  L. J. Cooper, President of the First National Bank of Waycross, Georgia, clearly states the whole proposition, when he says: “The pecan industry is in its infancy, but is being developed very rapidly in this immediate section. It is considered one of the safest industries in South Georgia, and the profit is O. K. once you get the trees in good bearing condition.” Far-sighted business people are investing in pecan orchards because their investigation proves that the bearing pecan orchard is “one of the most profitable and permanent of agricultural investments.” See statement of Luther Burbank, the Edison of Agriculture on page 19. Below is a table showing a conservative estimate of the probable yield of an acre orchard unit in this district. The figures are not guaranteed, but are to the best of our knowledge and belief accurate and authentic. The first column in this table refers to the number of years from planting in the orchard units.
R. P. Jackson makes affidavit to a yield of 1,056 pounds the fifth year from his 259 pecan trees, or an average of 4¼ pounds per tree. The Monticello Board of Trade, Monticello, Florida, directs attention to 95 trees of finest paper shell pecans owned by H. C. White, at Putney, Georgia, which bore 380 pounds of nuts in the sixth year. J. A. Kernodle reports 17 pounds per tree the sixth year from a group of trees. J. R. Pinson reports a yield of 2,450 pounds from a 13–acre orchard in its seventh year, average of 190 pounds per acre, or 9½ pounds per tree. B. W. Stone, Ex-President of the National Nut Growers’ Association, reports a yield of 1,300 pounds from 3 acres the eighth year, which figures over 20 pounds average per tree. I. P. Delmas reports a yield of 9,750 pounds of pecans from his 325 trees in the ninth year, an average of 30 pounds per tree. T. S. McManus reports 165 pounds of nuts from one tree the tenth year. He states that he can show average yields of 50 to 75 pounds at ten years. Theo. Bechtel, President of the National Nut Growers’ Association, reports a yield of 100 pounds in the 10th year and of 185 pounds in the 13th year. A 3½ year old tree on our plantations on which 44 nuts were counted by the men in the picture, A. S. Perry, Secretary of the National Nut Growers Association, Thos. F. Miller, Allentown, Pa., Prof. W. S. Hafer, Womelsdorf, Pa., and by Frank R. Ritter, Fleetwood, Pa. The nuts, being still small and practically the same color as the foliage, cannot be seen in the photograph. B. W. Stone, in his book, “The Pecan Business,” tells of one tree which in its seventh, eighth and ninth year bore an aggregate of 200 pounds of nuts. The same tree bore 106 pounds in its tenth year. I. P. Delmas reports a yield of 235 pounds of pecans from a tree thirteen years old. John D. Gunn reports a yield of 268 pounds in a single season from one of his paper shell pecan trees. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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