CROPS THAT PAY. 



FULL-GROWN PECAN 



BY PERMISSION FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM 



PHOTO BY C. 



AILL5PAUGK, CURATOR 



the larger and thinner-shelled ones being broken during this opera- 

 tion. To make this work more easy and to quickly secure the valu- 

 able harvest, it has long been a practice of the improvident and 

 reckless nutter to fell the largest trees. In a few hours his ruthless 

 axe has destroyed the growth of centuries. Then, too, pecan trees 



