Nut War

Pecans are grown in all but eleven States. They are kin to the hickory nut, whose popularity they supplanted. Vice President-elect John Nance Garner has six acres of pecan trees on his Texas ranch, and fortnight ago his Stuart pecans won first place at the West Texas Pecan Fair at Rising Star. His crop this year came to 1,000 lbs. Pound for pound, pecan meat is twice as nutritive as pork chops, five times as nutritive as veal. No other nut is so fatty. Southern cooks use pecans in their famed crisp pralines.

The pecan industry, busy last week moving the 1932 crop off to market, was not so busy that it' could overlook some bad-blood that had reached the spilling point. The-fight began last October when National Nut News published a letter from big Southland Pecan Co. of Columbus. Ga., attacking National Pecan Marketing Association, a Farm Board-sponsored cooperative, for being a Governmental agency in competition with citizens. The N. P. M. A. replied that it was grower-owned and controlled, borrowing money from the Farm Board only as it would from a bank. Last week Southland President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect no lesser fate than India with its strife and turmoil

Pecan prices remained unchanged in Manhattan at 23-c- per lb.

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