. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. 15 who is looking for cheap pecan trees is very likely to get these "runty" trees, and if he does so he will find them by long odds the most expensive trees he ever purchased in his life. They may cumber his ground for a decade or so, but they will never give him a crop. An intending planter should fear cheap pecan trees as he would a pesti- lence. It takes three and four years under the most favorable nursery conditions to produce a good grafted or budded pecan tree. On ac- c
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. 15 who is looking for cheap pecan trees is very likely to get these "runty" trees, and if he does so he will find them by long odds the most expensive trees he ever purchased in his life. They may cumber his ground for a decade or so, but they will never give him a crop. An intending planter should fear cheap pecan trees as he would a pesti- lence. It takes three and four years under the most favorable nursery conditions to produce a good grafted or budded pecan tree. On ac- count of their enormous taproots pecan trees cannot be dug by machinery and handled in the wholesale way in which peaches and apples are treated in most nurseries. Each tree must be dug sepa- rately and by hand, and especial care must be taken not to injure the taproot. The foregoing explanation will make it plain why budded and grafted pecans cannot be handled at the same price as other nursery Fig. 6.—Pecan Tree Sixteen Years Old, Showing Lack of Cultivation. 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 square is the least distance 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 conceded 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. My experience and observation has led me to decide that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations m
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