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 A man might keep his pecans in an ordinarily cool place, and yet when cracked and opened, the meat of these pecans would be just as free from injury or contamination, just as pure, wholesome and delicious as though they were kept in the most expensive, white-tiled refrigerator.

Pecans are clean, fresh, palatable, and sterile. They are free from waste products, uric acid, urea, trichinae, tapeworm, and other parasites, a3 well as other infections, due to specific organisms. They are aseptic, free from bacteria, and do not readily undergo decay either in the body or out- side of it.

Can anyone imagine a more ideal food to please the palate? There is never any doubt about its absolute purity and freshness and cleanliness.

Pecans should be used more largely as a staple food, not alone because of their high food value, but quite as much because of their health-premot- ing qualities. By reason of their large content of vegetable oil they are a natural laxative, and those who eat them regularly are not troubled with con- stipation.

The kernel of one of the improved pecans is almost entirely pure nutriment. In the raw con- dition it affords a fairly complete and balanced food for human beings. Pecans are not a luxury,