Pecan Trees Grow in Wet Season and Dry. 
Some of our own cattle grazing by a barn right in a pecan orchard. 
A Few Instances of 
Profitable Investments in Pecans 
A COLORED FARMER in Texas has av¬ 
eraged 800 pounds of nuts from one tree 
bringing about $300 and as much clear money 
as all the rest of his sandy farm of 120 acres. 
He has refused $1000 for the tree. 
The tree shown on the opposite page, 
planted 18 years before, produced $80 worth 
of nuts in its 18th year alone, although it started 
bearing the third year. Now the tree pro¬ 
duces more than 240 pounds each year. 
A tree in San Saba, Texas, more than 
1000 years old, it is claimed by tree experts, 
produces an annual crop of from $500 up to 
even $1000. 
In Hollandale, Miss., there is a 37-year-old 
tree that produced in one year 1200 pounds 
of nuts which sold for $480. 
Twenty years ago an acquaintance bought 
5 acres of land for $20 per acre. After plant¬ 
ing in Bass trees he refused the price of $1000 
per acre a few years later. 
A Mississippian got 200 pounds of nuts 
from an 18-year-old tree, and another pro¬ 
duced 273 pounds one year on an 18-year-old 
tree, and two years later 330 pounds off the 
same tree. 
Five dollars invested m 5 trees produced 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. 
A woman customer wrote she would not 
take less than $30,000 for her pecan grove of 
Bass bred-up trees. 
Numerous other instances of specific profits could be cited! 
i i i 
“I received my trees in fine shape. They are surely nice, and especially are those ‘Extra 
Specials,’ so much nicer than I expected. Thanks for such nice trees. Your culls are as nice or 
nicer than, the nurseries have here for their best trees. The pear trees are so nice, too. I am 
delighted with them all. So you see I’ll be a booster for your trees.” Mrs. W. C. Duke, 
N. Little Rock, Ark. March 4, 193 5. 
l ___.-a.'-.___ 
"The -pecan trees arrived in splendid condition and we were delighted with the unusually fine trees 
you sent, If I need any more, I’ll know where to send for them.” SUFFOLK, VA. 
PAGE NINE 
