y, although there is a comparatively small number of trees in most
of the Piedmont and Mountain counties, and several counties in the lower
Coastal Plain. Orangeburg County, with the largest number, had 27,528.
Pickens County, with the fewest trees, had 801. The total for the state
was reported as 227,027 trees.

Pecans are an important money crop of the state. During the last five
years the production of pecans has averaged three million pounds, which
brought farmers a yearly average of $500,000. The average yield per tree
of bearing age in 1947 was only about 7 pounds, or 100 pounds per acre.
Eighteen cents was the average price received for improved varieties,
and twelve cents for seedlings, during the ten-year period 1935-1944.
With these prices and yields per bearing tree, it is easily seen that
there is plenty of room for improvement, for the production of pecans in
South Carolina by the average grower has not been very profitable during
the past nine or ten years. South Carolina has ranked fifth or sixth in
the production of pecans of improved varieties during the past several
years. While production from year to year has been up and down, the
general trend is up.

There are two general classes of pecan trees grown in South Carolina:
seedlings and named or improved varieties. The average crop figures over
the ten-year period 1933 to 1942, show that six times as many nuts of
improved varieties were produced as of seedlings. South Carolina
produces about 6% of the pecan nuts of improved varieties in the United
States and less than 1% of the seedlings. The seedling trees are for the
most part given very little attention, receiving neither fertilizers nor
sprays. They produce nuts of miscellaneous size, shape, and quality, and
are usually smaller than the improved varieties. The cost of production
of seedling pecans is small for they are usually grown in back yards, in
chicken ranges, and in pastures.

There are a number of pecan varieties that are adapted to and grown in
South Carolina. The most popular varieties are Schley, Stuart, Success
and Moneymaker. A number of other varieties, including Teche, Frotscher,
Mahan, Pabst, Delmas, Van Deman, and Moore are grown in some sections.

Schley is very susceptible to scab and should not be planted if a spray
program is not carried out. Moneymaker, Stuart, and Success are not so
very susceptible to scab and are satisfactory where a complete spray
program is not used. S