AM INSTITUTION TO SERVE YOU! 
Our 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 organization operating 
throughout the year, and selling our own trees direct to the customer 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 
laborers, 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 
Below 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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