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bought it in 1942. The next year, when I also had my good crop, he
nearly paid for the place with proceeds from the nuts.

However, like ourselves, he has had practically no nuts since, and is so
much discouraged that he plans to take out some of the trees. The
varieties there are mostly Moneymaker, Schley and Success. The same
varieties are also in a small orchard of another neighbor, who reports
that Success does best. The trees owned at one time by Dr. Stubbs seem
not to be cultivated at all, but are grazed and mowed, and the orchard
is now rather a tangle of briers and weeds.

+We Grow Bulbs with Pecans+

As this is primarily a daffodil farm, and the trees have the best land,
it is also used for bulb growing. The daffodils are a much surer crop
with us than pecans. We sell both flowers and bulbs. The season for
daffodils is in March and April which is well ahead of the pecans. The
pecans do not leaf out early enough to shade the daffodils, and I can't
see that they injure them in any way except in very dry years. Bulbs
near the trees do just as well as those in the open field and sometimes
bloom earlier.

All cultivation and fertilization that the trees get is what is accorded
the bulbs. As soon as the season is ended for bulbs, we begin
cultivating. We go over the bulbs about three times before the tops die
back to the ground, in late May. In late July, we mow the weeds, which
are high by that time. We frequently mow again later in the fall. We
take up the bulbs every two or three years in June, cure them in trays
in airy buildings, grade them, sell some, and replant what we need to
keep up our supply. When a plot is dug, we plant it with soybeans, turn
them under in late summer and replant with a winter cover crop, rye or
clover usually. That crop is turned under the following late April when
the rye is usually waist high. We replant again with beans which are
turned under in July.

If we think the soil needs more humus, we repeat the process another
year. During this rotation we apply 0-14-7 at least twice, usually with
the first two plantings. The land is limed only at long intervals, as
daffodils like a soil rather on the acid side. Of course, during this
cultivation and planting, we plow rather close to the trees, within
about four feet, and sometimes cut the roots. You may well think that
this accounts for their not bearing well, but in this neighborhood there
is the same story with trees that are