. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . art and the plants from three 150 Pecans; Planting for Profit. to four feet in the row, according to the character of the soil. If desiredto cultivate both ways, set the plants in checks six to seven feet each soon as the fruiting season is past remove the old canes; these shouldbe burned at once. The young canes should be clipped off when they reachthe height of about two feet; this will cause them to branch and they willbecome self-supporting. Apply fertilizer during the late winter and gives
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . art and the plants from three 150 Pecans; Planting for Profit. to four feet in the row, according to the character of the soil. If desiredto cultivate both ways, set the plants in checks six to seven feet each soon as the fruiting season is past remove the old canes; these shouldbe burned at once. The young canes should be clipped off when they reachthe height of about two feet; this will cause them to branch and they willbecome self-supporting. Apply fertilizer during the late winter and giveshallow and constant cultivation. The most favorite cultivated varieties are the Wilsons Early, Agawam,Mersereau and Erie. Blackberries when ripe are exceedingly soft and tender, and can onlybe shipped with the greatest care to close by markets. Pack and ship in24-quarc strawberry crates, like the strawberry and dewberry. PECANS. PECANS FOR PROFIT. The planting of pecan groves is not receiving the attention of fruit andtruck growers in the South as it should. Every Southern fruit and truck. PECAN8 grower, by planting ten acres of pecans, growing small fruit and truckbetween the rows of trees, can make a good living, provide for his familyand old age. Pecans; Planting for Profit. 151 Plant pecan trees on your truck land, 40 by 40 feet apart. This willgive you 27 trees to the acre. On an average each tree at the end of tenyears, will give you 75 pounds of nuts or 2,035 pounds total per nuts will sell at the lowest wholesale market price for soft shellpecans for 8 cents per pound. This gives you an income of $ peracre, or a total of $1, for ten acres. As the trees begin to bearat 6 years of age, you will have already received full pay for the cost oftrees and cultivation up to the ten years; this leaves you in possession ofa pecan grove worth $10,000, as no sane man would sell an acre of groundfor less than $1,000 per acre that yields an income of $ eac
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