Part 15

The nuts certainly are life size and look good enough to eat. Every one who was so fortunate as to get some of the nuts, and they were quite a few, pronounced them the finest ever. Here is wishing all good things for the pecan company.

R. S.

More Pecan Orchards—A Vital Necessity

Our only problem NOW is to meet the demand for the highest grade Paper Shell Pecans.

America demands more fine pecans—it is hungry for them.

Not only because of the superior food value of pecans; nor only because of their many advantages as the purest, most condensed of all natural food products, but also because of their alluring flavor. As Prof. Hutt, Ex-President of the American Pomological Society, well puts it, “=Once a pecan eater, always a pecan eater.=”

Wherever the improved pecan goes—the world over—it creates its own market.

It is simply marvelous how hungry the world is for these fine pecans, and it will be hungry for many years to come because the increase in supply does not keep pace with the rapidly increasing demand for high quality pecans. The obvious remedy, therefore, is to produce more fine pecans by planting more pecan orchards.

Small branches showing how pecan nuts grow. ]

How Pecan Trees Do Grow

on our plantations in South Georgia once their wonderful root system is established.

Above—C. L. Cudebec, of Denver, Above—A picture to same scale, of Col., and Fred. W. Burger, of same tree, one year later. The Boulder, Col., (right) at a tree growth in one year is shown by planted in 1919 on one of Mr. portion of tree above hand of boy Burger’s units. Photo six months (Maurice Forman, of Nogales, after planting. Arizona).

Pecan trees on our plantations—3½ years old. ]

Our Co-operative Profit-Sharing System

Like all tree crops of value, pecans do not bear the first few years after planting. During this period before bearing begins, the greatest care and attention are necessary—once the pecan orchard is well established, the trees are hardy as an oak.

Footnote 1:

In the proceedings of the National Nut Growers Association we read of many pecan trees which have remarkable records for long life and great yields. It tells of one tree, now 110 years old, which has borne every year for thirty years, bearing 400 pounds of nuts in a single season. Another is now 75 years old and has borne every year for forty-one years—largest annual crop being 800 pounds, average crop over 500 pounds per season for thirty years past. Another property has borne as high as 900 pounds per year and has borne every year for forty-one years.

Our co-operative, profit-sharing plan gives your pecan orchard the benefit of the skill and experience of our trained horticulturists, and of mechanical facilities which it would be impossible for the average pecan orchardist to possess.

Our pecan orchard plantations, totaling over 7,300 acres, are all located near Albany, Georgia, the “hub of the pecan universe.” The land has been approved by experts of highest standing as possessing the rare character of soil necessary.

Corroborating these opinions is the fact that we have right on our property many pecan trees, bearing seedling nuts in large quantities, despite the fact that they were planted thirty trees to the acre fifteen and twenty years ago. Now only twenty Paper Shell Pecan trees are being planted to the acre, because of their vigorous growth. These trees will undoubtedly increase in size and in annual yield every year till they are forty years old—and bear their maximum crop for a century or more.

The Keystone Pecan Company was organized and incorporated for the purpose of planting its property with Paper Shell Pecans on a co-operative and profit-sharing basis. That is, of the 7,395 acres, 5,400 acres will be sold to investors, the investor buying as few or as many acres as he desires. From the beginning the company has been planting the property to Paper Shell Pecans of standard varieties, twenty trees to each acre-unit. It cultivates and cares for the trees and the land for a period of five years from planting of orchard units, and the charge per acre-unit includes land, clearing, furnishing trees, planting, cultivating, care, etc. After this period the company shares with the unit holder in the profits from the nuts as explained on page 38. Our unit plan is considered by conservative investors as the safest, most equitable and most profitable plan to plant our large Pecan Orchard Plantations in the shortest possible time.

We Sell You The Land, And Establish Your Orchard

Under this attractive plan the company agrees to sell to investors land up to 5,400 acres from its plantations. =The interest of the company and its obligation does not cease with the sale of the land=, for on each acre-unit are planted twenty pecan trees of the finest standard varieties.

The company further obligates itself to do all the cultivating necessary—caring for the young trees and the land for a period of five years from original date of planting orchard units, =replacing at its own expense all trees that die, so that at the end of that period your orchard will have twenty healthy, thrifty trees=. All this is done without expense to the buyer. The total net proceeds from any nuts grown during this development period, will be paid to the Orchard Unit Owner after deducting 12½ per cent. commission for gathering and marketing.

After the five-year development period the Company will, at the option of the unit owner, enter into an agreement to operate the property as agent for the unit owner on the most profitable basis, for such period of time as shall be mutually agreed upon, fertilizing and farming the land, cultivating and pruning the trees, as well as gathering and marketing the pecans, receiving, after the necessary expenses are deducted, 12½% of the profits, 87½% being paid to the Orchard Unit Owner. Under the co-operative profit-sharing agreement and plans as outlined there should be enormous profits.

As the expense of developing is distributed over a number of years, the company has arranged to sell the orchard units on small monthly payments, thus placing a golden opportunity within the reach of all investors and giving them a chance to make their money work as effectively for them as if they themselves were operating on a large scale.

Remember, you become absolute owner of the acre of land in your orchard unit. The land is cleared, the pecan trees are planted, cultivated and cared for as a whole on a large scale. This is co-operation under a system which relieves you of every worry and which makes for economy and large profits.

“The pecan industry is a husky infant with almost boundless possibilities. We are building an industry, which, for generations, should yield its bountiful crop of delicious food and bring millions of dollars to our citizens.” Congressional Record of United States, page 1478, Vol. 54.