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 is truly astounding, ranging in North Carolina from 17 pounds to 1,246 pounds per acre.

It is not surprising that man should have a desire to start an industry when Nature has given such object lessons all the way from Indiana to Texas and from Texas to Georgia.

The pecan industry started with wild produce, and wild nuts are still marketed in large quantity, larger quantity than the produce of the grafted orchards.

Texas with her millions of pecan trees is easily the leader at the present time, although Albany, Georgia, with a million