THE PECAN 
THE PECAN 
In a I'ecan Nursery in July. Tlir Greatest Care Is Taken in tlie PnipaKation and Oultlvatinn of Pecan Trees Whieh 
Are tirown for Transplanting; to Modern Orehards 
it has few equals and no superiors. Its long life 
teaches us the important lesson of prejjaring 
un.speakahle pleasures for other generations. 
"Its shade is not so dense as to wither out the 
grass nor to breed disease. It is among the 
cleanest trees that grow. Its stately appearance 
and gracefid form, its long well formed branches, 
swaying like ostrich plumes in the breeze, give it 
an attractiveness rarely found. It furnishes a 
fine crop of the choicest nuts. It would seem far 
wiser to fill our yards with these trees, rather 
than the hackberry or other short-lived trees or 
with gi-ass-destroying cedar. Nut trees about a 
home, in addition to their beauty and utility, 
are wondei-fully dear to the heart of a small boy. 
They are some of the sti-ong links that bind the 
erring hearts of youngsters to the dear old home. 
Ornament your home with these beautiful long- 
lived trees. Even if they are slow of growth, 
their long u.seful life more than makes up the 
loss. A few i)ecan trees ai'ound your home will 
give additional fame to our country as "the 
home of the iiapei--she11 pecan." 
Things of Beauty^ 
THE pecan is a thing of beauty, and comes 
as near being "a joy forever" as any one of 
our trees. For there are well authenticated 
records of trees having been cut in the native 
forests of Texas, which by their rings were shown 
to be more than four hundred years old. Pecans 
make as beautiful a shade about the home as 
does the oak, the .sycamore, or any other of our 
native trees. In addition to the beauty it also 
furnishes a valuable crop. For this reason there 
is no better tree to plant around our homes 
either for shade or for profit than the pecan. 
Almost evei-y yard in Moriticello, Florida, has 
pecan ti-ees growing in it. (^airo, Georgia, as well 
as many other towns which might be mentioned, 
has pecan trees in almost every yard. 
There is money in pecan growing when properly 
managed; and the pecans of the South should be 
grown by the i)eoi)le of the South, as is our 
cotton. And while not su])planting cotton, pecans 
should be our great secondary money crop. 
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THE PECAN 
A I'eean Tree l>\varfed by Negleet. Tills Tree Is Sixteen 
Years Old and Is Four Feet Six Indies in IleiKlit 
Food Value of Pecans 
THAT which makes nuts such an excellent 
article of food is that their nutritive ele- 
ments are almost perfectly proportioned; 
that is to say, that a normal body requires so 
much water, proteids, carbohydrates, mineral salts 
and fat, to sustain it healthfully each twenty-four 
hours, and in nuts these elements are foimd more 
correctly j)roportioned, according to the require- 
ments of the body, than in any other article of 
food known to chemists." — The Nut Grower. 
"The nut is the ideal carbonaceous food. It is 
richer in all the food elements than the best beef- 
steak. In the slain carcass of our diunb animal 
friends the presence of death and decay is to be 
found in every tissue. Folded in the cells of the 
nut is slumbering life energy that becomes a 
part of the vitality of the person who eats it. 
Nuts and fruits, full of the imprisoned energy 
caught from the sun, are the strongest and most 
healthful diet for man, and must lead to higher 
levels of moral and intellectual life." — The 
National Horticulturist. 
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