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to consumer, or he may manufacture the meats into simpler forms 

 of confections and so enhance value of crop. 



6. Good profits will come from sale of nursery stock — fine 

 budded or grafted trees, or seedlings — and largest nuts for seed. 



7. The pecan is a tree of unsurpassed value. Excellent for 

 timber and fuel. Most valuable for its fruit. Graceful in form; 

 of enormous proportions. Lives for centuries. 



8. Costs little to establish and maintain grove of fine trees. 

 Crops grown on same land will yield good returns while trees 

 are maturing. 



9. Important cultural points are well understood. Fine 

 varieties are reproduced at will and with absolute certainty by 

 budding and grafting. Field is new. First to enter sure to win 

 rich reward. 



10. Evidence from those long engaged in the industry estab- 

 lishes the fact that under favorable conditions the growing of pecans 

 is a safe, permanent and very profitable business in which to invest 

 capita! ; in short, the most profitable branch of horticulture in the 

 South. 



The commercial future of the pecan is full of promise. Grown 

 nowhere in the Old World, nor in the southern half of the New, 

 it is strictly an American product. With the fulfilment of its prob- 

 able destiny, now near at hand, the pecan will have become "the 

 leading nut on the American market."* None can then doubt its 

 superiority, nor question its right to conquer new markets. Cherish- 

 ing an ambition so reasonable as that suggested by this idea, and firm 

 in the belief that what is good enough for Americans cannot be 

 thought without merit abroad, the progressive cultivator foresees 

 the time when the fruitage of his pecan trees 



"Winds and our flag of stripe and star 

 Shall bear to coasts that lie afar, 

 Where men shall wonder at the view, 

 And ask in what fair groves they grew." 



But that day is distant when the product of Southern pecan 

 groves will be compelled to seek foreign shores for the market 

 denied at home; and pecan growers may plant and till and patiently 

 await the harves'. with the gratifying assurance that the world is 

 th«irs to supply with this best of nuts which, like many another of 

 life's good things, is exclusively American in origin. 



*From "Nut Culture in the U. S." See page 7. 



