PECCARY 



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PEDAGOGY 



full returns on his investment the owner must 

 wait another ten years. A good orchard of 

 twenty acres will produce a crop of about 10,400 

 pounds of nuts at the end of ten years. The 

 retail price varies all the way from fifteen 

 cents to seventy-five cents a pound. Pecan 

 trees have large, thick trunks, from four to six 



has a gland on the back which secretes an ill- 

 smelling oil. Peccaries travel in herds and feed 

 on both animal and vegetable matter. Some- 

 times they do considerable damage to grow- 



PECANS 



(a) Mobile pecan, showing shell, meat, and 

 ction. (b) Halbert pecan, with like illus- 

 trations. 



feet in diameter at the base; they grow from 

 100 to 170 feet in height. The wood is hard 

 but brittle, and so is not suitable for carpentry. 

 Consult Glen and Read's "The Pecan," in 

 United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin 

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PECCARY, pek'ari, a group of animals simi- 

 lar to the smaller breeds of wild hogs. Two 

 species are known the common collared pec- 

 cary of South America, Mexico and South- 

 western United States, and the white-lipped 

 peccary of Guiana, Brazil, Peru and Paraguay. 

 The common peccary, which is about the size 

 of a young hog, has a grayish, bristly coat and 

 a narrow strip of white around its neck. The 

 white-lipped, which is larger and of a darker 

 gray color, is distinguished by its white mouth 

 and nose. Both species are tailless, and each 



THE COLLARED PECCARY 



ing crops, but they usually offset such depreda- 

 tions by killing reptiles. They can be tamed, 

 but are considered of little value as domestic 

 animals, fbr their flesh is inferior to that of 

 domestic swine. 



PECK, SAMUEL MINTURN (1834- ), an 

 American poet and a writer of fiction, whose 

 verse often reflects the atmosphere of the 

 South, his birthplace and home. He was born 

 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he now resides, and 

 was educated at the University of Alabama and 

 at Columbia University, N. Y. His poems are 

 published under the titles Cap and Bells, Rings 

 and Love-Knots, Rhymes and Roses, Fair 

 Women of To-Day and The Golf Girl. Among 

 single pieces in verse a favorite and representa- 

 tive poem is his Song for the South, which be- 

 gins: 



peerless land of tears and sYniles, 

 Of fragrant glooms and golden hours, 



Where Summer's hand with endless wiles 

 Entwines the feet of Time with flowers, 



Howe'er the tide of fortune flow, 



Thou hast my heart where'er I go ! 



His fiction, aside from short stories published 

 in magazines, includes Alabama Sketches and 

 Maybloom and Myrtle. 



PECOS, pa'kohs, RIVER, the largest tribu- 

 tary of the Rio Grande, rising near Santa Fe, 

 N. M., at the foot of Baldy Peak. Over the 

 greater part of its course of 800 miles it flows 

 southeast, running beside the palisade of Llano 

 Estacado, a great, level plateau in New Mexico 

 and Texas. It joins the Rio Grande in Texas, 

 thirty-six miles north of Del Rio. Storage res- 

 ervoirs have been built near Carlsbad, N. M., 

 to utilize the waters of the Pecos for irrigation. 

 See IRRIGATION. 



PEDAGOGY, ped'agoji. When the boys in 

 ancient Greece and Rome went to school, they 

 were accompanied by a slave who guided and 

 protected them on the way. Sometimes this 



