that apples and peaches are subject to many perils of frost, storm,
blight, borer, and of loss in shipment. Pecans are hardier than hickory
nuts, they cannot be shaken off the tree till ripe. Citrus fruits—like
oranges and grape fruit—are liable to frost, and spoil so quickly that
it is impossible to hold them long before marketing. Paper Shell Pecans
can be held a year without losing their delicious flavor and nutritive
value; for nature has provided them with a perfect container (shell)
which shuts out impurities and prevents deterioration.
There can be no glut of fine pecans—because they can be raised only in
limited territory, they have the whole world for a market and the whole
year for a selling season. As the famous Luther Burbank well says (see
page 26): “=We have now one pecan where we ought to have a million to
create a market.=”
An assured increasing market for perfected pecans, at an excellent
profit, is back of every dollar you invest here.
Who Should Invest In Keystone Pecan Orchards?
[Sidenote: The young man]
The young man. To provide an income for later years. “He must,” says the
American Fruit and Nut Journal, “look to a business that will increase
in value and returns. The improved pecan orchard fulfills all these
requirements. It is safe, pays little at the beginning, but increases
its income gradually, and when ten or fifteen years old will yield ten
times more than the same money would in any other business.”
In Health Culture, for December, 1915, we read: “There is but a
small territory in the United States in which soil conditions and
climate are right for pecans. Of the half million budded pecan trees
in the world nearly half are in Calhoun and Dougherty Counties,
Georgia. Sufficient is known of the yield to claim that this half of
the budded trees has produced far more than one-half of the crop.”
“The chief interest in the pecan centers in its high food value for
mankind. The flavor is greatly in its favor; also the pecan
surpasses all others in the percentage of fat, the comparison being
made with walnuts, peanuts, filberts, almonds, and cocoanuts.”
Who Should Invest In Keystone Pecan Orchards?
[Sidenote: The man of middle age and above]
To provide now while his earning power is at its greatest, for those
years when his energy begins to ebb—=let him plant his money where it
grows=. As J. B. Wight said before the American Pomological Society:
“=Plant a pecan grove, and when you are old, it will support you.=... It
will lighten your burdens while here, and when you are gone your
children and your children’s children will rise up and call you
blessed.”
[Sidenote: Husbands and parents]
To provide an annuity for their wives and families, which will exceed in
annual return any equal investment for the purpose and which will yield
a growing income each year. No father wants to look forward and see the
home broken up for lack of income, the wife deprived of comfort and the
children deprived of education—because he put off till the morrow, which
never comes, this investment for their protection.
[Sidenote: Business and professional people—all men and women with
foresight]
Business and professional incomes vary greatly. There should be some
provision for the years of reduced earning power—when conditions beyond
your control cut into a mere fraction the satisfactory income of last
year. Because pecan orchards have their foundation in land, because
Nature yields her crops abundantly despite wars and panics, because the
demand for Paper Shell Pecans was not affected by the hard times in the
winter of 1914–15, you know that here is a dependable source of income.
The period of uncertainty on pecans is the first five years—when we
assume the risk!
“For want and age save while you may,
No morning sun shines the whole day.”
says Ben Franklin. Are you saving for the “rainy day”? Ask yourself that
question—and insist on a fair answer.
Accept no excuses—excuses will not provide for you and your loved ones
in years to come.
Don’t say, “I’ll begin to invest when I get a larger income.” If your
income were reduced a tenth today—you would manage to live on the
balance. Put that tenth now where it will protect you against “the
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”
=Orchard Unit Applications Are Enclosed For Your Convenience
Select Which You May Desire, Full Cash Payment Or Deferred Payments=
=Keystone Pecan Company=
=Plantations in Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee and
Mitchell Counties, contiguous to Albany, Georgia=
=Northern Office
Woolworth Building, Lancaster, Pa.=
=President’s Office
Manheim, Lancaster County, Pa.=
Please Mail all Applications and Checks to Keystone Pecan Company,
Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Units Full Paid in Case of Death
If any unit holder, who is paying for his unit on the monthly payment
plan, and who has made all his payments promptly on the dates called for
by contract, should die after twelve monthly payments, in addition to
the initial payment, and all subsequent payments having become due up to
the time of his death have been paid, but before his entire contract
price of $650 has been paid in full, the company will, upon satisfactory
proof of death (suicide excepted), furnish to his beneficiary a deed to
his unit or units and all further payments on same shall cease. This
protects the family or estate of the unit holder who meets his monthly
payments promptly against all possibility of loss due to his death. The
right to change the beneficiary is reserved to the unit holder, provided
he notifies the Company in writing.
In case of my death please make deed to
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(Here insert name of beneficiary)
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(Signature of purchaser)
$10 Down Per Unit, $10 Per Month
[Sidenote: A discount of ten per cent. for full cash payment]
Each Orchard Unit will be sold under the following conditions: $10 down
when application is made for the Orchard Unit, and $10 per month per
Unit until it is paid in full. No interest is charged on deferred
payments. Should one prefer to pay full cash for one’s Orchard Unit, a
discount of ten per cent. will be allowed on the amount of cash paid,
and the deed will be delivered at once.
Upon receipt of an application, together with the first payment, an
Orchard contract will be prepared and executed and forwarded. Upon the
completion of the payments, the deed will be delivered.
Remember that the price quoted covers every expense of the five-year
development period.
[Sidenote: A home site on your units]
The contract of sale shows that the purchaser may, after the five-year
development period is over, locate his home on his units and look after
his own trees, managing his property entirely independent of the
company. But we believe that our management and our method of marketing
will prove so economical, efficient and satisfactory that the unit
owners will always want the company to manage their units and harvest
and market their pecans for them.
[Sidenote: Units full paid in case of death]
If any unit owner, who is paying for his unit on the monthly payment
plan, and who has made all his payments promptly on the dates called for
by the contract, should die after twelve monthly payments in addition to
the initial payment, and all subsequent payments having become due up to
the time of his death have been paid, but before his entire contract
price has been paid in full, the company will upon satisfactory proof of
death furnish to his heirs a deed to his unit or units and all further
payments on the same shall cease. This plan protects the family or
estate of the unit holder who meets his monthly payments promptly
against all possibility of loss due to his death.
The Pecan Tree—Nature’s Most Powerful Food Producer
A leading farm paper, in an article on pecans, published the
following, “The nut is nutritious, very nutritious, and we already
have numerous instances of one good big tree making more human food
than the best acre of blue grass in all Kentucky. Plainly, the
tree-nut method beats the grass-meat method of feeding men. Tree
crops are to be the agriculture of the future.”
[Illustration:
In natural colors from photograph of Lake Marcelia, taken week of June
16, 1919. Note on the large live oak tree at right the beautiful red
flowered trumpet vine which wends its way among the glossy green
ferns, and further out on the branches the beautiful grayish Spanish
moss which stands out so vividly against the luxuriant evergreen
leaves of this tree. Mr. Cudabec, orchard unit owner from Denver,
Colorado, seated at end of boat, is holding up a fine black bass,
measuring a foot in length, which he caught after he rowed but a few
rods from the firm, sandy beach which surrounds this lake.
]
[Illustration]
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