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.”

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.

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!

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.”