Soatdern Nursery Company, Winoliester, Tenn. 
rAPERSIIELL TECAX PROFITS. 
Absolutely true niid reliable facts are given below. You 
can see for yourself the great profit In hlgli-grade paper- 
shell pecan orchards. Read carefully and investigate If 
you like. Tou will find any land that will grow good cot- 
ton will make bier money for you in our high-grade pedi- 
greed papershell pecan trees. 
The owner of the Parker Grove of Mitchell County, re- 
fused $10,000 for a ten-acre pecan orchard. It paid a 
higher rate of Interest on this amount than he could get 
elsewhere. 
The Jackson Pecan Company sold a 75-acre orchard of 
papershell jiecnn trees for ?(!00 per acre. Just set out four 
and five yoiirs. had not cost thorn more than ?100 per acre. 
Five hundred dollars ])or aero on an investment of $100 in 
four or five years is making money niishty fast. 
An attorney of Albany. Oa., was authorized to pay $5,000 
for a 5-acre pecan orchard. 
The Barnwell Grove, of Baconton. Ga., consisting of 600 
acres, budded and grafted five and six years broiight $202,- 
700. This was worn-out cotton land before p>it into pecans. 
.V payable profit of not under $175,000 is worth consider- 
ing. 
Dr. R. P. Jackson sold 100 acres in pecan trees (twenty 
trees to acre> for .$500 per acre, .iust set out three and foiir 
years. Forty tbous!ind dollars profit on 100 acres of land in 
three or four years is miKht.y fine. 
Twenty thousand dollars was refused for twelve acres 
of pecan trees by Mrs. Guunells. $l,(i66.Gf) per acre looks like 
a high price, but the revenue from the pecan crop nets her 
over twenty per cent interest. She could not get this rate 
of interest elsewhere. She was wise in refusing to sell. 
Two hundred and eighty thousand dollars was paid for 
the Tlorlbeck Grove, of Charleston, S. C, consisting of 600 
acres. 
The owner of the Dolmas Grove, of Scranton. Mississippi, 
refused Sl.SOO jx'r aero. The nut crop annually pays a high 
rate of interest on this amount. 
ESTIMATED EARNINGS FROM A FIVE-ACRE PECAN 
ORCHARD. 
Per tree 
Per tree 
Per acre Per orchard 
$ 7.00 $ 35.00 
21.00 105.00 
4th year 1 lb. 
5th year 3 lbs. 
6th year 10 lbs. 
7tb year ,. 25 lbs. 
70.00 350.00 
175.00 875.00 
