able in part to our carnivorous habits. Excessive meat eating is not 
the sole cause of these and many resultant troubles, but it does play a 
very important part in bringing them about. After awhile there will 
be a cry raised, the first echoes of which may already be heard, of 
i'Back to nature." When this is heeded more nuts and fruits will be 
used and less meats; and then people will live longer and with a higher 
degree of efficiency. The advance guard of our civilization has already 
reached this point, and has demonstrated to their own satisfaction as 
well as that of others, that a change in our diet along these lines is de- 
sirable both from the standpoint of health and of efficiency and 
economy as well.' There is, therefore, an increased demand for nuts 
which has made a proportionate shortage in the supply of pecans. 
Here is a reason which appeals to every land owner to grow his annual 
supply of pecans as religiously as he does his "hog and hominy." 
We need to take the pecan f I om the list of luxuries, where most 
persons place it, and put it in the class of staple necessities where it be- 
longs. This will be done when increased production shghtly lowers the 
price of the better grades of pecans, which will allow the ordinary fam- 
ily to pmchase them on the basis of their food value rather than as a 
luxury. 
"Conservation" and "economy" have by the exegencies of the sit- 
uation become almost twin terms. Whether in war or in peace, it is 
becoming more and more necessary to make the proverbial two blades 
of grass grow where only one grew before. Take this fact in connec- 
tion with the other well known one that the rapid destruction of our 
forests is beginning to manifest itself in unfavorable climatic and meterc- 
logical changes, and we have an unanswerable reason for the extensive 
setting of the pecan. 
Why grow a weed where a flower or useful plant can be just as 
easily produced? Why plant a poplar or a sycamore or even an oak 
where a pecan, which makes just as pretty a shade, can fill and more 
than fill the place of trees grown merely for ornament? Furthermore, 
the increase in revenue that will come to the average family from a 
dozen or more trees growing about the hom.e, will in many cases make 
the diffeience between a surplus and deficit in profits at the end of the 
year. 
There are many pecan orchards in Georgia containing from 100 to 
3,000 acres of trees. Some of these trees are being well cared for and 
