. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 16 The Bulletin. 60 feet apart is the proper distance for setting pecan trees. The pecan tree is a very long-lived, large-growing tree, and one should al- ways consider what land a tree will require when it comes to its greatest growth and productiveness. Many well set and tended orchards have failed to give their best production because at the very time when they should be giving their greatest returns they found themselves starved for root and leaf space on account of too close planting. At 60 feet
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. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 16 The Bulletin. 60 feet apart is the proper distance for setting pecan trees. The pecan tree is a very long-lived, large-growing tree, and one should al- ways consider what land a tree will require when it comes to its greatest growth and productiveness. Many well set and tended orchards have failed to give their best production because at the very time when they should be giving their greatest returns they found themselves starved for 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 pecan orchard would scarcely exceed the cost of setting an orchard of peaches or apples. HOW TO GET A PECAN GROVE. On account of the wide distances at which the trees are set a pecan orchard is less expensive than orchards of other trees, because the nut trees take practically no room for a few years and the ordinary 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 profitable orchard cheaper than in any part of the country.. Fig. 7.—Pecan Orchard at Xorfleet, Halifax County, X. C, Grown in a Cotton Field. The orchard shown in Fig. 7, at Xorfleet, Halifax County, X. C, belonging to Judge Walter Clark, of Raleigh, was grown in a cotton field. The land has not missed a single crop in the fifteen years since the trees were set. They are 60 feet apart and cotton is now suc- cessfully grown on the land, except immediately under the shade of the limbs of the trees.. 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 may not perfectly resemble the original work.. North Carolina. Dept. of Agriculture.