One of Mississippi's Wealth Producers 



The early French settlers found the pecan growing in all its majesty and 

 grandeur here 300 years ago, and modern science and painstaking care and atten- 

 tion have developed these nuts into the toothsome delicacy that gastronomic 

 connoisseurs pronounce the finest contribution ever made to the table. 



The paper-shell pecan takes its name from the fact that the shells can be 

 easily broken by crushing two of them in the palm of the hand. They will average 

 from thirty-five to 'fifty nuts to the pound and prices the past few years have 

 ranged from 75 cents to $1.25 per pound, and the yields from the trees are 

 measured only by the rare and attention the grower has given his orchard. When 



Drying Pecans 

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