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grown throughout the larger part of the United 

 States, and doubtless will be so grown now that mar- 

 ket varieties bringing high prices for their nuts may 

 be bought from nurserymen. The shagbark is at its 

 best in the northern half of its range, and we may 

 expect that it will be to orchardists of the north what 

 the pecan hickory is to southern nut growers. 



PECAN HICKORY 



While the shagbark hickory stands first in rank 

 for the quality of its nuts the pecan hickory sur- 

 passes it as a market product up to the present time, 

 and likely enough will continue to hold that position. 

 We do not buy Holstein milk for flavor if we can get 

 Jersey, Ayrshire, or Guernsey milk, but the Holstein 

 people dominate the market. A fundamental point is 

 one relating to abundant production. The pecan 

 hickory bears enormous crops of nuts. Further- 

 more, kernels of pecan nuts are extracted with such 

 facility by machinery from some of the varieties 

 that a great and delicious food supply is put on the 

 market with ease. Many of the small, undersized 

 varieties of pecan nuts have high quality, and this is 

 true of some of the larger kinds also. People who 

 accept Holstein milk, Elberta peaches, Ben Davis 

 apples and Kieffer pears without a whimper, buy 

 also the very largest thin-shelled pecans. Very 

 likely the public will become educated in the matter 

 later. We have passed the point where people of dis- 

 criminating taste step into the market and simply ask 

 for large red apples. When the market man asks 



