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INCOME 
BUILDERS 
FRUIT TREES SHRUBS 
VINES-ROSES === EVERGREENS 
POWER SPRAYS = ORNAMENTALS 

MORE PROFITABLE 
THAN FIELD CROPS 
A prominent grower says that his books 
show that for a period of years on rich river 
bottom land, if he had had only one pecan 
tree per acre, he would have made more money 
from pecans.than he received for cotton. 
Who hasn’t heard the story of the land 
owner in South Africa who sold his little farm 
and traveled all over the world in search of 
a fortune—and one of the largest diamond 
mines ever found was discovered in the back 
yard of the farm that he had sold. Thousands 
of farms throughout the pecan growing sec- 
tions of the United States have been overlook- 
ing or neglecting the ‘diamond mines’’ right 
on their own farms—good fields of fine pecan- 
growing soil, strips along the creeks, overflow 
land where it’s risky to plant crops, etc. 

SOME THINGS PECANS MIGHT DO FOR YOU 
Pecan Trees Will Replace Unprofitable Crops. An acre of good pecan orchard should pro- 
duce more pounds of papershell pecans per acre than cotton and four to six times as many 
pounds than of beef. And the pecan orchard is planted only one time—cotton has to be planted 
every year. On suitable land, we believe papershell pecans will pay several times as much per 
acre as corn, cotton, alfalfa, pasture, etc. If this is true, and it has been demonstrated many 
times, why not plant pecans? 
Pecan Trees Will Pay Your Taxes. Ten good pecan trees should pay as much as $100 in 
taxes each year, and a hundred should provide $1000 annually for taxes and other expenses. 
Many farms could easily utilize 50 to 100 papershell pecan trees in fence corners, along creek 
banks, about houses, etc., where the land would hardly be missed. 
Pecan Trees Will Repair Tenant Houses. If the ordinary farm tenant house is provided with 
ten papershell pecan trees ‘‘on the halves,’’ the owner’s half should provide enough money each 
year to keep the tenant’s house painted and repaired. 
Old Age Pensions Or Age Security? No elderly couply with 100 mature, bearing papershell 
pecan trees on good soil should ever be dependent upon relatives or charity, for an average 
annual crop of only 100 lbs. papershell pecans per tree at a low price of 15c per pound will pay 
them $1,500.00 per year. 
_ Providing Annual Income. Would you like to provide for an income of $5,000 per year? 
Then 500 bearing, mature papershell pecan trees in good soil should do it—and perhaps more. 
Pecan Trees Will Educate Your Children. One hundred papershell pecan trees should keep 
a boy or girl (perhaps two of them) in College by providing $1,000 per year for that purpose 
throughout the life of the orchard, perhaps for 100 years or more. 
