Largest Pecan Orchard in Alabama. 



H dream came true — such is the Reed Pecan Orchard — the 

 largest in the State of Alabama. E. B. Reed, the dream- 

 er twelve years ago dreamed that pecan trees would draw a 

 fortune from the hills of Alabama. 



The Reed Pecan Company was organized last year. The 

 man who dreamed the dream sold some $18,000 worth of the 

 stock, retaining for himself a controlling interest in the $50,- 

 coo capitilization. Moreover, he gathered some several thou- 

 sand dollars' from his pecan orchard for the one year. Mr. 

 Keed if he chose to do so could sit quietly, and without lifting 

 a hand gather this fall $8,000 or $9,000 or maybe $10,000. 

 With no worry, no anxiety, no uneasiness about the weather 

 Mr. Reed could sit upon the front porch of his residence and 

 watch his fifty acre pecan orchard bring him a small fortune of 

 eight or ten thousand dollars. , 



Experimenters are not failures all the time. Some of them 

 make good. All dreamers do not go through the world with 

 empty pockets'. Some of them gather gear even as they had 

 expected they would. 



The man who had visions of money coming out of a big 

 pecan orchard is one of the exceptions to the rule. His neigh- 

 bors smiled at him in a knowing way when he planted fift}' 

 acres in pecan nuts. It was the rankest sort of an experiment. 

 It would be years before he could draw a cent from the or- 

 chard, eight years, at the very least. The idea of such an ex- 

 periment. 



But the man with the idea had faith — and he had patience. 

 Patience was infinitely more needed than faith. And so the 

 man went ahead with his work and with his ideas. 



To make expenses he grew a cotton crop among the young 

 and tender trees. For one reason, he did this because culti- 

 vation of cotton helped the trees. If the cultivation of cotton 

 had interfered with his' idea Mr. Reed would not have grown 

 any cotton. For eight years he planted cotton. Then he 

 quit, for his orchard was bearing pecans and the wholesale mer- 



