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They are palatable and varied in flavor and capable of 

 being prepared as food in many different styles. 



They are of high food value, as already shown, and in cost 

 they compete on at least equal terms Avith other sources of 

 food. 



After the trees are once established, but not imtil then, 

 no great amount of care is necessary, so far as experience 

 goes ; harvesting can be done by a child, cold storage is not 

 needed, the product is not soon perishable and market gluts 

 will not be likely. 



The life of many nut trees, when properly grown, is very 

 long, much longer than that of the other fruit trees, in most 

 instances. 



Even a few nut trees about the house will supply the fam- 

 ily, help to solve the problem of the high cost of food, and 

 provide some income. From 21 pecan trees, seven to twenty 

 years old, on his own home lot, Mr. J. B. Wight of Cairo, 

 Ga., in 1911 sold the nuts for $500. The Lindsay pecan tree 

 at twenty-three years of age bore 638 pounds of nuts. 



There is no more peace and satisfaction giving occupation 

 than that of horticulture, and no more fascinating branch of 

 horticulture than nut growing. 



