rods. The nuts should not be left on the gi 

 enough to become wet or discolored by storn 

 appearance and quality are injured thereby, 

 cans of medium size, and below, are now p 



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to the pound, the retail price is rarely below 50 cents per 

 lb. in the large cities, while for seed, such nuts, if of 

 well-authenticated varieties, usually bring from $1 to 

 $2.50 per lb. 



Probably at least 95 per cent of the market supply is 

 still from wild trees and, as the crop varies greatly in 

 quantity from year to year, the wholesale price is sub- 

 ject to wide variation- 3 to 5 cents per lb for ordinary 

 wild Pecans is about the average price paid by buyers. 

 In recent full crop \ears considerable quantities have 

 been held over in refrigerated storage and large profits 

 ha\e been realized m some instances in this way. 



Large quantities of the medium si/es are cracked in 

 special establishments m different cities notabh in San 

 Antonio, Texas and New 

 \ork, and marketed in 

 neat cardboard cartons 

 111 the form of meats 

 ready for the domestic or 

 tonimercial confectioner. 



tail at 50 to bO cents per 

 lb and at a somewhat 

 lower price their con- 

 sumption will undoubt- 

 edlj be largely increased. 

 Insect En emirs. - 

 Among the most trouble- 

 some enemies of the Pe- 

 ( m are ceitain leaf-eat- 

 ing caterpillars includ- 

 ing the fall webworm 

 (Hyph anil la cnnea, 

 Drurj ) which is con- 

 trolled bj burning the 

 webs with a torch at- 

 tached to a pole as soon 

 as it IS discovered. 

 Spraying with Paris 

 treen would doubtless be 

 III 1 ft (tive in case 

 tl I I f should appear 

 H I I iinmbers. The 

 III I I tw It, girdler(0«- 



id I s iiiu/ulatus, Say) 

 IS bometimes trouble- 

 some on Pecan The fe- 

 male beetle deposits her 

 eggs 111 twigs which she 



itteiw vrds girdles to 

 sue h an extent that they 



in broken off by autumn 

 winds and fall to the 

 ground These should 

 be inimediateh gathered 

 and burned to prevent 

 the lar\ je from entering 

 the .11 (iiind Certain bor- 



II II t il h the painte<l 



III k i\ l.oier {Cyllene 

 I Ik Diuij ) andallied 



inibium la> er and inner 

 I) irk but their attacks 

 lie belie\ed to be con- 

 hned to old or feeble 

 trees The hickory 

 bark bori i ( S( oli/tus 4- 

 pon trfcs thit have lost 



not tiUiNible to polish or it ' 



trade fresh Pt tins it the [i nm li 1 i I 



for large thin shelled nuts tor ^red has tonsiinii d so 

 1 irge a proportion of the product up to the present time 

 that market pri< es on large nuts for table use are hard 

 to fix. For fresh nuts, running approximiteU 50 or less 



trate the hull m 

 ping So far is 

 Pecan than on th 

 its hybrids N 

 the infested niii 

 I arxtues (Fit. 1 

 piitl for choice st 1 



