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I. KE. CHASE, Pres. F. C. BINGHAM, Vice-Pres.
A. J. MARCHANT, Treas. E. M. TREAKLE,
Sec’y and Gen’l Mgr.

SOUTHERN NUT NURSERY COMPANY

We are propagators, planters and cultivators
of orchard trees. The planting and cultivation
of orchards for non-residents is our specialty.
We have been instrumental in the successful
planting and bringing into maturity and the prof-
itable handling of the crops thereof of a large
acreage of orchards, both on the Pacific Coast
and in the Mississippi Valley.

We wish to plant one or more acres of fancy
paper-shell pecan orchard for you and take care
of it ina practical and scientific manner for a pe-
riod of five years. Price of orchard $150.00 per
acre. First cash payment $10.00 per acre and
fifty-six payments of $2.50 per acre per month.
No interest will be charged on deferred pay-
ments. We will issue a bond for deed covering
in detail what we are to do and what you are to
do and at any time you finish paying for same
warranty deed will be issued to you for same.
This bond for deed will also recite that you shall
receive from us four per cent per annum on all
moneys paid by you, for a period not exceeding
five years from date of contract.

REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY

There are seven good and sufficient reasons
why you should contract with us to plant this or-
chard for you:

First. When the pecan begins bearing. it re-
quires no more attention. It takes care of itself,
which cannot be truthfully said of any other or-
chard tree. :

Second. The pecan tree has no material insect
enemies.

Third. The nuts are not perishable and can
be stored and held indefinitely for shipment.

Fourth. Regularity of crop. There is never a
year when an orchard does not have a number
of trees in full bearing.

Fifth. The pecan lives to a great age. Many
trees on the lower Mississippi are known to be
over one hundred years old and are healthy and
are still bearing large crops of nuts. Pecan trees
have been cut down showing over six hundred
annual ring growths. The average peach orchard
in the United States lasts about eight years, al-
though in some favored locations they last
double that number, but a pecan orchard is
good for a lifetime and that of our children and
grandchildren.

Sixth. The high price obtained for the fancy
paper-shell pecan, which ranges from 20 to 50
cents per pound wholesale, according to size and
quality. The wild nut runs in price from 3 1-2
to 9 cents per pound wholesale. A full bearing
orchard is making a very low average, when it
produces only $200.00 per acre, as $500.00 to
$600.00, and more is often obtained in a good sea-
son. We can show you tree after tree that pro-
duces from $50.00 to $80.00 per annum,. nuts
sold at wholesale. We know of families whose
entire living is made on from one to three acres
of fancy pecans.

Seventh. The last reason, but not the least
one, is the fact that it takes a long time to come
into profitable bearing. The grafted fancy pe-
can from the nursery, planted in cultivated or-
chards begins bearing at five years from date of
planting, the tree being from three to four years
old when planted, but when planted from the
seed, it takes from twelve to fifteen years to
begin bearing. This long time will operate to
prevent the great mass of people, who live only
from day to day and only go in for immediate
profits, from engaging in its culture, thus leay-
ing the cultivated pecan through the future, as
it is now, the most sought after and highest
priced nut in the market.

If the seven reasons above are true, they ought,
in our judgment, to satisfy anyone that the pe-
can is the safest and most profitable orchard that
can be planted, and, in fact, the safest, the most
permanent and by far the most profitable invest-
ment of any character whatsoever now offered
in this country. We positively know of nothing
that will begin to compare with the above. From
the first settlements on the Gulf Coast to date
there never has been a loss of money on pecan
orchards.

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A photograph showing exact size of five varieties of fancy paper-shell pecans propagated by Southern Nut Nursery Co, Originals and,dup-
licates shown at any time at our office.

There are thousands of men and women
throughout the country who are anxious to place
their savings where it will do them some good in
the way of a permanent income when they grow
old, or become broken down in health. To peo-
ple of this character we most earnestly wish we
knew of some way to convey the actual knowl-
edge of the truly wonderful vitality, thrift and
productivity of a pecan orchard in its native
country and to make them know, as our old cus-
tomers know, the painstaking care we give to
the orchards we cultivate.

In the planting and growing of orchards we
are successful, and we can plant and take care
of a fancy paper-shell pecan orchard -for you
much more economically than you could do so

yourself, and will turn it over to you at the end
of five years a perfect orchard requiring nothing
but to be left alone.

In the handling and marketing of perishable
fruits, there is a constant strain and worry, as
well as a great risk, from the thousand and one
dangers that beset the fruit from the blossom un-
til it is in the hands of the consumer. Pecans,
when once rightly established, do not worry you
—they take care of themselves.

GATHERING THE CROP

When the frost comes, in late October or early
November, the pecans drop to the ground and are
simply picked up and placed in barrels or sacks

ready for shipment. No skill
whatever is required in the
handling of the crop. October
and November are the most
delightful months of the en-
tire year in Louisiana. No-
where in all America could
one enjoy life better than see-
ing to the gathering of a crop
of pecans during October and
November in sunny Louis-
iana. A person can live any-
where he wishes from Maine
to California during the eley-
en months of the year, and
about October 15th he can af-
ford to spend four weeks at
his orchard in Louisiana see-
ing to the gathering of the
crop.

Of course it is not neces-
sary to go to Louisiana to
harvest the pecans. We, asa
firm, are prepared after our
first five-year contract with
you is completed, to take care
of your orchard, pay the
taxes, prevent trespass, gath-
er the nuts and market them
and do anything and every-
thing just the same as we
take care of our own or-
chards, rendering you detailed
statements of exact cost of
same, and for our services
will charge you ten per cent
of the revenue received from
the land. A person owning
two acres of pecan orchard in
full bearing, at a low estimate
should average $500.00 per

year income.

INDIVIDUAL OWNERSHIP

Budded paper-shell pecan tree, five years old,

are kept as a permanent investment by our Com-
pany, at the same time, the most of the stockhold-

Although we are a corporation and plant or- ers are personally acquainted and have conducted
chards for ourselves, which are not for sale, but successful business in a corporate line heretofore.

Yet when it comes to planting orchard for the
general public, we find from practical experience
that it is better for each individual to hold in his
or her name, their own orchard. They thus have
absolute control of their property as they ewn it
and have a deed to it and no one else can take it
away from them or dictate what policy to pursue.
The company that does the planting, cultivation
and caring for the orchards is directly responsi-
5le to fee owner of each individual orchard and
there is no chance to. shift the” responsibility.
Again, our planting orchards for ourselves, which
are interspersed with the orchards planted for the
general public, is a safeguard in that it stands to
reason we would not neglect our own orchards
and as the orchards are side by side, it would be
immediately patent to everyone, if one orchard
was well taken care of and the other neglected,
hence, looking over orchards we have heretofore
planted, you could not tell, if you were not famil-
iar with the corners, which was our orchard and
vhich was the orchard we had built for our cus-
tomers. Our lands are surveyed and platted by
tne County Surveyor so that there can be no
question as to ownership of particular tracts.

LIFE INSURANCE

In every orchard that we have built it has been
proposed by different people that we couple life
irsurance with it so that if a person dies, his es-
tate would be assured of the orchard. We have
made it av invariable rule to stick to our knitting
in that we are orchard people and nothing else.
Ii a person is afraid of dying before his orchard
is paid for, it is wise that he should take insurance
in a company that makes a specialty of life insur-
ance. Nearly all companies will charge a com-
paratively small fee to insure you for the five
years necessary to make the payments for our or-
chard. It is a fact and also the proper thing that
a life insurance company should insure lives and
an orchard company should plant orchards. Re-
cently there has been more or less scandal re-
vealed in the management of some of the great
life insurance corporations, which naturally
makes many timid people afraid of all insurance
companies. We individrally are believers in life
insurance to insure life, but not as investment
companies. In other words a moderate amount
of life insurance should be carried by each indi-
vidual who has dependents upon him, but when
it comes to making investments for profit, the
amount of money paid by life insurance compan-
ies to individuals on investments is extremely

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small and drawn over a long period of years and
you have to wait from ten to twenty years before
receiving anything. We believe that the great
mass of insurance companies are sound and be-
lieve that in a short time the present flurry in in:
surance circles will have passed away, but if you
compare the profits of any endowment policy is-
sued by any company whatsoever as against the
profits ‘of a pecan orchard, they sink into insignif-
icance. They cannot by any means be as safe as
a pecan orchard from the fact that pecan orchards
do not die, are not affected by mismanagement of
insurance officials, and because, in fact, you own
the orchard yourself whereas you do not own or
control the insurance companies.

One of our old customers writes us that he
bought five acres of pecan orchard of us for two
reasons: First, he expected to live long enough
to enjoy some of the profits of his orchard; and
secondly, he wanted it as an insurance for his wife
and family. He says that he believes that a pe-
can orchard is better than ordinary life insurance,
because the wife and children get the insurance
money in a lump, and being inexperienced in the
use of money, it would in all probability disappear
in the course of two or three years; whereas, if
they had, say, five acres of fancy paper-shell
pecans in full bearing they would get not less
than $1,000.00 per annum, year in and vear out.

We are believers in life insurance. A pecan
orchard is not only life insurance, but is a hread-
winner, and you do not have to die to get the
benefit of it.

Under the present conditions of society it is
almost necessary that every woman, in order to
protect herself against the future, must know
how to make a livelihood. In no line could any
woman, even the most delicate, earn a living so
easily as the owning and managing of a small pe-
can orchard.

Most people seem to think five or six years is
entirely too long to wait for anything, but as a
matter of fact, all will have to wait if they are
alive, whether they buy pecan orchards or not.

The best business people in the lower South
have. and are, planting orchards of fancy paper-
shell pecans. They have the foresight and the
patience and consequently soon gain a com-
petence.

Our orchards are planted with trees budded
from the largest and finest flavored pecans
known. We give our trees scientific attention
from the planting of the nut in the nursery to the
delivering of a grown orchard to the customer.

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Same tree five months later, showing additional growth of two feet in that short time on terminal limbs in all directions.

It is just as easy to look after a pecan orchard
in Louisiana as to look after an investment in the
next county. The mail, telephone, telegraph and
railroads bring us all close together.

LOCATION

Our orchard lands are located on the banks of
the Bayou Teche in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana,
being a short distance east of Opelousas, the Par-
ish seat, and are 120 miles west of New Orleans
and 36 miles north. The Bayou Teche has been
celebrated in song and story. The descendants of
early Spanish, French, German and English set-
tlers still live in the land, the English and French
largely predominating today. Ever since the set-
tlement of this country hundreds of years ago,
it has produced enormous crops of sugar cane and
cotton. The stream is navigable almost from

end to end and both banks are lined with planta-
tions, immense sugar houses and fine old South-
ern colonial mansions. The Bayou Teche, for
hundreds of years, was the artery of transporta-
tion and all the settlements, towns and villages
are on its banks, the plantations extending back
to what in Louisiana is called the “Green
Woods,” where the ancient forest still stands vis-
ible in the distance from the Teche. This land
acknowledged in succession, the dominion of the
Spanish, French, British, and finally, and we be-
lieve permanently, the American. Nowhere in
the United States is there so much history and ro-
mance as along this famous stream. You might
say that almost every plantation house and in
fact, almost every dwelling along the Teche is
surrounded by immense pecan trees, many of
them planted over a century ago, and the banks

of the Teche, when left to themselves, are covered
spontaneously by wild pecan groves. The fin-
est quality of pecans and the most uniform crops
are borne by these pecan trees along the Teche,
no place else in our judgment being equal to
it for quality and productivity. Having been al-
ways a land of plenty, the hospitality has always
been and still is of the most bounteous and gen-
erous character. We know of nowhere in the
United States where one could make a more en-
joyable visit than to this district, and nothing
more pleasing than a boat trip for over a hun-
dred miles on the Teche. The time of the drop-
ping of nuts in November is the ideal time for
a visit to the country of the Teche.

CHARACTER OF LAND

Our land used for pecan orchards is unques-
tionably among the very richest in the world. To
convey an idea of its richness to Northern people,
would say if it was located along the Missouri
River in Missouri or Eastern Kansas, it would
yield ninety bushels of corn to the acre. In Lou-
isiana it has a capacity of from thirty to forty
tons of sugar cane to the acre and a bale to a bale
and one-half of lint cotton, 500 pounds being a
standard bale.

NUMBER OF TREES TO THE ACRE

We plant nine fancy paper-shell pecan trees
that have been propagated under our own super-
vision aksolutely true to name, to the acre. This
number of trees to the acre would make them 75
feet apart. On the character of land we are
planting pecans in Louisiana, the trees event-
ually grow to a height of 175 feet, with 75 feet
or more spread. On poor lands the trees do not
grow to such immense sizés, hence they are
planted closer together. The pecan has a pecul-
iarity of bearing all of its nuts on the terminal
twigs of the outside limbs, which is the opposite
of the peach, apple and plum, where the fruit is
distributed throughout the whole of the tree,
hence if the pecan trees are planted close togeth-
er, they will soon form a solid forest top and the
nut bearing area will only be equal to the square
of the base of the tree. But if the trees are
planted far enough apart, they form truncated
cones and everyone knows that the superficial
area of a cone is a number of times larger than
the square of its base. Many people talk and
some plant their pecan orchards with a much
larger number than we do, talking and figuring

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that they will get much more profit from the
young trees when they first come into bearing,
than if they were where they should be and they
intend and believe that they will cut them out
later on when they begin to grow large, but such
is the frailty of humanity, that they never do it
and in over twenty years of commercial orchard
handling, we have adhered to the rule of put-
ting a tree where we intended it to stay and we
never yet have had cause to regret making and
following this rule.

PROFITABLENESS OF A FANCY
PAPER-SHELL PECAN
ORCHARD

The pecan is an irregular bearer. Some trees
will bear large crops three or four years in suc-
cession and then rest one or two years. Other
trees bear heavy crops one year and rest the
next, but an orchard will always have from one-
third to one-half the trees loaded with a full
crop, excepting cnce in five, eight or ten years,
when there is almost a complete failure of crop.
Many theories are advanced as to the cause of
this total failure, none of which are fully satis-
factory, nor generally accepted by those familiar
with the pecan tree. To those permanently in
the orchard business the points most carefully
considered are the average bearing qualities and
price, covering a series of five or more years. We
cannot pin our prosperity on an extremely high
yield one season or take tke other extreme of a
small crop year, the well balanced person being
always governed by normal conditions and gen-
eral averages.

Until comparatively recent times, the pecan
was not an article of commerce. People dwell-
ing in the natural habitat of the pecan, have ever
since the first settlements by the French and
Spanish on the lower Mississippi, gathered them
for home consumption, it being the preferred of
all nuts of the forest and before their coming,
they were the nut of nuts to the Indians, but as
population increased and railroads penetrated
the country, all kinds of food products became
more generally distributed until now you find
pecans on sale in almost every store in the
United States. The common pecan of commerce
is the wild nut, gathered mainiy in the forests
of Louisiana and along the streams in Central
Texas. When the nuts become ripe in the fall,
they fall to the ground and men, women and
children add largely to their income by gather-

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ing these nuts and hauling them in wagon loads
to the merchant at the nearest Patmos station,
who pays them, depending upon size of crop,
from 3 1-2 cents to 6 or 7 cents per pound. The
nuts are then shipped by the local buyer to the
trade centers, where they are graded for size
and run through polishing machines and slight-
ly colored and they are then distributed to the
retail trade at from six to nine cents per pound
wholesale. These nuts are practically unknown
outside the United States as few, if any, are ex-
ported, the local demand being such as to effect-
ually clean up the annual crops. The pecan is
one of the products peculiar to America, it nev-
er having been found outside of the Mississippi
River Valley and its tributaries, streams in Tex-
as and Northeastern Mexico flowing into the
Gulf of “Mexico.

In the last few years, this nut has gained
greatly in popularity. At first the nuts were
cracked by hand and sold as nut meats. As you
know, they are now on sale at all confectioneries
and fruit stands and are peddled by newsboys
on the train as salted pecans. Quite recently ma-
chines have been invented to crack the nuts so
that the majority of the meats come out whole.
One thing that has retarded the universal popu-
larity of the pecan is the fact that the pith, which
closely surrounds the pecan meat, is very bitter
and in the wild nut indentations or conyolutions
of the meat being deep and the pith being frag-
ile, particles of it stick to the meat, and the
smallest piece of this pith, when eaten with the
meat, is to say the least, very disagreeable and
discouraging. If it were not for this defect, un-
questionably the wild pecan would be the most
popular of the nuts.

We continually read in the newspapers glow-
ing descriptions of the wonderful results ob-
tained by the originators of new varieties or the
crossing and improving of old varieties, yet na-
ture has been from the beginning making these
crosses and occasionally its results are superb
and they are multiplied indefinitely by propaga-
tion and given to all mankind. In clearing away
the forests of lower Louisiana, many pecan trees
were left by the early settlers and the best nuts
to be found were generally planted around the
plantation houses. Out of the thousands and
thousands of trees now growing on the Gulf
Coast, we find occasionally a pecan that is away
ahove the average of its fellows and out of these
better nuts we might say that a dozen varieties
have been selected and have been propagated ex-

tensively. The main points in the selection of
a pecan for propagation are:

First. Regularity in bearing of the parent
tree.

Second. Sweetness of kernel.

Third. Plumpness—that is, the pecan meat
fully filling shell at both ends.

Fourth. Shallowness of convolutions—that
is, smoothness of kernel so that the pith does not
penetrate deeply.

Fifth. Thinness of shell.

Sixth. Size of the pecan.

The pecans propagated by us have all these
qualities to a point undreamed of by those who
are familiar only with the common wild pecan
of commerce. Our fancy paper-shell pecans are
as large as a large butter-nut common through-
out the Northern states, and so thin shelled that
two placed in the palm of the hand are easily
cracked by a slight pressure and the entire meat
taken out free from pith and without mutila-
tion; and their size, sweetness and delicacy of
flavor are incomparable to anything in the nut
line, whether it be wild pecan or any other nut
of commerce. These qualities being so para-
mount, they are eagerly sought after by those
who are acquainted with their excellency, hence
the nuts not used locally are equally sought af-
ter by people wishing to make presents to friends
and by the confectioners in New York City, who
pay a standard price of 50 cents per pound at
railroad stations in Louisiana for them. They
run about forty to the pound and are hence
worth about one and one-quarter cents apiece
wholesale, but they are not so high priced, if you
consider that the shell is extremely thin and
weighs but a small fraction, as much as the meat
and nut meats are uniformly sold throughout
the country at 45 to 75 cents per pound, and
here is a nut that is practically all nut meat and
can always be had fresh, from the fact that
there is no trouble whatever to crack the shell
and extract the kernel unbroken and free from
pith. It will be many, many years before the
average American will have a chance to even
buy these nuts. As there are so few trees in
bearing, or even planted, it will be many years
before there are enough to supply the table of
the rich, and it seems they must be supplied be-
fore ordinary people can buy.

It is a matter of record that mature wild pe-
can trees have yielded from one hundred pounds
per tree to twelve hundred pounds per tree, de-
pending upon the size of trees and the crop sea-

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son, the crop from exceptional wild trees having
been sold at from $75.00 to $100.00 per tree;
but there is great irregularity in the size, value
and annual yield of wild trees.

In tame orchards, where the trees come from
the nursery, having been propagated from one
of these wonderful nature’s hybrids, the nuts of
which we have described above, all the uncer-
tainties of the wild groves are eliminated and
commercial pecan orchards are assured, com-
merce meaning uniformity, regularity and assur-
ance of profit; for all of us who are engaged in
commerce know that the wild, whether man, beast
or vegetation, cannot compete with culture in
its full sense, hence it naturally follows that
the tame or cultivated pecan orchard is the per-
manent thing of the future and the wild pecan
eventually a matter of history. Moreover, culti-
vation means the selection of that which is good
in the wild, the improving and perpetuation of
its best qualities, the elimination of its defects
and the eventual production and distribution of
same to meet the demands its excellence will
create throughout the world.

The wild must pay, and pay well, or it will not
be made permanent by cultivation. The large
profits derived from the gathering of wild pe-
cans was the incentive that started the tame
groves into existence. Of the fancy paper-shell
pecan trees now bearing, it is common for them
under twenty years of age, to yield crops that
sell for $50.00 to $80.00 per tree wholesale to
the trade. Another point in favor of tame or-
chards is that a uniform size, shape and color
aid greatly in the salability and permanency ot
price. Obeying this rule, growers of oranges,
lemons, peaches, etc., make each package contain
a uniform size, for in commerce the eye delights
in uniformity. A barrel of wild pecans from up
country contains all sizes and shapes. Barrels
of fancy pecans are beautiful for their size and
uniformity. An owner of a fancy paper-shell
pecan orchard has the satisfaction of knowing
that every year his trees are larger, his crop of
nuts increased and profits multiplied as the yeas
go by, while in the ordinary deciduous orchard,
he is continually thinking of the time when his
orchard will perish. A pecan orchard at ten to
twelve years old will give you a net income of
$100.00 and upwards per acre per annum, which
would be equivalent to a peach orchard in its
prime, but a peach orchard at ten years old :s
tapidly going into decline, while your pecan or-
chard is really just started in commercial bear-

ing and is good for over a hundred years, getting
better and better, so you can rest assured as time
goes on that your orchard will yield you, con-
servatively, $500.00 per acre per annum.

SAFETY OF INVESTMENT

In the first place, the great majority of our
customers pay for their orchard with a compara-
tively small amount of money down and a small-
er amount monthly. It takes the cash payment,
together with a number of monthly payments
to even cover the cost of the land on which we
plant your orchard. Then there is the cost of
pecan trees, which are worth on the market $1.50
to $2.50 apiece, together with continuous culti-
vation and attention. All this takes money. So
that it is only after a large investment on our
part and a considerable lapse of time, that we
begin to realize a profit for our investment and
work. In the meantime you have had the most
ample time to visit your orchard and see where
the money that you have been paying in has been
spent. This is not true of hardly any other in-
vestment offered to the general public.

YOUR MONEY BACK

Again, our experience, covering many years
in planting orchard for the general public, has
shown that a large percentage of people are im-
patient of the time required from the planting to
the bearing point of an orchard, hence they are
willing and anxious to pay a large advance on
the price of an orchard to be planted, if they can
secure an orchard one, two, three or more years
old ; hence we have always been able, after a cus-
tomer’s orchard has been planted six months, to
dispose of same and give him back the money
he has paid in, plus a good fair interest for the
time the money has run, at the same time giving
us a reasonable profit for re-selling same, so
that there never has been a time when our cus-
tomers, if they saw fit, could not get out of our
orchard proposition with their money back and
a fair profit. This also is quite different from
nearly every investment proposition offered to
you, for if not from personal experience, your
friends have repeatedly gone into investments
that it was a very hard thing to get out of with
their money back, even after a long time. It is
bound to be a satisfaction to you to know that
it is almost as easy to get out of our orchard
propositions as it is to get in. We have always
made it a rule not to hold out false hopes to

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Photograph of a section of pecan orchard, taken in winter time.

any of our customers and we do not make state-
ments that can be taken in two or more ways.
We are careful about making statements, but
when we make them we want them to be fully
understood and we stand by them. Now, we do
not guarantee to sell your orchard and give you
back your money and a profit, but from a suc-
cessful experience, covering many years, we are
satisfied that we can do in the future, as we have
in the past. That is, we sell your orchard for a
large advance over original price. If all of our
customers wished to sell out, of course, we could
not do this, but there are only a comparatively
few who ever do wish to sell out, hence, we al-
ways have many more people willing to buy
planted orchard at an advance than customers
desiring to sell. The above can be verified to

anyone’s satisfaction by our many customers of
the past.

NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE
MONTHLY PAYMENTS

According to our contract with purchaser, he
has four months’ grace on his payments. It fre-
quently happens that a customer, through
sickness, lack of employment, or the many mis-
fortunes that are likely to befall all of us at
times, finds it impossible to meet his payments
inside the time limit and still does not wish tc
have us forfeit his contract or re-sell his or-
chard to someone else, and being satisfied with
the investment, desires to retain same. In cases
of this kind, he has uniformly been granted rea-
sonable extensions of time even to One year or

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more, when the case was particularly acute, 1
being necessary, however, in order to gain this
extension of time, for the party desiring same to
fully satisfy us that the facts are as represented
in regard to his misfortunes. So far, we never
have been imposed on by our customers, having
always found that their statements were truc,
and a number of our customers today appreciate
our leniency in this respect. But, as stated in
the preceding paragraph, if the majority of our
customers required this extension of time, we
could not do it; but experience teaches that only
a comparatively few at a time so far have needed
this extension, which we have always cheerfully
granted,

THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT IN
MAKING AN INVESTMENT

There are no enterprises that will run them-
selves successfully. It requires experienced
management, business acumen and sterling hon-
esty. Of these three, from the investor’s stand-
point, honesty is the all-important one, for with-
out it the investment is bound to’ be lost. Many
people believe that national banking laws make
a national banker honest, that state laws make
the state banker honest, and so on and so on;
but no laws made by man have ever been able
to prevent a dishonest man wrecking the bust
ness in his charge. Human safeguards are goad
as far as they go, but the only real safeguard is
the integrity of the man managing your funds.
And about the only way to reasonably judge of
the integrity of men is their record of years’
standing made in their every-day business deals.

The stockholders of the Southern Nut Nur-
sery Company are composed of folks of mocer-
ate means and some of moderate wealth. The
officers are men in the prime of life from forty
to fifty years old, who thoroughly understand
their business, have been successful and have
made money for themselves and their friends.

Although there has been talk recently of pub
licity in corporations, we have always done so.
Our books, our profits, our orchards, in fact all
that we do, have been continuously open for in-
spection and investigation by all those interested,
and we have found that such publicity has al-
Ways paid us in satisfied customers and stock-
holders, who have ever brought to us an increas-
ing business. We will take pleasure in helping
you at any time to inv estigate any portion of our
business, whether officers, directors, lands or

what not, as we have absolutely nothing to con-
ceal and everything to gain by publicity.

WHY WE PLANT PECAN ORCHARDS

On the writer’s arrival in New Orleans from
California, over twelve years ago, he saw for
the first time, large fancy paper-shell pecans.
Their beautiful appearance, their immense size,
thinness of shell, smoothness of meat and re-
markably sweet and delicate flavor captivated
him, and in all these long years, time has not
changed the opinion then formed, viz., that if
these nuts could be produced in commercial
quantities there was an immense fortune in it
for those who embarked in their production in
a commercial way. The writer has for years
been engaged in the selling, planting and hand-
ling of commercial orchards of deciduous fruit
and only those who are familiar with this busi-
ness, know the amount of detailed work, con-
tinual watchfulness and forethought necessary to
get the large results which are obtained by the
best in that line.

There are times when the most energetic and
unflagging spirits will lag. This comes gener-
ally after a large work or enterprise has been
brought to a successful issue. This was the case
on our arrival in New Orleans. We were free
to embark in any line of enterprise that our
judgment saw fit to engage in. In that state of
feeling, the pecan industry appealed to us as a
lazy man’s proposition, for we were tired to
weariness of the minutiae of detail in selling,
planting and handling deciduous orchards. In
California the nut business had been the least
arduous and the most profitable, and by all means
the most permanent of all horticultural lines on
that coast.

With leisure at our command, we made ¢x-
tended trips over the Gulf states. At first pleas-
ure was as much the end sought as getting
posted on pecans, but later on pecans pure and
simple was the goal sought for. We heard of
groves here, there, and yonder, of individual
trees at widely separated places producing won-
derful nuts, and when we arrived, they were in-
ferior as compared to the best we had seen. We
found many trees in bearing where the planter
had been led to believe that the planting of
large fancy nuts would produce trees that would
bear nuts similar to those planted. Uniformly
these trees produced nuts but little better than
common wild ones. Occasionally one of these

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trees produced very fine nuts. These people
were necessarily very much disappointed. We
found people who had planted what they sup-
posed to be grafted or budded pecans said to be
propagated from well known famous trees, that
were bearing common wild nuts that had never
been grafted. Others were producing nuts of a
different variety from that which they had
planted to produce. We have made fre-
quent trips, covering hundreds of miles, and in
one case, over one thousand miles, to see
young pecan groves that did not compare in tree
growth, cultivation nor general attention to
those we were. familiar with. Occasionally we
found successful groves and successful people,
fine trees, fine nuts and large profits. We found
plenty of evidence to satisfy us that the business
was a very safe, permanent and profitable one,
but at the same time we, with mixed feelings,
observed the general ignorance and credulity of
the average person who was blundering along
in the business. The same general results were
observed among those propagating in nurseries,
many propagators only getting a small per cent
of their grafts or buds to live. The propagation
of the pecan—which is a hickory tree—was not
easy. The business was comparatively new.
Methods and skill more or less crude. The death
rate in nursery was heavy, it being a common
thing to have but ten to thirty per cent of grafts
to live. We knew that time and skill would cor-
rect this, and it has.

We were satisfied that there was plenty of
wheat and we believed that the chaff could be
removed from the wheat, hence we made up our
minds that it was wise, before embarking in the
business on a large scale and inducing our many
investing customers and the general public to
go in with us, that we would wait until the bus-
iness became crystallized—that the different
varieties would be tested by time and that the
chaff would blow away and leave the genuine
golden wheat. So, naturally, after a time. we re-
turned to our old orchard business, which has
always proven extremely lucrative, but which
required the closest attention to get the proper
results. During these years of waiting, it is
needless to say that we have watched the busi-
ness in all its phases from the nursery to the
bearing trees on all kinds of soils—rich first bot-
toms, second bottoms, hillsides, hilltops, pla-
teaux and prairies, on rich alluvial lands, on
white coastal lands, piney wood flats, piney wood
hills, red clay hills and all kinds of clays, on

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semi-pine and hardwood lands, on sandy wash
bottoms, on black wax lands and on rice lands,
for the pecan seems to grow everywhere when
planted and cultivated, but with a marked dif-
ference as to results. We have seen nursery
trees and seedlings grow into bearing. We have
met hundreds of land owners who are going to
plant a large acreage to pecans that still have
their first pecan tree to plant, while others,
hearing their plans, planted and now have the
orchards. We are sure that it paid us for the
time, trouble and expense, for we are now satis-
fied that the chaff has largely disappeared, the
business has crystallized and that it is perma-
nent. It is more profitable than anything we
know of in agriculture or horticulture and more
permanent by far than any crop grown in North
America. The roadway is well beaten. The
landmarks are plain and we now start on a large
scale to reap the reward which our observation,
which our judgment, our experience and our pa-
tience justify. We are not too late, for in point
of number, the trees bearing and trees planted
and not bearing, are as nothing to what the years
to come will see planted.« We are not pioneers,
for pioneering is a hard, weary and expensive
road; but we are in time for ourselves and cus-
tomers to avoid the mistakes of the infant in-
dustry and to reap the rewards due a new but
permanent business.

The Southern Nut Nursery “ompany was or-
ganized with three objects in view:

First. The production of fancy paper-shell
pecan trees on a large scale in a wholesale way,
the trees being absolutely true to name and guar-
anteed and of the very best varieties known.

Second. The acquiring of land best suited to
pecan culture in thoroughly tested localities, the
preparation of the land, the planting of the very
best varieties of fancy pecans and the caring for
same to maturity and the sale of said orchard
to the general public.

Third. The planting of orchard to be owned
by the company itself as a permanent asset, so
that ultimately there will be an acre of orchard
for every share of stock issued in said company,
the number of shares of stock in said company
being three thousand, and each share being of
the par value of $100.00.

The first point necessary was educational so
that those officers of the company who had not
made a specialty of pecan study, would thor-
oughly understand the technical and _ practical
parts of the pecan industry and would personal-

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ly inspect nurseries, orchards and nut trees in
general, so that they would fully appreciate the
possibilities of entering into and carrying on the
business on a mammoth scale. This had been
done thoroughly, previous to incorporation and
everyone connected with this corporation in an
administrative sense is now well posted on the
business in its various departments and is person-
ally satisfied and willing and anxious to put his
money, time and energy to the full in carrying
out the plans and purposes of this corporation.
It is the intention of the stockholders of this cor-
poration that their stock shall have a permanent
value, based on income running through many
years to come so that their estates shall “consider
the stock of this company one of their most lu-
crative assets and in order that this may be so,
the management is so trained that the death of
any one man or several men will not jeopardize
the active and successful prosecution of the bus-
iness.

This company, in a sense, was Lorn with a sil-
ver spoon in its mouth, for, being the offspring
of the Southern Orchard Planting Company it
has the same management, the same officers and
all the stockholders of said company in practical-
ly the same positions as held in the parent com-
pany. The Southern Orchard Planting Com-
pany has been reasonably successful. It positive-
ly has the best location for the growing of
peaches in that great territory south of the Mis-
souri and west of the Mississippi. For two
years this territory was searched as with a fine
tooth comb for a location that would give peach
crops on off years in said territory. This was
found and our experience for the past three
years shows this to be true, as three years ago
there were no peaches in this territory to speak
of, yet a crop on this land. Last year a general
crop throughout this territory, plenty of peaches
at this point. This year, no peaches in said ter-
ritory, a fair crop at this point.

This company planted peaches for itself as a

permanent investment. It has in addition to its -

own orchards, planted, sold and taken care of for
others, over four hundred orchards combined
in one large solid body, each orchard being deed-
ed to purchaser when paid for. This orchard
was first sold for $100.00 per acre, later on the
price was raised to $110.00 and finally to $125.00
per acre. All the orchard now in bearing is not
for sale at any reasonable price.

Orchard two years old, is held by the owners
at $200.00 per acre and orchard planted last win-

ter at $150.00, very few purchasers being willing
to sell at above figures. The Southern Orchard
Planting Company has planted as much as it
originally planned to plant—that is, 3,000 acres—
and there is now no more peach orchard for sale
by this company. The stock in this company has
a par value of $100.00 per share. Its present price
is over $300.00 per share and no stock for sale. In
fact, there never has been a share of stock trans-
ferred by original subscribers, it being the belief
of everyone that it will eventually go to over
$1,000.00 per share. This company has believed
in publicity. Its books have been open at any
and all times to those interested and its orchard
work and orchards have been repeatedly visited
by many people, everyone being welcome. There
has never been a time when any purchaser on
monthly payments in said company could not
sell out his holdings, after holding six months,
at a substantial advance in price and his money
back with a good profit. There have always
been more people willing to buy planted orchard
than there have been those willing to sell their
holdings. Where the Southern Orchard Plant-
ing Company stopped off in the handling of new
business, the Southern Nut Nursery Company,
full fledged, starts in. What one set of men has
repeatedly and successfully done, it ought to
be able to do equally as well, if not better, again.

The first nursery of the Southern Nut Nur-
Company is located at Lafayette, Louisiana,
about twenty miles south of our pecan orchard
lands. This nursery has four hundred thousand
young pecan seedlings and a large number of
trees propagated from the very choicest well-
known and standard varieties. It is the inten-
tion of the company to make this the largest by
far of any nursery in existence of its kind. The
company is now in process of acquiring nurser-
ies in Texas, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida,
with the idea that trees grown under similiar cli-
matic conditions are best suited to the planter,
at the same time a great saving in freight and
express charges. The growing of our own seed-
lings and the propagation of same, direct from
bearing trees of known pedigree, always assure
us that we can depend upon our orchards when
they come into bearing being absolutely true to
name. Shakespeare very aptly states that “Of
all things, to thine own self be true, hence it must
follow as the day the night, that thou canst not
then be false to any man.” We have been too
familiar with the pecan nursery and seed busi-
ness for years not to appreciate to the full the

above. We are extremely sorry and sympathetic
for those who have planted seed pecans and false
nursery stock and have waited years to find that
they have been cruelly deceived in quality and
variety. We certainly do not intend to deceive
ourselves.

A WORD OF CAUTION

There is one point which we wish particularly
to impress upon the minds of the reader and one
which we wish you would continue to remember
and that is that all permanent things, all good
things, all desirable things are in the end ex-
tremely simple. We know that nearly everyone
to whom this pamphlet will go will be new to
the pecan industry and naturally, on becoming in-
terested, will, as every wise person should, try to
obtain all the available data from the various
sources possible to post themselves, so that they
will be in a position to determine what will be
the proper thing for them to do in this matter.
The amount of literature on the subject is mea-
gre and usually deals in glittering generalities.
But as a matter of fact, there is not so much to
write about when the truth is fully known. Cer-
tain trees produce these superior nuts. They are
now propagated by budding and grafting in nur-
series. The trees are planted and cultivated the
same as any other ordinary orchard should be
and should begin bearing in a moderate way at
five to six years old, when they practically re-
quire no further attention. There is bound to
be a permanent literature on the pecan industry.
This takes time. There are many keen men in
this business. They attend strictly to business.
They plant, they cultivate, they produce on in-
creasing ratio, but they seek not publicity. In
the end all things are simple. Pecan propaga-
tion and orchard production are simple in the
extreme. A few simple observances in the aid
of nature, industry, patience and common ster-
ling honesty are all that are necessarv to he sue
cessful in this most lucrative of pursuits. We
feel it necessary, even at the risk of being tedious
and seemingly pedantic, to warn our readers so
that they will go to the bottom of all they read
on this subject from whatever source, including
our own. As this business is to be a permanent
one for ourselves and for our offspring for a
hundred years, it is meet that we should know
what we are doing before entering in.

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METHOD OF HANDLING ORCHARD

In the first place, the pecan nuts are ripe in
Louisiana about the first of November. As soon
as they are gathered, they are bedded by the nur-
serymen in layers of earth, the nuts being in
stratas two or three inches thick. This is an im-
itation of the nut dropping from the tree and be-
ing buried by rain wash in the forest litter. In the
early spring—which begins here usually in Feb-
ruary—the nursery ground having been put in a
fine mechanical condition, the nuts are sowed in
drills, the drills being four feet apart and the
nuts in drill from four to eight inches apart and
covered about an inch and one-half to two in-
ches deep. The nuts do not germinate all at the
same time, but many of them come through the
ground weeks and months later than those first
appearing. The first shoot is quite tender and
has to be handled delicately. Those shoots com-
ing through the ground late in the season, are
apt to be injured by dry weather.

If care is taken a fair percentage of the seed-
lings germinate and live. The first year’s
growth of a seedling above ground is small and
spindling, running from a few inches to sixteen
inches high, but the root is enormous as compared
with the trunk above ground, being on an average
in bulk twenty times larger. The second vear the
trunk grows more rapidly in proportion than the
root and that winter the larger seedling trees are
fit for root grafting. The third year nearly all
the seedlings are large enough to graft. One
season’s growth from graft generally puts the
tree in shape for the market. It is safe in saying
that generally trees put on the market are four
years from seed. These trees in the nursery have
received intense cultivation and proper fertiliza-
tion. The root of the pecan is very large, hence in
planting an orchard large holes are required so as
to leave the roots in the natural position in which
they grew. We make it a rule to hoe trees re-
peatedly so that no mules, cultivators or plows
come in contact with the tree. The trees are pro-
tected against rabbits until grown to sufficient
age that the bark has become tough. This should
be done up to the end of the fifth year.

Although the propagation of pecan trees and
growing of them to bearing are simple, they re-
quire close, practical common sense attention for
the first five years. After they begin bearing,
they require absolutely no attention whatever.
The tree being a forest tree, prunes itself and be-
ing planted far apart, it is absolutely sym-
metrical growing in almost a perfect cone shape.

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Hence, after we turn the orchard over to our
customers, there is nothing for them to do in the
way of cultivation or attention more than seeing
that the nuts are gathered at the proper time.

This company will be pleased to enter into con-
tracts with owners of pecan orchards after the
first five years See periods of three, five and ten
years for a very moderate percentage of the
crops, gathering the nuts, packing them for ship-
ment and selling same, remitting net proceeds to
the owners; also attending to taxes and in fact
everything necessary as though we owned the
orchard ourselves. We have done it for many
hundreds of customers in the past and are quite
willing to do it for you. Althovgh we say the
raising of a pecan orchard is simple enough, yet
at the same time, everything worth any thing re-
quires close, careful and practical management to
get the best results. Our reputation of over
twenty years standing is a guarantee that all of
our orchards receive such attention.

AN UNNECESSARY QUESTION

Many, without thinking, when a proposition is
presented to them, showing large profits, ask if
it is such a good proposition and so profitable,
why do you not keep it yourself instead of sell-
ing it? If this principle were correct, there would
be no Southern Nut Nursery Company, com-
posed of many individuals. It would be a “one-
man” business. Again, if we had the necessary
money to plant all the orchard we wished to
plant, we would have none for sale. We wish
to plant orchard for you to make a reasonable
profit, so that we can plant more orchard for
ourselves. It is practically impossible in com-
merce to work for yourself alone. You must
buy, you must produce, you must sell. It is
fencally and physically an impossibility for us

) plant all the orchard we want for ourselves
aa we are positive it is a good thing for you, as
you have a chance to have orchard planted for
you by a responsible and successful company and
your daily life is affected not in the least except
to the extent of what money you invest.

OUR PROPOSITION

Our proposition is a simple one. We are pre-
pared as contractors to furnish the land and nur-
sery stock, propagated from the very best stand-
ard fancy paper-shell pecan varieties, and plant
and give practical and scientific cultivation and
attention for a period of five years for anyone
who wishes to buy. Price per acre, cash, $140.00 ;

on time, $150.00 per acre. The terms are $10.00
per acre cash, $2.50 per acre per month, no in-
terest being charged on deferred payments. It
takes one cash payment of $100.00 and fifty-six
monthly payments of $2.50 each to pay up.
Parties buying on time have four months grace
on their payments. They also may pay as much
in advance at any time as they see fit. They
may also pay quarterly, semi-annually or annual-
ly, but in all cases where payments are made
less often than once a month, said payments
must be paid in advance; that is, if you are
paying quarterly, your first payment would be
$17.50 per acre. Three months later you
would pay $7.50, and $7.50 each succeeding
quarter.

We will issue deed at any time that orchard
has been paid for in full. When sold on time,
we issue a bond for deed. This is a simple, plain
business contract, fully legal and binding. In
this bond for deed, it is set out fully that we
agree to pay you four per cent per annum, pay-
able annually on any and all moneys that are paid
on said orchard contract for the true time said
money has been in our possession for a period
not exceeding five years from date of contract.
On the completion ‘of payments, warranty deed
will be issued, and of course thereafter the own-
er will receive all the income derived from said
land. It is necessary in order to give an in-
come during the long interval required for pe-
cans to come into bearing, to have side crops on
said land while orchard is growing. We have
to cultivate and tend to the orchard continuously
for the first five years and we can at the same
time economically handle crops among the grow-
ing trees, we making it a point to grow “those
crops that do not affect the growth and develop-
ment of the pecan trees in the least, and we feel
that it is no more than just that the purchaser
should get his share of said crops, being based
entirely on the amount of money he has paid in.
In the beginning, he has very little money in-
vested, hence does not receive as large an amornt
as he does towards the close of his contract, but
the last year you might say that he gets prac-
tically the total income from the land. This is
covered absolutely in an equitable way by pay-
ing four per cent per annum on all moneys paid
in by him to us, interest being computed on the
true time his money is with us.

It is not our desire or purpose to make money
on the field crops only to the extent of covering
our own investment and as fast as your money

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Pecan tree twenty-five years old,

takes the place of our money, which is invested
in the land, trees and so on, you get practically
all the land produces.

Now the price of paper-shell pecan orchard
has been well established. At five years old, it
has a valuation of $300.00 per acre. Now, for
this first five years, you have received four per
cent per annum on your money. In addition
thereto the value of your orchard has doubled,
making an increase of 100 per cent during five
years, or twenty per cent per annum. Twenty
per cent with the four per cent you have re-
ceived is equivalent to twenty-four per cent per
annum for the first five years. The next five
years, making ten years from the time of plant-
ing, the orchard is worth $1,000.00 per acre, and
for the second period of five years you get the
total income from the land and orchard, which

should be much more than four per cent. The
next ten years—making twenty years from plant-
ing—the orchard is extremely cheap at $3,500.00
per acre and you have for years been receiving
a very high percentage on this valuation from
nut crops and still own your own orchard worth
$3,500.00 an acre, or more. You can figure the
percentage yourself after the first five years.
The above statements are correct and you do
not need to halve them or quarter them as so
many people do when they go to figuring large
percentages of profit. I know you are very apt
to say that if they are one-quarter as good as
stated above, they would be good enough for you.
But after you have received them, they would
not be too good for you and you would be highly
incensed if they were less.

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View in pecan orchard in June,

We consider that when we invest our money in
pecan orchards and wait a long time before our
trees come into bearing, even though the crops
pay us four per cent per annum on our invest-
ment while we wait, we are deserving of a very
large increase in value of the property and also
a large annual income from the nuts, And as
stated in the beginning of this pamphlet in the
seven reasons why you should buy, the reason
you receive these profits is because of the long
time required for a pecan orchard to come into
maturity; for the great majority of people have
neither the judgment nor the patience to do as
we are doing and as we hope you will do.

PRICES, TERMS, ETC.
Any number of acres can be purchased as follows:

Price per acre - - - - $140.00 spot cash
ae ae

- - - 150.00 on monthly payments

Terms, - = $10.00 cash payment per acre

yy = - - 2.50 per month per acre
No interest, 4 months grace on monthly notes. Pur-
chaser secured by Bond for deed, We pay 4 per cent per

annum on money paid in, first five years.
Correspondence solicited and all questions cheerfully

ana fully answered.

SOUTHERN NUT NURSERY CO.,,
Room 20 Water Works Building,
Kansas City, Mo.

ES

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“VENI, VvIDI” (I came, I saw)

—_ =

Kansas City, Mo., June 24, 1905.
Southern Nut Nursery Company,

Kansas City, Mo.
GENTLEMEN :

About three years ago I became interested in the
peach orchard being planted by The Southern Orchard
Planting Company in Southwestern Arkansas, and after
a personal investigation of the orchard and of the
personnel of the Company, I contracted with them to
plant an orchard for me, myself and family, taking
forty acres in a club of railroad men representing 375
acres. [I am the president of this Club and have made
a number of trips to inspect the work going on. It is
a satisfaction for me to tell you that the work was
carried on both in the letter and the spirit.

So good is the quality of the orchard, that we have
had repeated offers to sell out, the orchard having
cost us $100.00 per acre. Some time since I refused
$150.00 per acre and now the orchard is worth much
more than it was then. I have no intention of selling.
Furthermore, there has never been a time since we pur-
chased the orchard that we could not have sold out
individually or as a club, for considerably more than
we put in. Myself and family expect to have you
plant a fancy paper-shell pecan orchard for us as soon
as we can get to it. I am,

Very respectfully yours,
Henry M. MarsHALt,
1215 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Mo,

Kansas City, Kans., June 26, 1905.

’ To WHom It May ConcerN:

Do you desire a safe and profitable investment? If
so, I beg to submit to you a few facts concerning my
own personal experience. For twenty years I was
pastor of some church in the Baptist denomination.
Throat trouble demanded that I should at least tem-
porarily give up the active pastorate. During these
twenty years I saw the necessity of laying up a small
portion of my salary. This, early in my pastorates, I
began to do. The first few years I was unfortunate in
investing what I had saved, but a few years ago I was
convinced that there was money in peach culture, if
only a company could be found that was responsible
and one that would carry out its contracts. This I
found in a company organized by the present general
manager of the Southern Nut Nursery Company and
located in Central Mississippi. After due investiga-
tion, I purchased ten acres of peach land and had it
set out to peaches. The last four years this orchard
has borne a crop—three good crops and one poor crop.
The profit to me, without any care, trouble or over-
sight on my part, was as follows:

10 acres at $100.00 per acre, $1,000.00.

On this investment I have received above all expenses:

1902, $1,331.00 or 133 1-3 per cent net profit.

1903, 221.00 or 21 per cent net profit.

1904, 1,100.00 or 110 per cent net profit.

1905, 1,113.00 or 110 per cent net profit.

This, you will observe, is just a trifle over 93 per
cent each year for four years in succession. Of course,
this is an excellent showing, but one that is my own
personal experience. When, over two years ago, our
general manager, Mr. E. M. Treakle, first offered the
general public a chance to purchase orchards in South-
west Arkansas, I was, of course, one of the first to take
advantage of the opportunity. By careful economy,
which has caused me many personal sacrifices, I now
own eighty acres of peach orchard in the Southern Or-
chard Planting Company. Two hundred dollars per acre
would hardly tempt me to part with my investment.
The same officers, with the same general manager of
the above company, are the officers and manager of the
Southern Nut Nursery Company, whose object is the
propagation of the pecan and the building of pecan
orchards for the general public.

Let me say that after seven years of careful study
of the pecan industry and a number of months of in-
vestigation in the heart of the pecan zone, I am fully
convinced that the pecan industry, under the direction
of the Southern Nut Nursery Company, is a more per-
manent, more profitable and more satisfactory form of
investment than the peach proposition, even with the
most excellent showing that the peach proposition has
made for me. Yours very truly,

F. C. BINGHAM,
31 South Seventh St., Kansas City, Kans.

Kansas City, Mo., June 24, 1905.
To Wuom Ir May Concern:

I have had business dealings with the Southern Or-
chard Planting Company for some time. I have twenty
acres of Elberta peaches and have made three trips to
the orchard and find the Company have carried out all
promises made and can say in all truthfulness that they
are conducting an immense commercial peach orchard
in a scientific and practical manner for themselves,
myself and others. The property has _ practically
doubled in value and many people wish to buy, but it is
almost impossible to find anyone that wants to sell,
the Company having sold all they intended to. I have
two acres of pecans and intend to have a larger acre-
age of them later on.

I am more than satisfied and am sure that any state-
ments made, or contracts entered into, by the Southern
Nut Nursery Company, which is practically the same
as the old company, will be carried out better than they
represent it. Respectfully,

W. L. Patrick,
3023 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.

Nebraska City, Neb., June 15, 1905.
Southern Nut Nursery Company,

Kansas City, Mo.
GENTLEMEN :

Last year I purchased an orchard of the Southern
Orchard Planting Company and on account of my
whole family, including myself, becoming seriously ill,
we had to modify our contract so as to keep same from
forfeiture. This you did without any hesitation, thus
enabling us to go on and as the orchard is now worth
twice what we contracted to pay for it, we are con-
sequently highly pleased with our investment.

I am satisfied you will be as successful in your pecan
orchard as you have been in your other orchards and
believe that you will be as lenient in dealing with pur-
chasers, who later on have misfortunes, as you have
been with me and others I have heard of.

Thanking you, I am,

Very gratefully yours,
Mrs. Eva A. JENNINGS.

Hiawatha, Kans., June 26, 1905.
Mr. E. M. Treakle,

Kansas City, Mo.
DEAR Sir:

It has been my good fortune to have been acquainted
with some of the officers of the Southern Orchard
Planting Company for many years and I have the utmost
confidence in their integrity and business ability. This
led me to purchase ten acres of peach orchard and later
on an additional ten acres. The peach orchard has
proven a very attractive investment to me, having great-
ly enhanced in value. I have also had them plant ten
acres of pecan orchard for me and will have ten acres
more planted at a later date.

I was raised on a farm, have been county treasurer
of this county for two terms, and am now connected
with the First National Bank of this place, in which
positions I have had opportunity of meeting investors
and investments and my experience with them leads
me to believe that pecan orchard with the Southern
Nut Nursery Company will be among the most desir-
able of investments.

Yours truly,
J. F. MEISENHEIMER.

To Wnom It May Concern:

Having preached over twenty years as a “Home Mis-
sionary,’ mostly in pioneer work, together with my
inclination for travel, I have enjoyed a wide range
of observation in regard to the industries of this great
country and a large acquaintance with men—especially
business men.

I have visited nearly every state in the Union from
Massachusetts to California and from Texas to Min-

nesota and have noted opportunities for profitable in-
vestments. In 1903 my attention was called to the
work of the Southern Orchard Planting Company in
Arkansas. Having observed the methods of successful
California fruit-growers for ten years, I was interested
at once and after a full explanation of the business, I
contracted for ten acres of orchard.

After making a careful investigation of the Company,
their methods of doing business, and of the peach
lands, making two trips into Arkansas for this purpose,
I became so well satisfied that I recommended the
Company to my friends and they have invested about
$50,000.00 in peach orchards with this Company and |
have increased my holdings to thirty acres. So far as
I know, my friends are pleased with the investment.
My only wish is now that I had known of such an op-
portunity when I was younger.

The personnel of the Southern Nut Nursery Company
is practically the same as that of the Southern Orchard
Planting Company. I am personally acquainted with
them and have carefully examined their financial, busi-
ness and moral standing.

For years I have made a special study of the con-
ditions necessary to increase a small capital and have
come to the conclusion that they are:

First. The employment of our meagre annual
savings.

Second. The assurance of skillful management.

Third. Confidence in the integrity of the men whom
we trust with our funds. c 3

Fourth. A reasonable prospect of unearned incre-
ment.

Fifth. Practical certainty of increasing annual
returns.

Sixth. The element of permanency with decreasing
expenses.

Seventh. The opportunity of disposing of our hold-
ings at a profit at any time, if necessary. She

To my knowledge, there is nothing that so nearly
meets the above conditions as the pecan industry as
outlined and conducted by the Southern Nut Nursery
Company.

One feature deserves special attention—namely, that
your capital of $150.00 begins to increase at once and
continues annually until it reaches $3,500.00. Also that
the Company generously pays 4 per cent on the money
invested and after five years the per cent of returns
rapidly increases annually.

As an evidence of my faith in this business, I have
contracted with this Company and look forward to
profitable returns from a ten-acre pecan grove in
Louisiana.

J. C. Lynn, Pastor,
First United Presbyterian Church,
Kansas City, Kans.

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