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Let Pecans Be Your Hobby! A Profitable One, Toot
Pecans Built My Home—
They Can Build Yours too!”
“ Pecans have made my home possible. They have brought
happiness to my family, and a regular and dependable source of
income. I owe my success to pecans .” — I. H. BASS.
Pecans may make you independent, and bring you com
siderable profit. It’s the one sure cash crop and may produce
an income for life that increases with the years. Pecans pay ,
dividends to all. Take for example a negro farmer of
Gonzales County in Texas. He has one tree on his property
that never misses a crop, and has averaged about 800 pounds
for the past several years. He sells about $300 worth each
year — which brings him about as much clear money as does
his sandy farm of 120 acres.
I. H. BASS, President,
Bass Pecan Company.
But one does not have to be a farmer to profit by pecans.
Numerous school teachers, professional and business men
and women are buying up idle land, planting them in pecans,
and letting Nature make them rich, providing for their fm
ture and a life of retirement. You, too, may profit as well!
“The trees are bending over with pecans." — Columbia, So. Car.
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An Income For Life From Bass Pecans.
Father Bass, 76 years old, happy in his hobby — assorting pecans.
This is the remarkable bearing record of nine of our Extra Special pecan trees set
out the last of February, 1923, by Dr. D. B. Stevenson, of Lumberton, Miss. Most all
of these trees bore pecans the first year set out. They were our largest size trees and
have been given the very best of attention by Dr. Stevenson. He has fertilized the trees
very heavily with barnyard manure and worked around them often, so that weeds and
grass would not get the fertilizer. Results have been remarkable.
The record that follows was carefully kept by Dr. Stevenson, who is one of the best
known physicians as well as loved and respected citizens of South Mississippi, and is
absolutely authentic as he gathered and weighed the pecans himself. The trees bearing
the heaviest crops were the ones most favorably located. Trees with smallest yields were
greatly handicapped by being near big oaks, sidewalks, etc. The nuts were gathered in
October and November of 1927 — actually before the trees had been set in the ground
three years.
Trees No.
Age
Yield
1
Bass Papershell
2
years
8
mos.
2514 lbs.
2
“ . “
2
years
8
mos.
15
3
« «
2
years
8
mos.
16
4
Success
2
years
8
mos.
1714 “
5
“
2
years
8
mos.
28% “
6
Nelson
2
years
8
mos.
12
7
2
years
8
mos.
10
8
Success
2
years
8
mos.
414 “ ‘
9
“
2
years
8
mos.
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Plant our Extra Special Sizes for Earlier and Heavier Bearing!
“The trees are doing fine and are full of nuts." — Hicfiox, Ga .
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Bass Pecan Trees Will Bear, And Pay You While You Live!
Pecans will Insure Independence in Your Old Age!
This is the home of the mother and father of I. H. Bass — also built by pecans. The story of
I. E. Bass, founder of this business, would read like a romance. He was facing financial diffb
culties at the age of 58, when the average man at that age, and in the same circumstances, would
be dependent upon charity. He planted his first papershell pecans then, and though his friends
and neighbors scoffed at the idea,, he has lived to see his trees support him, send eight children
to college, and has retired with absolute independence.
The second generation is represented by I. H. Bass himself, whose home is shown on a pre'
ceding page, and now there are his children growing up to carry on the business, due also to
Shade, Beauty & Birds
About a Home
There is more to pecan trees than merely an
income. These are most beautiful trees, and are
reputed for the shade they give. They withstand
heavy winds and protect the house from them.
They are ideal for planting about a home, a
school, city street, on highways (School Board
Directors and City Fathers take note). The
shade, beauty and large spread of branches
attract birds, which nestle among the trees, add'
ing beauty and gayety; and then as Fall comes
they furnish nuts for home use or market in
appreciation of their care. Remember, too, once
planted — especially with Bass Trees— the value
of your property is increased.
“Some of my first trees purchased from you have nuts, on them this year." —Yuma, Ariz.
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Put That Idle Land To Work With Pecans.
One of the Bass Pecan Groves showing: younger trees growing in between. Note their size.
An Inheritance of Wealth»»»a Memorial of Love
Some people come into the world, exist by a struggle, and pass out with hardly the world
knowing of their existence. Others are able through philanthropy, etc., to do good deeds.,’ to
make a name and leave a memorial that means beauty, love or happiness to those left behind.
A pecan grove will perpetuate your name through the centuries !
mated that pecan trees may live for 1200 years and still bear
profitably.
What a beautiful thing would be this living memorial! Far
better than any cold, drab, faded stone that would soon be passed
by and forgotten. Why not plant a pecan grove? It will begin to
bear by the third year, and then as the trees grow, will produce
more and more nuts per year and materially increase • your income
WHILE YOU LIVE! Each year the trees grow larger and more
beautiful and make a grove so magnificent that will well bear your
name and memory. This would be a rare inheritance, not only of
beauty for generations, to come, but a most profitable way of pro*
viding a fortune to your children, children’s children, and their
children, on through the years. A large lump sum might be spent
in a few years^ — a memorial pecan grove would provide a regular
income each year and assure the perpetuity of your fortune to aid
all descendants instead of just a few.
Future generations may either praise or blame you. You have
in your power that ability, through pecans, to produce an annual
crop of golden nuggets, and a name for yourself through the ages.
[ Said J. B. Wight '“s jj
“Plant a pecan grove and later on in life it will support
you. It will do as much for your children, and your children’s
children,’’ said J. B. Wight, before the American Pomological-
J, Society.
Pecan tree experts have esti<
Plant a grove in mem¬
ory of some one!
'The trees I ordered from you last Fall are all thriving and coming well:' — Piedmont. S. C.
When You Are Old, Pecan Trees Will Earn Your Livelihood!
A STUART tree of R. L. Casey, of Hollandale, Mississippi. It is claimed by him as the most
prolific pecan tree in America. Last year this tree produced 1200 pounds of nuts that sold for
$480. He claims the world record for the three largest crops in three years, bearing 75 bushels
(3000 pounds), which sold for $1050 net. Proof of a profitable cash crop!
Pecans will Send Your Children to College
Nowadays children are more or less handicapped if they cannot attend college. It’s becoming
more and more a battle of brains ... no longer brawn. But it is a problem to stand the heavy
expenses required for a course in college. Such a financial worry may be easily abandoned if
you will plant even a few pecan trees while the children are still young and let those trees pay
their way through school. They will begin to bear within a few years, increasing their yield, and
consequently the profits, and soon will provide ample funds for a college education.
Then, better still, after graduation, when students are frequently floundering until they can
get a good start, they will have a steady income to help pay their way — and yours too — through
life. Figure it up yourself. $50 worth of nuts per year from each single Bass budded or grafted
pecan tree is not at all unusual (and the yield increases). Twenty trees would provide $1000
annually — it is far better than a few dollars saved with a struggle each month and earning
only 4%.
Which Would You Prefer? Study this Drawing
Below a truckload of pecans worth $2500 (see photograph on back cover). It would require
six or seven trucks to haul the same amount in corn or cotton. Think of the toil required to
produce that much cotton or corn.
Pecans do not interfere with growing crops, and yet, wrote a farm paper editor, pay forty
times the value of corn, and considerably more the value of cotton. In shipping, a lOtf sack holds
$50 worth of pecans, and is hauled at the lowest freight or express rate. Compare to eggs,
apples, peaches, etc. Concentrate your energy on pecans!
“I purchased 50 of your pecan trees in the Fall of 1926. All growing and doing fine/
— Folsom, La.
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Regular farming means planting every year, and one is dependent on the weather and
fluctuating market prices — especially that of cotton or corn. When pecans are planted — after
the trees are set out, the crop is made for permanence. In three years— sometimes less — BASS
PAPERSHELL PECANS begin to bear, and that is the beginning of a permanent source of
income.
If you owned a gold mine, the more you would take out of it the less gold would be
there, and it would soon become depleted. Nature will provide a “gold mine” through
pecans, with an increasing yield each year,
for Nature works for you night and day,
and the older the tree, the greater the im
come.
How $5 and 5 Trees
Produced $6,336.41
We have a record of figures based on actual
experience that will give you some; idea of the
remarkable dividends which your own pecan
orchard could be made to pay. This record
gives the return from just five of our $1 sized
trees.
Over a period of 18 years, 10,23 5.34
pounds of nuts were produced, which sold
for $5,117.67, plus accruing interest, totaling
$6,366.41, entirely all dividends.
Year after year, your orchard should in-
crease its earnings as your own earning ability
decreases, enabling you to face the future with'
out fears of financial distress. In what other
occupation could such a record be made? In
what other form of investment could $5 be
made to produce $6,366.41 return, while
keeping the capital which made it intact and Golden nuggets with Nature as your
steadily increasing in value? Gold Mine.
Pecan Trees Work While You Sleep.
Pecans! The Permanent Investment!
"My order of trees arrived today. Tal\ about nice trees — well, yours ta\e the ca\e; yes, the
whole ba\ershop.” — Cold Springs, 0\la.
Bass Pecan Trees Are Early Bearing !
Is it your intention to sit at a desk and teach all your life, or be at your business or office
until you die in your boots? Don’t you hope to some day be able to retire from teaching school,
your business, or your profession? Nowadays the average professional or business man, and
certainly the school teacher, is merely making a living out of that profession or business, and what
wealth is accrued must be from side but sound investments.
Why not invest in pecans? Before long you would begin to have an income — dividends —
such as any good investment would bring, but such an income would constantly be increasing
until you would be able to retire and live a life of ease and luxury, possibly among the pecan
grove which would be supporting you, your family, and which would support generations to
come — a fitting memorial and inheritance to leave behind!
Plant that Idle Land in Pecans!
Perhaps you have land now that is absolutely or virtually idle. Pecans will pay those taxes and
eventually pay for the land, and heaps more, too!
You could still plant between the rows, which
you might care to do for a while; but soon when
the trees begin to bear you would find it far
more profitable than all the crops you want to
raise. Let that idle land be the basis for an
investment of confidence — be you farmer, bush
ness or professional man or woman.
240 Pounds of Nuts from
one of our $1.00 Trees!
This was one of our $1.00 trees, planted 18
years before. The owner did not have to wait
18 years, remember, as the tree started bearing
the third year, and continued to do so, and in
its eighteenth year produced 160 pounds of nuts
worth $80.00. That is at the rate of $960 per
acre (12 trees to the acre), not considering the
increasing value of the tree each year. How
many investments have you ever made that pro;
duced more than 400% per year, continued to
produce, and were positively safe? The tree is
now producing over 240 pounds of nuts a year.
“ All my trees lived and are growing — some have grown 16 inches since they budded out."
— Bremond, Texas.
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Bass Pecan Trees Are Heavy Bearers.
If You Have Land for Sale
Perhaps you have land that you want to sell. Perhaps we may aid you in this way. Why
not plant it in pecan trees? You will immediately increase the value of your land, and any-
way make it more salable. Just to show how it may be done, and also how pecans prove to
be a fine investment, here is another true instance: Twenty years ago a person of our ac-
quaintance bought five acres of land at $20.00 per acre. A few years later he planted the land
In Bass trees, and was offered $1,000 per acre, which price was refused. He realised that by
planting pecan trees he had increased the value of his land by $950 per acre, for he could have
got only $50 an acre for the land as he bought it. His land, taxes and trees were readily paid
for in the actual increased value, and it was worth a big difference besides.
Yes, plant pecan trees on that idle land. If you sell, you profit — if you don’t sell, you’ll
profit more, by the income you receive.
There's a man in our own State who
produced 200 pounds of nuts on an
18-year-old tree, and yet another man
produced 273 pounds one year on an
18-year-old tree, and two years later 3 30
pounds off the same tree.
One of our customers bought two trees for
shade, and eight years later got 100 pounds
of nuts off the two trees, selling half of
them for $25. And so on — we could name
hundreds of instances, including one of our women customers,
who wrote she would not take less than $30,000 for her pecan
grove of Bass bred-up trees. Other instances of investments
appear throughout this book.
In making an investment of any kind
consider the experience of others under
ordinary conditions. There are hundred:-
of instances we could furnish, or you
could gather on the steady and profitable
increase from pecans.
Choice Pecan Lands and Orchards Available
We have considerable land for sale that may be put into pecans, and being near us, we could
supervise the planting and take care of it for you. This is the finest pecan land in the South,
and is located only 60 miles from the Gulf, and 90 miles from New Orleans. How nice it would
be to have a pecan grove down in “ole Mississippi” where you could visit as often as you please,
and derive a regular source of revenue.
We can buy farms for you, or put you in touch with real estate men, and thus aid you in
getting into the pecan industry.
We also have pecan groves of our own that we sell, for we, too, believe in buying up vacant
land and planting it in pecans, and we are in touch with those who, for one reason or another,
want to sell their producing groves.
It Would Pay You to Buy Up Land and Plant Pecans
As an investment you would earn splendid dividends by buying up land cheap and planting
pecans. You’d be surprised to know how many buisness and professional men, farmers and
school teachers do so. Make pecans your hobby — diversion from your regular routine of life,
plus dividends in gold and golden health.
“The trees were received in good order. When I opened them up, my eyes got as big as apples
to see such grand trees and big roots.’’ — Louisville, Ky.
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Let Your Land Do Double Duty. Plant Fruits Between The Rows.
Plant the big nut and you will get the small nut.
Bass Pecan Trees are Bred-Up
From Known Parents That Bear
All are Budded or Grafted
Pecan trees must be budded or grafted. The large pecans you see are the result of careful
breeding. Here man had aided Nature. Pecans are naturally small nuts, and if one merely
plants the nuts themselves, even though they are big ones, they have that natural .tendency to
revert back to the way they were produced ages ago. A large pecan is almost sure to bear a
tiny nut, as illustrated.
To produce large and profitable pecans, trees must be budded or grafted. Some prefer the
budded, and others the grafted, but each method is equally as valuable and productive, and we
do both budding and grafting. However, we do not buy buds or grafts from unknown sources,
but produce them ourselves from heavy bearing parents in our own orchards, and therefore,
knowing their history, we are positive of their early and heavy bearing ability. .
Early— Heavy— Sure Bearers
Since we produce our own stock from known bearing parents, and since we make this a
sole livelihood, we are in position to give you the finest pecan trees that can grow — here in the
largest Pecan Nursery in the World. All Bass trees, you may rest assured, are early and heavy
bearers, and they prove to be sound and healthy in every respect with well developed root
systems. (See next page).
It will pay you to plant our Extra Special sizes. Obviously
they will bear earlier and heavier, and will have had a far better
start.
You may contend that you have no land available for pecan
trees. It does not require a large space for a few trees, and
many of our trees are planted about the home for shade, as
well as for nuts. But if you have any crops at all, you could
plant the pecan trees between the rows. Even as the trees grow
you could continue to plant, for that cultivation will aid the
trees. Let your land be paying you double.
Branches laden with
golden nuggets.
Plant Fruits Between the Rows!
“ Sixty'three of the sixty'four pecan trees have made a nice growth — some have grown thirty
inches .” — Whistler, Ala.
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If They’re Bass Trees — They’ll Produce.
One of
our $1
trees. The
tree,
shown on
page 8,
was one
of our $1
trees.
Thousands of our pecan trees bear even in our Nursery be'
fore they are three feet high. This typical Bass bred'Up tree
growing vigorously in our Nursery has a heavy foliage, a healthy
look, and is even bearing nuts. Note the root system — a good
hardy tap root with a fine spread of lateral roots. Furthermore,
we do not charge you for the roots, as some do. Our trees are all
measured from the ground up instead of from the tip of the
tap root to the top of the tree. Our three to four feet trees,
therefore, are often as large as others’ “five to six-foot trees.”
You pay us for a smaller sized tree, you see!
Why take a chance with your money, labor and time, buying
so-called “cheaper” trees? Will the cheaper'tree fellow be in
business when you have learned that those “cheaper” trees are
not bearing? Our 2 1 years in business have proved that our
bred'Up trees are early and heavy bearers. Pecan trees are a
life business with us, and our reputation should mean much to
you in the purchase of trees. Would you buy a scrub cow?
Then why buy scrub pecan trees? The illustration on Page 25
is another result of buying “cheap” trees.
We insist upon a welbdeveloped root system, for unless a tree
is well rooted and the root system is properly developed, the tree
will have a bad start. We, therefore, pay particular care to the
roots in growing, in digging up the trees, in inspection, and in
packing. Those, other than with first-class root systems, are cast
aside as culls and sold as seconds along with other trees of imperfec'
tions, or burned as you can see by the picture on Page 27.
You are assured of a fine spread of root growth, good strong
straight trunks and pedigreed stock.
We especially call to your atten-
tion our largest trees. Their future
is virtually assured, and they will
bear much sooner (many bearing
already) .
Study This
Illustration
Particular Care Paid
to Packing and Shipping
In addition to developing the roots, we
must take care that they are protected. In
A Bass bred-up tree, less the first place, we dig deeper to get all the
than three feet high, al- roots. Then we pack them carefully with
ready bearing pecans. damp moss. The upper parts of the trees
are packed with straw that protects them
from being skinned or bruised. Then the entire
trees are wrapped in waterproof and airproof paper
to keep the moisture in and the air out, and the
package is securely covered with burlap to keep
out the sun, wind and air. We employ expert
packers — all this care and expense to bring to you
living trees in good condition. No other Nursery
anywhere packs trees as we do!
“ One hundred pounds of pecans from two trees netted me $50.00 last year.
this year.” — A r\adelphia, Ar\.
These are loaded
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Bass Trees Bear By The Third Year — Sometimes Before.
The STUART is our first choice, and incidentally it is the most popular of the improved
variety of pecans. This nut has been planted more extensively than any other. The trees are
vigorous, bear regularly, and resist scab. They are early and heavy bearers. The nuts are large
and well filled, the kernels being plump, with a meat content of 49%, and a good flavor. Note
the actual photographs of the inside of the STUART pecan.
These nuts are the easiest to grow, sell well on the market, and
bring a higher market price. We recommend the Bass Bred-Up
Stuarts as the most profitable and satisfactory of the pecan trees.
We have an unusually fine stock of our large trees in this variety —
it would pay you to plant them in preference to others.
Prices on Top Grade (No. 1) Trees— All Varieties
SIZE
EACH
SIX
TWELVE
SIXTY
100
1,000 Up
(Half Acre)
(Acre)
(5 Acres)
Per 100
2-3 Feet
$ .90
$ 5.10
$ 9.60
$ 45.00
$ 75.00
$ 60.00
3-4 Feet
1.00
5.70
10.80
51.00
85.00 .
68.00
4-5 Feet
1.20
6.90
13.20
60.00
100.00
80.00
5-6 Feet
1.35
7.80
15.60
72.00
120.00
96.00
6-7 Feet
1.50
8.70
16.80
81.00
135.00
108.00
7 Feet to Large
2.00
10.80
19.80
90.00
150.00
120.00
Large
2.50
14.40
27.00
120.00
200.00
160.00
Extra Large
3.50
20.40
36.00
165.00
275.00
220.00
Extra Special
4.00
22.80
42.00
195.00
325.00
260.00
We recommend the planting of our large trees. They bear earlier.
Special Price on Large Orders
One to five trees take the each rate price; six to eleven trees take the six rate price;
twelve to forty-nine take the twelve rate price; fifty and up take the one hundred rate
price; 500 and up take the 1,000 rate price. Special prices cheerfully quoted on larger lots.
_ (It All prices F. O. B. Lumberton. Miss. _ ,
No orders for less than $5.00 — Please!
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There’s An Increasing Market For Pecans.
Our second choice is the SUCCESS Pecan, and a mighty popular variety, 40 to 45 to the
pound. This tree is also an excellent grower, and a heavy bearer in fertile soil. It bears early,
too. The nuts, as you can see, are large, though are not the largest, but the kernel has proved
to be the heaviest in a test of 14 varieties made recently. The meat is plump, and of excellent
flavor. The nut itself is ovate in form, has a thin shell, and cracks
easily. This variety does well in most sections, and the nuts bring j
a high market price. The Bass Bred'Up SUCCESS Trees are
among our biggest sellers of our fine Papershell Pecan Trees. Plant
our larger size trees and save that initial growing period. \
Plant Fruit Trees Between the Rows
See Pages , 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
Some of our Culls and “Seconds” for Sale
No, indeed, we do not sell all the trees that we grow — that is to our own customers.
We either sell our cull pecan trees to other nurseries or burn them. (See page 27.) We
frequently throw out around 22% of our trees as being “seconds”. If too poor, we de'
stroy them, regardless. When trees are not straight, or scarred, when the root systems
are not so well developed, or the trees do not come up to our own high standard, we
will not sell them as our top grade trees. Many of these trees are good and MAY do as
well as the others, but we play SAFE for our customers. We sell those No. 2 Pecan
Trees at half price of No. 1 trees (see opposite page), but with the understanding that
they are our culls, and without our usual guarantee. (Prices F.O.B. Lumberton). Many
nurserymen and dealers buy these trees and sell them as their own No. 1 trees.
You’ll find an Order Blan\ on Page 29.
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It’s Advisable To Plant Our Larger Trees — You Save The Initial Growing Period.
A Popular Variety! v^8Mj^r smpSJ. “2.
Our third choice is the SCHLEY. This is also a popular nut on account of its thin shell,
excellent cracking qualities, beautiful color, and unusual flavor, and the market price is very
satisfactory. The fact that we grow and sell this nut shows our confidence and our recom'
mendation.
In some localities, however, the SCHLEY has a tendency to scab a little, so before pur'
chasing this variety be sure that they grow in your section without this disease. If so, you
will find these to be profitable nuts; excellent and full nuts with 61% meat, and a kernel that
can be easily removed without breaking. The tree itself while an early bearer is a slender
grower — smaller than STUART or SUCCESS, and not quite as hardy.
Other Crops May Be Planted Between the Rows
The finest crops to grow with pecans are peas, beans, clovers or other leguminous crops, for
these enrich the soil and build it up. In addition to these, here at Lumberton we grow cotton,
corn, sweet potatoes, watermelons and all kinds of truck. Also strawberries and fruits. You
might as well use that land. (See pages 21, 22, 23, 24 for suggestions. Also see our Special
Club offers on page 25 and save money).
Plant Other Crops
Between the Rows
Make your land do double duty.
Plant fruit or berries in between your
pecan trees, or plant pecan trees in
your berry patches, cotton or corn
fields. This is a chart for guidance
as to how you may systematically plant
and grow trees, fruits and berries on a
tract of land.
+ Pears, Peaches or Apples.
O Orange, Figs, Plums, or
Persimmons.
Pecans
“My neighbors laughed at me, but now they are getting the pecan fever.” — Louisville, Ky.
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You Can Plant Two Crops On Your Land With Pecans
b or prices
See Page 12.
The BASS Papershell Pecans were only recently announced by us to the general public. Many
of our old customers had been taking our entire output until lately when we increased it.
The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce had, however, long ago recognized the
Bass Papershell variety, listing it in their Pecan booklets, but we kept it off the market until we
could make tests in various sections to prove its true value. We have placed it as fourth choice,
though an early and heavy bearer, because the tree is not scattered over sufficient territory to
prove its true value. We have learned, that in some localities this variety has a tendency to
scab a little, although in others it is scab free, and is destined to be a most popular variety.
The nuts are large, long, thin shelled, of good color and shape, and well filled with a fine
flavored kernel. The trees bear early, regularly and heavily, and we believe you will like this
comparatively new variety.
“My trees might blow down,” you might say. Have you ever seen or heard of a pecan tree
that was blown down? These trees are usually desired for shade about a home, because they
don’t blow down easily. The Purvis, Mississippi, cyclone
years ago blew down practically every building and every
tree — but the pecan trees. These trees are characteristically deep
rooted and laugh at windstorms.
And during the Mississippi Valley floods. Pecans withstood
the water better than any other tree or plant. We don’t believe
pecan trees will die after set out three or four years, and well
established, if not overflowed for over two or three months at
a time.
Pecan Buds and Grafts For Sale! See Page 25.
“Every tree you sold me has lived. Some pecan trees grew as much as two and a half
feet, and when in the market for fruit trees will not consider any one but BASS PECAN
COMPANY.’’ rr . . . .
— Union, Mississippi.
“Pecan trees received in good shape. Am well pleased with them, and than\ you for the prompt
shipment .” — T^ashvilte, Tenn.
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This is the "
Ask Your Banker or any of Our Customers!
We Also Refer You to Dun and Bradstreets
in the World!
„ With Us- —
they could not exist ^ long. This' firm is twenty-one years old, and there are thousands of Ask Dun or Bradstreet to report our standing. This is the highest rated Pecan Nursery.
' —
StSSSSS rec,
ductiveness. Ask a Bass' customer, o^ let us shd
you names of those living near you.
Trees to China
To further prove our ability, the magnitude
of our business, and the care and result of our
careful packing, we have oh several occasions
shipped trees as far as China, and each shipment
has reached there in perfect condition, and the
trees are growing. Only good trees could have
stood the trip, and then only after good packing.
Nationwide and even internationally known is
the BASS PECAN COMPANY.
WARNING!! k, d ,
For your sake, beware of the nurseryman who calls at your door with a truckload ot pecan
trees for sale and offers to plant them for you. Sun and wind quickly dry out roots and
trees in trucks, unprotected, also previously half dug and poorly packed, are often dead be'
fore they are set in the ground. Don’t lose Aat money and the time in waiting for them
to grow. Use your own judgment about this. If-omises, claims, and “guarantees by strangers
are easily made — be sure the maker has the means and m^neyjto canry^them out^n^need be.
^'another* warding, 'please! .. ., ,
, and refuse if i
laged. Send us Damage 1
“The Stuart pecan trees I bought :of
you in 1919 have made such growth and
borne such heavy crops of fine nuts,
I am going to put out 60 c
more trees this fall.” $tant<
Tenn. -
have a five'year'old orchard of your
that are doing fine. Have
ees that bought from an agent,
: were supposed to be the best
grown, that haven’t done any*
thing.” Aliceville, Alabama.
Replacements
Of course, we cannot say that every tree will
grow, for all trees don’t grow, just as all baby
chicks you buy don’t grow; and, in fact, all
babies don’t grow (most do!) But should any of
our pecan trees fail to grow, we are willing to
share the loss, and will replace within one year,
at half price, any pecan trees that die, where
properly planted and cared for. The average
nursery doesn't replace any at all, but this shows
our confidence, and our willingness to aid even
after the sale has been made.
“Trees bought from you last season
in excellent condition. I nev
trees do as good.” —
Weimar, Texas.
Pecan Trees Grow In. Wet Season And Dry.
To Answer Your Questions:---
How to Plant Pecan Trees (HCthe AcrlrEtc.)
Two usual questions asked us are how many trees to plant to the acre, and what kind of soil
in which to plant them.
On lands of only fair fertility, plant trees every 50 feet, but we generally recommend 60x60.
If the ground is very rich, plant farther apart, such as 70x70, but for the average, figure on every
60 feet — 12 trees to the acre. Please refer just below. You can get more trees to the acre by
the triangle method of planting (14 as against 12).
As to soils — land that will grow hickory or oak trees will grow fine pecans. It has been well
said that any land that will grow cotton will grow pecans. Well drained land is needed for best
results. Practically any average land in the South will grow fine pecans.
The sooner you set out your pecan trees the better will be your prospects for them living, the
more vigorous will they grow up, and the earlier they will begin to bear. Set out pecan trees as
soon as possible after the leaves shed in the Fall, in November, December, January, February or
March. Even if you cannot set your trees early, boo\ your order now so we may reserve some
of our finest trees for you.
USE A PLANTING BOARD in setting
your trees. This is easily made by tak-
ing any board or plank about six feet long
and cutting a V-shaped groove in the center
of it. This groove in the planting board is
made to fit down over the stake you,^ have
driven down in the ground where the tree is to be planted. Then at each end of the planting
board place a small peg. When you dig the hole for the tree, all you will have to do is to lay
this planting board across the hole dug so that each end will be against the pegs and your tree
will come right in the groove and be exactly in line. If you do not use a planting board it is
hard to get trees in line again after holes are dug, even if lined up exactly right to start with.
The Square
To plant the square method, take an ordinary
L-square and place on ground in order to
get your lines true. Sight and place a stake
sixty (preferably) feet away on each line un¬
til you reach the ends of the field. Then
stake off on parallel lines at every sixty feet
and plant trees at each stake. Planting sixty
feet apart, you have 12 trees to the acre.
The Triangle Method
By planting the triangle method you get
more trees to the acres, and besides all trees
are exactly sixty feet apart in ALL directions.
To get a true equilateral triangle easily, drive
a stake in the corner of the field. Then with
aid of an L-square find stakes along the out¬
side lines. In order to get proper and exact
distance inward toward the field, get a wire
sixty feet long. Attach to stake. Get an¬
other wire of same length and attach to next stake. Let one man make an arc with his wire,
and another, man an arc with his. When the two wires meet, properly taut, drive stake for tree.
Work from that stake and so on until field is covered.
Plant Fruit between the Rows. See pages 21, 22, 23, 24, 2^
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Bass Trees Grow Day And Night — Rain Or Shine.
Rules for Setting Pecan and Fruit Trees Right.
Protect the Roots!
Never allow the roots of the trees to become dry or exposed to
the atmosphere for any length of time from the time they reach
you until they are set in the ground.
Wet the bundle just as soon as you can and if not ready to set
out at once, dig a hole and put roots in and cover up well. Place
in a shady place if possible.
Set your trees at once upon arrival or heel-in promptly as above.
Plant as Deep as in the Nursery
Set the tree about the same depth it stood in the nursery.
Fill in the hole with the best top soil, packing the dirt well
around the roots, especially the tap root. Keep the roots of the
trees out straight in their natural position and do not bend them
down by the tree.
SetVeJeOepth
St Stoodm Nursery
Dig Large Holes—Protect the
Have a large hole for your tree. Three feet wide and three feet
deep will not be too large for pecans. Holes about 12 inches wide
and one to two feet deep will do for fruit trees.
Mix thoroughly with the soil to be used to fill in the hole a peck
or half bushel of welhrotted manure or compost or some good
guano, being very careful not to allow it to come into contact with
the roots in ANY QUANTITY, for if it does it will scald them
and do more harm than good.
Fertilize Properly
If you desire to plant on land rather poor in fertility, thoroughly
mix with the soil two or three shovelsful of welhrotted compost
when you plant the tree, or one or two pounds of bone meal.
The best fertiliser after the tree is planted is to scatter manure
around the trees. The more the better — one-half to one bushel to
the tree, if possible. Do not bank it up around the tree, but
scatter it around for two or three feet. When it rains the sub¬
stance will be taken down to the roots. Put this around your trees
in the late winter, if possible, so that the trees will be able to get a fine growth in the spring.
When the trees are old enough to bear, use potash in some form — wood ashes will do.
If Soil is Dry
If the soil is dry when the trees are set, it is a good idea to pour
a bucketful of water to each tree when the hole is nearly filled, and
then fill the hole completely up.
Pour one bucketful of water to each tree once a week during
very dry spells in Summer. Make a basin-like hole at the base of
the tree. Pour water and as soon as it is soaked in good, fill com¬
pletely up with dry dirt. This holds in the moisture and also keeps
the ground from baking. If you cannot pull soil back, covering the
wet earth well, DO NOT water at all. Water poured on top of
the ground and left this way does more harm than good, as it causes the earth about to bake
and the tree to scald.
Cultivate for four to six feet around each tree thoroughly all during the Summer. Never
let grass or weeds grow up around your trees. Keep the ground dug up and soft at all times.
‘'Five of the first Stuart trees have nuts on them already .” — Paces , V a.
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Pecan Trees Withstand Heavy Winds And Flood.
Cultivate the Ground
Cultivate for four to six feet around each tree thoroughly all
during the Summer. Pecan trees do best where the land is culti'
vated well. Our own experience has taught us that no tree responds
to care and cultivation better than the papershell pecan. Frequent
shallow cultivation is best. Keep weeds and grass down, for they
take the moisture and nourishment needed badly by the young
growing pecan trees.
Recent experiments in our own orchards have shown us that one
pound of Nitrate of Soda or Sulphate of Ammonia for each year the
tree has been planted will be of great benefit and cause the trees to
grow very fast. Merely spread it around the trees for two or three
feet and hoe or dig in well. This can be done at any time from
April 1st to last of June, usually the earlier the better.
Care of Young Trees
No pruning is necessary after you once get the trees branching
high enough. The larger trees we sell will branch high enough
anyway, but the smaller trees have to have sprouts cut off occa'
sionally that come out on the body of the tree until the branches
get high enough. This may be done at any time required, either
summer or winter. We do not let our own pecan trees start
branching lower than shoulder high. They look better and you can
work around them better where they are not allowed to head
too low.
Bass Trees Come Pruned, Ready to Plant
We endeavor to send our properly pruned trees, just as if we
were going to plant them ourselves, leaving the planter nothing to
do but to set them out. The taller grades of trees should be top'
trimmed, as it balances the top against unavoidable loss of some
roots when the tree is transplanted. Proper pruning insures the
tree living and a good growth. Where trees are properly pruned,
handled and planted, there is no reason why any of them should
die. Our prices are made on the height of the trees when dug.
When properly top'trimmed, the height is often materially reduced.
Therefore, if the height of a trimmed tree, when received, is less
than the catalog height, this is the explanation. We measure our trees from the ground up
and not from the tip of the tap root as many nurserymen do. Our 3 to 4 feet trees are often
as large as their “5 to 6 feet” trees — we don’t charge for the roots. You pay us for a smaller
size tree. See Page 11.
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- Advice on. Pecan Culture -
Ask us all the questions you wish to in regard to pecan growing. We will gladly give you
our opinion. And as experts, let us advise you not to put off setting out your pecans. Remem'
ber the loss of a year’s time in getting started means the loss of a year’s splendid income later
on, at a time when you may appreciate it most. And speaking of the time element, it would
pay you to buy and plant our larger trees, for you would save that initial growing period. Let
Bass solve your pecan problems.
It will pay you to plant our Extra Special or large sizes for earlier
and heavier bearing. A better start. See prices on Page 12.
‘‘A few of the pecan trees purchased from you in February of this year have blooms .”
—Groveland, Fla.
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A Typical Southern Home Grows Its Own Fruits, Grapes And Berries.
Plant Fruits Between the Pecan Rows
}Ve practice what we preach, and plant fruit between the rows of our pecan trees. Some
is for our own use, and local market, and other for the fruit trees that we produce for sale.
For example, our Blight-proof Pineapple Sand Pears and our Satsuma Oranges.
However, we were somewhat forced into selling other fruits. So many of our customers would
ask us to recommend or buy fruit trees for them, so for the accommodation of our customers
we handle a few fruit trees — all good, hardy, healthy stock.
BASS GUARANTEE ON FRUITS
Our fruit trees and berry plants (other than Satsuma Oranges and Pineapple Sand
Pears) are supplied by reputable nurseries. We guarantee them to be true to name, high
in quality, good healthy stock, free from disease. Stock damaged in transit, if notified
immediately, will be replaced, if express or freight receipt indicates damage. Should any
stock prove not true to name, we will return money or replace it with other stock, but are
not liable for any damages beyond this.
NOTICE. If your order calls for a variety we do not have on hand, we shall, unless
advised to the contrary, substitute another which should prove as satisfactory. Thus we
save you disappointment and loss of time. As\ for our special prices on large orders.
Price? — all Varieties
Each
10
100
June buds 1 to 2 ft.
...$ .20
$1.50
$12.50
3 to 4 ft .
.. .30
2.50
20.00
4 to 5 ft .
.60
5.00
35.00
♦
$
This popular and profitable fruit is grown in nu-
merous varieties — the most popular and practical kinds
to plant are those mentioned below. Plant between
the rows of your pecan orchard.
Only early peach that is well colored. Bright red
cheeked. Carries to market in fine shape and sells
well. Cling.
J. H. Hale
Known as “Million Dollar Peach.” No better peach
ever introduced. Larger than the Elberta, ripens about
week earlier. Flesh, golden-yellow with deep scarlet
blush. Semi-cling.
Leads all varieties planted. Grown with profit every¬
where. An early bearer. Hardy in budding, consistent
yielder, adaptable to almost any soil and climate. Fruit,
large, golden-yellow and bright red cheek, firm, well
flavored and juicy. Fine for eating, cooking, canning.
Freestone.
RED JUNE. A choice fruit of a well-known
variety — medium conical; deep red; juicy. Very
productive.
DELICIOUS. No new variety gained popularity
in so many different sections so quickly. Fruit
large, nearly covered with brilliant dark red: flesh
fine grained; crisp, melting, juicy, with delightful
aroma; highest quality. Splendid keeper and ship¬
per. Tree one of hardiest, vigorous grower, with
good foliage. Regular annual bearer.
Each 10 100
3 to 4 ft . . $ .30 $2.50 $20.00
4 to 5 ft . 60 5.00 35.00
“We had a good crop of pecans this year and it will not be long now before our trees will begin
to give some service to the community .” — Cannon Mills Co., Kannapolis, N- C.
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Plant Pecan Trees On Your Idle Land. If You Sell, You Profit; If Not, You Profit More!
Satsuma Oranges
Bass Blight-Proof
Pineapple Sand Pears
These Sand Pears are other “pets” of ours.
We produce them ourselves, for our own pear
requirements, and realize the profits that they
bring. Plant these pears in an orchard or a few
in your yard. Plant them along the roadside—
they are especially beautiful when in bloom. The
pears are easy to sell.
We know of an orchard that yields at the
rate of over 1,000 bushels per acre. In fact, the
accompanying illustration was made of a tree on
our own land that was so heavily burdened that
it broke the branches. 40 to 75 bushels each year
from many of the older trees in this section is
not an unusual occurrence, and our Extra Spe-
cial size is beautifully headed and destined to
produce as well — in fact, better, since the young
trees have had more and better parentage. Our
Blight-Proof Pineapple Sand Pears are of very
rapid growth, extremely hardy, take up but little
room and require no cultivation. We grow our
own trees and all have well-developed root sys-
terns.
Size
PRICES
Each
10
100
3 to 4 feet .
. $ .45
$ .40
$ .30
4 to 5 feet . . .
. . . 55
.50
.40
5 to 6 feet .
. . .70
.60
.50
6 to 7 feet .
. . .90
.70
.60
Large size .
. 1.15
1.00
.75
Extra Special Size. ...
. 1.50
1.25
1.00
The Bass Pineapple Sand Pears are positively
blight'proof in any section. Guaranteed or your
money bac\.
We have been growing our own Satsuma Oranges
for a number of years, and all of our trees are care¬
fully selected and regularly inspected. These are
the oranges that are so easy to peel without getting
the juice all over you. Golden plump and juicy
fruit with a distinctive flavor.
The Satsuma withstands lots of cold and bears
very heavily. In fact, our three-year-old trees often
bear as high as 750 oranges the third year set out.
Do not plant these oranges, however, where the
temperature goes below 12 degrees above zero. All
our Satsumas are budded or grafted on citrus,
trifoliatta stock, which is the hardiest in the world.
Says the Department of Commerce: “The growing of
Satsumas in Western Florida and Southern Alabama has
expanded rapidly in recent years. One carload of the
fruit was shipped from this section in 1915, while in
1923 sales amounted to 750 carloads, valued at approxi¬
mately $1,250,000.”
Thus the Government has recognized the growing
Satsuma industry, which has spread from Florida
and Alabama to other States, and is a popular and
profitable crop.
PRICES
Size Each 10 100 1000
One year buds or grafts . $ .40 $ .30 $ .20 $ .15
Two year buds or grafts . .50 .40 .30 .22*4
Three year buds or grafts . 75 .60 .50 .37V&
Tsjo orders for less than $5.00 — please!
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This Farm Is 21 Years Old— And Children Are Growing Up To Carry It On.
Bass Grapes
Grow your own Grapes for the table or your own grape juice
or jelly.
CONCORD. The most widely grown, most popular of all
grapes, for vineyards. Black. Healthy, hardy, vigorous vine,
large bunch and berry, and a good yielder. Grows quickly.
Our Concords this year are extra fine.
NIAGARA. Leading white grape. Widely planted. Bunch
large; handsome, juicy and fine flavor.
2 Year Each 10 100 1000
No. 1 . $ .25 S2.00 $15.00 $100.00
The fig-canning industry is gradually extending throughout the
South. Since several tons of figs can be produced on an acre of
ground, it is profitable to give them intensive culture. The fresh fig
is quickly finding its way into markets, and meeting with ready sale.
Figs require little or no cultivation. Our favorite is the CELESTE,
one of the hardiest varieties. Very desirable for canning and pre¬
serving. Small to medium, pear-shaped, ribbed. Flesh firm, juicy,
sweet, excellent quality.
Each 10 100
3 to 4 ft . . . & .35 $3.00 $20.00
4 to 5 ft . . . 50 4.50 35.00
RED JUNE. Early market plum, large size, deep ver¬
milion red color. Good variety, very firm. Flesh light
yellow. Free from rot. Very heavy bearer and easy to
grow. A wonderful plum, in our estimation.
3 to 4
4 to 5
feet.
feet.
Each
.$ .50
. .65
10 100
$4.50 $30.00
6.00 40.00
The Japanese Persimmon can be grown on as wide a range oi
soil as the native Persimmons, and will succeed with the minimum
of care and attention. The trees are vigorous, prolific, and have
few enemies. As the fruit keeps and ships well, it can be placed
on the .market in good condition. It meets with ready sale.
We recommend the TANE-NASHI variety. In high favor. Large
fruit, flesh yellow and seedless. Vigorous, prolific; uniform size —
most desirable to market.
3 to 4 ft..
4 to 5 ft-
Why not plant pecans
between the rows, and let
your land do double duty?
Each
$ .50
.60
Refer to page 25 for our
Extra Special Club Offers.
You’ll save money!
‘The pecan trees are very beautiful and the root system is excellent.” — Cuero, Texas.
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Put That Idle Land To Work On A 24 Hour Basis — With Pecans.
Grow Strawberries for Market and Table
Over in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, according to reports from Meridian, strawberry
growers sell around $80,000 worth of berries from 140 acres. An average of $571 per acre.
There are many other instances throughout the Southland whereby farmers are netting from $125
to even as high as $1,500 per acre for berries. Some plant them in conjunction with other
crops, and others raise strawberries exclusively. You need not devote the entire land to berries,
although it would pay you to do so. You may plant them between the rows of your pecan or
fruit orchard, or your other crops. Grow berries for home use, and market, and profit.
We purchase the choicest plants from a strawberry plant specialist. These healthy berry plants
are grown in Arkansas, whose berries have a nationwide reputation. Plants will be shipped
direct from the center of the Arkansas berry fields from October 15th to April 1st. Set out
your plants 16 to 18 inches apart in 34/2'foot rows — it will pay you to do so. This will require
about 7,500 plants per acre.
MASTODON — Everbearing. This is the
finest everbearing strawberry. New large fall'
bearing berry. Mammoth berries. Eighteen
of the larger ones fill a quart. Big strong
plants. Firm berries, highly flavored, very
sweet. Most productive and profitable of all
everbearers. We recommend them above all.
IMPROVED KLONDIKE. This variety is
planted more in the southwest than any one
variety grown today. Season is second early,
and the Improved Klondike are built up and
are more productive than the old original
Klondike.
t Order the varieties mentioned below or leave judgment up to us, for all
varieties will not be suitable to every section and climate. Note that some
of the plants are sent postpaid and others will be sent by express collect, so
be sure to understand this fact in ordering.
Price List of Strawberry Plants
{IMPOST PAIDC=1PJ)
SSPEXPRESS COLLECT=®3
25
50
100
250
500
1.000
5.000
10.000
Improved Klondike _
.75
1.00
1.50
1.75
2.50
4.50
18.50
35.00
Mastodon Everbearing
1.25
2.00
3.00
3.50
7.00
13.50
57.50
110.00
See Next Page for Two Bargain Club Offers
A [o orders for less than $5.00 — please!
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A Memorial That Produces An Income — Bass Pecans.
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4
4
2
2
2
9
Two Club Offers
Big Bass Bargains
FIVE-DOLLAR SPECIAL
TEN-DOLLAR SPECIAL
1 to 2 ft. Stuart Pecans _ ; _ $ 3.00
3 to 4 ft. Celeste Figs _ 1.40
2 year Concord Grapes _ 1.00
3 to 4 ft. Tane'Nashi Persimmons _ 1.00
3 to 4 ft. Delicious Apples _ 1.00
3 to 4 ft. Pineapple Pears - 1.80
3 to 4 ft. Red June Plums. _ 2.00
3 to 4 ft. Elberta Peaches _ .50
3 to 4 ft. Hale Peaches _ : _ .50
3 to 4 ft. Mayflower Peaches _ .50
1 to 2 ft. Satsuma Oranges _ 1.00
1 to 2 ft. Stuart Pecans _ $1.50
1 to 2 ft. Satsuma Oranges _ 1.00
2 year Concord Grapes _ .50
3 to 4 ft. Elberta Peaches _ _ .50
3 to 4 ft. Red June Plums _ _ 1.00
3 to 4 ft. Blight'Proof Pears _ .90
3 to 4 ft. Celeste Figs _ .70
$6.10
All for $10.00 $13.70
Add 10% and we will PREPAY
All for $5.00
charges on either order.
/toother trees of same size and equal value may be substituted."^
Large Orchard Planting
We are now in position to not only sell you our choice bred'
up trees, but to supervise the actual planting of large orchards.
Thus a positive assurance of not only good trees, but a good
start that they need. Write us for terms and conditions.
A Big Demand for Bass Pecan
Orchards
Quite frequently people will write us if we have any Bass
Pecan Orchards for sale, or if we can refer them to others who
have — and one of the requirements is that they contain Bass
trees. Folks know of their value. So if you have an orchard
planted in our trees, and want to sell it, let us know, and name
your price.
Nowadays people buy on specification — and that specification
is but a trade name. To say that a car is a Ford or a Packard
is sufficient. Other merchandise — food, drugs, clothing, etc., is
bought by name. In like manner, Bass trees are required — which
proves that property becomes worth more when our trees are
planted. So if you want to sell or buy a Bass Pecan Orchard,
please let us know.
Pecan Buds and Grafts for Sale
We can furnish thousands of Pecan buds and grafts from
our own early and heavy bearing parent trees. Grafts fur'
nished during December, January, February and March not
kept on cold storage are $2.00 per 100, or $15.00 per 1,000.
In lots of 5,000 and up at $10.00 per 1,000. Cold storage
grafts kept for late top'working in April, May and June are
$3.00 per 100, or $25.00 per 1,000. Buds furnished during
July, August and September are $1.50 per 100 or $10.00
per 1,000. Varieties are Stuart, Success, Schley, Bass Paper'
shell, Nelson, Hale, Frotscher’s Eggshell, Pabst, Dependable,
Moneymaker. No less than 100 of a kind sold.
The Result of Buying
So Called “Cheap Trees”
Poor trees are high at any
price. Many have bought trees
that wont bear a nut, and
we've had to come in to save
the wrec\ by tree'topping and
budding with our bred'Up
stoc\ .
Tree'topping and budding
is a special craft and we are
prepared to perform this serv'
ice, going anywhere to reju '
venate non'bearing orchards,
provided there is a large num -
her of trees to topwor\.
“You certainly gave me prompt service and nice trees with wonderful root growth.”
— Macon, Miss.
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Plant Bass Pecan Trees And Be Independent In Your Old Age.
Pecans--* A Life Business With Us!
The Bass Pecan Company is an Institution
There are two generations that have devoted the major parts of their lives to the growing,
breeding and care of the Bass Pecan trees, and a third generation is growing up to carry on this
business. Would you buy a car if you weren’t able to get replacements? Why buy from a man
who may be gone tomorrow?
The Bass Pecan Company is not a back yard or single lot nursery, nor a one-man-one-truck
outfit. No agents are employed to drive through the country with trees that may be dried out,
or would be, before they are planted. The business is done direct and strictly by mail or by
personal contact when a customer calls at our nursery to see the trees themselves. It is an In¬
stitution in every sense of the word — and a permanent one.
There are 6,000 acres of which 600 are planted in orchards and nurseries, and the remainder
is held for continued development, experiments and enlargement. Over 2,000,000 trees are
growing in our Nursery at all times. We occupy our own office building as shown on page 31.
1,500,000 catalogs are mailed every year. The Post Office Department has agreed to a $65,000
Post Office building for Lumberton on account of the revenue of this local office, due to the
large postage we pay.
From 100 to 150 men are employed in our Nursery, with an average payroll of $1,500 per
week, and there are 30 teams of mules, and every needed farm and power machinery. Many
of our employees have been with us since we started, and quite a few live in their own homes,
which we have furnished for them, and they are happy and contented, thereby interested in
seeing that our trees are properly cared for, packed and shipped.
Bass Pecan Company
Ideally Located
South Mississippi is the mother section
of the finest varieties of pecans. More fine
varieties of pecans, now being planted, orig¬
inated within 150 miles of Lumberton,
than all the world put together. Lumberton,
therefore, is in the HEART of this district,
and virtually the heart of the entire Pecan
area. _ _ _ . _ _
Visitors Always Welcome
—a proposition to prove our own Confidence
Hundreds of visitors call on us each year, and we are always glad to have them. We are
right near a highway, and have signs indicating our location, so numerous tourists stop by to
see the magnitude of this, the largest pecan nursery. We’ll gladly take you over our place,
show every operation, and the many details of precaution in growing, grafting, budding, caring,
packing and shipping trees.
To show how positive we feel about our trees, we make this daring offer: If you will visit
us, in order to be sure about the trees you buy, AND YOU DO NOT FIND OUR NURSERY
TO HAVE MORE AND BETTER PECAN TREES, we shall pay all expenses and liberally for
your time. You might thus care to visit around to make comparisons. If you are in doubt
about our trees, and can’t visit us, or see others, we’ll ship the trees in competition with any
others, and allow you to select the trees with the finest developed root systems. Does any one
dse have such confidence in their trees? WE KNOW OUR TREES AND THOSE OF OTHERS.
ESt* ORDER NOW ^-Because**-
Please order early! You may have heard that many times before, but we particularly ask that
you let it apply to your pecan trees. It’s true that we have an abundance of trees growing,
but we sell so many that we are frequently sold out of a certain variety, and it might be just
what you want. Furthermore, we ship our nicest trees first of all. Then, too, the sooner you
plant pecan trees and fruit trees, the better it is for the quicker they will produce and bear
profits for you.
So order NOW — even if you want shipment later. Then the matter will be off your
mind, and you will have given action to a worthy deed.
“I got one Stuart pecan tree from you just to try it, and it is the best tree in the orchard by far:’
— Ft. 'Worth, Texas.
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Plant Bass Pecans To Leave Your Family An Estate — A Practical Inheritance.
Our inspector at work. Each tree is individually inspected before shipment.
Another way how we Protect our Customers
We don’t merely dig up our trees and bundle them in the field, but bring them into our
packing sheds. Here’s a picture of a familiar scene. Our Inspector, who is a trained nursery-
man, must not let a single tree pass with scars, is defective in root system, ■ or is in any way
inferior. The trees are placed in a vat of water to wash the dirt off the roots in order that
they may be inspected and then properly packed for shipment. The men carefully gather and
tie the trees, packing as described on page 11.
Even as the trees are growing, the entire Nursery is inspected each week. The inspection
is daily, but it requires a week to walk through all the rows of all the fields. Trees are care¬
fully watched to keep free of any pests and diseases, and to see that trees are in a fine growing
condition.
One of the most amazing things to visitors is a stack of trees ready for burning, and fre¬
quently the bonfires themselves. This is a usual scene, but is done to protect our customers,
even though it is actually money of ours going up in smoke.
These stacks consist of Bass Pecan Trees that we do not consider fit for OUR customers.
They consist of numerous culls — trees that have imperfect root systems, are badly scarred or
dwarfed. Now some of the culls are trees that we consider as seconds, and may be planted, and
are sold by us as No. 2 trees at half the price of our No. 1 trees (see pages 12 and 13), but
these trees that we still consider unfit are burned, and we would not sell them at any price.
Some nurseries would sell these trees as ‘"'number ones,” whereby we burn them. A big loss
to us, but a great satisfaction in protecting our customers.
Inferior trees being burned — which we would not sell at any price.
‘This is what I call prompt service.
I am well pleased with the size and appearance of your
stoc\.” — Amory, Miss.
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Plant Bass Pecan Trees To Send Your Baby To College.
You may always expect of us the finest of trees and plants. We absolutely^*"
guarantee trees to reach you in fine condition, if taken out immediately upon
arrival — or new trees will be sent. BE SURE TO INSPECT TREES
BEFORE YOU TAKE THEM FROM THE DEPOT AND REFUSE THEM
IF IN BAD ORDER, SO WE CA N FILE CLAIM AGAINST THE RAIL -
^ ROAD AND SEND YOU HEW TREES FREE.
N r
Please call for your trees as soon as they arrive. We pack them to reach you
in excellent condition if taken out immediately upon arrival.
Terms Are Cash With Order. We pay spot cash for everything and sell the same way. It
saves us a lot of bookkeeping and annoyance and enables us to sell our high-grade bred-up trees
cheaper. Some prefer to have goods sent C. O. D., but why pay that extra collection fee?
Why not send money with order?
Prices are F. O. B. Lumberton, unless otherwise stated.
How to Send Money. Send money any way that is most convenient for you. Why not send
the money and save the G. O. D. fee? We do not have to pay exchange on checks.
We cannot ship trees by mail except smallest pecans and fruits.
Our Shipping Facilities are exceptionally good. We are near the depots of two railroads and
have open stations both day and night. Also have long distance telephone and telegraph
service. You can get us over the telephone any time.
Our Trees Always Freshly Dug. We can dig and ship your trees any day.
Order Early. The demand for our high-grade bred-up trees far exceeds the supply, and it is
very imperative that you send in your order early. Those who order early naturally receive
the choicest stock.
Time of Shipment. Unless otherwise instructed, orders received during the shipping season
will be forwarded as soon as possible after receipt of the order.
Substitution. If out of the varieties ordered, we will send the ones we think to be the equal
or superior unless instructed not to substitute.
No Charge for Packing. We carefully pack and tag all trees free of charge.
Our Trees Free of Disease. A certificate of inspection of the Mississippi State Entomologist
certifying our trees to be free of disease accompanies each bundle of trees. All inspection laws
of other States are complied with.
SEW* We are not connected with any other nursery.
Because of our care in sending only the finest of the trees,
our inspecting, packing and shipping, and the huge expense
to which we are put, we cannot afford to fill orders that
amount to less than $5.00. So please order enough, even for friends, to make
at least that much of an order.
"I have not lost any of the 35 trees planted last fall and they are making a nice growth.”
Heathman, Miss.
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Bass Pecan Trees Make Money Every Day.
ggp NO ORDERS FOR LESS THAN $5.00, PLEASE.
ORDER BLANK
TO
BASS PECAN COMPANY
Largest Pecan Nursery in the World.
_ LUMBERTON, MISSISSIPPI
For prices and complete descriptions, please refer to the following pages:
Pecans Page 12 Japanese Persimmons . . Page 23
£fars . Page 22 Grapes . Page 23
£lunVs Page 23 Figs . Page 23
Peaches Page 21 Satsuma Oranges Page 22
Apples . Page 21 Strawberries . Page 24
Pecan Buds and Grafts . Page 25
See Big Bargain Offers on Page 25
Kind
Number
PECANS
Stuart.
Success.
Schley.
Bass Papershell .
PEARS
Pineapple Sand Pea:
PLUMS
Red June _ _
JAPANESE
PERSIMMONS
Tane-Nashi .
PEACHES
Mayflower .
Size
Hale.
Elberta .
FIGS
Celeste .
APPLES
Red June-
Delicious.
ORANGES
Satsuma..
GRAPES
Concord...
Niagara . .
STRAWBERRIES
Improved Klondike.
Mastodon
Everbearing . .
Pecan Buds
Price
Pecan Grafts .
| [ $10.00 Special Offer
VARIETY
| [ $5.00 Special Offer.
Total Amount of Bill.
I Guarantee to Take This Order and Pay For It.
Signed . . . . . . . .
Post Office . . . . . . . . . .
Express Office .
Date to Ship .
‘My pecan trees loo\ just fine and everyone of them is living .” — Selma, Ala.
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A Fitting Memorial — :A Bass Pecan Grove.
BASS GUARANTEE
All our BRED'UP Pecan Trees are absolutely guaranteed
to be true to variety, strong, thrifty, vigorous, well dug, well
packed and to reach you in excellent condition, if taken out
immediately upon arrival, or we’ll replace the trees, provided
complaint is made with Railroad Agent. Inspect trees at
station.
We further guarantee upon satisfactory proof that if any
pecan tree we sell you does not prove true to variety, to
refund promptly in cash FIVE TIMES the amount paid.
BASS PECAN COMPANY. LUMBERTON, MISSISSIPPI*
A Group of Guarantees
That Insures Your Protection!
It’s easy for anyone to make any guarantee, but have you assurance that the guarantee will
be carried out? No other nursery has dared duplicate our guarantee above or any of our other
guarantees or propositions listed on this page. It pays to deal with the largest Pecan Nursery
in the world.
Our Pineapple Sand Pears are positively
blight'proof. They are guaranteed not
to blight in any section — or your money back.
If you will visit us, especially in order
to be sure about the trees you buy, we
shall pay all expenses and pay you liberally
for your time if you do not find our nursery
to have more and better pecan trees than any
nursery anywhere. You might care to visit
around to make comparisons.
If we were not positive about our own
trees, would we dare to make such an offer?
If you’re in doubt as to the quality of
our trees, we’ll ship them to you in
competition with any others and allow you
to select the trees with the finest developed
root systems. Does anybody else have such
confidence in their trees? WE KNOW
OUR TREES AND THOSE OF OTHERS.
Should any of our pecan trees die
within one year — if properly cared for,
we’ll share the loss with you and replace the
trees for one'half the regular price.
Our fruit trees and berry plants (other
than Satsuma Oranges and Pineapple
Pears) are supplied by reputable nurseries.
We guarantee them to be true to name, high
in quality, good healthy stock, free from
disease. Stock damaged in transit, if notified
immediately, will be replaced, if express or
freight receipt indicates damages. Should an)
stock prove not true to name, we will return
money or replace it with other stock, but are
not liable for any damages beyond this.
REFERENCES: Dun or Bradstreet;
First National Bank at Lumberton,
Miss.; First National Bank of Hattiesburg,
Miss., and thousands of our customers.
“Of the first 1200 trees planted, every one grew; not a single one dying from transplanting.”
— Dallas, Texas.
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Through The Ages — A Pecan Grove In Your Memory.
Our office nestled among the pecan trees of our own orchards.
A Constant Market for Pecans! (See back cover)
The market for pecans is continually increasing, though some people wonder if it has been
overdone. As a matter of fact, it has hardly been scratched. Even the Government advocates
pecan growing.
Pecans are the most popular of all nuts, and the public is educated to pay a good price for
them. Compare a sack of pecans to a sack of peanuts!
In addition to home consumption, one could supply either local or distant markets in addition
to the Chain and Grocery Stores, especially those catering to the Fancy trade. Bakers and
confectioners use hundreds of thousands of pounds each year, and fruit cakes are being made in
ton lots, using many pounds of pecans. Pecan pralines are popular. sellers, and in fact the mak<
ing of pecan candies has hardly been started.
Recently a new kind of business has been established — cracking companies. There is one here
at Lumberton that has made a great success. The business may be carried on in the home as
a side line, and an additional source of revenue, or may become a large plant with all cracking
done by machinery, and hundreds of employees.
Some people sell pecans direct from their orchards, and others purchase them for resale, selling
by mail and various forms of advertising. Our Advertising Department will be glad to make
suggestions along this line.
No, indeed, the pecan industry is still in its infancy. Cash in on it!
Papershell Pecans- 1
FOR SALE#
$2.50,
Our own pecan groves produce thousands of pounds
of papershell pecans each season which we offer for sale.
Prices are as follows: 5 pound box of fine Stuart, Success,
Schley or Bass Papershell nuts delivered by Parcel Post
10 pound box as above, $4.50, and 100 pounds delivered by express $40.00, prepaid.
Bass Pecan Company, ( whe wS) Lumberton, Miss.
CATALOG DESIGNED AND PREPARED BY BOTT ADVERTISING AGENCY, LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
PRINTED IN U. S. A. BY D1TTL.ER BROS., ATLANTA, GA.
“The trees were received in fine condition, and they are far better than anything we have
received at twice the price.” — Houston, Texas.
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