. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 8 CROPS THAT PAY. have been discovered; and improved cultural methods adopted. And this good work is to be continued with the encouragement ol tne National Nut Growers' Association, lately organized, which means that nut culture in the South, heretofore sadly neglected, wiU receive the attention and support it so richly PECAN FOUR YEARS OLD Many people in the Northern States do not know what a pecan is. Those who do, however, are apt to call it the best of nuts, even when they have never tasted one of
. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 8 CROPS THAT PAY. have been discovered; and improved cultural methods adopted. And this good work is to be continued with the encouragement ol tne National Nut Growers' Association, lately organized, which means that nut culture in the South, heretofore sadly neglected, wiU receive the attention and support it so richly PECAN FOUR YEARS OLD Many people in the Northern States do not know what a pecan is. Those who do, however, are apt to call it the best of nuts, even when they have never tasted one of those big, plump, grove-grown fruits, so superior in every way to the common, wild pecan. Like the early French explorers and writers we naturally compare the pecan with the almond, walnut and chestnut, increasing quantities of which are annually imported into the United States. These Euro- pean nuts are very good, in their way, but nut eaters who know the pecan at its best, unhesitatingly declare it a better nut than either of the others; in short, the best nut in the world. Pecan gathering in the South is a yearly event of importance. In Louisiana and Texas the nutting is on a grand scale; it means more than "the younger people making ; The pecan crop of these two States, alone, amounts to millions of pounds, and the small army of men, women and children which invades the forest "with bag and sack and basket, great and small," in quest of Nature's bounty, find remunerative employment during the season. There is great competition between rival "; To get the nuts the trees are shaken, or their branches beaten with long poles. Such as remain in the husks after dropping are tossed into a heap and threshed to loosen them from their four-parted coverings, many of. 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
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