hen procured. But that time must and will come,
and until then there is no danger of the industry being overdone, and
not even then, because our population is constantly growing; because the
pecan nut is being put to a variety of new uses, and as yet the export
trade is comparatively undeveloped. (See table, page 15.) It would seem
then that the pecan might reasonably be expected to replace to a certain
extent the foreign nuts in our own markets.

According to the investigations of Woods and Merrill,[A] the pecan has a
higher food value than either the walnut, filbert, cocoanut, almond or
peanut. The results of their analyses are as follows:

-------------------+---------+---------------------------------------+--------
| | EDIBLE PORTION. |
| +------+--------+------+---------+------+--------
| Edible | | | |Carbo- | |Fuel
| Portion.|Water.|Protein.|Fat. |hydrates.| Ash. |Value
| | | | | | |per
| | | | | | |Pound.[A]
-------------------+---------+------+--------+------+---------+------+--------
|per cent.|pr ct.| pr ct. |pr ct.| pr ct. |pr ct.|Calories
Pecans, kernels | 100.0 | 2.9 | 10.3 | 70.8 | 14.3 | 1.7 | 3445
Walnuts, kernels | 100.0 | 2.8 | 16.7 | 61.4 | 14.8 | 1.3 | 3305
Filberts, kernels | 100.0 | 3.7 | 15.6 | 65.3 | 13.0 | 2.4 | 3290
Cocoanuts, shred'd | | 3.5 | 6.3 | 57.3 | 31.6 | 1.3 | 3125
Almonds, kernels | 100.0 | 4.8 | 21.0 | 54.9 | 17.3 | 2.0 | 3030
Shelled Peanuts | 100.0 | 1.6 | 30.5 | 49.2 | 16.2 | 2.5 | 2955
-------------------+---------+------+--------+------+---------+------+--------

[Illustration: PLATE II. An Avenue Shaded by Pecan Trees.]

It is a fact worthy of note that the average man requires 3,500 calories
of energy each day, an amount which must be secured from food consumed.
One pound of pecan kernels, according to the above analysis, would
supply 3,445 calories, or only 55 calories less than the amount required
per day. We are not, be it understood, pointing out this fact because we
believe that the pecan alone would be a satisfactory food, though it is
wholesome, nourishing and palatable and should be used in larger
quantities than is usually t