Excerpt from The Pecan Business for Profit and Pleasure: From Planting the Nuts to Gathering the NutsThe thinness of shell and high quality of kernel make the pecan, a native species of American hickory, the Queen of nuts.New methods of propagation by budding and grafting, together with the aid of crack ing machines, enable the possibilities of the industry to be unlimited.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.