Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number (Missing)
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 6, 1931

VISITOR IN SAN SABA
HEARS PECAN AUTHORITY

Speaker Tells of Beginning of Commercial
Budding Industry

While visiting in San Sabba (sic) recently, M. W. Beck, who is making a government soil survey of Falls county, heard an address by J. H. Burkett, chief pecan investigator of the state department of agriculture, Austin.

Burkett, one of, if not the leading pecan expert in the United States, has made a study of pecans in the field; he has studied them from nature's standpoint.  He was the chief speaker at a Lions luncheon with Russell Burleson as program chairman.

Mr. Burkett told of many valuable things about the pecan above the ground; he said things not seen in print yet, but probably will be soon.

The speaker also told of how he discovered the Burkett pecan in 1899 and how he proceeded to bud from this native tree and eventually developed a commercial budding industry.

Immediately after the luncheon, Mr. Burkett with Lige Miller, Pat Kennedy and Mr. Beck visited Miller's and Kennedy's native pecan groves.  He was very much impressed with both.  After leaving them, he said:

"Mr. Miller's native growth is the most beautiful I have ever seen.  You know, San Saba county is the leading pecan county of the United States, if not the world.  Therefore, San Saba county has something you hear little about.  Have you ever stopped to think that there is not a county anywhere that does not have something that no other has and that nobody else knows about!"

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