=Below is a table showing a conservative estimate of the probable yield of an acre orchard unit in this district. The figures are not guaranteed, but are to the best of our knowledge and belief accurate and authentic.= =The first column in this table refers to the number of years from planting in the orchard units.= Per tree, based on Average yield per Average Income per average records of tree, nuts at 40c. income unit varieties developed a lb per tree 4th year a few nuts. 5th year 2 to 3 lbs. 2½ lbs. $1.00 $20.00 6th year 4 to 5 lbs. 4½ lbs. 1.80 36.00 7th year 7 to 9 lbs. 8 lbs. 3.20 64.00 8th year 10 to 12 lbs. 11 lbs. 4.40 88.00 9th year 18 to 25 lbs. 21 lbs. 8.40 168.00 10th year 37 to 50 lbs. 43⅓ lbs. 17.33 346.60 15th year 100 to 150 lbs. 125 lbs. 50.00 1,000.00 20th year 150 to 300 lbs. 225 lbs. 90.00 1,800.00 [Illustration] [Illustration: ½ Year Old 1½ Years Old 2½ Years Old 3½ Years Old] J. R. Pinson, near our Mitchell Co. plantation, reports 685 pounds from 246 trees, an average of 2.8 pounds per tree, in the fifth year. R. P. Jackson makes affidavit to a yield of 1,056 pounds the fifth year from his 259 pecan trees, or an average of 4¼ pounds per tree. The Monticello Board of Trade, Monticello, Florida, directs attention to 95 trees of finest paper shell pecans owned by H. C. White, at Putney, Georgia, which bore 380 pounds of nuts in the sixth year. 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. [Illustration: 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. ]