AIV INVESTMENT 
Safer Than Stacks — Better Than Bnnits 
It’s much better and healthier to clip your own "coupons” from 
pecan trees. Stocks and bonds are subject to someone else’s man¬ 
agement — the honesty and ability of strangers. How many in¬ 
stances there are of people who have invested their life earnings 
in worthless paper, whereby an even smaller investment in paper- 
shell 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 increasing 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 30. Pecan trees 
have withstood the test of time, depression and the elements, and 
many Southern fortunes have been begun, and built, with these 
precious nuts. 
Pecans Paid Better Than Any Other Crops 
During the Depression 
Pecans 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 productiveness and value for the forth¬ 
coming years, and increasing the value of the land. 
We’d rather grow pecans at 10c a pound than cotton at 25c. 
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One of Our Heavy Bearing Pecan Orchards 
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