The Pecan Tree—Nature’s Most Powerful Food Producer

A leading farm paper, in an article on pecans, published the following, “The nut is nutritious, very nutritious, and we already have numerous instances of one good big tree making more human food than the best acre of blue grass in all Kentucky. Plainly, the tree-nut method beats the grass-meat method of feeding men. Tree crops are to be the agriculture of the future.”

In natural colors from photograph of Lake Marcelia, taken week of June 16, 1919. Note on the large live oak tree at right the beautiful red flowered trumpet vine which wends its way among the glossy green ferns, and further out on the branches the beautiful grayish Spanish moss which stands out so vividly against the luxuriant evergreen leaves of this tree. Mr. Cudabec, orchard unit owner from Denver, Colorado, seated at end of boat, is holding up a fine black bass, measuring a foot in length, which he caught after he rowed but a few rods from the firm, sandy beach which surrounds this lake.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.