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Show Pecan Orchards In the South. "Just as the, peoplo of tho north oat pennuts In gieat quantities so do tho peoplo of tho south eat pecans," remarked re-marked Allan Dupre, a merchant of New Oilcans. "On tho streets of Now Orleans aro many venders who sell thorn In all sorts of ways shelled, iinshcllod and lu candy form Peanuts Pea-nuts aro sold, too, but pecans havo a fat gicater tale "To meet the demand for them, which 1 growing, pecan orchards aro now being laid out In tha bottom lands of the far sou,th. Whon-old timber la mil tUiun norau trees are; nlantcd. it Many pecm orchaids are graduallly H growing up The) aro of slow H growth, roipilrlug about 15 or 20 H years lo reach maturity, but thy are H piotltable The main supply conies H fiom Mexico, some CO carloads of H shelled pecans being shipped from H there every year, for (he most part to H he consumed In the south, but in a H decade tho main supply will come H from the southern states, which will H thus gain a new Industry." H |