. The City of Albany and Dougherty County . Southern capital, is also arranging for the planting of 1,000 acres of budded and grafted trees. Ourenthusiasm is the result of personal knowledge and wide investigation of the subject. An article of this kind would be incomplete without a few words as to the cost of starting and the subsequentexpense of caring for a pecan grove. Cleared land both suited for pecans and general farming (the two going handin hand) can be bought at prices ranging from $3 to $20 per acre, depending almost entirely upon area required andIts proximity to transportation fac
. The City of Albany and Dougherty County . Southern capital, is also arranging for the planting of 1,000 acres of budded and grafted trees. Ourenthusiasm is the result of personal knowledge and wide investigation of the subject. An article of this kind would be incomplete without a few words as to the cost of starting and the subsequentexpense of caring for a pecan grove. Cleared land both suited for pecans and general farming (the two going handin hand) can be bought at prices ranging from $3 to $20 per acre, depending almost entirely upon area required andIts proximity to transportation facilities. The preparation of the land, the cost of trees and planting same, is inconsider-able when, after a few years, the large and increasing annual profits are figured out. If good, thrifty three-year-oldbudded and grafted trees are set out, they will, under suitable culture, be yielding from 3 to 1 0 pounds of nuts pertree in 5 years, increasing to 50 to 150 pounds and over in 10 years, at which time the trees will be actually 13 years. Ihuto by Ilulland. 1 :.? illK OF THE G. M. BACON PECAN UK WITT, C.\. old. The commonest cultivated pecan nuts now net the grower from 7 to I 0 cents a pound, while the range in priceaccording to size is as high as $3 per pound, and the supply of the finest nuts at fancy prices is far below the we plant 32 trees to the acre (which is exactly 40 feet apart) the yield the tenth year from transplantation may ruaas high as 4,800 pounds per acre with some known varieties of great annual prolificness; but allowing the utmost con-servativeness, and reducing this 75 per cent., we still have 1,200 pounds, which, if of the standard varieties, would netnot less than 40 cents per pound, making $480 wholesale in bulk, and from among which many pounds of largenuts could be selected which would command $ I to $3 from those who, through inexperience and ignorance, still per-sist in relying upon large plantings of seedlings, with
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