J. A. Kernodle reports 17 pounds per tree the sixth year from a group of trees.
J. R. Pinson reports a yield of 2,450 pounds from a 13–acre orchard in its seventh year, average of 190 pounds per acre, or 9½ pounds per tree.
B. W. Stone, Ex-President of the National Nut Growers’ Association, reports a yield of 1,300 pounds from 3 acres the eighth year, which figures over 20 pounds average per tree.
I. P. Delmas reports a yield of 9,750 pounds of pecans from his 325 trees in the ninth year, an average of 30 pounds per tree.
T. S. McManus reports 165 pounds of nuts from one tree the tenth year. He states that he can show average yields of 50 to 75 pounds at ten years.
Theo. Bechtel, President of the National Nut Growers’ Association, reports a yield of 100 pounds in the 10th year and of 185 pounds in the 13th year.
A 3½ year old tree on our plantations on which 44 nuts were counted by the men in the picture, A. S. Perry, Secretary of the National Nut Growers Association, Thos. F. Miller, Allentown, Pa., Prof. W. S. Hafer, Womelsdorf, Pa., and by Frank R. Ritter, Fleetwood, Pa. The nuts, being still small and practically the same color as the foliage, cannot be seen in the photograph.
B. W. Stone, in his book, “The Pecan Business,” tells of one tree which in its seventh, eighth and ninth year bore an aggregate of 200 pounds of nuts. The same tree bore 106 pounds in its tenth year.
I. P. Delmas reports a yield of 235 pounds of pecans from a tree thirteen years old.