Part 26

In Gardening, Illustrated, a prominent weekly published in London, England, we read: “The shells of the Hess Brand Paper Shell Pecans are thin and easily broken and the body of the nut in this variety is larger, fuller and better flavored than is usual with pecans. The pecan may rightly be regarded as a food of very highest value. It contains 70 per cent. of fat. Its texture is delicate, and it can be digested easily. * * * The demand for the Paper Shell Pecan is constantly increasing and is well in front of the supply.”

=The pecan is the surest of profitable crops=—because after the first five years, during which we assume all the risks, the pecan is among the hardiest of trees. Gathering the nuts and selling them represents the bulk of the effort required after that.

=You cannot be deceived on this score=—the plan on page 38 shows that our interests are mutual. Would we deceive ourselves—could we afford to take any chances if we did not know that the pecan is as hardy a tree as the hickory or oak, and a surer profit payer than any other crop of any sort?

We could not have such assurance on a fruit tree—for every farmer knows that apples and peaches are subject to many perils of frost, storm, blight, borer, and of loss in shipment. Pecans are hardier than hickory nuts, they cannot be shaken off the tree till ripe. Citrus fruits—like oranges and grape fruit—are liable to frost, and spoil so quickly that it is impossible to hold them long before marketing. Paper Shell Pecans can be held a year without losing their delicious flavor and nutritive value; for nature has provided them with a perfect container (shell) which shuts out impurities and prevents deterioration.

There can be no glut of fine pecans—because they can be raised only in limited territory, they have the whole world for a market and the whole year for a selling season. As the famous Luther Burbank well says (see page 26): “=We have now one pecan where we ought to have a million to create a market.=”

An assured increasing market for perfected pecans, at an excellent profit, is back of every dollar you invest here.

Who Should Invest In Keystone Pecan Orchards?

The young man. To provide an income for later years. “He must,” says the American Fruit and Nut Journal, “look to a business that will increase in value and returns. The improved pecan orchard fulfills all these requirements. It is safe, pays little at the beginning, but increases its income gradually, and when ten or fifteen years old will yield ten times more than the same money would in any other business.”

In Health Culture, for December, 1915, we read: “There is but a small territory in the United States in which soil conditions and climate are right for pecans. Of the half million budded pecan trees in the world nearly half are in Calhoun and Dougherty Counties, Georgia. Sufficient is known of the yield to claim that this half of the budded trees has produced far more than one-half of the crop.”

“The chief interest in the pecan centers in its high food value for mankind. The flavor is greatly in its favor; also the pecan surpasses all others in the percentage of fat, the comparison being made with walnuts, peanuts, filberts, almonds, and cocoanuts.”

Who Should Invest In Keystone Pecan Orchards?

To provide now while his earning power is at its greatest, for those years when his energy begins to ebb—=let him plant his money where it grows=. As J. B. Wight said before the American Pomological Society: “=Plant a pecan grove, and when you are old, it will support you.=... It will lighten your burdens while here, and when you are gone your children and your children’s children will rise up and call you blessed.”

To provide an annuity for their wives and families, which will exceed in annual return any equal investment for the purpose and which will yield a growing income each year. No father wants to look forward and see the home broken up for lack of income, the wife deprived of comfort and the children deprived of education—because he put off till the morrow, which never comes, this investment for their protection.

Business and professional incomes vary greatly. There should be some provision for the years of reduced earning power—when conditions beyond your control cut into a mere fraction the satisfactory income of last year. Because pecan orchards have their foundation in land, because Nature yields her crops abundantly despite wars and panics, because the demand for Paper Shell Pecans was not affected by the hard times in the winter of 1914–15, you know that here is a dependable source of income. The period of uncertainty on pecans is the first five years—when we assume the risk!

“For want and age save while you may, No morning sun shines the whole day.”

says Ben Franklin. Are you saving for the “rainy day”? Ask yourself that question—and insist on a fair answer.

Accept no excuses—excuses will not provide for you and your loved ones in years to come.

Don’t say, “I’ll begin to invest when I get a larger income.” If your income were reduced a tenth today—you would manage to live on the balance. Put that tenth now where it will protect you against “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

=Orchard Unit Applications Are Enclosed For Your Convenience Select Which You May Desire, Full Cash Payment Or Deferred Payments=

=Keystone Pecan Company=

=Plantations in Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee and Mitchell Counties, contiguous to Albany, Georgia=

=Northern Office Woolworth Building, Lancaster, Pa.=

=President’s Office Manheim, Lancaster County, Pa.=

Please Mail all Applications and Checks to Keystone Pecan Company, Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Units Full Paid in Case of Death

If any unit holder, who is paying for his unit on the monthly payment plan, and who has made all his payments promptly on the dates called for by contract, should die after twelve monthly payments, in addition to the initial payment, and all subsequent payments having become due up to the time of his death have been paid, but before his entire contract price of $650 has been paid in full, the company will, upon satisfactory proof of death (suicide excepted), furnish to his beneficiary a deed to his unit or units and all further payments on same shall cease. This protects the family or estate of the unit holder who meets his monthly payments promptly against all possibility of loss due to his death. The right to change the beneficiary is reserved to the unit holder, provided he notifies the Company in writing.

In case of my death please make deed to

——————————————————————————- (Here insert name of beneficiary)