Pecan Trees Work While You Sleep. 
A Few Typical Investments in Pecans 
It’s easy to talk about the incomes from pecans—any city slicker or smoothtongued 
stock salesman can talk about the profits from wild-eyed ventures or stock schemes. 
It takes the actual experiences under ordinary conditions to prove certain investments. 
We could cite many such instances of easy, steady and profitable incomes from pecans 
such as those below. Space prevents complete details, or more of the actual experiences 
of others. 
Notice the picture of the tree below. This was one of our $1.00 trees, planted 18 
years before. The owner did not have to wait 18 years, remember, as the tree started 
bearing the third year, and continued to do so, and in its eighteenth year produced 160 
pounds of nuts worth $80.00. That is at the rate of $960 per acre (12 trees to the 
acre), not considering the increasing value of the tree each year. How many invest' 
ments have you ever made that produced more than 400% per year, continued to pro- 
duce, and was positively safe? The tree is now producing over 240 pounds of nuts 
per year, and constantly increasing. 
Another instance of a pecan investment that came to us: Twenty years ago a 
person of our acquaintance bought five acres of land at $20.00 per acre. A few 
years later he planted the land in Bass trees, and was offered $1,000 per acre, which 
price was refused. He realized that by planting pecan trees he had increased the value 
of his land by $950 per acre, for he could have got only $50 an acre for the land 
as he bought it. His land, taxes and trees were readily paid for in the actual increased 
value, and it was worth a big difference besides. 
This $1.00 Bass tree now produces over 
240 pounds of nuts annually, with a stead¬ 
ily increasing yield. Father Bass be¬ 
neath the tree. 
Yes, heavy yields are not uncommon. 
Here’s a man in our own State who pro- 
duced 200 pounds of nuts on an 18'year'old 
tree, and yet another man produced 273 
pounds one year on an 1 S-year-old tree, and 
two years later 330 pounds off the same 
tree, Five dollars invested in 5 trees pro' 
duced in 18 years $6,336.41. ^ One of our 
customers bought two trees for shade, and 
eight years later got 100 pounds of nuts 
off the two trees, selling half of them for 
$25. And so on—-we could name hundreds 
of instances, including one of our women 
customers, who wrote she would not take 
less than $30,000 for her pecan grove of 
Bass bred'up trees. 
Also, please refer to page 27, and read 
of Mr. Casey’s trees, and what he has to 
say about his profits from pecans. 
“The trees are bending over with pecans .”— Columbia, S. C. 
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