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income from a single pecan tree is often more than 

 from several acres of ordinary farm products. 



It is truly surprising that this nut has not ere now 

 received the attention it so richly deserves. The trees 

 are exceedingly prolific, hardy, and long-lived. After 

 they begin to bear, each year adds greatly to the yield 

 and they continue to increase in vigor and productive- 

 ness until more than fifty years old. During the last few- 

 years, considerable attention has been given to the cul- 

 ture of pecans, and as the people begin to understand 

 their merits, the trees will be planted until at no dis- 

 tant time, pecan groves will be as popular and prof- 

 itable at the South, and in many of the Northern States, 

 as orange groves now are in Florida. Many persons who 

 read this will doubtless live to regret" that they did not 

 take my advice to plant a pecan grove at once. The fol- 

 lowing quotation from an article written by E. T Hollis- 

 ter, and published in the Rural World, shows how high 

 an estimate is placed upon the pecan by one who is in 

 every way capacitated to judge of its worth : 



" The pecan is one of the most remunerative crops a 

 farmer can produce. Young man, plant a pecan grove, 

 and it will support you in your old age and enable you 

 to pass the evening of your life in luxury, free from the 

 toil and care necessary to the ordinary callings. Old gen- 

 tleman, whose tide of life is upon the ebb, and whose 

 tottering footsteps are slowly carrying you towards the 

 other side of the great river, plant a pecan grove, because 

 it does not require the amount of care and cultivation 

 necessary to other crops, and if you do not live to reap 

 the benefits from it yourself, those who come after you, 

 and for whom it is your duty to provide, while enjoying 



