A Cheap Purchase is Money Lost.—Japanese Proverb. 
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An INSTITUTION To Serve You! 
O UR SOLE business, which has been our life’s work, is the growing and selling of 
pecan trees. It requires our attention 365 days a year. This is not a company which 
buys trees each year for resale, or sends out agents to peddle them', but a large organ¬ 
ization operating throughout the year, and selling our own trees direct to the custom¬ 
er and for cash only. Nor is it a one-man, one-truck concern, nor a backyard “nursery”. 
This nursery comprises 15,000 acres, of which 1,000 is planted in orchards and nurseries, 
and in which over 2,000,000 trees are growing at all times. 
From 50 to 100 men are employed the year round, many of whom have been with 
us since we began business. They live in their own homes, which we furnish, and are 
happy, contented labor, who take pride in our trees and whose hearts are in their work. 
Thirty mule teams and all kinds of farm machinery are used on our place. 
Each Tree Individually Inspected 
B elow is a familiar scene. The man in the foreground does nothing but inspect 
trees. This official inspector is a trained and expert nurseryman, and it is his job 
not to let a single tree pass that is in any way inferior, defective in root system or trunk. 
The trees are first placed in the vat of water to wash the dirt off the roots, so they 
may be inspected and properly packed for shipment. The other men gather and tie 
the trees carefully, packing as described on page 9. As the trees are growing the 
entire nursery is inspected every week. The inspection is daily, but it requires a week 
to walk through all the rows of all the fields. Trees are carefully watched to keep free 
of any pests and diseases, and to see that they are in fine growing condition. 
Each tree individually inspected. Imperfect trees are thrown out AND BURNED. 
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“7 want to thank you for sending me such fine trees and filling my order so promptly.^ 
—POPLAR BLUFF, MO. 
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