to a considerable extent. You may ask ; what is the cause of this change? The answer is The chain is to prevent splitting when a large branch is cut off and is a very good thing to use, but it is hardly necessary if care is taken. To cut a large top or branch off easy; it hasn't been many years with the least danger of splitting. since pecans conld be bougiit for a very small price per pound. The nuts that were on the market at that time were of all sizes and shapes, some had thick, others had thin shells, some small, others large. Nuts like these did not and could not command a good price. They Could not be shipped into other markets, because the consumer would not pay enough for them to make two cuts; one a shallow cut made with an axe or saw, and is made on the side toward which the branch is going to fall. After this cut is made, saw the top or branch off, the shallow cut will prevent splitting when it falls. The best size for trees that are to be top worked, are those from three inches to ten inches in diame- ter. When trees of this size are justify the buyer or producer to top worked it dosen't take the ship them. But this was not to last always. Men, that were close observers, be- gan to take notice of the many wild pecan trees that produced nuts wound so long to heal over, while in a large tree there is great danger of decay setting in before the wound can heal. In all instances the wound should be painted over of a fine quality, desirable size and with some kind of paint or tar. In thin shell, Nuts like these were cutting out the top, always be sure to leave some branches below the brought to the notice of the public. cut place; the object of this is to Naturally men began to increase keep up the flow of sap. If there their numbers of certkin varieties are no branches left on the tree the of pecans by budding and grafting, flow of sap will stop, especially in This budding and grafting was I urge trees, because there is nothing then done on the young pecan seed- to draw it up. A tree that has lings, which were gotten by plant- been cut below all branches is al- ing the nuts. most certain to die. The branches After nuts of a finer quality had (continued on page so.) Severe Loss Sustained by Dr. Morris. On going over my orchards of grafted shagbark hickories a few days ago I found that several acres of the trees transplanted from one to three years had suffered a pe- culiar injury. The bark for a distance of two or three inches above the ground had burst open, and always including the entire circumference of the tree. The grafts were still bright and green, although the bark of the stocks where it had burst was quite dark. I judged that the injury had occurred recently — that it was due to the early starting of the sap in the pecan stocks, and sudden freezing of this sap. From the fact that this is the first time it oc- curred, and that it occurred over such a very large area, I presume that it was due to some definite and peculiar combination of weather conditions. Trie stocks on which the bark burst were all southern pecan stocks. I have several hun- dred Indiana pecan stocks smaller than the ones which were lost, but not one of these has suffered any damage so far as I can see. This would seem to make it important to have grafted trees for northern distribution upon northern pecan stocks. In mv case this loss is se- vere, because it wipes out com- pletely several varieties of shag- barks, and I have to go all over the ground of getting scions again, from distant states in nianj' cases, re-grafting and transplanting, and losing two or three years of time out of the history of these particu- lar varieties. Another undesirable action of southern pecan stocks in the north is the tendency to conduct growth until dry summer weather comes. Then the grafts make top buds and rest. When the August rains come, the grafts again start forth and grow luxuriantly right into October frosts without liguify- ing sufficiently for winter protec- tion. Robert T. Morris, 6i6 Madison Ave., N. Y., 4-ii-'io 50 rriB yuT^aRowBR Top-Working the Pecan and Hickory. (CONTINUED PROM PAGE 49) should be lefl on the tree until the bud or graft is hirge enough to driiw un enough sap to keep the tree in a vigorous and healtliy con- dition. Unless a tree is a very smiill one (not more than two or three inches in diameter) never cut it off at the body, but cut it off where the tree forks. If it doesn't fork until it is too high from the ground, it may be cut off where the branches are of good size. At some place where a horizontal branch puts out from the tree, is a good place to make the cut. Make the cut slightly slanting, and paint it over. A slanting cut will heal much faster than a straight cut will. At or around this place where the top, or the branch was cut off. there will appear in the spring, a very luxuriant growth of shoots, and it is on these shoots that the buds are put out. This top working is done any time during the dormant season, preferably in January or February. The trees can be grafted in the winter when they are worked over. The best method of grafting to use is cleft grafting. If the trees are grafted in the winter the chances of getting some good pecan to grow are doubled, because if the graft fails to take, the shoots that will put out around the cut place may be permitted to grow and bud on them in the summer. How- ever, sorme do not graft at all, but simply let the shoots grow and bud on them. In budding it is advisable to put in the bud as close to the body of the tree as possible, because if the bud is put on the shoot out from the body of the tree, there is dan- ger of having a weak tree when tlie bud grows. There has been ?ome work done at the Agricultural and Mechani- cal College under the direction of Prof. E. J. Kyle. There was some top working done, both on pecans and hickory. There were several different methods of budding test- ed, however, there was not but one method of grafting tested, and unfortunately, it was not tried to any extent. The method tried was cleft grafting. Several of the grafts made a nice growth, but they were destroyed, either bv the bud moth or they were blown off by the wind. The methods of budding that were tested were ring budding, plate budding, chip building and shield budding. The only one of the above methods that gave satis- faction was ring budding. Over 50% of the ring buds took. There were possibly two or three of the chip buds that grew, but practi- cally none of the others. .Several different materials including waxeid cloth, cotton, twine, shucks and raffia, were used for wrapping, but the only one that proved satisfac- tory was waxed cloth. A few buds lived that were tied with shucks and rafHa, but none lived that were tied with cotton twine. The wax that the cloth was soak- ed 111 was made from bees wax, rosin, tallow, in the following pro- portions and weight : Rosin four parts, bees-wax two parts and tal- low one part ; put these is a vessel and put over fire and heat until all ot the substa-ice-; have melted. Trees in Place and Out of Place. Among persons who use more sentiment than reason, or lack knowledge of the facts, it has be- come a fad to say it is a crime to cut down a tree and that it is always, under any circumstances, tin act of great virtue to plant one. To one who gives thought to the matter, these accepted priiiciples may be reversed, and we can say with all seriousness atid trutli that there is no town in this country where the judicious use of the axe among trees in some neighborhood or other is not demanded; and on the other hand thousands of trees are being planted where no tree should be planted. Each variety of fruit or orna- mental tree when it reaches ma- turity under reasonably favorable conditions has its established size or spread of branches. Among the better shade trees this reaches 40-50 and even a greater number of feet in diameter. In dense forests we see the trees stretching up after air and sunshine, losing iheir side branches and becoming a collection of giant telegraph poles with piti- ful bunches of green at the top, nothing beautiful about them. Every tree to be beautiful must have room to expand and develop to its proper proportions, and to retain the side branches with which nature always furnishes them un- less she is thwarted by the bungling hand of the hired man with axe or saw. — Council of Horticulture. Opportunities for Pecan Culture In the Southeast. Prof. H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla., at Georgia Horticultural Society. In this day of progress, which has seen a re-adjustment of econo- mic conditions, the effects of which may prove far-reaching and of the utinost concern to the producers of our land, it is well to take notice of the trend of affairs in order to master new situations as they arise. One of the prevailing tendencies is that of the relative advance in the cost of food products. We are con- fronted with the fact that the cost of living is increasing at a rate which is proving serious to some classes of society. On the other hand, division of labor has enabled many to arrive at a fairly indepen- dent station of life, with ample means to gratify their wishes as to the kind and quality of food they desire. It is this class which ere ates markets for new and special food preparations. In many in- stances, the new foods introduced have not only proved palatable, but are highly nutritious and occu- py an important place in the die- tary. Among these, few are more important than nut meat products. There is a constantly increasing class who insist upon the us.e of nuts as a partial substitute for ani- m;il products, which htive attained almost prohibitive prices, so that demand for nut meats is sure to in- crease with rapidity. One of these meat substitutes which deserves the attention of Southeastern horticulturists is the pecan nut. The investigations of Wood and Merrill show the food value of a pound of pecan meats to be equivalent to 3.445 calories. From this it appears that a pound of pecan meats lacks only 55 calo- ries of being sufficient to supply the daily requirements of the aver- age man. Attention is called to this fact to show that pecans have a real food value, and are not to be regarded merely as confection- ery. The consumption of nuts has in- creased steadily during the past ten years, and will continue. Not only do we consume practically all of the home production, but we iinport between six and seven mil- lions of dollars worth of nuts per year. Of all nuts used for table purposes, there is none superior to the pecan. The pecon of com- merce is obtained chiefly from na- tive trees of Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley. It is needless THH NUT-GROWBM 51 to say that these are quite inferior to the improved kinds which now bear varietal names, these com- manding a price from four to ten times that paid for the ordinary nut. For a quarter ot a century a num- ber of growers have been, experi- menting to ascertain the possibili- ties for growing pecans under cul- tured conditions. Seedling trees were first tried, but without suffi- cient success to warrant large in- vestment. This was due to the in- ferior quality of the nuts, the lack of uniformity both in size and qual- ity, irregular fruiting of the trees, and the long time required for the trees to come into bearing. That orchards of seedling trees, favora- bly located and properly attended, would ultimately prove profitable cannot be denied. The hundreds of old trees in numerous localities ihroui^hout the South, attest in no mistaken terms of this fact ; trees that have passed the quarter cen- tury mark age. Many instances are known of single trees producing an annual return of $25.00 to .1175.00 but in few of these cases do these returns benefit the one who thought- fullv, perhaps liopefully, planted the seeds years ago. For commercial purposes we must be able to secure returns with- in a reasonable time. It has been pointed out that it ischiefiy the old men, without hope for personal re- ward save the satisfaction of bene- fitting posterity, who can afford to pl.mt pecan trees. Such, however, is not the fact. With the present state of our knowledge of pecan culture, we are assured that a long period need not intervene between planting an orchard and the time for profitable harvests. I would not have any one understand that the details of pecan culture are fully understood, but am prepared to af- firm that sufficient information is available to enable one to intelli- gently undertake commercial pecan orcharding with assurance of suc- cess, in this section of our country. It is not my purpose to give u detailed course to follow, but mere- ly to mention a few items of im- portance. The failure due to the use of seedling trees has largely been overcome by the introduction of varietal stock, viz, grafted or bud- ded trees grown from Scions taken from trees of known merit. By the use of such trees we tend to such uniformity of growth that it is possible to develop an orchard in which the trees will grow at ap- proximately the same rate, a con- dition which seemed impossible with seedling trees. There is yet room for improvement, inasmuch as the stocks upon which the trees are grafted will, in a degree, de- termine the rate of growth, and, with further care in the selection of stocks, improvement is possible. Grafted or budded trees will also induce more uniform fruitage, but in tliiscase also the stock has con- siderable influence ; it being fre- quently observed that under simi- lar conditions some grafted trees are more prolific than others of the same variety. Early fruitage is an- other factor gained by the use of grafted trees, it being not at all uncommon for trees to begin fruit- ing at three years from planting, and. when anytning like proper care is given, most varieties will fruit by the sixth year from plant- ing, and will yield fair returns at the eighth or tenth year. As a rule grafted stock is less subject to the influence of fungus diseases, being able to overcome their at- tacks on account of the vigorous growth they make. Some varie- ties, however, are badly affected, and such should be avoided. Concerning the income to be de- rived from a pecan orchard at a given age, much depends upon the owner. It is entirely feasible tor a lo-acre orchard to be made to average forty pounds per tree at the nfteenth year. I daresay some experienced growers will assert that this can easily be exceeded. With this as a basis and the nuts selling at 25 cents per pound, ten acres would give a gross income of 1)1. 700 00, or a net income of |i,- 500.00, a sum which will support an average family in modest com- fort, or supplement the income of one engaged in some active voca- tion, in a substantial degree. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees =AND= Ornamental Shrubbery =ALSO= Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSERY Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber. Pres. J. E. Barber, Sec'ty. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -:- -> Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. 52 THB NUT-CROWfSl^ WALNUTS Passing of the Walnut. The distressing news comes that American walnut lumber is being bought for foreign shipment. The domestic destruction had almost exterminated the supply, and what little is left, it seems, is to go abroad to be used as a substitute for mahogany in veneers. This sounds like a death-knell and soon no doubt we are to see the last of the walnut trees. A sigh will go up from the old settler as he recalls the early American forests where the walnut reigned as a prime fa- vorite. The once magnificent groves have disappeared almost en- tirely. Here and there a few strag- glers remain to remind us of the lordly splendor that characterized their prime. There were other fine trees, many cf them, which com- bined lo make that great natural wonder, the primeval American forest. All of these had their pe- culiar merits, were valued for some special virtue, and were known and loved by every true child of nature. The oak, the elm. tiie poplar, the beech, and scores of others had their special admirers. But the walnut was looked upon with pe- culiar regard. Not only was it famous for its durabilitj', color and strength, but around it clustered many of the tender recollections of childhood. It grew always in the richest soil. Around it the blue grass was most lush and put on its deepest green. There, oxiips and nodding violets reached their finest form. Hardly could be found the wild brier, the sweet musk roses and the eglantine. — Exchange. Royal Paradox Walnut. A hybrid of cross between the California Black walnut and the Persian (English) walnut. Origi- nated by Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa,' Cal., who says it is the fastest growing tree in the world for a temperate climate. He says: "I have a tree 12 years old on a hard, dry roadside, that is 60 feet high, 75 feet through the branches and 2^ feet in circumferance." English Walnut Industry. Leaving the more common nuts, it is well to consider the growth in the walnut industry — English wal- nuts they are called. To say how much they have increased in this country would be impossible ; but the increase in consumption has been so rapid during the past few years that walnuts have already become amongst the most impor- tant varieties handled in the Ameri- can market. Thousands of bags come from abroad, and in addition something like seven hundred cars of California nuts are distributed in this country each year. Assum- ing that the price per pound, from first hands, as obtained by the Cal- ifornia growers, is twelve cents, which is a reasonable figure, their importance, commercially, is read- ily seen. The importation of walnuts con- stitutes an important division of foreign trade, which is increasing each year. In addition to this, the increase in the cultivation of wal- nuts in California is adding a profitable industry to the Pacific Coast. Lower prices increase con- sumption, and thousands :ire eating walnuts now who, a few years ago. could not afford them. — Exchange. Along the Ohio river the walnut trees are especially abundant, indi- vidual irees often reaching a di- ameter of five teet. Unfortunately the walnut forests were the first to fall before the ax of the pioneer, who frequently made his rail fences out of his valuable timber. The wild nut with its dense kernel is covered with a black pericarp, green even when the fruit is ripe. After frost the nuts drop and the outer covering disintegrates or is beaten off with clubs. Formerly the brownish-black coloring matter contained in the outer covering was utilized by the early housewives for dj-eing homespun cloth. The ker- nel is rich in oil and protein and quite pleasing in taste the first winter, but likely to become rancid on longer keeping. HELP WANTED Mr. A. B. (inodenow, of (!ulebra, Canal Znne, has a g:oo(l farm of about fifty acres at (ilenn- more, you are not watching they will ^i^ the sheets. If the time saved''i.« worth more than the wear and i'eixi on the sheets, then by all means drag them. When enough nuts in the sheets to fill several lug boxes, the boxes are placed on the ground side by side and the sheets are emptied of their burden. These boxes are then stacked up so as to be easily seen, and the teamster gathers them up and hauls them in the shed, where they are run through the huller and then placed in the hoppers ready for the hand sorting. After sorting they are placed on trays or board platforms in the dry-yard to cure. They should be cured until the kernel will break without bending. Then they are ready for bleaching; but be sure they are thoroughly cured before bleaching or the kernel will absorb the sulphur and be spoiled. When properly cured any means may be employed which will thoroughly dampen the shell, but not penetrate to the kernel, and then be subjected to the fumes of burning sulphur for a period of thir- ty minutes to one or two hours ow- ing to the variety and condition of the nut. A yellowish white color of the shell is demanded by the trade. Do not over-sulphur. When sufficiently bleached they are re- moved and placed in the sun for a few hours to dry and then sacked up ready for market. My present plan of bleaching is as follows ; \Vhen cured we place them on fruit trays about one inch thick and run them into a bin of the sul- phur house which has been connect- ed with a steam boiler, and then low pressure of steam is turned into the house for a half or three-quar- ters of an hour. Then they are removed and quickly run into an- other bin which has a sulphurcharge ready nred and bleached from for- ty minutes to an hour, when they are removed and immediately sack- ed up. The same help will bleach twice as many in a day with steam as without it. Be careful not to use high pressure steam or you will cook the nuts. For this valuable [continued on page 59.] 56 CHB NUT^GROWBH THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY TS/>e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflee at Poulan. Georgia, under the Act of Consrress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cants par Annum. Advartlsing Ratas on Application. N< )TICI': When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requesed to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if vou will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. APRIL. 1910 Our Qiiestion and Answers col- umn has been crowded out for sev- er.il issues, but will soon be regu- larly resumed. In noticing the claims of scien- There is no feature of the nut tists, that many diseases to which industry, which has attracted more It seems that the increasing num- ber of immigrants from Southern Europe, is favoring the demand for nuts, as an article of food. A writer in the Rural New Yorker, exploits the idea of a campaign favoring the increased use of nuts, claiming that it would work as advantagously as the Apple Consumers League. Railroad experimental farms are becoming an important feature of development work in southern ter- ritory. Nut culture is likely to be a prominent department in some of these projected movements. Prof. John Craig, Horticulturist of Cornell Universitj', is giving a course of lectures in nuciculture. As far as we know this is the tirst recognition by an educational in- stitution, of the industry, in its curiculum. Ill this issue, will be found a letter from Dr. Morris, regarding injury to pecan stock from cold. There are important lessons from his expensive experience, which should point to more definite and safe lines of procedure in growing tne pecan in nortiiern localities. Many inquires come to the editor for information, as to varieties suited to various sections, north of the 40th parallel of latitude, but thus far the only informatien we could give has been of a negatve character. man is heir, come from eating ani- mal food, we are favorably remind- ed that nuts constitute a most wholesome and palatable food pro- duct. Getting in touch with kindred spirits is just as important for Nut Growers as for other trades. There is no way in which this can be ac- complished, more completely, than growing the' pecan farther north by attending the annual conven- ,h,,„ the more tender pecan stock tions. Begin at once to get ready permits. to attend at Monticello, Florida, next November. recent attention, particularly in" Louisiana and Texas, than the top- working of hickory trees. While present operations are largely in using them for pecans we see no reason why the selections of choice, abundant bearing varieties of the hickory should not be used. An- other significant feature of the work is the prospect it affords for A German scientist is credited with the theory that "children fed upon meat become quarrelsome, ill-natured and disposed to fight." This is in line wi'.h the experiences of a Denver lady, who, at the Dal- las Convention in 1905, gave an Prof. Craig says : "Many of the claims made for pecan culture are absurd and extravagant, but so it can be said of apples, oranges and grapes. The whole question is one of management coupled with vari- eties and soil. It is true that we know less of the behavior of graft- account of her success in controU- ed pecans than we do of the other ing a bunch of husky boys, by feed- ing them on a nut diet, while they were quarrelsome and unrulj' when given meats. The value of trees in general has frequently been demonstrated in various wavs. A study of the reasons for planting them as given by the city forester of Chicago, can be used in favor of nut trees, as they not only fulfill all the con- ditions required, but add other and stronger reasons for their use, namely the direct profits and long life: "Trees are beautiful in form and color, inspiring a constant appreciation of nature. Trees have an educational in- fluence upon citizens of all ages, especially children. Trees encourage outdoor life. Trees purify the air. Trees cool the air in summer and radiate warmth in winter. Trees improve climate and conserve soil and moisture. Trees furnish resting places and shelter for birds. Trees enhance the value of real estate. Trees protect the pavement from the heat of the sun. Trees counteract adverse con- ditions of city life. Trees create sentiment, love of country, state, city and home. Trees enhance the beauty of architecture. Practically the only objection raised to trees is the temptation they present to the average tree butcher." orchard fruits propagated in the same way, but there is no reason to suppose that they will not re- spond equally well. Indeed, such information as experience has gathered, demonstrates this beyond reasonable doubt. Added to all the other goad points is the natural life of the tree." Experimental nut orchards in all parts of the country has been urg- ed repeatedly by the Nut Grower, and as far back 4s the St. Louis Convention the importance and the necessity for their establishment has been discussed at the annual conventions. Much experimental work is now being done by various orchardisls, nurserymen and exper- iment stations, in different parts of the country. All these agencies can be useful to the recently organ- ized committee on "Varietal Adap- tation," of which Mr. C. A. Reed, of Washington, D. C., is chair- man. However, there is other im- portant work for test orchards in addition to the study of varieties, and the prospective railroad test farms if operated in conjunction with the association efforts, will be productive of important and far reaching benefits. The matter of pruning trees in general and nut trees in particular THB NUT~GHOWBH 57 via jL^ I Nut Growers! Read Thisli ^ ^VK >Vt>UI.I> CALL YOUR ATTKNTION TO |® ^ Th®mas Ph®sph®i# P@w>i®r ^ MT^ [basic SLXG PUOSPUATB] \JW ^ ANALVZINMi ^ ^ Total Phosphoric Acd Lime Magnesia and Iron ^ P^ 15 to 18 Per Cent.. 35 to 50 Per Cent.. 18 to 20 Per Cent.. ^ ttSI This material is belD^ largely used bv some ot the most intelligent nut anil fruit growers In this cnuiitry with splendid results Why not @9 ■J^ YOU? There is no material known that so stMngly apiieals to you as this, because: In addition to the Pm)SPHOKIC ACID, It contains QH Jfti also large amounts of LIMK, MAGNESIA and IRON, which are very necessary iu assisting in large production of ftuit and at the same ^K <^X time keeping your trees healthv and vigorous. St/ tt^ It is not treated with SUi.PHUKIC ACID like Acid Phosphate and cannot destroy the humus matter iu your soils and make them sour ®& ■•^ and unproductive, and many other reasons. This space is too small to tell you all about it. Write for iltscriptive pamphlet and prices. f^ M^ In addition to Thomas Phosphate Powder we import and handle ^C ^ NITRATE or POTASH MURIATE OE POTASH DRIED 6LOOD inPORTED FISH OUANO ^ ^ SULPHATE OP POTASH NITRATE OP SODA KAINIT (Sr I The Ooe- Mortimer Company, i ^ New York :-: Charleston, S. C. ^ is important and not well under- per cent of kernel ranj^e in size, Table of Contents. stood bv many prospective planters. on an average, from sixty to eighty The following summary, from t lie nuis to the pound, but if closely Almond page 55 Colorado Experiment station, is selected fifty to fifty-six nuts will Books and Catalogues " 63 not only of much interest but help- weigh a pound. On the other Chestnuts as a Money Crop, " 53 ful to those who will study care- hand, very few of the large varie- Classified Advertisements. . ;; 55 fully the reasons given for pruning: ties that range in size from thirty- ^^:^°7'^ .. Z '"tr;..=t T>r.,,Z. ^r. r^r^Aif., th^ si X to fi 1 1 v n uts t o t hc pound will Editorials 56 fiirst — rrune to modity the ... -, ^ . tt^iuij-ij „*_., •• ko vigor of the tree, giving it less y^^^^f 'T^j'ch as 50 per cent Kern- English wa nut Industry . . . ^^ 52 top to support, allowing the sap el. My .deal nut is one weighing Experimental Orchards .. ^_ 56 to flow into th^ branches. sixty to the pound, round in shape, Georgia-Florida Association _^ 59 "Second— Prune to produce the shell a mere film, which can 2- 1 *^^' ' ' bV ..ui^..,' d^^^^' " ^ tC 5?» A. 1^ li, I Pecan on Hickory ^^ 50 "Fifth-If the tree bears too GRAFTED PECAN TREES fjlTof Next' Meeting " 62 much fruit, prune heavily in ^, ^, Place ot Next Meeting ^^ o^ winter, so that the tendency will These t rees are grafted from Plants and the Soil ^^ M be to wood growth. the best bearing trees in ^rot. t^aig ^^ jo "Sixth— Prune to remove sur- iny grove. : : : : : ^'^^^•^^H?;^ i-"''n''^" <• R9 fcC! iLX^w^rreaS VAN DEMAN, STUART KK.nu?"';; ;; other. and a dozen other choice va- S""'^ w°''l.?'"'^v"^ n-Tr^^c' " fi2 "Seventh-Prune to facilitate r.eties Pecan nuts for sale ^rpX^fc & out ?f Pkce " 50 spraying or harvesting in season. Apply to Value of Trees " 56 "Eighth— Prune to facilitate ^^ Value ot trees ,, 00 ^^^^■" JOHNS. HORLBECK, S^g the Passing::::::- - i Many of the large pecans are Charleston, S. C. now selling solely on their size, but „„_ ~ P®®®!) lBW@®iM®MiS when the public becomes better _ , »i • . t. • Mr J B Wight's Chattanooga address, educated, the meaty, medium-sized M\i^)^ SUbSCMptlOn AgBnCy I?u\^d^^?a^^o°r!fs^ '"^^ '''^^^^"^"' ""^'° ones will sell for -i hio-her nr^re r, l _. j This is a careful and very oon.'-ervatlve IJ11C5 will »cii lui a iiigiici iJi.cc For many years we have secured and review of the commercial opportunities tlwnthe mammoth hollow shells. forwarded subscriptions to many ^^is^'aj. oarers ^^^^^^ Nature seems to exhaust her forces LtiH?Lra/°c;mmln^d*erb'.e"us'to '^-'To^f'."'^' " """"slBr ^ In producing the shell of the mam- serve others who order by mail. '500 2.S0 . , r^ , , . J .1 c -^ Write for quotations on any ne- 250 'go molh Columbian and, theiefore. it nodical desired. 'so'"":::::::::::": It has no power left to fill it willi a t tr -Kt '■w^ Send orders to kernel. All of the pecans I know J. F. WILSON, AGENT The Nut-GrOWOr CO., at present that produce over 60 POULAN, GEORGIA Pouian, ceorgla. 58 THB NUToGHaWBR Mere Mention. Budding and grafting are use- ful arts on the farm. Those who can bud and graft have many op- portunities of perpetuating prom- ising new varieties fruits. Teach your boy to bud and graft trees. The growing popularity of nuts for food, and the number of new sorts introduced in recent years to the notice of people in this coun- try is ascribed by experts of the department of agriculture to the influx of immigrants from the southern nations of Europe and the orient. The peanut's chief value as a food lies in its higli percentage of protein and the fat it contains. Peanut oil is rich, pleasant and highly nutritious. For dietic pur- poses it should be eaten with some highly amylaceous substances, such as potatoes, rice or tapioca. "Pinenuts, which grow in the cones of certain varieties of native and foreign pines" are now fairly common in our markets. It is a fact that the Indians have always known and appreciated them. They are small, rather pointed and white, and are usually marketed shelled, but as they grow are covered with a more or less hard, woody shell. The tendencj' of the times is for specialties. Special men even for each especial vocation, special crops for certain sections, special fruits for certain sections. We have in them distinct Orange belt, distinct Apple belt, distinct Peach belts, and we also have the Pecan belt. Those in the unfavorable sections cannot compete with those in the special favorable section. With the exception, perhaps, of dried beans and cheese, no food material has the reputation for in- digestibility that has been accord- ed to nuts. Discomfort from them is largely due to insufficient masti- cation, and to the fact that nuts are often eaten when not needed, as after a hearty meal at nigiit, though it is undoubtedly true that nut protein as ordinarily eaten is not so easily or completely digest- ed as meat protein. Very likely the concentration of nuts, with but 3 to 5 per cent water, as com- pared with meats containing from 50 to 70 per cent water, is a con- tributing cause. If careful consid- eration were given to this matter and if attention were paid to the proper use of nuts and their cor- rect place in the diet, there would be less unfavorable comment on their digestibility. That which makes nuts such an excellent article of food is that their nutritive elements are almost perfectly proportioned, that is to say, a normal body requires so much water, proteids, carbohy- drates, mineral salts and fat to sus- tain it healthfully each twenty four hours, and in nuts these ele- ments are found more correctly proportioned, according to the re- quirements of the body, than in any other article of food known to chemists. They have done their part in the past, in that they furnished a great part of the food of primitive men, bringing them up from a barbarous people to a state of intelligent and intellectual manhood. SEETHE ntoTs SUCH TREE LIVE'I 'iveViI Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug «Hth entire Tap Root and well developed lateral rooti. Few Nurserici seU such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, of best quality and best producing varieties. Some of the biggest, thlnnest-shellcd nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our Varielies are Beat Cold Medftl a»art>, Mitchell County, Georgia. THB NUT~GROWBR 59 News Items. Weather for March : Maximum temperature, 88; Minimum, 27; Mean, 64; Rainfall, 1.32 inches. The Monticello members are planning for a large and enjoyable meeting for the National Associa- tion in November next. The Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers will meet next with the Florida Horticultural Society, at Orlando, May 17th to 21st. The South Orchards Co., for which Mr. Theo. Bechtel has been secured as Horticultural Su- perintendent and director, has laid off into five acre tracts and phint- ed to pecans and Satsuma oranges, a tract of nearly 500 acres this sea- son. These tracts are the initial plantings of 2,600 acres of land in Mobile county, Alabama, situa- ted about twelve miles from Mo- bile, on the west side of the bay, with a portion fronting on the bay ; all of which will be planted and developed into high class orchards. A residence feature will also be combined with these orchards, and a boulevard 190 feet in width will run tiirough the entire property, about six miles in length. Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association. At the October meeting of the Georgiii-Florida Pecan (Growers it was decided that the annual May meeting for 1910 be held at Orlan- do, Florida, in combination with that of the Florida Horticultural Society, thereby securing reduced rates and especially deriv- ing the benefit of the excellent program that this society will pre- sent. The Society will meet May 17 to 20 inclusive. At their regular ses- sion the afternoon of the 19th the Pecan Growers will present the following program : Observations on Pecan Culture — H. K. Miller, Monticello, FloVida. Essentials of Commercial Pecan Orcharding — Herbert C. White DeWitt, Ga. How Shall We Market Pecans — H. Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Florida. Combinations Adapted to Pecan production — W. W. Carroll, Mon- ticello, Florida. Progress in the Pecan Industry — Dr. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. Report of Committee on Statis- tics. Georgia; Chas. M. Barnwell, H. W. Smithwick, B. W. Stone. Report of Committee on Statis- tics, Florida; C. M. Griffing, H. S. Graves, R. C. Simpson. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY, Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELI^O, : : FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. ) A night session of the Pecan Growers will be held on the 19th and also a session the morning of the 20th in which will be transac- ted such business as may concern the Association. A full attendance is urged, which will add much to the inter- est of these meetings, and one may confidently go with the ex- pectation of being well lepaid. Parties living in Georgia should purchase tickets to the nearest Florida point from which a round trip ticket can be had for one fare plus 30 cents. In purchasing tick- et be sure to get a certificate-re- ceipt from ticket agent to place of meeting. H. K. Miller, Pres. R. C. Simpson, Treas. The Almond Commercially Considered, (CONTINDED FKOM PAGE 56.) method I am indebted to Mr. Reed, of Suisun. Only standard almond sacks should be used, and while the}' seem expensive, they are a commercial success because they weigh two and a half pounds and no tare is taken by the trade if you use these. The almonds may also be shelled instead of hulled, as there are ma- chines for shelling which do very good work. The present year our crop was light and we shelled our entire crop of about twelve tons of clean kernels. We figured better prices this way. Nearly all the im- ported nuts are shelled before im- porting. If you shell they are not to be bleached and you have all of the shells to work back into the soil as material for humus, which is no small item. For a commer- cial proposition if you can get the same money for the product shell- ed, saving thereby half the hauling and return half the tonnage to your soil which you would ship off if the product were hulled, better do it. Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, (lA. fZv'rvftorl Franquette and May- KMiUILKU. ette Walnut Trees and Scions. Frost resistant. Guaran- teed true to name. Scions, $3.00 per 100; trees 3-4 ft. 90c each; 4-10 ft., $1.10 each. Tribble Brothers, ^JtuPaZTa. m A nm mn The Best Investment that can now be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the fluest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between the pecans) which includes '20,000 stocks for tne coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young gralted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention. All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work — you get ex- actly what yo\t order. Pecans this season espe'cially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS 60 rHB NUT'GROWBR REP0RT5 Pecan Scab. I have a large tree that is affect- ed with pecan scab. I first noticed it about six or seven years ago. It began on the lower branch on the south side and gradually spread over the entire tree. It required four or five years to cover the tree but at first seemed only to affect the nuts. During the summer of 1908 it not only destroyed the nuts but affected the leaves and gave the tree a sickly appearance. The past season (1900) the tree seemed to have recovered to a great extent. It bore a light crop of nuts hut most of them matured. Tne leaves remained fresii and green all summer and the tree made a nice growth. The principal difference between tlie two seasons was, in 190S the season was rather wet and during the overflow the water stood around this tree for about a month, while during 1909 we had a very severe drouth, and the weather was very hot. I would like to learn from those who are familiar with this disease whether dry weather tends to check it and wet weather favorable to it or whether these effects were due to some other cause.? I did not apply- any remedies. G. M. Brown. Van Buren, Ark. Will the Pecan Prove Profitable in Georgia? BY B. W. STONE. [CONTINUED FROM MARCH NUMBEK.l A party wrote me that lie had been enthusiastic on pecan grow- ing, but his neighbor told him that in a few years the trees would bear smaller and smaller nuts. He said if it was so, that he would not plant. I wrote him that it was so, unless he prevented it. But I also wrote him that the peach growers of Georgia had to dig and fertilize ; thin and spray; rub and pray; to keep up the size of the peaches. That the apple growers had to do the same thing. That even mule growers had to scufHe to keep up the size of mules. I guess he had enough, for 1 never heard from him any more. DISEASES AND INSECTS The pecan tree is free from all diseases — till you get it planted on on your land. Yes, the pecan has its enemies. All things of value on the top side of the earth have their enemies. 1 will here just mention the three worst : The girdler, which if let alone, will prune the whole business out of ex- istence. He cuts off the limbs in fall from one to two feet generally. The remedy is easy, but must be thoroughly done. Gather and burn every limb, for so far as I have been able to observe, all of the eggs are laid in the cut-off twigs. For practice, he travels around one grove and girdles hickories, beech and persimmons. The next worse is the bud worm. This insect is to eat the tender buds early in the spring, provided the gridler left any for it. Small trees are worst affected. As they grow larger the damage grows less noticable. Spraying with arsenical poisons will lessen his work. The worst enemy of all is the pecan scab. It is a fungus disease, producing black specks and black results. It attacks leaves, twigs, and especially the fruit, sometime depriving a tree of every nut after all other conditions and requirements have been favor- able. It is such a complete knock- er-out that it says, "Stone, back to the woods, back to the woods." So back to the woods I go. In the woods I find that the pe- can industry is no new industry. I find that among these giant pecan trees some have their entire crop taken off bv this dreaded scab, and others standing by with limbs in- terlocking, perfectly immune to the scab year after year. So out of the woods I come with the solution — plant varieties that resist the scab. The close observer calls my attention to the fact that improved pecans are like other im- proved plants, cattle, etc., and are not as hardy as the wild stock. Such are facts, for if I am not mis- taken, none of the improved vane- ties are entirely free from the scab in all sections. I now think the thing to do is to plant in each section the varieties that are best able to resist the dis- ease in that section and use the Bourdeau spray if necessary. I feel no fears, for the industry is too im- portant and there is too able a body of scientists to sit idly by and say "nothing doing." BEARING. It is not necessary to dwell on this point. They yield from light crops to very heavy ones. No fruit tree in the U. S. bears annually heavy crops. The pecans have their off years I would sav about like apples. Possibly a li'tle more regular on account of their deep roots. In Thomasville, pecan trees, 5th year set bore 3oJ^ lbs. ; 7th year set 30 lbs. ; at Fort Valley. I2th year set, 100 lbs.; at Cairo, 18th year set, 250 lbs. These are the best records I know of. Some are interested in the pecan bearing early — at a young age. It appears to me that the pecan bears at too early an age. I would pre- fer that they would not bear 'till ten years' set. If they would not bear 'till they were set in grove ten years, they would be much larger and would bear so much heavier crops. And besides, it would so materially lessen the number of groves that those set would be more valuable. I shipped some apple and pecan trees to a partv in Mis- sissippi. He reported that the pe- cans bore one year earlier than the apples. (CONTINDED ON PAGE CD Pecan Trees J'r^fL TFiE LEAUINQ VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, "El.fK" Nuts for Profll f4°°Sf7.,r trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. juiil Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery At A sax BVII^DING HOUSTON, .-. TKXAS. Seed Pecans For the accommodationand convenience of patrons we buy and sell Pecan Nuts for seed purposes. PineyParkNursery J. F. Wilson, Manager Poulan, :-: Georgia. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists io Budded and (Jrafted Pecan Trees of reiial)le known varieties. Our catalog con tains information on selecting, planting, cul- ture, etc., and is free for the asking Graftwood for sale ; our orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES. PROPRIErOR, Gainesville, Florida. THH NUT-anaWBH 61 New Plan LETTERS For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B.W.STONUCO., Thomasvillc, Qa. LET US SEND YOU- •'PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La, SUCCESS .NATUKAI, SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEl nXW NURSERIES OCEAN UPKINGS MISS PECAN TREES Tii;il ;ire pro[)erly grown i-. inv Specinlty. Kiidded and (irafted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves . J. B. WIGHT, "g^yRCA. PROCEEDINGS The following volumes of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Lonis, 1904, 25c per copv Scranton, 1906, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907. 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 50c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, CEORQIA National Nut Growers Ass'n., Albany, Ga. Gentlemen : — A year ago I had the pleasure of attending your meet- ing at Chattanooga, Tenn.,and, of cour.se, was much interested in the meeting. While I wish that I could be there this year, and fully ex- pected to up to within a few days ago, I find now that it is impossi- ble to do so. Up here in this cold country, I am doing all lean to encourage the planting of nut trees, especially the "Pomeroy" English walnut trees, and am meeting with more or less success. I am sending a few nuts to be put on exhibition. Trusting that another year it will be possible for me to be present, and wishing each and every man that plants nut trees the greatest success, 1 am, Yours truly, Albert C. Pomeroy. Editor Nut-Grower, Poulan, Ga. Dear Sik ; — Perhaps the read- ers of your progressive paper will be interested to learn that Corres- pondence Courses for home study in Agriculture. Horticulture, Poul- try Culture, Domestic Science and Nature Stuily are now provided by the South Dakota Stale College, These courses are for all the mem- bers of the farm familv, for school teachers and everyone everywhere who wishes to learn. The courses of study are planned not for financial profit but to bring scientific and practical instruction within the reach of those who can- not attend college, yet are ambi- tious to gain instruction helpful in their work and life. Four systematic courses are offer- ed in Horticulture covering the subjects: i. Vegetable Gardening. 3. Fruit Culture. 3. Floriculture. 4. Forestry. Full information will be furnish- ed free to any of the readers of The Nut-Grower on request. Yours faithfully, A. A. Brigham. Director College Extension, Brook- ings, South Dakota. Will the Pecan Prove Profitable (OONTINDED PKOU PAQE 60) OVER production. Last fall we thought we had over production in cotton, judging b}' the price. Those who will have to buv corn this spring will be con- vinced of over-production in it. Those who love apples as well as I do, think there is over production in apples all the time. Last spring the U. S. imported over 8 million bags of Irish potatoes. The U. S. in 1904 imported 5J million dollars worth of nuts, in 1908 they im- ported 9^ million dollars worth of nuts. Let us first stop the great increase of importations. Then re- duce the importations a few million annually. In fact, wait till we export some to the hungry world before we cry out too loud over production. How many present here today eaten over one pound of pecans this winter? Please hold up your hand. Fifty percent held up hands. Forty years from now it will take fortv million bales of cotton to supply the demand. Forty years from now there will be over 200 million people in the U. S. Where will we get enough Elberta peaches and paper shell pecans from to supply the demand ? Pecans will be like peaches and apples. Not every section will prove eminently profitable for them. Furthermore, the most pro- fitable groves will be those care- fully attended to under fifty acres. We read of fabulous records of pears and apples in California and the Northwest. Those fine results are from groves that have the hu- man eye, hand and skill to attend each bud literally Mr. Luthur Burbank with his superior knowledge of American fruits says that if he was a young man he would engage in the pecan business — hybridizing new varie- ties. If an acre of English walnuts in California with a long freight haul ahead of it is worth I700.00 and upwards, what should a well es- tablished acre of pecan trees be worth ? My trip up here over these no- ble old hills of Georgia, is a pleas- ant recreation. These old hills are always interesting. Always entertaining. But they are poorer than they were 20 years ago. They will be still poorer 20 years hence. When I consider this fact, and know what is true of Georgia is also true ot all the Southern states, it makes my little pecan grove of 100 acres in South Georgia, which I am building up, just double in value. I trust these few notes will aid you in separating the shell and bitter cork from the meat. My subject — "Will the Pecan Prove Profitable in Georgia?" Al- low me to say, I think most emi- nently so. B. W. Stone, |aii. 26, 1910. Thomusville, Ga. 62 THB NUT^anaWBM SOCIETIES The date for the 1910 Conven- tion, at Monticello, Florida, lias been set for November i, 2, and 3. Report on Place of Next Meeting. The Committee on Time and Place of next meeting considered invitations from the Publicity and Promotion Bureau of Mobile, Ala., from the Atlantic City Publicity Bureau, including the Atlantic City Board of Trade, the Atlantic City Hotel Men's Association and the Atlantic City Business League, and from Monticello, Florida. After considering each place it was unanimously decided to recom- mend Monticello, Fla., for ilie next annual convention upon the assur- ance of the Monticello delegates that the sum of $100.00 would be raised to defray the expenses of the Association. The time of meeting to be determined by the Executive Committee after consulting the wishes of Monticello. Since the committee held its meeting, Mr. Canada presented some very cor- dial invititations from Houston, Texas, which you have heard. Conventions of the National Nut Growers' Association have now been held in Louisana, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Vir- ginia and Georgia. Hkrbeut C. White, H. K. Miller. Report of Executive Committee. Your Executive Committee re- spectfully report that our financial status is in a healthy and encour- aging condition, and advise that the life membership fee be restored to .$20 at close of this Convention. We advise the sale of published proceedings, one copy each of pres- ent volumes, at $1.00, and advise that the price of Albany proceed- ings be fixed a fifty cents the copy. The Association year is defined as being uniform with the calendar year, and advise that new members enrolled at any convention have their dues extended to the close of the subsequent calendar year. J. B. Wight, Chairman ; H. C. White, ). B Curtis, }. F. Wilson, M. B. McNeelev. Top-Working Young Trees. There is a growing conviction among the fruit growers that bet- ter results may come from planting vigorous trees of some strong, growing kind to be later worked over to the desired variety. In the opening remarks of thi» subject mention was made of the desira- bility of working weak growing kind on stronger root-systems, as well as top-working as a means of lessening loss from attacks of root rots and woolly aphis. The em- barrassment of growing the or- chard to a bearing age only to find some of the trees not true to name may be avoided by this plan of starting the young orchard. Then every fruit grower has observed that few trees of the same variety are alike in bearing habit and char- acter of fruit. No doubt, many growers have some particular tree in bearing orchard which is better than all others, that is nearer their ideal. By choosing grafting wood from this tree, a young orchard may be grown as near like it as is possible. 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DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle UV lwC#f Wrftll or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful oilers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L MEAD CYOLE OOMP^IY, CifSe-MO, ILL Tllli NUT-GHaWBR 63 Books and Catalogues. f H 11 nnni |> 1^ >l i|HHm 1)1 i|i| nnt tt'l* 1 Buckbee's Special Bargains, Rockt'ord, 111. — Supplement No. 2, 1910, seeds, phmts and bulbs. Pecan Paradise — A twelve page illustrated folder, descriptis'e of proposal of Jefferson Nursery Co., to plant orchards; Monticello, Fla. Press Comments on Advant- ages AND Possibilities of Geor- gia— A neat folder by the A. B. & A. Railroad, Atlanta, Ga. The Twenty-Third Annual Report OF THE Interstate Com- merce Commission for 1909, has 68 pages of data, covering many features of work of public interest. Toiling and Tir.LiNO the Soil is the title of the Rumley Oil Pull Traction Engine, Laporte, Ind. The Austin Nursery, F. L. Ramsey. & Son, Austin, Tex. 4 ])ages. Prices to Nurserymen only. Rawson's Florist's Book for 1910, Boston. Mass., seeds and bulbs. Proceedings of the 33RD An- nual Meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society, published by the Georgia Stale Board of Entomology as Bulletin No. 30. Nut Roast — Take cooked beans or peas, pass through a colander to remove the skins, mix with an equal quantity of finely chopped nut meats and season to taste. Line an oiled baking baking dish with half the mixture and spread on a dress- ing made as follows : Take four slices of zweiback, pour over them boiling water and cover; let stand a few minutes, then break them up with a fork, add a half cup of sweet cream and add salt and sage to taste. Cover the dressing with the remainer of the wut mixture, pour over all one-half cup of cream and bake for one and one-half hours. Serve in slices, with cran- berry sauce, and garnish with a R|)rig of green. For flavoring and confectionery purposes the pistachio nuts are most valuable. The tree is a na- tive of Syria :iiid, while the nut now grown in America in Califor- nia and the Gulf States is larger than the Syrian variety, it is not so delectable. The kernel is prized tor its dainty green coloring and the flavor. iii(i'iiii'ii iii *^t«f»(i||i* caterpillars, and other visitors to our young or bearing trees have all succumbed to persistent and intel- ligent warfare. The disease known as "scab" is being studied and fought by the government patholo- gist, Mr. M. B. VVaite, and by others interested. So now the problems that are most insistent consist largely of questions of eth- ics, suitable varieties, lands adapted to pecan production, and getting good healthy stocks to plant. The National Nut Growers As- Prepared for tlie Georgia-Florida meeting. • Read at Altiany Convention. 66 PHB NUT^GHUWBH sociation cannot afford to discour- age full and free discussion of the evils and troubles of the business. If diseases are not to be named for fear of frifjlilening away capitalists about to invest, many of us will go away from this meeting ignorant of wh:it we hoped to learn while here. Let us nave light on all sub jects that need illumination, and, in the end, I hose of us, who are now disbursing our stockholders, or our own, money, will have better re- turns to show. The fairy cale ele- ment in the literature of many com- panies is misleading and should be eliminated. Because a certain tree produced 638 pounds of pecan nuts in one season is no basis on which to promise a crop for several thous- and trees in orchard formation. We do not know just what the large orchards will do. We be- lieve so strongly that many of us are putting all we have in holes thirty to sixty feet apart — but it is not safe to promise as largely as some are promising. The growing of pecan trees in orchard formation is still in the experimental stage. We have however, every reason to be encouraged and I believe that strudy, patient, game investors furnishing ample means for expert lujriicultural care, fertilizers and cultivation, will, in a reasonably short lime, make the South iich in possession of a great monopoly which will, I believe, be second only to cotton, now and ever to be our King. Forgetting the troubles of the tree when started, we are reminded of the troubles of getting trees started to growing. Trees of the same name set in the same sort of soil under similar coiulilions will often not make the same growth. 1 be- lieve this trouble begins in the nur- sery trenches and ends in the pack- ing sheds of the growers and ship- pers of stock for orchard planting. Nurserjmen taking contracts for large blocks of certain grades some- times force a sappy growth by lib- eral applications of nitrate of soda, dig trees before they are fully dor- mant, let their roots die by long exposure or careless heeling-in, and pack without sufficient moisture or protection. A tree that has had its fibres shrunken and its tnoisture evaporated has not an equal chance with a freshly dug, well-packed tree. We can onlj' decide on the varie- ties suited and the lands- adapted to pecans by using our best judg- ment, following advice of experts, observing local conditions atnd- — most expensive but last of all — by actual experiment. Finally, I consider the pecan tree an individual proposition. Pecan trees will not average in the or- chard by thousands like spears of wheat. One who knows his busi- ness must see every tree in the or- chard often enough to give that in- dividual attention which a doctor's patient receives when needed. One tree may need pruning, another may not ; one inay need a boier's extermination, another may have a colony of tent caterpillars just starting. One inay need nitrogen, another potash, another phosphoric acid, another a combination or all the essential elements. One tree may need lime to correct acidity, while the next tree in the row needs none. And so it goes. Therefore, it appears that the pecan orchard, large or small, which receives close inspection and intelligent care shows up belter even now than others, and will, when established, bring in revenues which will help inake our sout hern country greater. more prosperous, and even more of a paradise than it is now. Progress in Pecan Culture. (noNTINUED FKOM PAGE 6.5 ) well, one of them being that distant points are taking a more lively in- terest in pecans than some of the states where this nut finds its most congenial surroundings. In illus- tration of this point, as well as of its interesting character, we learn that the city of Chicago alone, sends more subscriptions than the entire state of Alabama. Minne- apolis does better than the state of North Carolina. New York city furnishes nearly as many as Mississippi and over twice as many as Arkansas. Foreign countries are calling for information and literature, while experiment stations and agricul- tural libraries attest the growing sentiment in favor of nut culture in all parts of the land. I have cjuotetl from this source simply because 'his publication comes in closer touch with the gen- eral public in this particular than any other agency. The work of the National Nut Growers Association shows the same optimistic prospects. The Albany convention was large and twice as many new members were then enrolled as had been at any previous meeting. The sale of Proceedings of conventions is not only larger but now more regular through the year. In the judgment of your speaker a significant sign of progress is the better appreciation, on the part of orchardists and nurserymen, of problems which confront them, and the favorable results obtained in overcoming difficulties incident to any new line of industrial endeavor. There is also a marked tendency to regard the future prospects and profits for the business with con- servative judgment, while the ex- travagant and highly colored rep- lesentaiioiis of enthusiastic pro- moters is giving place to carefully arranged advertising matter pre- pared by competent authority. A large increase in the number of pecan projects is noticable, and each of these becomes a center for the distribution of literature and information on the subject. The general public is not able to recog- nize the relative merits of these projects, and the good name of the industry needs to be scrupulously upheld by this and other organiza- tions, by giving publicity to meas- ures known to be fraudulent or even those in honest but incompetent hands. Mistakes will continue to be made, but it is a sourse of satis- faction to reali2e, that the public interest is being safe-guarded more efTectually now than ever before by the accessions to our ranks of in- creasing numbers of men of the highest intellectual and moral at- tainments. Sooner or later the value of the services, which we as leaders are called upon to perform, will be more generously recognized and possibly, when we have passed over to celestial joys, our names may live with the industry, now being founded under our guidance. THE UT^GROWER Voluma IX Whole No. 94. Number 5 Poulan, Ga., May, 1910. 5c per Copy 50c por Year PROGRESS IN PECAN CULTURE NUTS TO CRACK. A Year of Rapid Development in New and Old Commercial Orchards. BY DR. J. F. Ill this paper we simply enumer- ate some of the agencies and oper- alinns wliich indicate tiiat the past twelve months has been a period of marked activity, development and progress in pecan culliire. Time will not admit of a full and careful analysis of the various feat- ures entering into the history we have been making since our last meeting, but the considerations mentioned maj' direct our thoughts in channels which may shape future operations, lead to new plans and movements as well as give us cour- age for future honors as well as pecuniary profits. Since onr meeting at Cairo, a year ago, the annual convention ot the National Nut Growers' Asso- ciation has been held in our terri- tory. It was the largest and one of the best meetings in the history of that distinguished body. It brought interested parties from many distant states. The visits to orchards and nurseries in tlie local- ity of Albany was a practical dem- onstration of accomplished results, far surpassing in extent and im- portance the anticipations of visit- ors. The 1910 convention is also to be held within our borders, and a slul greater meeting is confidently expected. During the past season the plant- ing of new and the enlargement of previously established commercial orchards seems to have been limit- ed only by the available supply of suitable trees. The increase in or- chard area in the Albany district alone was approximately equal to the entire acreage of budded and grafted trees in the country as re- cently as five years ago. The re- ports by our committee on statistics ;U this meeting will doubtless cover WILSON. * this aspect of the business in the states embraced by this organiza- tion This increased planting however is not the most significant feature of the progress we are called upon to record Ii is in the widespread interest in the business, on the part of the public in general, and in- vestors in particular, that we notice the forward movement most proni- ioently. It is not only in the south where the pecan grows to perfec- tion that this interest is manifested, but in all parts of the country, at- tention is being directed southward and the flow ot capital for orchard development is coming in our di- rection with increasing volume. The large number of letters of in- quiry regarding pecans which come regularly to my office as secretary and editor, as well as to others who are prominent in association work, attest the fact that many people are earnestly looking to the indus- try we represent for a safe, per- manent and profitable investment of funds at their command. Another convincing argument in support of the claim of increasing interest is found in the subscription roll of The Nut-Grower, which, during the early part of the present year, showed monthly as many new subscriptions as were enrolled per year during the early history of the publication. This increase is clearly attributable to increased interest in the business, as no special efforts were made in this direction by the publishers. That this interest is not local is shown by the wide extent of terri- tory from which subscriptions are received, It shows other things as (CONTINDED ON PAGE CC) • Prepared for tlie Georgia-Florida meeting. By W. W. Carroll. Monticello. Fla, • We, who are engaged in plant- ing large pecan orchards, will have some nuts to crack before we shall have any nuts to crack. This may seem paradoxical, but it isn't. There are large problems and small, problems of diseases, of pests, of fungi, of soils, of fertiliza- tion, of suitable or acclimated va- rieties, all offering a multiplicity of detail that will furnish, figuratively speaking, many "nuts to crack" before we can show complete and satisfactory harvests of pecan nuts. The sky is nearly all rosy-tinted now, but the clouds are beginning to appear, and it will be well for us all if conservatism and sane judgment will now take prudent steps to avoid future trouble. One of the great uses to which the National Nut Growers Associa- tion can be put is to combat in com- plete unison of its members the enemies of the pecan orch.ard, and to strive to eliminate from the busi- ness of growing pecan orchards the fairy tale element. The trouble we have had, caused by mixed or spurious trees, has largely been solved. The threat of the disease called "Rosette" has practically lost its terrors. The various bugs and borers, the case- bearer, the twig-girdler, the bud worm, the husk worm, the various caterpillars, and other visitors to our young or bearing trees have all succumbed to persistent and intel- ligent warfare. The disease known as "scab" is being studied and fought by the government patholo- gist, Mr. M. ]J. Waile, and by others interested. So now the problems that are most insistent consist largely of questions of eth- ics, suitable varieties, lands adapted to pecan production, and getting good healthy stocks to plant. The National Nut Growers As- • Read at Albany Convention. 66 rnr^ nut^ghowish sociation cannot afford to discour- age full and free discussion of the evils and troubles of the business. If diseases are not to be named for fear of frijjhtening away capitalists about to invest, many of us will go away from this meeting ignorant of wh;it we hoped to learn while here. Let us have light on all sub jects th;il need illumination, and, in the end, those of us, who are now disbursing our stockholders, or our own, money, will have better re- turns to show. The fairy :ale ele- ment in the literature of many com- panies is misleading and should be eliminated. Because a certain tree produced 638 pounds of pecan nuts in one season is no basis on which to promise a crop for several thous- and trees in orchard formation. We do not know just what the large orchards will do. We be- lieve so strongly that many of us are putting all we have in holes thirty to sixty feet apart — but it is not safe to promise as largely as some are promising. The growing of pecan trees in orchard formation is still in the experimental stage. VVe have however, every reason to be encouraged and I believe that strudy. palient, game investors furnishing simple means for expert lioriicultural caie, fertilizers and cultivation, will, in a reasonablv shurt time, make the South rich in possession of a great monopoly which will, I believe, be second only to cotton, now and ever to be our King. Forgetting the troubles of the tree when started, we are reininded of the troubles of getting trees started to growing. Trees of the same name set in the same sort of soil under similar conditions will often not make the same growth. 1 be- lieve this trouble begins in the nur- sery trenches and ends in the pack- ing sheds of the growers and ship- pers of stock for orchard planting. Nurserymen taking contracts for large blocks of certain grades some- times force a sappy growth by lib- eral applications of nitrate of soda, dig trees before they are fully dor- mant, let their roots die by long exposure or careless heeling-in, and pack without sufficient moisture or protection. A tree that has had its fibres shrunken and its moisture evaporated has not an equal cliance with a freshly dug, well-packed tree. We can only decide on the varie- ties suited and the lands tulapted to pecans by using our best judg- ment, following advice of experts, observing local conditions and — most expensive but last of all — by actual experiment. Finally, I consider the pecan tree an individual proposition. Pecan trees will not average in the or- chard by thousands like spears of wheat. One who knows his busi- ness iniist see every tree in the or- chard often enough to give that in- dividual attention which a doctor's patient receives when needed. One tree may need pruning, another may not ; one may need a borer's extermination, another may have a colony of tent caterpillars just starling. One may need nitrogen, another potash, another phosphoric acid, another a combination or all the essential elements. One tree may need lime to correct acidity, while the next tree in the row needs none. And so it goes. Therefore, it appears that the pecan orchard, large or small, which receives close inspection and intelligent care shows u|5 beMer even now than others, and will, when established, bring in revenues which will hel[5 in;ike our sout fiern country greater, more prosperous, and even more of a paradise than it is now. Progress in Pecan Culture. (CONTINUED FKOM PAGE 65 ) well, one of them being that distant points are taking a more lively in- terest in pecans than some of the states where this nut finds its most congetiial surroundings. In il'iis- tration of this point, as well as of its interesting character, we learn that the city of Chicago alone, sends more subscriptions than the entire state of Alabama. Minne- apolis does better than the state of North Carolina. New York city furnishes nearly as many as Mississippi and over twice as many as Arkansas. Foreign countries are calling for information and literature, while experiment stations and agricul- tural libraries attest the growing sentiment in favor of nut culluie in all parts of the land. I have quoted from this source simply because this publication comes in closer touch with the gen- eral public in this particular than any other agency. The work of the National Nut Growers Association shows the same optimistic prospects. The Albany convention was large and twice as many new members were then enrolled as had been at any previous meeting. The sale of Proceedings of conventions is not only larger but now more regular through the year. In the judgment of your speaker i\ significant sign of progress is the lietter appreciation, on the part of orchardists and nurserymen, of problems which confront them, and the favorable results obtained in overcoming difficulties incident to any new line of industrial endeavor. There is also a marked tendency to regard the future prospects and profits for the business with con- servative judgment, while the ex- travagant and higlily colored re[)- leseiitaiions of enthusi.istic pro- moters is giving place to carefully arranged advertising matter pre- pared by competent authority. A large increase in the number of pecan projects is noticable, and each of these becomes a center for the distribution of literature and information on the subject. The general public is not able to recog- nize the relative merits of these projects, and the good name of the industry needs to be scrupulously upheld by this and other organiza- tions, by giving publicity to meas- ures known to be fraudulent or even those in honest but incompetent hands. Mistakes will continue to be made, but it is a sourse of satis- faction to realize, that the public interest is being safe-guarded more effectually now than ever before by the accessions to our ranks of in- creasing numbers of men of the highest intellectual and moral at- tainments. Sooner or later the value of the hcrvices, which we as leaders are called upon to perform, will be more generously recognized and possibly, when we have passed over to celestial joys, our names may live with the industry, now being founded under our guidance. THE. NUT-GHOWBht 67 Away From Home to Learn. My best ideas 1 get from other people. Life is too short; and there are too many things to do for us to stop and think out for our- selves the best things always. The other man thinks of the things we do not think of, gets points of view beyond our limited range. What he thinks — what he learns — can and should be available for us. and by taking a little time and thought we can make use of liisexperiences and his knowledge jus: as well as if it had been gained by long effort and much cost on our part. The man who accomplishes most is the one who makes every other man contribute to his own work. Therefore, in making a journal, in planting orchard, in doing all I can to further my own interests and the interests of the men who are planting pecans and fruits in the South, I make it a point to travel as much as possible, and to meet the men who are doing things, I want to know what they are doing, and how they are ('oing it. I want to profit by iheir experience, and to avoid mistakes tliey have made. For this reason 1 go away from home to learn. Now and then I find a man who savs he is to busy too read my jour- nal. And yet that s.ime man is not too busy to spend hundreds of dollars and do things even in a way that he would not do if he would spend a few minutes even reading how other other men do or do not do the things he is trying to do. He forgets that a (Icillar saved through the other man's experience is a dollar made for him. He owes it to himself to get the best results in what he is try- ing to do, and this he can do only by bringing to bear all the intel- ligence along his certain line that he can. This intelligence is part- ly his own and partly the experi- ence of the other man whose know- ledge he is willing to assimilate. I have come to this great gather- ing of men interested in the plant- ing and cultivating of pecans .".nd other nuts in order to learn for myself what they are doing, and iiow they are doing it. I have come to Albany, the center of the pecan planting industry, in order to see for myself how these men are making thousands of acres of fine orchards. I shall go away with knowledge gathered from these discussions and these observations that will be worth hundreds, per- haps thousands of dollars to me in niy own plantings, and, I trust worth as much to the thousands of people who read my journal each month. (Continued in June Number.) Opportunities for Pecan Culture In the Southeast. Prof. H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla., at Georgia Horticultural Society. [CONTINUED FROM APRIL NUMBER.) Much has been said pro and con concerning the feasibility of pro- ducing pecans in Georgia, Florida and Alabama: some insisting that, because the pecan is native only to the river bottoms of the Mississippi and its tributaries, it is only there one can hope to have success. These lose sight of the fact that we are dealing with an unimproved product, and that cultural methods are substiluted for the natural wild conditions which prevail with the native trees of the river bottoms; that intelligent culture in all in- stances is superior to primitive con- ditions. But a few facts are worth more than many theories. The trick is being done in these stales where properly cultivated orchards surpass any of similar age, in the so-called home of the pecan, that hiive come to my notice, both a-- to early fruitage and quality of nuts. The question admitted argument several vears ago, but at this lime there are too many young orchards in this section which demonslrate not only the feasibilitv of success- ful pecan culture, but the entire congeniality of soil and climate is established. With orchards under ten years of age coming into bearing in a satis- factory manner and with old trees here and there that have weathered the storms of half a century yield- ing heavy annual crops of superior nuts, \et apparently in their prime, can we for a moment doubt the feasibility of pecan culture in this slate? It is true some judgment is required in the selection of an or- chard site. Cold, wet lands that are snur, crawfish land, and such land as causes corn or cotton to "French," must be avoided. Neglecting to observe these pre- cautions has resulted in failures which must be accepted as danger signals for future guidance. A deep soil of goid quality that will grow a fair crop of both corn and cotton can be depended upon as suitable for pecans. Cultivation of the young orchard in a thorough manner is one of the greatest essentials. Pecan trees will not stand for neglect, but on the other hand resent such treat- ment. What the apple is to the North as a money crop may be duplicated in the South with the pecan ; there being many points in favor of the latter. Earlier returns may be had from an apple orchard, but is subject to more enemies than the pecan, is shorter lived, and re- quires greater care in growing and marketing the crops. The pecan crop is one of the few which may be harvested and marketed at leis- ure, an advantage fully appreciated by those engaged in growing per- ishable crops. (continued on page 76.) Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -> -> Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. m 68 WALNUTS A New Large Walnut. As the interest in walnut plant- ing is well maintained, in fact bids fair to be even greater during the coming planting season than ever before, we take pleasure in describing the tree and nut of a new candidate for plant- er's attention which has been named Willson's Wonder, after its originator, Mr. F. C. Willson, of the Encinal Nurseries of Sunny- vale, Santa Clara county. Mr. Willson was brought up to the nur- sery and fruit business in his old home in Ontario, Canada, and on coming to California nearly 25 years ago entered into California horticulture with appreciation of the superior advantages of our local conditions. Although he has worked with nearly all decidu- ous fruits, his special interest was claimed by the English walnut, and for a number of years he has paid particular attention to it. He has a number of seedlings, all ap- parently bred alike, judging by their general resemblance, but two seedlings he has especially chosen as worthy of wide propagation. The Bijou, the French variety which is chosen for jewel cases be- cause of its great size, seems to have had a share in the parentage of Mr. Willson's varieties. The one which he is now chiefly propagat- ing is '"Willson's Wonder," and which he has carefully tested for several years. The original tree of Willson's Wonder is eight years old. It has borne heavily since its second year, and largely in clusters of from three to ten nuts. When grafted the trees bear right along in the nursery row as soon as it is possi- ble to do so on its own growth of wood, maturing nuts within 18 months from insertion of graft in seedling. The tree is a strong, sturdy grower, with broad, dark- green leaves. The clustering accounts for the shape being narrower at the stem end, the reverse of the common walnut. It blooms and puts out foliage later than the common sorts avoiding the late s| ring frosts. THB JSUT^GHOWBR Its blooming season is about mid- Fruit Trees, Shade Trees I way between the common varieties and the Franquette. The Will- **"• son's Wonder is very heavy in its Ornamental Shrubbery male bloom, having more catkins '^^^^^ than any of the other varieties *'-*° known to its originator. Wilsons Field GrOWn RoSC BusheS Wonder is a very large walnut, , . ^ , . Before you place your order write specimens measuring s4 by o* m- , . j r i^ 6 J' J 4 us for prices and one of our : : : ches in circumference. It has a ,. ,,, L... ,,f DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES thin shell which is very smooth tor its size and well filled with a light TURKEY CREEK NURSERY colored, rich, sweet kernel. Box 21, McCUnny, Fla. A tree in the nursery row is about c. F. baeber. Pres. J. E. Barbek. Sec'ty. two feet tall, with eight large nuts maturing within 18 months after Pf>r*rtn TVpp^ Root the insertion of grafts, as already _«.«^_^^.^^^^^««» Crafted stated. Another tree five feet the leading vakieties. . ,, , ,... , PRICE LIST tall under same conditions and of the same age, has 36 nuts R. T. RAMSAY, MfJliffppi'' matured. Still another shows clusters from the original tree ^^j ^^ p,.Q|j, A BOOK^^eT OF of from four to ten nuts to ^ ^. „ ^. ^Jo P<^Ke». o" "'"=> trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., the cluster. The 14 nuts side by of nuts best adapted to the various sec- side in a row cover a three foot tjops- ^,^nt«''«.f' "f ^'"^ '"inuM'^p- Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. rule. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to As stated, the original tree of April 15, Orlando, Fla. Willson's Wonder has never failed " " to produce heavily every year firri|l|l^f||| IQAQIQIA since the second year after plant- fil I illiUl'lJIii Ij/Uft/'le/lU ing. The trees which matured nuts at iS months have borne with Ready and wiU bC increasing numbers the two sue- ^^^^ q„ rCquest. . . ceeding seasons in nursery row, showing it to be a heavy and con- ■■ • ■ tl tinuous'bea.er. ^IM k^M^^ ^^^^^^1 The quality of the kernel is ex- ^ ■' . MASON BVIKUIKG ceptionally sweet and rich. Given HOUSTON, .-. TEXAS. the abnormally large size with su- perior quality it ought to com- mand a very high class trade, and X^^/Y M^f^f^Qtl ^ it appears to rightly claim the at- *Jw^** M. C>V.Vf», C. When Chinquapins are Ripe. The chinquapin, botanists tell us, f/rows from southern Pennsyl- vania to south to Florida and westward to Indiana and Texas. It is ordinarily a low, spreading bush, five to seven feet high, willi several stems arising from a single root clump. Sometimes, however, it grows to be a small tree, reach- ing the height of iS or 3o feet. Its favorite haunts are along the edges of the forests or in rather sterile open places in its depths where there is not too much shade. When the larger timber has been cut away it often takes almost complete possession of the land, and is most fruitful in such places and in old neglected and partially cleared fields. The round burrs, about an inch in diameter, begin to open by the first of September, and from that time on until the middle of October chinquapins are plentiful. The nuts are borne one to the burr, are conical in shape and bright black in color. Occasionally two or three will be found crowded to- gether like chestnuts ; but this is unusual. The nuts have a distinct flavor and are sweeter than the chestnut. They reach their best stage only when fully ripe, begin- ning to get dry and losing their glossy blackness. Chinquapin gathering is fine sport, especially for children, as it comes at the very best time of the year and is attended with but very little labor. All that is necessary is to pick the nuts' from the burrs, if one's fingers are tough enough, shake the bushes and gather them on the ground, or to crack them out with stones. This is the boy's favorite way, as they, of course, want to begin harvesting before the crop is ripe. They are seldom gathered in .large quantities, al- though in favorable localities a gallon may soon be obtained, and wear about their necks and rattle incessantly, to the perplexity of the already perplexed school teach- ers. When a girl becomes tired of her ornament sne can eat it, a very desirable qdality in an orna- ment. Usually the nuts for these necklaces are boiled before string- ing as they are then easier to pierce with a needle and better to eat when the time comes. Still they turned to a dull brown in boiling, so that is a sacrifice of beauty to utility. The small size of the nuts also makes them available for such games as "Jack in the bush" and "Odd or Even," and many a weary child has found relief from the tyranny of books in these en- chanting games played while the teacher was looking another way. They are splendid articles, too, with which to shoot across the room and hit some industrious and unsuspecting pupil on the ear or nose. And when Sunday comes It is ever so much better to join a band and go out under the blue skies and amid all the sweetness and the beauty of the autumn to gather chinquapins and chase ground squirrels than it is to sit in a stuffy church and listen to a tire- some sermon. Squirrels, chipuiunks and field mice, along with jay birds , and others o'f the feathered folk, find enjoyment in chinquapin hunting as well as do the boys and girls ; and since the bushes usually grow on what might otherwise be waste ground and the nuts ripen before any other, tlie chinquapin fills a worthy place in the country child's list of wild edibles. Still the poor fariper who has to dig out a lot' of them win find any thing but enjoy- ment in the performance. It would seem that the chinqua- pin might be .readily, transplanted, though il. never knew of its being tried; if it could it would be a de- sirable acquisition for many odd corners. For when it spreads out, as it will do if given a chance, into a broad, low.symmetrical bush, it is they are often for sale in the towns of- their section. The ' littlegirls a handsome plant; and is practi in the country string them end to cally certain to bear a crop of nuts end on a thread and thus make long every year. — E. E. Miller, in shining be-id-st rings which ihey Country Gentleman. 70 FHB NUT^anaWBR HICKORY My Experience in Working the Pecan on Hickory. Judee Fnnk B. Gulnn. Rusk. Texaa. In view of the fact that the use • of hickory stock for budding and grafting the pecan is rather new, and that most any sort of experi- ence along that line is of inierest at I Ills time, will probably justify or extenuate the act of assigning to a novice the above subject As we are engaged in a great work for ourselves, the country, and for posterity, we should be willing to contribute our mite to help along the cause. And while I would much prefer t.i hear from those of greater ex- perience and knowledge, and therefore come to leani and be in- structed, rather than to teach. I will cheerfully relate my exjeri- ence and observations iii working the pecan on hickory. I have worked almost all sizes of trees, and so far, have found it just as easy to work ihe pecan on hickory as on its own stock. Of course, much difficulty is ex- perienced in top working large trees and this without reference as to whether the stock is pecan or hickory. Last summer I budded a coiivid- erable number of pecans and also of hickories to different varieties of the most popular commercial paper shell pecans and, as strange as it may seem, I had much succ.ss with the work on hickory stock. This was no doubt caused by the better condition of hickory stock, as it was all cut back stock, and had a more vigorous grf)wth than my two and three year-old pecans in the nursery and orchard. 1 therefore think that pecan trees to be budded, if not over one year-old could be worked more easily and successfully by cutting back during the winter mnnths. so as to obtain more vigorous shoots for summer budding. The top working of large pecans presents several ditticulties not en^ countered in working small trees, such ,is the greater ditficulty "I do- ing the work effectively, as ii must, ol course be done some distance above the ground; the control of excessive growth, and the care re- quired in handling the new shoots, etc, but there are no such difficulties to be found that should deter one from entering upon a work so promising and profitable of early returns. If a hickory tree of little or no value, can in a few years be con- verted into a paper shell pecan tree of great value, we should be willing to go to some little trouble to bring about such happy results. The new shoots will grow so r.ipidly after becoming thor- oughly incorporated into the old tree that some watching and brac- ing will become necessary for the first vear or two. after which they will readily take care of them- selves. The work of budding can be done during the month of June, which is about as early as goiid ripe bud- ding timber can be secured, and it may be continued through all or the greater part of July with fair seasons, and considerable success, I am informed, has been had much later in the summer, even in the early fall, but I have myself no ex- perience in these later dates. As to the varieties to be used on hickory, my experience yet is hardly sufficient to warrant a con- clusion. Of course, an important consid- eration is to produce as fine a pe- can tree as possible, one that will bear fine nuts and one that will be hardy and prolific. As there is a vast number of va- rieties, and more being brought forward every year, and great claims are made by enthusiastic propagators for their favorites, or leading varieties which are al- ways catalogued at higher prices, one is likely to become bewildered on the subject, and unfortunately for us in East Texas, the propaga- tion of fine pecans is yet in its pioneer state, and as few, if any, of the leading varieties have yet been brought to fruit in this re- gion, one is naturally taking some chances as to which varieties will prove most successful in this par- ticular locality. (Continued in Jvhs Nuubbr.) ig The Secret of Success Is Self -Development... Prepare for future success - gieatuess, prosperity, and happiness -- by developing yourself NOW. Your circufustaiices are only the espressioD of your mental development and habits, and it is im- possible to improve your surri'uudings unless you FIRST IM- PROVE YOURSELF. 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PEEK, : Hartwell, Qa. The Butternut. By Burton H. Allbee. New York City. All over the Northern part of this country and extending as far South as Arkansas, grows the but- ternut. It is called in some sec- tions the white walnut, to distin- guish it from the black walnut, which is a close relative. The tree frequently grows to enormous size, especially when standing alone and without interference. The outside or sapwood is white, and, though porous, will take a handsome fin- ish. The inside or heartwood is a beautiful golden brown, and wiien fully seasoned will yield a mellow polish that makes it very desirable for some kinds of ornamental cabinet work. The bark was formerly used as a dyestuff, a rich brown dye being made from a decoction of the bark. From tlie sap of the tree it is possible to make a thick, rather dark syrup, which would pass for a poor quality of maple syrup, and vvhile it has not the flavor of the maple syrup, it is sweet and is quite as satisfactory as a low grade molasses. The nuts are rich in oil, hence the name butternut. Cultivation increases the size of the nut and decreases the peculiar butternut flavor. Moreover, trees that grow on wet soil yield nuts having less of the characteristic flavor than those which stand on high and dry places. The shell is hard and thick, and if kept dry there is no limit to their keeping qualities, though, af- ter two or three years, the kernel is likely to take on a slightly strong flavor. The outside of the shell is very rough, being covered with numerous convolutions, with sharp, knife-like edges. This, in turn, is covered with a thick but softer shell, which has corresponding convolutions that fit those on the inner and harder shell. The juice from the outer shell or hull, when it is green, will color everything a rich brown. The kernels are twins like the black walnut but are larger and longer. Thev are very white, and the delicate covering, which is handsomely veined, is filmy and of rather bitter taste. The usefulness of the butternut is enhanced by the fact that its oil is desirable for lubricating pur- poses. Many clock and watch- makers , and other consumers of oil for delicate machinery prefer it to almost any other kind. For eating purposes the butter- nut is unsurpassed. It has a rich- ness unsurpassed by other nuts, and its flavor is peculiar to itself. Probably no nut has been so gen- erally used among country people for "nut cracks." The dried nuts are worth from $i.oo to $3.50 per bushel in New York, depending upon the season, size and quality of the nuts. Small ones bring less than the large ones, though for actual yield obtained from a given volume of nuts the kernels in the small ones will probably make more than in the larger ones. The butternut tree will grow with but little attention and yield abundantly. In other words, if there are waste places about your farm where other nuts will grow, the butternut can be planted with profitable result. The tree is a comparatively rapid grower, and begins to yield in a few years from planting. With judicious selection and some care in pruning, the yield, no doubt could be made con- stant. The consumption of all other varieties of nuts is increasing more rapidly than the increase of any other variety of food product, and it is but fair to assume that the use of the butternut will increase in due proportion. At present the supply offered in the large cities is insufficient lo satisfy the demand. There are profits in butternut growing. It only requires a small outlay at the start, and after the trees begin bearing, all returns are practically clear profits. The cashew nut of tropical re- gions, which many consider one of the most delicious nuts grown, has long been known, but has never become common. It is sold to some extent in this country and brings high prices. This nut is roasted before it is eaten, as the raw nut contains poisonous proper- ties wiiich are readily destroyed by heat. 72 THB NUT-aHOWnU THE NUT -GROWER riTBLISHKD MONTHLy BY T3/)e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as secoud-class matter at tlie PostoHlce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cants per Annum. Advertising Rates on Appiication. NOTICB When this paragraph is marked it ineans that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. >1AY, 1910. Subscribers are invited to make free inquiries of this publication, as well as of advertisers, regarding matters on which they desire infor- mation. The advent of nut kernels in markets is likely to relegate the habit of bleaching and coloring nuts to the rear and thus a contro- verted subject will go out of notice. The 1909 year book of the De- partment of Agriculture, under the head of new fruits, by W. A. Tay- lor, describes and illustrates the following named pecans, which are said to be promising varieties : Bradley, Claremont, Halbert, Mo- bile and Daisy. The early shipments of pecans or other nuts bring the highest prices. Mr. E. E. Risien, the veteran pe- can grower, of Texas, has made shipments as early as September nth. Who can with the next crop, equal or do better than this? We would like information as to early ripening varieties. Strange as it may seem, that an editor should hold stock in his own name in a corporation, and be paid regular dividends in cash on his holding, nothwithstanding the cor- poration is a pecan company with several hundred acres of trees not yet old enough to bear many nuts, still, that is the case with the edi- tor of the Nut-Grower. Since we have mentioned the matter, it may be well to add that we only have a small amount of this stock, that the dividends thus far have been but 7 per cent, and that it was earned by the nursery department of the company. Nuciculture, probably does not include in its scope, nuts which grow in the ground rather than on trees. However, such crops as peanuts and chufas, may well be listed as desirable adjuncts to the orchard list of intermediate crops. Both of them are well adapted to soil and climate conditions, which are suitable for the pecan. The chufa, or earth almond as it is sometiines called, has much to com- mend it, is easily grown, finds a ready market, but is most desirable for fattening hogs; making pork of fine flavor. It yields abundant- ly in sandy soil, making several times the value of corn grown on the same area. It is well for us to keep in mind that it is productive industry which adds to the wealth of the nation. The products of farms, mines and factories, yield new capital, while the accumulated wealth of individ- uals who speculate, trade or handle the products of the producers make their money to a great extent from the losses which producers and other speculators sustain. It does not take much wisdom to find out to which we belong, neith- er is It a difficult matter to know which is the most important. If there was not an army of produ- cers, there would be no business for the speculators, the middleman, or even the ligilimate and honest merchant. Railroad officials are quick to recognize the agencies which aid in developing their territory. The following extract from a personal letter by a well known Texas hust- ler, who is connected with the ".Sunset Route," illustrates this point : I appeciate the compliment and your kindness in continuing to send me the "Nut-Grower," and it is always a pleasure to recom- mend parties to subscribe to this interesting and useful publication. If you think I can render you any service at any time do not hes- itate to let me know. With my best wishes for your continued suc- cess, I remain, Yours very truly. H. P. Atwater, Industrial Agent. The new committee of the Na- tional Nut Growers Association on "Varietal Adaptation," is sending out a circular letter and blanks for gathering data from all sections of the pecan belt. The report of this committee will be given a proini- nent place on the program for the 1910 convention, as the subject is one of great importance. Practical education for the farm- er, and agricultural schools, in many states, are receiving much more at- tention now than was accorded this large and necessary element of our population a few years ago. There is work for the National Nut Growers Association in pressing the claims of nut culture and asking for liberal support for the experi- mental work which needs to be performed before the business can be advantageously embraced in school, college and correspondence school courses. J. W. Canada, Editor of South- ern Orchards and Homes, Houston Texas, said at the Albany Conven- tion : I have come to this great gather- ing of men interested in the plant- ing and cultivating of pecans and other nuts in order to learn for my- self what they are doing, and how they are doing it. I have come to Albany, the center of the pecan planting industry, in order to see for myself how these men are mak- ing thousands of acres of fine or- chards. I shall go away with knowledge gathered from these dis- cussions and these observaiions that will be worth hundreds, per- haps thousands of dollars to me in my own plantings, and, I trust, worth as much to the thousands of people who read my journal each month. A. C. Newell, of Oregon, in speaking of the clo.se relations ex- isting between nurserymen and or- chardists says : Since the days of their ancient and honorable origin there has always been a kindly feeling in the hearts of the nurservman and and the orchardist for each other. Engaged in kindred pursuits, their work possesses many points of similarity. The general na- ture of the work that must be done and the time that must elapse before definite results can THJB NUT-GHOWBl^ 73 be known, as well as the gener- al environment of the business, are so much alike. So much so is this that many nurserymen are largely engaged in fruit growing, while many whose principal business is orcharding are in the nursery business as a side line. The same class of ability that is required to make a success of the one is also neces- sary to bring satisfactory results in the other. Cornell University is taking a leading position in the study of nuts, and the following letter is of much interest in showing how spe- cific as well as general information is assembled : Dear Sir ; Under direction of the Department of Horticulture of Cornell University, I am mak- ing a study of the botanical and cultivated forms of Juglans regia (walnut). May I ask your as- sistance in collecting informa- tion? My purpose is (a) to study the botanj' and evolution of this valuable group of edible nuts in the older countries of the world, and(b) to supplement this history with an account of the commer- cial development of the walnut industry in this country with special reference to the adapta- tion and acclimatization of varie- ties to different soils and varying climatic conditions. I realize that in asking you to answer as far as you can the following questions, lam impos- ing upon your good nature and your time to a very considerable extent, but I trust you will feel that it will be my pleasure to reciprocate to the fullest extent by returning to those who have aided in the investigation such information as 1 may gather. Any information pertaining to this subject, will be gladly receiv- ed Trusting that you will answer the questions as outlined, and re- turn the sheet at your earliest convenience, I remain Yours sincerely in the interest of walnut culture, C. C. Vincent, In charge of walnut investigation for Department of Horticulture. Dr. J. J. Taylor, editor of the Medical Council, Philadelphia, Pa. has during the past two or three years made occasional reference to nut culture, as an interesting side- line for physicians. Many in- quiries, as well as numerous sub- scriptions, have come to us, the di- rect result of the items he publish- ed. Dr. Taylor evidently has been receiving inquiries which it is not convenient for him to answer, particularly as regards the respon- sibility and reliability of various horticultural enterprises, which are importuning physicians to invest in companies having offices in some Northern city, and pros- pects at distant points. His inves- tigations thus far do not seem to warrant his endorsement of pros- dects of this kind. In fact he says in a recent issue of his journal, that he has not found any of them paying dividends to the stockhold- ers, and advises physicians to make their investments near by, where they can know how their money is being used. He even has no re- sponse to his repeated requests for information, showing that any of these publicly promoted enterprises had ever paid a dividend. There can be no doubt as to the valuable service Dr. Taylor has rendered to the medical profession, but at the same time, from our view point there is some addition- al data to furnish, some account- ing for the negative results he ob- tained, desirable, before the subject is dismissed by so influential a medium as Dr. Taylor publishes. In the first place, medical men are easily reached by the profes- sional promoter, as Medical Direct- ories give the name, post office and information regarding practically every reputable physician in the country, while the orchard opera- tor who has a meritorious project, has but little difficulty in enlisting local capital when he can show the ability to handle it profitably. Thus the genuine orchard proposi- tion never or but seldom reaches the men who are flooded with those of a different character. Again, for the sake of argument we will concede that there are no commercial pecan orchards which have or are paying dividends, for this must be weighed in the scale of common sense and business judgment. Modern commercial pecan growing is very young as a business. As recently as six years ago, there was scarcely an orchard of budded or grafted trees. Any one familiar with the pecans knows full well that the trees must be at least six or eight years old before they are able to bear profitable crops, although a few nuts are of- ten found on four and five year- old trees. In the light of this state of the industry, it is readily seen that the time for dividends in pecan companies has not yet arriv- ed. Nowithstanding this admit- ted condition the planting of com- mercial orchards goes on with in- creasing rapidity, because it has been abundantly demonstrated by individual trees, as well as by small private orchard areas, that these modern trees are producer? of valuable crops of a choice concen- Perfection Nut Cracker PERFECTLY SIMPLE SIMPLY PERFECT.., Allows Use of Bowl Under End NECESSARY IN EVERY HOME PRICE $1.00 DELIVERED Cracks Pecans and other Nuts so Meats come out in Perfect Halves. Does its work quickly and well. Send us your order TO-DAIT. Money : Refunded if not Satisfactory. The DeWitt Supply Company, DeWitty - - Georgia. 74 THn A' ur^ c; /if ( ) u ii u trated food product, the demand for which is increasing rapidly, as shown by the large increase in nut importations. One other aspect of tiie case is the ideal way for investments in this business is not in the stocks or bonds of large companies, but rather in the personal and private holdings of orchards planted and cared for by competent and reliable employees. When worked down to the final analysis it simply means from a horticultural business view point, to do the right thing in the right way at the right time, and this requires a competent and conscientious performance of the initial work and live years of skill- ful attention. Personal Mention. WHirE'S5UDDINGT00L A Scientifir Instrument for the Propagation of Pecans, Hickories, Walmits, Chest- nuts, Persimmons and all other Trees, by the Annular, iScDii- Annular, Patch and Veneer Methods. Mr. E. F. Kemp, one of our Chicago subscribers, recently call- ed at the Ntit-Grower office, looked over the pecan situation, with the aid of the Editor's pointers, and took sundry snap-shots with his convenient kodak. Mr. Herbert C. White, of De Witt. Gu.. is President atid Horti- culturist of the Company owing the largest pecan grove which com- prises 3400 acres of trees. Mr. VVhite is financially interested in 3,500 acres of Pecans in adilition CO being Advisory Horticulturist for a number of private owners. J. B. Wight says: "Without the desire to pose as a prophet or the son of one, it is safe to predict that in twenty years from now there will be thousands who will be glad of the fact that the question as to where tomorrow's food and shelter are coming from is not worrying them atid that fear of poverty, that terror of old age, has lost its sting. These are they who years ago set pecan trees, and cared for them as I hey would a garden. FOR sale: GRAFTED PECAN TREES These trees are grafted from tlie beet bearing trees in iny grove, : : : : : VAN DEMAN, STUART and a dozen other choice va- rieties. Pecan nuts for sale in season. Apply to JOHN S. HORLBECK, Charleston, S. C. Several hundreds ot this Tool irt use in United States and abroad. Budding and Qraftiiii; Wcod of best varieties of Pecans. For particulars and prices, write HERBERT C WHITE, SEtTHE ntoTs SUCH \l TREESJ' DeWitt, Georgia. Mr. J B. WighCs Ohattaiioofra addres.'s, four SIX by nine inuh pases, wuh lifteeu huiidi-ed words. This is a careful and very non- ervative review of tlie comiuercial opportunities this nut offers, and supplies lust tin- in- formation prospective inve.s'tors desire Copies furnished at followinjj rates: 1,000 S4.SO SOO 2.50 250 I. so '00 .75 50 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries sell such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, o( best quality and best producing varieties. Some of the biggest. thinncst-sheBed nuts don't bear. Beware o( them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our Viiri»'tie« are Beat Gold Merdal awiirilctl ou el JumetloNvn Expos Handsome Pecan Catalog Free Griffing Bros Co Nurserymen Jacksonville. Florida We also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES Budded and Grafted , . , Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand lot tlu- best sizes and varieties of [5UDDED AND (VRAFI'ED PECAN TREES is far greater ihan the supply. ORDBil %m TO SAVE I)ISAPPOI\TtlE>T liM)t)-ll>10 PRICK I.IS'l': 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or ;(!4c;.oo per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each or 55 "" !'•-''' "^^ 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 tool size. So cents eacii, or 75-oo per 100 5 to 6 foot size. 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUR <;i;,VK.\.NTKK If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before fi'ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDCNDS— A( T NOW— ORDEK TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWiLt., Mitchell County, Georgia. THE, NUT-GKOWBH 75 Mere Mention. The pecan business is n bona fide substantial business in spite of the wildcat schemes and bogus companies that have been foisted upon it by unprincipled specula- tors. One of the most beautiful sights in the South to-day is an avenue of magnolia trees, one and a quar- ter miles long, through the center of the DeWitt Pecan Company's Pecan orchard at DeWilt, Ga. Magnolia trees in their fourth se;i- son having in some cases 25 per- fect blossoms. The horticultural management and development of this orchard of 350 acres is in the hands of Mr. H. C. White, of De- Witt, who is also one of the larg- est owners therein. I look for a rapidly growing ex- tension of all kinds of nursery business and for three reasons : First, because there is an increas- ing love of plants and desire to have them ; second, because the business of growing plants de- pends so closely on the results of scientific study, that the business must constantly tend to be open, clean and honorable; third because the growing intelligence of the people will constantly demand the best standards. It has within it- self the essential elements of self- purification and self development if it avails itself ot the science of knowledge at its disposal. — Prof. L. H. Baily. The Fruiting Age and Yield. Good budded or grafted trees of good prolific varieties properly planted and cared for under proper conditions, usually begin to bear a few nuts in five or six years after planting, and should produce a profitable crop in eight or ten years from planting, after which the yield increases rapidly, so that it is not only possible, but proba- ble that the orchard would produce in one year a crop that would sell for as much or more than the en- tire cost of growing the orchard, when the trees were 15 to 20 years old. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A * 'SQUARE DEAL" Guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, : : FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. News Items. Weather for April at Piney Park: Maximum, 89 degrees; minimum, 32; mean, 62 ; rainfall, 2.77 inches. J. B. Wight says, "So far as I have been able to examine the trees the Frotschers this year will have a good crop." Among new advertisements in this issue is the White's Budding Tool. The discriptive circular, which will be sent on application, is interesting as the season for bud- ding is now at hand. The Prairie Farmer, of Chicago, 111., calls attention to the proceed- ings of the Albany Convention, giving price, and address ot the Secretary. A high wind in South Georgia, on April 18, blew out a good many buds in top-worked trees, where the tieing up to supports had not been finished. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co. began business in 1895, this was largely increased in 1901, and the and the present company organized 1903. This is probably the oldest nui nursery in South Georgia. Dr. R. O. Graham, ot Bloom- ington. 111,, will be one of the speakers at the Mont icello Conven- tion next November, The twenty-third annual meet- ing of the Florida State Horticul- tural Society, was held at Orlando May 17-20. The Committee on Arrange- ments for 1910, The Executive Committee, of the Association, and several other Committees held a joint conference at Thomasvilie, April 2ist. V:irious matters of importance were discussed. The meeting was well attended. ¥mw Bmlml standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and t^ rafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. fiillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. aiLL. Mgr. ALBANY. OA, Bill \ FidAN mn The Best Investment that can uow be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper stiell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coa.«t of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserj'men were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the fluest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for tne coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L,. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, supei'luiend the planting of groves anywhere tu South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young gratted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts In any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts giveii special attention All grafting "wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans th l.s season especially line. Send yonr orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. 76 THB NUT^ai^OWlSR REPORTS Piney Park Sketches. PKCAN SCAB. The first planting of pecans at Piney Park, was six seedling trees grown from Texas seed obtained from a neighbor in the fall of i8S8. The fourth tree in the single row in which they were all planted, made the best growth of anj', and is now much larger than any of the five which still occupy the row. It began bearing at about ten years, producing a small nut of a fair qualit}'. For several years it bore so well that the tree was named the "Little Wonder." About five years ago the tree be- gan scabbing, and continued to show the disease with increasing severity until 1909. No nuts were matured during this period, but the tree continued to grow. This season the tree shows a much im- proved condition. The foliage is normal in appearance, and a fine crop of nuts are looking healthy and are growing vigorously. It appears to be recovering frmn the disease. It was not given any treatment, except that the -past spring it was, in common with other trees, given a more liberal application of fertilizer than it had received for several years previous. Financial Statement. By Secretary of National Nut Growers' Association for 1909. Receipts. Enclosed postage, 40 Sale of Proceedings, 21. So Advertising, 88 00 Membership fees and dues, . 68.00 Loans by J. B. Wight, 75-oo C. P. Close, Treas, 14c;. 40 Collection at Albany Con. .30.30 Toial, $429.10 Disbursements Balance due Jan. ist. 1909. 56.£;i Paid for postage, 3^-37 Sundries Expense 32.23 Paid for Printing, 166.70 Salary 58.60 Paid J B. Wight on Loan .50.00 Paid to Treas. at Albany, 42.00 Total .$442.41 Due the Secretary, $13-31 In 1905 Mr. D. Galbreith. of New Orleans, reported that he had 1. 000 trees in his grove, and 800 of them weie budded and grafted. 25 trees were then bearing their third crop. All of these trees shoudl be in bearing now, and might furnish some interesting data. Opportunities for Pecan Culture, Etc. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 67) Pecan culture admirably adapts itself to three classes ot growers : First, those who desire a few trees for home use, or for supplying lo- cal demand. It is to these that the greatest relative returns are availa- ble ; due, primarily to a personal care manifested in all phases from the selection of the trees to the final disposition of their products. It is not uncommon to find instances where a few door yard trees j'ield sufficient nuts for the family use and enough more to meet the annu- al state, county and city taxes on the home. It is under such circum- stances that we see the pecan tree at its best. It delights in the home atmosphere, and there yields its harvest with a lavish hand. In the next place, the pecan will abundantly reward the small or- chardist who plants a few acres to supplement other farming opera- tions. Under such conditions the orchards will thrive under the per- sonal care that may be given in a measure impossible with large plantations It is this class who may hope for the greatest returnsi proportionate to the investment and care rendered. The planter who establishes a private market for su- perior nuts derived from his well- tended ten or twenty acres will be the one to fully embrace the oppor- tunities offered in this section by the culture of pecan trees. Finally, the pecan is proving at- tractive to the large grower and the promoter for production on a large scale, and if there be any section or any product that can be combined to yield successfully to operations of this nature, surely pecan culture in this region has claim to first consideration. Wildcat promotion, however, will only clog the wheels of pro- gress. If experience with other large horticultural enterprises is of value, we can never hope to have abnormally high profits through projects of this kind, and the dis- appointments are sure to reflect adversely on the business founded on a false hope. I believe the large orch.ards can be made to pay and pay handsome- ly, but it is idle to argue that a thousand acres will multiply the profits of an acre a thousandfold ; of necessity the yield is proportion- ately less, and the cost of mainten- ance is likewise increased. Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. We also carry a {jeneral line of Fruit aud Oruanit^utal Trees. Barnwell Pecan Groves o^rBud: ded and (irafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON. :-: :-: GEORGIA. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varietie.s Not the Most-Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT.Prop. Ocean Springa.Miss rxi r_T xp NUT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers; Fruit Growers, Nursery- men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medium it is particularly valuable, as no |>addmg of circulatiou figures fixes the rates. Descriptive circulars sent on request. Tlie Nut-Grower Co. Poulan, Georgia THB, NUT-anawBH 11 LETTERS For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., ThoinasYille.Ga. -LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Tho»e Who Want to Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure. Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. SUCCESS .NATURAL SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. KGIHTKL mU^ NURSERIES OCEAN SPaiNGS MISS. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is my Specialty. Budded and (jrafted Trees of I he best varieties for sale. VVrile for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, "gL^RCA PROCEEDINGS The following volumes of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Louis, 1904, 25c per copy Scran ton, 1906, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907, 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 50c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, GEORGIA Prof. Craig's Letter to Albany Convention. Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 9, 1909. Dr. J. F. Wilson, Secretary Nut Growers As's'n., Albany, Ga. Dear Mr. .Secretary : — It is, with deep regret that I find myself forced to forego the pleasure and inspiration incident upon attend- ing the conference of the National Nut Growers Association. The urgent and necessary departmental duties consequent upon the open- ing of the University year prohibit my absence at this time. May I ask you therefore on behalf of one, who on the score of his great per- sonal interest, and further, by reason of some investments in pecan lands in the vicinity of Albany, would more than any- thing else at the present time esteem the privilege of assisting your hosts on this occasion, to present my heartiest good wishes for a successful meeting, pleasant and profitable in every respect. May I add further that as each year goes by my faith in the suc- cess of pecan growing as a great orchard industry in adapted re- gions strengthens and deepens. Only yesterday in conversation with the members of the visiting commission to this country by the J.ipanese boards of trade, I was as- asured by these gentlemen that in vegetable-eating Japan there is a large market for nuts rich in pro- tein, like the pecan and walnut, I venture to say further that the National Nut Growers' Association to-day is in much better condition than many ot the older fruit grow- ing associations ot the country. This Association represents a new industry which is thus far untram- melled by misleading and mistaken custom and practice and has no guides in the way of false tradi- tions to break away from. The present is wholly ours, and the fut- ure of the industry is what we shall make it. It is ours to estab- lish good standards and rational practices. These are our privi- leges as well as our duties. May we live up to them. In reference to public aflairs, I am wondering, in view of the large number of new varieties of pecans and other nuts given in our trade lists, whether it would not be en- tirely worth while and desirable to organize a committee to pass on such new varieties. It would be the business of this committee to examine into the merits of each new kind, giving the history, to- gether with any unbiased discus- sion and opinion as to amateur or commercial value. Perhaps you have such a committee appointed, in which case the suggestion is en- tirely superfluous. Again expressing my profound regret at my enforced absence, but feeling sure that so far as lies in their power, Mr. H. G. White and Mr. G. H. Tomlinson, officers of the South Georgia and Albany, Georgia, properties, will do all in their power to promote the wel- fare, pleasure and general success of your meeting, believe me, Yours Sincerely. John Craig. This is a peaceful nation, but in the decade mentioned It spent for war purposes %3, 02 1, 390, 306, or forty-three-times as much as was allotted to agriculture. Yet our farms have for generations been our most efTective defense against aggressions by other nations. No power dare so war on us as to check the flow of the mighty river of life that flows from America to feed the Old World. Europe could not permit such stoppage, and live. A mere threat to do so would insure peace. The fact that pecan trees do not come true to seed is now generally too well known to scarcely need repeating at this time, but in re- gard to this tact a veteran grower has made the followieg interesting statement: "Out of 10,000 seed- ling trees now of bearing age, grown from nuts of the same trees, no two have borne nuts identical with each other and no tree has produced nuts which were identi- cal with those planted. * » * So far as it is known, a single in- stance in which the seed has come true, is not recorded — C. A. Reed. 78 THE, NUT-GHaWBht SOCIETIES Among the recent additions in our trial ground, were several trees received from Mr. H. E. V:m- Deman's Feriday plantation. The shipment embraced a Carrollton Hickan, a Clearmont pecan and two San Jose walnuts, one on Jugulous Rupestria stock and the other J. Nii^ra. All have started into growth . Report of Publicity Committee. The work of this comniiltee, which was begun in 1907, has been continued during the past conven- tion year to the extent of available funds at command, wiiich enabled the mailing of seven editions of Nut Notes and tiie publishing of 1,500 copies of a four-page leaflet descriptive of the Association and its work. There are over a hun- dred prominent agricultural papers, and twentj'tive other journals and individuals who use tiiem in a pub- lic wav. The Secretary anil se\er- al members use many copies by en- closing them to correspondents. This cnstom can be extended, as copies are furnished member? at nominal cost. The matter sent out is concise. News items regarding the industry, such as will interest the masses, and put in form for convenient use by busy editors. The great bulk of current mention of nut matters are directly traceable to these notes, which find their way into manv papers, and are frequently copied and credited to other papers. There can be no question but this work is producing beneficial results in widely separated locali- ties. All this is accomplished at an absurdly small cost, as will be seen from the account which forms a part of this report. The funds for this special work are derived from special contribu- tions made by a few of our most enterprising members. The bulk of this fund used during the past year was derived at the (-hatlanoo- ga Convention. At that lime your connniltee asked for .$65.00 to cov- er cost of the same. We recommend that this work be continued and enlarged to such extent as proffered funds will per- mit. That, if thought advisable, a subscription be started at this session with a view of raisin>r a fund of !i!75.oo. That members, nurserymen and promoters be ask- ed to place orders for copies, and use them iis enclosures with their regular correspondence. Respectfully submitted, J. F. Wilson. A. C. Davknpout, H. A. Bah HOWS, Committee on Publicity. Test Orchard. In addition to the test orchard operations, which the editor has in hand, he also has a trial grounds at his home place, in which the work is under daily observation. Thus far but seldom and brief refer- ence has been made to his personal tARipER AGENT; "Ranker* bicycle furnished by us. Our agentj INEALHTOV/:i d district to . . ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model **RangeT" bicycle furnished by us. Our ai^ents everywliere are making money fast. IVriie /or /uU Particulars and special offer at once. NO MONKY RE until you receive and appnyve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. without a cent deposit m zd\ZT\c^, prepay freight , and allow T-EN DAYS* FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish tO keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and^<7w ivillnot be out one cent, FAPTADV PRirPQ ^^ furnish the liig^hest grade bicycles it is possible to make rHwlVnl rniUtO at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $io to $25 middlemen's profits by buying- direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- antee behind your bicycle. I>0 NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any Price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factorjf ^ices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. VAII Ulll I DC ACTAIIICUCn when you receive our beautiful catalogue and TUU HILL DC AdlUniOnLU study our superb models at the monder/uHy lew Prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We are satisfied with Ji.oo profit above factory cost, BICYClIE dealers, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at F double^^^our prices. Orders filled the day received. feECOND HAND RICYCLES.. We do not regrularly handle second hand bicycles, but ' usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out _^^_^priiriii)tlv at prices ranging from 83 to ©8 or SIO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. f^AR^TrD DDAIfCe single wheels, Imported roller chains and pedals* parts, repairs and l/UAalCn-DnAIVLdt equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. 8 so HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF SELF-HEALING TIRES ^ ^"""^ """ Notice the thick rubber trend "A" and puncture strips "U" and "D," also rlna strip " H'* to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make— SOFT. ELASTIC aud £ASY RIDINQ. The regular retail price of these tires is SS.30 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $4. SO{cash with order$4J5), NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS. Tacks or Glass will not let the ftir out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. OESORIPTIOMt Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality oi rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allow- nig the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satis- Bedcustomers stating that their tires haveonly been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric oa the tread. The regular price of these tires is ^.30 per pair.but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only J4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. oa approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price 84.65 per pair) if you send FULL CASU WITH UllDCU and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk in ELuding us an order as the tires may, be returned at OUK expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. __, »^„,» mMrm> ^ir%^C don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of ir YUU ImbtU I irlt^ Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. _ _ MMn'T tmtM ir but write us a postal today. UO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle 00 Iwtfl WvMli or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful oilers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L MEAD CYCLE COMPi^NV. CHICAGO. ILL work, but possibly in the future, tlie lessons and experiences this trial ground has yielded, will be drawn upon more liberal. The general nursery work which the editor started in 1888, and known locally as the Piney Park Nursery, for a number of years has been con- fined largely to pecans, but owing to the advertising patronage be- stowed by nut nurserymen, the en- ] tire product of the nursery has been ( used for our own private orchard j work. We do not expect to have any pecan stock to sell for years to come, so we may under the head- ing "'Piney Park Sketches," de- scribe sundry items of general in- terest. G-t»gfC§-a/J Franquette and May- rUI ICU ette Walnut Trees and Scions. Frost resistant. Guaran- teed true to name. Scions, $3.00 per 100; trees 3-4 ft. 90c each; 4-10 ft., $1.10 each. Tribble Brothers, ^c^tuPorTa. TUB NUT-aNOWnN 79 Books and Catalogues. The Velvet Beax, by JohnM. Scott, Bulletin No. I03 of the Floridii Agric. Experiment Sta- tion, Gainesville, is of interest to orchardists. Roses, The Leedle Floral Co., of Springfield, Ohio, List for Spring of 1910. The Fi-orida Central Rail- road, Thomasville, Ga., is send- ing out a neat folder, descriptive of territory and resources along its line in South Georgia, and West Florida. This is a famous pecan section. Transactions of the Mass. Horticultural Society, for 1910 part II has 150 pages and contains a variety of interesting matter. Peanuts, Bulletin, No. 130 of Experiment Station at Agricultur- al College, Miss, by F. B. Ferris, is of interest to Farmers and Ilor- ticulturalists. Proceedings of the Oregon Horticultural Society, Twen- ty fourth annual meeting at Port- land. A pamphlet of 75 pages containing reports, addresses, etc. Two papers on walnuts in that state are of interest. Frank VV. Powers is Sec'y, Portland. ^ Most housewives possess a food chopper, and for a few cents an extra fine cutter, called the nut butter grinder, can be had for mak- ing one's own nut butter. The same attachment when screwed on rather loosely, makes a nne nut meal, which can be used in a great variety of dishes, to their great ad- vantage. This nut meal may be eaten freely bv dyspeptics, who could not digest them otherwise, but it must be remembered that nuts are a very concentrated food, and only a small quantity is needed to sup- ply the body with the necessary amount of both protein and fat. "The so-called lichi nut, which is really a dried fruit surrounded by a nutlike shell and not unlike a raisin in flavor, is a favorite in China, and has become common in this country," f »i>ni ti^^uTT iinr^itui innmn' ii'i"»i'>n »mtnni »ni inniFf'fmiTH'Ti flvt iiinniTf'g ^Sj v|:UMMIT vjy CHOICE V^ NURSERY SrOC^ UR5ERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors MONTICELLO. >^r^^i^^ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses '■ —OUR SPKCIALTIES The Admiral Schley Pecan Z' "'^^^L°f i lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: "■' ' ■ ■ •■ •' - •' ■' ■' ■' •' ' ' ■' ' ■' •' ■' •' •• ■' ■' ' ■' •' * ' •• •' •' •" •' ■' •• ■^■'^•^-^■^ ' Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season |t>IO=I9ll Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, "-^igfiSpT'' THE LOUlSlflNft NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, WaHatrci- and Proprieter, .IKANlORETTli:. - - L< HTISIAXA. Headquarters for Budded and drafted Pecan Trees in the Soirth- west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lament, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF =^ Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA 80 THB NUT»GHaWBH Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBEKS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale, Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates, We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: GEORGIA. 83 THH NUT-aii^ ^ ii iimi ii (I inHK^HTirii'ini »i ii|i>' mini iii|«<" ii»Trpw<'fi^'ii'>»">i''i r' ii '">'<»'<' l^ij CUMMIT ^W CHOICE \^- NURSERY STOCK URSERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors MONTICELLO. "'^■-'^^^ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses \ —OLIR SPP^CIALTIKS- The Admiral Schley Pecan ^h^e'^ ^^T^^ri \ lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: »riii[tiiipHM*i>inn*intitt«iHiin*i n rfiiiWii' ' ■"•■ ■^■'■■' ■• tf I' ■\ f f ■' ■' ■' ' ■"■ ■' • ■'^''- ' Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1910=1911 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, «M'fl.ilfpVT'' THE mmm nut nurseries J. F. JONES, Man.'iger and Proprieter, .IK.^Nl<:RETTi!:. - - LOITISIANA. Headquarters for Budded and drafted Pecan Trees in the Soirth- west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pe<-an culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. Wt will gladly help any wishing to locale here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF = Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable L;ind, Skilled Horticultural and Business M;inagement and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit ;ind letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. glF"For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA 82 THB NUT^GROWBH standard European varieties like the Mayette which is the best wal- nut, or the Marbot or Franquette which are close seconds." If peo- ple will do this, then mark some of their own specimens and speci- mens of the standard type, and pass them around the table, allow- ing several people to decide, with- out knowing in advance which nut is which, the question can be set- tled at home without referring to any one who is supposed lo be an authority. So far as chestnuts are concern- ed, the standard for quality would be found among the small sweet American, the small sweet Korean, or the small sweet Japanese, and all of the larger kinds are to be compared with these for quali- ty. It is my opinion that we have got to raise small chestnuts for quality, and large ones more for food purposes only, and chiefly for culinary use. In view of the fact that a great many growers of walnuts and of cliestnuts are going to be dissap- pointed, because their activities were based upon statements made good natu redly by men recognized as authorities, it seems to me that warning ought to be given right now beiore much harm is dune. The pecan people have had the sit nation to meel, have met it vveii, and standard varieties have been selected as such by competent com- mittees. The same ground must be gone over with every other American raised nut. 'vVe are on the verge of an enor- mous increase in nut raising to meet the food situation, and thous- ands of acres of land are already set out to nut orchards. After a very short experience with the pecan, nurserymen got in line with the few best varieties and these were selected after careful search among whole forests of ■need- ling trees. I liave examined several himdred varieties of English walnuts from American seedlings, and from trees grafted from European cuttings, and have as yet seen only two wal- nuts worthy of propagation. One of these is a nut of large size, high quality and thin shell, but the tree is a shy bearer. The other is almost :oo small to become popu- lar for marker purposes, but has other qualities in its favor. Many of the Americon grown English walnuts which are being pushed bv the owners of trees are distinctly inferior, the chief fault being in- sipidity, acridity or toughness. Some of the chestnuts which are being •'promoted" have at this early date met an overstocked mar- ket. A committee from the National Nut Growers Association should take charge of the entire subject- and the trees ought not to be prop, agated until the nuts have been passed upon by men who have no interest beyond that of the wefare of American nuciculture. Essentials of Commercial Orcharding (CONTINUED FHOM PAGE St.) lies of orchard site, danger from forest fires, exposure to high winds and general environs, including one's neighbors, should be well considered in deciding upon a par- ticular site. The largest commer- cial pecan orchards are all at pres- ent being located in the lower South, where the annual average rainfall is adequate and where there is a long growing season, en- abling the trees to reach maturity, or bearing age, in a few years. As a general principle it is advanta- geous to locate in a neighborhood where the industry is already es- tablished and where in consequence there is a certain amount of labor experienced in pecan work availa- ble. Another cogent reason being that the marketing of nuts will be greatly facilitated by the quanti- ties being produced in a given neighborhood, whicli will bring buyers froin the large wholesale and nut cracking honses. Pecans are in such, and increasing demand, since tlieir great utilitarian value has been proved, that "'Mahomet will come to the Mountain" and there is nothing to fear from the "Commission man" for an indefi- nite number of years to come. VARIETIES Locality and site having been determined upon we must then sat- isfy ourselves as to which varieties of the best sorts or most promising in the locality. Unless one can see for themselves or willing to be guided by the experience of others, an appalling number of varieties should be planted and impatient years go by whilst this costly work is going on — unsuitable varieties being eliminated and changed by top-working to desirable sorts, fortunately can be accomplished on a tree of any age or size. It can- not be denied that a vast amount of work of this kind is ahead as thousands of worthless varieties have been disseminated, but liie list is growing less as time goes on. It is not to be disputed that some varieties are doing better in some soils and localities than in their place of origination, hearing ear- lier and more regularly and with better filled and better flavored and richer meats. Striking instances could be cited. In this connection I advance a new thought and that is that perhaps the beginner should decide upon the variety or varie- ties he prefers and find a location in which his favorites are at the time of investigation giving the best results. However, to follow up this line of action is neither pos- sible nor practical with most per- sons. The time may come when a discriminating public will be willing to pay a higher price for some variety or varieties than oth- ers and the districts producing these in the greatest quantities and at the least expense will then be sought, as has been the history of other branches of horticulture and agriculture. Beginners should therefore consult those experienced in testing varieties in a given lo- cality before plunging headlong into pecan orcharding and plant- ing anything and everything the ignorant or unscrupulous nursery- man or tree vendor who may be loaded up with good, bad and in- different varieties suggests. The terms "Our Selection," "Surplus Stock" I-, fraught with danger to the unsophisticated. TREES. Varieties having been decided upon, the best grown trees should be secured, regardless of ordinary cost and planted as early in the winter as possible. The grading of the pecan trees in tiie past has been lo a large extent slack and tiie methods applied to many fruit trees have not been used, except in a few instances. It cannot be too strongly insisted upon that trees thould not be bought merely by height, but by height and age in conjunction, with adequate roots and other important specifications. I know of cases this past winter where two to three and three to four feet trees, five and six years old and of inferior varieties, dis- carded for various reasons by in- formed planters and principled nurserymen, have been sold at high prices by a much advertised con- cern. Such trees are "runts" and are likely to ever remain so and should be destroyed rather than dupe unsuspecting persons who may have spent their last dollar, or gone into debt, to buy surh trash, expecting to provide for old age 'i with the fruit therefrom. The specious wording of circulai letters and the ingenuous advertizing methods of some nurseries is not to their credit. Fortunately' they are in the minority. (OONTINDEI> IN .lULY NUMBER.) THB. \u r-amjy^'iSM 83 Away from Home to Learn. By J. W. Canada. (CONTINUED FROM MAV NUMBKR.) I sliall not Mtlenipt a review of any of the addresses and discus- sions iiere. Enough that we — all of us — carry the points of tiie va- rious discussions home with us and act on them. Enough that we go away with a greater entiiusiasm and a keener interest in the plant- ing and cultivating of pecans, and a more intelligent idea of iiow this should be done. As a man deeply interested in the development of every phase of ihe agricultural and horticultural life of our Southern States I want to impress one fact upon all who hear me, and that is the fact that we need to do more to interest the men and the money in the North- ern States in our country. Pecan planting is destined to become one of the great lines of endeavor and profit in all the Gulf Coast States. The conditions are right. There is a demand for all the nuts that can be grown, and at constantly in- creasing . prices. The lands are abundant and cheap, The invest- ment is a stable and a certainly pro- fitable one. There needs to be, in order to develop it fully, the very best sort of advertising and the bringing of this industry of pecan growing to the attention of men in other states who are ready, even willing and anxious to be convin- ced of the desirability of such in- vestments. A gathering like this, a state- ment of actual results obtained by pecan growers, who have now passed the experimental stage, will do more than all else to bring our industry, to which every one of us is putting money and brains and effort, to the attention of others. A tine start has been made here as the tens of thousands of fine bear- ing trees in this country show. Similar beginnings, on smaller scales, have been made in many other places in this and other South- ern States. The planting of pe- cans has really begun, and the growing for market of a consider- able quantity of pecans of the best varieties will be an established fact in a few years. Each year sees an advance in the |irice of the native nuts of Texas ami Louisiana and other states. Each year sees a greater demand for the best varie- ties for a special trade which will grciw as the supply grows. I am frequently asked, in view of seemingly large acreages of these varieties in certain localities, if there will not be such a supply in a few \ ears that the price will not be a remunerative one. The day will never come when the South can or will raise enough good pe- cans to make an over-supply. The demand grows by what it feeds on. The pecan is recognized as the best nut of all that grow. As it becomes belter known and known to more people, the demand for it will increase and the demand for the best varieties, atnong a class of people who are willing and able to pa}' any price for what they want, will always take up all the good pecans that can be grown. New uses and new sales for pecans are coming up every day. The area of native pecan trees is not widening; lather it is narrowing bv the using of lands for other pur- poses. The increased demand for nuts must be supplied by the plant- ings that are made. These plant- ings are being made by such men as I see gathered here. Thev will reap the rewards of their foresight and effort in the growing of one of the staple articles of commerce, I li ive come a long way to see the pecan groves about Albany, and to meet with the pecan grow- ers gathered here from man v states. The coming has been a wii-e invest- ment on my part and I fiel sure that every man here feels as I do. I am sure that every man who is here will go home and plant more pecans and urge his friends and neighbors to do likewise. Barnwell Pecan Groves Z'nui ded and <^rafted trees "f the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees Ornamental Shrubbery =ALSO= Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DE.SCRIP T I VE CAT ALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSERY Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber, Pres. J. E. Barber. Scc'ty. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -'•- -'- Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. 84 THB NUT-GHOWBM WALNUTS Walnut in Southwest Texas. Harvey C. Styles, Raymondville, Texas. There is only one walnut (Jug- lans) indigenous to Southwest Texas. This is Jughms nigra, but of a type quite distinct from the common black walnut of the North, East and South, and further classi- fied as rupestris and still furtiier west it is by some botanists consid- ered another type and called Jug- lans (nigra) rupestris California. Its importance to us lies in the fact that its habitat is much further south than the common black wal- nut, in arid, semi-tropic sections, and while the latter does not find congenial conditions with us in Southwest Texas, yet this one en- dures easily the condilions found in the Southwest generally, and we find it throughout Southwest Tex- as, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California. In the latter State it is on the dry chalk hills, in sections getting almost no rainfall, yet maintaining a strudy, healthy existence, and when pliinled in the deep rich valleys, with irrigation, makes a noble tree, sometimes ninety feet high and four or five feet in diameter of trunk. I iind it also still further south, in the arid parts of semi-tropic Mexico. Its \vood is yellowish brown, hard, beautiful, but not so valuable as that of the common black walnut. It makes, however, rather more pleasing furniture, not being so dark nor so heavy. The nut is smaller and less cor- rugated— sometimes almost smooth, and thinner shelled. The kernel is large and very sweet, though in some sections it is said to have a bitter and biting taste.. It is a very handsome tree, well worth growing for its beauty, shade and truit, but its great value lies in its use as a stock, on which to work the English (properly per- sian) varieties — Juglans regio Its value for this is amply proven by trees growing in nurseries and by grafting great old trees — some three feet in diameter. On that root English walnuts are succeed- ing in parts of California and Ari- zona, where they failed utterly on their own roots. Schattenberg, our well known student-horticulturist, has also well proven it at Boerne, Texas, where he has made it carry fine English walnut tops and mature good fruit, but with him, as elsewhere in South and West Texas, the Eng- lish walnut on its own root does no good, or dies in a few years. The English walnut root is very intolerant of mineral salt-soils, even at considerable depth, and the trees, even after growing well for several years, will die back when the roots reach such soil-strata. On the other hand, this repestris is found almost only in a natural state on strongly mineralized soils, and in hot arid regions. Juglans, the common black wal- nut, is also an acceptable stock on which to work the English wal- nut, but I doubt its adaptability for that use under arid country condi- tions, even with irrigation. Still it may do for moist soils entirely free from minerals. While I have no doubt of the success of the English walnut on certain adapted soils in Southwest Texas if they are grafted on this rupestris root and properly irriga- ted (for we have proofs beyond qi- est ion,) yet I regard the pecan as by far the most valuable nut tree for our use. Not oniv was the walnut a prince among woods, but it was a nut bearer, a furnisher of food. The gathering of the nuts afforded one of the chief delights of childhood. There the children gathered in the golden days of jolly autumn to make the woods resonant with their laughter. I'nder the spread- limbs of the walnut, on the velvety greensward many a love vow was plighted, many a romance begun that lingered Ihrougli all the years of after life. The walnut, too, was the favorite home of the squir- rels. There, of all places, he lov- ed to linger, ligh'ing up the limbs with his sprightly springing and lending ineffable grace bv his ini- mitable poses. How sweet the green nuts sinelled as the children rolled them in their hands and how delicious the matured kernel when cracked out by the vvinler fireside. The hickory trees deserve notit-e, the beech and chestnut tree lent ple'asure to the seekers after nuts, and the oaks with their acorns .at- tracted the wild pigeons in court- less millions, but above and beyond them all in solid worth and endur- ing qualities must be placed the strudv walnut. Pecan Trees cfX j THE LEADING VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, °sj?:.,if;;?." Nuts for Profil fssTag^s^Sul^ trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15. Orlando, Fla. WHirE'S BUDDING TOOL A Scientific Instrument for the Propagation of Pecans, Hickories. Walmits, Chest- nuts, Persimmons and all other Trees, hy the Annular, Semi- Annular, Patch and Veneer Methods. Several hundreds of this Tool in use in United States and abroad. Budding and OraftinK Wood of best varieties of Pecans. For particulars and prices, write HERBERT C WHITE, Dewitt, Georgia. BEST VARIETIES Write for Price List. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK, : Hartwell, Qa. standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and ti'rafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees of reliable known varieties. Our catalog con- tains Information on seleetisg, planting, cul- ture, etc., and i9 free for the asking Grafiwood for sale ; our orchards contain over fortv named varieties. H. S. (iRAVES. PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. 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You are Always Welcome to see the wonderful "Standard" Rotary whether you buy or not. See it TODAY. You will be surprised and delighted With its many advantages. THE STANDARD SEWING MACHINE CO., Clavaland, Ohio. SUCCESS NATURAI. SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear andnever failed to flUat both ends with kernels of best quality. BKlllTKh ?EU\ NURSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS MISS. CHESTNUTS The chestnut has been almost completely exterminated over ex- tensive areas adjacent to the city of New York by a fungus known as Valsonectria parasitica. It causes patches of the bark to die by attacking the cambium and other soft tissues of the bark, and ex- tends in all directions until the branch or trunk is girdled. This leads to the death of those parts above the girdling, and in this way if the main trunk is attacked the entire tree may be killed. The disease attacks the bark on the twigs, branches, and trunk with- out respect to its thickness. How the fungus gains entrance is uncer- tain, but inoculation experiments seem to show that it is able to enter only through injuries to the bark. The affected bark has a blackened appearance, is somewhat shrunk- en, and after a time is apt to be thickly covered with projecting brown, or orange, or greenish yel- low colored bodies, which are about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter at the bas^, often long and twisted or curled, and taper to a slender tip. These are the fruit- ing bodies of the fungus, and are very characteristic of this disease when the weather is moist enough for their formation. The disease has already spread south to Bedford county, Va., west to Lancaster county and Noith- umberland county. Pa., and north to Massachusetts. The Japanese chestnut is in general resistant, al- though single trees of this species have taken the disease. Immunity tests of all known varieties of chestnuts are now in progress by this Department. No adequate preventive seems to be known at present, so that this disease is an especially threatening one in the Eas'.ern States. A similar disease has been noted by the writers upon the Spanish oak in the Appalachians, especial- ly in Virginia and Western North Carolina. This disease is mani- fested in the drooping of the leaves and their ultimate drying up, caused by a stoppage in the water supply in the branches by an ap- parently undescribed species of Cenangium. — From Bulletin 149, U. S. Dept. Agr. How the Horticulturist Can Pro- tect and Encourage Birds to Stay Around the House. Many of our valuable birds are quite at home around the farm buildings and grounds. By build ing bird houses for the blue-birds, wrens, martins and swallows, the farmer will encourage them to remain where they will be useful to him. Build boxes with small holes for entrance for the wrens or the English sparrow will drive them away. Allow the swallows and Phoebe to build under the eaves or on the rafters of the barn. Do not have a lot of useless cats around to kill the birds, for birds are of much more value than the average cat. Never allow birds to be shot on the farm. All insect-eating and weed-eat- ing birds should be protected by law, and in most Northern states they are so protected. In many states, however, the dove and meadow lark are considered as game birds, and are only protected dur- ing a part of the year. This is a bad state of affairs for both of these are valuable birds and worth much more alive than dead. Chil- dren should be tanght the value of birds and encouraged to study their habits. H. C. Thompson, Assistant Horticulturist Mississip- pi Agricultural and Mechani- cal College. Not only are birds of value as in- sect destroyers, but many feed largely on weed seeds. Among the seed-eaters may be mentioned the doves, finches, sparrows, bobo- links, blackbirds and others. From examination of many stomachs it has been found that during the winter the sparrows live almost en- tirely on weed seeds. They would eat at least one-fourth of an ounce per day. At this rate, and count- ing only 20 sparrows to the square mile, and there are a great many more, counting all the species, they would consume over 10,722 pounds per day in the state of Mississippi. For two hundred days in the year they would consume over i,oUED FROM MAY NUMBER.) We are situated between the two regions of principal origination of varieties, the Mississippi Valley and the Gulf coast of the east, and the Brazos, Colorado, San Saba and other streams of West Texas, where the leading Texas varieties have originated. I am growing the leading varie- ties from both these regions and believe that we can succeed with either or both, though in using the Mississippi Valley and Gulf coast varieties, care will have to be exer- cised, as some of these do not fill out well when removed from the alluvial lands upon which they originated. I think, however, that these eastern pecans have made as a rule some more vigorous growth for me than the West Texas varieties, but the different situations of my trees and their environment may account for the difference up to this time, and the final results may be differ- ent. However, a few of the leading varieties of these two classes have been fruited already in East Texas, and many will probably come in this year, and one can easily secure varieties that he can safely plant, and he cannot lose in planting any kind of pecan tree, for, even should it not be the very best, it will be much better than none, and can if need be, be top worked to a well known better variety later on. Our yards and lawns can be made beautiful with fine trees, giving shade and producing the most toothsome, nutritious nuts for home comfort and luxury, with some to spare for a money crop. Hickor3' groves now of little or no value, can in a few more years be converted into orchards more valuable than California's orange groves, and become a source of wealth and prosperity to the owner and to the country. It is not necessary for me to dis- cuss with the members of this asso- ciation the importance and advan- tage of nut culture. You have already reached con- clusions on the subject, as every one will who gives it any thought. You know that all food stuffs are getting dearer all the time, and that the world is calling for more and better food each year, as the cities and great manufacturing and commercial centers grow and mul- tiply faster than the producing population and lay fresh burdens upon them each successive year. Not only this but the tendency of mankind is to use the best, most healthful and most nutritious foods, and all that is required to make them consume enormous quantities of nature's most perfect and high- est grade food, nuts, is a sufficient supply of same, and no fears need be entertained as to an over-pro- tion in this or future ages, for the great body of mankind has not yet even tasted the king of all nuts, the pecan in its best form. The possibilities to Texas, and especially to East Texas, along this line can hardly be imagined, much less realized. We could easily in a few years add another crop to this favored region, to rival the great cotton crop that brings in its millions of dollars. If each family in Rusk county would put out and bring into bear- ing half dozen fine pecan trees, they would in a generation add more wealth to tlie county than it now contains. Just think of it. why we sell our lands at low prices and go to less favored regions to build up our fortunes, vvhen we have a land of so many advantages and possibili- ties, with a soil and climate pro- ducing so abundantly of every lux- ury needed for human consumption. We should simply make use of the abundance nature has placed in our reach ; to take the lead in development, progress and perma- nent prosperity. Plant pecans, convert hickories into pecans, beautify your home, and at the same time, promote wealth, comfort and ease. There are other things to do, of course, but these will greatly aid in our material welfare and pros- perity. 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Box St. No. Town State ISSH 3SS5BSSS^^SES^^ riS BSSSSSB5 aSHSaSHSSaHaSdSHSHSHSaSE T///5 SUT-aROWBhi 87 CLASSIFIED NEW AND RARE NUTS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column we pi ve place to advertisements from siitHcihers who have < orchard, Farm Friniucts, r.ive Stock or Implements to sell or excliange, us well as make inquiries for thingcs wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are ur;:ed to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. CamontSidnwalks, Buildings, Etc.— T^oitland cement sidewalk construction ; concrete block buildings; making; and layinf^; concrete blocks; estimating, profits etc. Practical book for con- tractors giving!: derails in full. Second euitiou. Postpaid 5UC. De Graff Pub Co , Peoria, 111. BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. CtfLvER Poultry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Neli. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purp4)ses euppiied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts iurnishe•< ITICK When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are reques' ed to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but If you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. JU.XK. 1910 The Standard Pecan Co. pays three and a half per cent, dividends on its preferred stock, semi-annually. The official announcement for the 1910 convention is found on page 92 of this issue. President Wight makes a strong plea for the meeting and in- cidentally for Monticello. The making up of nut collections for exhibition purposes, as well as for colleges and schools, is a line of work which the National Association should undertake just as soon as practicable. The Post Script to some letters is concentrated sentiment and that like the following, is helpful. It came from a subscriber living about three thousand miles away: "P. S.— We appreciate the Nut-Grower very much and find many valuable arti- cles in each issue which is of great value to us. T. B." The permanent as well as credita- ble returns, which the pecan planter earns by five years of labor and ex- pense, will more than compensate for the waiting period. The time soon passes, whether the trees are planted or not. It is simply a question of do- ing, now— the necessary planting and then giving continuous care and at- tention; time and season will do the rest. The gasoline engine and electrical power, which is sometimes available for farmer's use, are working many changes in taking the place of hand labor to a great extent. All of these improvements which economize time and expense, should be utilized by the orchardist. Farming goes hand in hand with the orchard work and both merit the use of tlie most ap- proved and modern machinery. Dr. Morris says: "We have been importing millions of dollars worth of nuts and nut products every year, but this country has now established, at Cornell University, perhaps the first course in nut culture in the world, and it is probable that the 'millions of dollars worth' will soon figure on the export side instead of on the Import side. For the course in nuciculture at Cornell, there is an annual prize of twenty-five dollars for the best grafter." Regarding advertising patronage, an exchange has the following to say, which applies to The Nut-Grower so well that we commend it to all our patrons for careful consideration: ' 'And let us repeat right here what we have so often said before, it is the advertising pages of a mag- azine which bring the real revenue. Large advertising contracts mean a paper more attractive to every subscriber in all its departments, not only in the advertising pages themselves, but in the editorial and reading pages as well. Ad- vertising contracts cannot be se- cured without the co-operation of every subscriber on the list. Read the advertising pages as carefully as you do the rest of the paper; patronize advertisers whenever possible; speak a good word for the paper always, and we will in- crease its attractiveness and value to you a hundred fold." The 1909 Year Book of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, has the follow- ing to say regarding the adaptation of varieties: "The numerous pecan orchards that are now attaining bearing age in the Southern states emphasize the fact that it is of the utmost importance that commercial plant- ers of this nut should exercise great care to secure varieties adapted to the conditions of the section where they are to be plant- ed. While trees of varieties that have proved unsuited to conditions can be top-worked and converted into other sorts, the expense of such conversion and the time re- quired to accomplish it render it important that the necessity for such top-budding and grafting be avoided if possible. Careful in- vestigation of the behavior of va- rieties already growing in a local- ity is the only safe course for the pecan planter in selecting his va- rieties. While nothing short of actual test of a variety in the local- ity can be considered sufficient, in the absence of such test the grow- er will do well to confide his com- mercial plantings to varieties that have originated in his own region, rather than to rely on sorts that have been developed under radi- cally diff^erent climatic circum- stances." We believe in system for gatherings news and information for our read- ers. While indifferent methods per- sistently worked, may be productive of good results, better plans, regu- larly followed, must necessarily prove more advantageous. In the near fu- ture we may ask for needed assist- ance in covering our constantly en- larging field. Mr. A. C. Newell, of Oregon, has a high appreciation of the nursery- man who serves his patrons faith- fully. In a recent address he said in part: "The nurseryman should be an in- telligent guide to the fruit grower. The average planter looks to him to be well posted as to what, when and where and how to plant, and the nur- seryman should aim high in his busi- ness and try to post himself so thor- oughly that he may not have to turn any customer or seeker for informa- tion away unsatisfied. The position of nurseryman is one of great im- portance to the country. It is a call- ing that one cannot just drop into and succeed at. He must go into it with earnestness and enthusiasm and make it a life study as well as a life busi- ness in order to be Oi any value to the country, or make anything out of it for himself. The nurseryman can only serve his part properly in the business by making it his per- manent occupation, and he cannot give his customers satisfaction unless he is competent to advise a tree planter as to the proper trees for planting under all conditions." The frugality of the French peas- antry is often commended, and it suggests the way in which our peo- ple of very moderate means, can get established as owners of pecan or- chards, and eventually have a better investment than the French have in the bonds they buy. The following clipping from an investment publica- tion, is of interest in this particular: ' 'All of us are, or should be invest- ors. The reason France is so wealthy as a nation, is because her people are a saving people. Saving has become a habit with them. -The rule among the masses is to lay aside some money each week or month, and when a few francs are saved, they are deposited in government savings banks, which are distributed over all parts of the country. Very little money is taken out and the goal in view is to get enough money ahead to buy a gov- ernment bond, which pays 2i per cent, interest, and when this is ac- complished, to save again to buy an- other and still another bond. This is true old age insurance, and when the time comes to lay aside one's work, he can enjoy the fruits of his labor." THB NUT'GHaWBH 89 Nursery OLIVER Mr. R. J. Mayhew, a Texas nur- Personal Mention. the presence of death and decay is seryman, believes in the fellowship to be found in every tissue. Fold- idea being- carried into business, as W. D. Heart, of Dayton Ohio, ed in the cells of the nut is slum- the following extracts from an ad- boujrht a plantation near Albany baring life energy that becomes a dress he made to the Southern Nur- throt:gh the Albany Realty & In- part of the vitality of the person seryman's Association indicates. vestment Company, and will plant who eats ,t Nuts and fruits ful These sentiments, if utilized in the 150 acres to pecans. of the prisoned energy caught proper spirit by nut-growers, will The forty-third annual meeting of ^'°''l 'l'^ ^"'V ''Z "^ f °"^"^' ''"^ build up the industry on an endur- t,,^ pj^.j^^ St.te Horticultural So- ■"°'' healthful diet for man. and mg foundation: ^- ^^^^ ^eld at Orlando May 17- "^"^' , '^f to higher levels of .n- "I like the ring of that word fel- 20. The Georgia-Florida Pecan l^lkctua and mora hfe.-The lowship. for It points to a higher Ideal Growers held a joint session dur- National Horticulturist . in business life; it opens to us the pos- ... .. ■' — sibility of getting out of business '"R the meeting. something besides mere dollars. It The North Florida Pecan Com- / #1 6 .A. U S L I Tl is a valuable asset and while not sub- pany is located at Monticello, Fla., ' » ^^ -t^ «« «7 1. 1. f c ject to invoice, like your growing ^^^ ,,^, ^hout half of a tract of stock and improyements or build- ^ ,^^,j^^ -^ ^^ ■ ^^^. ings, contributes to their worth, and • r ^ r. r t , r^ • is not subject to taxation or inspec- ^'f\°l P<^<='^"- Pjof John Craig tion ...... of Ithaca. N. \ ., IS president of A GREAT STOCK OF "I plead for that brotherhood of the Company. Tenoish^ThaTwoutt^aV^^^^^^^^^ Mr. C. Forkert, of Mississippi, FfUit anO 8113(16 TrBSS, EVef" every man a square deal he noted propagator of pecans, ..,,.„ *l "Let us cultivate one another, and '^ '^ recovered his health which was g|-ODnP g||ri ^g^|yg Q [(13111611121$. you that are 'on top' today, remem- considerably impaired a year ago. b ""■"' ber the man underneath has a right Charles M. Barnwell. J. F. Wil- INTRODUCERS OF THE to your assistance. If deserving, lend ^^,, .,„j r vv citr^r.^ -,\-^ or^^r^;r■^ _., him a helping hand, and it will be like T/ ^ "H V. m ^^^^ ^PP'^'"'" HAUPT BERRY 'seed sow^ on good ground bringing ^^. ^^ ''':^ ^^'^'l ^'^^ Monticello com- n M W P- I D U. lA Pi 1 forth fruit, some an hundred fold, """"^^ '" perfecting arrangements A cross between a blackberry and a some sixtv-f old and some thirtv-fold ' for the 1910 convention. dewberry. You can plant Haupt any sotne sixty loia ana some tnirty loia y . during the vear. Our favorite Let us demand of ourselves and of timeisin August and September. Write one another, higher ideals in busi- 1 he web worm sometimes does for our Special Circular on this berry. ness life, standing shoulder to shoul- considerable damage to the voung Introducers of the ... . der for a larger and cleaner business foliage. This insect mav be de- than ever before. Let us return to stroyed by tving paper upon the our homes and business determined, „„j „f „ ,,„i„ o.^ri K,,vr.;rirr ^,,t tu^ t^ of course, to do more for ourselves end of a pole and bu mng o it the ^^^ ,g„ ^^her superb Texas Pecans. but in doing for ourselves let us not ^^^^!- ., ^'le tree will not be in- gig stack of trees of standard varieties ■fr.rn-ot r>nr r.Vii;fra+iV>r,c fn r,no c.Ti,itVi uircd it Care IS taken. of eastern and lexas i'ecans. lorget our obligations to one anoth- J ^^ ^j„ ^^^^^ ^^^ y^^ 1 000 grafted ^^- It almost seems safe to predict and budded pecans, and let you pay for , ^j ~7 ,r\ . that twenlv-five years hence the the trees that are alive and established Index to Advertisers. ,„g,,f eaters'will be reduced to less at the end of the first season p„„„ ,1 , -Tl . • .u Write for new Catalog and Special A B & A Railwav 11 !>;« "^'^ ''I' " The nu, ,s ,he circulars on Berries and Pecans. A. ts. &. A. Kaiiway^. . yd ,j]g^] carbonaceous food. It is Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 91 . , ,, ,, ^ , , » .. w^ nn r^ O C Alvin Japanese Nursery 94 richer in all the food elements than p T RamSeV Ot OOTl A Bearing Pecan Grove for Sale 87 best beef steak. In the slain car- ■«••■• ^ ^ Arcadia Nurseries 94 cass of our dunilj animal friends. Austin, : Texas. Bayview Nursery 95 ^^^^^;___ Barnwell Pecan Grove 83 Buckeye Subscription Agency.. 87 ^^ --, _ Classified Advertisements.... .!!'" 87 f^GllGCClOri IM Ul ^^laCKwi* Clingman Nursery & Orchard Co 92 Gilgrove Pecan Co 84 Gainesville Nurseries 84 PERFECTLY SIMPLE Griffing Brothers 90 ^===^^====^=^^^ Jefferson Nursery Co 91 oI^/f^>I \/ DCDCT/^'r Lewis, F. H 94 SIMPLY PERFECT.... Mead Cycle Co 93 = ' ' P^rrTSl ''"'"''"""'''■ 1^ Allows Use of Bowl Under End Peek?s"wr"*".- :::::: ::::::::'8^ necessary in every home R'amsS'TT.;:.:: ;."..::■.::. .'i.-.-.l! price $1.00 delivered Ramsey, F. T. & Son 89 Rood Pecan Groves 96 Cracks Pecans and Other Nuts so Summit Nurseries 95 . . wit Standard Sewing Machine Co . . . .85 Meats COme OUt in Perfect HalVes. Stone B. W. & Co 92 r» -x l • li j /I Turkey Creek Nursery 83 DoeS its WOrk quickly and Well. The Increase Pecan Co 95 , , , ,„ „ rv , «• »,. The Louisiana Nut Nurseries 95 ^"•"*' "* y^""" »'•<*«'• ''O-D A Y. Money The Progress Self-Help University 86 : : R<-tunded if not Satisla<>tory. : : The Dewitt Supply Co 90 Ih^Sut^drterc'or^"" 1^ Thc DeWitt SuRply Company, White,' Herbert c.::-:-:;..,.:::.:-::^ oewitt, - - Georgia. 90 THB NUT^^GHOWBJR News Items. Repons from Ocean Springs state that tlie weather was excel- lent during the recent grafting season. The pear crop in South Georgia threatens to beat all records this year, the late cold not having af- fected the trees. Weather records for Mav at Piney Park, showed Maximum temperature, 93; minimum, 48; Mean 72. Rainfall 2.73. The Association's Nut Notes will appear as a 4-page leaflet, for I he remainder this year, and be used in advertising the Monticello Con- vention. There was the greatest possible profusion of bloom upon pecan trees in South-west Georgia this year and an abundant crop is as- sured. Large numbers of budded and grafted trees have set heavy crops of nuts. Weather conditions in Califor- nia during April, caused heavy loss to the nurseries, where walnut grafts are grown. Extreme heat causing the failure to such an ex- tent that prices on stock will prob- ably be advanced. New officers were elected and bids were received for supplying bags for the coming walnut crop at the annual meeting of the Walnut Growers' Association of Southern California held April 23 at Los Angeles, There are 19 associa- tions in the organization and near- ly all were represented. From the various almond grow- ing sections ot the state of Califor- nia come reports of agitation for the formation of co-operative associa- tions growers for mutual benefit in marketing the crops, and a number ->f localities have already efTected organizations. The San Joaquin Almond Growers Association has organized, and it is stated that about 80 per cent of the growers in that section have signed mem- bership. The Davis Almond Growers Association has been in- corporated, also the Fair (Jaks Al- mond Growers Association. Other local organizations already formed or in process of formation include the growers of Antelope, Sacra- mento countv ; Oakley, Contra Costa county ; Yuba City, Suiter county ; Capay valley, Yolo coun- ty, and Guinda, Yolo counly. These local associations, it is ex- pected, will later unite in organ- izing a central State association. It has been suggested that it would be a good idea for the almond growers to join with the deciduous fruit growers in their State league, but as the final steps in that organ- ization have not yet been taken to make it an effective institution, that point cannot be definitely set tied until latei. SEITHE SUCH \| liveV Orchard planting is somewhat like life insurance, in more ways than one. It is an investment that brings a good deal of satisfaction, and it usually pays its annual divi- dends, but the most decided simi- larity is in the fact that a great deal of talking must be done by some one on the subject before the p>lic\' is ever written, or the orchard planted. In the case of the orchard, this talking usually falls to the nurservman. Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries sell such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, of best quality and beat producing varieties. Some of the biggest, thInncst-sheBed nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griff ingfs Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our VarietieH iire Bent Gold Medal >iw-ii)io PRICE list: 1 to 3 Foot size, 55 cents each, or $45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each , or 55 00 per 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size. So cents each, or yS-'"-* P^'' ^'-"' 5 to 6 foot size, go cents each, or 85 00 per 100 OUR <;UA^U AN TKK If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS — A< T NOW — ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWiLt*, Mitchell County, Georgia. THl^ NUT'GHOWUH 91 Mere Mention. The pecan is the only fruit phinled that will last a century. It is not a perishable fruit, and does not have to be gathered in a rush and shipped, or kept in expensive cold storage, like other fruit. Not restricted in its sale, it takes the world for its markets. It is the best eating of all nuts; most profitable of all nuts. The whole tree is profitable. The wood is in demand at any age. The nuts are used for desert, for oil, for confectioneries, and is late- ly being used for nut foods, which will furnish an unlimited demand for them. * * * The subject in "Orchard and Nursery" presents a wide latitude of ideas and as it is in the nursery that the orchard is properly start- ed, the nursery will have first con- sideration. As just indicated, it is in the nursery that the trees are made ready for their permanent planting in the orchard and its fu- ture usefulness depends in no small degree upon the manner in which young trees are treated, from nur- sery the pecan manifests an indi- viduality from the very start, and it is a common experience to find great variations in blocks of seed- lings; some germinate in advance of others, some grow more rapidly, some trees are inclined to be more stocky, some will foliate weeks ahead of others, and some will shed their leaves and become dor- mant, while others are quite green. It is no wonder that old seedling groves prove unreliable and con- tain all manner of trees. — H. K. Miller. * * * The last federal census gave the entire production of nuts in the United States tor the year previous to taking the census at 21,000,000 pounds, and the importations from foreign countries for the same vear, 1899, at 24,000,000. The estimate of the total home production of nuts for 1909 110,000,000 pounds, an increase of over five times, while the importations were cor- respondingly large. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. ' FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS IN -TKe Nation's Garden Spot- That Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Ini NortK and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, -write to WILBUR McCOY, Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coaet Line :-: Jacksonvile, Fla. fruits, :md implies a more or less fibrous covering surrounding a ker- nel of meat. They are produced in the most diverse manners, from vine-like plants, as the peanuts, up to the giant pine or beech. One variety, the water chestnut, is sup- plied by a water plant. * * * Let me in conclusion stress the fact that the vegetable proteins are free from many of the poisonous products with which the flesh foods abound, and that they less rapidly undergo putrefactive changes in the intestines. Moreover, some of the purest and most readily diges- tible forms of fat are those derived from nuts, being provided as but- ter oils or in the emulsified forms as nut butters. — Dn. Niles, * * * * * * The term "nut" is applied some- what loosely to certain varieties of The best size for trees that are to be top worked, are those from three inches to ten inches in diame- ter. When trees this size are top- worked it doesn't take the wound so long to heal over, while in a large tree there is great danger of decay setting in before the wound cm heal. In all instances the wound should be painted over with some kind of paint or tar. In cutting out the top, iilwavs be sure to leave some branches below the cut place ; the object of this is to keep up the flow of sap. If there are no branches left on the tree the flow of the sap will stop, especially in large trees, because there is noth- ing to draw it up. A tree that has been cut below all branches is almost sure to die. * * * The shuck worm is an enemy t(> the pecan and often does much harm to the nuts. This insect punctures the hull of the young nut and causes it to fall premature- ly. All nuts that have fallen from tiie effects of this insect should be gathered and buried. If this is done promptly and carefully the insect may be controlled. * * * Nut foods have become as firmly established among the better class of people of the United States, as has the beef diet among the En- glishmen. Each year witnesses the decreasing use of animal fats and all kinds of meats and a cor- responding increase in the con- sumption of nuts. 92 THB NUT^GRaWBR Official Announcement for 1910 Convention. The ninth annual Convention of the National Nut Growers Associa- tion will be held in Monticello, Fla., November ist, and. 3rd, 1910. As a nut-growing centre, there are few places more interesting than Monticello. There aie more and larger nut nurseries at that place than at any other place in the world. In and around the city, there are at least two thousand acres of orchards, most of them being budded and grafted trees, and many of them are in bearing. Monticello is preeminently a city of nut trees. Some of the oldest seedling pecan trees east of the Mississippi river are growing about the homes of the city. To those, therefore, who are interested in nut growing in any of its phases, there can be no more attractive place than Monticello, and certainly no better time to visit it than the above, when the nut crop of this year will be ripening, and nut growers from almost every nut growing state will be present. The eighth annual Convention held last year was the best up to that time. During the last year the National Association has great- ly increased its membership, and its financial condition is now the best in its history. Time, place and circumstances, therefore, indi- cate that the approaching conven- tion will be a pre-eminent success. Monticello has already begun to work and plan for the entertain- ment and amusement of its guests. No wide-awake nut grower can af- ford to miss this meeting. While more particular attention will be paid to pecans, yet the range of discussion will include all nuts that are commercially profit- able. Expert nut growers from all parts of the country will be pres- ent, and a program is being pre- pared that will cover practically all phases of the subject. Particu lar interest will attach to the report of the committee on Varietal Adap- tations. This committee was ap- pointed at the last annual Conven- tion, and is diligently at work making investigations as to the best varieties of nuts suited to each section. To meet and talk with the oldest and most progressive nut growers of the country, will be well worth the trip to Monticello. Opportunity will be afforded all visitors to see the nurseries and or- chards in and around the city. The local committee of arrangements is also planning to make the social features of the Convention mem- orable. Monticello is easily reached by the Coast Line and Seaboard rail- way systems. There will be ample facilities for accommodating all visitors. Membership in the Asso- ciation may be secured by the pay- ment of $2, which entitles the per- son not only to a copy of the pro- ceedings of the Convention, which will include all papers and addres- es made, and also stenographic re- ports and discussions; but will also admit to all social functions which will be tendered to the membership of the Convention at that time. For further information, address Dr. J. F. Wilson, Secretary, Pou- lan, Ga. J. B. Wight, President, Cairo, Ga. The Flavor of Nuts. The flavor of nuts is very largely dependent upon the oils which they contain, though in some there are also specific flavoring bodies. The nut oils readily become rancid, the very disagreeable flavor of spoiled nuts being due to this property. Some nuts (for instance the chest- nut) have a starchy flavor as well as a "nutty" taste. The small na- tive nut is much more highly fla- vored than the large Italian or the Japanese chestnut. The almond possesses the cyanic-acid flavor, which is characteristic of peach pits, plum pits, etc., and this might be expected when it is remembered that the almond is the dried pit of an inedible fruit somewhat resemb- ling the peach in appearance and closely related to it botanically. Most almonds are mild flavored. The so-called bitter almonds are, however, very strong, the cyanic acid yielding glucosid being pres- ent in considerable quantity. In raw peanuts there is a decided fla- vor resembling that of the closely related beans and peas, and to some persons this is not unpalatable. In the roasted peanuts, which most of us prefer to the raw, the flavor is largely dependent upon the brown- ed oils and starches or other carbo- hydrates. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent- reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE I CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want o Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Not Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingmon Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. PROCEEDINGS The following vulumes of Proceed- ings uf the National Nut Grnwere' Association can ba obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. L mis, 1904. 25(! per copy Scranton, 1906, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907, 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 5()c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, -:- •:• GEORGIA rp rj YT NUT-(iROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . Three Years for . 50c $1.00 Fanners; Fruit Growers, Nursery- men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medium it is partii-ularly valuable, as no padding , of circulation figures fixes the rates. Desrript ve circulars sent on request. The Nut-Grower Go. Poulan, :-: Georgia THB NUT-aHOWi^M 93 LETTERS Orlando, Fla., Oct. nth, '09. Mr. T. F. Wilson See'ty. Nat. Nut-Growers Assn. Poulan, Ga. b Dear Sir : — I am sending you by mail a box of about 53 Pecan nuts grown by myself from a nut obtained from Col. Stuart, of Ocean Springs, Miss. — I believe the Stu- art Nut. — Mr. C. A. Reed, of the Department of Agriculture, has seen the tree and photographed it and taken a description of the tree. ^They weigh 47 to the pound. I was obliged to pick them green today, before they had opened and consequently they will not be dry enough to show to advantage. Tlie tree has a very heavy crop on it, and I suppose that on that account the nuts are not filled as well as tliey were hist year. 1 did not furnish the tree with fertilizer and I see that it makes a difference with the filling of the mil. Yours respectfuUv, S. A. Robinson. Editor Nut Guowkr, Poulan, Ga. Dear Sir : — I can but notice what a strong disposition there is to give my varieties of pecans a black eye. So to offset this some, 1 am able lo report some trees that 1 thought too small to sell fruiting, one poor little thing but three inches above the ground has a bunch of nuts on it ; don't you think Texas Prolific is the right name? Yours, E. E. RisiKN. San Saba, Texas. Pearson. Md., June, 13, 1910. EiDToR Nut Grower : — It may be of interest to know that Frots- chen. Van Deman and Stuart pe can trees bloomed here this year, and seem to have a tew nuts. Our location is in the peninsular portion of the stale near Chessa- peak Bay, where the thermometer rarely falls to a low point. Respectfully, A. L Headgdore. The Pecan as an Ornamental Tree. The pecan tree lias a habit of growth which clearly distinguishes it from other trees, ft attains con- siderable size, lives for a number of years, is symmetrical, of clean, upright habit, with a clean, straight trunk. The branches are strong and grow well up from the ground. The forking is wonder- fully graceful and even in winter the sharp lines of the tree are pret- tily silhouetted against the sky. Tn summer the compound leaves are so light and airy that grass can readily be grown under the trees. Movement of the leaves in the slightest breeze lends to console the person suffering from heat as he realizes that some air is present. The merits of the pecan tree in the home yard are unquestioned. It affords not only pleasure to the children who love to climb, but furnishes an abundance of delicious and nourishing food for them in the faU The leaves no not fall until very late in the season and make very liltle litter. As a street tree the pecan should prove very valuable. As stated before it is an erect and handsome grower and makes a pleasing shade tree for the South. For shade trees the .seedling trees should be planted at least fifty feet apart. When these crops mature there is danger, of course, of their being injured by boys, trying to knock off the nuts. With the rapid strides now taken to inspire young America wiih a love for the beau- tiful, it is doubtless if the un- thoughlful hov will be a great menace to even nut trees for street shiide. in ten or fifteen years to come. WANTED~A RIDER AGENT^l!^i!l sample Latest Model "Ranger** bicycle furnished by us. Our agents every\vliere are making money fast. Write for full particulars attd ipecial offer at once. NO MONEY REQUIKKO until you receive and approve of your bicycle. Weship to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. 'without a cent deposit in ^.&^dSiC^, prePay freight , and allow TEN l>AyS* FREE TKIAL during: which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any lest you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to Keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and>'(JM -will not be out one cent. 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L. mm CYOLE mmmm, m Xorice ih© ihlcb rubber tread *'A" and puncture strips "U" and "D," also rim strip •• !!•• to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make— SOFT. ELASTIC and EASV RIDING. 94 THE. NUT'GROWBH SOCIETIES The Ga.-Fla. Association. The meeting of tlie Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers Association at Orlando, Fla., was not very well attended by members. When the invitation to hold a join! meet- ing with Florida Horticultural So- ciety was accepted, it was thought that the meeting would convene at Jacksonville. The change was doubtless advantageous to the Flor- ida Society, but did not work well for the convenience of the nut Growers. The next meeting is to be held at Americus, Ga., and timely ef- forts will be made to make it a a large and profiatble one. Officers were elected as follows : President, H. W. Smithwick, Americus, Ga. ; Vice President, H. S. Graves, Gainesvillle, Fla. ; Treasurer, A. A. Rich, Lanioni, Fla.; Secretary, R, C. Simpson, Monticello, Fla. Letter to Members. Dear Sir : At the annual meeting of the National Nut Growers' Associa- tion, held in Albany, Georgia, October I2th to I4lh, 1909, Presi- dent J. B. Wight was authorized to appoint a special committee to secure data regarding the adapta- bility of pecan varieties to the va- rious localities, with the expecta- tion that a report would be in readiness for the annual meeting to be held in 1910. Shortly after, a committee com- posed of six parties widely distrib- uted over the pecan area was ap- pointed for this purpose. At the request of the committee, Presi- dent Wight has consented to act as an additional member. The committee has since pre- pared a blank form, which, in so far as has been thought practicable, calls for the desired information. A copy of this form is enclosed herewith which you are requested to kindly fill out and return to that member of the committee whose name also appears on the envelope also enclosed. These blanks when assembled together, will also be used in making up the report, the value of which will ilejiend very largely upon the careful co-opera- tion of the indiviilual growers in furnishing the desired data. It is the desire of the committee that, when submitted, the report shall be of such value to the grower that liis pains in filling out the card will be fully compensated. In the preparation of this blank. it has been assumed tluit the own- er of the orchard will be in imme- diate charge and his address, there- fore, will indicate the location of the orchard. Where this is not the case kindly so indicate by giving the name of the town nearest the orchard, in an additional note. Data pertaining to varieties only, and not to seedling trees are all that is solicited in thi» connection. Under the column headed "\^a- riety" insert the variety name, and if trees of this variety have been planted in more than one year, kindly give the number set in each year, using additional lines as needed. If seedling trees are set and later top worked, this fact may be indicated by giving the dates of both operations. Figures showing the entire yield for the total number of trees are desired, and not records of the in- dividual trees or averages per tree for the entire orchard. If trees have been in bearing for a period longer thnn four (4) years, space for record of the succeeding crops may be had by using the lines be- low. Under the general head "Pests" kindly give the name of the in?ect pests and fungus diseases in sepa- rate columns and also note the gen- eral extent of the injury due to these causes by using some discrip- tive word such as follows :"Siigi]t" "serious," "very bad," or what- ever word mav present itself. Under "Character of Soil" a brief statement as to its general na- ture as "sand," "sand}' loam," "clay," "clay loam," "stiff clay." "clay and sand mixed," "low," "wet," "dry or arid," will be suffi- cient. In the last column kindly indi- cate whether the trees are in "orch- ard form." cultivated" "sod." "grafted or budded"," "on hick- ory," or "wild stocks." Blank spaces for nineteen varie- ties are on each form. In case you have more than that i;umber, kindly notify the committee and other blanks will be furnished you. The names and and addresses of other growers in your section will be used by the committee for the securing of other records besides your own and will, therefore, be of great value and highly apprecia- ted by the committee. Thanking you in advance for your co-operation, we are. Yours very truly, John F. Hori.beck C. A. Reed R. C. Simpson, M. Fai.kner, C A. Van Duzee, J B. Wight. J. F. Jones. Committee. Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. We also carry a general line of Fruit and Ornauieiital Trees. mmm \m-\m Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Norsery AlASO!^ BUII.UIKC HOUSTON. .-. TEXAS. siiw®su@Mis Mr. J. B. Wight's Chattanooga address, four six by nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words. This is a careful and very noDservative review of tlie commercial opportunities this nut offers, and supplies just tliu in- formation prospective investors desire- Copies furnished at following rates: t.OOO S4.SO 500 2.50 250 1.50 100 75 50 -.. 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poutan, Ceoraia* B[y A pucAN mn The Best Investment that can now be made ill the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I no'w have four groves read.v for de- livery and several thousand acres of the fluest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain In a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for the comiiig.season'sgrafting. asplen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mi-ssissippi and Alabama west of Mobile. 1 The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young gratted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- i mercial nuts In any quantity. Thanks- 1 giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grafting wood and trees grown from bearing trees .■ in my own groves, hence absolutely true to na'me. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your oi-ders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. THll NUT-aHOWBhi 95 Books and Catalogues. B'l' ii'ini'TtTiti I' inni'i' ii inn'r"^'t"r'>'ri'i">"i' >''ii r'H i' i''»";'l"i"ini'TTTi>mi|initit. I'til'i"!' j'>C Georgia State Board of En- tomology— Bulletin No. 32 treats of Plum Ciirculio and methods for its treatment and also reports Brown rot experiment for season of 1909. E. L. Worsham, Atlan- ta, Ga. Storing Moisture in the Soil is the title of Bulletin 114 of the Nebraska Experiment Station, Lin- coln, Neb. Thomas Phosphate Powder — and its use is a 24 page pamphlet published by the Coe-Mortimer Co., of Charleston, S. C. Tree Culture — Bulletin No. 86 by the Oklahoma Experiment Station, Stillwater, Oklahoma, is of interest to orchardists. Farmers Bulletin — No. 39S on Farm Practice in the use of Commercial fertilizers in the South Atlantic States, by J. C. Beavers, has many useful suggestions. The Stark Year Book — In point of artistic workmanship and the display of technicial informa- tion the Year Book for 1910 which has just been issued bv the Stark Bros. Nursery & Orchard Co., is the most attractive that has ever come to the attention of the horticultural industry in this section and is generally declared to be as fine a book as was ever gotten out by any nursery compa ny. The book contains practically perfect illustrations in colors of the leading commercial varieties of fruits and berries and this feature alone makes the book a prize well worth securing. Owing to the large expense entailed in printing and mailing this book a charge of 7c to cover postage is being made. Fruit growers and others interested may obtain a copy by addressing the Stark Bros. Nurseries & Or- ciiard Co., at Louisiana, Mo. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most"=Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss CUMMIT V^ CHOICE .^ NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO, URSERIES MILLER i G05SARD Proprietors FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses —OUR SPKCIAI.TIKS— The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of the Future l^i'ii-' ■' '1' -'i • '■•■' ■f\' lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: . .. ^. J. J. ,. .. .. .. ,. .. ji .. .. ..n^|.^.^ |. )■ |- ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ . .■...,..,...... .^.^... .A. .t a Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1910=1911 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, 'v. OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI. THE LOUISIANA NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprieter, .if:axi:ketti^. - - lottisiaxa. Headquarters for Budded and Orafled Pecan Trees in the South' west Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wit-hiiig to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., ^z==^:^ OFFERS A VARIETY OF =:^^=^^^^= Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. ftf^or Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA. 96 THB NUT-GFiaWBR Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MKMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale, Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Applicution. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY GEORGIA. ^ SB ^^-^^^-^±i\ of the -M[as&;ac h a setts SEP 8 1910 THE NUT -A.gricultura,i GROVTEI^ Voluma IX Number 7 Whola No. 96. Poulan, Ga., July, 1910. 5c par Copy 50c par Yaar FIELD NOTES PERTAINING TO PECAN CULTURE. By C. A. Reed, Washington, D. C. From the wording of t?ie above topic, I take it that a somewhat rambling discourse is expected. I assume further that the purpose in placing this number on the program was that a discussion of important matters might be brought about and I trust, therefore, that no one will hesitate to make interruption at any time he may wish to add a point or ask a question. Beginning with the prospective planter and continuing through to the advanced orchardist, we will review some of the problems which each are bound to meet with. LOCATING AN ORCHARD. Before a single tree is engaged, the orchard site must be settled. A mistaken idea sometimes prevails that, being a wild tree in its nat- ural state, the pecan will thrive under adverse conditions as to methods of cultivation and quality of soil. It is being demonstrated however, that while pecan trees may appear to hold their own with little cultivation and in alow qual- ity of soil, that thorough cultiva- tion and fertile soil are primary factors in the matter of fruitfulness. Commercial planters are now giv- ing pecan orchards the same sys- tematic cultivation that is else- where accorded to apple and peach orchards and to orange groves. TREES FOR PLANTING. The fact that pecan trees do not come true to seed is now generally too well known to scarcely need repealing at this time, but in re- gard to this fact a veteran grower has made the following interesting statement: "Out of io,ooo seed- ling trees now of bearing age grown from the same trees, no two have borne nuts identical with each other and no tree has produc- ed nuts which were identical with those planted." So far as it is known, a single instance in which the seed has come true, is not re- corded. Nursery grown, budded or graft- ed trees are all that may be depend- ed upon for orchard planting. VARIETIES. It is but reasonable to expect that with our present extensive lists of varieties to select from, that some will be found to be better adapted to the conditions of a sec- tion than will others. In this con- nection it will be impossible to en- ter into a discussion of varieties for each section but since this conven- tion began, a suggestion has been made that a committee be appoint- ed whose dut) it would be to as- certain the merits of the individual varieties in as widely distributed sections as possible, and to report at a future meeting of the associa- tion. Should such a committee be created, it is probable that fuller data will be accumulated than has yet been secured. Until such a re- port is made public it will be ne- cessary for the prospective planter to obtain information in regard to varieties best adapted to his section from a neighbor or to some extent by consulting the nurseryman. In regard to individual charac- teristics of varieties, the following points should be borne in mind : Resistance to pecan scab ; record as to annual yields; quantity and size of the nut ; vigor of the variety and source ot the trees. Special emphasis is laid upon the matter of securing varieties re- sistant to pecan scab, for the rea- son that certain of our leading sorts have recently proven so markedly susceptible to the disease as to fail entirely in maturing a crop of nuts even after having set heavily in the spring. Trees thus affected are not only of no value in them- selves but serve as a source of in- fection for other varieties in the vicinity. It is therefore of the * Read at Albany Convention. [continued on page 98.] Trees in Place and Out of Place. (Continued.) Street trees should never be planted to be ultimately less than forty feet apart. Most of the bet- ter shade trees are slow of growth. It is advisable to plant quicker growing trees between them for immediate effect, to be cut out la- ter when they begin to crowd and injure each other. Often when this time comes the quick growing tree is so much larger and finer looking that the owner's heart fails him and he compromises by hacking off the branches of all the row, ruining them all, and affording only tem- porary relief. In a few years the quicker growing varieties begin to die and soon a straggly row of mel- ancholy cripples exists where might have been noble specimens, good for generations to come. Trees should never be planted so as to shade too densely a building where humans and animals abide. The sun must reach every part of a dwelling at least part of the day, or the doctor will be a frequent visi- tor. Trees must not be planted in the center of a lawn. At the side or the rear is the place for them. A spreading apple tree or two in the back yard is good for shade and for fruit, if it is sprayed to kill in- sects and fungus diseases. If the house is too densely shad- ed use the axe ruthlessly and open up a place to admit air and light. If two trees crowd each other select the best, or the best located, and cut down the other unless it is small enough to move. Don't trim. Cut down. One perfect tree is of more value than a yard full of crippled or stunted speci- Mobile was highly commended by Stone, of Georgia, for early and heavv bearing, and showed branch from a young tree with large clust- ers of large nuts. 98 THB NUT'GJRUWBR Pertaining to Pecan Culture. (OONTINBED FROM PAGE 97) greatest importance to ascertain the behavior of each variety in this respect. In selecting varieties for orchard planting we are apt to be influen- ced by the size of a nut rather than the quantity produced. Exper- ienced growers tell us that up to the present time, tiiey have found the medium sized, heavy bearing varieties to be more profitable than the larger sorts, many of which are falling in to disfavor because of the poor filling qualities and shy bear- ing. The quality oi the nut is ranked as being of greater importance than the matter of size for the rea- son that small nuts seldom attract attention and therefore do not be- come named varieties. At the same time, many of the larger sorts are falling into disfavor because of a tendency towards shy bearing, thick shells or quite commonly to a poor development of the meat. Fortunately, an increasing propor- tion of the varieties catalogued by the nurserymen of today is of the medium size. By quality we mean to include the cracking characters together with the flavor of the meat and the ease with which it may be removed from the shell without being brok- en. To be satisfactory the shell must be of sufficient thinness such that when two nuts are crushed to- gether with one hand, the shell of one will be readily broken. The partition between the halves should be thin and the total weight of shell should not be more than that of the meat. Regarding the vigor of varieties, little attention need ordinarily be paid to it for the reason that few varieties deficient in this respect, are able to attain any considerable prominence and are, therefore, not catalogued by the leading nursery- men. However, when the trees are to be planted in the extreme border of the pecan growing belt, it will be best to secure varieties which have already been thorough- ly tested as near that section as possible or, undoubtedly more pref- erable still, varieties which hiive originated under the nearest simi- lar conditions. As in other kinds of tree plant- ing, it is important to secure heal- thy growing irees. In order to se- cure such, it is usually better to pur- chase trees from well known nursery companies than to undertake to grow them from the seed and de- pend upon an inexperienced work- man to do the budding or grafting as the choice may be. DISTANCE F. iR PLANTING Having the ground thoroughly piepared and the trees at hand, the operation of planting will next be in order. In regard to the distance apart which the trees should be set it may be said that for some time the tendency has been to plant far- ther and farther apart each year. A pioneer of this state who basset many hundred trees 46 feet 8 inches each way, (20 to the acre), was heard to remark that if he had it to do over again, he would put the trees 60 feet each way (13 to the acre.) The writer 4ias in mind two trees 31 years old standing 27 paces (about 81 feet) apart, whose branches interlock by several feet. From this it will be seen that on fertile soil a distance of 75 to 100 feet will not be too great for ma- ture trees. OTHER PROBLEMS. During the past season attention has been called lo a pecu'iar trou- ble nuinitesting itself on the trunks of thrifty grt)wing orchard trees, usually from 3 to ^ ^ ears of age. Its presence is claimed to have been observed as early as in Jan- uary and as late as September. It has been found in the majority of orchards from Florida to North Carolina and in some, instances considerably farther west. It is therefore not sectional. While it generally affects the budded and grafted trees, it is also found on seedlings. All varieties appear to be equally subject to it, though possibly some are more so than others. So serious has this trouble proven to be that an extensive or- chardist reports that in sections where the trouble prevailed during the past season, that approximate- ly 50 per cent, of the trees have died. Attention is usually first attract- ed to the presence of the trouble by the sudden turning brown of the foliage. A close examination re- veals the fact that a dead spot ex- ists on the trunk of the tree a short distance above the ground which appears to have but recently ex- tendedentirely about the tree. One portion of the dead area usually on the south-west side of the tree, ap- pears to have been dead longer than the remainder. With the use of a knife we find that both the bark and the wood of this area are well seasoned. Above the affected space, the bark will be found to contain a great excess of sap which appears to have been checked in its natural circulation. In the great majoritj' of cases observed, sprouts have come up from below the in- jury, indicating, as further exami- nation usually proves.that the root is still healthy. As the indication of the trouble first became evident during the months of January and February, the suggestion that it may be due to winter weather seems a highly plausible one, especially as the trou- ble appears to have originated on the side of the tree most subject to exposure to both sun and wind Until the pathologists are able to produce evidence to prove that this is due to an organic disease, it would seem that the only course to pursue, is to act under the assump- tion of its being a cold weather in- jury and to protect the trunks of the trees from the elements of win- ter by means of a loose wrapping about the tree or a box so con- structed as to answer the purpose. It is to be understood that this treatment is merely theoretical. It is necessarily so, for the reason that as far as the writer is aware no one has as yet found a satisfactory remetly. The year Book for 1009, just is- sued, is the sixteenth volume under that title from the United States Department of Agriculture, The current volume does not differ from its predecessors except that its size has been reduced — this issue show- ing about 200 pages less than the 1908 volume. This reduction was accomplished not by reducing the I nurnber of articles, but by the great- f est possible condensation of the matter in those printed and the elimination from the appendix of certain less important features. The urgent necessity for economy in expenses frrun the printing fund, the desire to have the publication appear at the earliest possible day, and the convenience of handling and transmitting through the mails, combined to emphasize the advan- tages of a less bulky volume. * * * Hickory-nut candy : One cup- ful of hickory-nut kernels, two cupfuls sugar, h ilf a cupful of water. Boil sugar and water, without stirring, until the liquid will spin a thread ; flavor with any 1 , desired flavoring ; set off into a dish I' of cold water, then stir until white. Add the nuts and stir again, then turn into a flat, greased tin. When cold cut into squares. The work must be done quickly before the candy hardens. THE, NUT-aHOWBH 99 Some of the Essentials of Com- mercial Pecan Orcharding. (Copyright 1910, by Herbert C. White. Dewitt, Ga, ) (CONTINUED FROM JDNE NUMBER.) (DISTANCE OF TREKS APART. This is largely a matter of indi- vidual opinion, but my views on the subject are us follows : Too close planting will necessitate the thinning out of trees about the time thev begin to be very produc- tive, their growth and bearing < qualities in the meantime being handicapped by insufficient soil moisture in dry times, by shading each other and by the rapid deple- tion of natural plant food. As- suming that the close planting with a view to ultimately thinning out is good, when the time comes, and parenthetically 1 will say, few will have the nerve to do it — in the first place the symmetrj' of the orchard must suflfer, for while to give more room it is decided to take out every alternate tree (in any one of the several ways in which this can be done,) it will be found that some of the condemned trees are the best in the orchard and possibly three or four more in succession, or in groups, may be extra good. In this case what is one to do — leave all to sufFer---or sacrifice a tree or trees yielding perhaps $20, $30 or may be $50 worth of nuts? My opinion is that trees should be planted at a sufficient distance apart, according to soil, which will under favorable circumstances give them at least 25 years of growth without crowd- ing. The yield of nuts will be greater in the aggregate during that period than where they are planted on a 10 or even 15 year basis. If not thinned out at the proper time, all the trees do suffer (I have several cases now in mind) and it will become a struggle for the sur- vival of the fittest and great gap- ing gaps eventually result. The pecan tree, with sufficient room forms a broad dome shaped head, without excessive height and with branches reaching to the ground, the lower ones dying from time to time by deprivation of light. Where crowded as in the forests and in some of the older orchards the tree in its struggle for light at- tains a disproportionate height with a small top and long bare limbs and trunks often with scant sickly foliage, which generally drops prematurely in the fall with the cessation of functional activi- ties and the premature ripening of such nuts as it may be fortunate enough to have. There is a nota- ble lack of uniformity in the ma- jority of pecan orchards. The best orchardists are trying to overcome this by resetting larger trees each season in cases where trees die or show lack of vigor after two or three seasons. Then again there is a marked difference in rate and habit of growth among the princi- pal varieties. Where trees are planted too closely, in the event of the de:ith or replanting of trees it is not as easy to get new trees to grow off vigorously where the soil is full of roots of other trees and where much sun-light is cut off. With our knowledge of the pecan in these regions, the claim of the Fort Worth man who has recom- mended planting 125 trees to the acre, hoping to control them like gooseberry bushes is exorbitant. When it is considered that the time comes wheti four trees will conveniently occupy an acre and then have none too much room. and it may so be that the best bear- ing trees, for some soil or other ob- scure reason, unfortunately are grouped together the initial dis- tance of the trees apart becomes of the greater importance or there must be more thinning for the per- manency of any of them. I am not an advocate of crowding sue! patriarchal trees in the beginning and that we curb our present greed for money at the expense of the not very far future. As a matter of fact every pecan orchard planted to-day will have to be thinned sooner 01 later or production great- ly curtailed. The question of dis- tance apart such long lived trees should be set is largely a question of policy and an important one. PLANTING. The proper planting of a tree is of paramount importance. Too often, are perfect specimens poorly planted and lost, or if not lost ter- ribly handicapped and delayed in their subsequent growth, which will not take place until the lateral root system has more or less re- placed its-elf and new rootlets formed. The ignorant planter thinks he has accomplished every- thing if a tree lives through the first season and many are the fool- ish boasts made along this line. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 110) Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -:- -:- Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. 100 THB NUT^GHOWBR WALNUTS English Walnut (Juglans Regia) Prof. C. C. Vincent, of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., will be glad if interested parties will an- swer the following questions : 1. What varieties are grown in your locality? 2. Extent of industry. 3. Which do you prefer, the "seedling" or the grafted trees? 4. VViien and how is the tree pruned? c^. What varieties appear to be the most hardy? 6. .(a) At what date do the staminate and pistillate varieties come into blossom (b) compared with other fruit trees? 7. At what age do the different varieties come into bearing in your locality? 5. What is considered a good yield per tree? 9. On what type of soil do they succeed best in your locality? Moisture, content of soil? 10. Are you troubled with ene- mies or fungus diseases? 11. Handling the nuts: (a) How are they picked? (b) How are they packed? 12. I would like to get five or six nuts of each variety for syste- matic study. Varieties of Walnuts. Only the French strains should be used and at present the Fran- quette and Mayette are our two best commercial nuts. The Mey- lan is a nut of exceeding promise ; and the Parisienne will be grown somewhat. Not onlv should one insist on French varieties, but the trees from which seed nuts or scions are selected should bear fruit of high standard. The kernels should weigh as much as the shell, should be plump and fill the shell well. The pellicle should be I'ght color- ed and the shell tightly sealed. The desired thickness of shell is one which will just ship without breaking. Aside from the above named characters, the tree should be productive and of good vigor. Under no conditions plant solt shelled strains. They are abso- lutely worthless as they leaf out and bloom early in the spring and are invariably injured by frost. Budded or grafted walnut trees begin to bear when they are three or four years old ; whereas seed- lings must be seven or eight years old before they begin to bear. The amount of the crop increases with the age of the trees. In harvesting the crop the nuts should not be knocked from the trees until the hull is well opened up; otherwise they will be harder to hull and the nuts will be much darker in ap- pearance. Traj'S that will hold about two sacks of nuts — say tnree feet by six feet and six inches deep — are almost indispensible in hand- ling the nuts; trays expose the nuts more evenly to the sun, keep them off the ground at all times, and protect them in bad weather by being piled or covered. Unless the nuts are very green, little sun will be needed to dry the moisture froin their surface, and, when this is done, the trays should be piled and the nuts allowed to dry in the shade, where they will cure more evenly and be less liable to crack. Nuts should not be permitted to lie long on the ground at any time ; but in case of rain, which some- times occurs before the crop is ful- ly harvested, the nuts should be picked up froin the ground as soon as possible, washed off and rinsed clean, put upon trays and dried like the others. After the nuts are sufliciently cured, they should be sacked and taken to the packing house for bleaching and the mar- ^ ket.-— G. T. Shafer in Orange Post. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees of reliable known varieties. Our catalog con tains information on selecting, planting;, cnl ture, etc., and is free for the asking. Grafcwood for sale; our oroha^dh. contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. 'SHSSHHHSHsasHSHSHsa sasasasB sHsasasHSHsasasHSHSHSHSHa^ 1 71^6 Secret of Success Is Self -Development... Prepare for future success — gieatuess, prosperity, and happiness ,„ — by developing yourself NOW. 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You are Always Welcome to see the wonderful "Standard" Rotary whether you buy or not. See it TODAY. You will be surprised and delighted With its many advantages. THE STANDARD SEWING MACHINE CO., Cleveland, Ohio. SUCCESS The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL PEC4X XllRSERlES OCEAN SPRINGS. MISS. Information for Almond Growers Manager J. P. Dargitz, of Cali- fornia Almond Growers Exchange, has issued the following bulletin, calling the attention of almond growers to the necessity for treat- ing their orchards to prevent loss from red spider and peach moths : The attention of almond growers is particularly called at this time to the matter of the red spider and the peach moth larvae, which is the worm causing damage to the almonds. The second brood of the peach moth is due to hatch about May 20, and it will attack the young twig growth to some extent but more especially the nuts them- selves. Wherever there has been much evidence of destruction of yonng twig growth and of the ends of the twigs as soon as the trees are leav- ed out, you may expect more or less destrisction from the second brood of worms. The treatment is simple : Paris green and lime dust mixed one to 20 and dusted over the trees (about 25 lbs. of this mixture per acre on large trees) will effectively control the work of this pest. Add to this mixture sulphur in anj' quantity from 23 to 50 per cent, which will have the effect of controlling the red spider. Great care should be exercised in watching for the ravages of the red spider. It is not likely to do any damage until severely hot days make their appearance. At the first spell of severe hot weather watch your trees carefully. As soon as you notice the leaves beginning to turn yellow, immediately apply sulphur dust to your trees. Any fluffy flowers of sulphur similar to "Anchor Brand" will prove effect- ive. You can apply it full strength, or, perhaps better, ^ sul- phur and ^ lime dust. This should be applied about 20 lbs. per acre, and if applied when the leaves be- gin to turn yellow, it will prove effective very quickly. If you have no dust machines, you can scatter the sulphur amongst your trees in any way most con- venient, tor it is the fumes from the evaporation of the sulphur by the heat of the sun that constitutes the remedy for the red spider pest. I would especially urge attention to the details, because they will surely influence the quality of your pro- duct, and quality, in our organized methods of work, brings premium and prices. Pecan. It is not generally known that some of our forests produce excel- lent pecans (Hicora pecan) . While pecan trees are not so abundant or the nuts so large as in Texas, we are very proud to claim this valu- able and rare tree among the wealth of our flora. In the bottoms of Red river, the Arkansas and the White, large pecan treees may be found and the nuts of considerable value. The habit of the pecan is similar to the walnut and the shell- bark hickorj', but the pecan usual- ly sends out larger, denser branches and has a flatter head. The pecan bears nuts comparatively young, and, at the present price of nuts, is one of our most valuable trees. The only wonder is, that more pecan groves are not planted, and that the wild trees are not better protected and utilized for nuts. Pecan buds maj' be inserted in the hickory and a pecan grove soon brought into being. The hickory being more hardy can be planted or tlie wild young trees of the field used as the stock. There aie pecan groves being planted in some parts of the state, and will no doubt prove successful. The wood of this tree is even more valuable for handles and dur- able wood than the hickory, the former being tougher. But it would seem sacriligious to cut this tree for timber purposes. ^^ Ai.MONDS are hardy over most of the range of the peach, but it blossoms so early that in the north the flowers are apt to get caught by the late frosts. I have seen some hard-shelled almonds which resist- ed winters that were fatal to most of my peaches. The crop is a large and important one for the Pacific coast, but in the east the species have not been given definite place as yet. 102 Tim NUT" an aw BR HICKORY Top Working Old Trees. Millions of wild pecan tn-e^ in the Southern States are now cum- berers of the ground ihat might be a source of great profit, if llneir owners would but have the confi- dence to top work these inferior trees with prolific paper shell va- rieties.' Top-working is no easy project and costs, on the average, about five dollars per tree. The top of the inferior tree is nearly all cut back in the winter season so that the limbs are nothing but short stumps. Young, vigorous sprouts start from the short stumpy limbs in the spring, and August or Sep- tember of the first season these young shoots are budded with the desired variety. After the buds "take" the supernumerary young sprouts are cut off close up to the old limbs. The budded sprouts are cut back an inch or two above the bud the next season, and all the energy is thus thrown into the bud. From ten to a dozen buds are set to form the new crown of each tree, and after the permanence of the new growth is assured, all the old top should be pruned away. In four or five years, a top work- ed tree will be paying its owner handsome returns. It is possible that grafting may be performed upon the sprouts with good results, but the proper season for makiiig the grafts is February or March, at the end of the first year's growth of young sprouts. After the bark of the pecan becomes more than one year old, it is difficult to work either by budding or grafting. In conclusion, the writer wishes to urge that the pecan tree deserves more attention than it is now re- ceiving from the people of the South. Its planting should be promoted by sane and conservative business men who have a personal imerest in the outcome. Extrava- gant claims for the industry can only do harm. Very much must be yet learned before we can assert that certain premises in reference to its culture are facts. We need to know very much more definitely tlian we now know the best re- gions for the cultivation of each named variety. Experiments for the determination of facts with ref- erence to the productiveness, hardi- ness and soil requirements of differ- ent varieties must extend through a number of years to obtain valua- ble information, because the pecan naturally does not fruit early. Plant more pecan trees but be pre- pared to wait patiently for results. Experiment if you will, but do not make your experiment too large for y»u to carry it to a successful conclusion. — From Bulletin 124 Miss. Ex. Station. Task for the Nut Growers. The nut growers have a task be- fore them. They are trying to teach the people of Texas and the South, to make a better use of something they already have. Wild pecan trees by hundreds and thous- ands are already growing on more than 10,000 Texas farms, to say nothing of those other thousands growing on town, city and subur- ban lots. The pecan tree on the farm commonly finds its way to the wood pile and the ash heap. On the residence lots of town and city it produces sorry, little nuts scarcely worth picking up. Look again at the Stuart pecan and the little thing right under it. The Stuart, the Halbert *and a dozen other first class nuts will sell readi- ly any sort of a year at 30c to "^oc a pound. And think what a lux- ury they would be to the city resi- dent having only a few trees or even one tree. Going about in the city of Dallas one can see young pecan trees on every side that have been planted by the hand of some thoughtful resident. Left to grow up as they are it may be years and j'ears before those of smaller sizes reach even the poor fruitage of the average tree. Worked with the better kinds, even small trees would be in nice bearing before five years have passed. That is some tune to wait, but nobody waits for good fruit of any kind so long as the man who makes no ef- fort to have it. Pecans, within recent years, have brought fancy prices and the de- mand will no doubt increase as the nut is better known and more ap- preciated. The large, fancy, paper- shells are in great demand by nur- serymen for propagation. * * * The nurseryman should be an in- telligent guide to the fruit grower. The average planter looks to him to be well posted as to what, when and how to plant, and the nursery- man should aim liigh in his busi- ness and try to post himself so thoroughly that he may not have to turn any customer or seeker for information away unsatisfied. JONES' BUODINO TOOL Designed and manufactured specially for budding nut trees. An entirely new principle. With this tool Pecans, Wal- nuts, Chestnuts, etc., can be budded almost as rapidly as in ordinary shield budding, and, as it is practically impos- sible to make anything but a perfect fit, even a novice can use it with satis- factory results. Made from aluminum with cutting blades of the finest razor steel, such as is used in the finest safety razor blades. If interested write for descriptive circular, or send $2.00 for sample tool by mail, postpaid. Your money back if it is not perfectly satisfactory. J. F. JONES, J B A N ID R KTTE, LOUISIANA. The Austin Nursery A GREAT STOCK OF Fruit and Shade Tress, Ever- greens INTRODUCERS OF THE HAUPT BERRY A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry. You can plant Haupt any time during the year. Our favorite time is in August and September. Write for our Special Circular on this berry. Introducers of the .... OLIVER and ten other superb Texas Pecans. Big stack of trees of standard varieties of eastern and Texas Pecans. We will plant for you 1,000 grafted and budded pecans, and let you pay for the trees that are alive and established at the end of the first season. Write for new Catalcg and Special Circulars on Berries and Pecans. F. T. Ramsey & Son Austin, : Texas. Wmv M standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from j bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- M working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 • budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove !• in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. bILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. THE, KUT-GROWnU 103 CLASSIFIED NEW AND RARE NUTS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column we fjive place to advertisements from aubscibers -who have irchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquirres for tliinps wanted. The rate is One Cent a w.ird for each insertion. Patrons are urfted to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. 1,200 or more Imshels of pecans for sale. Address J. J Domas, New Roads, La CementSidewalks, Buildings, Etc.— Foitland cement -idewalk construction; concrete block buildings; making and la.ving concrete blocks: estimating, profits etc. Practical book for con- tractors giving details in full. Second edition. Postpaid 6 c. De Graff Pub. Co , Peoria, 111. BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Culver Poultry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Xeb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leailing varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates. Seed nuts lurnished only in limiteil quantities, IHE NUT-GROWER CO.M- PANY, Poulan, Ga. Help Wanted-"Mr. A. B. Goodenow. of Cule- Dra, Canal Zcme, has a good farm of about fifty acres at Glenumore, lia.. ten miles from Way- cross. He wants to have it planted in pecans, and will make it an object to some good farmer who will handle the place in a suitable manner. Wanted— Copies of the November and De- cember 1909 and January 1910 issues of the Nut- Grower. Parties having duplicates or copies not needed, wdl oblige by notilying The Nut- Grower Co , Poulan, Georgia. -THE- Buckeye Subscription Agency For many years we have secured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any oe- riodical desired. J. F. WILSON, AGENT POULAN, GEORGIA A Bearing Grove Of the Best Varieties. Four Hundred Trees FOR SALE Good reason for selling. Ask for particuliirs of THE NUT-GROWER CO., POULAN, ■:■ CEORQIA. PECAN TREES That are properly grown i.s my Specialty. . Budded and tiialtcd Trees of the best Viirieties for <;;ile. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves . J. B. WIGHT, "5L"o°RciA The Pistache Nut. p. H. Dorsett. .Since tiie distribution two years ago of something over i6,ooo seed- lings, eiTibracing varieties from Smyrna, Algeria, Sicily, Sahara, Syria, Noithern Syria and South- ern France, we, as well as the offi- cials at Washington, have received numerous inquiries concerning the trees, their fruit and their possibil- ities. A year ago we received scions and seed of Pistacia sinen- sis from our explorer, Mr. Frank N. Meyer, which were collected by him in the Wei Tsan mountains near Peking, China. We distrib- uted last season between 16,000 and 20,000 young trees of the fol- lowing varieties : Pistacia-vera, P. atlantica. P. mutica, P. terobin- thus and P. sinensis. There are several other varieties that the offi- cials at Washington are making every efTort to secure and we hope to add these to our list by the end of iinother season. The distribu- tions that have and will be made are being used in an experimentiil way by the Department officitils as feelers to determine tiie possible range of their successful growth. When this has been accomplished, the Department will assist those whose trees show promise of suc- cess, in securingscions and buds of the best commercial varieties for budding and grafting on the j'oung trees already established. Two and one-half acres at the Califor- nia garden will be planted to vari- eties of pistache now on hand. This will be added to from time to time as other varieties are received. 1 his planting will form a basis for scientific experimental work. Prof. S C. Mason, formerly horticultur- ist at the Kansas College and State Experiment Station, who is now with the Bureau of Plant Industry', will have immediate charge of this work, acting under instructions from Dr. Walter T. Swingle, in Chiiri,'e of Plant Life History. Dr. Swingle has devoted the greater part of six to eight years in study- ing the conditions of this iiidustry abroad. In a recent conference with him in Washington relative to the success of this work at the garden and its possibilities to the country, he spoke with enthusiasm and with the greatest confidence, in the Depart ment being able to establish this industry in the Unit- ed States. — National Nurseryman. With jungle stories of packing house fillh and horrors und virulent contagious diseases developing among cattle and hogs with a rap- idity that leaves less than one-half of the farm animals free from in- fection, the cost of meat has stead- ily ri'-en. This has checked the use of meat in thousatids of homes where perhaps nothing but the high prices could have induced an aliempt to find a substitute. The thcuisands thus forced away from a ineat diet have been added to the many other thousands who have abandoned animal food from much hif^her motives. Just what per- centage of the people of the Unit- ed States have wholly abandoned the meat diet cannot be definitely stated at this time, but the percen- tage is somewhere between 15 and -5- Index to Advertisers. Page A. B. &. A. Railway 99 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 107 Alvin Japanese Nursery 110 A Bearing Pecan Grove for Sale 103 Arcadia Nurseries. . . 110 Bay view Nursery 107 Barnwell Pecan Grove 109 Buckeye Subscription Agency . . 103 Bechtel Pecan Nurseries 101 Classified Advertisements 103 Clingman Nursery & Orchard Co 108 Gilgrove Pecan Co 102 Gainesville Nurseries 100 GrifRng Brothers .106 Jefferson Nursery Co 107 Jones, J. F 102 Lewis, F. H., 110 Mead Cycle Co 109 Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery ... Ill Parry, John R 105 Pecan Investments 110 Peek, S. W 106 Proceedings 108 Ramsey, R. T., 107 Ramsey, P. T. & Son . . . 102 Rood Pecan Groves 112 Summit Nurseries. ... , Ill Standard Sewing Machine Co . 101 Stone B. W. & Co 108 Turkey Creek Nursery 107 The Increase Pecan Co Ill The Louisiana Nut Nurseries Ill The Progress Self-Help University.. 100 The Dewitt Supply Co. 105 The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co 106 The Nut-Grower Co 108 Wight, J. B 103 White, Herbert C 105 104 THB NUT^GHOWER THE NUT -GROWER PDBLISHKD MONTHLY BY XSAe NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulau, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. Nt)TICK When this para.§^raj5h is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are reques'.ed to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years, JULY, 1910. The congenial personal touch with those we meet at the conven- tion, is one of the enjovments of life, which broadens our views and makes our labors light. The Brooks Force Pump and Sprayer Company furnishes each purchaser of one of their pumps a copy of the receipe for making a solution, said to be efficient for ex- tinguishing fires. Sometimes we lose sight of qualities which are essential in building up an orchard proposition. One of these is confidence. This begets enthusiasm, and these to- gether favors the stick-lo-it-i ve- ness, which in due time brings its own reward. Without theseelements the prospects are very uncertain in Nut Culture as well as in any other industrial operation. Those who are partial to a vege- tarian diet find in nuts a food ele- ment, which will help their cause. The following extract from a Mich- igan subscriber's letter, may seem radical to some, but he ha-- tiie im- portance of nuts as a food in prop- er estimation. While fine nuts are still a luxury in this country it is only a question of time till they be- come a staple food product : "I and my family have been vege- tarians for the last ten years, during which time I have made vegetarian- ism a study. I have converted others from cannibals to vegetarians, and drunkards to sober men by the use of the vegetarian diet, and I can foresee the day plainly when nuts will replace the remains of the dead for food for the living, and human beings will no longer make cemeter- ies of their stomachs. Hence my double interest in pecans— the meat of the near future." The home mixing of tertilizers for orchard and farm use, is a mat- ter of importance, when intelli- gently handled. Not only saving in cost, but increased crop results follow, when brains are put into the mixture. Do not be backward in support- ing the Nut-Grower. If it is help- ful, tell others about it and en- courage them to subscribe, if they are interested in our line. We have been growing this year fas- ter than ever, and appreciate the good things said about our work. We have the inclination to merit still better things as increased pa- tronage makes them practicable. With the great number of new Pecan growing projects organized for the purpose of selling prospec- tive orchards, it becomes increas- ingly important to investigate the men behind the proposition, be- fore entrusting money in their hands. Some of the promoters are making fortunes, before the trees they plant are old enough to bear, and the flood of new and enlarged operations in the promotion line must necessarly throw greater re- sponsibility on the officers and committees of the Association, Mr. E. W. Kirkpatrick, of Tex- as, former President of the Nati(,n- al Nut-Growers' Association, ex- pects to attend the Monticello Convention. Those w1k> have heard him tell of the Texas pe- can and the great future of the industrv', will readily understand that his presence will be a most notable feature of the gathering, wiiile his part on the program will — well it must be heard in or- der to fully appreciate it. Some- time ago he had the following to say about the industry, and we have not heard of his thinking any less of it as the years go by : "Probably no other field of unde- veloped natural resources in all the wide domain of diversified produc- tion offers richer and happier results than does nut culture." bers were asked to murk, in order of importance, six or more essen- tial qualities of the typical nut. From time to time much of the data thus assembled has been given to the public, but five years has doubtless modified the opinions of some as to the relative importance of various qualities. Three of those reports have recently been examined. They bear the names of well known members, one liv- ing in Georgia, one in Mississippi and one in Texas. Two of them give size the first place, while the other assigns flavor as being the most importance. Thin shell is second on one report, third on an- other, and is not mentioned at all by the other one. Well filled is second in one and third in the oth- er. All three give bright color the fourth place. No other quality is mentioned by all three. " In 1901^ at the Dallas convention, blanks were distributed for gather- ing sundry data abcait the desir- able characters of the pecan. Mein- A correspondent of the Southern Fruit Grower, in reporting the Alabama Horticultural Society meeting at Bessemer, has the fol- lowing to say about the paper read by the Editor of the Nut Grower : "Dr. J. F. Wilson presented a pa- per on 'A New Era in Nut Culture.' Dr. Wilson is secretary of the Na- tional Nut Growers' Association and editor of The Nut Grower. He spoke of planting nut trees suited to the locality, planting them on your own land, and never allowing the property to be sold unless you are devoid of posterity. In your selec- tion of varieties and their care, be governed by the judgment of com- petent and reliable parties. If you possess only a town lot, plant them as you would shade trees. On a small farm, plant them about the buildings and along the streets and lanes. On a larger farm plant a regular orchard. If any skeptical brother will study the prospect as many months as I have given years to its development, he will think there is something in it. While my presen- tation of this subject may seem opti- mistic,still there are difficulties which beset us. Here Dr. Wilson spoke of the fungus and insect ravages. He also urged all prospective planters to study all the publications treating upon the pecan, before planting. Among these publications he men- tioned the proceedings of the Nation- al Nut Growers' Association, The Nut-Grower, the Experiment Station bulletins which have been issued, and the catalogues of reputable nur- serymen. Following the reading of this paper there was considerable discussion concerning varieties, etc." Tim NUT-GUOWnn 105 In our mail the day this is writ- this line for over twenty years, and mittees have dune heroic service for ten was a request for "full particu- we learn more in a month now the industry and deserve the highest 1 J- >> T,, . ■ , , , •, ,1 ,j ■ , praise for their work. lars regarding pecans. This iden- about ,t than we did m a year be- ^n jg ^ ^^,i ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ tical question comes frequently, fore this publication was estab- fraudulent nurserymen and tree and the same request is made in Hshed. We mention this to im- agents, have always been preying- •i-ir;r.iii w1^'c: Oilipr Ipttprs Tslr » 1 f i . 1 t . 1 ' It upoo our pcople. They are found various ways, wiiier leiiers asK nress the tart that there is tniieh tn i i , i . •> . press me laci ui.u mere lb mucn lo everywhere, but when the pecan in- fer particulars which would require learn about pecan culture, and that dustry comm; need to develop, a days if not full weeks to fully an- jt requires study, time and expe- number took up pecan nursery work =,„pr Thf. hpsf w(. rnn Hn in ■ , u ' c • » \iir presumably on account of the high swer, J lie oesc we cm uo in nenre lo heeome nrnnnenf We ^ ■ -i , , ,. , '^"^"^'^ '" uecoine proncieni. vv e p^ce necessarily charged for the ni my of these cases is, to refer the sometimes hear of parties claiming best varieties of pecans. It is the parties to sources of information, to be fully posted who have but work of the committee on Ethics, to and advise them to subscribe to the recently eno-ased' in the business i"vesti|ate and expose or prosecute . receniiN engaged in me uusine=s, thg^g fraudulent pecan tree and Nut Grower and join the Nut which gives the writer the impres- seed dealers, and the result has been, Growers' Association. The editor cjop, (h.,^ they acquire both the ^^'^^ the standard upheld by the has been studying and working on ,„e„ee and the art of horticulture, ttl^l\ S^sL^'trCnltty'^'r:^^^^ more rapidly than usual, or that lent members have been expelled, NlltC fnr Prnfil ^ booklet of posslblv they over-rate the extent fraudulent dealers and agents have I1UI0 lUI I lUIII 158 pages; 60 illus- „ ,, .' ;• , , i . rp, been exposed, and there is no e.xcuse trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of tneir practical knowledge, i heo- to-day for anyone to deal with any of nuts best adapted to the various sec- retical knowledge, enthusiasm, and but reliable pecan nurserymen and tions. Interesting and instructive. even intet:ritv of Duroose needs the merchants. The association stands PA PPV^P^TJI: V T"'lf JOHN R. e.enintegritjot purpose, needs the f^^ commercial integrity in everv inr^lll' ORL^Nbo fLa support of practical experience, in phase of the industry. The good ^ ' ' order to make commercial orchard- that has been accomplished along Hriiircic Diii\i\iiki/- Tt\f\i ing a paying investment. |his line by this association in the WHIir S Rl nniNll TOni ' ^ ^ five years of its existance cannot be WnilL J UUi;i;iPU IUUL ., , ,,, ., ,. estimated. It stan.s unique in the A former president ot the Nation- cnriolo /^f o ^ot; i • .-• PA Rripnfl-fir hi'itrvmp^it fnr . ■ annals ot a national association. A bcientijic instrument joi ^^j j^j,j Growers' Association said : . the Fropaqaiwn of Fecans, ,,, . , ,._ , , . , m . i m r-i Hickories, Walnuts, Chest- It ^s rather difficult to select the Nuts and Nut Flours. nuts, Persimmons and all '^f'Tj^3^^J'^%^Trl^!J^!' VI^ In fresh fruits the protein con- , ' „ 7 j7 1 7 ot the National JNut growers Asso- . ' ot tier Irees. by tlie Annular, elation. One man would point out tent is small. It is increased in Semi- Annular, Patch and things that would seem to be the dried fruits, and is abundant in Veneer Methods. ^ost important, and they would be. ,^,^^^ ,^hich are crystalized, wliilst =z= to him. Another would select other ... ■' Several hundreds of this Tool in use things, as suited his needs. The m oily fruits it is most plentiful. in United States and abroad. most important work of the associa- Therefore fruit eaters who wish to ^=^ tion on the whole, is no doubt done ^^^^^^^ st.ength from the food they Budding and Oraft.nfj Wood of best ^'-V the standing committees. There -^ varieties of Pecans. are several of these committees, eat should take nut flours in con- __— ^^ each one doing work throughout the junction with fresh fruits, for to- For particulars and prices, write Xle^'i^Sr^^wToVThese ^^^'^^ "->• ^^"-'^ P^-'" "^ ^ UTDDCDT P lAIUITT committees are the committee on more wholesome and perfect form ntflDLnl U Wnl I L, Ethics and the committee on Nomen- than is obtainable from the ordi- Dewiti, :-: Georgia. clature and Standards. These com- nary mixed inflammatory diet. ~~' Table of Contents. Perfection Nut Cracker. Amonds 73 m Almond Growers', 101 DTTDC-irr-Ti v CI^/IDI E- ^"""^ — jjy-*— — — ^ggjgk An Event of Import, 110 FLKhhClLY SIIVIPLL fiiamiiri " ' ■|J«™«i"*Hi|p» g^ol^ and Catalogue mention. ... Ill SIMPLY PERFECT. . . . MxsF^ Ed^torikis?. . ^l^^'.'. '.'.. '. '. .' .' '. .'.104 ^ = Hk^**^ ■ Essentials in Pecan Growing, 99 Allows Use of Bowl Under End ^t*^^ -^^ Index to Advertisers',!!!!!; !!!!.'. 103 NECESSARY IN EVERY HOME I ^^k ^Jt^:::::-:::::::.:::::Z PRIOF io PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or !|!45.oo per loo 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or . 55. 00 per 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75-'^° P^"" ^°'^ 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OlTif <;UA.RANTKK If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before J?'ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— A(T NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacoi\ Pecan Compai\y, DeWiLL, Mitchell County, Georgia. Tim NIJT-GHOWBH 107 Mere Mention. ' Teche is regarded as the most profitable tree for middle Florida, bearing regular and largely. * * * The long lease of life that a pe- can orchard has places it far in ad- vance of any other nut or fruit or- chard and makes it increase rapidly in value. * * * There is scarcely a home that is provided with fine fruits through the season, but its owner was talk- ed into it by a tree man. Go fur- ther and you will find that a large percentage of the commercial fruit growers were also originally argued into the business by energetic tree men. * * * The pecan (Hicoria pecan) is, without doubt, our most important nut tree. The graceful form of the tree, its longevity, and the delicate flavor and food value of the nuts, make the pecan pre-eminent among nuts. It has no superior and few equals, and is rapidly growing in popularity. * * * At Monticello, Florida, trees have borne 25 pounds at six years of age, 75 pounds at eight years, 100 pounds at ten years, 200 pounds at thirteen years, and over 600 pounds at twency-two years. These were mainly ordinary seed- ling nuts, which bring 10 to 20 cents per pound. * * * Mr. William A. Taylor, Pomol- ogist in charge of Field Investiga- tions, Bureau of Plant Industry, in 1904 Year Book says: "Of our native nut-bearing trees none prom- ise to become of such pomological importance as the pecan. Within the region to which it is well adapted for cultivation, which may be roughly stated as the Mis- sissippi Valley below St. Louis, the South Atlantic and Gulf states, including Texas, no other nut tree, either foreign or introduced, can be considered as fairly in competi- tion with it. Though long neg- lected as a possible profitable or cliard tree, it has during the past fifteen years, assumed considerable importance, and extensive orchards have bfen planted in most of the southern states. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO, MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower, i FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS IN -The Nation's Garden Spot- That Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad In. Norths and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, write to WILBUR McCOY, Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coast Line :-: Jacksonvile. rla. "Yesterday the nursery business was a very small affair. Today there are vast fortunes invested in the business and tomorrow it will take combination of fortunes to handle our growing demands. Not only will the future call for a com- bination of capital in handling our business, but a closer and more cordial relation must exist one to another." * * * Several conditions have aided in bringing to the people at large an appreciation of this important source of nutriment. The increas- ed cost of the various meats exact- ed by the packing trusts has quick- ened interest in the economic value of nuts ; many special nut foods, such as malted nuts, nut butters, and meat substitutes with nuts as a basis, being now on the market at reasonable prices. Again, there is a fairly large number of our pop- ulation who for dift'erent reasons, abstain from meat. In this con- nection might be mentioned tlie Seventh Day Adventists, a grow- ing body in the South, whose teachings are opposed to the use of meat in any form. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees ' AND Ornamental Shrubbery =ALSO= Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSER Y Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber. Pres. J. E. Barber, Sec'ty. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most-'Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Pecan Trees J'r:fL THE I;KA1)IN(+ VARIETIES. PRICK LIST K. / . KAMjA. Y, M?s"i,sfpp1^' 108 THB NUT^GROWBR Winter and Spring Budding - Chas. L. Edwards. This article is intended as a re- vision of former articles on winter and spring budding of nut and fruit trees, bringing experiments down to date. There is a growing interest in the budding of native pecans and hickories with improved pecans; also of the common black walnut with English and Persian varie- ties. Now and then some one wants to know of a better method of overcoming the stubbornness of native persimmon trees, and recon- ciling them to the reception of buds frotn better kinds. After several seasons of practical test, the meth- ods here outlined have proved more successful and more satisfactory than older ories. Beginners know that the piece of wood from which improved buds are taken is called a scion, or bud- ding-stick; and that the tree on which the bud is set is called the stock. It is best that both the scions and stock should be of san^e size, or nearly so, and of the same age. In practice it is more conven- ient to prepare the bed in the stock before cutting out the bud from the scion. Selecting a smooth place, preferably between two natural buds on the srock, a careful down- ward cut may be made for three- quarters of an inch or a little more, taking a thin bit of the wood along with the bark. An equally care- ful horizontal and downward slop- ing cut severs tlie thin bit of bark and wood, which falls to tiie ground, and your bed is ready. At the bottom is a little notch, that will be useful later on. Going now to the scion, and beginning a quar- ter of an inch above a bud, the same downward cut is made, tak- ing a thin bit of wood along with the bark. A quarter of an inch below the bud, make a downward, sloping horizontal cut, just as was done in preparing the stock. This gives a bit of bark, an inch or less in length, with one or more buds on the outer side, and a thin bit of wood on the inner side. The down- ward sloping cut last made leaves it wedge shaped at the lower end, so as to fit into the little notch made for it in the stock, to which it is at once transferred. If you have been careful, if you have been steady and your eye cor- rect, you have a good fit; if not, then it's otherwise. If the bit of bark containing the bud is cut too short for the bed made for it, there is inconvenience. To guard against this, it is best in every case to cut the bud piece as nearly as possible of the same width and thickness as the piece cut from the stock but a little longer. When a little too long, another cut may be made at the base of the bud piece, if it should on first trial fail to fit well into the notch at the bottom of the bed in the stock. If there is a good fit at the bottom, then the upper end of the bud will project a little above the upper end of the bed. In such cases, a little more bark and wood may be shaved off from the stock, the bed made long- er, and a fit secured practically every time. It is the good fit that counts, both in the percentage of buds saved and in after growth during the season. It is the good fit that gives unions so perfect that in a few niomths the bud-shoot has every appearance of a natural shoot from the stock. When a satisfactory fit of the bud into its bed has been secured, the little notcl at the base of the bed affords a rest for it while you are putting on the waxed wrapper, The buds projecting through the eyelets in tlie wrappers, have the advantage of light and air, while the knife-wounds made on bud and stock, are protected by the waxed cloths from wind and rain. These cloths are tied on with ordinary cotton twine. The wrappers and the buds inside of them should be tied on firmly. The strength of these strings is a pretty fair test, and they should be drawn about as tight as possible without breaking. This will bring bud and stock into close contact without being too tight. More buds are lost from being tied too slack than too tigiit. The same protection from wind and weather may be given by tie- ing strips of waxed cloth on the buds, but the oblong squares of waxed cloth, with openings in the middle just large enough for the buds to come through, are in every way preferable. They cover the wounds snugly and completely, and are more convenient in giving the buds necessary attention later on. The cloths with the round open- ing, are used, when there are but one or two buds on the bit of bark taken from the scion. When tiiere are as many as three or more buds, the wrappers with elongated eye- lets are used. In cases where there are three buds or more, the string may pass between the buds in tie- ing on the wrappers. It is neces sary for the wrappers to be large enough to lap over and fully cover the cuts on bud and stock, differ- ent sizes of wrapper being required for different sizes of wood. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. -LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want o Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La, PROCEEDINGS The following volumes of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Louis, IDOi, 25c per copy Scranton, 1906, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907, 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 5()c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, -:• -:- GEORGIA the: NDT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Farmers; Fruit Growers, Nursery- men and investors can read it with profit. As an advertising medium it is particularly valuable, as no padding t of circulation figures fixes the rates. I Descriptive circulars sent on request. The Nut-Grower Co. Poulan, Georgia TUB. NUT-GROWnU 109 Cruelty to Trees. Trees, especiallj- in large cities and along the roadways, are sub- ject to many forms of mutilation, Horses are allowed to eat the bark and new wood, telephone and tele- graph companies cut away indis- criminately and wlien sidewalk or paving is to be laid the roots are hacked and cut away without any regard for the tree. In some of our larges progiessive cities clubs have been formed with the aim of putting before the care- less public ideas which will tend to put an end to all needless cruelty. Small cities and villages should heed this movement as it is much easier to accomplish results in small places than in the larger, and re- sults are more noticeable. An injurious method which is not so noticeable and not so well known to the ine.xperienced is that of impromptu pruning. A tree is not only injured by cutting ofl' large branches but when it is done so that large ragged stumps are left the injury is incalculable. Al- though it is true that pruning must be practiced in order to produce a symmetrical shape, still the best rule is to prune as littltf as possible. ^- Snout Beetles That Injure Nuts. The forests of West Virginia are rich in native nut-bearing trees and shrubs. At least twenty-seven species are found that bear nuts which are ufed as food b)- man or by '.he animals that are of value to man. The nut-bearing trees fur- nish also the bulk of hard-wood timber that is produced in the state. With the probable exception of the beechnut, all the more common \arie(ies of nuts, and, presumably, those that are less common as well, are al lacked by the larvae, or grubs, of over a d'.zen different species of snout beetles. Some of tliese larvae feed on the husks and inner ti-sues of immature nuts and others on the kernels of nuts that are more nearly ripe. Young walnuts and hickory nuts are fre- quently attacked soon after the blossoms fall from the trees and the infested nuts drop to the ground before they are half grown. Chest- nuts, acorns and some oilier varie- ties sustain the greatest injury as they approach maturity- It is not unusual for chestnuts that are kept a week or two after gathering to become from 50 per cent to 75 per cent "wormy" and acorns often suffer to even a greater extent. The infested nuts are rendered un- fit for food and many cases are so badly eaten that the}' will not ger- minate when planted. The injury which these insects do to a viiluable article of food and I heir direct detriment to natural forest development, in causing the failure of many nuts to germinate, make the group an important one from an economic st;indpoint. -- Fred E. Brooks. Origin of the Nut Growers' Association. Back in the early "nineties"--- perhaps it was in the fall of 1901 — four men met in an ofTice in Al- bany, Ga., and organized what has since developed into the National Nut Growers' Association. The four men were Mr. G. M. Bacon, of DrWitt, Ga. ; Major R. J. Ba- con, of Baconton, (now dead;) Mr. James M. Titt, of Albany, and Dr. J. F. Wilson, of Foulan. Th.e organization was effected by electing Mr. G. M. Bacon, presi- dent; Major R. J. Bacon, vice- president; Dr. J. F. Wilson, sec- retary, and Mr. James M. Tift, treasurer The pecan is now known to be either cultivated or found growing wild in 30 states. The area of the pecan is generally said to correspond to that ot cotton, it extends further north and west than the cotton- growing region Barnwell Pecan Groves o'^oreud: ded and (-irafted trees of the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORl,IA. 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We have hundreds of letters fr n- fiedcustomers stating that their tires haveonlybeen pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is ^.50 per pair.but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price $4,55 per pair) if you send FULIj CASH WITH OliDER and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk in sending us an order as the tires nxay. be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when y'cu want a bicycle you will g^ve us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. mp ^f%gg tkiMTtrn T/DPC don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of 9r FC#V fVCM/ ##n£0 Hedgethom Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. g%g% Aff/IT tMfAi^ but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle mM%M #¥€/# Vr/lff or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL 110 HB NU^aHOWBH SOCIETIES An Event of Import. The Texas Farmers' Congress, consisting of nearlj' a score of af- filiated agricuctural and kindred or- ganizations, will hold its Thir- teenth Annual Session at the A. & M. College of Texas, July 26, 37 and 28. The programs prepared for the general sessions and for the sepa- rate meetings of the various affili- ated organizations will furnish a rare feast of advanced ideas in ag- riculture, modern methods that make for greater production, great- er prosperity, better homes, better schools, better roads and more hap- piness in Texas. It will l^e a school of instruction for old and young, a picnic of good fellowship and pleasant contact with the brain and brawn ; the builders. The farmers of Texas and their families, and all who ate interested in the progress and prosperity of the people are cordially invited to attend. Reduced railroad rates. E. W. KiRKPATRicK, Pres. McKinney, Texas. T. W. Larkin, Sec. Beaumont, Texas. Essentials of Commercial Orcharding. (CONTINUED FROM l-AGE Sl9) The fact of a tree living is no proof that it was properly planted. It may be set too deeply — one of the commonest and greatest mis- takes. Only in the rarest cases has a pecan tree developed adventitious roots from trunk buds, as many other trees will do. The result of too deep planting is that the roots do not get the necessary aeration and soil warmth and it will be found that the most vigorous trees are those with a strong lateral root formation near the surface Sec- ondly, the tree is extremely slow to start a vigorous growth and may take two or more years to re- adjust itself to the unnatural con- ditions or until the topmost later- als have grown outward and up- ward towards the surface, which they will eventually do, unless the tree in the meantime perishes or is not strong enough to overcome the situation, in which case it becomes a runt and is forever dwarfed. A further danger, involving the life of the tree for two or more reasons exists from too deep planting and that is that in the event of an ex- cess of moisture, the soil becomes so full of water that the roots are entirely deprived of air and actual ly "drowned." However, this same result may come from setting a tree in an imprevious subsoil, even if planted at the profier depth, for the water may collect in the space in which the tree is set and ai it connot readilv seep into the surrounding soil must remain there and stagnate until by capillary ac- tion it is brought to the surface and evaporated. In soils of this character a remedy is to dynamite the bottom of the holes in an effort to inake fissures into which the water may escape, or by setting the tree above the ordinary level of the ground, or a broad mound. The top laterals will support a tree, the tap root being practically unnecessary after laterals have be- come well establi-shed. The tap root ceases growing in a few years and invarably stops on reaching permanent water. My experience in moving large trees furnishes conclusive evidence of these facts. FERTILIZING This is a subject requiring spe- cial, if not lengthy treatment, and the question of the judicious use of tertilizers is a matter for the ex- perienced horticulturist in each lo- cality, for conditions which pre- vail in the New England States for instance do not necessarily ap. ply in the south wiiere our gi owing seasons are much longer a greater rainfall and tress need a more con- tinuous ration of plant food. The fertilizing of a pecan orchard de- pends upon soil requirements, whether to force growth or to en- courage fruiiing and the kind of cultivation to be given it. It is however, conclusively proven that frequent cultivation during the proper season is infinitely mote benelncial in every way than scant work with ever so much fertilize. (OOSTINCBD IN AUGUST NUMBER.) Pecan Trees in quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. We also carry a general line <»f Fruit aiirt Oruameiital Trees. mii 1909-1910 Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery A/^SOJV HlHI.IJIlSa HOUSTON. .-. TKXAS. Mr. J B. Wigtit's (;tiattanooga address, four six by nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words. Tills is a careful and very conservative review of the commerulal opportunities this nut offers, and supplies .lUSt the in- form.itlon prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: I.OOO S4.50 500 2.S0 250 1.50 100 75 50 50 •Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. Bill A nm mm The Best Investment that can now be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already establislied ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath of ihe p i.per shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four- groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsunia orange trees between Ihe pecansi whic^h includes 20,000 stocks for Che coming.season'sgrafting. aspleu- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuraa orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantitv. Thanks- giving and Holiday oi'de'rs for nuts given special attention All gr.aiting wood and trees grown from bearing trees in my own groves, hence absolutely I rue to name. No guess 'work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your order's eai'ly. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. THE, NUT-aH(J\VBH 111 Books and Catalogues. Hl>lHHH'TH'»H'»HHIT'r'T"Hf' T'tH'f >i|l|HHHI|l|HHI>HH'>l|HH'»<'>HHHH)l|| South Ditkota State College of Agriculture announces its summer sessions at Brookings, S. D. * * * Dry Farming — Announcement for the Fifth Congress and Expo- sition to be held Spokane, Wash- ington, October 3-6, 1910. * * * Nut Notes — For July appears in a new iuid enlarged form, and contains the official call for the 1910 convention, and other matter of interest. * * * Home Mixing and Special Formulas — With suggestions for application is the title of a 32 page pamphlet, issued by the Coe-Mor- limer Fertilizer Co., of Charles- Ion, S. C. * * * New England Farms — Is the title of a 33 page monthly issued by the Industrial Department of the Maine Central Railroad, Port- land, Maine. Its mission is to aid ill the development of agriculture. * * * Farmers Bulletin No. 401. — The object of this bulletin is to give in considerable detail, the re- sults of successful experiments and the methods employed in prevent- ing frost injury by means of fire and smudges in the apple, peach and pear orchards in southern Ore- gon. * * * Exchange Value of Farm Products — Is the title of a speech made by U. S. Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, May 27th, 1910. This speech has been issued in doc- ument form by the American Pro- tective Tariff League of New York, as document No. 99. I * * * Snout Beetles that Injure Nuts — Is the title of bulletin No. 128 of the West Virginia Agricul- tural Experiment Station, Morgan- town, West Va. This pamphlet t gives description and life history of various insects and is especially valuable in localities where the hickory and pecan are grown. Several of the articles will be re- produced in the Nut Grower as space permits. :UMMIT ) CHOICE ' NURSERY STOCK URSERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors MONTICELLO. ^'^^-:^W^ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges—Roses —OUR SPKCIALTIKS— The Admiral Schley Pecan J^ The Pecan of Future lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: »lHtl>itlt — ■ ■ tttt'tt ^ I' f ■' ■' - •' ■' ■■ ' ■' ' - ■ ■ • ■• •' ' Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1910=1911 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, '"^^fSS'- THE LOUlSlflNfl NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprieter, .lEANKRETTE. - - LOUISIANA. Headquarters for Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees in the South- west. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF = Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual orCo=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. ^IF"For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. 112 THE, NUT~GHOWBH 85 88 Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MKM BERS == National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. jyiassacJa-usetti OCT 15 1910 A-gric-altural College THE NUT^GROWER Volume IX whole No. 97. Number 8 Poulan, Ga., August, 1910. 5c per Copy 50c per Year COMBINATIONS ADAPTED TO PECAN GROWING. Read at the Georgia-Florida Convention Mr. Charles M. Barnwell, mus- ing tlioughtfuUy on the bank of the river Flint, gazing into the opaque density of its flowing tide, would pau-^e to observe if interro- gated, that the best combination iidapled to pecan culture is brains, experience and ;i fat bank account. Some I'.iive I he brains, thev ad- mii it ; a few have the experience, but they boast very little about it ; I have heard of several people pos- sessing fat bank accounts, but have fount! it difficult to induce them to combine the same with my brains and experience. The same component parts above named combined in one and the same person or company go far to- ward spelling success ; but many of us who are growing and planting pe can trees will have to hire the brains, accjuire the e.xperience, and accum- ulate by some means (which I am not at liberty to disclose) the nece-sar)- bank account. There- fore, it becomes nece-sarv to dis- cuss, under the title of this paper, cumbinalions that will produce revenue to help the bank account, that will help build the soil, that will help to reduce the great burden of expenses incidental to caring properly for a large acreage of pecan trees. It is a grand and beautiful and up-lifling tiling to sit beneath the shade of one nine-year old pecan tree and reflect that it has a crop on it worth from fifteen to twenty- dollars. It then becomes highly entertaining tocalculate what one — hundred — five-hundred — one thous- and acres of land with twenty such trees to the acre will, produce at twenty years of age. I always stop figuring on this when I get up into the millions. I am not very clever in mathematics. I at Orlando, 1910. by W. W. Carkoll. felt however that I was justified in figuring that a hundred or a thous- and acres of pecan trees, treated like tiie thirty or more trees in my test grove, would yield as big re- turns as mv trees are yielding if the I roblem of providing proper equipment and organization and means to care for the trees could be solved. This problem must be solved by making the land between the trees produce profitable crops, and in- crease in fertility ; by making ad- jacent lands, not planted in trees, produce revenue to assist in the work. Hence the answer, which is the "shibboleth" of the modern farmer — Diversification. Tt is im- possible to outline any fixed sys- tem of diversification. This is en- tirely dependent on the extent and character of the land used for the grove. A body of good land all cleareti, free from slumps, with no shade or running water, permits solid planting in trees; but there can be no combinations used here except straight cultivation of the middles with crop rotations. This is the most expensive type of pecan grove, but is very well adapted to the large company plan of selling in blocks on time contracts. The conservative man who buys ten acres and plants two hundred trees thereon, cannot combine stock-ntis- ing with his venture. His field offers him the opportunities of poultry as a side line, or a rota- tions of farm or truck crops. He usually compromises b)' getting a darkey to [ilow and hoe (and skin up) his trees in exchange for the privilege of growing a sorry crop of corn or cotton in t he middles. If he has land suited to cotton and works it intelligently, that crop [continued on PAG.-, 114.] The English Walnut and its Cul- ture in the Eastern States By J. K Jones. Having kept in touch with ex- periments in walnut growing 'n the eastern states and having visit- ed growers in various sections where the walnut is receiving at- tention, we have thought that pos- sibly a few notes on the English or Persian walnut, Juglans Regia, and its culture as applicable to eastern conditions would be of in- terest to your readers. It is not generally known that the English walnut, when grown where the trees ripen up their wood properly, will stand quite severe temperatures uninjured, and most people are inclined to associate this nut with tropical or semitropi- cal climates. Tne fact is, that tlie tree attains to its best development and bears more abundantly of fruit of the best quality, in a cool, tem- perate climate. Our observation leads us to believe that, in the not far distant future, the merits of this nut will be more fully ap- preciated and that some of these meritorious varieties of eastern ori- gin and possibly some of the hardy French varieties, will be propagat- ed and planted quite extensively, in sections where they are known to be successful, in the eastern or mid- dle states. Not unlike other nuts and fruits, we may expect ceifain favored localities to be more favor- able for the production of walnuts than others, but we believe that, with the selection of varieties known to be hardy and productive in the eastern or middle states, and bud or graft these on our na- tive black walnut stock, that their culture may be profitably extended and no doubt become quite general in the eastern, middle and southern states, at least for home use, as the English walnui, aside from its crop of delicious soft-shell nuts, is a lieautiful ornamental and shade 114 THB, NUT^ai^OWBU tree, and therefore cotnbir.es the ornamental and useful to the great- est degree possible. The use of the black walnut as a stock, aside from giving tiie trees more vigor and presumably, adapt- ing them to a wider range of soils, has a verv beneficial effect in that trees thus worked ripen up their wood earlier and better in the fall and are thus enabled to withstand unusually low temperatures unin- jured. When one sees these large, thrif- ty trees bearing bushels of those delicious soft-shell nuts — and with- out the spraying and watchful care now necessary for success with our best orchard fruits, one wonders why their culture has not received more attention. Doubtless, the principal reason is, that the wal- nut has been found quite difficult to propagate by budding or graft- ing, and most propagators, after repeated failures, have given it up. .Seedlings trees, aside from failing to reproduce a given variety, vary so much in vigor, hardiness and productiveness, that their culture was necessarily uncertain of satis- factory and profitable results A few [jropagators who have persist- ently followed up the work of pro- pagation, however, are being awarded by fair success, and doubt- less as more is learned of tlieir pro- pagation, the trees will be produc- ed in sufiicient quantity to meet the demands of planters, as is now the case with pecans in the south. Several of the state Experiment Stations are taking up the work of propagation and testing of varie- ties under various conditions, and these, together with individual plantings in widelv separated lo- calities, will be of an inestimable value to guide us in future [)lant- ings. Mr. John G. Rush, of West Willow, Pa., who has perhaps taken a more active interest in the English walnut than any other in- dividual in the eastern states, has growing on his place, which he has appropriately named "VVal- nutmere," some very promising variel ies of eastern origin, promi- nent among which is the justly fa- mous variety which bears his name. In addition to these, Mr. Rush is testing several of the hardv Europ ean varieties and is always l^n the look-out for new varieties of spe- ci.il promise for his conditions. Small one ^ear trees of the "Rush" svalnut budded on black walnut stocks, planted at •' Walnutmere" spring 1905, have made splendid growth and nearly all bore a few nuts last season. The tree photo- graphed (fig. 9) bore 2 nuts fall 190S and 12 nuts fall 1909. The original tree of the "Rush" bor6 2 bushels of nuts (measured) when it was only 10 years of fge, and, with one or two exceptions, has borne annual crops since. Other varieties of eastern origin worthy of special menlion are the "Hall," "Pomeroy," "Peerless Paper- shell" and "Holden." On the grounds of the late Nor- man Pomeroy at Lockport. N. Y., we saw the original tree of the Pomeroy. This is a large spreading tree and a good bearer. The Messrs. Pomeroy have shown their faith in the walnut by planting an orchard of 8 acres. They expect these trees, when they get into good bearing, to pay better than apples, prunes, pears, etc., which do espe- cially well in that section. We next visited Mr. Joe Bow- er's fruit farm near Lockport, where we saw a very thrifty young walnut orchard just coming into good bearing condition. Mr. Bower also showed us a very thrifty and productive grafted tree of the "Pomeroy" top worked about 10 feet high on black walnut. This tree was of particular interest be- cause it demonstrated the feasibilitv of workingover natural growth and road side trees of bluck walnut and butternut to the finer varieties of the English walnut. We asked Mr. Bower why he had not done more of this work and he said that he had grafted several trees since, but that for some reason, none of the grafts grew. This would ap- pear discouraging, but from our observations and experience in working over pecans in the south, we are confident that black walnut or butternut trees of considerable size can be worked over quite as successfully as the working of the young trees in the nursery At Avonia, Erie Co., Pa., we had a pleasant visit with Mr. L. C. Hill, the originator of the "Hall" walnut. This is a very old tree, having been grown fiom a nut planted by one of the early German settlers over loovears ago. This nut is very large and the tree is said to be a good bearer. 'This tree has a record of 8 bushels of nuts in one seasoji which sold for i>io.oo per bushel. Combinations Adapted to Pccan Growing (OONTINUED FKOM PAGE 113) with its shallow, rapid, clean cultivation, and nitrogen-conserv- ing shade, is a splendid setting for young, growing trees. This plan effects a saving, perhaps, but rare- ly produces any revenue. So, the conclusion forces itself, that to use combinations to help in making a pecan orchard, rare discrimination must be exercised in selecting the land. Many acres more than are to be planted in trees should be se- cured in order to use wise selection as to land to be set in trees, in or- der to have land for tenant farm- ers who can supply ready day la- bor, in order to furnish pastures for cattle and sheep and swine, that in turn will consume forage and grain produced, yielding in return natural fertilizers that are best of all for growing trees. Water should be abundant, woodlands yielding acorns and other "mast" and furnishing shade and good root- ing for the pigs and grazing for cattle, should be desired. Where these things are absent the help for the soil must come from the commercial fertilizer ware- house and the price therefor from * the bank account. I may be wrong, but I figured things out that way, and our hogs have swamp and acorn range, our pure-bred and graded cattle have field and stream for support, and our negro tenants are near at hand to furnisf labor when needed. From an old southern plantation of 3,436 acres, of which more than half is woodland and pastures, I select the sandy hammock land with deep clay sub-soil for the pe- can trees. Fields are devoted to raising coin for feeding mules and fatten- ing hogs. Sufficient hay is saved, peanuts are provided to be gath- ered by the hogs that have acorns as well as to help flavor the pork. Graded cattle \vith only pure-bred males in herd furnisl: milk- ciiws for ready sale, or offer oppor- tunities for dairy products which m:iy be utilized later while all culls - are fattened for beef. The tenants paj' rent in cotton or iiKjiiey, which helps the bank account. Now. this is my theory, aiul if 1 aui wrong I will (iiid it out in lime but il is a success so far. 1 be- THB NUT-GHOWBti 115 lieve tliat animal fertilizer i» the best for trees wiien properly treat- ed. To secure it one must have work-stock, cows and hogs. To have them, one must have pastures, and a full bin and stack. To have them without undue outgo one must make them profitable. So, I argue that only a part of the farm should be given to the trees — for cows, hogs and pecan trees, will not live amicably inside the same fence. I iiave tried it, and the hogs and the cows tried it, but the the trees didn't half try. They gave up without a struggle. It is not meant that solid bodies of land should never be planted to trees by n)en or companies with ample means. It is meant that farm-made money and f;irm-made fertilizer help pecan trees giow, and it takes room, diversification, land and labor to make either or both of them. One of the best combinations for the good of the whole pecan section is, the one the thrifty farm- er makes, when he improves the value of his farm by setting out a few choice acres in standard va- rieties of pecan with some orchard fruits. There are farmers in iny home county, of Jefferson, who gather from a few seedling trees, planted under an almost passing whim, and inatured under adverse Conditions nuls. wurth more money than the belter class of negro ten- ant can get gioss fur the entire farm crop made behind a good mule. I believe in the future of the pe- can nut. It will add to the wealth and progress and prestige of the South. It will make our laborers busier, our lands more valuable, our citizens more comfortable. The Cotton States are offered another monopoly to share honors with King Cotton, and the pecan is al- ready a commercial factor in the South's affairs. I am reminded of a mental pic- ture that is not pleasing. It Isihe recollection of wide fields studded with stunted trees that are crowd- ed with briars and weeds, and promising nothing but disappoint- ment and failure to those whose money placed them there. Many an acre planted to pecan trees that were dug carelessly, set out late and hurriedly, and cared tor unintelligently or not at all stands to-dav as a warning to pro- moters and investors alike, that they should not promise too much, that they should not attempt too much. Better ten trees well set and thrifty, than a thousand gnarled and knotty and yellow and worthless from failure of funds to furnish proper fertilizers and culti- vation. So, it is wi' to produce the Fastest. 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Bor- deaux, France, reports the walnut crop badly damaged, according to this bulletin, which goes on to say concerning the California situation in almonds, so far as the Exchange is concerned : "Things are well in hand and our outlook becomes brighter every day. We only want what we are justly entitled to, and therefore we are going to get it." Sunshine Necessary. The pecan tree likes sunshine, as do other trees, and can not do its best work when overshadowed by larger trees nor when choked with undergrowth. A friend told me a story the other day of a cattle man in a Northwestern county who leased a large pasture havingmany pecan trees along a creek that ran through it. The lessee was told that if he would protect the trees against trespassers he might have all the pecans growing upon them during the term of his lease. This was agreed to readily, and the next thing the tenant did was to cut out, close to the ground, all under- brush and useless growth that in- terfered with the pecan trees. Af- ter that he ran over it occasionally with a disc, and the result this year was a clear profit of $500 from the fruit of those trees. They had been idlers before, but this man put them to work, first giving them a chance to work. One of the ob- jects of our association is to induce the people of Texas to put their id|e nut trees to work. The water chestnut or horn chestnut, an aquatic plant, pro- duces a seed which somewhat re- se^mbles two curved horns united iqtq.one, the kernel of which is largel|y used as a food, by the in- habitants of Asiatic countries. It is on sale in the United States to a certain extent, but chiefly in Chi- nese shops. Another water plant is also known as the water chest- nut, but in this case it is the corn or bulb that is eaten. It is not un- like a chestnut in shape, and has a tougii, brown skin. This is grown in Asia, but it is imported by the Chinese in this country. * * * There are some things to have and some things to avoid in em- barking upon the growing of al- monds for profit. In the first place, one must have a deep, rich soil, tor the almond is a very voracious feeder. Its root system is one of the finest of any of our orchard trees, and we inight note that it should therefore be a most excellent root for nursery grafting. It is one of the longest lived of all orchard trees. Not only good and deep soil, but perfect under-drainage must be had. for the almond will not bear wet feet any more than will the peach. Now, if these were the only con- ditions we might expect to find plenty of room to grow almonds. But we must next choose our loca- tion with reference to both frost and rainfall. As the almond is such an early bloomer, this is a very important point. I am of the opinion that California is the only state in the Union where the al- mond can be successfully grown, on account of frost. A location must be chosen where there is no frost to amount to anything after the first of February, as the almond begins to bloom the last of Janu- ary in much of this state. But even more important than frost is the matter of rainfall ; for wiiile the almond likes plenty of inois- ture, it should have sunny weather while it is blooming to insure suc- cess. Many strong men and strong na- tions have owed much of tlieir vig- or to a liberal consumption of me.it, but thousands of healthy Atneri- cans to-day have learned that there is bone, sinew and muscle in other articles of food, and as a rational substitute for meat the staple nuts so bountifully provided by Nature, will deservedly hold the foremost place. Dr. Niles. 118 THB NUT^GROWBR Essentials of Cofflmercial Orcharding. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 115) ed buds, usually with a strong one in the center. If no disaster befalls this central bud it becomes the leader in growth and will be surrounded with branches from surrounding buds. This process goes on in successive stages result- ing in the ideal tree. On a tree of small stature these side branches may be pinched during the grow- ing season, or pruned off until the orchardist's ideal height for a per- manent head is reached bearing in mind the fact that it is desirable to afford the trunk as much natural shade as possible consistent with developing a good head at the right height as soon as possible thus causing all subsequent growl h to be thrown into that which is to remain. The general principles underlying the pruning of pecans are first to get a good stocky trunk (regardless of early height) and then prune off the side branches each winter until the permanent head is formed at the desired height according to the orchardist's de- sires in that respect. I am inter- ested in a financial as well as ad- visory capacity in a very large acreage of pecans and my exper- ience with both the trees and those associated with me have been va- ried and interesting as well as in- structive. In one case, pursuing the course above outlined, which my previous experience justified, one of the "arm chair" kind was shocked to find some trees "no taller" after the first two .sea-ons growth, (during the first seasoios the trees being abused by careless farm hands.) At the end of the third season alarm was felt because the trees were so tali, special efforts by pruning being used to accom- plish this, during the second winter and third summer. It is true that a tree may be headed so high to in- vite disaster from high winds (which are more prevalent in some localities than others) but in cases of the kind, by letting side branches come freely, naturally, or by forc- ing, during the growing season following the high heading, the continuous upright growth of the top may be checked and a lower head formed at any desired height from the ground. In the meantime our object among other things be- ing to have room to work our or- chard tools and to eliminate hand hoeing as much as possible with its extra expense. MANAGEMKNT. The old fallacy of planting a pe- can nut or tree with a post-hole digger and without subsequent care expecting to return in a few years and reap a gold mine is exploded. The pecan tree will pay more than handsomely for every dollar e.x- pendedon it from infancy upwards and the commercial orchardist must be prepared to spend money freely and whenever necessary to get the largest tree in the shortest time which IS the aim of the horticul- turist. We should not be too in- sistent upon precocious or too ear- ly bearing, for we cannot get a great vegetative growth and nuts too, except in phenomenal cases. What can be accomplished with a few pet trees in a man's back yard and what it is possible to accom- plish where hundreds of acres are involved are diff'ereat matters. In my judgment it is better to devote the first 5, 6 and even seven years in developing the largest possible bearing surface, for when we han- dle our tree for very early bearing it is more often than not at the ex- pense of growth and the aggregate returns over a period of years will be greater if an orchard is handled in a conservative way along these lines than if held back for fruiting in its chilhood. The many impor- tant phases of work to be handled in the development of a large or- chard from an economic and horti- cultural point of view demands skillful and experienced manage- ment, both in knowledge of the tree, the ability to obtain and han- ble labor, as well as subsidiary crop matters, which help us in our ex- penses and inexperienced persons going into the subject may fall into many of the pitfalls and make those costly bluiulers. both in time and material, which many of us who thought we 11)11 Id crawl before we had learned the word "creep" have done and perhaps doing now. CONCLUSION, There is a custom in parts of China to pay the doctor only when you are well. It is his business to keep you well or his pay ceases. In conclusion I would therefore suggest to those without experience going into pecans for profit that before doing so they consult exper- ienced men, the best authorities and those who have made a long study of the subject and who are not afraid to give unbiased opinions. If the prospective pecan planter cannot afford to hire an experienced man familiar with all the "ins and outs" of the work it is prudent to make arrangements with some competent person to periodically visit their orchard, who will advise them what to do and what not to do as many cautious orchard own ers are now doing. JONES' JBUUOINO TOOL Designed and manufactured specially for budding nut trees. An entirely new principle. With this tool Pecans, Wal- nuts, Chestnuts, etc., can be budded almost as rapidly as in ordinary shield budding, and, as it is practically impos- sible to make anything but a perfect fit, even a novice can use it with satis- factory results. Made from aluminum with cutting blades of the finest razor steel, such as is used in the finest safety razor blades. If interested write for descriptive circular, or send $2.00 for sample tool by mail, postpaid. Your money back if it is not perfectly satisfactory. J. F. JONE^, JKAXICK KTTEi L.OVISIANA. The Austin Nursery A GREAT STOCK OF Fruit and Shade Tress, Ever- greens and Native Ornamentals. INTRODUCERS OF THE HAUPT BERRY A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry. You can plant Haupt any time during the year. Our favorite time is in August and September. Write for our Special Circular on this berry. Introducei's of the .... OLIVER and ten other superb Texas Pecans. Big stack of trees of standard varieties of eastern and Texas Pecans. We will plant for you 1,000 grafted and budded pecans, and let you pay for the trees that are alive and established at the end of the first season. Write for new Catalog and Special Circulars on Berries and Pecans. F, T, Ramsey & Son Austin, : Texas. Wmw Bmiml standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and 'drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. P GILL, Myr. ALBANY, OA. THE, NUToGHUWBR 119 CLASSIFIED VARIOUS NUTS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this cnlumn we Rive place to advertisements from suhflrrihers who have rctiard. Farm Frodncts, Live Stock or Imp einenis to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for thing:s wanted. The rate is One Cent ^ w rd for each insertion. Patrons are urped t<> make liberal upe of this space, as it will he found convenient an'i p'-nHial>le. 1,200 or more Inishels of pecans for sale. A'l'iress J. J Domas, New Roads, La Cement Sidewalks, Buildings, Etc — roitland cement idewalk construction; crmcrete block bniVliiiirs; making and laving concrete blocks: esiiniaunt;. profits etc. Practical bnok fnrcon- tract'trs ^living details in full. Second edition. P.)«tpaid 5 c- De Graff Pub Co , Peoria, HI. BABY CHICKS 8 -"ENTS— f^l-ipped safely anywhere, ('ulver Poultry Farm. 1034 Reed, Henson. Xeb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for stu ly or exhibuion purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts Hirnished onlv in liraiff^H quantities. I HE NU f-i^ROWER COM- PANY. Pouian, Ga. Ws»ntpd-"Copies of the Novembor and De- cember i;iri9 and January ]9'0 issues of the Nut- (irower Parties having duplicates or copies not nteded, will oblige by notilyiog The Xut- ^ rower Co , Pouian, Georgia. FOR SALE— A bearing grove of the best varieties, four hundred trees. Good reason for selling:. Ask for par- ticulars of The Nut-Grower, Pouian, Ga. Th*^ Bnck<*ve Subscription Ajr^noy — For many years we have se- cured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order bv mail. Write for quotations on any periodical desired. J. F. Wilson, Agent, Pouian, Ga. Barnwell Pecan Groves oto^Bud: ded and (-frafted trees nf the leading varieties. First-Class Grafting Wood for sale at reasonable prices. Address CHAS. M. BARNWELL, BACONTON, :-: :-: GEORGIA. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is my Specialty. . Budded and (jrafted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, "5t^°RW GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. SpeciallAts in Bmldeil and Grafted Pecan Trees of reiialile known varieties. Owr catalog con taing information on selecting;, planting;, cul- ture, etc , and is free for the asking;. Grafiwood for sale ; our orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. (iRAVES. PROPRIEfOR, Gainesville, Florida. PiSTACnE. (Pistachio vera ) — Pistache nuts are raised in large quantities on the Pacific coast, and thev bring fancy prices. We do not know what the species will do elsewhere. I am trying it. -Morris. * * * Schley. — Prof. Miller claimed this to be the best nut on earth. Conceded to be an early bearer. One report showed 17 nuts in 1908 on a tree planted in 1906. One membei from Georgia said it was the best among 24 varieties. It is in great favor in Jefferson county, Florida. * * * The successful .setting of pecan buds by any and all methods is a work of painstaking and careful attention to details. Not only must ihis detail work be done properly, but weather conditions, the condition of the tree and of your budding must all be favorable. And when careful work fails, there is just one thing to do : Try again. No quitter will ever make a suc- cessful nut grower, nor a success- ful grower of any other fruit. * * * The Butternut i? not planted for timber iis the Black walnut is, as the tree seldom grows large enough to make its timber an object. The shape of the nut is different from the Black walnut, being long and narrow and easily cracked, split- ting lengthwise in whole or in half kernels. The flavor is very much like that of the Black walnut, ex- cept that it is less oily and not so rank. It has a peculiar aromatic spiciness that a great many like. The tree bears heavily when quite young. * * * Under the caption, "'The Lum- ber Tree of the Future," George C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal., de- scribes a hybrid walnut tree as fol- lows : •'Of all tlie forest trees adapted to the making of high-grade lum- ber in this country, not one pos- sesses a greater commercial value than the Black Walnut (Juglans nigra.) nor is there another tree which has .so ruthlesslv been cut away from the landscape of its na- tive habitat. The rich forests in the upper Mississippi Valley are practically exhausted, with the re- sult tnat its lumber now possesses the highest value of the American markets. Indeed, its value makes it prohibitive to a large extent for the purposes to which it was origi- nally used in the manufaclure of furniture and interior house finish- ing. The result is that it is now extensively used as a veneer face to other and cheaper woods. The tree is a slow grower, which fact has somewhat retarded reforesta tion and planting for purposes of lumber. * * * "Experience has already shown that in the native California black walnut we have a more hardy root than that of the English walnut, one that is more capable of flour- ishing under unfavorable condi- tions and one with a much wider range of soil. The native walnut varies, however, in individual tree almost as much as the cultivated species, so that there is room for careful selection and discrimination in growing a root stock. The Cal- ifornia walnut is also divided more or less distinctly into two separate species. It may be classed as the southern California and northern California tvpes. The tree which grows wild in the southern part of the State has its favorite habitat upon dry, somewhat elevated hill- sides, with occasional trees in the valleys at the foot of these hills. It is distinctly a liillside rather than a valley tree, however. The tree itself has quite a shrubby rather than a tree-like form, and even in large specimens grown on good soil, with abundant water, the tendency is still toward abun- dant branching rather than the formation of a tall, clean trunk. The nut of this type is a very small one. The northern California nut averages fully twice as large, and the tree has typically a tall, regu- lar form, approaching thai of the eastern black walnut." "The careful [jlanter should see to it that his plantings are rooted upon some of these hardy and satisfac- tory native black walnut seedling." 120 THB NUT-GHOW^lSl^ THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISHKD M4)NTHLY BY X5/}e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as secoii'l-class matter at the Postofflee at Poulau, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 18T9. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. N« >ticf; When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requesled to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents i)er annum, but if you will send .'$1.00 your account will be credited for three years. AU-ins Sullivan, Grand Bay, Ala; Edward S.Cleveland, Hampton, Conn.; L. B. Dukes, Moul- trie, Ga.; Alexis Voorhes, New Ibe- ria, La.; Thos. P. Littlepage, Wash- ington, D. C; C. W. Carr, Fort De- posit, Ala,; J. M. McKenzie, Green- ville, Ala.; A. Clarke Snedeker, Wheeling, W. Va.; J, B. Dryer, Bir- mingham, Ala. In another column will be found a brief outline of new work in interest of nut cultui'e, undertaken by the De- partment of Agriculture. This is an important move, and will doubtless be productive of valuable results as well as be a great aid in solving many of the problems which con- front the growers. It is also a rec- ognition, by the department, of the rapidly developing public interest in this horticultural specialty. The fact that there are bogus pe- can propositions, and fraudulent dealers, is one of the strongest argu- ments that there is a valuable and legitimate business in this line. There would be no counterfeit mon- ey if there was no genuine currency. There would be no fake pecan if there were no genuine investments. It is up to the people to distinguish the true from the false, and to aid them in doing this, is the work of the Nut-Grower and the National Nut Growers' Association. It would hardly be kind for the south to refer to the great state of Texas with its millions of pecan trees and hundreds of car loads of nuts supplying all the markets, as "Mis- sionary ground in pecan culture," but when some of the most progres- sive and able advocates of the indus- try, in that state call it a missionary movement, it must be true. The following clipping taken from a Texas paper tells the tale: "I meant to write just a line and say that I like to publish letters that have been written unawares. They sound so natural and honest. I at- tach one just received from Judge Edwards, the unselfish missionary to the unpecaned of Texas. F. T. R. "My Dear Sir— The Oliver bud- ding wood reached me in best condi- tion. Thank you. Now let me ask another favor: When you send the Kincaid buds, kindly put in a stick or two of your best and hardiest soft- shelled walnut — French, Persian or whatever you think best suited to this climate and latitude. "Within the past two months I have traveled considerable in East Texas. The pecan microbe is work- ing on those citizens to an extent that promises dislodgement of their hook-worms. Oddly enough, those fellows are more interested in bud- ding hickories with pecans than those of the prarie section are in top working their wild pecans. I do be- lieve our association is doing some good construction work. Yours very truly, Chas. L. Edwards." Two years ago the following was penned and published by the noted Texas leader. No one questioned the truthfulness of the prediction. The same can be said of the prospec- tive 1910 convention. However it might be remarked that there will be several times as much to see by way of exhibits at Monticello and from four to six times as many of the "most cheerful and companion- able people in all this part of earth in attendance:" "The approaching meeting of the National Nut Growers' Association in Chattanooga, Tenn., October 27th- 29th, will be an occasion fraught with opportunities of rare value- opportunities to see specimens and meet people who are skilled and trained to give out knowledge and experience which can be obtained in no other way, except by attending this meeting. Those who desire to meet some of the most progressive workers and most cheerful and com- panionable people in all this part of earth, should attend this session of Nut Growers.— E. W. Kirkpatrick." The August Nut-Notes has the following pertinent reference to the 1910 Badge Book: "The Convention Badge Book will be an interesting and useful feature of the Monticello Convention. In addition to the official program, and various notices, it will contain infor- mation about orchards, nurseries and arrangements for visiting them "A full list of names of offi- cers, standing and special com- mittees, will add much to the effi- ciency of convention work. "Then the name and post office ad- dress of all the members, is the crowning characteristic of the book. "The badge number, which en- ables anyone to identify the wearer, is a great convenience and rare pleas- ure. "It is not only at the Convention, that the badge book is serviceable and interesting. It may not be well known that the demand for it is from all parts of the country, and that many copies are used in various ways. "Be sure that your name appears, and do not neglect the advertising opportunities it offers. "As a business proposition, it is worth many times the cost of mem- bership, to thus have your name given public recognition. "Another business feature of the book is, the advertising privileges it extends to members, and deserv- ing firms. This patronage is a source of needed revenue to the As- sociation, and merits liberal i)atron- age." Dixie Pecan Orchard Company, Albany, Ga , $25,000; Henry J. Ernest, Chicago, and others. TUB ^UT-aHU\VISI^ 121 FOR SALE! Two Fine Pieces ol Properly in Alachua County, Florida. One 40-acre tract, with 12 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. One 20i-acre tract, with 10 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. This propperty lies on a large lake and is well drained. Both places adjoin my grove that will bear 5,000 lbs. of fine pecans this season. For further particulars, address, T. S. MCMANUS, WALDO, FLORiDA. Nuts for Profil fC°f.t»i,r trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. WHITE'S BUDDING TOOL A Scientific Instrument for file Propagation of Pecans, Hickories. Walnuts, Chest- nuts, Persinmions and all of tier Trees, by the Annular, Semi-Annular, Patch and Veneer Methods. Several hundreds of this Tool in use in United States and abroad. Budding and Grafting Wood of best varieties of Pecans. For particulars and prices, write HERBERT C WHITE, DeWill, Georgia, News Items. Weather records at Piney Park for July show: Maximum tempera- ture, 96 degrees; minimum, 62; mean, 80. Ramfall, 8.22 inches. * * * Additional land purchases have been made in the Albany district for pecan planting-, by Prof. Craig and associates. They now have four thousand acres in a solid body. * * * A meeting of the convention and local committees will be held during the latter part of this month, at Monticello, for completing arrange- ments for the November Convention. * * * The Almond Growers' Exchange considered bids and quotations on July 1 and issued a circular con- cerning its action. All bids were re- jected and the Edmund Peycke Company of Los Angeles was ap- pointed sales agent at prices to be named by the exchange. Up to this writing, quotations have not been made public. * * * E. H. Laing president of the Rob- ert Crooks Company, New York, who has been making inquiries by cable regarding the 1910 crop of Brazil Nuts, reports: "The general feeling appears to be that we are going to have a short crop in 1910, particularly so as the crops of 1908- 09 were fairly large, last year's crop being approximately 12,000 tons." * * * Pomna ranch, including 100 acres of bearing apple orchard, in the Perfection Nut Cracker PERFECTLY SIMPLE SIMPLY PERFECT.... Allows Use of Bowl Under End NECESSARY IN EVERY HOME PRICE $1.00 DELIVERED Cracks Pecans and other Nuts so Meats come out in Perfect Halves. Does its work quickly and well. Scinl us your <«rIoiiey : : Kefunded if not Satisfactory. : The DeWitt Supply Company, DeWitt, - - Georgia. Touchet Valley in southeastern Washington, has been sold by J. L. Dumas, of Dayton, former president of the Washington State Horticul- tural Association, to Dr. C.F.Schlitz, of Wenatchee, Washington, former- ly of Canton, 0., and L. M. Vannice and E. S. Hubbard, of Dayton, for $150,000. In addition to the bear- ing orchard the sale covers 140 acres of land, 30 acres of which are in young trees. The fruit ranch event- ually will cover 200 acres. Makes Pecan Trees Grow. Pecan trees usually make slow growth on upland. This adaptation to soils containing more moisture is shown by their natural selection of homes in the lowlands. After prov- ing up and trying out this system of underground watering on fruit trees and garden, I put in several young pecan trees early in 1907. Most of them were set about midway be- tween lines of tile. They are now 10 to 12 feet high, well branched, and some of them have several clusters of nuts, with every prospect of car- rying them to maturity. Other young trees transplanted later are making a good showing— decidedly better than trees of the same age that have been compelled to contend without the aid of water against suc- cessive dry seasons. Later along I hope to have some photographic il- lustrations showing the extent and symetrical growth of these young trees. NO TROUBLE WITH ROOTS. This method of applying water be- low the surface is growing in favor in and around Dallas. It is also find- ing acceptance among those having windmills, and good accounts of it have come in from as far west as Stamford in Jones county. No trou- ble need be feared from the intru- sion of roots. Two lines of it along- side rows of fig trees and another between two rows of muscadine grapes have been in service for years. Water still flows through these lines freely, doing its work as well as ever. Last season it became necessary to take up part of one line to make a new connection. There was no appreciable evidence of cor- rosion and this insures a good long life-time. The interference of roots has been the besetment of other modes of sub-irrigation. Experi- enced horticulturists have pro- nounced it too expensive and difficult to be practical. It may be that the freedom of this method from root intrusion is due to the slits in the tiles which permits all the water to go into the ground, or it may be that there is something in the gal- vanized coaling of the metal that repels the roots. 122 THB NUT'GROWISti Persona 1 Mention. Mr. Victor Labadie, of Dallas, Texas, has sent the editor a small supply ot budding wood of the Just pecan, for use in his test or- chard. * • * "The Pecan Industry, from a Laymen's view point," is one of the topics selected for the conven- tion program. Hon. J. H. Mer- rill, of Thoinasville, Ga., has been assigned this subject. « * * As Prof. \V. A. Orton says in the current Year Book of the De- partment of Agriculture, "When we can introduce into our agricul- ture varieties possessing a degree of natural immunitv and thereby avoid both the loss from disease and the necessity for the more or less e.xpensive treatment by sprays and other means, a double econo- mic gain will be secured. Adaptation of Soil. Right here it may not be amiss to say a word concerning the nat- ural adaptation of the soil of any given locality to a proposed ven- ture in the direction of a new field or orchard crop. Mother Nature does not always tell us wiiat the soil of a particular section is good for, but sometimes she does. For instance, when our praries in the long ago produced only grass, there was little to suggest the fitness of the soil for the production of cot- ton and grain crops. But when a careful observer notes blackberries and strawberries growing wild, it requires no strain upon his intelli- gence to reach the conclusion that the soil in which thev grew would be a good place for the cultivated varieties of berries. In like man- ner, when grapevines, fruitful and luxurant in growth are found in the woods. Mother Nature is say- ing in her way that a vineyard might be planted there. In lan- guage just as plain, and in elo- quent language, too, she has been telling the people of East Texas that they have a nut-growing soil. Hickories of all ages and sizes are abundant in the woods; walnuts and wild pecans are thick and threefold along the water courses. More vet, the peanut is prolific in fruitage wherever it is planted ami cultivated. 'I'liose very elements in the soil that go to fill and fatten the kernels of the peanut enter into the kernels of the other nuts. Index to Advertisers. Page A. B. &. A. Railway 115 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 123 Alvin Japanese Nursery 126 Arcadia Nurseries 126 Bayview Nursery 123 Barnwell Pecan Grove 119 Bechtel Pecan Nurseries ' 117 Classified Advertisements 119 Clingman Nursery & Orchard Co . 124 Gilgrove Pecan Co 118 Gainesville Nurseries 119 Griffing Brotliers 122 Jefferson Nursery Co 123 Jones, J. F. 118 Lewis, F. H., .. ..126 McManus T. S ; 121 Mead Cycle Co 125 Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery 127 Parry, John R 121 Pecan Investments 126 Peek, S. W 116 Proceedings 124 Ramsey, R. T., 123 Ramsey, F. T. & Son . 118 Rood Pecan Groves 128 Summit Nurseries 127 Standard Sewing Machine Co . 117 Stone B. W. & Co 124 Turkey Creek Nursery 123 The Increase Pecan Co 127 The Louisiana Nut Nurseries 127 The Progress Self-Help University.. 116 The Dewitt Supply Co 121 The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co 122 The Nut-Grower Co 124 Wight, J. B 119 White, Herbert C 121 SEETHE neoTs SUCH \l live\ Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries sell such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, of best quality and best producing varieties. Some of the biggest, thlnncst-shcBed nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP <)iir VnrietieH lire HphI Gold Medal ov.ard.-d our Prc( Hi Jameslovvn ^posiliun Handsome Pecan Catalog Free THE. Griffing Bros Co Nurserymen Jacksonville, Florida We also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Sfirubbery. ROSES fTriti'""^ Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of I5UDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is f.ir gieiter ihaii the supply. ORDEi{ \0\VT0S4VE l)IS\!»lM)l\r»lE\T 190i)-1910 PRICE i-is'r: I to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or !}!43.oo per nx> 3 to 3 foot size, 6o cents each, or 55 oo per lOO 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size. So cents each, or 75 "'-' P^'' '°" 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85 00 per 100 OUU <.UA.K.VNn;K If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— A( T NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWit.L, Mitchell County, Georgia. THB NUT^aHOWGH 123 Mere Mention. The twifjf girtller often girdles the young twigs of pecrtn trees and c:iuses them to fall. To hold this insect in check the dead twigs should be promptly gathered up and burned. * * * To succeed with pec.ms plenty of humus nit st be applied to the soil and the soil moisture conserv- ed. Hot, dry summers are very trying on the trees, and for the be~t results irrigation is recom- mended. * * * The Ohio Valley Exposition, at Cincinnati. August 29th to Sept. 24th, 1910, will celebrate progress and improvement of the Ohio river navigation and present to the world the vast resources and in- dustries of the Ohio Valley and of the South. * * * Elbert Hubbard has given a good deal of valuable advice in his books and otherwise, and among his best in a business way is the following : "The only man who should not advertise is the one who has noth- ing to offer in the way of service, or of one who cannot make good. All such should seek the friendly shelter of oblivion, where dwell those who, shrouded in Stygian shades, foregather gloom and are out of the game. Not to advertise is to be nominated for member- ship to the Down-and-Out-Club." True, isn't it ? * * * Up to a comparatively recent date nuts were considered by most people either a luxury or as tidbits to be eaten out ot hand at odd times. They had no fixed stand- ing its to food value, often being unjustly blamed for indigestion brought on by other causes. During the last two decades, however, both froin a dietic and an economic standard, they are be- coming more appreciated, as evi- deiued by their increased consump- tion. With this greatly augmenteii de- mand the vSouthern States are much concerned, for two of the principal nuts, I he peanut and pe- can, are largely Southern products. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY, Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquaimed JEFFERSON NURSERY CO, MONTICELI.O, : : FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS IN —TKe Nation's Garden Spot— That Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad In NortK and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama anci Florida, -write to WILBUR McCOY, Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coast Line :-: Jacksonville. Fla. N. O. Tyler, managei of the Humboldt Pecan Co., has acquired 800 acres near Jackson, Tenn., which will be planted entirely to pecan trees. This industry has been greatly increased in this coun- ty. * * * The flavor of nuts depends prin- cipally on the oils they contain, though in some there are specific flavoring agents. Some of these oily constituents easily become ran- cid, imparting a most disagreeable taste or odor. The peculiar flavor of the roasted peanut is due to browned oils and starches. The pungent or bitter taste of almonds, as well as peach and plum pits, a family botanically allied, is due to a cvanic acid yielding glu- cosid. The chestnut, especially when roasted, has a characteristic starchy taste betokening its main ingredient. The flavor of nuts as well as their size, can be greatly improved by judicious cultivation, as can be easily demonstrated to you by those who have intelligent- ly studied this branch of horticul- ture. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees Ornamental Shrubbery =ALSO= Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSERY Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber. Pres. J. E. Barber, Sec'ty. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the IV\ost===Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Mi»» Pecan Trees ^^7/,^ THE LEADING VARIETIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, °5l.>",.if;;7." 124 TUB NUT-GROW BR LETTERS A Few Figures. There are few men in the world who have not had the saving of money preaciied to them. Many have been discouraged bv the thought, that a thousand dollars would require, not only a great deal of hard work to accumulate, but would take some care and though: to invest safely, and that after all it would be easy to lose. I want to see a few pecan trees about the home of every southern farmer, and I believe that they are the greatest heritage that any farmer in any land could have. Get acquainted with the work of the National Nut Growers' Asso- ciation. Subscribe to the Nut- Grower. Plant five pecan trees of the best varieties in your garden, and give them a tew minutes care when they need it, and see if my figures are wrong. Five choice pecan trees can be bought and planted for $5. You can leave them out in the rain and forget them for weeks at a time, no one will steal them or try to induce you to part with them. Go ahead and make your garden just as if they were not there. Protect them from harm, and in a few years they will begin to pay liber- ally for their keep. In twenty years each one of them should be worth |i,ooo, and should be giving nuts that would sell for enough to pay you n^ore interest than any bank would pay on a thousand hard earned dollars. Then go on leaving them out in the rain and don't be afraid any one will steal them. It won't take as much time or energy to take good care of five pecan trees as it would to go to the bank once a month and deposit your savings until you had accum- ulated five thousand dollats, and while your trees are growing you will have nut crops for most of the twenty years and can spend $4,- 995 and still have your trees left. If my friend the farmer, cai.'t see the point, won't some good wife lake up the proposition and see if it won't work out? C. A. Van Duzek. Are Nuts Replacing Meats? Nut foods have become as firmly established among the better class of people of the United States as has the beef diet among English- men. Each year witnesses the de- creasing use of animal fats and all kinds of meats and the correspond- ing increase in the consumption of nuts, says a writer in the National Horticulturist. With jungle stories o! packing house filth and horrors and virulent contagious diseases developing among cattle and hogs with a ra- pidity that leaves less than one- half of the farm animals free from infection, the cost of meats has steadily risen. This has checked the use of meat in thousands of homes where perhaps nothing but the high prices could have induced an attempt to find a substitute. The thousands thus forced away from a meat diet have been added to the many other thousands who have abandoned animal food from much higher motives. Just what percentage of the people of the United States have wholly aban- doned the meat diet cannot be defi- nitely stated at this time, but it is somewhere between 15 and 25. The nut is the ideal carbona- ceous food. It is richer in all of the food elements than the best beefsteak. Folded in the cells of the nut is slumbering life energy that becomes a part of the vitality of the person who eats it. Nuts and fruits full of the imprisoned energy caught from the ^un, are the strongest and most healthful diet for man, and must lead to higher levels of intellectual and moral life. Nut culture is strong enough to rest its claims on actual facts and well founded conclusions. Our purpose is to make everyone hap- pier who touches the business, be- cause it will make him fiiiancially more independent. We aim to beautify every farm home (and city home as well where there is room) by supplying shade trees that are the equal in beauty and stateliness of any in the land. We want to make a little heavier the pocket book of every one who grows a nut tree. We will not be satisfied until our peojile become a nut-growing people, and thus are stronger in body and clearer in mind than those who live on heav- ier and coarser articles of diet" T. B. WlUHT. For growing Pecans, Peais, Peaches, etc., at a profit— Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. • LET US SEND YOU- "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want o Know By Those Wno Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. PROCEEDINGS The followmg volumes of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices which were established at the Al- bany Convention: St. Louis, 1904, 25c per copy Seranton, 1906, 25c per copy Norfolk, 1907, 50c per copy Albany, 1909, 5()c per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, -:- •:- GEORGIA T* FT TT NUT-GROWER TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION Three Months for - 10c One Year for . - - 50c Three Years for - $1.00 Fanners; Fruit Growers, Nursery- men and investors cau read it with profit. As an advertising uiedmtn it is particularly valuable, as no padding of circulation figures fixes the rates. Descriptive circulars sent on request. ' The Nut-Grower Co. Poulan, Georgia run NUT^GHOWBM 125 PEP0RT5 Additional Nut Investigations by the Dept. of Agriculture Information comes to the Nut- Grower that, on July ist of the present year, a new project 'Mis- cellaneous Nut Investigations" was inaugurated by the Department of Agriculture. As with "Pecan In- vestigations"tlie work is now being carried on in the office of Field In- vestigations in Pomology, with Mr. William A. Taylor, Pomolo- gist in charge of Field Investiga- tions leader, assisted by C. A. Reed, Special Agent. The new project provides that so far as possible, a comprehensive collection of the different species of nuts grown in the United States shall be put in the herborium, and that tiie work of identification, judging, and giving instructions to growers already in practice shall be continued. The collection referred to al- ready contains specimens of a num- ber of the leading varieties of Al- monds, Chestnuts, Hazle-nuts, Fil- berts, Hickory-ruts, Chinquapins, Walnuts, Butternuts and a great many others of foreign origin. An attempt is being made to se- cure authentic specimens of all named varieties of each species. No field investigations will be pos- sible during the present fiscal year. Membership Dues. The regular payment of annual dui-s. on the part of member.-, is important, both to the Associa- tion and to the individual. This is the inain source of revenue for meeting the increasing expetises ihe growing work entaiU. Regu- lations provide, that names sh, ill be dropped from membership list when the annual fee of two dollars has iKjt been paid for the current and previous years. This means the Dmission of names from the Badge Book, which is a valuable Jfealureof membership. 'I'he con- vention badge also, is a necessary passport to the entertainments land various functions, so gener- ■ ously provided by the Monlicello 'members, and these badges belong only to those in good standing. ■A As work will begin on the badge book at an early date, it will be well to send in the dues ^oon, to lithe treasurer, M. B. McNeely, Little Rock, Ark., or to the .Secre- ■'tary, at Poulan, Ga. Nut Interests. The past five years has seen the development of a great pecan in- du>try in South Georgia and North Florida. This nut leads all fruits in point of interest. Large areas are being planted and exploited in different wavs. Some of this exploitation is reason- able, and some of it is unre iscni- able and unsafe. Thnse best qual- ified to judge, believe the interest in pecan culture to be well found- ed We have no doubt that it will pmve very much the same with the pecan as has been found to be true with the other fruits, that judgment, intelligence, and right practices will be rewarded with reasonable, and perhaps large profits, but in the great mass of planting and in the large number of scliemes beini; exploited we can always count upon a certain per- centage of failure. We saw seven- year-old frees of grafted varieties, 25 to 30 feet in height, which bore 30 lbs. of high grade nuts in 1909. We saw a block of So acres of five- yearold trees which the owner re- fused to sell for i^So.ooo a few weeks ago. These instances are quite in line with the glowing re- ports which coine to us of the suc- cess in apple growing on the Pa- cific Coast. At any rate, large blocks of pecans are going out and many of the orchards are being cared for intelligently and thor- oughly. It would appear that this business is just as stable as Oregon or Washington fruit grow- ing, where much larger prices are now being paid for land upon which to grow a product of a per- ishable character, which must be shipped at least three thousand miles before reaching the home of the consumer, out WipTED^A RIDER AOENTiHy . sample Latest Model "Ranker' bicycle fumiF;hed by us. Our agents everywhere are making money fast. Write for full Par ticttLirs and special ofFer at once. NO MONEY REQUIKKD until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere In tlie U. S. ivithout a cettt deposit \x\ ^AvzT\c&,^ePay freight, and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL duiing which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you \vish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to ke-.-p ilie bicycle sliip it back to us at our expense And you "m ill not be out one cent. Ffl^TlI^HY PPIPF^ ^^ furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make rnVfiVitl rniVLtf at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save S"* to $2S middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- antee behind your bicycle. 1>0 NOT RUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from awj-ow* at a7iy Price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable spcci.il offtrs to rider liguuts. Vin?l IWII I RF AQTHNI^HFE) ^^^" ^O" receive our beautiful catalogue and HUU nillLtt. DC HdlUnBOnSlU study our superb models at the -wonderfully /i?i:y//-ri-^j we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money tlian a:^-y other factor^-. We are satisfied with $i.oo profit above factory cost. I51^Y'Cj-JIi DI3AJLERS* you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at our prices. Orders filled the r'r.y received. SECOND HANI> BKJYCLES. V/e do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, bu! ually liave a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear oul prum;it!y at prices miging from S3 to L.3 or iSlO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free, Single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repa equipment of all kinds at half tJie usual retail prices. $ AU HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $« SJ SELr-HEALiiuO TIllES 7€ist.:m3aus£,&iSLv The res^lar retail price of these tires is S^. 50 Per pair, but to introduce we ^ II %ell youa sample pair for $i.SO{.cashwitkorder $4 sj. [;G more trouble from P!Ii4.55 per pair) if you send FULL CAJll WITH OlIDER and enclose this advertisement. You run no ris!c in sending us an order as tlie tires niay< be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as' in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that j'ou will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer, mp ^g%gg tLiCSm VMD^^ don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Mr # »/*/ MWELi^aM m mW%k^ Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial ai the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. w^g^ akgg^'r lAfAtT ^"' write us a postal today. 1)0 NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle C/C# #wS/# WW SAM m or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful lid I \-'2J± Notice the thick rubber troad •'A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip " H** to prevent rim cutting*. This tire will outlast any other make— SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L MEAD GYSLE mmfm\ m^jm, ill 126 THB NUT^aROWlSH SOCIETIES Texas Nut-Growers. (By F. T. Ramsey) The fittli annual meeting of tlie Texas Nut Growers' was held at the A. & M. College on July 29th in connection with our Farmers Congress. President M. Falkner presided, and Secretary H. B Beck was at his desk. Prof. E. J. Kyle talked on bud- ding and grafting, the only sure way to reproduce choice varieties of pecans. Mr. E. W. Knox, on the subject "Is there danger of over produc- tion"? said that only a very small part of the population of the wurld had ever tasted a pecan. Home consumption of them is increasing much faster than the supply. Mr. Jno. S. Kerr, on "Dollars in Nuts" dwelt very fully on va- rious phases of nut growing He was optimistic on all points. The writer read a paper on the best soils for pecans. Mr. E. VV. Kirkpatrick made one of his characteristic addresses on "The nobility of the pecan tree and he who plants one." Prof. Kyle, the horticultui ist nf the college, took about 50 members out three miles to his own f irm where he showed a lot of pecan buds one and two years old grow- ing on hickory trees, and he also put in some buds to show those who were not familiar willi the work how it is done. The slate society was organized six years ago that the value of our pecans might be impressed on the minds of our citizens, and that the value of any pecan tree for a stuck on which to bud good varieties might be made known. In-as-much as nearly all of the members are also members of the State Horticultural Society and also many of them members of tlie Nurserymen's Association, and as we had in a great measure com- pleted the tasks for which the so- ciety was organized, the members decided unanimously to merge the society into the Horticultural So- ciety, of wiiich Murrav Ramsey, of Austin, is President and Prof. E. J. Kyle, of College Station, Secre- A hearty invitation to the Na- tional Society to meet in 1911 in Texas was the last act of the so- ciety. This consolidation had been talked of for a jear. A separate society seemed to put some un- necessary work and expense on the old faithful members. Nut growing will be kept well to the front by the Horticultural Society. A good delegation from Texas intend to go to the national meeting at Monticello, November ist. At this writing Texas promises at least a fair pecan crop — possi- bly a good one. President's Letter. Mr. Skcretahy : — Push the Nut Growers' Con- vention at Monticello, botii in the Nut-Groweh and Nut Notes. Coi respondence every day indi- cates that interest in nut growing is increasing. It is very important that this increasing interest should be commensurate with reliable in- formation as to how to grow and care for nut trees. There is no better place to get this, as you know, than a National Convention ol the Association where the most experienced nut growers from ail sections meet. To see and talk with such men, is an inestimable privilege, Such an opportunity twenty years ago would have been worth a snuiU fortune to me. It would have saved much groping in the dark and some costly experiments. Monticello is duly awake 10 the importance of this meeting. Slie proposes to give a royal welcome to all members of the Association. A most attractive program for this meeting is being prepared, and there is no doubt that those who go to Monticello next November to learn, will have abundant op- portunity for doing so. The or- chards, the nurseries and the men will be there. Indications point to the largest attendance in the history of the Association Mon- ticello is aware of this, and prom- ises to lake care of aU comers in good shape. Very truly Yours, I. B. Wight, Pres. Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. W<' also earrv 11 ;>i-neriil liii«^ of Friiitaiid OriianifiitHl I'l-eeM. m\m Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery MASOK HlIlKlil.SG HOUSTON, .-. I EXAS. Mr. .J B. Wigtit's Chattanooga address, four six by nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words. This is a careful and very con.servatlve review of tlie commercial opportunities tills nut offers, and supplies just the in- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 S4.50 500 2.50 250 1.50 100 75 60 . . .50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. Bill \ nm Mil The BH.st Investment that can now be madH ill the United Stares or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper .shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and In Jackson county, the native heath of the piper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by uui'serymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan laud In the South. I have a very special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between I he pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for tthe coming season'sgraftiug. a splen- did opening for a combination gi'ove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere In South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grartlng wood and treesgrown from bearing trees in my own grove.s, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jack.on County, SCRANTON, MISS. TUB SUT-aHOWBl^ 127 Books and Catalogues. SUMMIT ^;^ CHOICE . -^ NURSERY- STOCK MONTICELLO. UR5ERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors FLORIDA I Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses I --OCR SPKCIAI/I'I1':S— I The Admiral Schley Pecan JL' ^ Futurf lOUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU.: Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1^10=1911 I Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, %fs"sSpT'- THE LOUlSlflNfl NUT NURSERIES J. F. JONES, Manager and Proprietor, ,ii<:axi<:reitk. - - loxhsiana. HeadquartC'S for Budded and drafted Pecan Trees in the Soulh= west lllusirated and Descriptive Catalogue fo' the asking. Tlidse wishing to etis;aKe in pecan culture would do well to iuvesti- gate ihe advantages itt'ered liy this section W(- will gladly help any wisiiing to Idcale iiere to get a gnod lucation, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee ihe trees It) live, ur arrange to care for the siiiiie for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., OFFERS A VARIETY OF I Desirable Opportunities for Investors in ! Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suihible Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business I Management and ample Capital tor carrying out in spirit and letter surh contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. R WILSON, POULAN, GA. Special Pecan Circui-au — By the Austin Nursery, Austin, Tex- as, eight pages illustrated. Up-To Date Fritit Growing — With the Thomas Phosphate pow- der is a twelve page pamphlet b)- the Coe-Mortimer, Co., of Charles- ton, S. C. * * * The Ameuican Revikw of Tropica I, Agriculture — Pub- lished at Mexico City, Mexico, is a recent arrival at our excliange table. It is an interesting nioiith- ly ot 40 pages. * * * IIaupt Berries — In summer and fall by the Austin Nursery, Austin, Texas, is an eight page circular exploiting the Haupt ber- ry, said to be a cross between a blackberry and a dewberry. * * * Mineral Resources of Geor- gia— By S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, Atlanta, is Bulletin No. 23 of the Geological Survey ot the State. It is a handsomely illustra- ted volume of 200 pages, and con- tains much information of interest and value. * * * Painter's Floijida Almanac, for 1910 is compiled for the pur- pose of giving farmers, fruit growers and others of Florida and Cuba, a ready reference to infor- mation, tables and articles of spe- cial importance, as well as adver- tising the line of fertilizers, mate- rials and implements offered by the E. C. Painter Fertilizer Co., of Jacksonville, Fla. * * * Books on Farming — The num- ber of books published relating to various phases of farming is very extensive; so much so, in fact, that the farmer is at a loss to know what books to buy. He can se- cure much valuable advice on this point by corresponding with the agricultural colleges and the De- partment of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D. C. * « * Send in your subscriptions to "Nut Notes" as they are needed in order to obtain second class post- age rates. 128 THE NUT'GROWl^H eg — -eg Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEM BERS ====: National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale, Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. OCT 27 1910 j^^^rictiltTajraT Oollege THE NUT^GROWER Volume IX Number 9 Whole No. 98. Poulan, Ga., September, 1910. So per Copy 50c par Year What Varieties of Texas Soils are Best Adapted to Pecans? [Paper by F. T. Ramsey, of Aus- tin, Texas, read before the Nut Growers at the Farmers Congress, College Station, July 28, 1910.] Answer : Very nearly all of them. Ten years ago I would have said the valleys of our rivers and creeks. I suppose if we must name the sur- est best, that is the answer yet. If one wants the very best, he wants the lowest, richest bottom land ; so low that lasting pure water can be reached in from ten to twenty feet. Brother Risien says it ought to overflow once a year. I have an idea it is gi>od enough without the overflow, if it is just low enough to overflow. The underground water seems almost a guarantee of good pecan land. I know trees in different places growing away up in the heads of small branches that are very large, perfectly healthy, and bearing well. 1 believe that in such cases there is shallow water under them. So far I have spoken with the black prairie section in my mind. Pecans seem successful in nearly all land that is or has been covered naturally with timber. Over in Mississippi pecans grow right down to the beach of the Gulf. I see no reason wlij' they will not do so in Texas. They are doing well in New Mexico at an elevation of 1^,000 feet. The soil of the Plains of Texas is more nearly like our val- ley soils than any other. With ir- rigation, the Plains will become dotted witii green groves of profit- able pecans. Over twc-thirds of the state ly- ing east of the Edwards Plateau there is hardly a farm on which may not be found a bit of real good land for pecans. In our nursery we grow part of our pecans on black prairie land. In the rows of seedlings occasion- ally there is a tree that grows twice as fast as the average of the row, and it is a luxuriant green. They never french, or show the yellow of chlorosis, or the influ- ence of over much lime in the soil. VVe are selecting some of these, and some day one of them will produce a nut as good as the best, and then we shall have a pecan for any black prairie. Writers on pecans usually esti- mate that Texas produces three- fourths of the nuts of the world. If they were carefully saved, the amount would easily reach nine- tenths. A novice is astounded as he travels up one of her good pecan streams, like the San Saba. He can find what may well be called one solid grove seventy or eighty miles long, and from one-eighth mile to two miles in width. Pecans in Texas bear oftener than they do farther east, and are little or never bothered with any of the diseases that may possibly have to be considered over there. There is so much extra good pe- can land in Texas that it is unnec- essary to talk about the best. Right near Austin is a tree from which were weighed in one crop fifteen bushels. This has been surpassed by other trees in the dif- ferent parts of West Texas. One day a good, well posted cit- izen decided he would go and buy a certain farm of about 400 acres. He estimated the price would not be over $60.00 an acre. It runs about half in colton and the other half in pasture, pretty well set in wild, seedling pecans. They could not agree on a price. The owner intorined him that the pecans had for years paid what was good in- terest on a valuation of $c;oo.oo an (CONTINDEDON PAGE 130) Nut Trees for Florists arid Nur- serymen- The use of nut trees for orna- mental purposes, is deserving of iTiuch more attention than it has been receiving. There is no sec- tion of the country but has some edible nut tree adapted to its par- ticular climatic and soil conditions. Aside from the utilitarian consid- eration these trees are beautiful, hardy, and adapt themselves readi- ly to planting on home and public grounds, street and parks. When given plenty of room they make spreading tops of symelrical form, grow rapidi)' under cultivation and generous fertilizing and in the main, are long lived. In foliage, they are graceful and clean and not dense enough to interfere seriously with plants or grass grown in their shade. To all their desirable qualities as an ornamental tree, the crops produced adds, not only a charm but lends a hand at food produc- tion as well. The purpose of this sketch is to encourage the more extensive planting of nut trees, so that the masses, as far as practical, may share in the pleasures and profits they afford. Florists and nur- serymen have a wide and inviting field for operations in this line. What they do in producing and planting nut trees, becoines a per- manent improvement, which in- creases in value and beauty as the years go by. Probably no kind of nut tree is available to as great an extent as the walnut. It is native in many section* of the country and the re- cent success in budding and graft- ing nut stock enables the growing of the English and other varieties on the native stock, thus adding much to the prospect for growing these finer nuts over a much wider area than is practicable on their own roots. In the New 130 England and Central states, in the Mississippi valley and on the Pa- cific Coast, the walnut should be liberally planted. The hickory, which includes the pecan of the South, is found over a large area of country. While the pecan is a commercial crop in the South, it grows well much farther north than was formerly supposed to be practicable. Many choice varieties have been propa- gated .and tile same line is now being followed in selecting and propagating the finest varieties of hickory which can be found. The chestnut is more circum- scribed in its native habitat and may be more subject to insect in- jury and diseases than the hardy walnuts and hickories, but all along the eastern mountain ranges it flourishes. All of these species make ma- jestic trees and the native forests are disappearing so rapidly on ac- count of their great economic value in industrial operations that it stems desirable to plant them largely for growing timber, even if there were not other reasons for their being planted. Nurserymen ;ind florists ran, hy enlarging llit-ir production and pushing the sale of nut tree stock, accomplish much for the general good MS well as build trade for themselves. .Strong agencies are now at work which promise to piipulanze nuts as staple food, and the rapid increase of the importa- tion of mils in recent years shows a largely increased consiuiiption every year. — Florist's Exchange. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees TUB NUT^GROWBR =AND= Ornamental Shrubbery =ALSO= Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSERY Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber. Pres. J. E. Barbew, Sec'ty. Pecan Trees J^^Xd THE L,EAI>ING VARIKTIES. PRICE LIST R. T. RAMSAY, Oce.n S^rin^, * > Miaatsstppt. What Varieties of Texas Soils are Best Adapted to Pecans. (CONTINnED FROM PAOB 129) acre. The would-be buyer pon- dered and went and talked in Spanish to the Mexicans who had helped gather the pecans. Then he went home, and figured some more and pondered some more. When this owner top, her poor- est trees and buds into them fine, sure bearing sorts, she will more than double her income. This farm fronts on the Colora- do river a few miles below Austin. Austin is the center of the pecan world. The basin of the Colorado river, commencing at its mouth 200 miles below Austin and running to the heads of the Llano, San Saba. Concho, and other tributar- ies 200 miles above Austin, lias more pecan trees and more fine va- rieties than any other stream on earth. Some of the splendid varieties found in Texas do not think of rec- ognizing any competitors. We have evidence on the annual crops of three or four sorts that makes us believe they will have no off years. These travelers who speak with egotistical complacency of owning an orange grove in California make me "laugh out in meetin." They pay a thousand an acre, and then cultivate, and fertilize, and spray, and pay for ice and rush out a perishable product. They just do not know about pe- cans. A glorious light is dawn- ing on Texas. The insurance companies have a rival. Instead of paying $100.00 a year premium, borrow $11,000 on long time and buy 25 acres of land and plant it in pecans. The interest will be $100 a year. The rent on the crop grown between the rows of pecans will pay taxes, and in some years the interest. Soon the. nuts will pay the loan and then tor many years before you die, you collect the full amount of your insurance each year and have no premium to pay. And you leave your heirs something verv much better than an insurance policy. The big insurance companies can't head us off on this. Timber Decay. Millions of feet of timber and finished lumber rot every year in railroad ties, bridges, trestles, I piles, farm buildings, fences, pole^^ and mine props. The lumber consuming public of the United I States pays perhaps thirty or forty million dollars a year to make good the losses from wood decay. These great drains are a source of more and more concern each year. Chemists and engineers who have to do with the uses of wood are working unceasingly on the problem. The U. S. Forest Service has men who devote their whole time to it. The importance of the problem can not be overes- timated. Millions of dollars are annually saved by preservative treatment of timbers, but much ^ et remains to be learned. Wood decay is caused by fungus a vegetable growth sometimes so small that it can be seen only with the microscope. Its roots (ir branches, like minute hairs, force their way into the wood tissues and absorb or eat away the solid parts. The collapse which results is called decay. Timber is artificially pre- served by forcing into its cells and pores certain substances which prevent the growth of fungi. As long as this substance is present in sufficient quantity, the germs of decay — the threads and spores of fungus — can not enter, and the wood is preserved. This often means doubling and sometimes trebling the life of the timber. The United States government considers the investigations of the preservative treatment of timber of such importance that the business of one office of the United States Forest service, that of wood pres- ervation, with new headquarters at Madison, Wis., is given over en- tirely to the work of experiments in co-operation with railroad com- panies and other corporations and individuals in prolonging the life of railroad ties, mine props, bridge timbers, fence posts and transmis- sion poles. The lengthening of the life of timber means the saving of thous- ands of dollars annually through doing away with the heavy ex- pense of laljor and cost of materials for renewals. THE, NUT-GROWBht 131 A Nut and Fruit Diet. Hereward Carrington, in Cosmopolitan. "I tried several diets, but soon came to the conclusion that a diet consisting of nuts and fruits eaten riiw — that is, in an uncooked state — is by far the best. At least it suit- ed me best, and I began to study the question. After a number of years of careful reading and re- search, I now believe as implicitly that this is the best diet to live upon, when well, as I do that fast- ing is the greatest of all health re- storers, when ill — and that's say- ing a lot ! First of all, let me give a brief outline of what this diet does for one ; or rather what it did for me and what I have seen it do for others. The immediate effect of the diet is to open the bowels, and the result is a feeling of great exhilaration and buoyancy. A cool, clean feeling is experienced, which is never attained under any other system of diet. The eyes become clear, the senses keen and alert. The complexion clears up in a marvelous manner. The mind becomes more active, ihe thinking clear; the brain can work on and on, hour after hour, without the slightest indication of fatigue. The muscular system reacts per- fectly to its stimuli, and exercises may be indulged in, which before had been impossible. More than that, there will be no resultant fa- tigue. The energies and the en- durance will be increased an hun- dred fold ; life will become a pleas- ure instead of a curse. Finally, all traces of disease, of sickness and suf- fering, will disappear. These are but a few of the many results which a fruit-and-nut diet will in- sure. In my own case these effects were most marked. Instead of be- ing constantly ill and depressed, I became active and energetic. My endurance seemed trebled ; the amount of work I accomplished amazed my friends. In this con- nection I may say that in one month, in addition to the ordinary social duties and affairs of life, I wrote two whole books — one hun- dred and eighty thousand words. Any writer will know what that means. At the end of the month I was perfectly fresh, and ready for another such month, though the month was August, and the place New York — conditions wiiicli most people would say ren- der any hard and consecutive work nn possible ! This experience has not been mine only. I know a large num- ber of persons who follow this diet more or less regularly, and say that they would not return to their old habits for anything in the world. In California there are whole colonies of people who are living exclusively on this diet, and hare done so for years. They have recently been studied by Professor Jaffa, of the University of California, who was forced to the conclusion that these ''fruita- rians" were not in any way suffer- ing by reason of their '"low" diet, but, on the contrary, maintained a far higher standard of health than the majority. They are never ill, and their children, too — some of them have never tasted anything else — are perfect specimens of health. The results of these important in- vestigations are to be found in the reports of the Department of Ag- riculture, issued by the govern- ment. Thev afford a very com- plete vindication of this diet, from the practical or experimental point of view. WANTED! 500 Pounds Japan Walnuts, Cordiformis and Seiboldiana. SMITH BROS., CONCORD, GEORGIA. .T-^M Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug wJth entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurscricj sell such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, d best quality and best producing varieties. Some of the biggest, thinncst-sheHed nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Oiir VnriolieH are IleHt Culd Medal a«drJ^duur Pec Bi Jametrown Etposilion Handsome Pecan Catalog Free GriffingBros.Co Nurserymen Jacksonville, Florida We also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -:- -:- Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. 132 THB NUT^GRUWHH WALNUTS The Walnut Curculio. During tlie montli of July tlie ground beneaili bearing black and white walnut trees will frequently be found svell covered with little nuts that have recently fallen from the branches above. An examina- tion of these nuts will show a cres- cent-shaped scar on the side of each and on cutting the nut open a small whitish larva with a brown head will be funnd usually on the dis- colored tissue. A snout beetle known us the walnut curculio is responsible for iliis condition of the nuts. The beetle is about one-fourth of an inch long and the snout, which hangs down or is folded back be- neath the thorax, is less than half as long as the body. The b.^ck h.-is a rough appearance which is due to several humps and ridges. The body is thinly covered with short, dingy- yellow hairs which forin indistinct bands on each side of the protho- rax and across the wing covers just behind the middle. The first eggs of the season are deposited usually in young black walnuts about June loth to 15th and oviposition continties for more than a uinnth. In preparing a place f>>r her egg, the beetle hollows out aia\ityor pocket in the walnut al)out one-tenth of an inch deep which extends obliquely beneath the skin. Jn this cavity the egg is placed and the beetle then pro- ceeds to pack the space about the egg with biis of husk which she tears from the surface near where the opening was started. When the egg is well sealed in she en- larges the place from which she has torn the packing into a crescent shaped incision, a little over an eighth of an inch long, which part- ly surrounds the egg. As the beetle works she freelj- voids liquid excrement which forms a dark stain on the surface of the nut about a fourth of an inch from the wound. This stain on the nut is often more conspicuous than the wound. Before the beetles have finished their egg-laying the walnuts are nearly half grown and the husk is so solid that excavating, as carried out so elaborately at first, becomes so difficult that the beetle, evident- ly to avoid labor, changes the form of her puncture and deposits the last of her eggs in shallow pits on the side of the nut. These eggs are placed in groups of three or four and hav« no crescent marks about them and are not protected with the plug of chips. The egg is oblong-oval in shape, the color being creamy white The surface is finely granular, and has a ground glass appearance. Length .04 inch, width, 025 inch. Specimens that wece observed hatched in four, five and six days, the average time being five days. The larva are dirty white with brown heads and are less robust and more active in their movements than those of the weevils. After the larvas have fed for about ten days or two weeks the nuts drop and the larvse complete their growth in from one to two weeks thereafter. They then abandon their feeding place, enter the ground for a short distance and soon pupate in small cells which they fashion in the earth. The beetles issue from the ground during August and September, and, presumably spend the inter- val of warm weather about the tiees. When fall approaches they hibernate, and reappear the fol- lowing spring in time to attack the walnuts soon after the blossoms have dropped from the trees. Walnut planting has not been "boomed" in any particular year, but there has been a steady in- crease in the acreage set out, while many orchards originally planted in poor soil and undesirable loca- tions have been taken out. For years the importations of foreign walnuts have exceeded the pro- duction in California, and with the increase in the population of the country and the increase in consumption, there is no branch of industry that promises a better future than walnut-growing in the right location. JONES' BUDDINO TOOI. Designed and manufactured specially for budding nut trees. An entirely new principle. With this tool Pecans, Wal- nuts, Chestnuts, etc., can be budded almost as rapidly as in ordinary shield budding, and, as it is practically impos- sible to make anything but a perfect fit, even a novice can use it with satis- factory results. Made from aluminum with cutting blades of the finest razor steel, such as is used in the finest safety razor blades. If interested write for descriptive circular, or send $2.00 for sample tool by mail, postpaid. Your money back if it is not perfectly satisfactory. J. F. JONKS, JKANIflRHTTK* L.Oi;i!^lAXA. The Austin Nursery A GRBAT STOCK OF Fruit and Shade Tress, Ever- greens and Native Ornamentals. INTRODUCERS OF THE HAUPT BERRY A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry. You can plant Haupt any time during the year. Our favorite time is in August and September. Write, for our Special Circular on this berry. Introducers of the .... OLIVER and ten other superb Texas Pecans. Big stack of trees of standard varieties of eastern and Texas Pecans. We will plant for you 1,000 grafted and budded pecans, and let you pay for the trees that are alive and established at the end of the first season. Write for new Catalog and Special Circulars on Berries and Pecans. F. T, Ramsey &Son A ustin, : Texas. late! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. THB NUT-anawBii 133 CHESTNUTS. KkX^' THE SIDE NEEDLE SPINE THE PLAIN TRUTH about yimr Sewing Machine has never been toUl ynii; if it liad you would never use it, no inattei huw badly you niii^lit want to. Jlie ordinary family sewing machine is an in strument of torture. It is a nerve destroyer and a health destroyer and every woman who uses it makes a seriou> mistake, and injures lier nervous system to an alarming ex'ent. If yi»u will look at yonr machine, the reascn for all tlii< is plain. The construction of ytmr Sewii g .Machine is wrong, the needle is away 4'j inches to the left, calling for a three-quarter twist of ytiiir liMily in order to operate it. Think of it, twilling your S'iiie, stomach and all internal organs seventy-live |>er cent, out of plumb. Is it any wonder doctors recognize the disease of Side Needle 8l>iiiu. Now for a intnnent, compare this with A STANDARD CliNTRAL NKKDi.E machine, built to enable you to sit with hack straight, with your work right in front of you, ceutral, directly over the treadle. You can sew on this new -style machine all day, without feeling tired, or getting a pain in your buck or a stitch in your side. Von can expand your chest and breathe nat- urally and freely while sewing, your heart will be normal, yonr stomach will be in its right posi- tion and there will be no strain on your back or your muscles or nerves. And the beauty of it all is, this STANUARU CENTRAL, NlilUDLE MACHINE costs no more and is just as easy to purchase as any other w..'11-made machine. H you value your health and the health of yonr growing daughters, don't hesitate, quit using yonr back-twisting, disease- breeding, nerve-racking ma- chine today. Write us and we will gladly send you FRKE a book which illustrates and explains in a simple way the difference between the right and wrong In sewing machines. The hook is called "A STITCH IN THK SIDE," A postal brings it to you free. Send for it, you'll never regret it. The Standard Sewing Macnine Co. 6(51 Cedar Ave. Cleveland, O The Middleman. The cry against the middleman must be taken with allowances. We can't get along without him. There is no such thing as the pro- ducer selling direct to the consum- er. They are nut neighbors in the sense lliat they can trade directly. The middleman is as much of a necessity in trade, as the good roads and wagons to get over the distance between them; they have grown up because they were need- ed ever siiu e civilization began to divide the occupations of mankind into different lines of specialities and proficiency. The farmer can raise pork and beef, but he can't butcher; at least the widow and children could not kill and peddle the meat they raised, but would have to call on the middleman, the butcher. Neither would the farmer grind his wheat into flour, but must call on another middle- man ;nor could he market his grain without calling on the middleman with his warehouse and his touch with markets. A little bit of lo- cal peddling would be a poor ex- cu-'e for the tremendous energies now needed to gather up and dis- tribute the wonderful crops to the consumers of the world. It is not the middleman alone who takes all the traffic will bear. VVho doesn't.? While we think the high prices are not a necessity of fair dealing in trade, we can't help thinking of the old Scripture caution, "Let him that is without blame cast the first stone." And we are not ready to agree that il will be bet- ter for each of us to begin to dick- er with our neighbors for an ex- change of pills for potatoes, re- ligion for rutabagas, or whiskey for wheat. — Ottawa Gazette. Natural Enemies. The nui-infesting snout beetles are preyed upon by several kinds of insects and larger animals, but these natural enemies are not sufficient to keep them within the bounds of inoflTensiveness. The habits of these snout beetles are such that it seems improbable that we will ever be able to carry on a very successful warfare against them, and, since we can do so little in the way of holding them in check, it is interesting to know what nature is doing to retard their multiplication. One of the most important of their enen)ies is a medium-sized, four-winged fly, a bracon parasite, known technically as Urosigalphus armatus Ashm. This parasite is a foe of the nut weevils and issues from the ground along with the beetles in the summer. It seems especially fond of the larger ches- niit weevil and whi e the beetles of this species are hi) ing their first eggs in the young chestnut burs the parasites fairly swarm among the branches. On August 28th, 1906, from a low-hanging chestnut branch 1 hat bore about seventy-five burs, I collected, in thirty minutes, 24 of the weevils and 26 of the para- sites. Since that lime they have been seen in equal abundance on numerous occasions. Perhaps the most important enemy of these snout beetles, espe- cially of the nut weevils, is the short-tailed shrew, a little, insec- tivorous mammal that lives in the ground. These little shrews are not often seen but they are exceed- ingly abundant, especially in the woods and in the shady and weedy places in the fields. They are very fond of the fat. juicy grubs of the snout beetles, and while these grubs are in the ground undergo- ing transformation or hiding tor the winter, they are found by shrews and devoured by thousands. In the ground beneath nut-bearing trees a labyrin'.h of burrows will be found frequently that have been made by the shrews in their search for insects. In such places not more than 10 per cent of the larvae that enter the ground in the fall can be found the following spring. That the shrews are chiefly re- sponsible for their disappearance is shown by the numbers of the mammals that can be trapped in such places and by their fondness of the larvae when in captivity. It has been found that a shrew in 24 hours will eat a quantity ot the larvae greater in weight than its own body. On one occasion, I saw a shrew devour 70 large '"chest- nut worms" within a space of 5 minutes. 134 THE NUT-GHOWBR HICKORY Facts About a Pecan Tree. The statement tliat a twelve- year-old pecan tree bore a crop of nuts which sold for $40 may sound like u story; it is, however, the plain truth. Though this be an exception rather than a general rule, it does show what care and attention will do. I will try in the following to give the facts in detail : In the early spring of 1S92, 75 grafts were made by the party owning this tree, and only two grew. In 1893 one of the trees was planted about 25 feet from the owner's residence. For two or three years it made a scant growth, but when once well established it made up for lost time. The tree has had the best of care since planted and has borne for live years. This its sixth crop, amount- ed to 100 pounds of nuts, So pounds of same were sold to a party for $40- In regard to saying that such a tree and its crop beats trucking. I do not want to say that one shall give up this line of business and plant pecan trees only; not at ail; but plant pecan trees and raise crops between them, and by fer- tilizing and making the crop, the trees will get the benefit, and as they grow and shade the soil fur- ther every year, let them have 1 he ground to themselves. Do i.ot dis- turb the ground by deep plowing close to the trees or you will injure them and check their growth. Suppose you plant an acre; plant the trees 50 feet apart ; that would take only 17 trees. The cost of the trees is insignificant compared with the returns in compared period. If they bring you 40 pounds of nuts when ten years old, which they will surely do if you give them care, and sell those nuts at 25 cents a pound, that would be $10 a tree or .$170 for seventeen trees. This is a low estimate and the trees will grow up to that, and with good care will do considerably better, and all that while you use the ground between for something else. C. FoRKERT, Miss. First Hickory Budded With Pe- can. This tree will go down to his- tory as the pioneer in a new field of human endeavor, and I venture the prophecy that it will inaugu- rate a new era in the horticulture of the South. More than that, T haz- ard the further prediction that if this same tree survives and lives out its expectancy of tree life it will one day be revered as a monu- ment to Mr. Lyendecker, more honorable than any that could be chiselled from marble by human hands. This tree, which unfolds possibilities and opportunities that will make it historic, was budded in the spring of 1903 and bore a few nuts two years later. In 1907 it bore a crop of eight pounds, but failed to bear the next year. It took on a full crop last season, but a severe wind storm during the summer blew off most of the nuts. As I am informed, the tree is now above twenty feet high with fif- teen feet spread of branches. It was a mere sprout when budded. — C. L. Edwards. The Hickory Nut Weevil. This enemy of one of our favor- ite nuts has been known for more ttian a quarter of a century but has come into special prominence since the development of the pecan in- dustry in the southern states. In the states farther north the insect attacks shellbark and other varie- ties of hickory nuts and seems to be more numerous than formerly. Dr. Chittenden hafe recorded that in some of the southern states the loss to pecan nuts amounted to 75 per cent of the crop in 1903 and 1904. The greatest injury to these nuts has probably occurred in Geor- gia, Mississippi and Texas. The shellbark is the only native hickorynut that is used extensively as food in West Virginia, and this variety is seldom more than 20 per cent affected by the weevil. Other varieties, such as the pignut and mockernut, are often destroyed to the extent of from 50 to 75 per cent of the crop. The large, circular holes frequently found in the shells of hickorynuts are made by the larvae of this weevil in escaping. THE PAPER SHELL PECAN NURSERY FINEST BUDDED AND GRAFTED TREES FOR SALE aO,«>00 TKICBS IN NUBSKRY WHOLKS A Ll<:— RETAIL W. M. ELLISON, Manager. LAFAYETTE, LA. ^ ^ OUR SPECIALTIES. c ^ NUT TREES, SATSUMA ORANGES, FIGS ( 2 ^ Write for Illustrated Catalogue—It will Interest* You. a QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. Vvrite for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. 1 THB. NUT^OHOWBI^ 135 CLASSIFIED VARIOUS NUTS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column we^ive place to advertisements from suhaiT'liers who bave »rchard, Farm Fnulucts, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as niabe inquiries for thinfrs wanted. Ttie rat<> is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urped to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found comenient and p ofitable. 1,200 or more bnshels of pecans for sale. Address J. J Domas, New Roads, La Cement Sidewalks, Buildings, Etc — roi tland cement idewalk construction; ciincrete Idock Itni'dinirs ; making and laying concrete blocks- esiimaiing, profits etc. Practical book for con- tractors giving details in full. Second edition. Postpaid 5 c. De (iraff Pub Co , Peoria, 111 BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS-Sbipped safely anywhere. Culvkr Poultry Farm, 1034 Heed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at re:ifionable rates. Seed nuts 'ui-nished ontv in limited quantities, IHE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, (ia Wanted— Copies of the November and De- cemlier II109 and .lannary 1910 issues of the Nut- iJrower Parties having duplicates or copies not needed, wdl ol)lige by notilying Tlie Nut- Grower Co., Poalau, Ge«frgia. FOR SALK— A bearing: grove of the best varielies, four hundred trees. Gnod reason for selling. Ask for par- ticulars of The Nut-Growek, Poulan, Ga. Till* Buck«»ve Snb>*criptioii Ajif<'iicy — For many years we have se- cured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any periodical desired. J. F. Wilson, Agent, Poulan, Ga. For Salt^- Pecan Orchard. 130 grafted trees, Dtfst varieties, between five and twenty years old. 100 have attained bearing age. For particulars write P. 0. Box 263, Amite, La. Waiiteil — Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the servi?es of a representative in all good towns to look after sub- scription renewals and to extend circu- lation by special methods which have proved unusually successful. Salary and commission. Previous experience desiratle but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with ref- erences, H. ('. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1789 Broadway, New York City. It Huts for Profil tCT«>Z trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. PECAN TREES Thilt are properlj' grown is my Specialty. RiuMvfl and (irafted Trees of 1 he best Viirieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, CAIRO, CLORCIA. Gathering Almonds in Glenn Co. The editor of the Orland Register makes an interesting paragraph from a visit to the Bane almond or- chard during the nut gathering: In the orchard we noted a force of some eight or nine men gathering the almonds. A sled about 24 feet in length and 4 feet wide is used for this work. Nailed to one side of the sled is a large canvas in two sections, the division being in the center of the sled. A team pulls the sled down the center of the rows of trees, and when the center of the sled is opposite a tree, a stop is made and two large sections of canvas spread beneath the tree covering a space of 24 feet square. Two men with bamboo poles then beat the limbs and knock off the nuts 'till no more can be seen on the tree. Then the canvas upon which the nuts have fallen is gathered up at the edges, working the nuts to the center and finally on to the sled. Only a few minutes are required to clear each tree of its nuts. When the sled has' become loaded the nuts are shoveled into a sack and left for a wagon to pick up and take to the hulling and processing plant. Four of these sleds are kept busy at the Bane or- chards, yet they can hardly keep the huller busy. Now we have come to the most in- teresting part— the work of the hull- ing. The plant at the Bane orchard is said to be the most complete one in the state, although there are many larger orchards. The greater part of the plant was contrived by Mr. Sievers and shows a high de- gree of mechanical ingenuity. When the almonds are brought to the plant, they are dumped into a large hopper and an elevator carries them up to the huller. After pass- ing through the machinery that rubs the hulls off. the almonds and all the refuse, such as hulls, leaves, etc., drop into a shoe and are separated on about the same principle grain is separated from the chaff and straw. From this shoe one draper passes out through the end of the building and carries the refuse matter. However, it is impossible to pi'event some of the nuts going with it, and a boy or girl is kept busy on the out side picking out such nuts as come along and dropping them on a smaller dra],er, which carries them back to the machine. Another dra- per carries the hulled nuts from the separator on to still another large draper which is about two feet wide and about sixteen feet long, and which moves very slowly. At this draper sit three women who pick out the pieces of hulls which have come through with the nuts and by the time the nuts are dropped onto the tray at the end of the draper they are thoroughly clean. The hulls thus picked out are dropped into a trough at the edge of the draper, and a small carrier at the bottom takes them out through the end of building, where all the refuse is carried into an elevator which dumps it into a wagon. At the end of the large draper which carries the nuts are trays about thirty inches wide by eight feet long, and when a tray is full it is placed on a car. The trays of al- monds are stacked upon the car some eight feet high and then the car is pushed out of the yard and the trays are placed on a scaffold and ex- posed to the sun until they are thoroughly dried. Beside the track is a tank and the almonds must have a bath before going into the sulphur smoke. An empty tray is placed on top of the almonds and the whole is submerged in the water. It is ne- cessary that the shells of the almonds be wet so that the sulphur smoke will take effect. The trays are again stacked on the car as they are dipped in the water, and when the car is loaded it is pushed into the sulphur house, the door of which is then closed, and the almonds are then subjected to a strong sul- phur smoke from 20 to 45 minutes to give them a bright golden color. During the smoking the almonds re- main on the car and when finished the smoke house is opened and the car pushed on through and the al- monds are then unloaded and emp- tied into sacks ready for the market. A tray holds from 35 to 40 pounds of almonds and the sacks into which they are emptied hold from 80 to 85 pounds. A gasoline engine furnishes the power to run the machinery, and the many ingenious devices that Mr. Sievers has added to the plant has reduced and lightened the labor of processing to a large extent. About ten persons are employed at the plant, and a large number gathering almonds. At the plant the greater part of the work is of a character that women and girls can do. A ton of almonds is about an av- erage day's work at hulling. 136 Tim NUT-GROWBH THE NUT -GROWER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY XSAe NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Georgia, under the Act of Congress ol March 3, 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rales on Application. NOTICK When this paragraph i.s marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subseripriou price is 50 cents per annum, hut if you will send $1.00 your account ■will be credited for three years. SEPl'liMBER. 1910 The regular demand for copies of J. B, Wight's paper on Pecan In- vestments requires the publication of the third edition which is recent- ly from the press. Our readers will be glad to know that the important paper on the es- sentials of Commercial Pecan Grow- ing, which recently appeared in suc- cessive issues of the Nut-Grower, is to be revised by the author, Herbert C. White, and printed in permanent form . The editor acknowledges the re- ceipt of an invitation to attend the Twenty-First Annual Banquet, giv- en to Gardeners, Florists and Nur- serymen by the Missouri Botanical Gardens, at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., August 11th. The Pecan Orchard promoters as a rule do not ?end their literature to the Nut-Grower for examination. Another particular thing is that but few of them are members of the National Nut Growers Association, but practically all of them who are in search of authoritative data and arguments in favor of the industry subscribe for the Nut-Grower. In fact it is the work of the Associa- tion and the Nut-Grower which has made the promotion of orchards a commercial proposition. We learn about the projects in various ways and have frequent inquiries about companies with headquarters in dis- tant states and prospects to develop in Southern Territory. Some of these on examination indicate soand business organization with reliable horticulture supervision. Others have not yet reached the point where they recognize what they need be- sides money to make their proposi- tions attractive to those who know. The promoters of pecan orchards who are trying to do well for their patrons as well as for themselves, are taking pains to inform them- selves thoroughly as to the status and prospects of the business. This naturally sends them to the Nut- Grower and it is a common occur- rence for orders for a copy each of all the back numbers we can furnish to be i-eceived. If some subscriber or advertiser can help the Kansas State Agricul- tural College to a copy of our Jan. 1910 issue, they will oblige. The following letter tells why it is want- ed. Our supply of this issue was long ago exhausted: The Nut Grower Co., Poulan, Ga. Gentlemen:— Kindly send us the January, 1910 number, of the Nut Grower, as we lack this number in making our file complete. Yours very truly, Gertrude A. Barnes, Librarian. Manhattan, Kansas, Aug. 18. 1910. The third edition of "Pecan In- vestment," the reprint of Mr. J. B. Wight's Chattanooga address, has recently been printed and copies are now to be obtained from the Nut Grower. This paper is conceded to be a careful and conservative review of the prospects the industry offers as an investment, and, while it does not color the situation, still it shows a safe and profitable field provided the proi)cr skill is exercised in plant- ing and due care is given afterwards. He said that while granting that some varieties would begin to bear at four to six years still the tenth year is about as soon as they become profitable. Referring to the recent final meet- ing of the Texas Nut Growers Asso- ciation, we are reminded of the fact that pio.iecrs and faithful laborers in new lines of human endeavor are rarely given substantial support or even encouragement, but have to contend with diflnculties which should in many cases not exist. It is possi- ble that our Texas brethren have had their full share of such nega- tive encouragement they have temporally been side-tracked. Pos- sibly the state may within a few years make up to an appreciation of the value of the work and service which that body of progressive and able men were willing to render their beloved state. In investigating the pecan propo- sition it is simply good business to look at the prospects from other view points than that of the pro- moters, get the opposite extreme and if it still shows up well take the pes- simistic view of what it will pay. In this particular it is likely to be nearer right than the optimistic data now so generally furnished the public. The same optimistic pro- moter, however, serves a good pur- pose provided those he interests take the trouble to investigate thor- oughly the true situation and re- quirements for success. The older some men become the more business acumen they display. We like to see men of mature years engaging in pecan planting, as it in- dicates a spirit which is willing for others to profit by their labors. Years ago, when the editor was still young in the pecan specialty, we were occasionally visited by a noted Presbyterian minister, then some past the meridian of his active ca- reer. In to-day's mail we found a letter from him, making inquiries about soil and pecan nuts, as he is arranging to plant an orchard. Young men should profit by such examples. In the report of the Texas Nut Growers meeting in our August number it was noticed that their State Nut Growers Association was merged with the State Horticulture Society. The reasons assigned for this step being that the association had fulfilled its mission and that it would reduce the number of state organizations which demanded sup- port from the nut growing mem- bers. We must confess that this ac- tion based upon the considerations mentioned is rather surprising. If it is true that the association has fulfilled its mission then it was time to disband, but not a reason for merging with another body. If there were too many organizations to support then it was up to the nut growers to choose which they would serve. If the Horticultural Society is more important and useful to the nut growers themselves than a good working body devoted to the great- est specialty with which their great state is blessed, they should support it without relinquishing fealty to their particular work of nut culture. If the mission of Texas Nut Growers' Association has been accomplished it, THB NUT^CHOWBli 137 ExtensiveExperimentsandWork -IN- Nut and Forest Tree Guitu 8 BY DR. ROB'T. T. MORRIS Fully described and pictured in THE GUIDE TO NATURE Arcadia, South Beach, - Connectinut. Send $1 oo for One Year, or loc for Single Copy. This magazine is also pub- lishing interesting editorials and contributions on "Luther Burbank," and the action taken by the Carnegie Insti- tution in lel&tion to him. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most-Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT.Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Buddetl aud Grafted Pecan Trees of relialile known varieties. Our catalog; con tains inforiiiaiion on selecting, planiiug, cul- ture, etc., and is free for the asking. Graftwood for sale ; our orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. must have been organized on a very circumscribed basis. The work ac- complished in the few years of its existence has been of inestimable value to the state and as the years go by there will be increasing evi- dence of the fact. There is certam- ly a great field in Texas for just such work as the nut growers have been performing and from our view point it seems as though it was only getting well started instead of hav- ing completed its chosen work. The Atlanta Constitution has the following editorial comment to make on the pecan situation, based on a news dispatch from Albany, which is published in our news column: "A dispatch from Albany, publish- ed recently in the Constitution, in- dicated that within the last four months 15,000 acres of pecan lands had been sold in and around Dough- erty county. "Preparations are under way for planting this tremendous area in the toothsome nut that promises so large revenue to Georgia. "The problem regarding this espe- cial industry has lately changed from one of a selling nature to one of getting lands to sell. "At present it is said there is an actual famine of pecan lands readily available. "To be sure, there are still large unoccupied tracts in the pecan belt, but the owners foresee the possibili- ties of tremendous development, and are in no hui'ry to rush their hold- ings on the market. "Within only comparatively recent years has the country awakened to Georgia's potentialities with regard to pecans. "Now, it is common knowledge among investors, that orchards, prop- erly tended— and the expense of so domg is small -return dividends be- side which many othei- crops are negligible. "It is logical that, in course of time, the pecan will become one of the state's best revenue producers "The pecan, moreover, is only one item. Georgia has plenty more such at her back, to inspire the activities of the Greater Georgia Association, and other organizations engaged in the mission of development" Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. Wo also carry a }nned for furniture. Wiih care and protec- tion our bottoms would soon be re- forested with black walnut for there are young trees in abundance. The tree is a tap rooted plant, hence can best be grown from nuts plant- ed. FOR SALE! Two Fine Pioces of Properly in Alaciiua County, Florida. One 40-acre tract,, with 12 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. One 20i acre tract, with 10 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. This propperty lies on a large lake and is well drained. Both places adjoin my grove that will bear 5,000 lbs. of fine pecans this season. For further particulars, address, T. S. MCMANUS, WALDO, FLORIDA. FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS IN —The Nation's Garden Spot— That Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad In NortK anci South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, vrrite to WILBUR McCOY. Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coast Line :-: Jacksonville. Fla. Perfection Nut Cracker. PERFECTLY SIMPLE SIMPLY PERFECT.... 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Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee ihe trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., =^1=1== OFFERS A VARIETY OF ^^^^=^^=^ Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Comp:iny has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, GA. Books and Catalogues. Southern Truckers Guide — Supplement for fall of 1910 by Amzi Godden Seed Co., Birming- ham, Ala. * * * The Chase Nursery Compa- NV--Huntsville. 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Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :-: GEORGIA. 09 eg THE NUT^GROWER Volume IX whole No. 99. Number 10 Poulan, Ga., October, 1910. 5c per Copy 50c per Year PECAN INVESTMENTS. IREPRINT.] There are few if anj' agricultural specialties or industrial openings which adapt liiemselves more read- ily to a great variety of circum- stances than does the growing of pecan nuts. This industry invites patronage from all ranks, regard- less of conditions or locality, and promises satisfactory returns to the small nonresident owner of an or- chard as well as to the capitalist who finds it a safe and permanent line, provided a few cardinal prin- ciples are faithfully observed. It is the purpose of this paper to show in part, but as far as the present status of the industry war- rants, what these essential require- ments are, and how they are with- in reach and at the command of all interested parties. An effort will be made to point out different plans which are available for dif- ferent classes of investors, so that each may find one that will be not only to his liking, but adapted to his pecuniary circumstances and knowledge of — or even lack of — practical cultural experience, as well. Briefly stated, to establish a nut orchard requires : 1. Suitable land in a practica- ble locality. 2. Good tree — budded or graft- ed— of recognized valuable va- rieties, suited to section where planted. 3. Competent horticultural ex- peiience and good business management. 4. Such cash capital as the work demands. In the discussion of these funda- mental principles, we take them up in reverse order, as iheorchard- ist of the future will use them in this order. Before passing, h(jw- ever, we are warranted in regard- ing these points as corner stones, no one which can be omitted or even slighted without greatly han- dicapping the prospective orchard. The better the foundation, the bet- ter and more permanent the super- structure, which in this case means more money. These cornerstones, as they have been called, constitute the capital required, and this can be brought together as cash or by association of interests, to such an extent that the work is accomplished bj' a com- paratively small amount of ready money. In round numbers the or- chard will entail an investment of $100 an acre. Approximately one- fourth of this represents the value of the land ; another fourth is re- quired for trees ; still another fourth goes for the labor necessary while trees are reaching bearing age, while the remainder is absorbed by the buildings, implements, tax- e- and cost of administration. Thus it is readily seen that land, tree', etc., when put into an or- chard for a relative interest, reduce the amount of the necessary cash outlay. Presuming that the capital for a fixed acreage is at command, the next step involves the use of prac- tical skill on the part of some one connected with the work, or em- ployed, in selecting suitable land and location. Closely following this comes the very important mat- ter of the selection of trees of known quality and bearing habits and the planting of the same. These particulars are of the ut- most importance and demand un- doubted ability on the part of those directing them. Mistakes at this stage are permanent and fatal, be- cause it requires years to demon- strate the errors. With this iinderstanding of the general foundations which should underlie all orchard operations, we come to the consideration of how different classes of investors can become possessed of a first class orchard. 1. Those who are able, and dis- posed, to have full control of the investment. 2. Those wlio prefer, or who (CONTINUED ON PAGE H6) In Nursery and Orchard. (By H. K. Miller, at Albany Convention.) Mr. President. Ladies and Gentle- men : Sometime during the early fall I had a letter from our Secretary requesting that I would select some subject and prepare a paper to be presented on this occasion. Hav- ing a special desire to appear here merely as a learner, I failed to re- spond to this request, hoping that the time would be given to some one better fitted to interest those present. It was quite a surprise to me to find my name on the pro- gram only two days since, with no opportunity to make any special preparation for the subject assigned. Without further excuse I will im- .pose on you an off-hand discussion of the subject assigned, free of any orderly arrangement. The subject 'Tn Orchrrd and Nursery" presents a wide latitude of ideas and as it is in the nursery that the orchard is properly started, the nursery will have first consid- eration. As just indicated, it is in the nursery that the trees are made ready for their permanent planting in the orchard, and its future use- fulness depends in no small degree upon the manner in which the young trees are treated, from nur- sury the pecan manifests an indi- viduality from the very start, and it is a common experience to find a great variation in blocks of seed- lings ; some germinate in advance of oliiers, some grow more rapidly, some trees are inclined to be stocky, soine will foliate weeks ahead of others, and some will shed their leaves and become dor- mant, while others are quite green. It is no wonder that old seedling groves prove unreliable and contain all manner of trees. Grafted and budded trees have, in a large measure, overcome many of the objectional features possess- ed by seedlings, so much greater uniformity has been obtained. There is still something to be de- sired and perhaps always will be in the way of improvement, and without doubt advantage may be taken of selecting seed nuts from trees of known habits, studying 146 THB NUT^GHOWHR the young seedlings that result with a view to getting :i source of seed that will produce stocks hav- ing those characteristics which will, upon being grafted, produce more dependable trees To produce trees of such character could not be done and marketed at the prices trees now bring, but it would be economy to pay a much greater price for trees of dependable habits. Still futher improveme.it may re- sult from bud selection with the same varieties I merely suggest this as an index to the trend that high quality stock production may take in nursery practice. In a block of well-grown grif'ed pcciiis one will see trees I hat have had the same treatment as far as posssible, yet some will be a few inches high, some a foot high, and others rang- ing from one to five feet higli. If we could only select the best of these trees and give them proper care half the trouble of the orchard- ist would be obviated. At best the nurseryman gets relatively small returns for his labor and to keep his business going it is neces- sary to market such stock as is sal- able, hence the iiiferior trees find their way to the orchard, and in most cases through the tree agent. who buys as low as he can and de- livers poor trees at twice the price of good ones bought directly from a responsible nursei\man. The tree agent is in a measure a pub- lic benefactor, because most of his victims, or perhaps I might say beneliciaries, are people who would never plant a tree but for the suavity of the agent ; and cer- tainly he is doing good who causes a tree to be planted. Would that it were possible to market our best ttees only, to agents as well as to planters and burn all trees that fell below a high standard of ex- cellence. Because a tree is small is no reason to class ii as a runt. Age and con- dition of growth must be consid- ered. A tree may be undesirable from over-growth. An eight-foot pec.in two years from the seed is easily pioduced, but I would scarcely select such lo be planted in an orchard of mine. A tree of this age three or tour feet high or possibly five feet high would show ample growth and un- doubtedly possess a much firmer texture and stand transplanting better. The growing and handling of nursery stock is not a simple mat- ter; innumerable details enter that make for the well being of the trees, maiiv of which may be neg- lected without any apparent ef- fect at the time of delivery. Through stress of competition it is possible to make short cuts and de- liver the same grade of stock at a much lower price than is possible when one takes all the precautions to preserve the vitality of his trees. But the planter most surely has the burden to bear in lost trees, slow growth and poor fruitage. The great difference in the price of trees quoted by different firms is oftentimes only apparent and in many cases the higher priced tree yields less actual profit to the grower than the lower, and yet the added cost can well be afforded by the planter, even though he gets trees ap[)arenl ly alike for tiie two prices. A simple illustration will suffice : A digs his trees and allows Ihem to lie exposed tor hours as the dig- ging proceeds; B, at the expense of an extra hand, has the trees col- lected and properly protected as fast as they are gotten out of the ground. Which trees would you prefer.'' In considering the or- chard, I might say that a pecan or- chard does not differ essentially from other orchards. It is true that there are not so many prob- lems to confront the pecan grower as confront the peach or apple grower, however, if one entertains the idea that the trees can be phmt- ed, and ;ifter waiting a period of years the planter will find himself in possession of a property that will yield large annual returns, let him rather invest in a wild cat gold mine ; the chances of success are rather in favor of the latter. Gentlemen, I must say in all can- dor that one will get from a pe- can orchard only in proportion as the orchard receives intelligent care. [continued on page 158.] Pecan Investments- (CONTINUED KltOU PAE I4i ) are obliged, to enlist the ser- vices of others as agents, or who patronize orchard compa- nies selling individual hold- ings on installments or regu- lar payments of fixed amounts. 3. Those who purchase the .se- cured bonds of orchard compa- nies. 4. Those who become stock- holders in regular orchard companies. All of these classes of inves- tors desire sound business methods, skillfully handled and directed by horticultural experience and thor- ough knowledge of the business. The last mentioned plan, that of the stock company, provides for large or small investors who share in proportion to their paid up holdings of stock and reap their full share of all benefits without the responsibility of management, and regardless of whether they are experienced in the business or not. Their stock being transferable, it can be sold readily should a sale be desirable, and as the property becomes more valuable with added years and increased crops the value of the stock goes far beyond par. In the purchase of secured bonds of orchard companies the rate of interest is fixed at a comparatively normal per cent, but sometimes a part of the profits go to the bond- holder in addition to the agreed interest. The advantage of this plan is urged as eliminating the risk assumed by stockholders, while the bond security becomes more stable as the orchard attains age. The installment plan, a paying for a specific acreage planted and cared for up to bearing age by some responsible company or indi- vidual, is at present a popular mode for obtaining such a property on easy terms without the care or responsibility which attaches to a private business. The patrons of this plan, however, contribute sub- stantially to the profits earned by the company furnishing the or- chard. At the same time the ser- vice rendered is most important and merits a liberal profit as the purchaser is ultimately the full ben- eficiary, while the promoter has only the compensation earned. The first plan mentioned will al- ways have a large percentage of investors in its class. Where tiie party engages in the business pure- ly for profit he employs competent help, which is not abundant, and directs aft'airs according to his own ideas. When he makes it his busi- ness, he first learns what to do and how to do, and his success and profits will be measured by the ability, industry snd perseverance he applies to its prosecution. With all these various plans it seems as though almost anyone can get a foothold in the industry. It is now up to us, as practical and experienced growers, to furnish such opportunities as patrons may select, and give to them such en- couragement, support and service.s as circumstances may require. This means direct and indirect benefits to us and to the industry, and profits fur our patrons. THB ?iUT^OHO\VBI^ 147 Fruit and Nuts as Food. From Cal. Fruit Grower. My attempt in life has been to discover tlie dietary be^^t suited to the health and longevity of various chisses of the community, writes Josiali Oldfield, in the Monrovia News. In this search and in the experiments I have conducted and from my personal observation of some four thousand pefiple whom I have strictly dieted for various dis- eases, and from the records I have obtained from the four men I ex- perimented on for a period of three months, I learned to have a regard f(.r the value of fruit as food. In the first place, the same die- tary is not suitable to all persons. What is one man's meat is another man's poison. What is an excel- lent dietary for a brawny navy may be a most unsuitable one for a fragile, sedentary student. A se- lection of dishes which wnuld be admirable in sunim. r might be quite inadequate during a rigorous winter. There are some constitu- tions which have stomachs like portmanteaus, and though you fill them with lobster salad and pick- led pork, wasiied down wiih sour wine and weighted with filberts, 1 hey will turn up smiling and ask for more, whereas to others the ca- paciiy to digest the weakest of foods is only kept up bv the con- stant use of pepsin or similar di- gestive adjuncts. Some men live on beef and beer to a good old age and therefore they imagine that everybody should be able to do the same. If there is one thing more than another which experience has taught me, it is that personality plavs an important part in dietary and that anj- proper application of the food problem requires us to recognize that there is large com- mon ground to the human race in food; but that there is an equally important necessity for variation lo meet the needs of individuals of that race. M iny people hiive an idea that the dessert -is only an afternoon dalliance, whereas, in effect, the best and hardest of work can be done on a fruit meal. The one redeeming feature of our din- ner dessert is that children are al- lowed to come down for this, so that to 1 hem it becomes — and rightly is — a happy meal. There are several reasons why fruit is important as a food. First. Il is itself a food; a complete and full nutriment for the body and in every clifnate ; indeed, every con- dition of work and of constitution and of he.ilih. and of digestion, can be obtained from a fruit die- tary. Second — Fruit is of essen- tial value in assisting other foods to be dig&sted. Third — Fruit is of the utmost value in helping the body to eliminate waste matters which produce debility and old age. Fourth — Fruit is almost the onlv food possible in some forms of disease and is largely curative as well as nutritive. In the first place fruit, when rightly selected, forms a complete nourishment for the body in a most assimilable form. The ingredient for bodilv sustenance divides food into the following: Aqueous, sac- charine, oleaginous, albuminous and saline matlers. Milk and the yolk of eggs, both of which provide complete nutri- tion for embryonic and early life, are composed of the above sub- stances. Are these substances found in fruits in a proportion suitable for human digestion? Again and again I have advised my nerve patients to eat more fat, and they reply : "Oh, but I don't like fat," and I always answer: "Don't you like butter?" "Oh yes," they gliblv replv. "I like butter." "Well then," I ask, "did you ever see any lean but- ter?" The fruit world is full of fat. The olive groves always formed one of the foremost pic- tures in the sweet memories of the land of Canaan, and now the mar- kets are full of olive oil. I am growing daily more and more convinced of the great im- portance of nuts and nut-butter and nut oils for food. It is often objected that nuts are indigestible, and this is trtie of all food that is swallowed without mastication; but now-a-days the difficulty is en- tirely obviated by the process of putting the nuts through a nut mill and using them malted. A nut mill will at once transform shelled walnuts and almonds into a fluffy, snowy meal dainty, diges- tible and full of nutrient fat. The two classes of fruits I have mentioned — the sweet fruits and the fat fruits — make an ideal com- bination, and I know few dishes more delightful than some good dates with the stones removed and the spaces filled up with walnut meal. The result is a sandwich of excpiisite flavor and a great nutri- ti\e value in a small compass. (CONTl.VDEDON PAGE 155) Fruit Trees, Shade Trees -ANO= Ornamental Shrubbery =ALSO= Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSERY Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber. Pres. J. E. Barbe". Sec'ty. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -'•- -'•- Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. 148 THE, JSUT-GROWBH WALNUTS Nut Exhibit at Monticello. Plans are well uiuier waj' for the exhibition of some 30 to 50 varie- ties of pecans during the conven- tion. While specimens of many of the leading varieties have alreadv been promised, it is earnestly desired that others will be forthcoming. Parties having nuts of this season's crop, grown in their localities, will confer a great favor upon the As- sociation by sending from one to two pounds of unselected specimens to Monticello in time to reach that place not later than November ist. Named varieties are especially desired but promising new seed- I ings will be gladly received and given attention. The Association will bear the necessary e.xpense for specimens of named varieties. Ad- dress all specimens to C. A. Reed, Monticello, Fla. Walnut Trade of France. Writing in regard to the walnut trade of the Bordeaux district dur- ing 1909. Consul Alfred K Moe says that I he crop was, in the main, of excellent quality and the yield an average one. He continues : The total exports during the fall season of 1009 are estimated at 175.000 bags, or 19,250,000 pounds. The whole crop \s as pret- ty well cleared up before the sea- son ended, and )n April, 1910, tiiere was no slocks to speak of. The average prices per bag of no pounds, commission and freight, New York, were as follows : Mar- bots, $8.49 ; Cornes, I7.33 ; Cahors, 17.05. In walnuts suitable for shelling purposes the crop was a fair aver- age in the district, but owing to a shortage in the (irenoble district tlie demand for this variety from the United totales has been greater than the supply, and the prices have been continually rising; in fact, they are higher than they have been in 25 years. The Apiil price on perfect halves was $47 29 per 220 pounds, commission and freights. New York, whereas broken ones brought $37.63. Of shelled walnuts there is gen- erally a fair carryover during the summer months to meet the early fall demand from the United Stales, but this season there will be very little left for that purpose. The making of advance sales, to- gether with the impossibility of estimating probable cost has led in recent years to a much disturbed market as well as a rise in prices. Local traders think this avoidable if the American importers would not urge sales before October, by which lime the trade is in a posi- tion to know about llie crop and quality. ExtensiveExperimentsandWork Systemaiic effort to cultivate and protect the walnut trees ought to meet with the hearty co-operation of every boy and girl that has been in the woods in the fall. Let the school children be appealed to and let them be set to work all over the country to see that the walnut shall not disappear. It will prove edu- cational as well as preservative, for what a lesson for the child is the simple planting of a tree! It is first a lesson in unselfishness, in kindness and in love, because it teaches thoughtfulness for others. It is 11 lesson i.", good citizenship, because it looks forward to the needs of the future. It is a lesson in economics, a lesson in the realm of wonderful Mother Nature, ales- son in arl, a lesson in details — in all these things and others, because the act is making the world more beautiful, more comfortable, more useful, more delightful, and there- fore, a better world to live in. — Exchange. -IN- Nut and Forest Tree Cultu.e BY DR. ROBT. T. MORRIS Fully described and pictured in THE GUIDE TO NATURE Arcadia, South Beach, = Connecticut. Send $1.00 for One Year, or loc for Single Copy. This magazine is also pub- lishing interesting editorials and contributions on "Luther Burbank," and the action taken by the Carnegie Insti- tution in relation to him. WANTED! SOO Pounds Japan Walnuts, Cordiformis and Seiboldiana. SMITH BROS. CONCORD, 9 GEORGIA. Q^^.^<^.gi-'Q^^<:^9<^9-^k.S<^9*^^S'<^e<^9<^S'^^S'^^9<^S<^'i'^^0'^^C' THE PAPER SHELL PECAN NURSERY FINEST BUDDED AND QRAFPED TREES FOR SALE 30.000 TRKKS I?f NIJKSKBY VVII()l.i:SALl<:— RKTAIL W. M. ELLISON, M nager. LAFAYETTE, LA. e e c i NUT TREES, SATSUMA ORANGES, FIGS J ^ ^ OUR SPECIALTIES. ? Write for Illustrated Catalogue-It will Interests You. a Tim xuT-ai^awisii 149 ALiWONDS. Ef-^SLWINGJIACHINE^OUISE! THE SIDE NEEDLE SPINE THE PLAIN TRUTH about your Sewing Machine has never been t(il< yoii; if it liad you would never use it, no main how badly you niight want to. Ilie ordinary family sewing machine is an in struinent of toriure- It is a nerve destroyer and a health destroyer and every woman who uses it makes a serioi- mistake, and injures her nervous system to :tn ahirniin^ extent. ]( you will look at your machine, the reasot for ail this is plain. The constructitni of y.■^■. irjj Machine is wnmjr. tlie needle is away 4^j II iies t' in order to operate it. Think of it. i-liriK yiJtir s -iMe, stontach and all internal orj;an^ < iity-'ive per cent, uut <»f plmnb. Is it any wondir-r uMitors recu;_'uixe the disease of .Side ?JeerAM>AKn C'KNTRAI^ NICKDt.E machine. [unit to enal>le yoii to sit with back straight, with jour work riKht in front of you, central, directiy ever the treadle. ^'ou can sew on this new-style machine all day, without feeling tired, or getting a pain in your back or a stitch in j-our side. - ^'ou can expand your chest and breathe nat- urally and freely while sewing, your heart will be normal, your stomach will be in its right posi- tion and there will be no strain on your back or your muscles or nerves. And the beauty of it all is, this STANDARD CKNTKAL NKKDLE MA<'HINE costs no iiKire and is just as easy to purchase as any' other w.-ll made machine. If you value your health and the health of your prnwinc dauKhters, don't hesiiate, quit using your b.ick-twisting, disease- breeding, nerve-racking ma- chine today. Write lis and we will gladly send you FKKK a hook which illustrates and explains in a simple way the difference between the right and wrong In sewing matlirnes. The hook is called "A STITCH IN THK SIDK.'* A postal brings it to you free. Send for il, you'll never regret iL The Standard Sewing Macnine Co. 6 451 Cedar Ave Cleveland, O Nuts and Fruits of Sicily. Almonds ;ind lilberts are exported from Palermo and Catania. Wal- nuts are exported from Sicily in considerable quantities, reports \'ice-Consul Giovanni Paterniti, Palermo, Italy. The production of almonds in the rest of Italy is in the Province of Bari, that of filberts ill the Province of Naples. Shipments of ahnonds and fil- berts from Palermo are jjenerally ni;ide direct. No need is felt in this port, except on rare occur- rences, to send the goods via some other port, as an average of i6 steamers or more per month bound for New York touch Palermo. It is different at Catania. The Amer- ican Consul there states that, owing to the limited number of steamers which sail from there for the United Slates, most of the shipments are made via some other port, general- ly Naples or Genoa. Possibly some of the shipments made from Catania are certified to by the con- sulates at Naples or Genoa on the ground that the seller is located there and that the contract is made there. Thus considerable amount of nuts grown in .Sicily may be credited to I he rest of Italy on ac- count of appearing iimong the de- clared expoits of tiie consulates mentioned. I am informed that the general crop of nuts this year is excellent and larger than that of last year. The production of filberts in 1909 was about 60,000 bales of about one quintal each (metric quintal : 220.46 pounds), while this year it is estimated at So, 000 bales. Regarding citrus fruits, the earlhquiike of 190S, which destroy- eii entirely the city of Messina, did not produce great damage to lemon crop or groves. However, few of the fruit shippers at .\Ie>isina sur- vived, and the packinghouses there weieall destroyed. Consequently the fruit is now purcha>-ed by shippers established at Palermo and Catania. On account of storms in Sicily last winter and spring, by which many llower buds were destroyed. the production of lemons this year was probably one-third less than that of the preceding several years. The quality, however, is good. Only a limited quanity of lemons remained in August for export, and probably' none will be export- ed during the last months of this year, contrary to the practice in the past two or three years, in which lemon shipping never stop- ped throughout the entire year. After the increase in 1909 of the America duty on lemons, shippers offered very low prices to producers. Thus a considerable number of producers shipped direct. This caused a temporar)' hostilitj' be- tween shippers and producers. The price, however, is high at present on account of the scarcity. Nut Markets. Almonds rule steady at unchang- ed values in California, with east- ern markets firm under the short supply and high prices abroad. There is not much almond business passing just at the inoment from Calitornia, so far as can be learned. Considerable early business was however done at lower prices by dealers in nuts outside of the Ex- change. Present quotations of the Exchange are just the s.mie as open- ing prices, with other dealers quot- ing about ic under. The Almond Growers Exchange in California controls a consideiable proportion of the unsold almonds remaining here. Walnut prices, which are expect- ed to rule high this year, will prob- ably not be named until October i, as the consensus of opinion ot the managers of the walnut associa- tions seems to be for naming prices on that date. The present walnut crop in Cal- ifornia is smaller than last year, and while some sections are ma- terially shorter, otliers will show about the same tonnage as last year, so that the best estimates now are for about :;oo to 1 .000 tons below the 1909 output. New York ad- vices report of constantly advan- cing prices on walnuts in France and a very short crop there. Nuts for Profii A BOOKLET OF 158 pages; 60 illus- trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. FromJan. 1 to April 15. (i.iLANDO, Fla. 150 THE, NUT-G HOWBR HICKORY How to Get the Best Prices for Pecans. F. T. Ramsey, Austin, Texas. First. Do not be in a iuirry to sell; pecans will keep. Second. Talk and write about the intrinsic value of pecans as a diet. Nothing is more enjoyed. Nothing of equal bulk or weight contains more nourishment and nothing is more easily digested if eaten at meal time — in order that this may be done there is an urgent demand tor a hand shelter, tiirough which the children of a family couid run a peck of pecans in the same time it takes to grind coffee. There is already a machine that will grind the kernels into butter, but I have not he«irdof a family shell- er. It need not be complicated or expensive — let some inventive Texan get it up for us. If farmers, who have pecan trec^, had such a machine they could shell their pecans and sell their kernels and this machine, like death, would make all things equal, for the kernels out of average small pecans are of slightly better quali- ty than kernels out of the average large pecans. The kernels, I believe, whole- sale at from 40 to 60 cents a pound, which means from about 15 to 30 cents a pound for pecans, less cost of shelling. The Americans are getting too busy to take time to crack pecans in the good old way, but they will buy a good thing at any price, and who knows of anything better than fresh pecan kernels? A large part of the canned fruit of the future will be put up by the grower at the orchard home, and to be sold at his leisure and his pleasure, and the quality will be better because the fruit will be ripe when pulled. It can not be fully ripe, if it is to be hauled or ship- ped to a caiinery. There is no use in paying freight on 200 pounds of pecans to New York when there is only eighty or one hundred pounds of meat. If the grower is not entitled to this saving and to the increased value of shelled pecans, who is? Dr. Morris on Classification of Varieties. Mr. Secretary : — There are a few suggestions for the Monticello convention which I have in mind. I think it very im- portant to have the work of the committee on nomenclature and classification well tabulated and put in form for ready reference at all times, perhaps even printed in pamphlet form and obtainable by members. Year by year we are going to have more named varieties of nuts and more questions about the class- ification of each one, and when we get to including hickories and chestnuts and walnuts, besides va- rious other nuts, it will become such an elaburate matter, that well organized procedure at the outset will simplify matters very much. There is no telling whetner I can be present or not, as the conven- tion meets at a very busy time of the year for me. In case I can get away I shall certainly do so, and will bring up some topic for dis- cussion at my arrival. Yours truly, Robert T. Morris. Pecan Trees in quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. We also carry a }j**"e'**il line of Fruit aiKl Oruaiueutal Trees. SEtTHE n«oTs SUCH \l TREESJt LIVEY %-.^. V<- Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with entire Tap Root ind well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries sell such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, of best quality and best producing varieties. Some of the biggest, thlnncst-shellcd nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Oiir Vnrir(ie» are Be»tt Gold Medal (.»Qrd<^d our Free at Jamrttown Luposilion Handsome Pecan Catatof Free GriffingBros.Co. Nuraerymen Jacksonville. Florida We also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees ard caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. V*rite for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO , MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. THB A 177 -G HOWBR 151 CLASSIFIED VARIOUS NUTS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column we^ive jilace to advertisements from subscribers who have 'Orchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exohangie, as well as make inquiries for things wanted. The rate is One Cent ;j w..rd for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and p-ofitable. 1,200 or more bushels of ))ecans for sale. Address J. J Domas, New Roads, La Cemant Sidewalks, Buildings, Etc.— Poitland i cement idewalk constructirin ; concrete block buiUlin^g; making and laying concrete blocks: estimating, profits etc. Practical book for con- tractors giving details in full. Second edition. P .^tpaid .5 c. De Graff Pub Co , Peoria, 111 BABY CHtCKS 8 CENTS— SI. ipped safely anywhere. CtiLVEB Poultry Fa km. 1034 Reed, , Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or »-xhtbition purposes snpi)iied^ at reasonalde rates, Seed nuts 'ninished only iu limited quantities. THE NUT-':r:ipli.v-Shortage of fully 10,000 operators on account of 8-hour law and extensive "wireless" developments. We operate under direct supervision of telegraph officials and positively place all students, when qualified. Write for catalogue. National Telegaph In- stitute, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Mem- phis, Davenport, la., Columbia, S. C. , Portland, Ore. 10-2t Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Nat the Most"=Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Sptings, Miss Nut Oils and Oil-Cake Meals. In some parts of Europe almond oil, vviilnut oil and beechnut oil are manufactured and prized as salad oils, and in South America Brazil- nut oil' is used for table purposes., Cocoanut oil is an important oil in the Tropics. Peanut oil finds a large lechnical application iind is also used in large quantities as a salad oil and for culinary purposes. Oils are also made from the kernel or nul of the peach and apricot, but these, like mosl nut oils except those mentioned, are used for med- ical or technical purposes. •The various nut oils, which are practically pure fats, have a very high fuel value, and, like olive oil and other oils, may constitute an important energy-yielding constit- uent of the diet. It is commonly assumed that, like olive oil, ihese oils are readily assimilated when properly combined with other food materials, as in salads, as "short- ening" for various dishes, and in similar ways. . The Crt»BER. toio Remember the 1910 Convention at Monticello, Fla., November, 1-2-3. Mr. C. Forkert, of Miss., wlio has been prevented from attending sev- eral Conventions.hopes to be on hand at Monticello. Attention to detail is essential in any line of business. This applies to pecan growing in general, but particularly in the starting and early care of the orchard. In due time the eternal vigilance can be re- laxed more safely, than in any other calling. During the month of September we had several brief business trips to different sections of Georgia, and on one of them we were shown a young orchard, planted the past sea- son with three foot trees. It was remarkable in several respects, par- ticularly in its vigorous and uniform growth, and complete stand. As far as we observed, not a tree was miss- ing. The horticulturist who fur- nished the trees and directed the planting, simply understood the busi- ness and gave the trees proper care and attention. Model farms are being established in various sections of the country, principally by railroad companies. There is a fine opening for lumber firms, who have cut over lands, to engage in work of this kind. The man from Missouri has many who follow his lead, and want to be shown what the land will produce. All such farm movements in the South should have a pecan orchard, started by a competent nurseryman. In a few years it would make a show that would mean dollars to the promoters of the farm. Every well organized movement, from an international exposition to selling goods, lands or industrial stocks, have their publicity depart- ment, which keeps the public in- formed as to their work and claims to public patronage This line of work by the National Nut Growers Association has steadily been spread- ing information, niuch like seed sowing, and the beneficial results are to be recognized in many ways. The monthly bulletins now being sent out have served to advertise the forthcoming convention widely and efficiently and indications are favor- able for the largest gathering of nut growers thus far held. While the Committee on Varietal Adaptation has been industriously gathering information for their re- port at the Convention, we have been making a few observations as business occasionally puts us in the way of seeing things. Some days ago we were shown through an or- chard of ten-thousand top-worked trees now of an age to begin bear- ing. There are blocks of all the more popular varieties, and several of them have a fair showing of nuts, but one particular variety was far ahead of all others, in fact, every tree having apparently from one to five pounds of nuts, nearly mature at time of our visit. However, this variety was not selected by the own- er of the grove, and the budding wood came to him under another name. It seems to have been a mis- take, which improved the actual early returns. Sometime, we may have something to say about this early and abundant bearing variety Two or three years ago the Editor of the Nut-Grower urged the Asso- ciation to modify the work, so as to give to all sections of the country, and to all kinds of nuts the same general attention that the pecan re- ceives in Southern territory. His plan was to organize sections devot- ed to all the leading edible nuts, with head-quarters for each in the locality most convenient for those growing that particular variety. The measure was discussed in com- mittee, but never reached the floor of the Convention. Recently, several parties in the Middle and Eastern States have been sounding the prospects for a local organization of nut growers in their locality. The interest in pecan cul- ture has created a marked move- ment in favor of nuts in general, and the time may have arrived when local organizations could be main- tained with interest and profit in various sections of the country. It is the duty of the National As- sociation to encourage, foster and aid in organizing such bodies, when a tangible nucleus can be obtained. Convention Notes. Mr. C. A. Reed, Special Agent Department of Agriculture savs: "There is a great deal of interest in the convention everywhere I go. It should be a successful meeting." * * * The Atlantic Coast Line will fur- nish a special coach fi'om Albany to Monticello the morning of Novem- ber 1st. At Thomasville a large ad- dition to the party will occur. Hon. J. Hansen Merrill, of Thom- asville, Ga., will not be able to make the address expected, owing to the pressure of official duties. He has recently been appointed to fill an important position. * * * The Committee calls especial at tention to the very great assistance it will be to them at Monticello, if all those expecting to be present at the Convention, November 1st, 2nd and 3rd, will notify the chairman, so that reservations can be made for their accommodation, and thus save confusion upon their arrival. * * * At this writing we are not yet in- formed as to special local railroad rates, which are expected for the convention. Parties from the North and West are advised to use the Homeseekers rates which are availa- ble on the third Tuesday in October. This will give a few days for looking over the .section and prospects, to get acquainted with southern mem- bers before the convention and en- joy it more by this kind of prepara- tion. * * * H. K. Miller, in a letter to Presi- dent Wight, advises that he can as- sure all who contemplate coining to the meeting in November that am- ple provision has been made for tak- ing care of them upon their arrival at Monticello. Matters will be greatly facilitated by members pay- ing their dues and thus having a badge to show upon arrival, so that our committee can readily distin- guish members from ordinary trav- elers. THB, NUT-GROW BU 153 General Directions For Pecan Culture. E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Texas. The importance of pecan grow- ing can not be overestimated. The pecan tree is one of our greatest natural resources and tliis fact is being recognized by some of the foremost men of the South. To a certain degree the planting ot pe- cans in some localities is supplant- ing tlie orange, vet our Texas peo- ple do not manifest sufficient inter- est in this great industry. Thous- ands should engage in this great work which afl"ords so much pleas- ure and profit to the growers and 'lie country. The pecan, unlike other trees, endures hundreds of years, and becomes more valuable with age. He who plants a pecan tree confers a blessing which can not be equalled bj' any other call- ing. Great profits are being reap- ed from pecans in other States, but Texas has advantages over all of them. More plea'^ure and profit can be gotten from one acre of fine pecans than can be had from ten, twenty or more acres of other crops, but it takes labor and pa- tience to succeed in pecan growing. We should not be deterred from planting pecans on the ground that we have to wait for results because he who does not plant at all waits longer than he whv> plants. Grow- ing fine pecans is elevating and satisfying and has the greatest fu- ture owing to its natural adapta- bility. This industry has every- thing which is pleasing and is in liarmonv with God's laws. One of the distinguishing feat- ures of the pecan is the cracking quality. The ideal nut for some growers is one having as thin a shell as the San Saba, an excellent pe- can grown in Texas. The term papershell or eggshell pecan is given to most any nut which can readily be cracked in the palm of the hand. Where the variety can- not be determind this term is often given and causes considerable con- fusion to those interested. Do You Want a COPY of O FRUIT AND Vegetable Growing I N MANATEE COUN FY, SEABOARD Air Lirke Railway FLORIDA SEABOARD Air Line Railway WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU FREE! This handsomely illustrated, fifty-page booklet containing a most inter- esting description of the famous Manatee Section, being a reproduction of a series of articles written by the editor of one of the leading agri- cultural papers in the United States after a personal investigation by him. The articles vk'ere run in serial form in his publication during the last four months, and we have embodied same in an attractive pamphlet, illustrating it with dozens of interesting and instructive scenes from actual life. This handsome piece of literature will be sent free, to- gether with phamphlet containing a list of properties available in the Land of Manatee upon receipt of five cents in stamps or currency to cover cost of mailing. Our supply of this book is limited, and if you want a copy you should not delay, but write at once. J. W. WHITE, General Inaustrial Agent, Seaboard Air Line Railway, Norrolk, Virginia. The Pecan. The Pecan stands out pre-eninent today as the best and most profit- able of all the fruit or nut-produc- ing trees for permanent profitable returns, where climatic and soil conditions combine to favor its best development. This is true whether we take it from the stand- point of the investor or the man who wants to plant a few trees to produce nuts for home consump- tion or local market. It is pleas- ant (o note that this long neglected industrv is beginning to assume the importance which its real meiit deserves. It is only in very recent years that the propagation of the Pecan by budding and grafting was begun, and a systematic effort made lo improve the varieties. When we began the propagation of the Pecan by budding and grafting, one desiring lo engage in the in- dustry could not have bought more than a few hundred budded or grafted trees of the finest varieties and the price was almost prohibi- tive. In this comparatively short space of time we have seen a re- markable growth and development of the industry, and today a num- ber of nurseries are propagatii^g the trees very extensively, and Pe- can culture is engaging the atten- tion of capitalists and investors as well as the planter or farmer — Ex. BUI A PiCAN mn The Best Investment that can now ije made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already established ON EASY TERMS plaiated to the hest known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and iu Jackson county, the native heath of the paper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan land In the South. I have a very special bargain In a forty-acre grove (Satsuma orange trees between the pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for the coraingseason'sgrafting. asplen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial tiuts In any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All gratting wood and trees grown from bearing trees iu my own groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- aetl.v what von order. Pecans this season especially tine Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County. SCRANTON, MISS. 154 THE, NUT-aRX)\^^ISht Mere Mention. News Items. So -far as my information goes, the first among Texas horticulturists to put pecan buds upon hickory was the late J. F.' Lyendecker, then of Frelsburg; in Colorado county. His daughters, Mrs. E. J. Brune and Miss Carry Lyendecker, have been carrying on the work of their fath- er since his death.— C. L. Edwards. * * * J. B. Wight, in "Pecan Invest- ments," says: ' ''There is money to be made in pecan growing when ju- diciously conducted in a business-like manner. When the long life and healthfulness of the tree, and also the abundant time in Which the nuts can be gathered and marketed, I do not know a more attractive field in all the realm of horticulture than this. The farmer or land owner living anywhere in the pecan belt who fails to grow enough nuts for his own use and also a surplus for market, is neglecting an exceptional opportunity. * * * Will the industry be overdone? We do not think so. Has apple or- charding been overdone? Some of us recall the prediction that when the immense acreage of apple trees were planted throughout the West their product would hardly be worth the gathering. But the demand for that fruit has always been far ahead of the supply and will doubtless so continue. The consumption of nuts is fast increasing per capita, and be- sides we have the world for a mar- ket where the pecan has no acquaint- ance as yet. We should be export- ing nuts instead of importing. H. S. Graves. ' * * * It is almost safe to predict that twenty-five years hence the meat eaters will be reduced to less than 2.5 per cent. The nut is the ideal carbonaceous food. It is richer in all of the food elements than the best beef steak. In the slain carcass of our dumb animal friends the presence of death and decay is to be found in every tissue. Folded in the cells of the nut is slumbering life energy that becomes a part of (he vitality of the person who eats it. Nuts and fruits full, of the prisoned energy caught from the sun, are the strongest and most healthful diet for man, and must lead to higher levels of intellectual and moral life. —The National Horticluturist. Weather at Piney Park for Seo- tember was: Maximum, 89; Mini- mum, 65; Mean, 77. Rainfall, 2.97. * * * The South Orchards Company, of Mobile, Ala., planted 48.5 acres the past season in pecans and Satsuma oranges, and contemplate planting 600 acres more the coming season. There aim is, to have their entire tract of 2,500 acres, planted within two or three years. * * * The Texas Crop. Parties at Tyler, Texas, under date of Sept. 15 say: After a careful inspection of trees in different sections, we have come to the conclusion that Texas will produce an average crop of 350 car- loads. The pecans are undoubtedly short in some places, but at other points the trees are heaviiy loaded. Louisiana will also have an average crop, and Oklahoma promises a bumper crop. JONES' BUI3DINCi TOOI. Designed and manufactured specially for budding nut trees. An entirely new principle. With this tool Pecans, Wal- nuts, Chestnuts, etc., can be budded almost as rapidly as in ordinary shield budding, and, as it is practically impos- sible to make anything but a perfect fit, even a novice can use it with satis- factory results. Made from aluminum with cutting blades of the finest razor steel, such as is used in the finest safety razor blades. If interested write for descriptive circular, or send $2.00 for sample tool by mail, postpaid. Your money buck if it is not perfectly satisfactory. J. F. .TONK!^, .JK-VXhiKKT TKi l.(>t:|!-«] ANA. PROCEEDINGS The following vulum'es of Proceed- ings of the National Nut Growers' Association can be obtained at prices which were established at thn Al- bany Convention: St. Liiiis, 1904. 2.5c per copy Scranton, 1906, 25e per copy ' Nurfnlk, ■ 1907. 5()c pnr copy Albany, 1909, 5()e per copy J. F. WILSON, Sec'y POULAN, GEORGIA For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO.. Thomasvillc, Ga. mmm \m-\m Ready and will be sent on request. . . Alvin Japanese Nursery MASON HVll^lJINCi HOUSTON, .. IKXAS. PECAN TREES That are properly ^rown is mv SpeciMlty. Budded aitd (iriiftcd Trees of 'he best VMrieties for sale. Wrile for prices of trees iind infor- mation as to growing and care of groves . J. B. WIGHT, '^S^^^Rc.A. The Austin Nursery A GREAT STOCK OF Fruit and Shade Tress, Ever- greens and Native Qmameotdls. INTRODUCERS OF THE HAUPT BERRY A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry. You can plant Haupt any time during the year. Our favorite time is in August and September. Write for our Special Circular on this berry. Introducers of the .... OLIVER and ten other superb Texas Pecans. Big stack of trees of standard varieties of eastern and Texas Pecans. We will plant for you 1,000 grafted and budded pecans, and let you pay for the trees that are alive and established i at the end of the first season. Write for new Catalog and Special Circulars on Berries and Pecans. F, T, Ramsey &Son Austin, : Texas. Fruit and Nuts as Food. ((-•NTINUED FROM PAGE 117) The immense value of the fat as a food is shown by the fact that ten grains of fat will, by combina- tion with oxygen, develop enough heat to raise 23.30 pounds of wa- ter one degree Faiireiiiieit ; that is equivalent to the power of raising 18,003 pounds one foot high. I know of few combinations in ihe whole range of foods more per- fect than alinond meal or walnut meal and raisins. The prophet of old who did his forty days' walk on a handhil of parched corn and n cluster of raisins was a scientific (iietist. The Japanese who follow- ed these lines proved themselves better commissariat officers than tlie Americans, who fed their sol- diers in Cuba on beef. Fresh ripe fruits may be used by young and old alike during the summer, but juicy fruits and nuts should be eaten with a fatty addi- tion, e. g., strawberries and cream. Sweet dried fruits sliould be eaten all the year round and should be eaten with nut meal. Raisins stand at the head of all fruits, and if soaked for twelve or twenty-four hours before eaten are the finest of fruits for curing anaemia and de- bility, and for supporting the needs of the body in old age as in youth. Tomatoes, walnuts, peanuts, malt- ed peanuts, are rich in proteids imd produce most meaty matters when wisely prepared. Apples and grapes should be in every house in tiie land all the year round, and when the)' cannot be obtained, raisins should be used, so that every adult eats four pounds of apples or grapes or one pound of raisins per week. Nuts are far too little known, nevertheless are of great importance. Pine kernels and butternuts are readily digesti- ble, while most of the other nuts can be used if put through a mill, and the remainder can be eaten by nearly everybody if used in their malted form, while the nut butter should replace all the other animal fats for those who love purity, daintiness and freedom from dis- ease. Fruits and nuts may be ta- ken at any time of the day if due TUB NUT^GHOW ISR 155 care be taken in mastication, but C T T i^^ i^^ TI? d C! if taken with cereals they are bet- k3 \^ V^ V^ *J Cj O ter taken early in the day rather than at night. The best adjuncts to fruit are cream, clotted cream, curds and whey, milk puddings, fresh cheese aiid honey. LET US SEND YOU "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" >^.cka,. >s,zk For Those Who Want o Know The nut that has never failed to By Those Who Know bear and never failed to fill at both All the essential information "Out of ends with kernels of best quality, a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for UVi'lITi;! PET I MI I'lIDSE'RirS pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of nRlllirili rfttAll lYDK^tililEiiS free expert superintendence in planting ocean spbings. miss. large size pecans assures live trees and cuick profits WH..Ton.v WHITE'S BUDDING TOOL Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. ^ Sekntific insfnwmd for V -.1. -11 I ''*e rropaqation of Fecnns. KeithvUle, La, tt. , ■ ^ ur i t m i Hickories. Walnuts, Uhest- ^j I ~^ ~^ mits, Fersimvwns nnd all W®®&Wi lHW@StMl@M'IS other Trees, by the Annular, Mr. J B. Wish c's Chattanooga address. Semi- Annular, Fatrh and four six by uine Inch pages, with fifteen Veneer Methods hundred words IL— This is a careful and very ooo-ervative review of tlie commercial opportunities Several hundreds ot this Tool in use this nut offers, and supplies just thu in- ;_ i i-u,^ s.^.oc nn>i sKm/ul formation prospective Investors desire. '" 'Jn"ed States and abroad. Copies furnished at following rates: iiOOO S4.50 Budding and Oraftin$; Wood of best f so '.."".";.'.' .".'.'."" f'lo varieties of Pecans. 100.....!..!..'...'.'.'.'.'..'..'.!".".' !75 , ^° ^^ For particulars and prices, write Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., HERBERT C WHITE, Poulan, Caorgia. DeWilt, :-: Georgia. t'J^d'':'' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of KUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDER RIO\VT()SAVE DISAPPOnTllEM 1909-1910 PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 55 cents each, or (^45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each.'or SS-OO per 100 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75-°" P^"" '^'^ 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUU (iUA.K.\.N lEIC If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before l''ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— A(T NOW— ORDEU TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWifct,, Mitchell County, Georgia. 156 THB NUT^aHiJWBR REPORTS Importation of Nuts. During the past three years end- ing with June 30th, 1910, the fig- ures on ahnonds and walnuts are given as follows : Almonds, lb. 190S, 17,144,968; 1909, 11,029,421 ; 1910, 18,556,356. Walnuts, lb. 190S. 28.887,110; 1909,26,157,703; 1910,33,641,466. Pecan Crop is Average. The Texas pecan crop this year will range from 5,000,000 to 7,- 000,000 pounds, according to San Antonio commission men. While the crop is a little late, it will be about an average. Uvalde will ship about twenty cars, or 500,000 pounds, and the the Brady-Brownwood section will ship about fortj' cars or 1,000,000 pounds. The rest of the crop will come from various sections of the state, many cities shipping a car or two. The Colorado and Nueces River Valleys are the greatest pecan pro- ducing regions in the State. The banks of these two rivers are lined with magnificent pecan trees. Some of the larger trees will yield as high as $15 worth of the nuts in one season, although the average is only from $3 to ^^ a tree. Last year the crop in Texas was very short. This caused the deal- ers to go to Mexico for pecans. Twenty or thirty cars were in' ported, but found very poor mar- ket. The market last season opened at 7 cents by the carload and the demand this year is so great, as a result of the short crop, the price will probably be the same. As picking pecans has not begun, dealers are not quoting figures on the new c rop. Reports received here indicate the yield will be a good average. In the past year two big pecan sec- tions have been opened by rail- roads The Uvalde & Crystal City Railroad taps one of the best sec- tions of the State. Many carloads of the nuts will come from tliere. The extension of the railroad from Brady to Menard also goes through a section where there ma.iy pecans. SA\ ANTOtJIO IS GMKAT. M V RKET. San Antonio is the greatest mar- ket in the world for shelled pecans. Much of the pecan crop gathered in the State is sold in bulk here and then shelled. The shelled nuts are shipped to all portions of the United States and Europe. Shell- ing pecans gives many Mexicans employment during the winter. They have a union and are well organized. They work for so much a pound. Many of them are ex- perts at shelling nuts, and a fami- ly, of boys and girls can work as adults, makes good money for sev- eral months in the year. J. A. Simpson, who resides near Brady, was at the Menger Hotel Tuesday. He said the crop in his section this year is a good one and will reach [,000,000 pounds. Jn addition to the wild pecans, a number of Texasfarmers have been setting out ;rees bearing a high- grade, soft shelled nut. Some of these are now yielding. Some of these, trees demand a very good price. The only drawback to pe- can orchards is the great length of time it takes the trees to mature. Yet when they once begin to bear they vield a verv fine income a tree a year to the owner. In .South- west Texas within the next few years there will be a number of pe- can orchards in full bearing. liEST VARIKTIKS Write for Price List<. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK. : Hartwell, Qa. FOR SALE! Two Fine Pieces of Property in Alachua County, Florida. One 40-acre tract, with 12 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. One 20i acre tract, with 10 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. This propperty lies on a large lake and is well drained. Both places adjoin my grove that will bear 5,U00 lbs. of fine pecans this season. For further particulars, address, T. S. MCMANUS, FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS LN —TKe Nation's Garden Spot— That Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Iri North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, write to WILBUR McCOY, Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coast Line :-: Jacksonville, rla. Perfection Nut Cracker. PERFECTLY SIMPLE SIMPLY PERFECT.... Allows Use of Bowl Under End NECESSARY IN EVERY HOME PRICE $1.00 DELIVERED Cracks Pecans and other Nuts so Meats come out in Perfect Halves. Does its work quickly and well. Si'IhI IIS .your order Tf>-I>\V^. Money : : IteliiiMle0 NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any Price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory ^ices and remarkable special offers to rider ag^ents. VAII Ulll I DP ACTAIHCUrn when you receive our beautiful catalogue and lUU niLL DC HdlUnidnLU study our superb models at the -wonderfully Icnv Prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factorj'. We are satisfied with ji.oo profit above factory cost. ,^^ BUYCl^il DKALt^ity, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double^^our prices. Orders filled the c^ay received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but , usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out proniptly at prices ranging from 83 to ©8 or SIO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. ■ n nRAIfrC single ^vheelSt imported roller chains and pedals^ parts, repairs and COASTER-BRAKES. equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail Prices. 8 50 HEDGETHORN PUHCTURE-PROOF ^h U SELF-HEALING TIRES' ^""^ """ TO imnODUGE, ONLY 4 Notice the thick rubber tr^n't "A" and puncture strips '•!.» ' and "D»" also rim strip "11" to prevent rim outtin;;^. Tills tiie will oatiast any other Kuake—SOFT, ELAttXIO aud EAiiY KIDING. The regular retail price of these tires is $^.50 Per pair, but to introduce we will lell you a sample pair for $f.SO{cashwithorder $4.55). [JO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Taclis or Glass Tvill not let the ftlr out. Sixty tUousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRSPTBOSis Made in all sizes. It is lively and easv ruling', very durable and lined insidewith a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allow- ing tlie air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satis- Bedcustoraers staling that their tires haveonly been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weirjh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of tlicse tires is $5.50 per pair,but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price S4-.55 per pair) if ycu send FULi. CASH WITH OliDEK and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk i:i sending iis an order as the tires may. be returned at OUK expense if for any reason they are not satisfaciory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when ycu want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. .p «z-#««# maecw% Yf^^O don't buy any kind at any price until you send fof a pair of if* FC/(/ Mwt^iM M int^ Hedgethorn Functure-Proof tires on approval and trial it the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. n^% Af#lV* tAfMM'T but write us a postal today. I>0 NOT THINK OF BUYING a bic>'cle ft#C/ lwC## WwM%B g or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L mm mm. gompahy, mmm, ill THE, NUT-aHownn 159 ly^tnni II ^\^***^^m*n^ I'l i' *' i*» I'l' >''»' i' i' i' »'' i' ''"'' »' " '' '' ''^ '' ^' ''<^ » '' '' '' ''*' *'8I Books and Catalogues. f:UMMIT /5W CHOICE ^- NURSERV STOCt URSERIES MILLER &. G05SARD Proprietors MONTICELLO, ^^^^^^ FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses ~C)IJR SPKCIALTIl-IS— ■ The Admiral Schley Pecan The Pecan of the Future OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU. 'I'li'rti' ,■(■ -I ^if- ■■ I'l' ■■■•■■ ■•!■ -I'll' ■'■•!■ ■■■ I' ■■■' irif . .. |. ,. ...... ■■ ,^,. |.|||f ^. ..^,^^1^^. ...... Ill Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1910=1911 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, <"^|fS?pT'' THE LOUISIflNflNUfNURSERIES J. F. JONKS, Manager and Proprietor, .ieaniorettl:. - - Louisiana. Headquarters for Budded and drafted Pecan Trees in the South' west, illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to investi- gate the advantages offered by this section. We will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Latnont, Jefferson County Fla., ==:^i^z=^ OFFERS A VARIETY OF ==:^=^= Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Compiiny has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such contracts as they accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA. E. Y. Teas & Son, Centerviile, Ind., V\'holesaIe Price list Orna- niental Plants. * * * First Aid to Rose Buyers — for 1910-11, is the trade list of the Leedle Floral Co., of Springfield, Ohio. * * * Alfalfa — Bulletin No. 6 by the Amzi Godden Seed Company, of {Birmingham Ala., is an 8-page pamphlet of imerest. * * * Last Call — A four-page circu- lar, is the final offer of preferred and common stock in the Standard Pecan Company, ot Bloomington, III. * * * Plants Useful to Attract Birds— By W. L. McAfee. Re- print from 1909 Year Book, of Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D. C. * * * Control of Diseases of Fruits Etc. — Bulletin 141 Mississippi Experiment Station, Agricultural College, Miss., by H. C. Thomp- son. 32 pages. * * * Gainsville Nurseries — Cat- alogue and price-list, 1910-1911. H. S. Graves, Proprietor Gains- ville, Fla., Pecans. Roses and gen- eral Nursery stock, 36 pages. * * * The Guide to Nature — A montiily magazine edited by Ed- v^'ard F. Bigelow, Arcadia, Sound Beach, Conn., has an interesting article descriptive of the work of Dr. Robert T. Morris. » * * An Unusual Proposition — An eight-page folder by the Home- stead Pecan & Nursery Co., of Wheeling, W. Va. It is a strong but conservative presentation of an up-to-date proposition. It stress- es the importance and cost of everything being done in the best possible manner, and make charges for such work accordingly. gainesvilleIurseries, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees ol reiialile liuowii varieties. Our catalog cou tains information on selecting, iilanting, cul- ture, etc , and is free for the asking. Grauwood for sale ; our orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES. PROPRIErOR. Gainesville, Florida. 160 TUB NUT-GROWBR 88 " - Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MKMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straws berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nurseri/ Stock and Nurservmen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: GEORGIA. 03"— — — ' -eg ra ■ m THE NUT^GROWER ■10 VoluniQ IX Numbor 1 1 Whole No. 100 Poulan. Ga., November, 1910. 5c per Copy 50c per Year PECANS IN NORTH CAROLINA By W. N. Hutt. The pecan tree is not a native of North Caroliiia, tliough like many other introduced species, it shows itself to be very much at home in the eastern iiart of the state. It is a native of the southern Mississippi valley just across the Blue Ridge Mountains from us. In geographi- cal distribution the pecan seems to thrive wherever cotton does. More recent ob-ervalion and experience show that the pecan is more hardy than cotton and thrives considera- bly north of what is commonly considered the cotton country. The pecan is found growing wild in Iowa and Illinois and recent re- ports have been made of large trees found growing along the Wabash, river as far north as Vincennes. Indiana. Last year at the meeting of the National Nut Growers' As- sociation a fine collection of native nuts was exhibited from this re- gion. In Virginia pecan trees are found growing all over the coastal region. Many large trees are to be seen that give evidence of hav- ing been there close to a century. In Virginia two seedling trees have been found of such exceptional merit that they are being extensive- ly propagated as named varieties. These are the varieties Mantiira and A[)pomattox. Witli such northern grown varieties it is prob- able thai the northern liipit of pe- cui production will be greatlv ex- tended. On the eastern shore of Mdrvhmd manj' pecan trees are foun'd growing which have been produced from planted nuts. Some of these are of enormous size and produce small though well-formed nuts. The southern limit of the geographical distribution of the pecan tree is not definitely fixed tliough it is known to extend on into Mexico. In Texas the pecan is grown wild in great profusion, especiallv along the river bottoms of the numerous water courses flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. Raleiirh. N. C. It is in this region that the great bulk of commercial pecans is pro- duced. In the deep alluvial soils of Louisiana the pecan grows wild in the forest and is one of the largest and finest timber trees. From the Mississippi valley trees and nuts have been carried to the east and the pecan has become nat- uralized throughout Georgia, Flor- da and the Carolinas. PECAN SOILS. In the matter of soils the pecan is almost as cosmopolitan as the strawberry. It is found growing and thriving on almost every type of soil in the South. In its native habitat, in the Mississippi Valley, it is found on deep rich alluvial soils. It is on such soils that it makes its greatest growth. There are at Mound, Louisana. some vet- eran pecan trees that me.isure 107 feet high and 19 feet in circmnfer- ence shoulder liigh. Thev are still in vig(jrous condition, although they are considerably over a century old. There is at this place another veteran pecan tree that is 13c; feet high and has a trunk measurement of 14 feet. The tree is as vigorous as a ten-year-old. In back alluvial soil at Jeaiieretle, La., there is a pecan tree that has grown up in the open which meas- ures 16 feet around the trunk shoulder high. Tlie branches of this tree have a spread of no feet. This tree bears immense quanti- ties of small or pewee nuts. In the forests of Louisiana along the Mississippi river pecan, trees are the largest timber trees. In rich alluvial soil the trees grow to be of large vize but are usually long com- ing into bearing. Probably an additional reason why the pecan tree grows to such great size and is so productive in alluvial soils, is that it finds there an abimdance of moisture. .Soils (CONTINUED ON PAGE 162) Another Warning. In a recent nuinber of the Nut (irower I expressed a conviction, gradually growing from experience that danger lay in good natured recommendations of American rais- ed English walnuts. Owners of a number of trees were pushing them commerciallv for propagation on the strength of the authority of well known men who stated that the nuts were of e.xcellent quality. Most of these nuts were not really of excellent quality and their pro pagation will result in disappoint- ment lolhe growers, and will in- terfere with establishing a reputa- tion for American grown nuts of Juglans regia. Anodier warning should be giv- en in reference to propagation of hvbrids, between the pecan and other hickories. I mean the acci- dental hybrids, which are being dis- covered in various parts of the country. On account of the rapid increase in interest in nut questions a great deal is made of these acci- dental hybrids by owners of the trees, which are for the most part little more than curiosities in fact. When we make hybrid nut trees, (or fruit trees or anything else) it is necessary to make a large number of hybrids between carefully select- ed parents, in order to obtain a small percentage of really valuable trees. Perhaps two percent would be a liberal estimate. If two per cent of valuable hybrids is all tliat one may expect, when budding carefully, how many of the wild accidental hybrids are likely to be worth as much as their owners be- lieve them to be ? Robert T. Morris. Editor Nut-Grower. Dear Sir — I enjoy the Nut-Grow- er very much as it contains so much valuable imformation about the nuts and the production of them. Wishing you much success I re- main, Yours trul}'. Dr. W. R. Munger. 162 THE, NUT-GROWBR Pecans in North Carolina. (CONTIKLED FROM PAGE 161) of an alluvial nature which have been deposited by the agency of water, are.very apt to hold consid- erable ground water. As the pe- can tree in its natural distribution follows the alluvial river lanil, it is evident that it is a lover of water. While this is true, it is also true that the tree cannot be considered in any sense of the word an aquatic. It will not grow on marshy lands or sour, water-logged soil. If one tries to plant pecan trees on low, ill-drained lands, he is sure to be utterly disappointed. The river lands on which pecans are found naturally are not the low, sobby land but rather the second bottoms where the drainage is good with the permanent water table some- where in the region ot ten feet be- low the surface. In limes of flood these lands may be deeply but tem- porarily inundated. When in a few days or weeks the water as- sumes its normal level, these lands will be above water mark and be naturally well drained. Willow soils would be death to pecan trees. W^hile the pecan is native to alluvial soils it is found by this, that it will do well on loam soils, on light sandy soils, also on clay soils. It seems to be much more particular about its subsoil require- ments than it is of the surface soil. This is doubtless on accouni of its enormous development of tap root. On one or two year old seedlings the tap root is larger than the en- tire lop of the tree. If the sub- soil is hard and impervious it is impossible for the lap root get down to water, and without this it seems impossible to grow pecan trees. In the loosest sandy soils pecans trees can be made to do well if the subsoil conditions are right, while on rich, fertile loams the tree will not do well if there is a hard-pan close to the surface. Some of the most precocious and productive pecan trees are found on light, sandy land where subsoil and drainage conditions are suita- ble. \lany large and productive pecan trees are found on red clay soil, ll is evident from this that more depends on subsoil and drain- age conditions than on the nature of the surface soil. HOW TO GET A PECAM GISOVK. The necessarily high price that must be paid for good pecan trees should not deter the intelligent planter. Pecan trees should be set in the orchard double the distance at which other trees should be set. Forty feet apart on the scjuare is the least c'lstance at which pecan trees should be set and this should be done with the idea of cutting out every other tree when the trees begin to crowd. At this rate there would be 28 trees per acre at the start and 14 trees after the fillers were cut out. It is generally con- ceded that most planters in the south farm or try to farm too much land. A few acres more or less is neither here nor there to them so they do not need to crowd their trees. Mv e.xperience and obser- vation has led me to decide that 60 feet apart is the proper distance for setting pecan trees. Tne pecan tree is a very long-lived, large- growing tree and one should al- ways consider what land a tree will require when it conies to its greatest growth and productive- ness. Many well set and tended orchards have failed to give their best production because at the very time vvhen they should be giving their greatest returns they found themselves starved tor root and leaf space on account of too close planting. At 60 feet apart it would require but 12 trees per acre. At even $2 per tree the cost of setting a jiecan orchard would scarcely exceed the cost of setting an orchard of peaches or apples. On account of the wide distai.ce at which the trees are set a pecan orchard is more economical than orchards of other trees, because the nut trees take practically no room for a few years and the ordi- nary cultivated crops can be grown as usual. The pecans will not use much of the land until they are able to pay for its use. It is on account of this use of the land for maintenance crops that a planter in the South can get a very profit- able orchard cheaper than in any part of the country. HOW TO PLANT PECAN TREES. The roots of nearly all nut-bear- ing trees are characterized by very large tap-roots. Those of pecan trees are simply enormous. I know of no other tree whose tap- root development anywhere com- pares with that of the pecan tree. From the very germination of the nut tlie primary root of the little seedlings grows into the soil with a determination that would lead one to think it intended to clinch at the antipodes. During the first season the root will penetrate the soil to four or five times the depth that the leader will push up above ground. Like the ground hog the roots go directly down until ihej' reach water. During the early history of the pecan business it was thought that owing to their prodig- ous tap-roots that it was impossible to transplant pecan trees and that the only way to get them was to plant nuts in the places where trees were desired. Later experience has entirely disproved this and it is found entirely practicable to transplant pecan trees, but of course, greater care must be used in digging and setting than with other trees. It used to be thought too that if the tap-root of the pecan was broken or cut, the tree would not produce nuts. This also has been found to be erroneous. With proper care they can be transplant- ed successfully like other orchard trees. PLANT PECANS IN COTTON FIELD. The best place for setting out pecan trees is in cultivated lands. Indeed it is practically a waste of time and money to plant them in any other than in cultivated ground. I have yet to see a pecan grove set in unfilled or sod land that amount- ed to anything. The trees can be set successfully in the rows of any cultivated crop with the possible exception of com, unless with the latter crop sufficient space is given about each tree. Cotton is an ideal nurse crop for a pecan or- chard and I know of no one who can so readily aTid cheaply get a good pecan orchard as a cotton farmer. The trees can be set in the rows and the cultivation and fertilization given the cotton crop will be exactly what the trees need to start them in life. There is only one drawback to the cotton field pecan tree and that is "the niggei and the mule." Mr. J. B. Wight, President of the National Nut Growers' Association, says: "the negro who can plow along pe- can trees and never skin one has not yet been born." On our State Test Farm v%e have found that in- juries from "the nigger and the mule" can be safely avoided by THB NUT'GHOWBH 163 driving in four stakes about each tree and nailing to these a few shit5. Land used for truck crops, such as melons, cantaloupes, toma- toes, sweet or Irish potatoes, snaps, etc., or peanuts would be as good or better for pecan growing and the middles could cropped success- fully until the pecan trees needed all the laud As soon as the trees needed all the land they would be paving a revenue for it that would far surpass th.e profits fr(un the annual crops. By this gradua' transition fi oni cotton, truck or pea- nut crops to I he pecan orchard it is possible to change a precarious annual crop into a permanent pay- ing investment without the loss of the land for a single season. In setting pecan trees, cut back the lap-roots to about 2 or 2 1-2 feet in length. This can easily be done, for though large, the root-inn pecan trees are almost as soft as a turnip. At the same time shorten back the sitle roots and will) a clean smooth cut remove all broken, torn or dried roots. Even after this shortening back deeper holes will be necessary than for other orchard trees. As the lateral roots are slight, wide holes are not nec- essary unless the soil is verv firm. One of the handiest tools I have found for making holes for pecan trees is a post-hole digger. The trees should be set in the holes not deep- er than they stood in the nursery. Fill in the hole wilii surface soil, being careful to ram it in tightly so as to leave no crevices or air holes. If water rises in the hole when you are planting the trees vou can make up jour mind that the l.ind is too wet for pecans trees, and unless the water table is lowered the planting will be in vain. Un- less with large trees it will not be necessary to cut back the tops at plantirjg time. I have found by experience that it pays better to set 3'-4' tiees rather than the larger 5-7' trees, provided of course that the trees are smaller by reason of youth and not because the)' are the "runts" from older slock. The younger trees, if tiiey are vigorous, will give a greater number of living trees than the larger nursery grades. They also cost less, and I find that on the average, th.ey do better in the end. A planter who has not had ex- perience with pecan trees will al- most invariably be disappointed with his first planting. They do not all start off evenly, and make a uniform orchard like peaches, ap- ples and pears. All pecan trees are notably show in starting after trans- planting. When established trees are leafing out the transplanted ones will not show a sign of budd- ing. Some of the trees will start out later and make a vigorous growth, others will pass through the summer and even on to fall be- fore leafing out. Still others will go right over into the next season without pushing a single bud, even though the inner bark may be fresh and green all the while. These latter almost invariably die the second season. The Nut Industry in West Vir- ginia. The most important feature of the nut industry in West Virginia is the production of native chestnut. There are several counties that, during favorable season, market from 40 to 75 tons each of these nuts. A portion of this crop is gathered from forest trees but most of it probably comes from chesnut groves consisting of second-growth trees that have been allowed to stand in old fields. The nuts bring, in the local markets, an average of about four cents a pound, or .$So a ton, and are a source of consider- able income in many localities. The improved varieties of Euro- pean and Japanese chestnuts are beginning to be grown in several places in the State and given prom- ise of great success providing they can be kept sufficientlj' free from insects. Shellbark hickorv trees fiourish in manv sections and almost every neighborhood has its one or more fainous old hickory trees that are noted locally for the nuts which they bear. Although no great quani ity of hickory nuts are market- ed, the nuts are, nevertheless, gathered very carefully, often being regarded as too good to sell, and are kept for home and local use. Walnuts, butternuts and hazelnuts are also furnished to the market in a limited way and are gathered in larger quantities for home use. There is much land in the State that is at present put to little use but which is admirably adapted to the production of various kiiuls of nuts As the demand of the mar- ket for this commodity' increases there is no good reason, apparent- ly, why West Virginia should not undertake to furnish its full share toward supplying the wants of this market, — From Bulletin 128. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees Ornamental Shrubbery Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSER Y Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber, Pres. J. E, Barbe", Sec'ty. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama, Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -:- -'- Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. 164 THB NUT^GHOWBH WALNUTS Oregon Walnuts. [By Thomas Prince at Oregon State Horticultural Society Meeting.] The fact that I was one of the first to interest myself in this industry in Oregon, no doubt led your president to call upon me for a paper on this subject— "Oregon Walnuts." I only wish I could do this justice, as so many are already interested and thinking- of engaging in this enter- prise, and it would seem I should be able to give some valuable informa- tion, but I feel that I can only give you our experience and perhaps a few minor points which can hardly be questioned. For a good many years there have been in this northwest a few walnut trees planted out and walnuts grown, and it seems to me strange, as these trees are bearing good quality and quantity of walnuts, that no one had gone into this branch of horticulture to any extent. Some of us who are interested in prunes believed a mis- take had been made, and too many prune trees had been grown to the acre, 120 trees and upwards. We commenced about 12 years ago to thin them out, replacing the prunes by putting in walnuts every other tree in alternative rows— one-fourth walnuts, or 30 trees to the acre. We believe by so doing that we have not very much decreased our prune product. We also planted out 27 acres by themselves and will say the walnuts with the prunes have made very near, if not equal growth with those planted by themselves, although for the first tour years we raised crops between the walnuts. They commenced to bear at seven years of age, and since then steadily increasing in the amount, this sea- son from a little over 50 acres bear ing trees we had at least 12 tons of walnuts. One cannot count on net profits until trees are eight years, at least, and perhaps nine years of age. We have good soil and suitable loca- tion, and have given our trees fairly good cultivation. No doubt some will be able to show better results and probably some not as good. We set out mostly seedling trees - the French varieties -Mayette, Fran- quette, Parisienne andPreparturians. Our Corvallis friends and many oth- ers who have given this subject much thought, recommend planting out grafted or budded trees. I can only state our seedling trees produce a good commercial product. If it was thought best to grow the grafted trees, would it not be as well to wait until seedling trees were four years of age and commenced to branch, then limb-graft instead of putting nursery-grafted trees, as I think it will be found the seedling makes a more vigorous growing tree, which will produce a quantity of nuts quicker than the grafted tree? That has been our experience. If grafted trees, the question might arise whether to graft on the black walnut or French stock, and if black walnut whether California black or Eastern black. There is, and no doubt will be, a great deal of the- ory, which is all very well; at the same time we need some practical experience to vary this theory. First, in Western Oregon, the last half of October and early half of November, about the time our wal- nuts ripen, we are liable to have a great deal of rain, which makes har- vest disagreeable and difficult. The nuts if left on the ground too long discolor, as has been the case this season, making them less attractive, and we have to dispose of them at a low price. Also we cannot depend upon the sun to dry, and if any con- siderable amount is grown, drying capacity will have to be provided. Second, the blight. This they have in all nut-bearing countries; also, we have it here; some years it is worse than others. It is not thought to be a fungous disease, but weather con- ditions. Sudden changes of temperature and, it is thought, too much damp weather is unfavorable; whether we will be more or less favored than California growers remains to be seen. As near as I can learn, the blight affects their trees more than it does ours, killing the tender growth. I certainly think the wal- nut blight the worst drawback to the success of this industry. We understand the Government is study- ing this condition, and no doubt our experiment stations will be of profit to us. 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There are various efforts at co-operation among growers which are more or less successful, but there is no other line in which all might be enlisted as easily as the almond growers. The reason for this is the ease with which values may be determined. Just as long as the larger part of the almonds consumed are imported it is plain that the price of the foreign product must fix the price of the home product. When we have a plentiful crop on this Coast we have to ship some to the East. Therefore the price of foreign almonds, laid down at New York, duty paid, less the freight from here to New York, will determine the price on this Coast. When the crops are light here we consume all our product on the Coast, and then the price of for- eign a monds landed at New York, plus duty and freight out here, will determine the price here This is so fixed and definite that it should be easy to determine the market price, yet very few seem to know about it. The present method of marketing in a haphazard way works a hard- ship on the grower because he does not always get a fair price for his product, the price the market war- rants. As at present operated, the speculators learn about the foreign crop late in June or early in July, determine what the maximum price on this Coast will be and then en- deavor to purchase from the grower just as much below the price as pos- sible. The object is not to buy low and sell high, for they usually sell on a fixed margin above cost, but the aim is to undersell their competitors when they go to the jobbing trade, as this is the one method above all others which will bring them busi- 165 ness. The system is not to their real advantage, however, because they never know when the competi- tor may be able to buy still cheaper from some other grower and so un- dersell them or cause them a loss. The party who bought our almonds this year said he would just as soon pay 30c as 20c if the maiket was steadied so he knew just what he was doing. But when he buys on a 2c margin and some other buyer succeeds in buying from some other grower for 2c less, then the other buyer is able to depress the mai'ket to that extent in his quotations to the trade and my buyer as well as others who are inclined to deal fair- ly by the growers suffer a loss which ultimately falls on the growers themselves. Understand that if you sell below the market price you not only lose the net profit that should be yours, but you cause a loss to all other growers and fair dealers. It is absolutely a case where no grower stands or falls alone, but he neces- sarily carries his fellowmen with him. What we want is some method of marketing for almonds that will make the market steady for almonds as steady and stable as the market for rtour or sugar. This will work no hardship to anyone, but will be universally beneficial. It is a plan that ought to meet the approval of every buyer and seller alike. Then why not? Time for Transplanting Pecan Trees. I have found that the best season for setting pecan trees is early fall. They can be shipped from the nur- sery and set in the orchard just as soon as the leaves have fallen, show- ing that the buds are mature. Start- ing with the season, pecan trees can be set anywhere in the pecan area right on during the winter up to budding-out time in spring. Rec- ords of the growth of the trees at our different test farms have proved conclusively that the fall and early winter plantings give more living trees and better growth than those set at any other time. Since trans- planted pecan trees are very tardy in budding out, those set late hardly get started into growth before the fall and winter overtakes them. The fall set-trees form calluses in the mild spells in winter and spring and are thus able to make an easier and more substantial growth.^ There will be many less blanks to fill after fall transplanting. 166 THE, NUT^aUaWER The Walnut Market. Some persons have shown more or less alarm in regard to the walnut market, claiming that it would be very easy to overstock it. Now nuts are becoming more and more staple of diet with the American people, due to several reasons— our increase in wealth, and the scarcity and in- crease in price of meat. The out- look now for beef is that it will tend to rise in price rather than to lower, and as our population increases the tendency will be for us to eat more and more fruit and nuts. The au- thor of the bulletin can quite clearly remember when nuts were found on the table only at festive times; while at the present time the tendency is to have nuts nearly the season through. This means a great de- mand, and the figures given by the Government bear out this increase. In 1902 there were imported from Europe into the United States near- ly twelve million pounds of walnuts, while in 1905 this figure had risen to over twenty million. These im- ported nuts are inferior to the nuts that we can grow. They are not graded as carefully. Many of the nuts are not true to name, being a grand jumble of varieties. In Cali- fornia the production is increasing but slowly— less than four tliousand tons in nine years; and it has been estimated that if it should double that amount in the next ten years, or say, if the increase should be a thousand pounds a year for the next twenty years, that would mean only forty million pounds, or less than one-half pound for every person in the United States, This means that the population of the country is in- creasing more rapidly than the com- bined ratio of imported and native nuts. Again, let us consider the prices that California has realized. We find upon investigation that the price has steadily advanced. In 1896, seven cents was paid; in 1903, twelve and one-half cents; in 1906, thirteen to twenty cents. Even at the lower figure an orchard in full bearing would yield good profits, considering the amount of labor ne- cessary, as at least six hundred pounds of nuts could be expected from an acre. It has been estima- ted in California that even a yield of three hundred pounds an acre would be profitable. English walnut on the hickory. Thinking that probably some people might try the experiment, I will give my experience— not in budding or grafting walnuts on hickory, but pecans on black walnut and Japan walnuts. I inserted quite a lot of Russell and Stewart pecan buds in black walnut, and at the same time a lot of buds of Japan walnut in the black walnut. Nearly all the buds of both the pecans and Japan walnut seem- ed to take and unite with the black walnut, and some of the pecan buds made a small growth, perhaps one inch, but within two months time every pecan bud was dead, and a large per cent of the Japan walnuts are still living and some of them now bearing nuts. We find upon investigation that the pecan, hickory and shell-bark belong to the Carya family, while black walnut, nigra, and the white walnut, alba, belong to the Juglans family; and we are sure that the Ja- pan and English walnut belong to the Juglans family. The Japan wal- nut is perfectly hardy here, while the English walnut is too tender for this section. D. S. Warner. Mills Co., Tex. Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. Weulso CHrry a s:>-iieral line «>f Frint aiirt Ornaniciitiil Trees. SEETHE noOTS SUCH \| TREESJ' liveV Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees due with entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurserie* tcU such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grahed trees, d best quality and best producing varieties. Some of the biggest, thinnest-sheOcd nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our Varieties are Best GM Medoi a»BrdedourP<^c at Jamestown tjiposilion Handsome Pecan Catalog Free GriffingBros.Co Nura*rym«n Jacksonville, Florida We also grow Orange on harrfy roots, all kinds Fniit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and (i rafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. OILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. Pecans on Black Walnuts- Farm and Ranch: In a late issue of your paper, Mr. Baylor recommends working the QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. Vvrite for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO , MONTICELLO. : FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower. Tim JSUT-aROWBI^ 167 CLASSIFIED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller In this column weffive place toadvertisenients from subscribers who have trchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or luipiements to sell or exchauge, as well as make inquiries for things wanted The rate is One Cent w w..rtl for each insertion. Patrons are urfred to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and pf-ofitable. 1,200 or more hnshels of pecans for sale. Address .1. .1 Uomas, New Rtiads, 1 a BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere Culver Poultry Farm. 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for sturly e NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce at Poulan, Geoi-gia. under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Subscription, 50 cents per Annum. Advertising Rates on Application. N'OTICK When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are reques'. ed to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account w^ill be credited for three years. >'OVKMBER. 1910 The attractive advertisement of the Standard Sevang Machine Com- pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, was en- larged recently by use of new elec- tros. The earnestness and candor of the nut-growers, is a good argument in favor of their wisdom. By acknowl- edging that they do not know all about nuts but want to learn, means much for the industry while in such hands. Mr. H. W. Smithwick, President of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Grow- ers' Association, is planning for an important and large meeting to be held at Americus Ga., next May, ac- cording to Badge Book notice, a business session is in contemplation during the Monticello Convention. The list of names of new members, shows that the work of the National Nut-Growers' Association is wide spread, as many as eight states be- ing represented in the list of recent additions. Several of them are be- yond the pecan belt, but people come to the pecan section when they can- not raise them in the locality where thev live. A few days ago we handled some copy for the Convention Badge Book, and were impressed by the hope ex- pressed by the officers that "a spirit of brotherly love might dominate during the Convention." Such a spirit is very essential to the life and prosperity of many or- ganizations, and we see no reason why it will not work equally as well among nut-growers. If we can lay aside our selfish views and purposes, while at Monticello, the benefits will not only be personal but general. Invitations come to the Secretary from various states for the next meeting of the Nut-Growers' As- sociation. They cover the country pretty well, as Portland Oregon and Atlantic City are on the extreme boundaries east and west, while vari- ous points from the gulf to the lakes have invitations on file, and more are coming. One of the most beneficial and en- joyable features of the Convention is, the coming in personal touch with kindred spirits. Friendships are established, the mind enlivened, the wits sharpened, and the body is given a needful change and recrea- tion. All of these count for good to those who attend with a purpose other than that of pure commer- cialism. The outline of the program of the Convention shows only the conspicu- ous features of the meeting, the re- ports of various committees, and the discussions which they are lia- ble to bring out. The question box, and all the variety it will develop, cannot be shown before-hand in any arrangement of exercises. There is sure to be an ample variety to make the sessions interesting and profitable. As a business builder the Conven- tions are worth more to members, and the locality where held, than can be figured in dollars and cents. We heard one man remark sever- al years ago, that the Scranton Con- vention was worth a thousand dol- lars to him. We heard of another, who sold a thousand dollars worth of nursery stock at the Albany meeting last year. They seem to be worth while. In May 1908 the Editor read a pa- per at the summer meeting of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' As- sociation on the difi^erent ways or plans for making investments. The paper did not excite the discussion which his paper on the cost of a pe- can orchard did at the Cairo meet- ing, a year later; but like it, both were rather in advance of the pop- ular demand for information of that kind. However, rapid progress is being made, and the time seems to have arrived when there is more de- mand for such information as this paper furnishes, so we republish the paper since we have a host of new subscribers, since it previously ap- peared in these columns. At this writing, two weeks prior to the Convention date, the indica- tions are for a well attended and fa- vorable meeting. The work of the Association has been a quiet but effective force, and results are begining to show that the industry has the substantial and de- sirable elements of a commercial en- terorise, as well as being a scientific horticultural pursuit. Some recent new members of the National Association enrolled up to October 18, are. C. H. Wyckoff, Aurora, N. Y.; R. G. Johnson, Tallahassee, Fla.; W. A. Peavy, Byron, Ga.; W. A. Stafford, Barnesville, Ga.; J. V. Anderson, Grand Island. Neb.; F. T, Ramsey, Austin, Texas; C. L. Whitney, Thom- asville, Ga.; C. A. Yancey, Bunkie, La.; E. A. Davenport, Belleview, Fla.; Samuel Kidder, Ann Arbor, Michigan; L. H. Sawyer, Des Moines, Iowa; Alfred Dickenson, Gainesville, Florida; H. G. Cannon, Cairo, Ga. There are others, as well as pecan enthusiasts who desire organization. The following shows the trend in favor of nuts: It has been suggested that it would of be value to those interested in nut culture in the North if organization could be effected and meetings held annually or oftener. Affiliation with the National Nut- Growers' Association would of course be advisable. The project has the approval of Dr. Robert T. Morris, of New York; Prof. C. P. Close, of the Maryland Experiment Station and others. Suggestions as to date and place for the first meeting for organiza- tion and for topics for discusson, exhibitions, and etc. are requsted. Address Dr. W. C. Deming Westchester N. Y. City Importance of Seed and Bud Slection. In the propagation of nut trees more may be done than the produc- tion of handsome and salable nur- sery stock of popular varieties. Seed selection and bud selection of- fer a broad field for the improve- ment of kinds already good. Breed- ers of live stock insist upon good blood at both ends of the line, as also do the poultry men. Progress- ive workers in these lines are striv- ing all the time to improve the strains of animals and fowls that have met the requirements of a high standard of excellence. They are bred to points; and it is not at all unusual that the purchaser of fine stock or fancy fowls tells us that they are of the strain of this or that breeder, who has made a reputation for intelligent and painstaking work. C. L. Edwards. riiH, Ni:r^ciHi)\\B,H 169 \ The Austin Nursery A GREAT STOCK OF Fruit and Shade Tress, Ever- greens and Native Ornamentals. INTRODUCERS OF THE HAUPT BERRY A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry. You can plant Haupt any time during the year. Our favorite time is in August and September. Write for our Special Circular on this berry. Introducers of the .... OLIVER and ten other superb Texas Pecans. Big stack of trees of standard varieties of eastern and Texas Pecans. We will plant for you 1,000 grafted and budded pecans, and let you pay for the trees that are alive and established at the end of the first season. Write for new Catalog and Special Circulars on Berries and Pecans. F, T. Ramsey &Son Austin, : Texas. Mere Mention. At Montieello, Florida, pecan trees have borne 25 pounds at six years of age, 75 pounds at eight years, 100 pounds at ten years, 200 pounds at thirteen years, and over fiOO pounds at twenty-two years. * * * The original Schley tree stands but a short distance from the origi- nal Stuart, in Mississippi, and was grown from seed of that variety planted by Mr. A. G. Delmasin 1881, first propagated and named by him. While Schley is not as prolific as some of the other varieties, its good size, very thin shell, high quality kernel, which fills the shell to its full capaci- ty, make it the ideal nut. No or- chard, either large or small should be without it. * * * To be prolific, a tree should bear a full crop every year, barring the in- sects. It should produce many cat- kins, or male blooms. These should be numerously present among not only the leaves and female blooms, but hanging all along the naked limbs, where no leaves grow. On Do You Want a COPY of O FRUIT AND Vegetable Growing MANATEE COUNTY, SEABOARD Air Line Railway F/.ORIU V SEABOARD Air Line Railway WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU FREE! This handsomely illustrated, fifty-page booklet containing a most inter- esting description of the famous Manatee Section, being a reproduction of a series of articles written by the editor of one of the leading agri- cultural papers in the United States after a personal investigation by him. The articles were run in serial form in his publication during the last four months, and we have embodied same in an attractive pamphlet, illustrating it with dozens of interesting and instructive scenes from actual life. This handsome piece of literature will be sent free, to- gether with phamphlet containing a list of properties available in the Land of Manatee upon receipt of five cents in stamps or currency to cover cost of mailing. Our supply of this book is limited, and if you want a copy you should not delay, but write at once. J. W. WHITE, General Industrial Agent, Seaboard Air Line Railway, Norfolk, Virginia. every tip of new growth there should be a cluster of seven or more female blooms. Most all the very large va- rieties have only three to five female blooms in a cluster, and the catkins are so scarce that only partial pollen- ation takes place. I have a tree so prolific that a photograph of it shows five clusters of seven nuts each, and the clusters are so close together that they all may be covered by the span of the hand. This tree has bloomed and set twenty-one consecu- tive crops, and if it had not been for the insects would have matured them, while all the others in the same orchard of about 500 trees have failed to bloom or set nuts ex- cept about every other year, and some trees only one in every three or four years. * * * The Mobile pecan is one of the largest nuts grown, and like the Stuart, originated in the Gulf Coast region. It has made a good begin- ning as an early producer, and promises to be prolific. The shell is of medium thickness, as compared with our thin-shelled Texans; is quite brittle and cracks easily. I have known the shells to break on falling from the hand upon a hard floor. The kernel is a beautiful, bright yellow, of excellent quality. Until further tested under our cli- matic conditions I cannot recom- mend it for general planting, but on city and suburban grounds, where there is a wrater supply, and especial- ly if the water is applied under- ground, I feel confident that it will prove a desirable acquisition. To my mind its fine size, handsome ap- pearance, excellent quality and early bearing will make it a favorite city man's pecan. Why Budded or Grafted Trees? Many who wish to plant pecan trees are often mislead into planting seedlings. The planting of such trees is undesirable for many rea- sons:—There is no certainty of bear- ing qualities, then one must wait sometimes a dozen or more years before they do bear, and when they produce nuts there will probably be as many diflFerent species as there are trees, while if the budded or grafted varieties are planted, one is assured that he will have nuts of standard varieties, each variety hav- ing its value upon the market ac- cording to its qualities; then again, there is a practical certainty that such trees, if purchased from reli- able nurserymen, will come true tc name and begin bringing crops in the fourth or fifth .year, with an in- crease from year to year thereafter. 170 THB N UT- a H O Wn itJ News Items. San Francisco and New Orleans are both active in soliciting support for Panama Exhibitions in 1915. * * * Budding and grafting pecan be- gan at De Witt Ga., in 1902, the year the National Nut Growers' Associa- tion was organized. * * * The Fifteenth annual meeting of the Farmers Institute Workers, will meet at Washington, D. C., Novem- ber 14-15 and 16, 1910. * * * Mr. R C. Wylie, of Santa Maria, Cal., has perfected a spray, which is claimed to be a complete remedy for the walnut blight. * * * The movement to organize the al- mond growers of California into an association of state-wide scope, has materialized into definite form, * * * By Constitutional Amendment, the state of Louisiana two years ago perpetually freed from all taxation all monies invested or which may be invested in paper secured by real es- tate. * * * Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 6.— The ac- tion of the walnut growers at Los Angeles in establishing the price for walnuts at 15c last week has enliv- ened the market for almonds, ac- cording to a statement made by J. P. Dargitx. manager of the Califor- nia Almond Growers' Exchange. The walnut price is the highest since 1907. The Almond Growers' Ex- change has disposed of two cars. The buyers had been holding off be- cause they did not like the price of 16Jc which had been established by the almond growers. The exchange looks for brisk business and will soon dispose of this year's stock. The high price of walnuts is attribu- ted to the fact that the crop of Eu- rope this year, like that of the al- mond, is extremely light, as well as being smaller than usual in Califor- nia. The almond crop is fairly good here this year. Curing and Grading Pecans. As the crop is brought into the storage house where bins have been provided around the wall of the room, and which are bottomed with wire netting about one-half inch mesh; this provides for circulation of air through the bins and assists mater- ially in the curing. Nuts should be turned over occasionally and in ten days to two weeks will be sufficiently cured to grade and pack if desired. In this matter of gradmg too much attention cannot be given; no fruit will bring its full value upon any maket badly mixed, likewise the pecan. Keep all named varieties by themselves, and it will pay well to grade the size in each variety should there be any perceptible difference in their size. All trash, leaves, husks any inferior shaped nuts are to be removed before packing to make the lot as attractive as possible. This means extra money. — H. S. Graves. Black Walnuts. Our common native species, too well known for extended description. Does it pay to plant them? A far- mer at Triune, Tenn., has a small, poor farm. On it are growing a great many small walnut trees. He stated to me in conversation (I had just bought ten bushels of walnuts from him at 40 cents per bushel,) that he had made more clear money off his Black walnuts at 40 cents per bushel than he had on all the bal- ance of his farni. He says he can get an annual income from the trees indefinitely, and that each year the trees become more valuable, and that when he is an old man he can sell his timber for a small fortune. I see "where he is right," and I de- cided then and there "to go and do likewise." Nuts for Profii A BOOKLET OF 158 pages; 60 illus- trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, K J. From .Ian. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. GAINESVILLE NURSERIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted I'ecan Trees ol" reliable known varieties Our catalop; con tains information on selecting, plantinjr, cul- ture, etc , and is free for the askinf^ SIZK The nut that has never failed to bear andnever failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. KECHTRIi ?UK\ \IIRSEKIES OCEAN SPRINGS MISS. WHirE'S 51IDDIN0 TOOL A Scientifiv Instrtunent for the Propagation of Pecans, Hickories, Walnuts, Chest- nuts, Persimmons and all other Trees, by the Annular, Semi-Annular, Patch and Veneer Methods. Several hundreds oi this Tool in use in United States and abroad. Budding and Graftms; Wood of best varieties of Pecans. For particulars and prices, write HERBERT C WHITE, ,»KANKR KTTF. L<>t'I>ilA.XA. DeWitl. Georgia. fltiti"'"^ Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demiind f(ir the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAF! ED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. OUDEIl m\\ Ti) SAVE I)ISAPP0I\T1IE\T ii)()i)-iDio PRICE list: 1 to 2 toot size, 35 cents each, or $45.00 per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or S5 'J" p^"" 'oo 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 5 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75-00 per 100 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUIt TKK If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before February 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS-..A( T NOW— ORDCR TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWit>t«, Mitchell County, Georgia. 172 THB NUT~aHO\VBl^ Governor Hogg's Worthy Ex- ample. F. T. Ramsey iu Farm and lianoli. Truth has modestly waited and borne the insinuations of those who better enjov pullinw down than tiiey do buiidinjj up. She today has her glorious vindication. I doubly rejoice in an)' enterprise in wliicli many aie and will be bene- filed and not one will be injured. Governor Hogg, a few moments before he closed his eyes on this un- satisfying world, said : ''Plant a pecan tree at the head and a wal- nut at the foot of my grave and when they bear, let the children of Texas plant the nuts, tliat our state may become a land of trees.'' Immediately after the funeral, Mr. Knox, in behalf of the State Horticultural Society, of which he was president, sent two pecan trees and one walnut and by recjuest of the family I had the privilege of planting them. The limestone was scarcely a foot below the surface and my ordinary tools would not penetrate it, so I had to greatly shorten the tap-roots of the trees. In spite of this, the trees grew, or started to grow. There is a rumor that they died the first sum- mer and larger holes were blasted out the next winter. As none of the family live here now. 1 am un- able to find out if this is true. The two pecans stand in the corners of the lot and the walnut, a Japan va- riety, stands at the foot of the two graves of Governor and Mrs. Ilogg. Both pecans are thrifty, luxuriant trees and are bearing. One has ii nuts and the other has, or had, 24. I drove over to the cemetery last week with a photographer and for a witness tooit Mr. Beck, ex-secre- tary of the State Nut Growers' Society. In order to make them show in the picture I held my hand behind one cluster of half-growti nuts. They are already much lar- ger than ordinary pecans. The inscription on the monument says that Governor Hogg died on March 3rd, 1906. If the first trees did not die, they stood there four years and bore the fifth. If a sec- ond lot were planted, they are a year younger. Those of us who have said that pecans will bear in four or five years have been accused of having poor memories, We sub- mit tiie granite. 1 hope these nuts may be;illovved to ripen and as chairman of a per- manent committee of the Nut Growers' Society I may be allow- ed to distribute them among the leading schools of the state. By taking buds from the young seedlings and inserting them in the tops of bearing trees, we can have them bearing in two years and thus we will be showing nuts of the sec- ond generation sooner tlian the standstillers predicted the first trees would bear. The Japan walnuts have not proven a success tor either shade or fruit. If I may have permission, next winter 1 shall take up this one and plant either Burbank'sRoy or Paradox or Wagner's Giant. They are all crosses between I he black walnut and an English or another foreign walnut, and are of extremely rapid and luxuriant growth, and are hardly surpassed for beauty and shade. THE W.B.DUKES Pecan Farms Moultrie, Georgia. Growers and Shippers of Fancy Paper Shell Pecans. Budding and Grafting Wood for sale. FOR SALE! Two Fine Pieces ol Properly in Alacliua County, Florida. One 40-acre tract, with 12 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. One 20+-acre tract, with 10 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. This propperty lies on a large lake and is well drained. Both places adjoin my grove that will bear 5,000 lbs. of fine pecans this season. For further particulars, address, T. S. MCMANUS, WALDO, FLORIDA. FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS IN —TKe Nation's Garden Spot-- That Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Iri North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, •write to WILBUR McCOY, Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coast Line :-: Jacksonville, ria. Perfection Nut Cracker PERFECTLY SIMPLE SIMPLY PERFECT.... Allows Use of Bowl Under End NECESSARY IN EVERY HOME PRICE $1.00 DELIVERED Cracks Pecans and other Nuts so Meats come out in Perfect Halves. Does its work quickly and well. Send us your order TO-DAY. Money : : Reliin important paper entitled '-Why Pecans." Prof. H. A. Gossard, of Wooster, Ohio, will make an address of Nut Growing in that stale. Col. J. C. Cooper, of Oregon, is booked to lecture on the Persi.in Walnut in the Northwest. illu>.tral ing the subject by use of steriopticon views. Tne second da v. Wednesday. November 2nd, will be given up to the examination of orchards and nurseries. Committee work will be given attention, and the Geor- gia-Florida Pecan Growers .Asso- ciation will hold a bu'-iness se-sion. At 7 130 p m, an entertainment tendered by the citizens of Monti- cello will round up the busy day. The third dav and third session convenes at 9 a m. Thursday the third. Busii ess and rejjorts will receive attention. Mr. M. B. Waite, of Washington. D. C, will furnish a paper on Diseases Effect- ing Nut Trees, nnd Prof. M. E. Jaffa, of the University of Califor- nia, has for his theme "The Nutri- tive andEconomical value of Nuts." The fourth session on Thursday afternoon will be devoted largely to business growing out ot the var- ous reports assigned for this ses- sion. Dr. R. O. Graham of Bloom- ington, 111., has promised a paper on Feeding the Orchard. The Sec- retary is to give a Historical Sketch ot the Association. The report of the Committee on Standards and Noirenclature is assigned to this session. 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The second session convenes at [sqp Send in tills Coupon today au«l receive our Free Booklet "The Science of Success" The Progress Self-Help University, [n Rand-IVIcNally BIdg., Ctiicago, 111. FREE BOOKLET COUPON THE PROGRESS SELF-HELP UNIVERSITY. Rand-McNally B]dg.. Chicago. Gentlemen: — Wittiout obligation on ray part, send me your free booitlet, "The Science of Suc- cess." In The Nut-Grower, Name P. O. Box St. No. S.=T? 5H5HS aSHSHB r! t; H5HSHS2S aSHSHSHS I State aSHS dSHSaSHS HS7 174 TUB NUT^GROWBR REPORTS Big Pecan Crop. From Galveston News. San Antonio, Texas. — Despite the drouth, whicli really did not affect the yield, the pecan crop of Texas will this year reach 5,000,- 000 pounds, according to experts. The greatest pecan sections are In the Colorado River valley and the Nueces River valley. A good crop is reported from both these sections. Within the past five years llie pecan crop has become an impor- tant factor in the commerce of Southwest Texas. The nuts are shipped out by the carload and de- mand a big price. In some sec- tions the nuts are being cultivated. There is a big demand for pecans in all portions of the I'nited Stales. San Antonio is known as the biggest pecan market in the world. Hundreds of cars are purchased here and shelled. During the win- ter this shelling gives employment to hundreds of Mexicans, men women and children. They be- come experts in that line. They are paid at so nmch a pound. The dealers give out to a family so many pecans to shell. A certain amount must be returned shelled. If the family is short from that amount it is deducted from ihe amount paid. The Mexicans are so expert they know just how many pounds of kernels 100 pounds of the unshelled nuts ought to re- turn, and there is no chance for the dealer to give them the worst of it. These shelled pecans are sealed in tins and dein.ind a fancy price in Europe from the confectionery dealers. San Antonio supplies practically all used by the high grade confectioners of France and Germany. The pecan crop in the Colorado R^iver vallej- from Brady and Brownsville south is estimated at 1,000,000 pounds. In the Nueces valley the crop will be 2,000,000 pounds. This leaves a total of 2,000,000 pounds to be raisud in other sections. The season for picking will be- gin soon and the Mexicans will throng the valleys of the various rivers of this state. It is a fre- quent thing for a full grown pe- can tree to yield as many as $8 worth of nuts and often the yield is as much as $15. Nut Hash — Chop cold, boiled potatoes and any other vegetables that are on hand, and put them into a buttered frying pan, heat quickly and thoroughly, salt to taste, then just before taking from the fire, stir in lightly a large spoon of nut meal for each person to be served. The nut meal is made by grinding nut meats in a food chop- per, or rubbing them through a seive, until they make a fine meal. ¥ * ¥ Deawvood Farm Magazine — An illustrated monthly of 20 pages the size of the Nut-Cimwer, bv Dean Realty and Improvement Company, of Waycross, Ga. Con- tains varied information regarding South East Georgia. Southern Orchards and Homes A Handsome Journal of Southern Horticulture. Write for Sample Copies. Houston, : Texas. BEST VARIETIES Write for Price List.. Nursery Established in 1 882 S. W. PEEK. : Hartwell, Qa. Pecan Trees ^tfL THE IjEAlJlN(i- VARIETIES. PRICfc; LIST R. T. RAMSAY, °s;:;,.ff;i?." KTMNTED-A RIPER AgENT^^l"££ sample Latest Model "Ranper" bicycle furnished bv f<;. Our agents everywhere are making^ money fast. Write Jor full Particziia-rs and special offer at o?tce, NO MONEY KEQUIKEO until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U. S. ivitlwut a ceitt deposit in ^A\z.uc^,PrePay freight, and allow TEN 1>AYS' FREE TKIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satl;;fied or do not wish to kucp tlie bicycle ship it back to us at our expense zxxAyoit -will 7wt be out one cevi. FAPTfli^Y PPIOF^ ^^ furnish ilie Ijighest grade bicycles it is possible to make rHwivill rniVbU at one small proht above actual factory cost. You save ;^io to ;^2S middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar- antee behind your bicycle. 1>0 NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from attyo?ie , at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factdry 1 prices and remarkable special offers to rider ag^eiits. VflBI ?yBI I RF ACTHMICIirn when you receive our beautiful catalogue and ■ Ua tiSLEL DC HdBUnidntCU study our superb models at the ivomierfully ' lo^o prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money tlian any otlicr factory. We are satisfied with S^-oo profit above factory cost. ^»sf Ei-^^Ci-E I>EAL.EKS« you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at r double our prices. Orders filled the (by received. SECONB ilAND BICYCLES. V/e do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but ' usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out _^ 'promptly at prices ranging from $3 to C'8 or SIO, Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. CnrCTrO RDAKPC single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and ^HdlCn-DllHIVbOy equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. 50 HEDQETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $ A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTROBUSE, OULY SELFHEIILINQ TIRES TAe r€}(itlar retail price of these tires is $S. 50 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $4. SOicash with ord€r$4.S5). [jO more trouble from punctures NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty tkousand pairs sold Icist year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESQRiPTiOMs Made in aU sizes. Itislively aTid easy ruling, verydurablea;:d lincdinr.; lewilh a special quality of rubber, which nev^r becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allnw- i;ig Llie air to escape. We have hu:idrcds of letters from saLi-;- Gedcustonaers stating thai tlieir tires haveouly been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more tha n inordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the Lread. The regular price oi these tires is;3.5o per pair, but for idvertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only ^.8o per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly a;> represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 p.r cent (thereby m.aking the price St4.55 per pair) if yea send FULL CASH WITH OKDEK and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk ia sending us an order as the tiies mays be returned at OUlt expense if foi any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when ycu want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer, »p \Mg%mm SUCSTff% TI^jTO d°"'t buy any kind at any price until vou send for a pair of 9r •€#€/ #VCCa/ M BKS,^ Hcdgetliorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about hal f the usual prices. #1#1 Af/IT tAFAir but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle C/C/ mmMJ t WWMmit or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new auJ wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it N01V. J. L MEAD mil mm§im, smMs, ill Notice the thick rubber tread •*A" and puncture strips "li" and **D," also rim strip " H" to prevent rim catting. This tire Trill outlast any other make— SOFT, ELASTIC aud EASV KIDXNG. THB NUT-GROWBti 175 n.>ty»t>^p^>i»*'<»<'»«>Mi>nnnif ^^^y»ii'tiiim iiyti^iti^niytnni^nniir inniinnii ;^UMMIT JV CHOICE ^ NUPSEH^ STOCi- MONTICELLO, URSERIES MILLER &. GOSSARD Proprietors FLORIDA Nut Trees— Satsuma Oranges— Roses —OCR !SPKCIALTIi:S- The Admiral Schley Pecan Z' ^1u"urf • :OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTEREST YOU. I *'^*t t' 'I' -fi • ■• If ■• r' I' ■' t' I' ■• ■' ' i' 1' ■' ■' 1' 'i • ■• ■' ii-ii< ft\- n-.i' lit >• I- ■■ ■■ 1' iititihir f i' 1-1- If "I Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1910=1911 Books and Catalogues. Exhibits at State axd Coun- ty Fairs— Circular No. loi, Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station, Wooster, Ohio. * * * The Munson Ni'rseries — Dennison, Texas, catalogue and price list. 32 pages devoted large- ly to the American grape. * * * "Back to the Sou," — l* fast becoming a slogan with the city people. Starting a pecan orchard is one of the ways in which the movement can materialize. Pecan Specialties — By the Jefferson Nursery Coinpany. Mon- ticello, Fla. Illustrated trade cat- alogue 20 pages for fall 1910. Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List SPRINGS, CHAS. E. PABST, Prop'r, %flS?; THE LOUISIANA NUT NURSERIES J. F. .TONES, Manager and Proprietor, .lEANKRETTE. - - LOtTISIANA. Headquarters for Budded and Oraffed Pecan Trees in the Souih= west. Illustrated and Descriptive Caialogue for the asking. Those wishing to engage in pecan culture would do well to iuvfsti- gate the advantages offered by this section. \A"e will gladly help any wishing to locate here to get a good location, and if wanted, will plant the orchard and guarantee the trees to live, or arrange to care for the same for a period of years. The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., =3==^=^^= OFFERS A VARIETY OF z^z^==i= Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards This Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Management and ample Capital for carrying out in spirit and letter such Contracts as thev accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA. Americus, (JEoi<(?iA — By the Board of Trade. A finely illus- trated descriptive pamphlet of the town and Sumter county. This section is well suited to pecan or- charding. * * * Good Roads and Better Schools — An eight page pamphlet written by Logan Waller Page for the National Grange. Issued by Director office of Public Roads, Washington, D. C. * * * Albany, Georgia — A hand- some folder description of the town and Dougherty county. The illus- trations and much of the reading matter pertains to the rapid devel- opment of the pecan orchards in that locality. * * * Pecan Bulletin — An invest- ment proposition by the Home- stead Pecan & Nuisery Coinpany. Wheeling, West Virginia. This is an elegantly printed and illus- trated folder, clear and convincing in its argument and conservative, as compared with literature of this kind, and reliable as to the favor- able data it presents. * * * The Pecan and its Culture —By H. H. Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla., is a handbook for every grow- er, large or small. The author is in touch with the details of the in- dustry, and has closely watched its development for many years. In this, the second edition of the book, these observations are presented in a plain, practical way for the ben- efit of all growers who wish to learn more about this profitable and increasingly popular luit. 176 ^ Tfin I^UT'GKOWIll^ Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MKMBERS National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES :-: :-: GEORGIA. ALBANY B THE NUT^GROWER Volums IX Whole No. 101 Number 12 Poulan, Ga., December, 1910. 5c per Copy 50c per Year A Large and Successful Gathering, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, November 1-2-3, 1910. (REPO.VrED BY CHAS. N. WILSON.) With representatives from fifteen followed, concisely reviewing the states and the District of Columbia progress of the association and the in attendance, the ninth annual industry during the past year and session of the National Nut outlining plans for the future. The Growers Association was called to activity of the numerous pecan order in tiie Jefferson county court- investment companies came in for house at Monticeilo, Fla.. at 2 :30 notice in this address, the president p. m. Tuesday, November i. sounding a note of warning against The states represented were Al- those companies that seem to be abama; Florida, Georgia, Illinois, formed only for the purpose of Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, fleecing the money investor. Rou- Mississippi, Maryland, Nebraska, tine business occupied the remain- North Carolina, South Carolina, der of the first session. Texas, Virginia and West Vir- At 7 :30 p. m. the convention ginia. About one hundred and reconvened. Judge U. V. 'iVhip- fifty members of the Association pie, of Cordele. Ga.. a recent con- were present, besides a large iiui.t vert to pecan growing, read an in- ber of visitors. teref these diseases, and outlin- and nursery stock shown attracted ing course of treatment to control crowds of the visitors during the or prevent them. Specimens of intervals between sessions. infected twigs and colored plates The program as piiiblished in the furnished by the Department of official Badge Book assigned Tues- Agriculture were used to illustrate day and Thursday for the session this paper. of the Convention, while Wednes- Prof H. A. Gossard, who was day was reserved for visits to the to read a paper on Nut Growing nurseries, groves and points of in- in Ohio, was not present, but he terest about Monticeilo. had sent in the paper which was Tuesday afternoon at 2 :30 the read by Prof. H K. Miller of gavel fell and President J. B. Monticeilo. Wight, of Cairo. Ga., called the As announced bv the Badge convention to order. Hon. D. A. Book the second day of the conven- Finlayson delivered an eloquent tion was devoted entirely to sight- address of welcome, which was seeing, though most of the com- responded to by Mr. F. T. Ramsey, mittees managed to get in a hard of Austin Tex , Mr. E. W. Kirk- days work, while the other mem- patrick who had been assigned to bers were visiting the various points the duty not being present. of interest. Before starting on the The President's annual address (CONTINUED ON PAGE 188) 178 THB NUT^GHOWI^H and paliitiibilitj' is far superior to the bread-fruit. Our people are learning (if it be slowly) the great value of the pecan to tlie cotton belt. The mission of the Associa- tion i> to promote not only the growing of pecans in this particu- lar belt, but of nuts in all parts or our land. The fact that there is money to be made in growing pecans, has led to a peculiar situation which in all its phases, is not the most healthful. We encourage t h e small grower of nuts, because in doing so we render him a service ; and we do the same for the large grower who is planting trees with expectation of harvesting his own crops. And even the person who is setting out trees with the avow- ed purpose of selling to others, is not to be condemned if he is con- ducting an honest business, and living up to his agreements. But there are those in the pecan busi- ness, in particular, who, having little or no iinowledge of the indus- try, are exploiting it simply for the money there is to be made by set- ting trees and selling the land to non-residents, and without special regard to the pui chasers financial welfare. There are some of these at least who, by garbled statements and one-sided facts, have excited hopes in purchasers of these small tracls that will never be realized. Many of these will be disappoint- ed, and some may actually lose money. It should be well under- stood that the National Nut-Grow- ers' Association does not stand sponsor for these so called "devel- opment" companies. There has not been much money made in raising oranges from a Cliicago of- fice, nor in mining gold or copper from a Fifth Avenue drawing room. History may repeat itself in the nut industry. Do not um- derstand ine to condemn all these investment companies; but I do in- sist that they shall deal fairly with investors; and that these should look well before they leap. Let me add that there is money to be made in legitimate, intelligent pe- can growing, when conducted in a business-like manner; and there is money to be lost when it is enter- prised other-wise. It is a remarkable fact that the supply of trees for the approaching transplanting season will not be equal to the demand. This shows the rapidity of growth of the in- dustry and the confidence that it has inspired in the minds of the people. The only unhealthy con- dition which may arise from this is that it may cause inexperienced or irresponsible parties to go into the growing of nursery stock or an over-production of trees by those who are already engaged in it. Especial attention is called to the work of the committee on Va- rietal Adaption, whose report will be made to you during the meeting. Tliis committee was ordered by this Association at its last annual meeting, and the personnel of the committee was decided upon after the most careful consideration. There are some varieties of pecans which are well adapted to one sec- tion, but are poorly suited to another; and there are others which are hardy in some sections, but which, on account of suscepti- bility to disease, it is impracticable to attempt to grow in other sec- tions. The work of this commit- tee has been to find out these facts as far as possible. It is very well understood that at the present stage of the industry, it is impossible to obtain all the facts in one year; and for this reason this committee will be continued, and its investi- gations and reports will grow more valuable as the vears go by. The time is ripe for teaching per- sons that if they are to achieve any marked success with pecans they must care for their trees in the best possible manner. There is a need- less waste that comes from the death of trees resulting from care- lessness in transplanting, or negli- gence in caring for trees after they are set. This great loss can and should be avoided. Many trees are set and then left to contend with the vicissitudes of weather, abuse and neglect, until they amouut to but little; and many trees that are set never come to the bearing age. A thousand- dollar bond is not so neglected; and yet a well-grown pecan tree can and does yield a greater in- come than does the bond. We of the south, in paiticular, are rich in our soil, our climate, and our mate- rial resources, not the least among which are the wonderful latent possibilities of wealth that we have in the pecan. Let me express the candid opinion that we have little conception of our heritage in this respect. The world knows little about pecans, and practically nothing about the best of these. As an illustralion of this, a gentle- man from one of our large noith- ern cities was at our last Conven- tion in Albany. Soon after he re turned home, he had a barrel of first-class pecans shipped to him, for which he paid fifty cents per pound, with freight added. A few days ago I had a letter from him iri which he says: '"I believe that the first barrel of paper shell nuts that wa» ever exhibited in this locality was displayed in my store windows, and thousands of people stopped to marvel at them." Is it surprising that he wants sev- eral barrels this year.? I spoke of the importance of giv- ing the best care possible to the trees that are set. Absence of this has been the foundation of the few failures we have had in pecan growing. The best trees, the most fertile lands obtainable, and the highest possible culture are the foundation stones of pre-eminent success in nut culture. The man who is able to care properly for only five hundred trees makes a mistake when he tries to compass a thousand. The greatest conservation of our resources comes only with the best attention to what we have ; and in nut culture the greatest profits are coming lo those who mix brains with their work. To the person who does this, the day, (which is yet far distant) when prices of nuts will be cut in two, need bring no fears. When done in a business- like way, the best nuts can be grown at ten cents per pound; and even the youngest person in this audience will never see the time when they will sell at that price As production increases, prices will decline to some extent ; but with this decline will come the opening of new markets, and by greatly in- creased sales in the old ones. Gen- tlemen, we have the business op- portunity ; the important question is as to whether we have the brains, the industry, and the intell- igence properly to develop it. The true nut grower is a lover of nature, the beautiful, and, (may I not also say?) the good. Homes that are devoid of shade appeal to him, and he surrounds them with trees whicli for beauty and utility THE, NUT'GHOWBU 179 alike are unsurpassed. The bare valleys and hillsides hold out their imploring hands to him, and he answers their appeal with a growth of trees unequaled in beauty, even by those which God himself plant- ed in Eden's garden. Our "friends the eneiry," in the guise of insect and fungus troubles, are on the firing line. But with close attention to our picket lines we need fear no serious incursions into our ranks. Some stragglers may be captured; and others who do not keep their powder dry may "bite the dust". Did it ever occur to you that a fair share of difficul- ties is a good thing in any calling? li was the inimitable David Harum who said, "a reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog". We have just enough difficulties to keep us from going to sleep ; but not enough to menace our success. As interest in nut growing in- creases, the importance of the work which our committee on Nomencla- ture and Standards has in hand is emphasized. Existing varieties of merit should be carefully described, and they should be known by one name alone. And further, no new variety should be dignified with a name unless it has sufficient merit to justify its standing with the best of those we already have. Further- more, we need a weeding out of some varieties which have already been named. Hume, in his excel- lent book "The Pecan and its Cul- ture," gives a list of 124 different varieties. The number might be reduced by dropping some of the worthless or semi-worthless. No doubt this matter will receive due attention from the committee. The above is not to be construed as meining that we do not need to look for better varieties than what have already been introduced. In no variety of fruit or nut is it like- ly true that the best has already come. There are those who, for every variety of nut, areon thealert for something better. This may come by natural crossing or by artificial pollination. In this con- nection, the work of those who by artificial cro>sing are attempting to give us something better than what we already have can not be too liighlv commended. Foremost a- iiiung these slaiuls our fellow mem- ber of this Association, Dr. Robert T. Morris of New York, who has spent thousands of dollars in work along this line. May hiseft'orts be most richly rewarded. The National Nut Growers As- sociation has a most promising field for its. labors and investigations. There is much room for scientific and practical experimentation. We have much to learn as to varieties of nuts and their adaptation to the several sections of our country. There is no reason why the pecan, English Walnuts, almond, chestnut, and other nuts can not be improved, and also have their range of pro- fitable production extended. As an example of this work, it may be mentioned that the English walnut can not be profitably grown on its own roots in this immediate section. Experiments, however, are being made by growing it on other than its own stock, and these experiments promise to be success- ful. There is much to learn as to the C(uantity and quality of fertili- zers best adapted to nut growing. The control of insect and fungus troubles also furnishes a broad field for investigations. These and other questions will give us abund- ant room for our labors and invest- igations. And again, gentlemen, I bespeak for you the most ple.isanl and pro- fitable meeting in all the history of the Association. The Austin Nursery A GREAT STOCK OF Fruit and Shade Tress, Ever- greens and Native Ornamentals. INTRODUCERS OF THE HAUPT BERRY A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry. You can plant Haupt any time during the year. Our favorite time is in August and September. Write for our Special Circular on this berry. Introducers of the .... OLIVER and ten other superb Texas Pecans. Big stack of trees of standard varieties of eastern and Texas Pecans. We will plant for you 1,000 grafted and budded pecans, and let you pay for the trees that are alive and established at the end of the first season. Write for new Catalog and Special Circulars on Berries and Pecans. F, T, Ramsey &Son Austin, : Texas. Nuts tor Protil A BOOKLET OF 158 pages; 60 illus- trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -:- -:- Information cheerfully furnished. W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. 180 THU NUT'GUOWBR WALNUTS Walnuts in Oregon. There are some advantages in walnut culture over other crops. They require less care and anxiety to harvest and dispose of. The question of labor is largely elimi- nated. I believe there will be no failure of crops. Since our trees have come into bearing we have had an increased quantity of walnuts from year to year ; some years no doubt will be more favorable than others. Although it takes some time before the trees begin to give returns, they will continue to increase their pro- duct for many, many years and prove productive, while with fruit trees after a few years they com- mence to go behind, and have to be replaced. If any considerable quantity should be grown we cannot expect the present high prices. No doubt the price will be governed by supply and demand, but as long as our im- portations of walnuts continue so large we hardly need fear over-pro- duction and unremunerative price. If the lime comes when supply will force the price to, say half the pres- ent price, the increased demand will, no doubt, take any surplus, as at present this high price is beyond the reach of many for their use to any extent. Then, there are by-products. We had an inquiry this season for two carloads, picked green, to be used for pickles. Annually large quan- tities of pickled walnuts are import- ed, and prices at which they are sold are very high. They are also used for dyeing purposes, giving a shade difficult to obtain except with walnuts. The confectioners, bakers and vegetarian- are using more and more. There is, and is going to be, continued demand, and walnut- growing in Oregon, and, in fact, the whole northwest, will, we be- lieve, increase in volume and prove to be one of our leading crops. Planting Walnuts. The planting of trees is much the same as for ordinary fruit trees. iVIu^re the tap-root is broken or torn it should be cut above the in- jured part with a sharp knife. More recently some growers are practicing heading back the trees as they are taken from the nursery row and developing a new leader. Formerly it was thought very un- desirable to do this and probably would be undesirable in older trees as it is doubtful if a good leader could always be developed. The trees should be planted from 30 to 65 feet apart. ExtensJveExperiments and Work Franqjltettk. — Originated by M. Franquette in the early half of the last century ; a large nul, rather oblong, being pointed at apex and slightly flattened at the base. The valves formed by the joining of the two halves of the shell are very pro- nounced, bulging out to the extent that the nut can be lifted by the ap- pendage. Passing from apex to base are suture lines, giving the nut a more or less ribbed appearance. The veining on the shell is not very proriounced. Shell, medium to thin, not being as thick as that of either Mayette or Pansienne. but being at the same time well sealed and thick enough to ship well. The inner partition shell separating cotyledons is thin and separates easily from the kernel. The ker- nel is plump, filling the shell and fitting rather closely along the valve lines, thus not allowing as easy separation of meat from shell as \\ith either the Mayette or the Parisienne. The pellicle is pale yellow and glossy and is pronounc- edly veined. The convolutions are quite large and coarse. The qual- ity is excellent, having a rich, nutty flavor. The Franquette seems to show a tendency to be uniform in size and shape. It is a late bloom- er, very hardy and prolific, and thus far has shown a tendency to be free from diseases. -IN- Nut and Forest Tree Culture BY DR. ROBT. T. MORRIS Fully described and pictured in THE GUIDE TO NATURE Arcadia, South Beaoli, ^ Connactlout. Send $1 00 for One Year, or loc for Sin$;le Copy. This magazine is also pub- lishing interesting editorials and contributions on "Luther Burbank," and the action taken by the Carnegie Insti- tution in relation to him. WANTED! 500 Pounds Japan Walnuts, Cordiformis and Seiboldiana. SMITH BROS., ^o°e''o^r°o^" THE PAPER SHELL PEGAN NURSERY ° FINEST BUDDED AND GRAFTED TREES FOR SALE aO.OOO TRKKS IN NUB^iKHY \VII0LP:SAL1<:— RKTAIL W. M. ELLISON. Manager. LAFAYETTE. LA. i NUT TREES, SATSUMA ORANGES, FIGS J i OUR SPECIALTIES. i ^ Write for Illustrated Catalogue-It will Interests You. a THB NUT'GHOWBR 181 ALMONDS. raeStWINCMOilNI^? CAUSE! THE SIDE NEEDLE SPINE THE PLAIN TRUTH about your Sewing M.icliine has never been tnl. yon; if it liad ytm would never use it, no nuittt-^ Jiow batiiy you inii^lit want to. 'I'lie ordinary family sewing machine is an in strnment of torture. It is a nerve destroyer and a health destroyer, and every woman who uses it malses a serious mistake, and injures her nervous system to an ahinniug exient. If you will look at your machine, the reasoi for all this is plain. 'I'he construction of yovo .Sewing .Machine is wrong, the needle is away 4^j inches to the left, calling for a three-quarter twist of your body in order to operate it. Think of it, twisting your s;)iiie, stomach and all internal organs sevfnly-!i\o per cent, out of plumb. Is it any wondi-r doctors reco^^nize the disease of Side Needle Njiine. .Now for a moment, compare this with A STANU.AKI) CKNTIJAL NKKDLE MACHINE costs no uu»re anil is just as easy to purchase as any other w,-U-made macliiue. If yon value your he.alth and the health of your growing daughters, don't liesitate. quit using your iT.ick-tw isting, disease- breeding, nerve-racking ma- cliiue today. Write us and we will gladly send you FIIKK a hook which illustrates and explains in a simple way the difference between the right and wrong in sewing machines. The book is called "A STITCH IN THE SIDI^." A postal brings it to you free. Send for it, you'll never regret it. The Standard Sewing Macnine Co. 6131 Cedar Ave. Cleveland, O Handling Almonds. Local associations, able to render mucii valuable assistance to each other in the way of providing spray- ing, hulling and shelling machinery, of promulgating advanced ideas as to varieties, production, detecting and fighting pests, proper curing and preparing for market, market- ing, etc., is the nrst step. It should not be forgotten tliat uniform hand- ling and standard grading will be necessary and of untold advantage to the grower. Nothing like it could be done which would so speedily put the almond production on a solid footing and relieve some of the other lines of orchard and vineyard production. Il would bring multiplied wealth to our State, emplovment to our citizens, by increasing production, and help to settle the food problem of the race, because it is one of the mosc v.iluable and condensed forms of food. At prei^ent there are organized associations of almond growers in Slitter. Yolo and Contra Costa counties, and in our own neighbor- hood we have a quasi association which handles So per cent of our output. Every one of these asso- ciations has wrought good results for its members and the trade. Then why not extend the work of organization.^ Let the growers in every section or community organ- ize an association, and then all the associations select or form some central marketing e.xchange which shall do the marketing of the crop. I'his central exchange, with the foreign and home crop statistics before it, could determine what would be a fair price, and should be given power to maintain said price. My word for it, the buvers 'would be just ars glad as the grow- ers to have this done if they under- stood it, and they might be given ;i hearing in fixing the prsce, but al- ways the growers' organizations should hold the deciding vote. This is a point which cannot be too strongly emphasized, because it touches on the weakest point in our body politic today. The farmer and the fruit grower constitute the only class of people in the world wherein the producer does not fix the selling price on his own pro- ducts. The manufacturer, the mer- chaiit, the professions, labor organi- zations, all say what their services and products are worth. Is it not high time for the farmer and fruit grower to wake up and lake his stand alongside of his fellowinen ? But it requires a Moses or a Joshua to mean success. Yes, to be sure, and also be sure that whenever any- thing is right and needs a Moses or a Joshua, the Power that shapes the destinies of men and nations will not be found wanting with the man or leaders. It all means dollars for every one engaged in the busi- ness, and that spells commercial success. NOTICE. On January ist 1911, the sub- scription price of the Nut-Grower will be advanced from 50 cents to $1 a year. Three enlargements of the Jour- n;il during the past few years, has made its present form four times the size ot the early issues, and another enlargement on January 1st will itself give as much addi- tional space as the original size furnished. The Monticello Convention ad- vised the change in subscription price. The Nut-Grower Co. Poor Chestnut Crop. Ardmore,Pa., Sept. 39. — Deputy Commissioner of Forestry I. C. Williams and his assistants have examined 10,000 chestnut trees and found hundreds of them so badly affected with blight that they have to be cut down. In eastern Peiin- fylvania there are large chestnut groves and all are affected. The average is 50 percent., but in many groves fully 90 per cent, are dis- eased. Where trees are not badly affected the yield will be rather large this season and the quality bids fair to be fine. 182 THB NUT-GHO^^^HH Selection of Seed Nuts for Pecans Now as to pecans : In giving some details of personal experience, the confession will be made at the outset, that when the possibilities of the nut industry were first press- ed upon my attention some years ago, it required considerable read- ing up to get rid of the wide pre- vailing supposition that a life-time is required to bring a young tree from infancy up to bearing age. Finally the conclusion was reached to try it all three ways: (i) to plant some seed-nuts and raise a lot of young trees for future bud- ding or grafting; (3) to set out some young budded or grafted trees from a nursery, and (3) to top- work a lot of young trees just as they stood without disturbing the roots. This work proceeded as op- portunity allowed. From an upland tree in the neighborhood, nuts were obtained which satisfied the requirements of seed selection. They were to be planted on upland and their off- spring grown upon upland. The tree is a good one for a native. WMiile hardly 20 years old at the time, its top had a spread of at least ^o feet. Its annual crops were regular and abundant, run- ning from So to 120 pounds, and the nuts well above average, both in size and quality. The tree came into bearing when quite young, but well grown for its age. These seed nuts were kept in damp soil during the winter and planted in March following, six inches apart in the drill, three inches deep and In rows four feet apart across the garden. This was in spring of 1906. On coming up, the young seedlings received same attention as other garden plantings. At two years old a few of them were old enough to bud, and most of the others at three years. There were some runts, and these were cut out. On reaching the age of three years in the spring of 1909, selected buds of Halbert, one of precocious pe- cans, were put on something over- a dozen of these three-year seed- lings, and the buds took fairly well. During the past winter, all except three of these young trees were taken up for transplanting or cut back for budding wood. When spring opened this year, those three little trees, as well as several that were transplanted, were strung with male flowers the whole length of the bud-shoots. This was not surprising at all, '"for trees of early bearing habit often make a showing of the tasseled male flowers, the next spring after budding. But when a week or two later, two or three of these little fellows made a showing of bearing flowers, this was not usual, at least so far as my observation goes. Later along when several clusters of young pecans formed, I regretted to some extent that so many of those little trees had been dug out and cut back. The two with young nuts put on more than they could carry, but each has enough left for a good showing and they are quite big as those on larger trees. Now, did the selection of seed- nuts in this case and the selected buds have anything to do with the result.? It is a fact that selected buds of the same variety were put on ordinary seedlings of the same season ; and buds from other varie- ties were put on seedlings from from selected seed. A satisfactory growth was obtained, but in neith- er case was there more than a scant showing of male flowers this season and no nuts at all. This would lend color to the proposition that by bud selection and seed se- lection combined, the trees were brought to fruitage in less than the usual time lequired. It is a pleas- ure to me to show these little trees, especially to nut-growers. They all know at a glance pecan wood of this season and of la^t season, and the matter is mentioned now in order for any one who wishrs to do so to see them before the nuts mature. Others may have obtain- ed equally satisfactory results, but I have seen no account of them. C. L. Edwards. n«OTS $UCH \l TREESJ' live\ Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with entire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries scU such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, of best quality and best producing varieties. Some o( the biggest. thinncst-sheHed nuls don't bear. Beware of them. Griff ing*s Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Our Vnriefiei* lire BpHt Cold Mt'dat awarded our Pecans at jQincBtown Expoaiiion Handsome Pecan Catalog Free the: GriffingBros.Go. Nurserymen Jacksonville. Florida Wc also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES Wmw Sate! standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and (drafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4,000 budded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded groye in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees, as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us; we have the goods. A "SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. Vv rite for booklet and get acquainted JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention Tlie Nut-Grower. ) THE ACT* GROWER 183 CLASSIFIED VARIOUS NUTS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller la this column we Rive place to advertisements from subscribers who have tJrchard, Farm Products, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchange, as well as make inquiries for thin^ wanted. The rate is One Cent a w,.rd for each insertion. Patrons are urtred to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and protitable. 1,200 or more bushels of pecans for sale. Address J. J Domas, New Hoads, La BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Culver Poultry Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates. Seed nuts 'uinisbed only in limited quantities, IHE NU r-uROVVER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga Wanted—Copies of the November and De- cember UKI9 and January 1910 issues of the Nut- Grower. Parties having duplicates or copies not needed, will oblige by notilying The Nut- Grower Co., Poulan, Geargia. FOR SALE— A bearing grove of the best varieties, four hundred trees. Good reason for selling. Ask for par- ticulars of The Nut-Grower, Poulan, Ga. Tli« Biiokt've Siib.scription Ajjeiicy — For many years we have se- cured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any Deriodical desired. J. F. Wilson, Agent, Poulan, Ga. For Sale -Pecan Orchard. 130 grafted trees, best varieties, between five and twenty years old. 100 have attained bearing age. For particulars write P. O. Box 263, Amite, La. Learn Wireless jiiirt Railroad Te I e5ri-:i|»liy- Shortage of fully 10,000 operators on account of 8-hour law and extensive "wireless" developments. We operate under direct supervision of telegraph officials and positively place all students, when qualified. Write for catalogue. National Telegaph In- stitute, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Mem- phis, Davenport, la., Columbia, S. C. , Portland, Ore. 10-2t Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the Most "Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Spiings, Miss Fruit Trees, Shade Trees ==AND== Wk Ornamental Shrubbery ALSO Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSERY Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber. Pres. J. E. Barber. Sec'ty. The Pulsating or Living Nuts of Tropical America. L. Lodian, in Scientitlc American. Living nuts were described over half a century ago in an old Paris magazine, La Revue de Zoclogie ("Observations sur uiie nouvelle espece de Carpokapsa") ; and re- ceived the official name of Car- pokapsa saltitans. (Popularly known also as "electric nuts," "magnetic nuts," "jumping nuts," etc.) Its generic relations are defined as follows : This insect belongs to the family of comparatively small moths, the larvce of which are mainly "leaf rollers." Its generic relations are of particular interest in that it pertains to the same genus with the codling moth, Carpokapsa pomonela. The nuts are about four-tenths of an inch long, and of about the same width, smooth on the outer surface, bisected by lines which show them to be two valved, and ot a form in dicating that they had been united in a globular three-celled ovarj-. In shape they are subtriangular, their two inner sides plain, and meeting at an obtuse angle, and the outer side rounded. The ordinary "jumps" of the Carpokapsa saltitans are successive jerky movements of about one- eighth of an inch in length, repeat- ed at intervals of a second or two. At times, however, they are more violent — capsizing the nut from one of its flat sides to its concave sur- face, spinning it around upon one end, or projecting it with an ir- legular rolling motion, to a distance of an inch or more. Placed upon a small table, in a few minutes several will have thrown themselves over its edges upon the floor. If confined in a closed box, they in a short time be- come quiet, and no sound is heard from them : but upon opening them and exposing to the light, the mo- tions are at once moderately resum- ed. If further disturbed by being turned out upon a table or into the hand, their more violent motion.-; soon commence, and continue for a long time. Left on the floor of a room over-night, their audible movements in the stillness some- what resemble the disturbing gnaw- ing of mice and the nuts will have almost disappeared by daylight, contriving to work themselves into nooks and corners. Their peculiar movements are said to be produced by the larva holding fast to the silk lining of the nut with its three hinder pairs of strongly-hooked abdominal legs ; and in this position, with the an- terior portion of its body curved upward, violently tapping the walls with it head, sometimes thrown from side to side, but more often brought directly down. The emergence of the moth from the nut is from the lower end of the outer surface, nearly opposite the scar of the inner surfaces. Ex- amination of the lid of the aperture through which the insect has effect- its escape, will show that it con- sists only of the outer wall of the seed — the inner wall and the white connecting material between the two having been bored tlirough or eaten away. There are other "jumping nuts," as the Euforbia, also of tropical America, containing a tin^' hvmenopteruiis insect ; a Tamarix, ot tropical Africa; ind vet another, the seed of which is unknown by New Members. The following were enrolled from Oct. iS, up to convention week : H H. Coleman, Newark, N. J. W. W. Cleveland. Jacksonville, Florida. H H. Simmons, Jacksonville, Florida. Mrs. Mary \'irginia Wilson, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Dr. W. A. Warren. E.Tallas.sce, Alabama. A. A. Geritgey, Glen St. Mary, Florida. Dr. W. E. Rouse, Valdosta. Ga. C. Houldsworth, Thomasville, Georgia. W. S. Corvin, Highland, Cali- fornia. John B. Wiggins, Molly Hill, South Carolina. Hen Adler. De Wilt, Ga. P. P. Smith, of 184 LaSalle St,, Chicago, wants copies of the Nut- Grower for March. June, July and December, igoy, and January, Feb- ruary. Mtirch, April and July, 190ft. \\^ A IV T E 13 To purchase Soft Shell Pecan Nuts. Price must be moderate. Send full particulars and quotations to : : : MAPLETON'S NUT FOOD CO., LTD., CARSrON, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND. 184 THB NUT^'GHOWBH THE NUT -GROWER PDBLISHKD MONTHLY BY X5/ye NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entei'ed as second-class matter at the PostotHce at Poulaii, Georgia, under the Act of Congress of Mai'oh 3. 1879. Subscription, SO cants per Annum. Advertising Rales on Appiicalion. NOTICK When this para^aph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptl.v, as postal regulations do not permit its to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. The subscription price is 50 cents per annum, but if you will send $1.00 your account will be credited for three years. i>eci-:mber, 1910. "Wrtukeen.i" is the name re- cently given to the round Moore pecan. As the subscription price of tlie Nut-Grower will be advanced to $i a year on January ist 191 1, it will be desirable to send in renewals and new subscription^ at once. A typographical error in our September number makes Mr. Ram- sey, of Texas, advise ihat in his article on Varieties of Texas Soils, the figures given as $1 1 ,000 should be $1,100. Good seed, good soil, good culti- vation, are the essentials for a good crop of corn. All of these applv to the nut orchard, and especially the good seed which makes a good tree. We need to know more about the characteristics of good pecans for seed purposes. The advance of the Boll Weevil Eastward is causing much uneasi- ness among those who depend en- tirely upon the cotton crop. Its advent in Georgia may en- courage or force the fanner to di- versify liis crops. Planting nut trees is one way to diversify. The attention and interest mani- fested at the Monticello Conven- tion, indicates that the members were there for a definite purpose, and it was easy to see that they wanted to learn about nut-growing as a business. It seemed to us like a great storage battery being charged with static force, which will be drawn upon for dynamic energy to execute in intelligent work the accomplisinnent of profit- able results. About 50 new members were en- rolled at the Convention. Their names and postoffice addresses will appear in a later issue. Mr. H. G. Cannon, of Cairo, a member of the association, met with a serious loss by fire on the eve of the Convention, and was prevented from attending. Among the new features of the Nut-Grower for 191 1, will be the regular use of cuts. Photographs of prominent nut growers are sure to be of interest, and one or more are planned for each issue. During 1911 v/e contemplate a series of articles descriptive of all the standing, and some of the promising new varieties of pecans. Much data bearing on this subject has been assembled, which will be carefully compiled, so that if found desirable, the series can be repro- duced in pamphlet form. Mr. J B. Wight, of Cairo, Ga., the retiring President of the Nut- Growers' Association, during his two years in ofiice, made an envi- able and enduring record for faith ful and efficient service. During his term the Association has grown in numbers, been stronger in its business management, and become a tower of influence, standing out conspicuously for high ideals and conservative, but active progress. The Monticello Convention was a deliberative body, and several times demonstrated that the judg- ment of the convention was differ- ent from the recommendations of committees. This was the case in regard to the report of the Committee on Markets and Marketing, in which the majority of the committee ad- vised that the time had not yet ar- rived for active work in making arrangements for concerted action in marketing pecans. A minority report which urged Ihat prompt ac- tion was desirable, led to a lively discussion, and the appointing of an enlarged committee to continue the work started a year ago. This committee was made up with much care, and held a conference at the close of the Convention. Victor Hugo in one of his fam- ous books graphically depicts the experiences which some pecan growers' are passing through, par- ticularly those who have not taken the precaution to first thoroughly inform themselves of what they are sure to encounter. Lie says: "'It is not until a task is fairly grap- pled with, that its difiiculties and perils become fully manifest. There is nothing like making a commencement for making evident how difficult it will be to come to > the end Every beginning is a struggle against resistance. The first step is an exorable undeceiver. Mr. W. S. Corwin, of Highland, San Bernardino county, Califor- nia, sent in his application for membership just as the final pages of the Badge Book were being run. Through some mistake his address was published as Chicago, 111. As he is a grower and shipper of or- anges, lemons and nuts the address in the Badge Book does not fit, and this item is given place to cor- rect the error in address. Some of our readers may not endorse his opinion, that California in the near future will lead in pecan cul- ture. His argument is, that the state leads in many lines of agri- culture, horticulture and nul-grow- ing. We have watched with interest tlie movements of several parties who began their active work in nut-growing by assembling and studying all the available literature on the subject, and following it up with personal conferences with practical men, and then attended the conventions of the National As- sociation. These men have gotten ready before beginning operations, and the months and years spent by them was time used to adv.mtage. They have been able lo start their orchards on the best known plans, and the early and satisfac- tory results are deinoi.slrating the importance of careful preparation for such permanent work. Mr. H. K. iVIiller, of Monticello, Fla., the newly elected President of the National Nut Growers' As- sociation is admirably fitted lor THE, NUT-GHOWBH 185 tliis lionorable and influential posi- tion. He is widely and favorably known in horticultural circles, be- ing a skillful nut-grower, and a man of excellent business qualifica- tions and experience. His sterling industry, and quiet but genial per- sonality, make it certain that his administration will be one of iTiarked progress and efficiency. The Association is to be congratu- lated on this choice. The state of Florida is honored, and the town of Monticello distinguished by his election. Perso'nal Mention. Echoes of the Convention. C. Forkert, of Ocean Springs, Miss., one of the pioneers of the pecan industry, missed the Albany and the Chattanooga conventions, but was again "among those pres- ent" at Monticello. * * * Only three of those who attend- ed the first meeting of the associa- tion were at the Monticello con- vention. They were : Theo Bech- tel, of Ocean Springs, Miss. ; H. C. White, of De Witt, Ga., and J. F. Wilson, of Poulan, Ga. * * * The entertainment tendered by the good people of Monticello, was thoroughly enjoyed by the visitors. The musical features were especial- ly appreciated. * * * •'Here's the nuttiest bunch in the United States," said B. W. Stone, of Thomasville, Ga., as he came into the convention hall Thursday morning with ' proofs of the con- vention photographs. * * * Captain Parkhill, Jefferson coun- ty's genial Clerk of Court, was us- ually to be found in the center of interested hearers. The Captain was not much on scientific nut cul- ture, but no one could get the best of him when it came to spinning yarns. * * * judge U. V. VVhipple, ot Cor- Do You Want a COPY of O FRUIT AND Vegetable Growing MANATEE COUNTY, SEABOARD FLiOR.I13.\ ^.-"^ SEABOARD Air Line Railway Air Line Railway WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU FREE! This handsomely illustrated, fifty-page booklet containing a most inter- esting description of the famous Manatee Section, being a reproduction of a series of articles written by the editor of one of the leading agri- cultural papers in the United States after a personal investigation by him. The articles were run in serial form in his publication during the last four months, and we have embodied same in an attractive pamphlet, illustrating it with dozens of interesting and instructive scenes from actual life. This handsome piece of literature will be sent free, to- gether with phamphlet containing a list of properties available in the Land of Manatee upon receipt of five cents in stamps or currency to cover cost of mailing. Our supply of this book is limited, and if you want a copy you should not delay, but write at once. J. W. WHITE, General Inaustrial Agent, Seaboard Air Line Railway, Norfolk. Virginia. dele, Ga., and A. Clarke Snede- ker, of Wheeling. W. Va., were among those who took the first de- gree. Though neophytes they seem to have as well developed symptoms of pecanitis as any of the chronic cases. * * * Dr. J. B. Custis, the glad hand artist, of Orange Heights, Fla. was, as usual, one of the factors tending to promote the cheerful- ness of the meeting. * * * y. E. Reynolds, of Minneapolis, Minn., told some of the members that he had been educated for the ministry, but had "got switched off" from a preacher to a promoter. Oh, what a fall was there, my coun- trymen ! * * * But in spite of the fact that Rev. C. M. Ledbetter was present, Flor- ida failed to go dry. * * * What's in a name? R. B. Small, of Macon, Ga., was one of the biggest men present, * * * While the sessions of the con- vention were strictly business meetings and "kidding" had no place on the program, there was at least one "kidder" present. That was Samuel, from Ann Arbor, Michigan. * + * "Fruit Tree" Ramsey, was the representative of the good state of Texas present at the convention, but he sounded her praises with as much enthusiasm as if he had been a ''dozen." * * * Conversation overheard at the convention hall. "Say, when do we visit the groves?" "Don't know. Ask Barrows." "Where's that big pecan tree?.' "Ask Bar- rows." "What time does the four o'clock train leave?" "Ask Bar- rows." "How old is Ann? ' "Oh, see Barrows. He knows all about it." * * * Mr. F. K. Freeman, of Athens. Ga., was prevented from attending the convention by sickness. He says it was a "grievous disappoint- ment." 186 THE NUT-GROWBR News Items. Weather at Piney Park for Oct., 1910: Maximum, 91; minimum, 29 ; Rainfall, 4.1S. * * * The citrus and vegetable crops of South Florida, were ci>nsider- ably impaired by the October storm. * * * The meeting for the proposed or- ganization of a Northern Nut- Growers' Association will be held at the Botanical Museum in Bronx Park, New York City, Thursday, Nov. 17 at 2 p. m. You are in- vited to take part and be prepared to give a brief account of your work. Suggestions, shori papers and specimens for exhibition are also requested. The Museum maj' be reached by the Third ave. Elevated R R.. or the New YorkCentr.il to the Bo- tanical Garden Station. Cornell Uuiversity, where Dr. Morris's collection of the edil)le nuts of the world may be seen, has been offered as a place for the meeting next jear. W. C. Deming, Westchester, N Y. City. Mere Mention. The thinner the shell the better it is for the consumer. I know this brings up the point of keeping qualities from the producer's stand- point. I heard of an old farmer who said his apples never spoiled, for when he placed his crop in the cellar he turned the boys in on them. So with an ideal pecan; turn the purchaser loose on them and none will ever get rancid. There need be no fears about the price, however glutted the market may be with common pecans. But should it be desired to keep them sweet, store them away where the light and air cannot have free ac- cess to them and the thinnest shells will keep sweet indefinitely. I prefer a shell so thin that two nuts may be taken in the palm of llie hand, so that a gentle pressure of one against the other cracks the shells so thev may be flipped off with the finger, leaving the un- broken kernels clinging together and perfectly clear from all the bitter pith. To separate readily from the pith there should be a wide groove in the back of the kernel. * * * H. S. Graves says: 'Tf you de- sire to plant on land rather poor in fertility, thoroughly mix with the soil two or three shovelsful of well rotted compost when tree is plant- ed, or one or two pounds of bone meal, according to size of tree. Remember the pecan does not make so rapid a start as the peach or some other class of trees, and can- not be forced until its root system has become established. If no cul- tivated crop is to be grown between the tree rows (though we strongly advocate it) the second year thev should receive about two pounds commercial fertilizer which will analyze equal parts of Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash, ap- plied in this latitude about last of February and in July. After this increase the amounts to one pound per tree for e.ich year of its age. When trees have commenced to bear, a formula containing Am- monia three to four percent.. Phos- phoric Acid five per cent, and Potash twelve per cent. A good application to the crop between trees, is better than placed close to them. Stable u-anure can be ap- plied at any time, well broadcasted and not applied too close to trees." SUCCESS -NATUKAl. The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL VVU\ NURSERIES OCEAN SFKINGS MISS. WHIFE'S BUDDING TOOL A Scientific Inxtrument for ilm Propagation of Pecantt, Hickories. Walnuts, Chest- nuts, Persimmons aiul all other Trees, liy the Annular, Semi-Annular, Patch atul Veneer Methods. Several hundreds of this Tool in use in United States and abroad. Budding and Grariini; Wood of best varieties of Pecans. For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. PECAN TREES That are properly grown is my Specialty. . Budded and (iratted Trees of the best varieties for sale. Write for prices of trees and infor- mation as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, %To°Rc.A LET US SEND YOU- For particulars and prices, write "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want o Know By Those WKo Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Write Today. Clingmon Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. Buv k nm mm The Best Investment ttiat can uow be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell you one already' established ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath ofihepvper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nurserymen were originated. I now have four groves ready for de- livery and several thousand acres of the finest pecan laud in the South. I have a very special bargain In a forty-acre grove (Satsunia orange trees between 1 he pecans) which includes 20,000 stocks for the comingseason'sgraftiiig. aspleu- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young grafted trees, grafted wood and fancy and com- mercial nuts in any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday orders for nuts given special attention All grafting wood and treesgrown from bearing trees in my o^wn groves, hence absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans this season especiall.v fine. Send your orders early. HERBERT C WHITE, F. H. LEWIS, DawitI, Georgia. Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. THE, NUT-GHOWBM 187 LETTERS Dr. J. F. Wii.soN. Sec'y Nat'I Nut-Growers' Assn. Dear Sir : — Would it not be well to bring to bring to the attention of the Association the contemplat- ed organization of an association of northern nut -growers? I have to-day been in consulta- tion with Dr. Morris, and have corresponded with Prof. John Craig, Prof. C. P. Close, and many others who have expressed their approval and offered their assist- ance. It is now too late to call this meeting before that of the As- sociation, as we had hoped we might, in order to notify the Asso- ciation of our action, and ask for affiliation. Prof. Craig has offered to allow the meeting to be held at Cornell Universit}', and Dr. Britton has offered the use of the Botanical Museum at Bron.x Park, N. Y.,city, where the meeting will probably be held this year, and probably at Cornell next year. I note what you say in the Nut- Grower about the movement to form associations in different sec- tions of the country. I regret my inability to come to Florida for the National meeting. Yours truly. W. C Dkming. Oct. 29th, '10. TiFTON, Nov. 2ND lOIO J. B. Wight, President, Monticello, Fla. Mr. President and Gentlemen : Confirming our telegram of this date inviting you to designate Tif- ton as the place for holding vour next annual convention, the citi- zens of Tifton join us in cordially urging you to accept our invitation. Located near the center of the pecan belt, and a community in which the pecan industry is rapid- ly increasing its acreage; with three trunk-line railroads, good hotels and ample convention halls. a hospitable people bid you wel- come. Wishing for j'our assoction un- iTieasured success, and hoping to have the honor of entertaining your next convention, I am. Sincerely yours truly, H. S. Murray. Chairman Conventions Com't. Tifton Chamber of Commerce. of people pass it daily, and an ex- hibit of this kind cannot fail to do good to each county sending same, as they will get a certain line of publicity, that is always to be de- sired. Any mention you may make of our scheme to keep before the peo- ple of ATLANTA and visitors to the city, the wonderful resuorces of SOUTH GEORGIA, will be appreciated by. Yours very truly, W. H. Leahv, General Passenger Agent. Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 15, 1910. Beaumont, Tex. Nov, 23, '10. Nut-Growers Ass'n., Monticello, Fla. Beaumont would appreciate the honor of entertaining next Con- vention. We will gladly provide an excellent meeting place on the banks of the beautiful Neches. One of the best convention report- ers in the country, can show the visitors some of the most beautiful country and the finest highways to be found anywhere. We have a pecan country, and we need to know more about them. We will spare no effort to provide pleasing entertainment for the visitors, and pledge hospitality for which Beau- mont is famed. Beaumont Chamber Commerce. Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. We also carry a general Hue of Fruit and Oruameutal Trees. GAINESVILLE NURESRIES, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees of reliable known varieties. Our catalog con- tains information on selectine:, planting;, cul- ture, etc., and is free for the asking, (rraicwood for sale ; our orcbards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRlErOR, Gainesville, Florida. p##aii taw@stiii#mls Mr. J. B. Wight's Chattauooga address, four six by nine Inch pages, with fifteen hundred ■words. This is a careful and very nonservative review of the commercial opportunities this nut offers, and supplies just the in- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 S4.SO 500 2.50 250 1.50 100 75 SO 50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. Editor Nut-Grower : — Every South Georgia county is urgently invited to send us an exiiibit for display at our Ticket Office, which is located at one of the inost promi- nent points in the city ; thousands titlj'!''' Pecan Trees We have them in all the Varieties Worth While. The demand for the best sizes and varieties of BUDDED AND GRAFTED PECAN TREES is far greater than the supply. ORDER i\OW TO SAVE DISAPP0IXT1IE\T 190i)-1910 PRICE list: 1 to 2 foot size, 35 cents each, or ,?43.oo per 100 2 to 3 foot size, 60 cents each, or 55-Of P^"" 'oo 3 to 4 foot size, 70 cents each, or 65.00 per 100 4 to 3 foot size, 80 cents each, or 75-oo per 100 5 to 6 foot size, 90 cents each, or 85.00 per 100 OUR fiUARAXTEE If our planting instructions and advice as to the care of the trees are followed we will replace, free, all over 7 per cent, that die from natural causes, provided they are set out before J^'ebruary 15th. Orders Booked now for Fall and Winter Delivery. DELAYS PAY NO DIVIDENDS— A( T NOW— ORDER TO-DAY, The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWit^L, Mitchell County, Georgia. 188 THB NUT-GROWBR MOTICELLO COVENTION. (i-ONTINUED FKOM I'AE 177.) tour of the groves and orchards, :in excellent photograph of the mem- bers was obtained. The committee on arrangement had provided plen- ty of vehicles for the trip, as some ot the places visited were two or three miles from town. Monticello has eight nurseries in her immediate neighborhood, com- pising nearly three hundred acres. Only four of these nurseries were visited, however, those of the Standard Pecan Co., Jefferson Nursey Co., Simpson Nursery Co.. and Summit Nurseries. After a close inspection of these places the visitors returned to town in time for lunch. In the afternoon the members scattered about the town in groups, visiting points not on the morning's tour. The groves in the neighborhood were inspected as well as some of the single trees that possess both local and even national fame. One of the big seedling trees growing in the town holds a record of 900 pounds for a single crop, while another bore over 600 pounds. One of the most popular places visited was a small grove of seetl- lings that had been topworked to named varieties, owned by W. W. Carroll. Each tree in this grove bore a label showing the name of variety and record of the tree. Some of these trees topworked in 1908 were in bearing. One nine year old tree had borne a crop of 100 pounds. At the Thursday morning session Prof. W.N. Hutt read a paper on Legislation affecting Horticulture. Prof. Hutt also reported as Vice- President for North Carolina, giv- ing a comprehensive report on the progress of nut growing in that state. Other state vice-presidents also reported at this session; the report from Arkansas containing some espically interesting cultural and climatic observation. A short talk was made by John P. Brown of Carney, Ala , formerly editor of Arboriculture, and an authority on Calalpa-growing. Routine business and the (Ques- tion Box occupied most of the after- noon meeting. An important step taken at this session was the ap- pointment of a committee on mar- kets and marketing. This com- mittee will arrange for co-operai ive action in the marketing of thecrops which will soon be large enough to make such action necessary. The report of the committee on Varietal Adaptation was the feat- ure of the closing session. Mr. C. A. Reed of the Department of Ag- riculture, the chairman of this committee presented this report and gave much valuuble informa- tion in regard to the different varieties. The report of the committee on Nominations was adopted and the following officers were elected: H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla., Presi- dent ; J. B Curtis, Orange Heights, Fla., 1st Vice-President; H. C. White, DeWitt, Ga., 2nd Vice- President ; J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga., Secretary ; M. B. McNeely, Richmond, Va., Treasure No less than eight invitations were received from points desiring to secure the next convention, viz : Beaumont, Tex.; Houston, Tex.; St. Louis, Mo.; Portland, Ore.; Tifton, Ga. ; Americus. Ga. ; Gulf- port, Miss.; and Mobile, Ala. The selection of place was referred to the Executive Committee. Short talks by the newly elected officers and members of the Old Guard formed the concluding part of the program and the convention adjourned sine die. THE W.B.DUKES Pecan Farms Moultrie, : : Georgia. Growers and Shippers of Fancy Paper Shell Pecans. Budding and Grafting Wood for sale. FOR SALE! Two Fine Pieces off Property in Alacliua County, Florida. One 40-acre tract, with 12 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. One 20i-acre tract, with 10 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. This propperty lies on a large lake and is weH drained. Both places adjoin my grove that will bear 5,000 lbs. of fine pecans this season. For further particulars, address, T. S. MCMANUS, WALDO, FLORIDA. FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS IN —TKe Nation's Garden Spot- That Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad In North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, -write to WILBUR McCOY. Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coast Line :-: Jacksonville, Fla. Perfection Nut Cracker. PERFECTLY SIMPLE SIMPLY PERFECT.... Allows Use of Bowl Under End NECESSARY IN EVERY HOME PRICE $1.00 DELIVERED Cracks Pecans and other Nuts so Meats come out in Perfect Halves. Does its work quickly and well. SciHl lis your order TO-DAY. ^oney : : Uet'iiiidecl it not Satista<'tory. : The DeWitt Supply Company, DeWitt, - Georgia. THE, NUT^CHOWBR 189 REPORTS Report from Arkansas. G. M. Brown, State Vice-President. For the year 1910 I can report some progress and some disappoint- ments in my pecan experiments. Tiie growth of the branches on my hirge top-worked trees has been very satisfactory, but the small trees received a set back from a frost in the latter part of April, which materially shortened the year's growth. Several of my small trees bloomed this year, but did not set any fruit. On my large top-worked trees, 1 had three va- rieties to set fruit. The Georgia Giant, the Columbian and the Stuart. Very few nuts, however, have reached maturity; so I will not have samples to send this sea- son. Many of the nuts were knocked off by a hail storm in August, and the majority of the remaining ones turned brown, and dried up later. This last mishap, I can scarcely attribute to the hail, as the native nuts on the same trees did not show any such effects. Of the trees from the nurseries, on tender Southern roots, the Van Demun, Stuart and Young killed back again last winter, also, 7 out of 9 Georgia Giants, and i out of 3 Pabst. i Have one Kussell tree, which appears to be hardier than the above named varieties, as it has never been winter-killed, but it lias had other set-backs that has stunted its growth. It will be fair to state, however, that these trees did not kill back badl)' until after the overflow of 1908. Since that time they have not grown vigorously, and probably do not ripen their wood properly, The same varie- ties on native stocks seem to be perfectly hardy. The crop of wild pecans is a rather poor one in this section this year, but I have three trees that are fairly well loaded. Pittsburg Nut Prices. Pittsburg, Nov. 3. — The nut mar- ket is dull. Chestnuts ranged from II to i2c a pound, black walnuts sell at 3c, pecans 12 to 14c, Brazils 10 to 13c, hazelnuts 1 1 to 14c, and English walnuts 12 to i6c. Publicity Work to be Handled by The Nut-Grower. The Nut-Notes and Bulletins which have for several years been efficiently and widely used by the Associations Committee on Public- ity will, v/e are sorry to say, be at least temporarily suspended with this issue, which is given up large- ly to sending out a prompt and full report of the Monticello Conven- tion. This is partly due to an accident which prevented the report on Publicity reaching the Convention which in turn, with other compli- cations, prevented any fund from being raised for their purpose. Although this work has been carried on without any expense to the Association, aside from one or two small appropriations and the diverting of the amount usually expended in advertising the convention to this fund for giving early and wide informa- tion regarding the Monticello con- vention, and saving to the Asso- ciation this expense. Still the Committee on Ways and Means in auditing the Secretary's account, recommeded that in the future, no association funds be used in the publication of the Monthly Nut Notes. This recomme n d a t i o n however, was not adopted and the omission of any subscription for purpose of their continuance, causes the break in the custom which has been followed for sever- al years. However, the Nut-Grower will for the present devote a column monthly to such items as were usu- ally included in the Notes, so that all the subscribers to that Journal and its exchanges, will still have them available. Others can get on this subscription list, which by the way, will cost |i a year after January ist, next, while the Pub- licity. Committee will doubtless find some way to have them reach the large list of agricultural and trade journals which have hereto- fore been securing them. The Secret of Success Is Self 'Development... 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Every man and woman known to be successful in life has directed these SIMPLE powers in the same general manner, and our course of instruction is formed for the one purpose of creating this success- ful, conquering attitude of mind in the individual student, together with the full development of every faculty necessary for success. a Send in this Coupon today and receive our Free Booklet "The Science of Success" The Progress Self-Help ffi University, m Rand-McNolly BIdg., Chicago, III. lasa FREE BOOKLET COUPON THE PROGRESS SELF-HELP UNIVERSITY. Rand-McNally Bide.. Chicago. Gentlemen: — Wittiout obligation on my part, send me your free booklet. "The Science of Suc- cess." In The Nut-Grower. P. O. Box St. No. Town a5P.5HSeseSHHa5ci5E5H5HSHHaSHS25asr-H5a5dSHSH5HSHS? 190 THH iVLTT-GROU i57tr SOCIETIES Resolutions at Monticello. The committee on resolutions desire to report as follows: FIRST, Whereas, the organization of an association of northern nut growers has been drawn to the at- tention of this body, and whereas said association has requested affilia- tion with the National Nut Grower's Association; therefore be it resolved that we do hereby express our ap- proval of said organization and grant their request for affiliation with this body. SECOND, Whereas, the officials and engineers in charge of the con- struction of the Panama Canal have announced that it will be completed and open for commerce in 1915, and. Whereas, practically the unanim- ous sentiment of the president of the United States and other officials, the members of congress and the Amer- ican people generally, is that no cele- bration of the completion of the can- al can produce such immediate and beneficial results as the holding of an exposition, where the people of the world will be brought closer to- gether through this union of the At- lantic and Pacific, the east and west, and will meet and confer with each other and exhibit the resources and products of their several countries; be it. Resolved, That we cordially ap- prove the idea of a WORLD'S jPANAMA EXPOSITION and pledge it our moral support and assistance; be it, further. Resolved, That we see in New Or- leans the "logical point" for such ex- position, by reason of its proximity to the canal and because it is the gateway for a large part of the im- port and export commerce of these United States with the countries South of us and with the world, eas- ily reached from all points in this continent. North, Central and South America; and in all respects suited to hold a great World's Exposition, and we therefore endorse New Or- leans as the best point at which to hold the World's Panama Exposition, in honor of the completion of the THIRD, Whereas, The National Nut Grower's Association has been so enthusiastically welcomed and so royally entertained by the good peo- ple of Monticello and vicinity; there- fore; be it. Resolved, That we express our grateful appreciation of the same and that the thanks of this organi- zation be most heartily tendered to the committee on arrangements for their efforts in our behalf, to the Ladies Improvement Society for their generous hospitality, to the nursery men and growers, whose grounds and groves have been open to us for our information and our interest, and to the good people gen- erally for the glad welcome which we have everywhere been made to feel. J. E. Reynolds, Chairman, o;^„j. J- B. Wiggins, bigned. u y_ Whipple, P. S. Williams. The committee on time and place of next meeting beg to refer the matter to the executive committee. * * * Among the questions placed in the box, was the following, to which answers are invited: "How many pecan nuts have been produced per acre of 20 trees, planted grafted stock, the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th years?" 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Orders hlled the day received. ■-ECOND H.4ND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These v/e clear out prices ranging from S3 to tj8 or SIO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. r;n£^TEE)-QRAKES «'".ele wheels, iinported roUer chains and pedals, parts, repairs and UUKaliCllI-UllHnta, equipment of all kinds at ^y0 NOT TillNK OF BUYING a bicvcle B/C# #w»/# wYS\a m or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderfiJ offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. Kotlce the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B** and "D," also rim strip "W* to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make— SOFT, £LASTXO and EASV BIDING. J. L. mm CYCLE mmmm. igiim II THB NUT*ai^()\VBR 191 C^UMMIT 0^ CHOICE ,"^ NURSERY STOCK MONTICELLO UR5ERIES MILLER &. 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Contains several pages devoted to pecans. * * * Proceedings Twenty-Third An- nual Meeting of the Georgia Horticultural Society. — Publish- ed by the State Board of Entomolo- gy, Atlanta, Ga. 1-50 pages. 192 Tlin, NUT'GIiOWIlR 8S Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MEMBERS a: National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale. Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Quaranteed. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries. Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :-: :•: GEORGIA. THE NUT-GROWER Volume X Number 1 Whole No. 102 Poulan, Ga., January, 191 1. 1 Oc per Copy $1.00 per Year NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION An Important New Organization, for the Purpose of Promoting Interest in Nut Growing. A new member was admitted to the list of organizations, which have for their pui pose the promo- tion of horticultural interests in this country, on November 17th, in New York City. For some known as the Northern Nut- Growers' Association. Object — The promotion of in- teresr in nut-producing plants, their products, and their culture. Membership — Membership in time past, a union of individuals the society shall be open to all per- interested in nut growing has been sons who desire to further nut cul- urged. Prominent among persons ture, without reference to place of who have promoted the movement, residence or nationality, are: Dr. W. C. Deming, of West- Officers — There shall be a Chester, N. Y , and Dr. Robert T. president, a vice-president, a sec- Morris, the surgeon of New York retary-treasurer, and an executive City, an enthusiastic nut grower committee of nve persons, of which of Connecticut. A call was issued latter the president and secretary for a meeting at the New York shall be members. Botanic Garden, in rooms kindly placed at the disposal of these gen- tlemen b}' Director N. L. Britton, tor November 17th, and a small. Meetings — The association shall hold an annual meeting on or about November 13th, and such other special meetings as may seem de- but enthusiastic meeting was held. sirable, these to be called bj' the Dr. Deming acted as chairman president and executive committee, and presented the objects of the Fehs — The fees shall be of two meeting, supporting his statements kinds, annual and life. The form- by a number of letters from per- er shall be $2 ; the latter, $20. sons connected with some phase of The above brief draft of working the nut-growing industry, and rules was adopted by the society, proffering advice and assistance. with the understanding that the The suggestions coming from these executive committee should con- widely separated sources demon- sider the question of constitution strated the need of such a society, and by-laws, and present such mod- together with the scope and range ifications as seemed desirable at the of its function. Enough problems next regular meeting of the asso- bearing upon the adaptation, the cialion. improvement, the culture, and Papers — In addition to a large the handling of the product were number of letters from nut growers suggested in these letters to occupy north, south, east, and west, several the conference very profitably for papers of present-day interest were several days. presented. Among these was one The first business of the meeting from Prof. W. N. Hutt, State Was to consider organization, and Horticulturist of North Carolina, a committee was appointed to take on nut growing in that state; this matter in hand. After in- formal consideration, the commit- tee presented the following report on organization, which was adopt- ed tentatively by the meeting: Name — This society shall be another from Mr. Henry Hicks, of VVestbury. Long Island, containing a number of practical and pointed remarks and suggestions, which, taken together, clearly defiiied the [continued on page 2.] Seedling Nuts and Fruits. By Jno. P. Brown. Carney, Ala. During a long life time devoted to the planting of trees, in which 1 have experimented much with plant and tree seeds, it will be conceded that I have accumulated some in- formation of value; among which is that the reliability of trees to re- produce their kind with exactness cannot be depended upon, but rather nature tends to great varia- tions. The peach matures in so short a time that this fruit is better known than most other trees and the won- derful variation in seedling is re- cognized by every one. The habit of clinging to the stone by some strains is usually trans- mitted to seedlings of clingstone peaches while those which part fiee'.y from the pit transmit that quality to successive generations of trees. lieyond this nothing can be pre- dicted as to the character of this fruit. Then again, in apples absolutely nothing can be done depended upon from the seedling : They may be sweet or sour, red, yellow or green in color, large or small, bearing profusely or shy bearers. In short planting apple seeds with the ex- pectation of securing something good is a veritable lottery with a vast majority of blank tickets. One of our best winter .ip])les, the Northern Spy, requires twenty- one years of wood growth ere it be- gins to produce its splendid fruit. While the Missouri Pippin has fruited in my nursery rows one year after being grafted. We must consider this feature of early or late maturitj' whether the trees be planted for profit in the commercial orchard or for our fam- ily use in the garden. We must wait for fruit or nuts. But surely with forest trees there is a certainty of reproduction in THB AI77-GKO\i 75/tf kind? Well, yes. An oak tree must be produced when an acorn is planted, yet not an exact copy of the parent tree. While studying the forests in Kentucky some years ago, in one small wooded mountain, I found fully one hundred distinct varia- tions in the red and black oak fam- ily. Some acorns were three. times as large as others: They varied in shape, and in the character ot the cups. The leaves were quiie dis- tinct, as well as bark, and the habit of growth differed. Botanists cla-sify the oak into only about seventy varieties, but in Baldwin County, Alabama, near my present home I hive found fully fifty kinds of oak. Probably no other forest tree shows this charac- • ter of variation as does the oak and the hickory families, to the latter of which the pecan belongs. Some seedling pecan trees have proven to possess most of the qual- ities desired in the nuts, although in a great majority of natural seed- lings, the fruit is of quite intorior grade. When a tree produces nuts of large size, shells thin as paper, bearing fruit at an early age, qual- ity of meat of first cliaracier, tree an abundant and annual bearer, such a tree is seized upon by pro- pagators and increased as rapidly as possible by grafting and budding and given a name. The rarity of such naturally seed- ed trees makes thein of great value, sometimes of fabulous worth. So when we plant pecan trees we may well pay the price of geim- ine budded trees on which we may depend for the best, largest, thinnest shelled nuts, in a reasonable time after planting, rather than run the risk of waiting many years, per- haps only to find our trees produc- ing metlium or small nuts and in- sufficient quantities to prove re- munerative. We niav ask tiie cause of this great variation in plants? The re- ply, hybridization. Practically all platits are subject to change by means of pollen car- ried by insects, or the wind, from the flowers of one tree or plant to others near by of the same species. Improvement may come if the dom- inant plant is superior to the otiier, or the production mav retrograde if the pollen is from an inferior plant. Artifical pollinization is often practiced, usuallv with annual plants or those which mature quick- ly, in order that the results may be seen during the operator's lifetime. But few men care to spend long years in waiting when at best the results must be probleinatical. If it is desired to experiment, or for economy we plant seedlings, then secure the very best possible to obtain, for circumstances maj- prevent our grafting them as plan- ned. Northern Nut Growers Association. (CONTINUED FKOU PAGE 1.) probable field and scope of the society's work. An interesting communication was also received from Mr. W. M. Roper, former editor of the "American Fruit and Nut Journal," of Petersburg, Va., bearing on nut growing in that vi- cinity. Some discussion took place, rela- tive to form of organization, as to whether the association should or- ganize inilependently, or in affilia- tion with the National Nut Grow- ers' Association. It was thought best to organize independently for the present, and the question of af- filiation could be taken up later on. Officers — .After the report of the committee on constitution and by-laws was presented and accept- ed, those desiring to qualify for voting privilege wer(.' given the opporlunity of paying their fees, after which th.e election of of- ficers took place. This resulted as follows : President, Dr. Robert T. Morris, New York City. Vice-President, Mr. T. P. Little- page, Washington, D. C. Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. W. C. Deining, Westchester, N. V. Executive Committee : Professor John Craig. Cornell Universitv, Ithaca, N. Y.; Mr. Henry Hales, Ridgewood, N. J.; Prof. C. P. Close, College Park, Md. Exhibits — I'he exhibits were varied and instructive. Secretary Deming presented a display of nut literature, including reports, bulle- tins, and special publications on nuts and nut culture. Henry Hales, Ridgewood, N . J. : Samples of Hale's paper-shell hickory; samples of walnuts, Jug- lans regia, grown in his vicinity. Mrs. Jos. T. Lovett, Emilie, Bucks County, Pa. : Exceptionally fine specimens of Paragon chest- nut, specimens of walnuts, Juglans regia. L. C. Hall, Avonia, Pa. : Speci- mens of walnuts, Juglans regia, very large, shell marked with rough convolutions (The Gant va- riety.) Elton B. Holden, Hilton. N. Y. : Specimens of walnuts, Juglans regia, from trees 45 years of age. W. E. Howard & Son, Holly, N. C. Three varieties of walnuts, Juglans regia. T. P. Littlepage, Washington. D. C. : Collections of nuts from his farm in Booneville, Ind., as follows : One lot large shellbarks ; one lot medium size shagbark ; two lots hybrid Hicoria, one with exceptionally thin shell ; six varie- ties Indiana pecans from his farm at Booneville; one variety from Warwick county, Indiana; one from Henderson, county ; one from Perry, county. These varieties nearly all showed unusual inerit in regard to quality of meat and thin- ness of shell. This Indiana collec- tion of hardy varieties was especi- ally interesting, indicating the pos- sibility of northern pecan culture. Photographs of chestnut trees bear- ing burrs year following grafting. Simpson Bros.. Vincennes, Ind. : Pecan trees illustrating whip and cleft graft and budding method. Mr. C-. K. Sober, Lewisburg, Pa. : Specimens of Sober Paragon chest- nuts, and sample trees. J. F. Jones, Jeanerette, La.:' Specimen budding tool. J. W. Kerr. Denton, Md. : The veteran eastern shore fruit grower sent a collection of filberts grown in his orchard. Standard Pecan Co., Blooming- ton, 111. : Collection of pecans. Varieties as follows : Russell, Van Deman, Schley, Frotscher, Stuart,' Delmas, Waukenah. Dr. W. C. Deming, Westchester, THE. S IJT^O HOW BH New York City. : Samples of Gingko nuts, Spanish ciiestnuts, black walnuts, bitternuts, (Hicoria minima) grown in N. Y. City, Pomeroy and Banks walnuts, Jug- lans regia, grown in Greenwich, Ct. Mailing case for nuts or scions. Miscellaneous nuts. Harper Secord, St. Catharines. Ontario, Canada. : Walnuts, Jug- lans regia, of good size and quality grown in Canada on a 30 year old tree. Geo. Febrey, College St. James. Maryland. : Specimens of walnuts, Juglans regia, size below medium, well filled, tender, quality good. A. M Johnson, Milwaukee, Wis. : Specimens of small white shagbark hickory nut, one of Dr. Morris's prize nuts. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. : Specimens of Seedlings pecan "Tiie Gem'' Other specimen pecans. J. Eliot Coit, Acting Supt. Exp. Station, Whittier, Cal. : Samples of J. Hindsii, J. Californica. J. Ru[)estris, var. major, and Paradox and Royal Hybrids, came to late for exhibition. Dr. Britton presented interesting specimens of Juglans Insularis nuts collected by himself in Banos San Vicenti, Cuba, this year. This tree grows to a height of 70 feet. In addition to the above, there were interesting specimens of black walnuts, butternuts, and chestnuts, grown in gardens in New York City. Nearly all of the walnuts, Jug- lans regia, were of e.vcellent appear ance and thin shell, but not rivals of the standard French Grenoble varieties in quality. Those present were : Dr. N L. Britton, Director New York Botanic Gardens. Dr. Robert T. Morris, 616 Madi- s.m Ave.. N. Y. City. I'rof. John Craig, of Cornell University. Mr. T. P. Littlepage, Union Tru^t Bldg., Washington, D. C. Mr. A. B. Malcomson, Orange, N. J. Mr. Henrv Hales, Ridgewood, N. J. Mrs. Joseph L. Lovctt and Mrs. Yardley. Einilie, Bucks Co.. Pa. Dr. Geo. Knapp, (at the request of Simpson Bros., Vincennes, Ind.) 21 Claremont Ave., NewYorkCity. Mr. C. A Schwarze, 92 Stag street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Nash, of the Botanical Mu- seum. Dr. W. C. Deming, Westchester, New York Citv. Are Nuts Replacing Meats? Nut-foods have become as firm- ly established among the better class of people of the United States as has the beef diet among the Eng- lishmen. Each year witnesses the decreasing use of animal fats, and a'l kinds of meats, and a cor- responding increase in the con- sumption of nuts, says a writer in the National Horticulturist, With jungle stories of packing- house filth and horrors and viru- lent contagious disease-* developing among cattle and hogs will) a ra- pidity that leaves less than one- half of the farm animals free from infection, the cost of meals has steadily risen. This has checked the use of meat in thousands of homes where perhaps nothing but the high prices could have induced an attempt to find a substitute. The thousands thus forcetl away from a meat diet have been added to the many other thousands who have abandoned animal food from much higher motives. Just what percentage of the people of the United States have wholly abandon- ed the meat diet cannot be definite- ly stated at this time, but it is somewhere between 15 and 23. The report of the thirty-first ses- sion of the American Pomological .Society, held at St. Catherines, Ontario, at the invitation of the Provincial Fruit Growers' Associa- tion, is now being di'^tributed to its members. This national society numbers in its membership about six hundred persons, having horti- cultural interests, either as amateurs or professional fruit growers. WANTEO To purchase Soft Shell Pecan Nuts. Price must be moderate. Send full particulars and quotations to : : : MAPLETON'S NUT FOOD CO., LTD., CARSTON, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND. '5HS SHSaSHSHSHSHSaSH SHSasaSB SHSHHHSHSaSHSaSHSHSasaSH s I Atlanta, Birmingham and I Atlantic Railroad ^ Traverses productive Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is the home of the famous paper- shell pecan. Lands otherwise adapted to diversity of crops. -:- -:- -:- -:- Information cheerfully furnished, W. H. LEAHY, General Passenger Agent. ALANTA, . - GEORGIA. isa iP^sHs^"^ H q HSHSHsas dSHsas^s asHSH53s asanasss as? sHsassHi TUB NUT-GROWnhi WALNUTS English Walnut Industry. Leaving the more common nuts, it is well to consider the growth in the walnut industry--the English walnuts they are called. To say how much they have increased in this country would be impossible ; but the increase in consumption has been so rapid during the past few years that walnuts have already become amongst the most import- ant varieties handled in the Amer- ican market. Thousands of bags come from abroad, and in addition sometiiing like seven hundred cars of California nuts are distributed in this country each year. Assum- ing that the price per pound, from first hands, as obtained by the Cal- ifornia growers, is 12 cents, which is a reasonable figure, their import- ance, commercially, is readily seen. The importation of walnuts con- stitutes an important division of foreign trade, which is increasii.g each year. In addition to this, the increase in the cultivation of wal- nuts in California is adding a pro- fitable industry to the Pacific coast. Lower prices increase consumption, and thousands are eating walnuts now who, a few years ago, could not afford them. Along the Ohio river tlie walnut trees are especially abundant, in- dividual trees often reaching a diameter of five feet. Unfortun- ately the walnut forests were the first to fall before the ax of the pioneor, who frequently made his rail fences out of this valuable tim- ber. 'l"he wild nut with its dense kernel is covered with a black pericarp, green even when the fruit is ripe. After frost the nuts drop and the outer covering disintegrates or is beaten off with clubs. Form- erly the brownish-black coloring matter contained in the outer cov- ering was utilized by the early housewives for dyeing homespun cloth. The kernel is rich in oil and protein and quite pleasing in taste tiie first winter, but likely to become rancid on longer keeping. "Yesterday the nurfery business was a very small affair. Today tiiere are vast fortunes invested in the business and tomorrow it will take combination of fortunes to han- dle our growing dejnands. Not only will the future call for a combina- tion of capital in handling our bus- iness, but a closer and more cordial relation must exist one to another." — Southern Orchards and Homes. French Walnuts Scarce. Advices by cable from France state that the crop of walnuts there this year is anywhere from a third to a half of the 190Q output. Ship- pers, consequently, are very con- servative in the offerings, and the c. i. f. market is strong, with an upward tendencj', says the New York Journal of Commerce. Buy- ers here, however, continue to liold off, hoping that prices, as they have done in the past under similar re- ported conditions, may turn in their favor. The scarcity of French walnuts and the rather high prices demanded are encouraging shippers of the European producing sections to enter this market. Heretofore they have been unable to compete with the Frencii shippers in Amer- ican markets, as they have had to get better prices to make a profit on their goods; but the large ad- vance in French goods is giving them an opportunity which they are taking advantage of. Now Russian and Hungarian shippers are offering here, and there are said to be sellers for other European producing centers. The Russian stock, which is represented to be of bright color, large and sweet meat, offers at i2fc, and is made due to arrive here about November 12. The Hungarian stock is said to be of fancy quality and is offered at I2^c, in competition with extra Comes. Recent arrivals of Naples walnuts have been quickly absorb- ed, and the spot market is said to be bare. Stock due is offered at I4^c for fancy and I2;^c for choice. At the close it was reported that on account of the short crop in France the demand for California walnuts has shown a decided in- crease. ExtensiveExperiments and Work -IN- Walnuts. Walnuts are of course pretty well out of first hands in California. A New York mail advice has the fol- lowing concerning shelled walnuts : "California shippers for the first time in history, according to au- thorities, are invading the shelled walnut market in competition with foreign shippers. Thev are en- couraged to take this step because of the extreme scarcity of the for- eign product and the apparent will- ingness of the eastern trade to pay high prices. This is said to be the first time in the history of the busi- ness that shelled walnuts of Cal- ifornia origin have been offered to the eastern trade." Nut and Forest Tree Culture BY DR. ROB'T. T. MORRIS Fully described and pictured in THE GUIDE TO NATURE Arcadia, South Beaoh, ' Connactioul. Send $1.00 for One Year, or loc for Single Copy. This magazine is also pub- lishing interesting editorials and contributions on "Luther Burbank," and the action taken by the Carnegie Insti- tution in relation to him. WANTED! SOO Pounds Japan Walnuts, Cordiformis and Seiholdiana. SMITH BROS., ^c^E^o^R^^'! SUCCESS NATURAL SIZE The nut that has never failed to bear and never failed to fill at both ends with kernels of best quality. BECHTEL PECAK SIIIR8ERIE8 OCEAN SPRINGS. MISS. THE ]SUr-ai^(}\\BH UeSE CHESTNUTS. THE PLAIN TRUTH about your Sewing Machine has never been tolil you; if it had you would never use it, no matter how badly you niieht want to. 'I'he ordinary family sewing machine is an in strument of torture. It is a nerve destroyer and a health destroyer and every woman wlio uses it maites a serious mistake, and injures lier nervous system to ;iii alarming extent. If ytui will look at your machine, the reasoi for all this is r>lain. '1 he construction of your Sewing M;icliiiie is wrong, the needle is away 4^j inches to the left, calling for a tliree-quarter twist of your I'lidy in order to operate it. Think of it, twisting ymir spine, stomach and all internal organs seventy-!i\L' per cent, out of plumb. Is it any wonder doctors recognize the disease of Side Needlu ,S|>iiie. Now for a moment, compare this with A STAND.AKD CKNTKAI, NKKUI.E machine, built to enable you to sit with back straight, with your work right in front of you, centl'itl, directly over the treadle. You can sew on this new-style machine all day, without feeling tired, or getting a pain in your back or a stitch in your side. Yon can expand your chest and breathe nat* urally and freely while sewing, your heart will be normal, your stomach will be in its right posi- tion and there will be no strain on your back or your muscles or nerves. And the beauty of it all is, this STANDARD CENTU.\L NEKDLE MACHINE costs no more and is just as easy to purchase as any other w^-U-made machine. If you value your health and the health of your growing daughters, don't hesitate, quit using your b.ick-twisting, disease- breeding, nerve-racking ma- chine today. \\*rite us and we will gladly send you FKKR a book which illustrates ajid explaitis in a simple way the difference between the right and wrong In sewing machines. The hook is called "A STITCH IN THE SIDIC* A postal brings it to you free. Send for it, you'll never regret it. The Standard Sewing Macnine Co. 6tSl Cedar Ave Cleveland. O Chestnuts Scarce. New York, Nov. 18. — Chestnuts are scarce and high, and sell $7.50 c" 10 a bu., with the latter outside for fancy. The express strike has been a great draw-back to the trade, as it served to divert stock in transit and at shipping points to other markets. Sales have been made by express companies at low figures, which had a bad effect upon the market. The greater part of the stock is small and imperfect. Next week will about close the season. Each year shows a greater scarcity of chestnuts, and according to re- ports made by the department at Washington they will soon become a thing of the past. Investigations show that an insect is working on the trees that in some sections is destroy- ing whole groves. anH. if the ravages of this pest cannot be checked, chest- nut trees on the American continent will be exterminated. Profits in Chestnut Growing. E, S. MAYO, IN FARM AND RANCH. Through prejudice and lack of knowledge, which has kept many from attempting its cultivation, chestnut culture is in its infancy. But, with the advent of improved varieties, the planting of chestnut orchards has been given a great im- petus. Up to within the last few years, the only nuts fit to eat appearing in our markets have been the small, na- tive chestnuts and these have been gathered from the forests, no at- tempts having been made at cultiva- tion. The large Japan and other for- eign nuts have not appealed to grow- ers here because the nuts are so in- ferior in quality, being bitter and astringent. Furthermore, in Amer- ica, we do not look upon the chest- nut as a food, although in many of the foreign countries it is an import- ant article of diet. NUTS RICH IN FOOD. Chestnuts differ from most other nuts in that they contain less fat and more carbohydrates, being also rich in protein. When taken into the body, protein forms tissue, carbohy- drates are changed into fat and the mineral matter aids in digestion. Chestnuts are almost as valuable as bread and more valuable than pota- toes for dietetic purposes. Two pounds of chestnuts contain 118 grams of starch and eight of fat. An acre of land will grow 35 bush- els of wheat in a year, if properly cultivated. A like area of chestnut trees will produce many times as many bushels of equally nutritious food yearly for an indefinite period and require no outlay for cultivation, replanting or fertilization; more than this, the spring frosts, beating rains and summer drouths, which are a constant menace to a wheat crop, work no injury upon the chestnut tree or its fruit. Why, then, is wheat grown on millions of acres, while we fail to produce even enough chestnuts to supply the demand of one merchant and allow Southern Europe to exact a large tribute from us annually for the bitter and astringent nuts we import for con- sumption? Statistics show that the annual production of chestnuts in France is 3,000,000 quintals, of 200 pounds each, 300,000 tons! THE TREES BEAR EARLY. With chestnuts, crops are sure and profitable, thereby insuring perma- nency of the investments. It was found impossible to interest planters until a large sweet nut could be pro- duced, and it was not until the ad- vent of the Sober Paragon Sweet chestnut that the planting of com- mercial orchards was undertaken. The famous Paxinos orchard of Sober Paragon chestnuts how numbers over 100,000 trees and is a commercial success. The crop in the fall of 1909 sold for over $30,000, and only a portion of the orchard has been allowed to come into bearing, as the plantings have been made each year. The trees of this variety are im- mensely productive, bearing one vear from graft, large nuts of the finest quality, sweet and delicious as the native chestnuts. When grafted, the tree bears in the nursery row on its own growth of wood, maturing its nuts within 17 months from inser- tion of graft. Its growth is remark- able, a single graft growing in one year, 54 feet 10 inches of wood, ind the next season it bore three quarts of nuts, the tree being 17 months old when the nuts were taken from it. This graft was set May 1, 1906, and the nuts ripened Oct. 1, 1907. CHEAP LAND MAY BE USED. The cultivation of the chestnut or- chanl is simplicity itself, requiring only ordinary labor and limited ex- pense, it may be planted on the poorest of soils with cultivation limit- ed to keeping the ground clear of underbrush; in fact, the Paxinos or- chard is planted on stony mountain land, bought for $3 per acre, and there are millions of acres of just such land in this country that are considered practically worthless, but which can be utilized for chestnut orchards with absolute certainty of pleasure and profit. The chestnut tree is long-lived and goes on produc- ing for a century or more Chest- nut culture embodies to a greater degree the elements of safety and profit than almost any other industry, and fortunes are sure to be made by those who carry into the business intelligence and progressive methods. In point of hardiness, the chestnut is all that can be desired, and with a well dnnned S' il, no matter how poor it may be, the chestnut orchard is po.ssible in almost any locality. THE, NUT-GROWER HICKORY Millions of wild pecan trees in the Southern states are now cumberers of the ground that might be a source of great profit, if their owners would but have the confidence to top work these inferior trees with prolific pa- pershell varieties. Top-working is no easy project and costs, on the aver- age, about $5.00 per tree. The top of the inferior tree is nearly all cut back in the winter season so that the iimbs are nothing but short stumps. Young, vigorous sprouts start from the short stumpy limbs in the spring, and August or September of the first season these young shoots are bud- ded with the desired variety. After the buds "take" the supernumerary young sprouts are cut off close up to the old limbs. The budded sprouts are cut back an inch or two above the bud the next season, and all the energy is thus thrown into the bud. From ten to a dozen buds are set to form the new crown of each tree, and after the permanence of the new growth is assured, all the old top should be pruned away. In four or five years, a top worked tree will be paying its owner hand- some returns. It is possible that grafting may be performed upon the sprouts with good results, but the proper season for making the grafts is February or March, at the end of the first year's growth of young sprouts. After the bark of the pe- can becomes more than one year old, it is difficult to work either by bud- ding or grafting. In conclusion, the writer wishes to urge that the pecan tree deserves more attention than it is now receiv- ing from the people of the South. Its planting should be promoted by sane and conservative business men who have a personal interest in the outcome. Extravagant claims for the industry can only do harm. Very much must be yet learned before we can assert that certain premises in reference to its culture are facts. We need to know very much more definitely than we now know the best regions for the cultivation of each named variety. Experiments for the determination of facts with refer- ence to the productiveness, hardiness and soil requirements of different varieties must extend through a number of years to obtain valuable information, because the pecan na- turally does not fruit early. Plant more pecan trees but be prepared to wait patiently for results. Experi- ment if you will, but do not make your experiment too large for you to carry it to a successful conclusion. —Southern Orchard and Homes. Judge Whipple, at Monticello. His subject was "Why Pecans?" As an introduction to his address, he said : I realize very keenly the very del- icate position in which I have plac- ed myself in thus publicly appear- ing before you at my initial attend- ance upon this session of your As- sociation. In excuse therefor I beg to refer you to the subject of this paper, especially to the interroga- tion point that you will find at the end of it and, so far as at least con- cerns this present session of your Association, I am still in the atti- tude of merely an investigator, in- stead of an investor. However true may have been the thought of your Committee upon Programme, it was tiiought that possibly the ex- perience of an inquirer, who had set out to investigate this subject, might be of interest to some one present, and might be ot some aid to bridge over the chasm of doubt and hesitation upon tlie part of some other inquirer who had pass- ed along the same roads that I my- self have passed. Now, before reading this paper, I want to ex- press here my appreciation and my thanks for the elegant manner in wiiicli I have been treated in my investigations by the different mem- bers of your Association, with whom I have come in contact, and to bear personal testimony that, so far as my experience among men lias been concerned, that in no class does there seem to exist more court- esy and pleasure in giving desired information than among the pecan growers. I want to say, further, in their behalf, that I have never yet encountered such enthusiasm, such experiences and recitals that literally take one from off his feet and transport him into the very clouds of both imagination and desire. In fact, just to be perfect- ly frank about it, it all creates the impression that there must be some trick about it somewhere. (Laugh- ter.) I confess that I have not been able to locate it yet. It has reminded me of the story of the old settler who, himself, and his father before him, and his grandfatiier long 3'ears before him, had carried his corn to mill all in one end of the sack, balancing it upon his horse on the other side with a "punkin." And in going to mill one day he met a stranger. And [continued on page 7.] OOCK>C><^OOOOC<>0000C><> S WE ARE NOT SOLD OUT YET | Order at once and mention The Nut- Grower and we will supply you while they last, at the following prices: : : SIZE EACH PER 100 1 to 2 feet $ .55 $ 45.00 2 to 3 feet .65 55.00 3 to 4 feet .70 65.00 4 to 5 feet .80 75.00 6 to 8 feet 1.50 125.00 8 to 12 feet 2.00 200.00 s We have all of the varieties really worth while. 8 THE PAPER SHELL PECAN NURSERY, H O I APAYITTTir iniTKIANA O LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA. -. ooooc<>oooocoooc<>ooo THE NlJT^GnOWnH VARIOUS NUTS. The supply of Sicily filberts available for immediite shipment from New York is unusually light, and although it is understood that a considerable quantity of Levant filberts has been bought for this market because of the reported short crop in Sicily and the unus- ually fine quality of the Levant fruit, the arrivals of the latter up to date have been decidedly disap- pointing and have caused no little embarrassment to the sellers, who had confidenth' counted upon be- ing able to make early and adequate deliveries on the contracts they had booked for that class of goods. * * * There is a particularly strong feeling in shelled filberts, due to an active demand and a bare spot market, for the time being, because of the unprecedented delay in ship- ment caused by the cholera epi- demic. Shipments which should BE YOUR OWN HORTICULTURIST! The Pecan and Its Culture By H. HAROLD HUME Contains practically all the information necessary to successfully bring a pecan orchard into bearing. A complete synopsis follows: The Contents Importance of the Pecan; Present Production; Pecan Botany; Pecan Geography; Propagation of the Pecan; Top- Working Pecans; Soils and their Preparation; Purchasing and Planting Pecans; Cul- tivation and Fertilizers; Cover and Other Crops; Pruning and Surgery; Fungus and Other Diseases; Insects Attacking the Pecan; Harvesting and Marketing the Crop; Pecan Judging; What Varie- ties to Plant; Varieties; Pecan Literature. Announcement THE PECAN AND ITS CULTURE is a handbook for every grower, large or small. The author is in close touch with the details of the industry, and has closely watched its development for many years. In this, the second edition of the book, these ob- servations are presented in a plain, practical way for the benefit of all growers who wish to learn more about this profitable and in- creasingly popular nut. THE PECAN AND ITS CULTURE contains about 200 pages, with 15 pages and 61 text illustrations — many of which are new. Hume's The Pecan and Its Culture. Illustrated, 5x7 1-2 inches. Cloth. Price, net; $1.50, postpaid. The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, DeWit^L, Mitchell County, Georgia. have been available for delivery long ago are still withheld because vessels coming from reported chol- era infected ports have been kept in quarantine for varying periods at every place at which they have stopped for additional cargo. All shipments of Turkish filberts are coming via Trieste, where the goods are trans-shipped to the Austrian-American line; but be- fore the trans-shipments can be suc- cessfully made the steamers carry- ing the fruit must submit to quar- antine examination and detention. Some goods shipped the middle of September have not yet arrived. It ordinarilv takes thirty days for shipments of Levant filberts to reach New York from the other side ; but some invoices are now out seventy days. Meanwhile, American buy- ers are clamoring for deliveries on their orders, and are impatient of the delay which importers here are unable to mitigate, though they are using the cable freely to hurrj- ship- ments along Judge Whipple, at Monticello. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6) he, seeing the "punkin" on one side and the sack of corn on the other, thus balancing itself upon the horse, inquired as to the reason why he carried the "punkin." And the old settler said he carried it to balance the corn, of course. And the newcomer said, "My friend, why don't you balance the corn on one side with the corn on the other, and thus be able to carry double the quantitv of corn to your mill?" The old farmer thought there could be no harm in trying, so he took off the pumpkin and laid that to one side in the road, and divided the corn in half, half on one side and half on the other, and the stranger helped him and put the farmer back on his horse, and sent him on the way to the mill. And, constantly glancing back at the corn in the rear as he rode sadly back to the mill, he said to himself: "Well, it all seems to work just exactly as he said it would, but," he said, "there is some trick about it somewhere." (Laughter.) And he was so sure there was some trick about it, he finally retraced his steps and got his "punkin" where he left it, and balanced the corn with the "pun- kin" again, and went on his way to the mill. I nope that won't be my experience, and the indications are that there will be no retracing of steps 8 PECAN POINTERS Pecan Characteristics. There are very few people who recognize the difference in the qual- ity of pecans, but the lime has been predicted when the market will call for special nuts, as it now does for Baldwin apples, Bartlett pears, etc. When we realize how few people in the eastern and northern cities know what our standard pe- cans look and taste like, that day seems far distant. Some are led to believe that size is all important. As a matter of fact the medium- sized nuts generally have the sweet- est meats and fill the best. The external appearance of the nut will deceive the layman, but the inter- nal qualities are more important. We find a great difference in shapes. The best fillers are usually blunt at the ends with no space which can- not be utilized by the kernel. There are exceptions and one or two of the best nuts on the market have their ends drawn out to a point. Some of the nuts have a grimy, sooty appearance which is objec- tionable. A shell which is clear, clean, reddish rather than gray, is preferable. Often dark-colored streaks appear in varying lengths about the apex on many varieties and serve to distinguish many. With the present market pecan, polishing is practiced, but should be discouraged. It is entirely un- natural and the pigments used are apt to cause the kernels to become rancid. Pecan Culture Around Americus. Americus, Ga., Times-Recorder. In the territory that in the pecan nut-growing world is to be hereaf- ter known as the Americus district, there are now 13,379 ^''c^s which are nut-bearing, all of which, in all likeiiliood, will be producing nuts for the market in a commercial way within tiie next five years. The trees are divided as follows : Sumter County .... 6,420 Webster County 1,61^2 Lee County 4.025 Macon County S25 Schley Countv 457 These were the figures that were THB NUT-GHaWBR presented at the recent meeting of the National Nut-Growers' Associ- ation at Monticello, Fla., at which the Americus Board of Trade was represented by Mr. H. W. Smith- wick, one of the most enthusiastic and best informed men in South Georgia on the pecan nut culture. The figures were obtained from the owners of the nut trees, who filled in printed postal cards sent to them, stating the number of trees on their places before this year, the number put out for 1910, and the acreage used. As the average number of trees to the acre is twenty the figures obtained in this way mean that in this district there are now over 650 acres planted in pecans, of whicfli 320 acres are in Sumter county. In this county the principal pe- can orchard is that of Mr. H. J. Webb, who has 3,130 trees on his place at Sumter City. In Webster county the principal plantation is that of Dr. N. C. Alston, with 1,- 300 trees, while in Lee county Mr. R. S. Pryor has 1,825 trees and the Southern Pecan and Development Company has 2,100 trees. PECAN TREES THAT ARE PROPERLY GHOWN IS MY SPECIALTY. Budded and Grafted Trees Of the best varie- ties, for sale. : : Write for prices of trees and information as to grow- ing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT, CAIRO, :-: GEORGIA. Do You Want a COPY of -> FRUIT AND Vegetable Growing MANATEE COUNTY, SEABOARD Air Line Railway FI.ORIDA SEABOARD Air Line Railway WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU FREE! This handsomely illustrated, fifty-page booklet containing a most inter- esting description of the famous Manatee Section, being a reproduction of a series of articles written by the editor of one of the leading agri- cultural papers in the United States after a personal investigation by him. The articles were run in serial form in his publication during the last four months, and we have embodied same in an attractive pamphlet, illustrating it with dozens of interesting and instructive scenes from actual life. This handsome piece of literature will be sent free, to- gether, with phamphlet containing a list of properties available in the Land of Manatee upon receipt of five cents in stamps or currency to cover cost of mailing. Our supply of this book is limited, and if you want a copy you should not delay, but write at once. J. W. WHITE, General Inaustrial Agent, SeatoarJ Air Line Railway, Norrolk, Virginia. p THB NUT^GHOWHR CLASSIFIED NUT N0TE5. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES A Department for the Buyer and Seller Id this column we ffive place to advertisements from subscribe!^ who have Orchard, Farm Frodncts, Live Stock or Implements to sell or exchanjxe, as well as make inquiries for thin^ wanted. The rate is One Cent a word for each insertion. Patrons are urged to make liberal use of this space, as it will be found convenient and profitable. 1,200 or more bushels of pecans for sale. Address J. J Domas, New Roads, La BABY CHICKS 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Cultek Podltrt Farm. 1034 Reed, Benson, Neb. SAMPLE NUTS— Of many leading varieties for study or exhibition purposes supplied at reasonable rates, Seed nuts furnished only in limited quantities, IHE NUT-GROWER COM- PANY, Poulan, Ga Wanted*"Copie3 of the November and De- cember 1909 and January 1910 issues of the Nut- Grower. Parties having duplicates or copies not needed, will oblige by notifying The Nut- (; rower Co . Poulan, Gewrgia. FOR SALE— A bearing grove of the best varieties, four hundred trees. Good reason for selling. Ask for par- ticulars of The Nut-Grower, Poulan, Ga. The Buckeve Subscription Affency — For many years we have se- cured and forwarded subscriptions to many publishers for local patrons, and the facilities at command enable us to serve others who order by mail. Write for quotations on any neriodical desired. J. F. Wilson, Agent, "Poulan, Ga. For Sale— Pecan Orchard. 130 grafted trees, best varieties, between five and twenty years old. 100 have attained bearing age. For particulars write P. O. Box 263, Amite, La. Learu Wireless and Railroad Telesraphy-Shortage of fully 10,000 operators on account of 8-hour law and extensive "wireless" developments. We operate under direct supervision of telegraph officials and positively place all students, when qualified. Write for catalogue. National Telegaph In- stitute, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Mem- phis, Davenport, la., Columbia, S. C. , Portland, Ore. 10-2t This column trill he a regular fea- ture of The NvfOruwer for 1911. and IX devoted to the publicity work authorized by the Association. .It is prepared for editors ami writers who are invited to make free and liberal u.'ic of the,■< )'riCK When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- ed and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents at second-class rates. .rAXUAHY. 1911 The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, of New York, is a recent addition tn our exchange list. It gives atten- tion to nuts, especially the pea-nut, as a trade feature in its line. Simple rules are sometimes of great value A lot of disappoint- ment can be avoided by those' plan- ning to start orchards by doubling the estimate of cost, and cutting prospective profits in half. Prof. C. C. Vincent, of the Idaho College of Agriculture, has for some months past been making a careful research in walnut culture. During the year a number of articles from his pen wil) appear in The Nut-Grow- er. There is a difference between in- vesting money, and in putting it in a bank or some other security where it will earn a fixed rate of interest. While the bank is safe, the returns are small. On the other hand, a judicious investment is not only safe but pays much more than the us- ual rate of interest. A pecan orchard, properly started and cared for, is in the light of our experience as well as observation, a judicious investment. Some time ago, we received some Pabst pecans which were so small then that we forwarded a sample to the introducer, Mr. Chas. E. Pabst, of Ocean Springs, and asked what he thought of them. His reply came later, with his explanation as fol- lows: "Will send you some Pabst nuts. Let me tell you, to give j'ou rest, the first year or two all nuts on the young trees are small but after two years they come up to the average. Have that same experience here. My Russell, Van D. and Stuart are fine in young orchard, and all the older Pabst up-to-date. Do not worry." The attention of Texas pecan ex- perts is called to a communication from a subscriber in Ellis county. Possibly some one can furnish the in- formation desired The situation viewed from our office might not be correct, so withhold any expression of opinion. In addition the three persons named at Monticello, as having been present at the first Convention, and also at the ninth, Messrs. John Kel- lar, of Ft. Valley. Ga., and 0. P. Hears, of Baconton, should be men- tioned. They were not on the Convention floor at the time the "Old Guard" stood up. At the Monticello Convention pro- vision was made for having the As- sociation represented at Conventions of other National bodies of kindred character. Under this provision, the following named members have been appointed to attend the meet- ing of the American Pomological Society, which meets at Tampa, Florida, Jan. 31st, to Feb. 2nd, 1911. Dr. J. B. Curtis A. M. Edwards H. S. Watson John P. Brown H. C. White C. F. Barber T. S. McManus H. K. Miller C. A. Van Duzee J. B. Wight The man who does some solid thinking and sound reasoning, us- ually finds ample employment for his time, and profitable use for his money. With too many of us, we live only in the present, and even discount our future, while the part of wisdom is to plan for the future About fifteen years ago, we were growing and selling— with other nursery stock -seedling pecan trees, but more recently since the budded and grafted trees came into use, we have, although increasing our pe- can nursery operations, have none to sell, and for some years past sold from our own nursery only a few trees to oblige neighbors and friends. We told a fellow nurseryman a few days ago, that it pays better to plant the trees I produce in orchards of my own and in due time get an- nually crops of nuts worth all and more than the concurrent value of the tree at the time of its removal from the nursery. A tree on our grounds this season produced nuts which sold for 75 times its cost 20 years ago. So it seems that you can both "keep and eat your cake" by plant- ing your home grown trees for your own benefit. Planting nut trees is largely a matter of courage. Some one has said the courageous persons invest their money, while timid people deposit their savings in the bank. When one has the courage of his con- victions, he is liable to invest in pe- cans. As seen in another column, our es- teemed friend Pabst, of Mississippi, takes exception to an item in our November issue. This reminds us that mistakes can be used as step- ping stones for advancement, when those who know, are thus prompted to aid in building up a correct history of the industry. His reference to the Mobile pecan, however, is evi- dently based on local observations, as some sections are able to show fairly well filled nuts of this attract- ive variety. Some months ago, the Executive Committee of the N. N. G. A. wrestled with the "Best Varieties of Pecan" problem. The result of a spirited discussion was to ask the Committee on Nomenclature and Standards to score the following two lists, which were called Number One and Number Two. Notwith- standing much difference in opinion, twenty-four well-known varieties were arranged, as follows: List Number One: Schley, Frots- cher, Stuart, Van Deman, Rome, Delmas, Success, San Saba. Sover- eign, Money Maker. Pabst and Rus- sell. List Number Two: Curtis, Alley, Tcche, Mobile, President, Taylor, Bradley. Hall, Bolton, Manturia, Moore and Waukeena. Mr. Charles L. Edwards, of Texas, in a letter to the Editor, writes in- terestingly of the pecan situation in that state. This extract shows how well he understands the situation and importance of the work. "Some really encouraging results have quickly followed the budding of young trees and sprouts from old roots, as also the top-working of other young trees. Nice little crops from buds set in 1907 and '08, with a few showings of nuts for buds of last year, go at least a little way to- wards unsettling the superstition that it takes a life-time for the trees to bear. The enlightened few, who are budding their own trees, are finding that they have already done most of their waiting without know- ing it. But still the many — the in- numerable many — continue to hug the old superstition. And they en- joy it too, as much as did our fore- fathers the witch-craft delusion." THll NUT'GROWBTl 11 I The Fertilizer £2£ Pecan Trees ^ One that Increases the Yield and Leaves ^ the Land in Better Shape than it Found it. ^ Here is the formula. The best nut growers will vouch for the excellent results obtained by its use: ^ 1,000 lbs. Thomas Phosphate 200 lbs. Nitrate of Potash S) 600 lbs. 10 to 12 i Tankage 200 lbs. Sulphate of Potash ^ The Thomas Phosphate contains a large per cent, of highly available Phosphoric Acid 1^ that has a definite action in the formation and development of buds. Its large amount of ^ Lime effectively sweetens the soil. ^ Write for prices and free literature. I Coe - Mortimer Company, ri'R^^A'k^l7flR?Ais. ^ Charleston, - :-: - South Carolina. The organization of the Northern Nut Growers' Association at a re- cent meeting held in New York City, marks the progress of the industry in a field outside the distinctive pe- can belt. This movement was heartily approved and encouraged by the National organization, and there is reason to expect that mutu- al benefits will result, as well as great public good. The Indiana Department of Horti- culture of the Experiment Station is meeting with very gratifying success in its search for superior native pe- cans. Many imagine that the native nuts are inferior to the Southern varieties. The fact is, on the con- trary, that it is unsafe to plant out the Southern sorts in our climate, while the Experiment Station has dis- covered several nuts right here in our midst that compare very favor- ably with any of the named varieties from the South, This will mean thousands of dollars to Southern Indiana— Indiana Bulletin. A writer in Farm and Ranch says: —I am mighty young yet, but I can remember the days before barbed wire, when East Texas lands sold for $5 to $10 an acre, because one could make rails to fence a farm, and the prairie land sold at $1 or less, be- cause there was no way of fencing it. I saw land around Taylor sell at $1, that is now worth $90 to $130 an acre. We may live to see — yes it may be soon- that the price pendu- lum may swing over East Texas, just because she has hickory trees on which to bud pecans. I have seen the fruit of such trees. Somebody, some day, may say, why did I not buy some cheap hickory land? "There's a great day comin'," for which it is gratifying to sum up that the Nut Growers' Association may claim the credit of inaugurating. Everybody is getting interested in pecans. Some of our South Carolina grow- ers, encounter the full measure of diflficulties. A letter from A. B. Sample, of Ware Shoals, describes his trouble with the Schley. This letter has much in value in the candid reports as to varieties in that locality. Some may be disap- pointed in the small yield, but be- fore condemning a variety, it will be well to figure the worth on an acre at as low a price as 15 cents a pound. Simply because these crops do not come up to anticipations is not aval- id reason why it may not be a pay- ing investment. We may have been looking too much on the bright side. This correspondent, as well as some others, are viewing the other side of the shield. These trees are too young however, to give more than some advanced data. What they will do in the next ten years, will unfold a tale of great importance to that section. As we write these lines we can see a tree from our oflice window, which has been bearing regularly for ten years, and the 1910 crop is just be- ing gathered. 75 pounds with some still on the trees, is the record. While we have scab, rosette, twig girdlers, and everything else that is epidemic, still we are gathering nuts, and lots of them and they sell for cash. Our interest in the business grows with the increasing age of our trees. The Lumber Trade Journal, of New Orleans, in discussing the uses of cut-over pine lands has the follow- ing to say regarding the profitable- ness of pecans: "In Louisiana, it might be said, that all of the cut-over lands are admirably adapted to the raising of pecans, one of the most profitable nuts that could engage the attention of a grower or farmer. In the vi- cinity of Alexandria and all along the Red river valley can be noted small pecan orchards surrounding the res- idences on many plantations, all of which bear well. The trees, in most instances, were planted from wild stock and have demonstrated that the pecan is very profitable. Near Washington, La., there is a large pe- can plantation on which nothing but proven varieties are raised, the trees having been planted on cut-over lands. The crop this year is a very profitable one, in fact, more profit- able than any other crop raised in the state. Four miles from Jasper, Tex., there lives an old farmer who in his younger days was a school teacher. He bought a farm that at first consisted of stumps and scrub trees, but which today is one of the model farms of that state. He is harvesting this fall his first crop of pecans, A'hich are from trees planted eight years ago from seed. He paid $1.50 per pound at the time for the seed and states that he is more than satisfied with the results. As he has several acres in pecans, he will be able to live easy the remainder of his life regardless of other farm crops or conditions that may exist. He strong- ly advises all farmers to plant sever- al acres of their land in pecan trees, claiming that the few years it takes for them to come to a bearing age is nothing to the after results that will be experienced." 12 THB NUT-GROWBl^ Personal Mention. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees THE RETIRING PRESIDENT Of The National Nut Growers' Association- John Byron Wight was born in Decatur county, Georgia, in 1859, coming of an old New England family. His younger days were spent on the farm and he was edu- cated at Emory College, graduating in 18S1. He is a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is considerably interested in educational matters, having served tor four years as School Commis- sioner of Grady county, Georgia, and being at present chairman of the Board of Trustees of the High School of Cairo, Ga , where he resides. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Second Georgia District Agricu It uralSchool at Tifton, and also of Andrews Female College at Cuthbert, Ga. Mr. Wight served the National Nut Growers" Afsociaiion as vice- president for Georgia for several years. He was elected president of the Association at the Chatta- nooga Convention in 190S. He is one of the pioneers of the pecan industry in his state, not only as a pkuiter and experimenter, but as a writer as well. He has served for two years as president of the Association and lays aside the duties of that office with a most enviable record to his credit, hav- ing been very largely responsible for the present flourishing condition of that body. Dr. VV. C. Stubbs, of New Or- leans, has 350 grafted pecan trees in 12 varieties growing on his farm in eastern Virginia. A few of them are bearing * * * Mr. W. S. Corwin, of High- lands, California, says that pecans in that state, under irrigation, grow twice as fast as they do in Texas. * * * John Keller, the well known horticulturist, of Fort Valley, Ga., was one of the early members who was present at the first Nut-Growers Convention. * * * N. B. Dixon, of Andalusia, Ala., in writing about his pecan trees, says they have done fine this year, and believes as far as he has seen other groves that his is '"the finest in the world." * * * Dr. R. O. Graham, of Blooming- ton, 111., vice-president of the Nut- Growers Association for that state, is well up in horticultural circles, being president of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, a member of the State Horticultural Advisory Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Farmers Institute. He is also prominent in several commercial enterprises. Messrs. Tribble Bros., of Elk Groves California, have sent sam- ples of fine English Walnuts, which will be given more extend- ed description in a later issue. * * * The noted horticulturist, P. J. A. Berckmaii, of Augusta, Ga., died early in November. =AND= Ornamental Shrubbery =ALSO= Field Grown Rose Bushes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our : : : DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES TURKEY CREEK NURSERY Box 21, McClenny, Fla. C. F. Barber, Pres. J. E. Barbek, Sec'ty. WHirE'S BUDDING TOOL A Scientific histrument for file Propagation of Pecans, Hickories. Wa hints. Chest- nuts, Pcrsiiitnions and all other Trees, bi/ the Anmilnr, Semi-Aiinutar. Patch and Veneer Methods. Several hundreds of this Tool in use in United States and abroad. Budding and Grafting; Wood of best varieties of Pecans. Choice Nuts for Sa\e, Send 10 cents for Samples. For particulars and prices, write HERBERT C WHITE, Dewiti, Georgia. 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Our catalog con- tains information on selecting, planting, cul- ture, etc., and is free for the asking Graftwood for sale ; wur orchards contain over forty named varieties. H. S. GRAVES, PROPRIETOR, Gainesville, Florida. FOR SALE! Two Fine Pieces of Property ■ In Alachua County, Florida. One 40-acre tract, with 12 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. One 20i-acre tract, with 10 acres in cultivation and set in pecan trees, of best varieties, 2 years old. This property lies on a large lake and is well drained. Both places adjoin my grove that will bear 5,000 lbs. of fine pecans this season. For further particulars, address, T. S. MCMANUS, WALDO, FLORIDA. >f 10 Days Free Trial In Your Own Home of Ihe improved p"SimpIex Hand Vacuum Cleaner "The Cleaner That Cleans Clean" We want to sup- ply one lady in every neighborhood with a "Simplex" Vacuum Cleaner, for aJver- tising purposes. M 'rite to Jay for the most liberal of- fer ever made. The "Simplex" is guaranteed to do as good work as electric machines costing $100.00 and over. It is light in weight (only 20 lbs) runs extremely easy and can be operated perfectly and easily by one person. With ordinary care the "Simplex" will last a lifetime. Dealers and Agents Wanted to sell both our hand and electric machlnea. Electric Cleaner Co. 98 JacKson Boul. CHICAGO, ILL; Ware Shoai.s, S.C.,Nov. ii,'io Editor Nut Grower, Poulan,Ga. Dear Sir : — I was very much disappointed this year in the Schley pecan, a nut when sound and al- right has no superior. I have now growing about 500 pecan trees, bud- ded and grafted of the following varieties : Stuart, Schley, Delmas, Georgia Giant, Louisiana, Teche, Rome, Success and Jacocks Mammoth. Tliese run from 2 to 9 years set. The greater number of these are Stuart, Delmas and Schley. This year the Stuart, Delmas, Schley, Bolton and Clark, all in the same orchard, standing about 40-ft apart, had a fine crop of nuts, and all these trees ripened their nuts with- out a fault, with the exception of the Schley. The Schley trees had a good crop of nuts but every nut was ruined by a worm. Ot course, I know worms will ruin nuts, but I would like to know why the Schley were attacked and the others not bothered. Now I know this is hard luck on the Schley trees, but I can't help it ; wish I could, as I consider the Schlej' one of the finest. The Stuart and Delmas bid fair to be the money-makers for this section. Success has not fruited with me yet. Louisiana seems to be at home here, a good bearer and fine quality. Clark is also a good one. Bolton I wouldn't have if the trees were shipped to me free and ex- press paid. They may do well in Florida, but not here. "Teche" fruiting with me this year, not mucii, too small. I wouldn't ad- vise any one in the upper section to plant it. Georgia Giant good bearer and does fairly well. Now, if the worms do not attack the Stuart and Delmas, these are the two varieties to plant for dollars, but should they meet the same fate of the Schley — then I am down and out. 1 have no trees to sell and have given the facts in the case. Now, I will give \'0U some idea .ibout the number of pounds a bud- ded and grafted pecan bears here. Nuts for Profil fC?™..°' trations. Propagation, cultivation, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sec- tions. Interesting and instructive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Parry, N J. From Jan. 1 to April 1.5, Orlando, Fla. The finest, or rather the largest tree that I have, is a Delmas 8-yrs. set, about 15 feet high, well branched, bore about 9 pounds of nuts. Another, same age, but not in so favorable a place, bore 4 lbs; Stuart, grafted, 6 years set, 5 lbs; Schley trees same age run from 2 to 3 pounds. My trees are well worked and fertilized, but being on uplands have not made the growth they would have made on second river bottoms. I hope some of you can tell me how to combat the worm success fully, and also tell me why it was only the Schley trees were attacked by worms. Yours very truly, A. B Sample. Editor Nut-Grower : — I see in your November number the statement that the original Stuart tree stood close to the original Schley tree. Now, the Stuart tree stood on sea-coast, owned by Capt. Castevera, and locally known as the "Castevera" pecan, until Col. Stuart named it after himself. Mr. Delmas never had the least claim to the Stuart. Also, you say lots for the "Laurandine,"now named the "Mobile" — nothing but a fine lot of empty shells. So much personal interest gener- ally colors reports to you. Yours, Chas. E. Pabst. Ocean Springs, Miss. Editor Nut-Grower : — Why is it that for 30 years or more nur- serymen or their agents have been selling grafted or budded paper- shell pecan trees in Ellis county Te.xas, and I am unable to find a single Stuart or other kind growing or bearing in the county and yet I can find 100,000 acres of good pecan land in the county, and thousands of acies of pecan trees cut off to plant in cotton? Not less than 100,000 acres of low land overflow and waste land on rivers and creeks and branches, that can be set in paper-shell pe- cans. I feel sure I can find one inillion sprouts around pecan stumps and trees in the county that can be set with paper-shell pecan buds, or paper-shells can be grafted on to the roots of thousands. 1 have been selling nursery stock for a home nursery this year, and when I try to sell paper->liell pe- cans they say they have been tried and won't grow, yet 1 can find trees planted 20 years and no nuts growing on ihein. Yours. C. T. HOGAN. 14 THB NUT^GROWBR Mere Mention. An Indian;! subscriber, who is a bee-keeper, says tliat the pecan yields honej' as well as nuts. * * * "Everything opposing appears to loose its substance the moment one actually grapples with it." — Hawthorne. * * * The Southern Commercial Con- gress says: "By reason of the natural resources of the South in coast line, harbors, rivers, forests, water- powers, minerals and rain- fall and growing hours, the South has within it the essentials of na- tional leadership." * * * So long as they do not go belosv ten cents per pound, pecans can be grown at a profit. As soon as the supply is sufficient to make them so, pecans will be a staple article in the markets of the world. When cotton and wheat and oranges and apples, cease to be grown at a profit, then, and not till then, need pecan growers be apprehensive. — T. B. Wight. * * * There are only two ways of plac- ing money out to work : One is to rent it out to others on bonds, mortgages, preferred stock, or to a savings bank, on which the returns to be expected may be from 3 per cent, to 6 per cent. On this plan the opportunity is limited to the direct returns. The other way is to invest, to become a partner in the enterprise and receive an hon- est proportion of the total earnings whatever they may be. * * * There is money to be made in pecan growing when judiciously conducted in a business-like man- ner. When the long life and healtii- fulness of the tree is considered, and the abundant time in which the nuts may be gathered, and marketed, I do not know a more attractive field in all the realm of horticulture than this. The farmer or land owner living anywhere in the pecan belt who fails to grow enough nuts for his own use and also for market, is neglecting an exceptional opportunity. — J. B. Wight. In view of increased plantings of budded and grafted trees from year to year, it mav be of benefit to those about to make beginnings, to give results of experience in the selection of trees for transplanting. In no department of the work is correct information so much needed ; for it is a fact, and rather a singular one. too, that more trees are being trans- planted than top-worked. The man having native trees growing on his land seldom concerns himself about having them budded with better sorts; and it is eqaully rare that such a man buys the finer trees for transplanting. Interest in nut growing is decidedly more mani- fest in those who have no nut trees on their places; and they are also the largest buyers and planters of budded and grafted kinds. Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties Not the /Vlost===Only the Best For Descriptive List write BAYVIEW NURSERY C. FORKERT, Prop. Ocean Springs, Miss Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1910=1911 Will be pleased to book orders now for Grafted Pecans No Seedlings Send for Price List CHAS. E. PABST, PropY, OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI. QUALITY TALKS In Pecan Trees^ as well as other commodities, WE HAVE THE QUALITY. Our stock for the coming season's delivery is Budded and Grafted from Known Trees. All being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us ; we have the goods. A ' 'SQUARE DEAL" guaranteed. Write for booklet and get acquainted. JEFFERSON NURSERY CO., MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. (Mention The Nut-Grower.) THn NUT-GHOWBM 15 News Items. SEETHE ItOOTS SUCH \| TREESJ live' Pecan Growing MADE EASY by planting trees dug with cniire Tap Root and well developed lateral roots. Few Nurseries seU such trees. Made Profitable By planting only genuine budded or grafted trees, of best quality ^nd best producing varieties. Some of the biggest, thJnncst-shelkd nuts don't bear. Beware of them. Griffing's Trees are Models ROOT and TOP Otir VariodeM are KchI Gold Mrdal awnrdcJ o al J»n,.s.own E«pc Handsome Pecan Catalog Free Sriffing Bros Co Nurserymen Jacksonville, Florida Wc also grow Orange on hardy roots, all kinds Fruit, and Orna- mental Trees. Shrubbery. ROSES The Georgia Horticultural Society will meet at Thomasville late in January. * * * Weather for November at Finey Park was: Maximum, 80; Minimum, ?.0; Mean, 55; Rainfall, 1.62. * * * The Southern Fruit and Nut Com- pany is planting 7,000 pecan trees this season in the vicinity of Albany, Georgia. * * * Monticello, Fla., has eight pecan nurseries with a total of 275 acres. Sales for this season will aggregate about 250.000 trees. * * * At a recent meeting' of the Execu- THE W.B.DUKES Pecan Farms Moultrie, : : Georgia. Growers and Shippers of Fancy Paper Shell Pecans. Budding and Grafting Wood for sale. FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS The Nation's Garden Spot, I Thiit Great Fruit and Truck Growing Section along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad In North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, write to WILBUR McCOY, Agricultural and Immigration Agent Atlantic Coast Line : Jacksonville, Fla. tion Committee, the price for the Monticello proceedings, was raised to $1.00 per copy, with a view to en- couraging parties interested to join the Association. * * * One of the oldest pecan nurseries in Georgia, is at Hartwell, in the northern part of the state, and own- ed by Mr. S. W. Peek. It was from him that the G. M. Bacon Pecan Company made their earliest pur- chase of trees and from this source comes the Georgia Giant. * * * Second Pecan Show at Mt. Vernon. All residents of the lower Wabash and Ohio river counties will be in- terested m the announcement which has just been received from Prof. C. G. Woodbury, of Purdue University, of the Second Pecan Show which will be held at Mt. Vernon early in Dec- ember. This show, like the one held last year, will be under the auspices of the Purdue University Experiment Station and liberal premiums will be awarded to the best exhibits of na- tive pecans grown this year. Trees Should be Fed. A horse or a hog never does well unless well fed; neither does a fruit tree. Special fertilizers may be applied with advantage to a tree when young, but after it has reach- ed some size and age, it is likely best to fertilize thoroughly the crops growing on the land, in which case the trees get their share. The great trouble in fertilizing well es- tablished trees comes in the danger of applying the fertilizer too near to the trunk of the tree, thus caus- ing a congestion of the roots in the area fertilized. Whatever plan is practised, it should be remembered that the roots go out laterally as far in every direction as do the tops upward. The kind of fertilizer to be used will be determined to a great extent by the quality of the land and to the age and variety of the trees. Suffice it to say that the three leading elements in a com- plete fertilizer should always be present. Nitrogen should always be used when trees are young. Potash and acid should be abund- ant with bearing trees, and partic- ularly so with nut trees. Humus, naturally or artificially supplied, should be present in every soil. — J. B. Wight. 16 THE, NU T'G Haw RU REPORTS Storms in Arkansas Damage Pe- can Trees. Last year (1909) the leader was broken out of an Alley graft on one my top worked trees, and this year (1910) two Stuarts were broken out in the same way. The breaks did not occur where the buds were inserted but up above where sever- al branches put out. As I have never seen this occur on our native trees, I take it that they make much stronger wood than the Stuart and Alley. I think that strength of wood should receive some consideration in the "scale of points" as the ability to resist storms is certainly a quality worth considering. I would like to hear from others on this point. On Auij. Sth, a severe hail-storm struck this place. The hail-stones were very large and they beat off quite a number of pecans, also noticed that the bark was knocked off of the branches in a few places. Respectfully, G. M. Browh. Late Frosts, 1910, in Arkansas- April 6th, light frost, no damage ; April 20th, light frost, no damage ; April 25-6th, killing frost ; great damage done to small trees both grafted and native. The leaves cut off and in some instances the new growth was killed back. No leaves were nipped al)ove ten feet from the ground, and apparently no damage was done to the crop on the large trees. Yields Big Nut Crop. The pecan crop on Jnhn T. Ro- gan's farm on Dutch Branch, three miles southwest from Fort Worth, Tex., is the heaviest since the freeze in 1904, six years ago, and it is esti- mated that 1,000 bushels will be gathered from the trees on that one farm alone. There are 42 pounds in a bushel of pecans, which will make the weight of this crop 42.(X)o pounds, and at nine cents per pound, the price that they have heretofine been sold by for by Mr. Rogaii, the crop will bring j(2,94o. The tiees on the Rogan farm are all of the paper shell variety of the wild nut. a plowshare never having been put into the river bot- tom, where the trees grow wild, yet it is a rare thing tor the trees to fail to yield a crop of nuts. Last year tiie crop wa^; light and the nuts from this pecan farm s,jld for 15 cents per pound, antl then there were not enough to supply the demand. The following resolution was unaniinously adopted by the Northern Nut Growers' Associa- tion : Re.solved, the Northern Nut Growers' Association express its appreciation of the attitude of the National Nut Growers' Associa- tion in encouraging the organiza- tion of associations which have for their purpose the development of tlie nut industry, and we hereby plege our support to. and our co- operation with said National Nut Growers' Association. And be it further : Resolved, that we hereby ac- knowledge our great obligation to the many pioneer nut growers of the south who have done so much to put nut culture on a scientific basis and that we express to them our deep gratitude for the fund of valuable information and data which they have worked out and made available. Pecan Trees In quality, Budded and Grafted Standard varieties, at the closest possible prices. Correspondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello, Florida. We also carry a g:«'i>«''Ml line of Fruit and Oniaiin-iital rree.s. mw mml standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees ard caring for f roves. Our groves contain over 4.000 udded trees of the best standard va- rieties and is the oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries For growing Pecans, Pears, Peaches, etc., at a profit — Free. 50 per cent, reductions in price of trees. Sure to live. No agents. B. W. STONE & CO., Thomasvillc, Ga. LET US SEND YOU- J. P. CILL, Mgr. ALBANY, OA. "PECAN MEATS PICKED OUT" For Those Who Want o Know By Those Who Know All the essential information "Out of a Nut Shell." Investigate Pecans for pleasure, Pecans for profit. Our plan of free expert superintendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Weite Today. Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. Keithville, La. Mr. J. B. Wight's Chattanooga addres.s, four six by nine inch pages, with fifteen hundred words This Is a careful and very nonservatlve review of the commercial opportunities this nut offers, .and supplies just the in- formation prospective investors desire. Copies furnished at following rates: 1,000 $4.SO 500 2.50 250 1.50 100 75 50 .50 Send orders to The Nut-Grower Co., Poulan, Georgia. m k PKCAN GROVK The Best Investment that can now be made in the United States or elsewhere. I will sell yon one already estahlished ON EASY TERMS planted to the best known grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to three years old, located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and in Jackson county, the native heath ofihe piper shell pecans and where ten or twelve of the best known varieties now being propagated by nui'serymen were originated. I now have four gi-oves ready for de- livery and several tliousand acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I have a very special bargain In a forty-acre grove (Satsuma or.inge trees between the pecans) which Includes 20,000 stocks for the coming season's grafting, asplen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad, and a half milefront on a running stream. Win also furnish trees, superintend the planting of groves anywhere In South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma orange planted between pecans when desired. Young gralted trees, grafted wood and fancy and uom- mei'olal nuts In any quantity. Thanks- giving and Holiday ordei-s for nuts given special attention All graiting wood and trees grown from bearing tn es In my own groves, hence .absolutely true to name. No guess work— you get ex- actly what you order. Pecans th Is season especially fine. Send your orders early. F. H. LEWIS, Jackson County, SCRANTON, MISS. THB NUT-aROWBK 17 SOCIETIES Alabama State Horticultural Society. The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Horticultural Society will be held in Birmingham on Thurs- day and Friday, Jan. 19th and 20th. The session will be held in the Cham- ber of Commerce Auditorium. A committee working with the Cham- ber of Commerce hopes to announce a special railroad rate for the meeting. At a meeting at the Botanical Museum in Bronx Park, New York City on November seventeenth 1910, the Northern Nut Growers' Associ- ation was organized with Dr. Robert T. Morris, of New York City as president, Mr. T. P. Littlepage, of Washington, D. C. as vice-president and Dr. W. C. Deming, of Westchest- er, New York city as secretary and treasurer. The executive commitee consists of Professor John Craig, of Cornell University, Mr. Henry Hales, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Prof. C. P. Close, of the Maryland Experi- ment station and the president and secretary. 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There are portraits of / f""^,' may r^nin theset (orfvednys. , , • J 1 , ,.^, / ^nd at the expiration of tnnt time, if I act the author at periods when the different books were in proc- / not care for the books. I will return them at «ss of writing. There are beautifii! pictures by such artists as Frost Newell, Sraedley, Thulstrup, Clinedinst, Kemble, and Opper. The binding is in rich red rep silk book cloth, with title labels stamped in gold. The books are printed on white antique wove paper, espe- cially made for this edition. Each volume is y' Signature, of generous size and bulk, 5x71,^ inches. y' HARPER & BROTHERS / sendbooksto • A Catalogue of Our Standard Sets of Books will be sent upoo reauest HARPER h BROTHERS Franklin Square Alew York Citr your expense. If I keep the tviofcs, I will remit $3.00 a month until the full price, *26.00, hal been paid, or, witJiia thirty days, $23.75 as pay- ment in iuU. P. O.N. G.--1' 18 THB NUT^OROWBR Market and Trade Items. Nuts Scarce. The New York Journal of Com- merce in its issue of November iS says, reviewing the nut market : Offerings of most descriptions of imported nuts for immediate deliv- ery out of spot supplies are light and prices are on a rather iiigh plane for this time of the year, when new goods should be fairly plentiful. Added to scarcity of 1910 crop nuts, as tending to cause a very strong feeling among sellers, is the close cleanup of old goods on the spot. However, buyers are reluctant to meet the views of hold- ers of spot stock, price> on which have become higher and higher be- cause of delayed arrivals. That delay is in part attributed to short crops, but is piimariiv due to the holdup of shipnieiils by the quar- antine regulations against cholera at the Mediterranean and IJUick Sea potts. Pecan Crop of 1910. The Woldert Grocery Co , Tyler, Texas, makes the following report on the pecan crop under date of November 26 : When we made our estimate 1 ist month of the pecan crop of Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, it was after careful invesligal ion. We believed Texas v.ould produce an average crop of 300 to 350 carloads. against 200 to 250 last year. We also thought Louisiana would ship 30 to 40 carloads, and Okl ihoma about 35 cars, making a total of around 400 carloads for this year, exclusive of Mexico, which we knew would be short. The crop now is far enough advanced to give more accurate information. Tex- as will produce about half of the amount predicted, or 150 to 175 cars. Louisiana will ship about 6 cars, and Oklahoma about 4 c.ir- loads. The entire output of these three states being less than 200 car- loads. We are unable to explain why they are turning out so short. \Ve only know that it is a fact, and consequently prices have gone sfiar- ing. and there is a wild scramble everywhere to get the goods. Prices early in the season were un- usually cheap, and, compared with other nuts, are cheap today. Louisiana Pecan Crop Larger. Topsy La. — A. S. Gossett. one of the largest raisers of pecans in this section, reports the crop larger and of better quality than usual. Local dealers here are paying as high as 8c lb. for the wild variety and IOC for cultivated nuts. Nut Prices at Chicago. Chicago-Shellbarks are in light receipt with a steady market and are bringing $2.2"^ per busiiel for the medium sized nuts and $1 to I1.35 for the large. Q^iiite a few chestnuts are on sale, although re- ceipts are limited as yet and prices are 7c to 12c for Pennsylvanias and Virginias, while New Yorks are bringing 14c to 15c. Black wal- nuts are moving at 2c a pound and butteriiuts at 3c. 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The Increase Pecan Co., Lamont, Jefferson County Fla., ::=i=z==^^ OFFER.S A VARIETY OF ^^^===i=: Desirable Opportunities for Investors in Individual or Co=Operative Nut Orchards Tliis Company has suitable Land, Skilled Horticultural and Business Miinutfeinent and ample Capital for carryintj out in spirit and letter such contracts us tliev accept. A. A. RICH, Superintendent. For Particulars and Easy Terms, write to J. F. WILSON, POULAN, QA. TiuBBi.K HiJoTHERS, Elk Grove, Calif., catalogue and price list of fruit trees. * * * Twenty-Skcond Anniiai, Re- port, Part II, Massachusett's Agricultural Experiment Station, 78 pages, continues report of work of station. * * * Bulletin No. 130 of Texas Ag- ricultural Experiment Station, Al- kali .Soils and Irrigation Waters, by G. S. Fraps. College Station, Texas. * * * Swift's Calendar for 191 i, is styled "The Courtships of Amer- ican Poetry." Four, ten and fif- teen sheets of beautiful colored pictures. ¥ * * Griffing's Tree Catalogue for 191 1 — 50 illustrated pages, calls the pecan the '-King of Nuts." The Grifling Brothers Co., Jack- sonville, Fla. * « * Summit Nurseries, Monticello, Fla., Miller & Gossard proprietors. Catalogue and price list pecans, oranges and ornamental stock. * * * The Oak Ridge Pecan Co., of Chicago, 111., with property in Jefferson county, Fla.. publishes u 50-page booklet of "Facts About Paper^ihell Pecans." Some figures given however are evidently theo- retical. * * * Boll Weevil in Mississippi, by R. H. Harned, is Bulletin No. 139 of the state agricultural experiment station. Agricultural College, Miss. * * * Bulletin No. 36 of the De- partment OF Agriculture, Montgomery, Ala , reporis the fifth, sixth and seventh annual meetings of the Alabama .State Horticultural Society. It contains the paper read at Besseme, on "A New Era in Pecan Culture," by the s 'cretary of the National Nut Growers Association. * * * Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society for 1909 is an interesting volume of iSo pages, edited by Prof. C. G. Wod- bury, Layfayette, Ind. Several pages are devoted to pecans, and Mr. Niblack contributes a valuable report on this nut. 20 THn Nur'>GHa\\nT< 8S Rood Pecan Groves Albany, Georgia. MKMBERS ^ National Nut Growers' Association Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association Standard Varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for Sale, Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention We Buy and Sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 Trees in Nursery; 12,000 Trees in Grove; 400 Acres in Grove. Top-Working Pecan Trees our Specialty Estimates Furnished on Application. Results Guaranteed, We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Grafts, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts, grafted on our native Black Walnut stock. Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Straw= berries, Raspberries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other Fruits. General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies furnished Write for our Catalogue or any Information. ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY :•: :•: GEORGIA. SS THE NUT-GROWER Volume X Number 2 Whole No. 103 Poulan, Ga., February, 1911 lOc ptr Coi J $1.00 per Yet r TOP-WORKING WALNUTS By C. C. Vincent Ass'iatant Horticulturist, Idaho Experiment Station. The walnut industry is rapidly coniiug into its own in many sections of the United States. Tliis is true largely because these sections have ideal conditions lV)r the growing of tiiis nut aiul llie growers have learned iiow to handle this capricious tree. It is a tree that requires special treatment. Many of tlie successful growers have the art of grafting down to a science, and as a result are meeting wilh remarkalde success. Can theonlinary l)]ack walnut tree or unpro- ductive seedling tree lie grafted over to a profit- able variety with any degree of success? This question has lieen re|)catedly asked at our annual horticultural uieettngs held throiighout the Unit- ed States, but no satisfactory solution has been t fortiicoming. This one feature alone has done r more to discourage the growing of the wftluut than almost any other. (There appears to be sufficient evidence now to warrant me in making a few comments concerning the working over of many of these unprofitable trees. Unproductive trees are to he seen in al- most every comnierciul grove. In the east there are many scattering seedling walnut trees; irregu- lar in growth, shy Ijearers, producing only a few- nuts, which are inferior in size as compared with our commercial varieties, that might be made to produce good crops of niarketal)le nuts if worked over. California growers have found it very profit- able to work over the different species of Juglans, such as Juglans Californlra and Jugluns nigra. Juglans iii(/ra, or the American black walnut, is very hardy and is found growing over a large range of territory. These stately old trees can be top-grafted very easily and results will be oljtain- ed which will repay the most conservative. The expense attached will be very sligiit indeed. A new top can l>e grown in four years as good, if not better than the original. The Experiment Station at Whittier, Cal., has demonstrated that one I means of handling large trees whicli are suscepti- ble to blight, is by top-grafting to the immune kinds. To show what can be accomplished along this line, when an English variety is grafted into a (Coutiuued on page 24.) WHY PECANS? By U. V. Whipple A Paper read at the 1910 meeting of the Nat- ional Nut Growers' Association. To eliminate from the activities of human life all the effort and achievement that flow directly from the influence of a personal word or a person- al example, would probably result in immediate stagnation. To know that some other persou has travelled the same road, or, aftler careful inquiry and investigation, is willing to travel it, inspires confidence in another who Jc^irci ^o travel ..., ev- en though he be a stranger who may never have heard of the road ])ef()re. And so, to kiiov\' tliat some one has accom- plished great financial success in some specific bus- iness, as for instance, pecan growing, creates in- terest, causes us to pause for consideration, even though for the moment, and an expression to the thought would l)e something like this : "If / had only followed the same example." Nevertheless, as a rule, it so happens that, without more to influence us than this rriCii kiuiwledge, the whole subject matter ig dismissed with but a fleeting thought, and we go on our plodiling way the same as before. The life ruts in which onr fathers travelled and along wliich, we have already started have become so deep until it is well-nigh impossible for us to turn into any new road of business. Indeed, when any new plan of financial suc- cess is presenteil to us for our acceptance, es- pecially where patient waiting intervenes before its realization, we are altogether "from Missouri," and must be shown its every detail and at every step. And here is where the influence not only of the personal example, but also of the personal word is indispensible to popularize any new line of industry. To know that Bill Jones is independent by reason of a pecan orchard set out some ten years ago is not alone sufficient to cause his fellows to follow his example. Many questions must be an- swered and the personal touch and influence must play its pari. Is the business practical from ray standpoint? Can I take sufficient care of the trees? Do my circumstances permit me to wait so long before receiving returns? Can I obtain suitable land? And many, many other queries stand at the threshold of this new venture and must be satisfactorily solved. 22 a HE NUT-GROWER Let it be distinctly \iii(lerskiod that I do not pretend to be uble to answer any of these ques- tions from experieiu'o. Nor is it in any wise my purpose to make sucli an attempt. 1 am liere as a novice, pure and simple, owning mi grove, and without experience. However, I have praclifally passed the stage of inquiry anil am just liudding into the proprietorshipc.f a small pecan grove. And it might as well be now said that if my faith grows correspffndjngly as during the past two years, it will not be long Itefore 1 may be counted as a full- fledged horticulturist. So it occurred to your committee on program that possibly a brief account of my investigations, which have led me to an enthusiastic determina- tion to become theownerof a pecan grove, might be of interest to some otliers. It is, therefore, in response to this very kind invitation of your com mittee, and with the hope that, by reason of the influence of a personal word, I may prove a quiet Andrew in leading to pecan decision some intrep- id Simon Peter, that this personai experience is submitted. No well-detinc'd resolution to investigate pe- can growing was ever formed in my mind until the spring of 1009 ; though who of tlie South cjuring country, renowned locally for its fruitful bearing. It was then forty years old and was steadily and quietly bearing bushels of lecans every year, with no outlay (f ex] ense. Ihe same agents that aroused his iaith opened the same door of oppor- tunity to me. Au'l as I now review the situation then, not a single seeming obstacle existed' but could easily be reHn(.\HHl. Why did I not invest so as now t) own an independence? This is my answer: "For many be called, but few chosen." That some hearer of this paper may be one not on- ly of the "many," l)ntalsjof the "few," is the only reason for this recital. Many years passed with practically no consid- eration of the subject on my part. No other grove was set out in my immediate community, except the one to which reference has already been made. Its owner was a quiet, unassuming man, who made no special eHort to jiopularize the industry among his neigiibors. Constant public advertising and much of it is required for widespread interest and activity in any new venture. Yesterday's remind- er is forgotten; today's notice is put aside; tomor- row and tomorrow nnistcontinue the story if new advocates and followers are desired. This is no new thought, however, to this convention, as is the last decade or more could have escaped ■ some fully attested by the existence and work of your consideration of the question of thispaper? Tvven- regular standing publicity committee, ty years ago, wlien I first settled in South Georgia, It must have been some ten years ago when a young, struggling and inexperienced lawyer, a there began to come. to my address an annually middle-aged friend of mine, living in the. same printed circular on pecans sent out by Mr. Sam H. town, set a small tract of land to seedling pecans. James, of Mound, La. About the same time many No seven, eight, or even ten years' hope was ever newspaper articles about the G. M. Bacon Pecan held out at that time before profitable bearing Company, at DeWitt, Ga., came under my atten- w'ouldcome. Agents promised it liardly before tion. And, if I mistake not, it was during this fifteen years; wise heads said a quarter of a cen- tury, maybe never. Uf course, the stress of my then circumstances, according to niy necessities as I tlien saw them, I could not alford such a venture. My fees of today generally were already consumed by my obliga- tions of yesterday. And, besides, I was no farm- period of activity that the National Nut Growers' Association was organized at Macon, Ga. My interest, theoretically, , was considerably aroused; and, looking back from this viewpoint, it would seem t hat there was ample notice to have led any inquiring man into full investigation. But those were pioneer days, so to speak. No budded er; I owned no land ; and then, too, why not let or grafted groves of consequence had as yet come the future take care of itself? It might never into bearing. And then, too, the /^e/'^o/ia^nfluence come. In fact, at that time the whole venture of one who X//r«' had not seized upon me and com- seemed too much like a forty years tiresome pil- pelled investigation at my hands, grimage through a dieary wilderness to reach the Small tracts of two and three acres were grad- promised pecan land, and I simply turned a deaf ually being set by cautious inquirers about over ear to the testimony of the Calebs and the Josh- my iiome county, and as these trees would come uas. into bearing, the subject came to be of more and Not so with my friend. He set out, nourish- more interest. Tlie pecan germ was slowly get- ed and cultivated his trees, having his eyes fixed ting its iiold on me and I was gradually ripening upon the future. His faith in the future was so into ready fruit for some opportune agent, completely interwoven with his work of the pres- About four years ago, after a long search for ent until so it is that for several years already his health, I was accidentally induced to try for a steady income from his trees has been a yearly reminder of my mistake. It is true that I had tlie same knowledge as he of the large pecan tree just a few miles out in the period of three months a regular prescribed diet of raw food. To my surprise, I found that man could better live without than witli the cook stove, for within the prescribed period of time my health THK NUT-GKOWER 23 Two f^ine Pieces of Property In Alachua County, riorida One 40-ac.re tract, witli 1".J acres iu cultivation anrl set in pecan trees of best varieties, 'I ypars old. Oiie SO'j^acre tract, with 10 acres in cultivation ai:(l set iu pecan trees of best varieties, I years old. This properly lies on a large lake and ' is well (triiined. Both places adjoin my grove that will bear 5,000 lbs. of fine pecans this season. For further partiruh^rs, address T. S. McMANUS WALDO. PLORIDA FOR SALE Leading varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan I Trees and Nuts "?}.41saEludding liud Grafting Wood from beanuj,' tree.s. Contracts taken for top- working seedling trees and caring fin- groves. 'Oftf groves contain over lOOO budded tiees of the best standard varie- ties and is the (ildest budded grove iu Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries » J. p. GILL. Mgr. ALBANY, GA. THE W. B. DUKES Pec in Farm MOULTRIE, C A. Growers and shipjiers of Fancy Paper SKell Pecans Buading' a»\d CrraftinB 'Wood for Sale —LET US SEND YoU— "Pecan Meats Picked Out" I FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW * BY THOSE WHO KNOW All the essential infoiiiialion ■■Out of a Nut Shell.' Investigate Pecans for pleasure. Pecans for jjrotit. Our i»lau of free expert superinlendence in planting large size pecans assures live trees and quick profits. Wkite Today. I Clingman Nursery and Orchard Company, Ltd. KEITHVILLE, LOUISIANA Gainesville Murseries Gainesville, Tla. Specialists in Budded ami (jrafted Pe- can Trees of reliable known varieties. Our catalog contains iuforniation on sel- ecting, planting, culture, etc., and is free for the asking. Graft wood for sale. Our orchards contain over 40 named varieties. H. S. GRAVfiS. Proprietor was completely restored luul my weight liad iiicreused from JTjO to J80 pounds. This personal reference miglit seem an unwarranted tiigression, but for this statement: No meat was eaten as part of this diet; nuts alone superseded it entirely and pecans stood at the head of the list, both as to nutrition and pahitability. My pecan vision began to broaden — suppose, as it occurred to me, that humanity could be induced to discard meat and substitute pecans in its stead ! How much more healthy the race would become! Thous- ands are already learning this les- son, and hunilreds and hundreds are liard at the job of teaching this lesson to thousands of oth- ers. But the supply of pecans is totally inadequate. E.xcept dur- ing a few fall and winter months the seedling nut can scarcely be obtained. I have never, until today, seen a grafted or budded variety for sale in the local mar- kets. An overproduction? This does not seem in the range of probability. The already great and ever-increasing demand for pecans, the length of time re- quired for their production, the countless trees set out which through neglect never come into bearing, and the ease with whicli u living can be made out of southern soil in practically ev- ery phase of agricultural produc- tion, all seem to conspire to have predestinated thisdeligiitful and profitai)le industry for the horti- cultural elect, and, yet, so sure seems the reward that awaits the faithful grower, that "whosoev- er will, may prosper," rings out as the universal call of the pe can to financial prosperity. Following up still further this l)it of personal experience, the subject matter of this paper, it will be readily seen that I was fast rushing on to the psycholog- ical pecan moment. And so, when it finally swooped down on me in the spring of ]1K»9, I had just casuallj- met on the streets of Cordele, Gu,, my warm per- sonal friend, Rev. (1. M. Led- better, an enthusiastic member of this Association. His invita- tion to ride with him to inspect his grove in the edge of my home city was immediately accepted. By a series of questions and cross-questions, I was soon in the possession of all the pecan infor- mation that he possessed, at d as it then seemed to me, of much more beside. For as he lingered and dwelt on the possibilities of pecan culture — have , you ever heard hiin discuss it? — Gold- smith's words more correctly ex- pressed my thought : "And moie and more the wonder grew, that one small head could contain all ho knew." Anyway, without the slightest .solicitation upon his part, he carried with him, as we parted, my order for a small lot of trees. The personal word had gotten iu its work. Tlie personal impres- sion thus made upon me requir ed further investigation. Oould half of what had been said be really true, or was it mere en- thusiasm? Acting upon the sug- gestion of the old Mosaic in- junction that "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall ev- ery word be established,'! I mailed requests for literature to everj' pecan nurseryman of whom I knew. Early mails supplied me with abundant reading mat- ter. Tracts and catalogs wore read from cover to cover. Their most conservative statements seemed Utopian to me. Oould the average small land owier set out fifteen or twenty acres in budded or grafted pecans, about seventeen trees per acre, then cultivate and grow on the same land his regular crops from year to year, and in ten or twelve years reach financial independ- enc, based on an annual income of five to ten dollars per tree and annually increasing? This question not only invited, but seemed to (/e/««fli[/invest''ga- tion, and like the Queen of She- (Oontiuued on page 28.) 24 TlIK NLT-GROWKK ^ WALNUTS ^ TOP:WOF-lKlNG WALNUTS ((,'iintHiuril troiii iiiij.'!' 21 ) t'lililuniia Khick, Mr. Lu-or^t" "Payne, oi' (UuiiplK'H, (Iiil., lias snliniittcHl tilt' I'c. 111. Willi; tlata. Tlie tree workc-il iii.dii wasiilaiil- ed in 1870. In V.M) it hail a spread of seveiity live feet ami two feet above the Knuiiul meas- ured nine feet in circ iimferenee. The liuibs of tiie tree were graft- ed l.y Mr. I'ayne in JS.U. Tiie following talile shows tlie yields from 18tt7 to IDU'J inclusive: Year -.Impounds Year Founds 1897 •i56 19t»4 481 1898 ;!00 1905 250 189'J 2-29 190(5 200 1900 tiOO 1907 ;!S0 1901 2;!7 1908 712 1902 478 1909 :u:> 4903 380 During this peridd iMr. Paym; has realized from this tree alone fjOSO pounds of iiiarkit:il)le nuts. At 12 eents per [lound he receiv- ed !|i(K)9.(R). The gross returns of this tree for the past thirl I'en years has been !i;l().8o iier year. Tiiis is only (Uie uT the many inhlauces wdiere licm-licial re- sults have been oblaiui'd. What Mr. Payne has done may be ac- complished by otJK'rs il' they ful- ]ow carefully his method of jiro- ceedure as given lielow : Before grafting wait until iho bnds"show signs of bursting. If placed in position before the sa]) .starts there is dangei' oT the scions drying out. .Saw the stalk oir straiglit, making a smooth cut. Split lightly through the center with a heavy butcher- knife and then by licai-ing heav- ily on the kuil'i- sjil It (luite (b'cp ly through the bark and wood on the side. Now jilace the wedjrc in the center in order to open tlie cleft and cut away portions of the bark and wood just enough to make a V-shaiiei| rut. Select for scion a i)ioceof wood of straight growth, having two I yes. '-woand o;.(--liair iuclirs below the Imil cut- oil t he scion wil II a sbriliiig cul . 'I'lirii the lower bud ujiward, and just be- low the bud ljr;;in to cut ihioiigli the bark to till' wooil. Makf a gradual cul, gX'ttiii."; ilfcpi-r ami ilee|)er until 1 w o-thil'ds of the cut is coniplcl I'd, tlii'ii liiiish liy cut t ing' the remaining one-third more abruiilly. I'real the oIIut side in a similar nianiiiT. I'liis leaves the scion a liUle'tliii'ker on the outside. ' ' Now ht the slalk caiel'uljy to the scion so that, the scion is caught fiimly and perfectly. The cambium layers liiust lie to- get jier. I'wo scions'are inserted'. Fill up the ( liiiik between 'the two scions with newspaper and wax carefully. (bd the wax on thoroughly so that all cut surfaces are covered, then cover the scions with a paper bag. The California Crop The California walnut crop fell somewhat short of the early es- timates. Early in thcj. season it was generally predicted that the production would be but little less than that of' 19(19, w'lien 9,300 tons were marketed. How- ever, the crop was short, of the early estimates' by I't least 25 per cent in some sections. This shortage caused a considerable shrinkage in the total ci-oi). mal-.- ing it nearly a thousand tons less than the crop of tlie pre- ceding year. Walnut growers are following closely the exauiple oi oi'ange growers in. sorting their fruit with care. They I'eali/.e that both prices and deniaml are built up by assuring a g I (luality. I'lie custoiiK'r w h o buys a pound of walnuts w lii'di cmitains no shrunken or dis- colored meats, comes back for li\e ))ounds more, while the sale of one iiound of ]ioor nuts kills the demand for many pounds more. White's Budding Tool .■\ (■cuMtitir iiistriiiiieiit fur tlic I i-diiMf^nt 1(111 (if ffcaiis Hii lio ic.s, WiilinUs, dlie.'it- iiiils, rorsiniiiiuiis aurl all I lliiT li'ccs, liy tin; .■\iuiulai', ."Sciiii ni.iiiilur, Patch aud Vcueur iiielliods. Several liiindreils of this Tool in use ia United Slates and abroad fiudding and trailing Wood oi best vari- clies of Pecans For |iai'lu iiliii'K ami prices write HERBERT C. WHITE DE WITT, 6E0R6IA Fruit Trees Shade Trees AXD Crnamental Shrubbery ALSO field Grown Rose Bushes Before j'oii place youroriler write US for [iriecs aiul one of our descriptive catalogs. TURKEY CREEK NURSERY BOX 21, .MACCLENNY, FLA. 0. F. B.UiiiEK. President. J. \i. B4UBIiI!, Secretary. Grafted Pecan Trees on Select Rapcr Shell Varieties NOT TH1<; MOST- ONLY THli; BKriT Dayvicw Nursery C. FOUKERT, Proprietor OCK.VN Sl'KlNtiS. M1.SSLS.SIPPI Pecan Trees In quant il'.\ — B ii d d e d a n d grafted standard xai'iet ies at the closest posssilile ligures. Cor- respondence solicited. Arcadia INurseriee Montioello. Fla. We also cir.y a general line of Frnit and Onianieiital Trees. ( .> THE NUT. GROWER 25 THE PLAIN TRUTH about your Spninr^ Mnrlinip h.i^ np< ei l>een '"'■ yriu: if it jiad ymi wntild iip\fr use it, nn n!.iti«' hfjw badly >f'ii niii:lit ivant t'>. I he orriiiinr>\ family sewinu niacliine is an in Ptnnneiit (if tnrtnrp. It 'i? a nerve de-^tr-'yi- and a ItpaltJi destroyer, pnrl p,pry >\,.tniii v". !i,i ii:vr^ il maizes a serio'.i? mistake, and injirre* I'T nervous system trt an nlnrmnig extent. If v'uu "ill Innk al >-'nj|- inachliie, the reasoi- fnr all t!ij> i:- plait!. Ibe -joiistruction of your ?-e>^!iip MiKliine i^^. wrong, tlie needle is av.ay 45$ indies to the left, railing for a tlnee qirarter t^^■i=t of yoiir l'i,d\- in I'rder to onerale it. [hink of it. t ■ isring your s.-ine. stoin n h ami all internal organs =eventv-Sve per cent, ont of nlnmh. Is it any wondeT doctors recoeni;:e the di-ease of .Side Needtp .\';h f,,r a inonirnl. rinnpate llus witli A ST.\NU.4RI) CKNXIiAt. XKEULE m.ichine, hiiilt to enaiile v-oii to sit with h,'lck straight, with your v^ork r!c:lit in front of you, centra!, directly c^■er the treadle. You can sew on this new-style machine all day, " ithout feeling tired, or getting a pain in your back or a r.titch in your side. You can expand your chest and breathe nat- urally and freely while sewing, your heart will be normal, you< '-toinacii "ill be in its right posi tion and there "ill be no strain on your back or y'iur muscles or nerves. And the beanly of il ail is, II, is M'ANU.ABl) (ENlIt-M. N+;j;!>l.l': machine costs no mote find i'. just Hs easy t-i piiTchase as any other " ,-^ii-ini4de niacliine. If you value your healtii and the health of your erfiwiiig daughters, don't iicMlate. quit irslng your rac-k twifcting, disease breeding, nerve racking nia- rliine today- Write IIS and we will gladly send you I liEK ■ I'ook which illustrates and explains in a simple way the difference between the right and vvroiig in *ewing machines, flip book is called "A .STITMH IN THIl Siini':." A poslal liriiur. it to you fifC. fiend *or it, you'll nc\cr n-Ktct it. The Standard Sewing Macnine Co. 6>51 Cedar Ave. Cleveland, O Items of Interest The owner of a pecan tree at •Junction. Tex., has sold its pr«i- iliK't for the next tive years tn ,i nursery at 3af per pounil. Tti many sections last seafnn'? pecans t:lit1 not measure up in size as usual, presum.ably on a<'- I'ount of insutHcient rainfall. Five hundred dollars an acre was recently offered for 27 acres of four-year tild pecans in Thom- as county, Georgia. Thf ojlpr was refused. The Tennessee State Hortn-ul tural Society and the State Nur sfrymen's Associatittn held a twii days' meetiiig at NashvilU\ .lanuary "J'i and "37. Around Monticello. Fla.. there are fully twenty-five hundred acres of land set with about 42,t)On Itudded and grafted pe- can trees in fjroves raiigiuK from line to eigiit years of age. ( tne town in southwest Texas marketed about 50'). 000 'pounds of pecans last season. They were all seedlings, gatliered in the natural forests, and price'; ranged fr<,>m 7 1 L'l" to L'Or per pftund. At Scranton. Miss., one mem- Irerofthe National Nut Grower^ Association liandled abun*^ 15.000 pounds i.if pecans la?/: season. Th<=' standard and liigh-pnced ^■ar!etles figured i"onf:pii-ijc>usly in liir- nprrations. Tlio Alal'aiiia State Horticul- tural Sni'if-ty lieM its annual meeting in Binningliam. .lami- ary 20 and i'l . Among fh^- pa- pers read was one by Mrs. Thos A. Banning, relating her exper ience with a large pecan orchard ill Baldwin r(iiii!ty. It Ih rcpmii-Ml froni Monticello, fill., lliitt ;i rorpnraliun nf Chica- go and Florida capitalists has been forni'Ml to plant 6,000 acres near that place in pecans. The planting is to be divided into live ai-re tracts. The lands kiinwii as the Bolton and Wee launee plantations have been pundiaseil for $100,000. and con- tracts liave been made with lo- cal nurserymen to plant the groves and care for them for five years. The second annual Pecan Show was held at Mt. A'ernon, Ind., in December. The exhibit was in idiarge of I'rid'. Woodbury, of Purdue university, and Marshall Hall, secretary of the associa- tion. Mason J. Niblack, of Vin- cennes, made an address on the possibilities of the v'P'^a'i indus- try in soutliern Indiana. The first and second cash prizes were awarded to the Southern Indi- ana Pecan Co., and the third to T. .1. El win. Loving Cup for Association Tlip National Nut Growers' Association has been notified of the ;i\\ardof a silver loving cup lur Its exhibit of pecans at the meeting of the National Horti- cultural t/Oiigress, hehl at Coun- cil Bluffs, la., last November. After the annual meeting of tlip Association at ^lonticello, Fla.. .'1 portion id' the exhibit shown at that time was shipped tf) ('iMincil Bluffs to be displayed during the combined meetings of the Horticultural Congress and the Missouri Corn Growers' Association. In behalf of the Association, Prof . C. P. Close, of i'ollege Park, Md.. and Prof. W. N. Hutt, of Kaleigh. N. C, took charge of th^ exhibit and enter- ed it under the name of the chajrman of the committee on V^arietal Adaptation, Mr. C. A. Ivfcd, of Washington, to whom the nuts have since been return- ed. Ac Loon as the cup is received and photographed, a cut will be made for use in our colunms. 26 THE NUT-GROWER Personal Mention Col. Eugene <>. Ferhet, U. S. A., retire(i, lias iJiircliaseil ii pe- can grove of oOO trees near .lark- sonville. Fla. Mr. A. J. Eyelianer, of Tampa. Fla., sends iis speeinieiis of an Iowa hickory nut, wliicli wcIkuc gassed on to I)r. KmI t. T. Mnr ris for examination. Tin' ir|Mirl which he makes will Kc IduiHl uf mucli interest. Prof. H. K. Miller, the new lieadofthe National Xnl rry bearing pecan tree. .1. r. BKOAPHrKST. (irenada , Miss. SUCCESS A Curious Hybrid Editor Ni"t-(tbowi:i! : I have a freak in a pecan tiee — I don't sujipose there i> anoth- er like It in tiic world — a pei'au tree that bears i hina lierric'-. The tree it ;i iwifect 1 \ |ic 111" 1 he pei^an in every respect excepi tiiat it licars clnstei's of iicrries to all "lulward appearances ex- actly like idiiiia herric-. T: o outer skin of the 1 ciry is son e- \\ltat darker than i he china 1 er- ry and the seed, instead of heing hard, white and corrugated, is sift, lilati!ii il MS. I'oi)M^'aiitu. cultiva- I ion. ft c. (if iinis 1 rsl mtaiitcd to tl\o variotis sections. fnlcrestiiif! aud in- ■■iirnclivi-. rricc. 1 v mail, 35 rents. .nniN K P.\RRV. Pakrv. N. J, From .hei. 1 In A] lit l.'i. DRLANDO. FLA. P E CANS li i: s r \ .\ R I E T 1 E s Wrilc I'l r I'm I' l.ist Xn.>rry I'lslnl li.sliiil in ISS'-' vS. W. Peek, Marl well. On. Pecan Trees that are Properly Grown is my Specialty Budded and Grafted Trees of the Best Var- ieties for Sale Write for price- of trees and iiifornial ion as to grow ing and c a r e of groves. J. B. WIGHT Cairo. Ga. Flour and meal made of drie 1 TKE NUT=GSOWER 27 Southern Orchards and Homes A hanil:-iMii'-' .inurii- ril iif Soutlieni Imr ticulture. WRITE FOP SAMFLE COFIE") Houston, lexas 60 YEARS* EXPERIENCE ' Trade Mark Designs Copyrights &c- nuictilT l^'^err run our ' iirr'H fret' ^l3e' l)pr .'^'1 Invention i^ prnbablv pnooi.ihle. ConimuTit'-n tlonsptrlctlyri.nfldeiltial. HANDBOOK on I'ateuts Bent free. OMest acencr for securing patents. 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THE NUT-GROWER 29 Buy a PECAN GROVE The best iuvestiiieiit that can now be made in the Uniterl States or elsewhere. I will sell YOU one already established Oil Easy Terms planted to the best laiowu grafted stand- ard paper shell varieties, one to tliree years old located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi, and in Jackson county, the native heath of the i>aper shell pecans and where ten or twelve' of the best known varieties now being propagated by unrserynien were originated. I now have four groves ready for de livery and several tlioiisa.id acres of the finest pecan land in the South. I liave a verj' .special bargain in a forty-acre grove (Satsuuia orange trees between tlie pecans) whicli includes iO.OCO stocks for the coming season's grafting, a splen- did opening for a combination grove and nursery, on the L. & N. railroad anil a lialf mile front on a running stream. Will also furnish trees, superintend tlieplantingof groves any wheie in South Mississippi and Alabama west of Mobile. The Satsuma Orange planted between pecans wlien desired. Young grafted trees, grafting wood and fancy and com mercial nuts in any ciuantity. Thanks- giving and holiday orders for nuts given special attention! All grafting wood aud trees grown fioni bearing trees in my own groves, iience absolutely true to name. ]Nogue.-;s work— you get exactly what j-ou order. Pecans tliis season es- pecially fine. Send your orders early, F. H. LEWIS Jackson Co. Scranton, Miss. BABY CHICKS, 8 CENTS— Shipped safely anywhere. Culver Poultky Farm, 1034 Reed, Benson, Keb. WANTED— Copies of the November and December 1009, and Jaimary, 1910. issues of The Nut-Grower. Parties having duplicates or copies not needed will oblige by notifying The Nvt-Grow- ER CoJiPAKY, Poulan, Ga. 1911 Price List of EGGS ] ROM PURE ERED STOCK OF White Plymouth Rocks FISHEL STRAIN My stock of Wliite Plymouth Rock fowls are finer than ever. Eggs guaran- teed to liatch, or v,ill duplicate order at half price if ten eggs or less hatch. Re- member this! Try one setting and ycu will be pleased, I have tried four dif- ferent kinds aud find this the best all purjjo.se fowl, .so liave disposed ff all but this one kind. Pi? ICE $2.00 p;r large Settiig of 16 Eggs I paid more tlian (liis tor the eggs from w lid] my itick is ha'ched. Addrofs or lei; , witli cast', to MRS. THOS. W. BLITCH YOUNGS ISLAND, S, C. Fertilizing the Pecan (Continued from page 27. ) soils helps lis some, but is not romiusive, as the nieciiaiiii'til condition of the soil and prior treatment are factors in deter- mining its itnmediate value for a given crop. The study of soils has occupied some of the best chemists and much light has been tlirown on the subject, liut, iti the end, test and experiment work in the field has been the safest guide. Many thousands of dollars might be saved the orchardists and farmers each year if but an eleineiittiry kntjwledge of soils and plant physiology was com- mon, for without an underlying knowledge of the principles in- volved )irogress is necessarily slow and often expensive, as ex- perience is usually a dear school. Some of you will realize the extreme difficulty in handling the subject assigned to me in any ordinary space, with the numerous questions involved, and under the circumstances I feel that it is only possible at this time to deal in Ijroad gener- alities. Referring to the four principal plant foods (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and lime): As a rule the need of nitrogen is indicated l.iy poor color of foliage, small foliage, short annual growth of n e w wood and general lack of vigor. Nitrogen greatly stimulates veg- etative growth and is the most expensive plant food. Any form of nitrogen should lie used with caution, more particularly on bearing tre^s, which may be stimulated to too active w^ood growth at the expense of the fruit. Nitrogen in any form should be applied at a season when it will not keep the tree in growth too late in the season. All organic forms of nitrogen should be put under ground or there will be great loss of am- monia. Nitrate of soda and sul- jdiate of ammonia may be ap- plied on the surface and alloweil to tli.ssolve by rtiius or atmos- pheric moisture. It is perhaps more ]U'udent to cover it with soil to prevent loss by wind and its being scattered too much bn- farm tools. The principal sour- ces of nitrogen are sulphate of animonia, nitrate of soda, blood, cotton seed meal, tankage, fish scrap, castor pomace, etc. All except sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda contain variable proportions of potash and phos- phoric acid. Nitrate of potash (salt-petre) contains a large per- centage of nitrogen, but more potash (often -15 per cent), and is seldom used on account of its cost. All plants need phosphorus, which reaches us in the form of phosphoric acid. Phosphoric ac- iil exerts its greatest influence in seed production and should be liberally used when the fruiting period of the pecan is reached. The principal source of phosphor- ic acid is from raw, ground and stemmed l)one, dissolved 1)one- ( Continued on page 31 , ) Cabbage Plants Grown in open air will stand very severe cold. Seed selected with a view to having cabbages make heads and not cheap trash that will go to seed. 1 have had twenty years' experience in growing Cabbage Plants. I am the original Cabbage Planter in this section. 1 ^vlll spray all plants with a prepar- ation of Lime to kill all germs of lice, cut worms, caterpillars, etc. My prices ate $1.00 per Thousand, or 75c in lots of Five Thousand or more F. O. B. Express office, Meggetts, S. C. Tlie Express Company has put a special rate, No. F. V. 430, in effect, which gives cheap rates by express to all points. T. Youngs Island, S. C. 30 THE NUT-GROWER The Nut-Grower Published Mcnlhly by THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered at tlie Postoffice at Ponlau, Ga., as secoud-clas-s matter. Subscription, $1.00 per Annum Advertising Rates on Ayplicalion NOTICE W)ieii this paragraph is marked it means that your subseriptioii has e.'ipir- ed and tliat ymi are requested to renew promptly, as po.stal retjulatious do not permit us to mail lo delinquents. February 191 1 An Explanation We felt constrained, early in tlie year, to cliange the existing arrangements for printing The Nut-Grower, and new plans were put into operation in Jan- uary. However, difficulties of various kinds promptly interfer- ed with the work and to add to the difficulties the editor be- came ill and for several weeks was unable to attend to work. In consequence of these variovis drawbacks, this issue, much to our regret, is considerably Ije- hind time and not at all up to our ideal of typographical excel- lence. Hower, the obstacles in our patii are lieing gradually (iv- ercome and in tlie near future we iiope to show marked improve- ment and changes. He waits best wlio works wliile he waits. Get the pecan trees planted and work while you wait for them to grow to liearing age. In another column will be found a contribution from Dr. .1. P. Broadhurst, (irenada, Mis.^^., describing a peculiar horticultur- al freak, a pecan tree which bears cluna berries with an I'di- ble kernel. His letter will be found to iju ul much interest. Tiie December lOKl and Janu- ry ]9]1 isstiesof The .\i;r-Cij!(>.\- R were e.xhaus(e publication of the I'ro- ceedings of iIk- iMonlicello con- vention o|' I ho National Nut G.'owers' Association was delay- ed by the non-arrival of Prof. M. B. AVaite's important paper on Pecan Diseases, and was finally issued without it. Prof. Waite was granted permission at the convention to retain the paper to add some finishing touches he desired to give it. As soon as it is received it will appear in The Nup-Grower. Mr. F. T. Ramsey, of Austin, Te.x., in Farm and lianc/i sug- gests the marking (maverick, they call it) of pecan trees so as to permanently indicate the var- iety. His plan is to cut letters with chisel and mallet into the bark of the tree. Mr. H. A. Halbert, of Coleman, Tex., thinks his method is superior and less liable to injure the tree. He simply smooths off the bark and marks the name with paint. Both follow the Chinese method of writing in placing the letters perpendicularly on the trunk, reading from the top downward. The Lumher Trade Journal, New Orleans, is doing good work in showing the value of cut-over pine lands for produc- ing farm and orchard crops. In a recent issue mention is made of a seedling jjecan tree owned by a Texas lady, which produced in 1910 500 pounds of nuts whicii sold at l?5c per pound and made an income of $60.00. This is a good tree and the price ol)tained for the nuts is lietter than the average in Texas. The story, liowever, develops a weak streak in stating the amount of income. (Jver in Florida such a yield and price would firing in $125,00 or more than twice as much as the income named by our contem- porary. However, many reports of yields can be cut in two and the price reduced 50 per cent and still produce profitable crops in Georgia. Kach year affords additional facilities for the non-resident investor to have his interests THE NUT-GROWER 31 J THE FERTILIZER FOR PECAN TREES | ^ One that Increases the Yield and Leaves the Land in Better Shape than it Found It i|| ^ Here is the formula. The best nut growers will vouch for the excellent results obtained by its use: ti^ I 1000 lbs= Thomas Phosphate 200 lbs. Nitrate of Potash .^ 600 lbs= 10 to 12 per'cent Tankage 200 lbs. Sulphate of Potash ^ The Thomas Phosphate contains a large per cent of highly available Phosphoric Acid that ,^ has a definite action in the form.ation and development of buds, its large amount of Lime effectively ,"2 sweetens the soil. *i^ Write for prices and free literature. ^ Coe-Mortimer Company CHARLESTON, S. C. SPECIAL IMPORTERS FERTILIZER MATERIALS -a^^4J^4^4^4J^4^^4S4a4Si-4^4^4^^^i5^^4S^4^4^^^^4S4^'' )= THE PAPER SHELL PECAN NURSERY, Ltd. FINEST BUDDED AND GRAFTED TREES FOR SALE 30,000 TREES IN NURSERY WHOLESALER-RETAIL W. M. ELLISON, Manager LAFAYETTE, LA. Nut Trees, Satsuma Oranges and Figs our Specialties Write for Illustrated Catalog— It Will interest You J 11 cared for by responsible i competent parties who make I'Usiness of planting and car- I'for orchards. This enables I clerk, book-keeper or busi- isuum, as well as the profes- lal classes to iiave an orchar GROWER 83 i*"' WANTCD >00 THRirTY, SMALL FARMERS I I'd Settle AL0Nf4 The Gulf L>ine Railway Wiiioh traverses the Garden Spot of the Southeast. Climate mild : lands suitable fur growing pecans, cot- ton, corn. oats. rye. sugar cane, watermelons, canta loupes, vegetables and almost all kinds of semi-tropi cal plants. Lands can be purchased at reasonable prit es and easy terms. For partigly you while (hey last at llie following prices: Size • Each Per 100 1 to 2 feet $ .55 $ 45.00 2 to 3 feet .65 55.00 3 to 4 feet .70 65.00 4 to 5 feet .80 75.00 (j to H feet 1.50 1 25.00 H to 12 feet 2.00 200.00 We have all of the varieties really «otlh while. The Paper Shell Pecan Nursery Lafayette, La. THE NUT-GROWER 35 intertwine tlieni witli liniup nml with each other. 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There are portraits of / ^„^ ^^. j,,^ „pi„ii„„ „f ^^^^ ume, if Ido the author at periods when the d;ifcrciU books were in pro,:- / „„[ ^.^^^ ,„, ,iie bouks, I will return them at your cxyense. If I keep the books, I will remit $2.00 a month nntil the full price, $26.00, has een paid, or, witiiin thirty diys, $23.76 as pwy- nient in full. ess of writing. There are beautiful pictures by such artists as Frost Newell, Sniedley. Tluilslrnp, Clinedinst, Kcmblc. and Opper. The bindinij is in rich red rep siik book f loth, with title labels siamped in gold. The boi;ks are printed on white aniiijiie wove paper, espe- cially made for this edition. K.TCh volume is V S:guaturc of generous size and l.ulk, i\';^< inch HARPER & BROTHERS • .nn., A Catulugue of Our Standard Sets of Uooks will be seat upon request P. a. ti. G.--1 36 THE NUT "GROWER ff= HOMESTEAD PECAN & NURSERY COMPANY Headquarters, Local Office, WHEELING, W. VA. WAYCROSS, GA. 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Tli;.s liandsnnie iiii ce of lileralnre will ]i} ^ent free, logelber with pamphlet containing a list of pmperties availaljle in-t'4e Land of Manatee, ni)on rei cipt ot five cents in stamps or currency to cover cost (,f mailing. ( )ur supply of t liis book is limited, and" if you want a cop)- you shouKl not del:; grow. He says, "It is a crop which, as far as knowledge of its requirements extends, will take care of itself as well as any. It has fewer ciieniies, and has greater possibilities from a standpoint of handling and hold- ing product than any orchard fniil, cultivated at the present time. ■ Large areas are being planted in the Gulf states, but in my opinion there is little fear of the industry beingoverdone." 88 ■ The NUT-CEt)WER Roo ecan MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association — Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers' Associatiou. Standard varieties of Budded and Grafted Trees for sale. Planting and caring for Groves given careful and up-to-date attention. Top-WorKing Pecan Trees our Specialty ■ ■ Estimates furnished on application. Results guaran- teed. We buy and sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 trees in nur- sery; 12,000 trees in grove; 400 acres in grove. We sell Buds. Budding Clotli, Black Walnuts. Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts grafted on our native Black Walnut stock, Florida and Oalifornia Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Gropes, Strawberries, Rasp- berries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberrits and other fruits. V General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies FurnisHed Write for our Catolog or mrky liiformation . . ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY, GA. i THE NUT-GROWER S9 £■■ ■■■^■Hia MHHIHHaK MMHiaiMIM «■■■■■* Vl^aBaBH* ttMMHBBi The Lovisiana Nvt Nurseries J. J''. Jones, Manager and Proprietor. JEANfCRETTK, - - - LOUISIANA Headquarters for Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees in Ihc Southwest We also liave a Kt>'"i Ktnck ».• >fc- ^^- ->k- ^«».- "^^ ^^- >►• "^^ ■^- "^^ ^^- ■^- '^^ ^■^- ^- -C- ^- ■^- ■<• -»: Books and Catalogs The Goode & Reese Co., Springfield. O. Trade list of roses for Spring of lyii. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. Seventeenth Announcement con- cerning pupils. Pecan Trees for Northern Plant- iNo: 20 pages. Arrowfield Nuxseries, Petersburg, Va. Tlie Pajier Sliell Pecan Nursery, La- fayette, La., W. M. Ellison, manager. Catalog at budded and grafted pecan trees and Satsuma oranges. Myers Spray Pumps: a neat folder describes apparatus and insects, and gives formulas and calendar for spray- ing. Myers Bros., Ashland, O. J. Bolginano & Son, Baltimore, Md .\nnual Spring Catalog of seeds aad ))lants. 7o largo pages of closely print- ed matter of interest to planters. i Proceedings of the 34 annual meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural So- ciety. 12() pat?es. Contains consider- able matter of interest to nut growers. Tlie December 31, 1910, issue of the (California Fruit Grovfer was a fine number aiul contained the Annual Re- view of the industry in that state. The Agricultural Blue Book and Breeders' Dhseotory : Hale Publishing Comiiany, St. Louis, Mo. Contains many thousands of names of farmers, and breeders, and of others who do bus- iness with them. Walnut Growing in Oregon: by J. C. Coojier. Elegantly printed an(l il- lustrated; CO pages Published by the Passenger Department of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co., and other lines at Portland, Ore. Albany, Georgia, The Land of Op- portunity: a fitly page folder descrip- tive of the resources of Dougherty coun- ty. Pecan culture is given much space. Handsomel.y printed and illustrated, Pnlilislied by Davis & Mcintosh, Al- bany, Ga, 40 THE NUT-GROWEK Two Letters Holly Hill, S. C, 1-28-1911. Mr. Sam. H. James, Mound, La. Complying with your suggestion I am sending you by today's mail some specimen nuts, which I wish you to identify as to variety. I am very familiar with most of the named varieties of pecans, but I do not know the James, not having seen specimen nuts that have been identified. I think it that variety, but I wish to be sure. I wish you to be certain about it if pos- sible . These trees are very heavy bearers here in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and for that reason have attracted me. I believe they will make a profitable orchard. I don't know if this nut would not surpass all others for profit. Sincerely yours , JNO. B. WiacJiNS. Mr. James* Reply Mound, La. , 1-31-1911 Dear Mr. Wiggins: Your letter and the nuts came safely to hand today. There is not the slightest doubt about the nuts — they are James pecans. A better nut (in every way) was never sent out. It has the thinnest shell of ali, is a heavy bearer, good grower, fairly good size and, best of all, is chock full of rich, oily meat. The public had gone wild over the big, hardshell, tasteless varieties and paid but little attention to so valuable a nut as James. But I was sure if it were given time it would prove its own case. I am glad to know it has done so well in your lo- cality, and I feel sure it will make good in many other places when given a fair chance. The big, tasteless fellows have failed and now The public cries loudly for pecans like James. Yours , SAM. H. JAMES. the: nut-grower NulSbTrS Wh.I.No.l04 Poulan, Ga., March, 1911 lOc perC«psr $1.00 per Year SUCCESSWITHAPECANORCHARD INSECTS ENEMIES OF THE PECAN By Mrs. Thomas A. Banning A Paper read at the meeting of the Alabama State Horticultural Society. When I came to Baldwin county six years ago tliis niontli — in fact six years ago today — I entered the county for the first time. Tlie importance of pecan culture to the South and to our country liad never been brought to my notice. Being one of the so-called progressive women — with sometimes laudalde and sometimes foolish ambitions — I be- gan to look about for something easy in the line of farming. For tliirty years Mr. Banning and I had peri- odically ruminated over the prospect of retire- ment to some quiet spot where farming would he ideal. 1 l)elieve we have found in pecan rulture tlie ideal farm- er's haven, and tlie in- vestment whicli will bring comfort an d health to future gener- ations, and with the ac- cojnplishmentof enougli pleasureable toil in the period ical harvesting and care of the nuts to make a living in the country, away from the pressure and grind of the great city, the Mec- ca of our younger generations. While spending six weeks with friends in the pine woods about Rosinton, I discovered that some of the finest trees in the neighborhood were pecan trees, and that some of these trees were yielding from !i!-20.()() to %m.m and even as high as .$35. 00 a year to their owne)s, and that they only needed a chance to enable them to yield even more boun- tifully. Wlien I wrote to Mr. Banning that I had dis- covered sometiiing very near the old spring, the Fountain of Youth, in pecan culture in Baldwin <'Ounty, and wanted to look up a place where we could really prepare to rest when near the foot of the hill of life's journey, he wrote that he did not have much faith in the pecan project, but if I ( Continued on page 47. ) Permission of Department of Agriculture FIG. J. FALL WEB- WORM AND WEB By F. H. Chittenden In Charge Breeding Experiments, Bureau of Entomology. Prior to 1902, when Mr. W. F. Fiske brought together many valuable notes on the pecan pests of Georgia,' accounts of these insects were confin- ed to short contributions scattered through state and Government bulletins and agricultural journ- als. In Novemlier, 190i, Prof. G. W. Herrick published, under the caption, "Insects Injurious to Pecans," ^ a consideration of 11 species of these insects and since then Prof. H. A. Gossard has added a still more datailed account of 18 injurious ^-, (:.„-„,... species affecting the pe- - "".'> I'ui! in Florida. ■"* In the preparation of this article tlie publica- tions that have been cit- ed and the correspond- ence records of the Bu- reau of Entomology have been freely used. As a preliminary to a consid- eration of the best meth- ods for combating in- sect troubles of the pe- can, some knowlege of the insects themselves, especially their identi- ty, and the nature of their operations is indis- pensable. Tiie writer has in manuscript a list of about 40 species of insects which are known to attack the pecan. Less than half that number have been selected for mention in the present paper. THE FALL WEBWORM Ilyphantria cnnea Drii. Fig 1. Complaints of this species to pecan foliage have been received generally throughout the iSouth. The webs which the "worms" form on the limbs and in wliich they enclose the leaves are better known than the gray or brownish caterpil- lars which accomplish this work. The injury is so > Report Georgia State Horticultural Society, 1902. o Bulletin 86 Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion, 1904. 3 Bulletin 79 Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 1905. 41 THE NUT-GROWER well known that it need not be described here. It should be stated, however, that the webworms remain in their webs until they are nearlj^ mature, when they desert them and, if unmolested, crawl to other portions of the tree. It follows that it is desirable to kill the in- sects before they have deserted their webs. This is accomplished by making a ball of cotton waste or old cloth at the end of a long pole, and saturat- ing it with kerosene, forming a torch. By going from tree to tree, the webs are burned on each. A spray of paris green or arsenate of lead will ac- complish the same purpose, and is used in con- nection with the kerosene torch. More explicit directions for the treatment of the fall webworm are given in Farmers' Bulletin 99, of the United States Department of Agriculture, which can be had on application. THE CASE-BEARERS Two species of case-bearers have Ijeen obser- ved injuring pecan during recent years. They are known scientifically as Acrohasis nebulella Riley and Coleophora carwfoliella Olera (Fig. 2). The former is often called the bud worm, from its habit of attacking the leaf- and blossom-buds, in which respect ^^^^^.^ it resembles ^n^^^^^Ss^-^ [ i the true bud- wiirm. It is termed "case- liearer" from the habit of i t s larva of construct i n g a tube about its body com- posed of par- ticles of its own excrement, bits of l)ark and similar material, joined togetlier with silken tlireads of its own making. Tliis case is consideralily longer than the body of the insect itself, and is lined witli wliite sill-;. It carries this case with it, protruding its head through tiie ajjerture when feeding. The habit of this species of living within the case is not a perfect protection against the arsen- icals, but it is difficult to reach it when it lirst ap- appears and l)ores into buds and twigs or crumples the leaves together. The spray is to be applied in the same manner as for tlie budvvorms and otli er leaf-feeders. Professor Gossard has advised the use of the lime-salt-sulphur wash with an ar- senical added, applied in ^larch and April when the buds are opening, renewing the treatment once or twice. Tlie second species constructs cases of the shape of a cigar, measuring about half an inch in length at their full size, when they may be seen attached to the bark of limbs and trunks. The FIG. 3. CASE BEARER principal injury by this species is in biting holes in the leaves; sometimes, however, it devours the blossoms, and occasionally it occurs in such num- bers as to entirely denude numbers of trees. It is noticed at work from April until June, the ad- ults usually issuing late in May and during the next month. The remedies are the same as for the preceding species. THE PECAN BUD-MOTH Another species which has been very abund- ant, having been reported recently from Florida, Georgia and Texas, has been studied more thor- oughly than the others and may receive special mention. It is to be found from the District of Columbia southward, frequently in great num- bers. It is called the pecan bud-moth, Proieop- terijx deludana Clem. This species attacks l)uds, tender twigs and leaves alike, in some cases rolling the latter into tubes of regular sizes, in others joining them by means of webs somewhat irregularly. As we have received this pest from May to August, and the writer has found it at work as late as October, it is probable that; three and perhaps four genera- tions or broods are produced in a single year. The fact that there are several generations makes this species unusually difficult to control. Nevertheless, if the tirst generation is treated with a spray of Paris green or arsenate of lead on its first appearance in May, this will do mu"h to lessen the numbers of the insects to treat in after months. It is desirable that the spray be applied before the insect has time to conceal itself in the l)uds; later generations can be more easily reach- ed. In its control, co-operation with other pecan growers of a given region should be secured, and if it be found (ui walnut and other trees, these shoubl be also treated to a spray. Some growers inspect their trees and cut away the injured buds as they are detected, de- stroying the insects with them. Mr. Herrick re- commends daily inspection and the removal of the bud-worm on a pin point, a somewhat lal)orious but efficient method of control, if one has the pa- tience to continue it. From present knowledge of the habits of the other species of bud-worms it is not possible to prescril)e other remedies tlian those given above. THE BLACK HICKORY OR WALNUT CATERPILLAR Datana integ'rrytma G. & R. Fig. 3. This is a large, dark-colored caterpillar coat- ed with long gray hairs. It occurs on pecan, hickory and related plants, lives in large colonies, and when about to shed their skins, which they do several times, the caterpillars leave the branches on which they have been feeding and frequently congregate on the trunk, often near the base in large ball-like clusters held together by silken threads. In the South they are common- THE NUT-GROWEK 43 ly known as webworms. It is well to know the early stages of this insect the better to be pre- pared for it and to control it. The young cater- pillar is reddish with dark stripts, and it is not until it is nearly mature that it changes to black. It attains a length of fully two inches. The knowledge of the habit of this species of clustering on the trunks of the trees affected, gives us an easy method for its control. It may be killed in the same manner as the fall web- worm, by means of a kerosene torch. Arsenicals are valuable for the earlier stages of the pest, and the trees should be frequently sprayed while this insect is present. THE PECAN LEAF CATERPILLAR Dalana angusii G. & R. This insect is also injurious to pecan in the same manner as the preceding species. It lias Permission of Department of Agricullure FIG. 3. BLACK HICKORY CATERPILLAR similar habits, and can be controlled by the same methods. OTHER CATERPILLARS The foliage of pecan is fed upon by several other forms of caterpillars than those which have been considered. Among the most common of these are two species of Catocala, large gray caterpillars called "alligator worms," and in some localities "bull-dog caterpillars." They measure when mature from two to two-and-a-half inches in length. They do not as a general rule do very great damage, but occasional reports are made of trees being injured by defoliation. They feed at night, and in the daytime may be found resting in a vertical position on the trunk or lying length- wise along the branch. These caterpillars produce large moths with the forewing pale gray on the up- per side, and with both pairs of wings marked on the lower surface with dark conspicuous bands. As the principal color of these insects is on the lower surface, the moths are frequently known as underwings. Any arsenical, preferably Paris green or ar- senate of lead, applied as a spray, will destroy these caterpillars. The best time to apply is in early May, and in some regions far south, late in April, so as to destroy tiie caterpillars on their first appearance. We have also received reports of measuring worms or inch-worms (Geometrids), someof which eat out the buds. These insects are not numer- ous every year, and do little damage at any time. The "hickory horned devil" was reported dur- ing 1905 to be injuring pecan in Florida. It is one of our largest caterpillars and attracts attention every year from its occurence on hickory, walnut and other trees, but is scarcely to be considered a pest. BORERS Of considerable importance as pecan pests are certain forms of borers which attack this tree. Those which affect the roots are not, as a rule, prominent enemies. Such as destroy the twigs and smaller branches, known as girdlers and prun- ers, are more readily detected in their work and are better known to pecan growers, but they also do comparatively little harm, their work general- ly serving as a mild form of pruning. There is, however, a species known as the pecan-tree borer, and which seems destined in time to develop into a pest of the greatest importance. (To be Coiitiuued. ) The two chief and most interesting nut crops produced commercially in California are almonds and walnuts. A number of other varieties of nuts are grown, as for instance, pecans and peanuts, but up to this time general interest in nuts in Cal- ifornia centers around almonds and walnuts. Pe- can growing is, we believe, destined to be a some- what important industry in California in the fu- ture. There are a number of scattered plantings of this variety in California now, . and as many sections of this state are well adapted to growing this nut, it is expected that this industry will come more and more to the front. — California Fruit Grower. A Teche tree in the Barnwell orchard. Bacon- ton, Ga., is reported as having produced nearly six pounds of nuts the fourth year from planting and a much larger crop a year later. 4t THE NUT-GROWER One of Louisiana's Big Trees Much has leen said at various limes abuiit the large pecau trees tiiut ii;r!)\v along the Louisiana bayous. Through the kindness of Mr. H. 8. Watson, of Blooni- iiigton, 111., we are enabled to present our reader with an illus- tration of one of these giants of the primeval woodland, together with some interesting facts re- garding it. This tree stands al)out a quar- ter of a mile back from the Bayou Teche, op- posite the t o w n of Jeanneret- te, on Lin- den planta- tion, now owiied i^y the Stand- ard Becan C!(i. T w o years ago this tree was mers- u re d . Id then hail a r I r.-nnifer- e.ue of Id feet U inch- es at a point four feet f r (I m the ground. Its iieighj was estinia t e d t o 1) e b e- t.veen. 100 and 125 feet high, with a spread of branches of one hun- flred feet, covering approximate- ly oi'.e-fourth of an acre. Tlic tree is thought to be be- tween 80 and 100 years old and is said to have borne as high as 1000 pounds of nuts. The nuts, Teche that will measure from two to thi-ee feet in diameter. So far there has been very little attention paid to these natives, but it is probable that quite a number of new varieties will be l)rought to notice as having orig- inated along the Teche. During the last few years a numlier of the more promising seedlings have been grafted for testing. SUCCESS ^Bi^»^^^S*r^^ i-iy^^i I 1 ^^^^9S '^sS^B^^B 'KaS^^^^M H| ^^B HHI '^^^M ^H ^^1 ^^M ^H IP ■ " "f^ H fT:/- ^^gmi^^^* ' M 1^ - ,irth- place. He graduat-ed at tlie AlaViania Polytechnic Institute in 1893 and a year later received the degree of M. S. For a nunibor of years Prof. Miller was identified with state institutions, having been assist- ant chemist of tlie Florida Agri- cultural and Mechanical College, J894-5, assistant state chemist, North Carolina. lS0()-8, while he occupied the chair of chemistry at the University of P'lorida from the latter date until 1901. In September, 1904, Prof. I\Iil- ler became manager and joint owner of the Summit Nurseries, Monticello, Fla., and has since been engaged in active tural work. )rlicul- Imperts of Nuts for Consumption Ccmpiled hy Bureau of Statistics^ U S Department of Agriculture. YEAR ENDING JUNE 30 DESCRIPTION OP UNITS 1909 1 1910 Preliminary Quantity Value 1 Quantity Value Almonds: Not shelled, pounds 2120632 $ 136980 6810056 $ 502663 Clear shelled, jiouuds 8538054 1G42224 10495750 2402125 («) («) 27854 5230 COCOANUTS: 1 246403 1298970 Meat, broken, or copra, not shredded, de.ssicated or prepared, pouuds 23742518 066820 20830539 7625(iO Meat, or copra, dessicated. s'lredded, cut or similar- prepared, pounds 5401602 300383 5985308 384972 Cream and Brazil, busliels 409,44 761219 461496 1251738 Filberts : Not shelled, pounds 7365837 447882 10026901 620509 Slielled, pounds 13&4689 137748 1413391 170540 (b) {I') 10270398 244106 580 478 PiTM A\'n Patm-Nttt TCfrneis 2753 6907 Peanuts, ou Ground Beans: Unshelled, pounds, 7326371 2.54753 11237172 419185 1302919 1480289 60713 100298 10089919 3349460 729382 232590 Walnuts: 17431.529 1083792 23269974 1545197 Not shelled (Cuban Reciprocity) Slielled pounds 135() 70 8781908 9932705 1322500 378670 10960988 3580855 1851409 All Others, pounds 356651 From Pliilippine Islands 5572 90 3689 75 Total $ 8549997 $ 12775197 THE SIDE NEEDLE SPINE Not separately stated. * Properly not nuts, although so called. 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It is light in weight (only 20 lbs) runs extremely easy and can be operated perfectly and easily by one person. With ordinary care the "Simplex" will last a lifetime. Dealers and Agents Wanted to sell both our hand and electric machines. Electric Cleaner Co. 9S Jackson Boul. CHICAGO, ILL. Pecan Trees In quantity — B u d d e d and grafted standard varieties at the closest posssible figures. Cor- .respondence solicited. Arcadia Nurseries Monticello. Fla. We ahso carrj- a general line of Fruit and Ornamental Trees. Success With a Pecan Orchard (Con tinned from page 41.) found a good quiet place where we could spend our winters he \v(uild look into the matter. On my way north the latter part of February I visited the nurseries of the G. M. Bacon Pecan Com- pany, and the lu>spitality accord- ed me by Mr. Bacon and Mr. Herbert C. White and family will always Ije remembered witli pleasure. When I became con- vinced that pecan trees, giv- en the same care and study as o>jr fruit trees, apples, peaches, oranges, etc., will not only yield such a superior nut, that from the price of the little seedling titen selling in our Chicago mar- kets at from 15c to 20c a pound, it could be so improved with cultivation and care as to easily bring from 5 to 10 times that much, and that the keeping qualities, long shipping period and resistance to cold would give it a still greater advantage over fruit, I concluded that if we even cut these figures in two we would find it a profitable in- vestment. At that time the question of secur ing labor in our county was, and still is, a serious one, so I sat down with a man from the lumbering camps of Michigan to figure out the amount needed to clear, plow and harrow an acre of ground and get it ready for the planting of trees. I went home with the facts as to first cost : $24.00 an acre to prepare ground, cost of trees, 75c to $1.25 each in the nursery — say $20.00 an acre placed on our grounds; 20c to 25c each for digging holes and planting the trees, or $5.00 an acre; making about $50.00 an acre — something close to $750.00 for our first year's planting of 300 trees of ten varieties as an experiment. This did not pro- v i d e for superintendent and board of men during the first year while getting the place in order. The next year we put in 400 trees and since then we have in- creased our planting until we now have over 1600 trees and are clearing land for 200 more for the coming season. With tiie decrease in Mr. Banning's pocket liook I could but note a proportionate increase on his part in iiilerest and enthusiasm and now when we start in to talk pecans to our friends, woe to the man or woman who finds us botii on the grounds when they come in for a fiiendiy call. AVlien we linislied our first planting on the 6tii day of April four years ago, they were 50 feet apart, 2 to 3 feet above the ground and about the size of a walking stick. Mow, at tlie end of their fifth summer's growth, some of these trees measure 5 inches in diameter at the ground and 4 inches 3 feet above the ground. Tliey are from 15 to 18 feet high, with a spread of from 12 to 15 feet. One of the largest is a Bolt(ni and another is a Frotscher. I should advise planting, even on upland sandy loam, as is our soil, more than 50 feet apart. We have an average of about 20 trees to the acre. We found but 10 acres on our ground cleared and cultivated land, so it became necessary to clear 5 acres more in order to complete our first planting. The trees on the old cultivated soil have the advantage, but I would not wait for a year until the new land was in better condition, as we had been advised by some, so we lost in all comparatively few trees and gained a year's growth . Most of our trees are in a strong, vigorous condition. We have a bout 700 Schley, 400 Stuart, 175 Georgia, 125 Alley, 100 Russell, 50 Frotscher, 50 Van Deman, 25 Centennial, 20 Pabst, 20 Bolton, 10 Mammoth, 10 Sen- ator. We have concluded to con- fine our future planting to Schley and Delmas or some of their kin as we feel that these varieties will likely succeed best in our locality, although the Alley is, 48 THE NUT-GROWER froni all appeunuices going to be a very early and very prolific nut with us. We had about 47 Alley trees in bloom a year ago last spring, of which five, I be- lieve, were but three years old. This year oiir trees began to bloom about tlie first of April with Alley in the lead and Schley, Bolton, Oenteanial, Sen- ator, Mammoth, Pabst, Frotsch- er, Russell and Georgia follow- ing in about the order named. AVe had in bloom this summer 89 Alley., 12 Schley, 10 Pabst, 8 Frotscher, 3 Mammoth, 6 Sena- tor, 3 Kussell and 3 Georgia. Our Stuarts are among the re- cent plantings and are Ijut one and two years old, but are mak- ing a tine growth. (To be Con'.iuued.) Shagbark Hickory Editor Nut-Grower : I am sending you under sepa- rate cover a half dozen hickory nuts. I call tliem pecan hickory nuts because they resemble pe- cans in some respects. I consid- er them a very valuable species or variety of nnts for the follow- ing reasons : 1. Their cracking quality is remarkable when crackeil with a hammer. 2. They are willing to sliell out the meat whole. 3. The fiavor and quality is i\)(i best. 4. They "o guess work — ycu get exactly what you order. F.H.LEWIS JatkfonCo. Scranton, Miss. 1911 Price List of EGGS FROM PURE BRED STOCK OF White Plymouth Rocks FISHEL STRAIN My stock of White Plymouth Reck fowls are finer tliau ever. Eggs guaran- teed to hatch or will duplicate order at iialf piice if ten eggs or less hatcli. Re- member tliis! Try one setting and you will be pleased. I have tried four dif- ferent kinds and find this the best all piui pose fowl, so have disposed of aU but this one kind. PRICE $2.00 per Large Setting of 16 Eggs I paid more than this for the eggs from which my stock was hatched. Address orders, with cash, to MRS. THOS. W. BLITCH YOUNGS ISLAND, S. C. SAMPLE NUTS of many leading varieties, for study or exhibition pur- poses, supplied at reasonable rates. Seed nuts furnished only in limited quantities. The Nut-Growek Com- pany, Ponlan, Ga. When writing to advertisers please mention The Nut-Grower. market man's point of view. When it comes to eating liiclcory nuts around the fireplace, tliat is another question. I shall be very glad to have any specimens of hickories of any sort sent to me for purposes of comparison. Prizes have been offered for several years in var- it>us agricultural papers, but do not bring returns of any account. The object of the prizes is to bring out public spirited men like Mr. Eychaner who know of nut trees which they believe to be remarkable. In this way we locate in one part of the country a nut remarkable for quality; in another part of the country a nut remarkable for size ; elsewhere a nutremarkable for cleavage, etc., and that gives us tlie opportunity to graft from all of tliese trees, cross the pol- len and develop ideal nuts. Aside from the demonstration of public spirit on the part of the men and boys and girls who send in specimens for prizes, they have the opportunity to become famous, for if a certain tree is really very remarkable it is nam- ed after the one who sends the nuts. Not only that, but many dollars wortli of scions may be cut every year by the owner or Under of a remarkal)le nut tree. Prizes are offered by me every year for all kinds of American edil)le nuts except pecans. The reason why pecans are e.xcluded is because the judging of nuts on the whole has been done in the north, and there are so many authorities living in the south competent to judge pecans, that it has been previously thought best to leave them out of the general prize nut contests. RoBT. T. Morris. New York City. News Notes view, Ala., have grafted 60,000 pecan stocks this season. The Ware Progress Co., of Ciii- cago, has set 100 acres in pecans near Americus, Ga., and will later increase their orchard to 400 acres. The Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association will iiold its annual meeting at Americus, Ga., Tuesday and Wednesday, May 16 and 17. Jones & Smitii, Albany, Ga., have planted 188 acres in pecans the past season and have con- tracted for 50 acres more to be set next winter. The Dixie Codperative Nur- series have purchased a tract of laud at Fairhope, Ala., which will be planted in pecans, Sat- suma orange.^, roses, bulbs, etc. Iowa and Chicago parties have purchased about 1,700 acres near Albany, Ga. They propose to develop this land and settle it with small farmers. The great- er portion will be planted in pe- cans and sold (jff' in small tracts. The Georgia Farm, Fruit and Pecan Company, with a capital of !|i300,0(l0, with privilege of in- creasing to $2,000,000, has re- cently been organized. George W. Deen, of Waycross, Ga., Walter Ware, of Chicago, and others are interested. Frvit Trees Shade Trees AND The Washington Pecan Groves Company has been incorporated in Delaware. The Eagle Pecan Co., Pitts- Grnamental Shrubbery ALSO Field Grown Rose Bv5hes Before you place your order write us for prices and one of our descriptive catalogs. TUDKEY CREEK NURSERY BOX 21, MACCLENHY, PLA. C. F. Barber, J. E. Barber, President. Secretary. 50 THE NUT-GROWER The Nut-Grower Published Mcnlhly by THE NUT-GROWER COMPANY Entered at tlie Postoffice at Ponlan. 6a., as secoud-class matter. SubscriptioD, $1.00 per Aunum Advertising Rates on Application ~ NOTICE When this paragraph is marked it means that your subscription has expir- edi and that you are requested to renew pjomptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents. March 1911 Our business is to help our reader und advertisers, as well as tlie industry in general. In order to accomplish this end, sve invite (!ontril)utions, questinns and reports, all of wliicii coining from widely separated localities ey,ables us to advance the inser- ests'of all. on their ground? is either dead or dying from its ravages. Dr. Murrill also said that he believed that all chestnut trees would succumb to the disease, neither the Japanese nor any other kind having been found to be im- nniue, and that plantiug them for coiumerciai purposes now is sheer folly. may not Ije an acceiDtalile text ft)r pecan promoters, but a care- ful study of it should have a wholesome effect. At this season of the year the fertilizing and cultivation of oi- chard soil is important. Trees cannot be expected to do their best without this care and atten- lion. Such work siiould lie care- fully planned with a view to permanently ijuilding up the fertility of the soil. In sizing up a l)usiness propo- sition it is well to bear in mind tliat ''a chain is no stronger than its weakest link." We are prone to note only the strong features w''° J"" recelveonrbeautitul catalogue rr M , '••^" "^ •**• •"■'wntU andstuilyoursuperbmoclflaatthe/TOiiden JJnllij low pnres we cnn make you tlits year. We sell the blgbest gnide bicycles for Di/>v<>i c^2.^''.''2t''=""'"*">' o'tierlactory. Wearesatlsned nlthei.OOprofltalDvo factory cost, r r.^1 ™rM J p=*>'-EHS,yoii can sell our bicycles uuderyourown name plate at double our prices. / Orders filled thpduy received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not reenlarly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have r»n„;n, from S3 o5:a°or«"inHf" '",''?'''' V' """i <^,';"»so retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices rjnBlnE from 53 to ♦a orSIO. IWscrlptiTO barealn lists mailed free. COASTER'BRaKES. ^Inglo wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and X ^^ ttn ■* ^^ ' equipment of oil klndsat(ioi/(Acr«i;ulor retail pj-ices. ^ i tflSJ Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof ^ MM 10 Self-healingTires^SSJSI^'K? 4 The regularretail prUeofthete tires $10.00 per pair, tut to introduce toe, toill tell you a sample pair for S4.80{f ash with order $4. 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'""' *°' ""■"' •' »°r »"<* nntn yon send for a pair of Hedgethorn " • »^w »w^«.»* >>rB^«9 Puncture Proof tIresonapproTalandtrlalattbespeclal Introductory Ericequoted above; or write forour big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and Inds of ti res at about half tbe usual prices. DO MOT |<^|#ir'"'*'^*e us a postal today. DO "OTTMimC or •UTIne a bicycle orapair of i« «rr. ™. ^ ,., tires from anyono until you know the now and wonderful offers we are making. Xtonlycofltaapostal toleameverythlne. WriteltNOW. per copy, special prices to mem- bers for a or more extra copies. Popular Fruit GrowiiKj, by Samuel B. Green, Frofessor of Horticultui'e in the University of Minnesota. The third edition of a thoroughly practical work, treating on the factors of success- ful fruit growing, orcliard pr.)- tection, insects injurious to fruits, spraying and spraying ap- paratus, harvesting and market- ing, principles of plant growth, propagation of fruit plants, pome fruits, stone fruits, grapes, small fruits, nuts, etc. Profusely il- lustrated. Revised 1910. 300 pages, 5 1-2x7 inches. Webb Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. Ocean Springs Pecan Nursery Season 1911-12 W^ill be pleased to booK or- ders i\o^v for Grafted Pecans No Seedling^s Send for Pric* List Chas. E. Fabst Prop'r Ocean Springs, Miss. m (US (US (Us \if UAblTY TAUKS* In Pecan Trees as well as other commodities We Have the Quality ^^ Oiu' stock for the coming season's delivery is l)udded and grafted from Known Trees, all being of the very best varieties. Orders are being rapidly booked. Get in touch with us : we have the goods. A Square Deal guar- teed. Write for booklet and get acquainted. f Jefferson INursery ^^^ Monticello, Fla. \^( \y M/ \t/ \\) M/ M/ M/ M/ \»/ \»/ Vf/ M/ M/ M/ Go ^♦^ THE NUT-GROWER 69 Rood Pecan MEMBERS National Nut Growers' Association — Georgia- Florida Pecan Growers* Association. (Standard varieties of Btxdded and Grafted Trees for sale. Planting and caring> for Groves gjiven careful and up-to-date attention. Top-WorKing Pecan Trees our Specialty V" Estimates furnished on application. Results guaran- teed. We buy and sell Pecan Nuts. 100,000 trees in nur- sery ; 12,000 trees in grove ; 400 acres in grove. We sell Buds, Budding Cloth, Black Walnuts, Black Walnut Trees, English Walnuts grafted on our native Black Walnut stock, Florida and California Pomegranates. We also sell Peach Trees, Plums, Japanese Persimmons, Japanese Walnuts, Almonds, Texas and California Grapes, Strawberries, Rasp- berries, Cultivated Blackberries, Cultivated Dewberries and other fruits. V General Nursery Stock and Nurserymen's Supplies FurnisHed IVrite for our Catoloef or ftx&y li\formatioi:& • • ROOD PECAN GROVES ALBANY. GA. 60 THE NUT-GROWER HOMESTEAD PECAN & NURSERY COMPANY Headquarters, Local Office, WHEELING, W. VA. WAYCROSS, GA. Finest and Best Lands [or Orchards and Homes at HOMESTEAD, Pierce County, GEORGIA Dire(5tly on line of Atlantic Coast Line Railway, six miles northeast of Waycross, the metropolis of South- east Georgia, the most rapidly developing locality in the South. Five, Ten and Twenty acre Tracts planted and cared for on contract. Write at once for full particulars. A. C. SNEDEKER, General Manager WAYCROSS .-. .-. .-. GEORGIA REC'D Wldf20 19^^ PM the: nut-grower m"er4 Whole No. 106 Poulan, Ga., April, 1911 10c per Copy $1.00 per Year SUCCESSWITHAPECANORCHARD INSECT ENEMIES OF THE PECAN By Mrs. Thomas Banning A Paper read at the Meeting of the Alabama State Horticultural Society. (Coutinued from Last Issue.) We have for the past five years cultivated crops between the trees and also i:sed commercial and other fertilizers. We have been carefnl to try to keep out the grass and weeds from between and from 5 to 8 feet on each side of the trees where we did not have crops planted. In fact, the whole field should be plowed. This year we we will' only put in crops between the young trees and put in about 25 feet between the rows of old trees in Irish potatoes. When these are harvested, we will plant the fields in cowpeas for liay and fer tilizer. We have found lime of value in induc- ing hea]ti)y growth and in some places where the ground is low we have put in tile drain- age. Two and a Jialf acres in the best part of our large field seemed hopeless four years ago, and the first year we lost over half the trees planted on this so which is good land. We have persistently re- planted this section of (Uir grove, studying its needs each time, and some of our finest Alley trees are in this white soil, but they are being rooted in good earth un- til they have the strength to reach out and secure nourishment. This apparently hopeless lowland will no doubt be made to yield froiii 20 to 25 pounds of nuts to the tree in a few years. 1200 of our trees are put out on the diamond plan — 50 feet apart in the rows and the rows 43 feet apart. The other 400 are 50 feet apart each way. For commercial purposes, as we gain a row in seven, we find the diamond method equally (Coutinued ou page 67.) Permission of Departmenl of Agriculture FIG. (>. WHITE ANTS. By F. H. Chittenden In Charge Breeding Experiments, Bureau ot Entomology . THE PECAN -TREE BdRFR Sesiu scitu/a Harris This species resembles the common peach tree borer; it differs, however, in its manner of living. It appears to be more or less destructive through- out the Gulf region from South Carolina to Mis- sissippi, and has been observed on other food plants throughout the eastern states and Canada. In its injuries to pecan it seldom, if ever, at- tacks trees less than two inches in diameter, and it is more abundant on such as are three or four inches thick or still arger. It also confines its operations to the trunk and bracnhes and seldom penetrates deep- er than the sap-wood. This it channels out and d e str oy s, and when many individuals are present, especially in comparatively small trees, their combined operation has the effect of girdling, producing the death of the tree. This borer usually enters the' trees where they have been injured or where they are budded, the female being at- tracted to such places to lay her eggs. The complete life history has not been worked out, but considerable has been learned in regard to the economy of the species from reports of different observers. The moths begin to issue in April. With the knowledge that they begin to appear at this time and a little later, and that the eggs are deposited in or near decorticated portions of the trunk and limbs, it would seem not difficult to protect our- selves against the ravages of this borer by cover- ing denuded portions of bark, just Ijefor^ they be- gin their flight, with grafting wax, and using a Greatly Enlarged (52 THE NUT-GROWER sufficient quantity of the same material about the Ijuds. The addition of some sticky substance, lilve printer's ink or fresh pitch, or of soft soap, should be tried as a further repellent and means of cap- turing the moths. The standard remedy for the peach tree borei — digging out with a knife or gouge — should be employed wherever and when- ever the borers are found at work. It is quite possible that a thick whitewash applied to the trunks and lower limbs of the trees in March would he effective as a repellent. Special care should Ije taken when plowing or cultivating be- tween trees not to abrade the bark, and horses should not lie permitted to rub against the trees. Large wounds should be protected with wax and bound over tightly w'ith rags. THE FLAT-HEADED APPLE-TREE BORER C/ii-Yso/>o//iris frmorata Fab. This common and well-known apple pest has several times been noted doing injury to pecan in the South, and two or three related species do similar work. Generally speaking, these insects do not attack perfectly healthy trees, but follow the attacks of sucli insects as the pecan-tree Ijorer previously mentioned, and att'ect trees wiiich have been injured liy sun scald. Directions for the treatment of this insect are given in Circular No. ;:3"2 of the Bureau of Ento- mology, copies of which will be sent to persons who apply for it. THE APPLE-TWIG B' )RER Aitipfiiceyns hiciiitdatus Say This insect, also known as the grape-cane borer, affects a variety of fruit, and occasionally shade and forest trees and ornamental shrubs, and has been reported as injuring pecan in Ala- Ijama, Georgia and Mississippi. It breeds normal- ly in dying wood, and injury is practically con- fined to the beetles boring into the twigs, usually ai)out a bud or leaf scar, toward the center, where they form a cylindrical burrow an inch or more in length. The remedy is to cut the affected twigs below the point of attack and promptly burn the cut portion. In case injury is extensive and can be traced to the presence of such plants as wild grape, smilax or cat-l>riar of the vicinity, these plants siiould be burned and kept down as any other weed, since they are the principal breeding places of this insect. ROOT-BORERS Two or three forms of root-borers, very large, white, grub-like creatures, the larva? of long-horn- ed iteetles of the genera Mallodon and I'rionus, are occasionally reported injuring living roots of pecan. They are not, however, restricted to any particular form of tree, and as they live naturally in dead or dying wood, injury may be prevented by not planting pecans in land containing stumps, logs or old trees, Direct remedies are not practi- cable. GIRDLERS AND PRUNERS Only brief mention need be made of the in- sects which prune and girdle twigs and smaller branches of pecan as well as other trees. Three common species of these pests are known — the pe- can girdler Onoideres texana the hick o r y girdler, Oncideres cinffu/aia, and the oak pruner, Elaphidion villosum. The first is restricted to the vSouth, and its life history has been carefully worked out in recent years. Twigs affected by it present the appearance of having been sawed, and the outer portion remains on the tree for some time before it finally drops.' This work is done by the parent beetle prior to the deposition of her eggs. The hickory girdler has very similar habits. Both of these species can be controlled by gathering the severed branches of pecan and oth- er food trees of the girdlers — such as hickory, oak and persimmon — of the vicinity and burning them during the winter or before the insects make their PermissioD of Department of Agriculture FIG. 4. APPLE-TWIG BORER LARVA AND AFFECTED TWIGS appearance in early fall. The oak pruner does not especially favor pe- can, attacking a variety of trees, including those of the forest, orchard and city park. Hickories and oaks are frequently found with the ground be- neath them littered with the twigs and small branches which have been cut off by this insect. The work in this case is that of the larva, or "grub," which, just before its Hrst transformation, severs the wood, all except a portion of the outer bark, so that during the tirst winter winds it will be brought to the ground. This species can be • controlled in the same manner as the girdlers, by collecting the severed twigs. There are other forms of borers than those which have been considered, such as the painted hickory l)orer and hickory bark beetle, but they are not of sufficient importance as pecan enemies at the present time to demand consideration in this article. THE NUT-GROWER 68 THE PECAN OR HICKORY NUT WEEVIL. Balaninus carwce Horn A few years ago numerous inquiries as to tlie cause of holes in pecan nuts were made, and these were found in every case to be due to the attack of this species, which closely resembles the well- known chestnut "worms" or weevils. Correspond- ence has since shown that this injury has decreas- ed considerably, though I am informed that the beetles are still numerous and quite destructive to hickory in some parts of the South. Wild pe- cans are more favored than the orchard varieties. Oonside'rable shortage was reported during \%\i\-i in Texas and Mississippi, while in Georgia in one locality 75 per cent of one crop was a failure. The remedy is to store the infested nuts in tight receptacles, so that the larvae when issuing from the nuts, soon after they are gathered, will not be able to enter the ground for transformation. After crawling about the bottoms of the recep- tacles they soon die. After the main crop has Permission of DeparUnent of Agriculture FIG. 5. NUTS ATTACKED BY PECAN WEEVIL been gathered, hogs should be allowed access to the pecan grove, where they will root and destroy many weevils. Poultry are also of vuluc for this purpose. Bisulphid of carbon has been found a perfect remedy for "worms" in chestnuts, but although an effort has been made to test this against the pecan weevil, we cannot state from experience its eifects. It is probable, however, that it will be quite effective in the case of the thinner shelled varieties, using tlie bisulphid rather strongly with a considerable exposure and in a perfectly air- -tight receptacle. A tablespoonful or less to each cubic foot, with an exposure of two or three days will probably suffice. In the treatment of the pe- can weevil it is really necessary to collect and destroy the infested wild pecans and hickory 'as well if these occur in the vicinity of extensive or- chards, otherwise the insects will spread from the wild to the cultivated trees. THE WALNUT CURCULIO Conotrackflus /iiqlandis Lec. While considering the pecan weevil, the wal- nut curculio should be mentioned. It is more commonly observed attacking black walnut, in the fruit of which the larva lives. It was reported in the late '90's as doing considerable damage to young nuts in a large orchard in Louisiana. The beetle is an almost exact counterpart of the per- nicious plum curculio in all its stages. It is larg- er, and when examined critically certain differen- ces can be detected. An early spray of Paris green applied in the same manner as for the plum curculio, would hold this insect partially in check. Otherwise the best remedy would be to destroy the atfected nuts as often as they are found. If hogs are al- lowed the run of the orchards before the nuts ma- tikre they will attend to this matter. THE PECAN HUSK-WORM Enntmonia curyana Fitcli The hiiglig of gro\Ving nuts are much affected some seasons in liiaiiy districts by a small, whitish worm or caterpillar' lino\Vn as the husk borer or husk worm. Quantities of nuts have been receiv- ed at the Bureau of Entomology, in some cases of about the usual size, that were found uf)on exam-- ination to be invariably empty, although the worms fed only on the outer hull. Some grow'ers^ claim that the principal injury of this species is" in checking the growth of the earliest nuts, but from all nuts examined by this writer the husks of which contained the worm of this species, it seems that this latter form of injury is equally- serious. The difficulty of applying a good remedy for this insect tends to show that it is likely to be- come a very serious pest indeed. Alwut all that can be done is to gather and promptly destroy the infested nuts as often as they are seen, and to gather windfalls and dispose of them in the same manner. For the perfect protection of the pecan orchard, however, hickory nuts and wild pecans should be also gathered when found affected and promptly destroyed. Where it is feasible to al- low hogs the range of the orchard, this should be done until the regular picking time. MAY BEETLES liie foliage of pecan and other nut trees is of- ten injured by May beetles. One of the most de- structive of these is the hairy May beetle {Lach- nosterna hirtinda Enoch), which has a most per- nicious habit of severing the bud and the foliage of the trees attacked. The best remedy is to jar the insects from the- affected trees on curculio catchers, special recep- tacles made for catching the plum curculio. WHITE ANTS Our common white ants, pAdermes iiavipes KoU., (Fig. 6, page 61) known also as wood-lice and termites, have several times been reported as injuring groves of pecan, walnut and other nut trees. They usually enter the roots, and are des- (Contiuiied on page f!5.) 64 THE NUT-GROWER THE NUT-GROWER Published Monthly by THE NUT.GR.O"WER COMPANY Entered at tlie Post-office at Poulan, Ga., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES lu the United States and Mexico, |1.00 per year; Canada, 11.50; Foreign, 12.00. NOTICE When this paragraph is marked it means that j-our sub- scription lias expired and that you are requested to renew promptly, as postal regulations do not permit us to mail to delinquents. Volume X APRII. IQll Number 4 The Association's Tlie pecan industry was quite Scale of Points young in a commercial way when the scale of points for judging nuts and trees was adopted by the Nation- al Nut Growers' Association at the New Orleans convention in 1003. Since that time there have been many additions to the ranks of pecan grow- ers and we feel that a republication of the scale at this time would not be inopportune. Special attention is invited to the scale for judging trees, which has thus far received but little attention, as its practical utility applies only to such trees as attain a higli rating for their nuts. All gri)w- ers are urged to practice on the application of tiiis scale on nuts of known character as well as select- ed seedlings. Convenient lilauks, such as are us- ed by the committee on Nomenclature and Stand- ards, can be obtained from the secretary at a nom- inal cost- Tiiose who use tliese blanks and pre- serve them for comparison with subsequent records they may make, will find it a pleasing and profit- able exercise. Tliese blanks make convenient records of varieties examined. The scale and rules for scoring are given below : Nuts External Charactkristics : Size ...... Form ..... Color Shell Characteristics : Thinness ..... Cracking Quality Kernel Characteristics: Plumpness ..... Color Quality Points 20 5 5 10 ■20 20 o ]5 Trek Vigor Habit Toughness Total, 100 10 10 10 Kesistance to disease and insects Precocity . . . . . rniformity of ripening Productiveness . . . . 10 1(» 10 1(1 Total, 100 The rating of a variety to be determined by averaging the rating of nut and tree. All samples submitted for judging shall be fair average samples of the crop and not selected specimens. They should be tree-ripened, and thoroughly cured before judging; polishing, col- oring or other manipulation to disqualify. The nuts should be large and reasonably uni- form in size; nuts running smaller than 100 to the pound to be disqualified. No variety scoring less than 75 points will be recommended fur propagation. Pecans began blooming in South Georgia and West Florida this season soon after the middle of March, or about two weeks earlier than usual. A California patron orders his advertisement discontinued, stating that his stock was all sold and that last season's business was tlie largest he had ever had. Ohas. L. Edwards, the able Texas horticultur- ist, writes that he regards the proceedings of the MonticeUo convention as coming well up to his ideas of good reading. Our prediction that the supply of pecan nur- sery stock for the approaching season would fall far short of the demand is being confirmed by re- ports from various nurseries. The price of the proceedings of the Monticel- lo convention has been fixed at $1.00 per copy. Tiie best way to obtain a copy is to mail $2.00 witli an application for membership in tlie associ- ation. The use of nuts for meat is based on the very best authority and reaches back to the beginning of recorded history. In the first chapter of Gene- sis, twenty-ninth verse, we read, "And every tree in which is the fruit of the tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat." The general press of the country is giving considerable attention to nut culture, particular- ly as regards the pecan. In a recent issue of //«?'- per's Weekly appeared an article by one of our subscribers in Alabama, entitled The Lure of the THE NUT-GROWER 65 I THE FERTILIZER FOR PECAN TREES | Q One that Increases the Yield and Leaves the Land in Better Shape than it Found It S$! t^ Here is the formula. The best nut growers will vouch for the excellent results obtained by its use: &! •* innA IL- Tl Dl L-». onn IL_ M:i »_ _f D_i L g(# 1000 lbs. Thomas Phosphate 600 lbs. 10 to 12 per cent Tankage 200 lbs. Nitrate of Potash 200 lbs. Sulphate of Potash ►^ The Thomas Phosphate contains a large per cent of highly available Phosphoric Acid that jCj ^ has a definite action in the foimation and development of buds. Its large amount of Lime effectively ^ fe sweetens the soil. hr Wnte for prices and free literature. % Coe-Mortimer Company CHARLESTON, S. C. SPECIAL IMPORTERS FERTILIZER MATERIALS » Pecan. Many letters whicli have since fonie to our office are directly tracealile to this well-writ- ten article. The importance of commonplace work is fre- quently not recognized. The planting; of a single nut tree, as well as the planting of an orchard, ts fraught with far-reaching consequences, when properly performed. As the years go by, and men and families succeed each other. Ihe tree remains and contributes impartially to successive owners, all of whom are directly indebted to the provident thought and practical work of the planter, whose initiative started a golden stream to supply many human necessities. INSECT ENEMIES OF THE PECAN (Continued from page (iiJ.) cribed as eating out the heart, rendering the limbs and branches nothing but hollow slicks. Injury is most severe to seedlings, especially of the first year's growth. As a rule, white ants are most de- structive in dry locations, and if the trees can be frequently drenched with water, the insects can be driven out. Where they have obtained a good foothold on trees, however, it is best to inject bi- sulphid of carljon into their nests. A measure of precaution before planting pecans would consist in removing all old stumps, limbs and other dry wood in which these insects normally breed. Af- ter treatment with bisulphid of carbon, fertiliz- ers should be applfed to enable the seedlings to recuperate from the attack. Hot water has been advised as a remedy, but if employed it shoujd be used with care. SCALES AND RELATED INSECTS Scale insects, as a rule, have not been found to do very serious injury in pecan orchards, but in the course of time they will doulitless demand at- tention. The San .Jose scale occurs on pecan but rarely, which is fortunate. The cottony scale, Pulvinaria iiinumerabtlin Rathv., is sometimes found, and may lie readily recognized from the large, white, cottony masses covering its egg sacs. It is never, like the preceding, a very dangerous pest, seldom occurring in sufficient numbers to require remedial treatment. The walnut scale, and another species, a Le- canium, are the only species, to my knowledge, noticed in pecan orchards. They can all be treat- ed in the same manner as the San Jose scale, with the lime-salt-sulpliur wash, kerosene and other oily preparations, with this reservation — that it is not necessary to resort to heroic measures in their control. Numbers of sucking insects other than scales are occasionally found on pe<'ans, but not, as a rule, in injurious numbers. These insects include plant-bugs of several species, and the pecan Phyll- oxera, which causes little rounded swellings or galls on the leaves. Some forms of mites also at- tack the foliage. NATURAL ENEMIES The work of the various observers who have been mentioned in the opening paragraph as hav- ing contributed to our knowledge of the principal pecan pests has In-ought out the fact that natural enemies are of considerable importance in their control in nature. As example of the usefulness of natural enemies, it will suffice to state that the tussock moth is recorded by Dr. Howard as having 21 distinctive primary parasites. This does not include secondary parasites or natural enemies. The pecan-feeding fall web-worm has a similar 66 THE NUT-GROWER nuinlier, and Ijoth of these in- sects are largely controlled by parasites, fluctuation in numbers being partially dependent on the weather, but more on the direct operations of their small- er natural enemies. Ordinarily these agencies can be expected to preserve the balance of na- ture, but in exceptional years when they are not so active, their hosts — the tussock cater- pillars and webworms — gain the ascendency, and extensive de- foliation of valuable trees is the result. Among predaceous enemies are birds, which frequently de- stroy great numbers of pecan in- sects; the praying mantis, or rear- horse; the wheel- bug, a special enemy of web-worms, and Podi.iiiti spi/iosus, or spined soldier-bug. Even the eggs of pecan-infesting in«ects are fre- quently destroyed Ijy parasites, and it is desirable that the grow- er know the difference between his friends and his foes. A more detailed consideration of this topic cannot well be presented in this article. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS A very considerable proportion of damage by insects can l)e averted by proper attention to orchard management. This ap- plies to insects in general. If the trees can be kept in thrifty condition by the a.ddition of fer- tilizers, cutting away injured and ilying limbs, and the cutting out of entire trees when their death is positively assured, com- paratively little attention need be given to other forms of rem- edies beyond spraying. If a systematic course of spraying is instituted on the first appear- ance of insects which we know- to be dangerous, much injury from future generations, where the insect is known to have more than one Ijrood a year, can be largely prevented. It follows that close inspection of the or- chard, particularly of the out- skirts, should be made early in the season at least once a week. and later at least twice montlily. It should always be remembered that wild pecan and hickory furnish breeding places for all forms of pecan insects, and their presence in the neighborhood of the orchard is a standing menace to the welfare of the cultivated trees. SUCCESS A Kick on the Pea Can BY ROBT. T. MORRIS Run a wavy line along the northern boundary of the natur- al home of the pecan tree. In the comfortable home to the south of this line the French gave a soft phonetic spelling to the Indian name of the tree : a name which goes with sunny skies, jessamine and the song of the mocking bird. The French spelled the name pecavne, and the n e ar e s t pronunciation in English would be approximately "pecahn," wiih accent evenly balanced on tiieT^wo syllables. This must continue to l)e the rigiit pronunciation by rule as inflexible as the laws of the Medes and iVrsians, on the ground of usage before Ameri- can history had l>egun; on the ground of usage by Indians still living in the pecan region, and on tiie ground of accepted usage by gentle people living among the beautiful and majes- tic pecan trees — to say nothing of euphony and good taste. Trouble comes when the nut is carried to northern markets, where its name is grasped in the hard, brutal, throaty pronuncia- tion of Pilgrim regions. The sweet, euphonious word is caught up in the northern voice and tossed al)out in the throat very much a^ a rubber ball plays high in a fountain jet. The word now becomes angu- lar and disagreeable in sound, suggestive of bleak winds and religious intolerance. Objects of utility, rather than objects of sentiment probably suggested the pronunciation "pea-can," with the accent on the "pea." NATURAL SIZE The uut that has never failed to bear anil never failed to fill at both end with kernels of best qualil v. BECHTEL PECAN NURSERIES OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS. Nuts for Profit ^ booklet ot lr)8 pages; 00 illuftratious. Propagal i on , cultiva- tion, etc., of nuts best adapted to the various sections. Interesting and in- structive. Price, by mail, 25 cents. JOHN R. PARRY, Pakry, N. J. From Jan. 1 to April 15, Orlando, Fla. PECANS BEST VARIETIES Write for Price List Nursery Established in 1882 S. W. Peek, Hartwell, Ga. '^^^°<^^^^%^.^^pS^?^^^^^^.^^p^^^^^^^^^^^?S_ Pecan Trees that are Properly Grown is my Specialty Budded and Grafted Trees of the Best Var- ieties for Sale Write for prices of trees and information as to growing and care of groves. J. B. WIGHT Cairo. Ga. ^oKi^om'^om0^o^ARU CENTISAI. NKKULE MACHINE costs no more and is just as easy to purchase as any other Well-made machine. If you value your health and the health of your growing daughters, don't hesilate, quit using your b.ick-twisting, disease-breeding, nerve-racking ma- cliiue today. Write us and we will gladly send you FIIEK a book wliich illustrates and explains in a simple rway the difference between the right and wrong In sewing machines. The book is called "A STITCH IN THE ■SIDE." A postal brings it to you free. Send for it, you'll never regret it. Let us insist upon home use of the name of the pecan when it travels. 1 have heard Soutiierners when in the North use the pronuncia- tion, "pea-can," in order to be gracious and polite. This tend- ency to do in Turkey as the tur- keys do is all wrong in this par- ticular instance, and leads peo- ple astray, just as I have been led astray when acquiring Ojib- way or Oree languages. If I pronounced an Indian word wrong, my Indian guides would always pronounce it the same way while in conversation with me, as a token of respect, and the only Way for getting words right was to notice the pronunci- ation when Indians were conver- sing among themselves. Southern politeness will en- danger the character of the name of the pecan unless visitors to the North kindly, i)ut firmly, request their hosts not to impose u hardship on llieir guests. The Standard Ss 6151 Cedar Ave ving Macnine Co. Cleveland, (X Success With a Pecan Orchard (Coiitiiiiifd friiiii pHgefil.) as good as the square. Now, ,^ix years ago we did not think that we iiad reached a land of perpetual youth wliich was for man only ; for in spite of glowing statements to the con- trary, we counted on Mr. Squir- rel and on the little live creat- ures which are sure to find and rival man, in tlie destruction of the tree and its fruit, but which are not, however, able to cope with man when he determines to use all the methods which study, scientific attention and eternal vigilance have placed at his command. So, when a year ago last spring our superintend- ent found the bud-worm infest- ing our trees, we sent down a sprayer and began to prepare for the contest in earnest. Last spring, cm my arrival at our place, I found some twenty or thirty trees infested by borers and girdlers, and later that the twig-girdler wai into the fray. We immediately set the sprayer going, began digging for borers and began using a deadly poison for the tree borer or girdler, and we have kept up the fight. In June Mr. Herliert C. White, one of our leading pecan horti- culturists, together with Mr. A. M. Troyer, also a student of pe- can culture, spent two and a half days inspecting our trees, and since then Mr. Troyer has visited our orchard about every three weeks, inspecting and col- lecting borers, girdled twigs and any such things that came in his patii, and directing our men in the care of the trees. On his last visit, in December, he re- ported our orchards in a satis- factory condition. He only found 43 borers at that time. Mr. Banning and Mr. Troyer have gone through the orchards pruning and trimming, and we find that we have lost about six of our large trees from the effects of the borers. The twig girdler is giving us some uneasiness al- so, as we find his work among some of our best trees. Rut, with care, we feel that these pests will give up the struggle, and when our trees are at mature bearing age we will only regard this little contest for supremacy as incidents of starting a suc- cessful pecan orchard. M) . vScpiirrel, especially the (Uie with wings, is giving our son a study in electrical engineering, as he thinks the only way to fix him is to electrocute him on the spot. However, this year Mr. Flying Squirrel got all of our crop of a few pounds of nuts, leaving only about a dozen for us. We have also the bag-worm, that interesting little fellow, who can so closely imitate the small pine cone when weaving his home that Prof. Forbes said it seemed sometimes on first sight as though other trees than conifers must produce cones. We are expecting to introduce a power sprayer for our large trees this winter and renew ac- (j,S THE NUT-GROWER tivities along tliese Hues. Uiie important effect already being felt in our neighborhood is the fact that the native el- ement who knew the value of one or two seedling trees are not only changing their attitude toward us in now calling us wise instead of foolish for putting so much money into pecan holes, but are themselves setting and caring for every tree we have given them, like so many prize animals, and wishing they had put in trees long ago. We have given away fifty or more trees to our near neighbors and one of them bore two nuts when only three years old. Quite a num- ber of our neigh Ijors are no.v planning to put in pecan trees with Satsuma oranges between. Now, I do not wish to give the impression that one can stick trees in the ground in BahUvin county l)etween growing pines or even Ijetween the stumps, and without care afterwards expect a fine crop of nuts in five, ten or even fifteen years. But let who- ever undertakes this most fascin- ating and interesting nature study get down to dry facts and figures. As we have learned, the pecan may be tested for many genera- tions yet before it has had a fair chance with cultivated fruits, and tiien, long after, will some student of this special nut dis- cover the world-famous pecan, which will be sold in all the markets of the world as the famous American nut. When Mr. Banning went to one of our Cliicago fruit c ealers some four years ago and asked for Schley pecans, he was told tliat they were like gold nuggets and alx>ut as iiard to find. For the last two seasons the finest varieties have been selling for ijiLOO to $1.50 per pound, with the price going up iiisteail of down. We feel that the pecan tree is more valuable than the apple, and, like the apple, it should re- ceive much care and attention for the first eight or ten years. On the sunny slopes of our South- ern hillsides and along the val- leys of our Southern streams, the pecan should have the same loving, faithful care to bring it into its perfection as has the Mcintosh Red of the Bitter Root Valley, the Grimes Gold- en, Newtown Pippin and Jona- than of the now famous H )0lI River and Yakima Valleys, or the Arkansas Reds of Winatche Valley of our Northwest terri- tory. Give the best food and best cultivation to the tree un- til its character is formed. Fruit Trees Shade Trees A Pioneer Grafted Tree Editor Nctt-Grower : I recently examined a pecan tree between Columbus and Ous- seta, Ga., which was very inter- esting to me, and thinking that a history of the same would be interesting to nut growers in general, I will try to give you its history. I have known the tree for three or four years, but only recently found out something definite about it. The tree is a large one, meas- uring about three feet in diam- eter, is in fine condition and bears large and regular crops of very good nuts. It stands on the La llatt farm, near the ]() mile house on the main road be- tween Columbus and Cusseta. Mr. W. E. Wardlaw, of Colum- bus gives the following history of the tree. Fifty-five years ago, in his presence, Mr. Chas. H. La Hatt, formerly of New York, but then living near Columbus, found a small hickory tree grow- ing on his farm and grafted it with a pecan scion; so it is now what we call a top-worked hick- ory. I do not know of any older tree of this character in this part of the country. J. P. Gill. Albany, Ga. [The Editor is always glad to receive communications on any subject of general interest such as the above.] AND Ornamental Shrubbery ALSO Field Grown Rose Buithes Before you place your order write us for prices aud one of our descriptive catalogs. TURKEY CREEK NURSERY BOX 21, .HACCLENNY, FLA. C. P. Barber, President. J. E. Barber, Secretary. FOR SALE Leading varieties of Budded and Grafted Pecan Trees and Nuts Also Budding and Grafting Wood from bearing trees. Contracts taken for top- working .seedling trees and caring for groves. Our groves contain over 4.000 budded trees of tlie best standard varie- ties aud is tlie oldest budded grove in Georgia. Gillgrove Pecan Nurseries J. p. GILL, Mgr. ALBANY. GA. Southern Orchards and Homes A handsome journ- al of Southern hor- ticulture. WRITE FOR SAMPLE COPIES Houston, :: :: Texas Gainesville INurseries Gainesville, Pia. Specialists in Budded and Grafted Pe- can Trees of reliable known varieties. Our catalog contains information on sel- ecting, planting, culture, etc., and is free for the asking. Graft wood for sale. Our orchards contain over 40 named varieties. n. S. GRAVI^$t, Proprietor Pecan Trees ^ ,, , ^__^_^^^^___ Grafted THE LEADING VARIETIES PRICE L[ST R. T. RAMSAY ^^^K.IsT'"'" Poultry, Fruit, Nuts 25 cents a year. Circular free. American Hen Magazine Conac3 Bluffs, la. THE NUT-GROWER fi9 ..About Florida.. | ]j Men Who Have Made the Pecan Industry Deiailed iufoniiatiou about rliis state fjiveu weekly in The Florida Grower .1 Paper for the Orchardist, Poul- try J^aiicicr, Truck Groiver (ivd Plain Farmer. Price ■fl.OO per Tear. CLUBBINU OFFER Truck Farming in the Evt-r- ir/ai/ci\ by Walter Walileu. Reg- 'iilar price, .fl.OO; witli Floridii Grower, |1.50. V p-to-datc Truck Gro-vtjig in the South, by J. R. Davis. Regu- lar price, $1.00; witli Florida Grower, |1.50. Citrus Culture for Profit. Reg- ular price, .50c'; with Florida Grower, $1.00. C itru.'i Fruits and Their Cul- ture, by H. Harold Hume. Reg- ular price, $3.50; witli Florida Grower, $3.00. All these books and The Florida Grower for $4 00. Map of Flori- da with list of cities, towns, etc., given with eacli $1.00 sub-scri])- tion. One issue monthlj' is devoted more to general information about Florida, questions answered, etc. Price, 2.5c yearly. Sample cojiies on request. THE FLORIDA GROWER 817 Florida Ave. TAMPA, FLA. " •^-•ff "C- "C ^'C-'?--^- ^-^'C'?- -C- "S'-"5'-^- ^-^-■C-'C- 'C'C- ■C-'C' White's Budding Tool A scientific instrument for the proiiagation of Pecans Hickories, Walnuts, Cliest- uuts, Per.slmmons and all other trees, by tlie Annular Semi-annular, Patch and Veneer methods. Several hundreds of (his Tool in use in United Slates and abroad Budding and Grafting Wood of best vari- eties of Pecans For particulars and prices write HERBERT C. WHITE DE WITT, GEORGIA Grafted Pecan Trees Of Select Paper Shell Varieties* NOT THE MOST- ONLY THE BEST Bayview Nursery C. FORKERT, Proprietor OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI HERBERT C. WHITE Herbert C White, second vice-president til' the National Nut Growers' Association, is an Englislinian by birtli and educa- tion, but has been in tiiis coun- try for al)out twenty years. While trained for the legal pro- fession, his inclination and dis tiiictive worlv has been in hor- ticultural lines, starting fi)st with study of citrus in Florida, and later taking up tlie pecan which has brought him into pub lie notice. In the spring of 1902, Mr. White became identified with the G. M. Bacon Pecan Co., De- Witt, Ga., as horticulturist, and remained with that company for al>out six years. During tills period, largely tiirough experi- mental and demonstrative work at DeWitt, budded and grafted pecan trees were estal)lislied in public favor, and tiie present era of commercial orcharding was be- gun. Mr. White's recent and pres- ent work is along this line, he being interested in and having (diarge of several large orchards. His contributions to the litera- ture of the industry, and partic- ularly those dealing with the practical culture and treatment of trees and the propagation of stock, have been widely copied and read in all parts of the coun- try. Few men have solved by ac- tual orchard work as many of the perplexing problems of soil, cultivation and fertilization for tlie pecan as has Mr. White. He is one of tlie few remain- ing members of the National Nut Growers' Association who have been continually working for it since its organization at Macon, Ga., in 1902, and thus far has missed none of the con- ventions since tliat time. ^ Growers to Meet at Americus As previously a n n o u n c e d , the Georgia-P'lorida Pecan Grow- ers' Association will hold its an- nual meeting at Americus, Ga., May 16 and 17. The program has just been pubiisiied and we reproduce herewith the titles of tlie various papers wiiich are to be read. Fertilizers for Pecan Trees, B. W. Stone, Thomasville, Ga. The Pecan Industry in Jeffer- son Couuty, Florida, W. W. Car- roll, Monticello, Fla. The Pecan Industry of Geor- gia, .1. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga. The Commercial Pecan Orch- ard, Prof. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. Care of Young Pecan Trees, H. S. Graves, Gainesville, Fla. Care of Bearing Trees, Chas. M. Barnwell, Baconton, Ga. At Present Rate of Planting, How Long to Overproduction, J. W. Canada, Houston, Tex. Insects and Diseases of Pe- can Trees and Best Methods of Fighting Them, A. C. Lewis, Assistant State Entomologist, Georgia. THE NUT-GROWER A'^arieties of Pecans Suited to Georgia and Florida, Prof. H. Harold Hiinie, Glen St. Mary, Fla. Horticultural Opportun i t i e s and Resources of Sunipter Coun- ty, Hon. W. S. Lane, Americus. Ga. Pecan Orchards as an Invest- ment Compared with Peach Or- chards, Natlianael Brewer, Jr., Newport, Fla. Work of the Association, Dr. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. Kind of Land Suited to Pecan Culture, H. C. White, DeWitt, Ga. new planting in 1907 was with budded trees, many of them be- ing June buds not over six inches high. Tliere are 400 acres in this or- chard, which is planted on sel- ected land near DeWitt, Ga. Abundant bloom and promise of some fruit was noticed this spring. About a third of the trees are Schley, with another third Stuart, while Delmas,. Al- ley, Van Deman and Frotscher make up the balance. The Gen'iine Committee on Walnuts President Miller, of the Nat- ional Nut Growers' Association, announces tlie appointment of a committee on walnuts as fol- lows : E. R. Lake, Washington, D. C. Robt. T. Morris, New York City. H. Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla. This committee is expected to report on the classification of walnuts at the next convention. Executive Committee Meets The Executive committee of the National Nut Growers' As- sociation held a meeting in Tliomasville, Ga., recently, and adjourned to meet in Americus, Ga., on May 16, at which time it is probable that final action will be taken on time and place of next meeting. It is expected that the Com- mittee oti Program will be con- vened atthis time and possibly the Committee on Ethics will al- so hold a session. 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