  Like all tree crops of value, pecans do not bear the first few years after planting. During this period before bearing begins, the greatest care and attention are necessary—once the pecan orchard is well established, the trees are hardy as an oak. 1. In the proceedings of the National Nut Growers Association we read of many pecan trees which have remarkable records for long life and great yields. It tells of one tree, now 110 years old, which has borne every year for thirty years, bearing 400 pounds of nuts in a single season. Another is now 75 years old and has borne every year for forty-one years—largest annual crop being 800 pounds, average crop over 500 pounds per season for thirty years past. Another property has borne as high as 900 pounds per year and has borne every year for forty-one years. Trained specialists and our exceptional equipment on your units Our co-operative, profit-sharing plan gives your pecan orchard the benefit of the skill and experience of our trained horticulturists, and of mechanical facilities which it would be impossible for the average pecan orchardist to possess. Our pecan orchard plantations, totaling over 7,300 acres, are all located near Albany, Georgia, the “hub of the pecan universe.” The land has been approved by experts of highest standing as possessing the rare character of soil necessary. Corroborating these opinions is the fact that we have right on our property many pecan trees, bearing seedling nuts in large quantities, despite the fact that they were planted thirty trees to the acre fifteen and twenty years ago. Now only twenty Paper Shell Pecan trees are being planted to the acre, because of their vigorous growth. These trees will undoubtedly increase in size and in annual yield every year till they are forty years old—and bear their maximum crop for a century or more. Twenty Paper Shell Pecan trees of standard varieties on each acre-unit The Keystone Pecan Company was organized and incorporated for the purpose of planting its property with Paper Shell Pecans on a co-operative and profit-sharing basis. That is, of the 7,395 acres, 5,400 acres will be sold to investors, the investor buying as few or as many acres as he desires. From the beginning the company has been planting the property to Paper Shell Pecans of standard varieties, twenty trees to each acre-unit. It cultivates and cares for the trees and the land for a period of five years from planting of orchard units, and the charge per acre-unit includes land, clearing, furnishing trees, planting, cultivating, care, etc. After this period the company shares with the unit holder in the profits from the nuts as explained on page 38. Our unit plan is considered by conservative investors as the safest, most equitable and most profitable plan to plant our large Pecan Orchard Plantations in the shortest possible time. |
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