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Every Bass Pecan Tree is A Bank Bearing Interest. 
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Pecan trees growing- in our nursery. Note size and uniformity of our straight healthy stock. 
An Investment 
That’s Better than Bonds, Safer than Stocks 
I T’S MUCH better and healthier to clip your own “coupons” from pecan trees. Stocks 
and bonds are subject to someone else’s management—the honesty and ability of 
strangers. How many instances there are of people who have invested their life earn¬ 
ings in worthless paper, whereby an even smaller investment in qKipershell pecans 
would have made it possible for them to retire early in life, be 
independent, care-free and happy! 
Stocks and bonds fluctuate in value, and there’s always that 
risk of them going down, whereby a pecan orchard is ever in¬ 
creasing in value. And they grow for centuries! 
We could cite many instances of marvelous investments in 
pecans. Just a few typical ones may be found on Page 17. Pe¬ 
can trees have withstood the test of time, depression and the 
elements, and many southern fortunes have been be¬ 
gun, and built, with these precious nuts. 
Pecans Paid Better than Any 
other Crops During the 
Depression 
P ECANS proved to be the only crop during the 
depression that paid well. You didn’t hear any 
talk about plowing up the third row of pecans or 
cutting down every third tree! 
It is true that the growers didn’t get the price 
they had been getting, but other things were low, 
too—cotton, corn, wheat, hogs, etc. At the same time, 
labor costs were lower—don’t forget that! 
And remember this! All during that time, the 
trees were growing, thus adding to their own pro¬ 
ductiveness and value for the forthcoming years, 
and increasing the value of the land. 
rnm, A. saia We’d rather grow pecans at 10c a pound than 
One of our three-year-old trees cotton at 25c. 
heavily loaded with blooms! 
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“The 50 pecan trees bought from you ten years ago have been a blessing. They are now 
bearing large pecans which I am selling at a good price .”— ROBT. deselle, cheneyville, la. 
