Paper Shell Pecans
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
SIXTEEN big pecan nuts on a single small lower branch of one tree in our big, bearing orchard on our Calhoun County Orchard Plantation. This picture, in natural colors, from a photograph taken in late September, 1919, gives an idea of the prodigious number of nuts that a single large, bearing tree will yield.
The first quarter of the east front of our bearing pecan orchard. As far as the eye can see, stretch row after row of fine, big pecan trees (compare with man for size); many of which have borne over two hundred pounds in a single season.
What better evidence could you wish of the adaptability of soil and climate to pecan growing?
All illustrations of pecan trees in this book were made from photographs taken on our plantations of over 7000 acres in southwest Georgia—where pecans thrive best.
Copyright, 1921, Elam G. Hess, Manheim, Pa., Issued Jan., 1921.
The above photographic illustration shows a big, bearing pecan tree on our plantation, near the house. For size, compare with the men shown in the foreground.
Food is the need of the day—of every day.
Food is the need of the future.
From the beginning of the world food production has been the most important of the activities of man—but food production has frequently taken uneconomic channels. Even before the war in Europe started, the tendency toward changing standards in food production was marked.
In one of America’s leading periodicals, we read: “ Tree crops is the next big thing in farming ,” says J. Russel Smith, after an 18,000–mile journey through the nut growing countries .
Keystone Pecan Company
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Paper Shell Pecans
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Famous Food Authorities.
Prominent Magazines Quoted.
Noted Agricultural Authorities.
FOREWORD
Right Foods—The Increasing Demand
Why Spend Millions For Imported Nuts?
Poultry Gains Fail to Equal Increase of Population
“Shall We Cease to Eat Meat?”
Why America Must Eat Less Animal Flesh
Nut Meat Gives Fat and all Needed Protein
Nut Meat is Superior to Animal Flesh
Pecans Furnish The Balanced Ration
Nuts—A Staple, Necessary Food
Nuts Versus Beefsteak
Nuts—The Safer Source of Protein
Grow Pecans—The Ideal “Fat” Food
Twenty Times As Much Food Per Acre
Nut Meat The Real Meat
The Finer The Nut—The Greater The Demand
“The Most Prized of All Nuts For Domestic Uses”
The Pecan—The Year-round Nut
“Among the Highest Priced Horticultural Products of America”
“What is The Paper Shell Pecan?”
“Your Pecan Is Superior To Our Walnut,” Says Burbank
The Hardiest of All Nut Trees
The Pecan Makes More Progress Than Other Nuts Made In Centuries
The First Three Steps In Establishing Paper Shell Pecan Orchards
First, the Seedling Pecan Nut is Planted in the Nursery
A Few Years Later in the Same Nursery Corner
The Sturdiest Budded Trees are later Transplanted while Dormant, into the Orchard Units
Hess Brand Paper Shell Pecans
We have Sold Tons of Hess Brand Paper Shell Pecans
A Few Typical Cases of Re-orders
“The Finest Nuts I Ever Saw”
Says the world famous food authority, Dr. J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek Sanitarium
From Another Food Authority
More Evidence of Superiority on Hess Brand Paper Shell Pecans
The Highest Priced Pecans—Yet Demand far Exceeds Supply
A leading agricultural publication says:
Why This Phenomenal Demand for Finer Pecans
Nuts Meet the Demand For Uncooked Foods
Pecans For Sundaes and Candies, Etc.
“A Greater Future Than Any Nut Raised In This Country”
Maximum Food Values In Condensed Form
From one of the largest nut-tree nurserymen in the world:
A Test Which Proves The Best Pecans Cheapest In The End
More Pecan Orchards—A Vital Necessity
How Pecan Trees Do Grow
Our Co-operative Profit-Sharing System
We Sell You The Land, And Establish Your Orchard
The Practical Answer—The Unit Plan
Our Pecan Orchard Plantations Are Divided Into One-Acre Units
SERVICE Which Build Productive Orchards
One of the Safest Industries—The Profit is O. K.
3½ Years’ Growth
Our Figures are Intentionally Conservative
An Increase in Value of $100 per Year per Acre
Why Do We Sell Orchard Units?
Our Investors Are Found All Over The World
Finds His 45–Acre Orchard Better Than He Expected
Your Extra Efforts Lead to Bigger Results Says Unit Owner From the Klondike
“Our Interests Are in Safe Hands,” Says Rev. George W. Lutz, Unit Owner.
Well Pleased, Want Entire Block for My Family, Writes California Physician and Food Expert
Buying 10 More Units—A Good Investment
An Ideal Southern Home
Where Winter Does Not Consume What the Summer Produces
Office of the Clerk, District Court, Boulder County, Col.
Investigate The Company And Its Management
“The Supply Will Never Equal The Demand”
ELAM G. HESS
L. B. Coddington
Enos H. Hess
Willis G. Kendig
M. G. Esbenshade
B. L. Johnson
Joseph Seitz
Thomas F. Miller
A. S. Perry, Field Secretary, Keystone Pecan Co.
Our Vice President and Sales Manager Have Both Added to Their Holdings on Our Plantation During the Past Year
Why Mr. Coddington, Vice President of the Keystone Pecan Company, Bought More Units
Why Mr. Miller, Our Sales Manager, Bought Seven Additional Units
William P. Bullard, Horticulturist on our Calhoun County Plantations
Our Dougherty Co. Organization
R. C. Simpson
C. A. Simpson
Our Mitchell County Organization
J. B. Miller, of Baconton, Ga.
J. R. Miller, of Baconton, Ga.
Our Lee County Organization
Alexander Pope Vason
James P. Champion
Our Lee County Organization
Alva W. Barrett
C. C. McKnight of Senoia, Georgia
Robert Craig Berckmans
No Investment Can Be Safer
England Likes Hess Pecans
Who Should Invest In Keystone Pecan Orchards?
Who Should Invest In Keystone Pecan Orchards?
Units Full Paid in Case of Death
$10 Down Per Unit, $10 Per Month
The Pecan Tree—Nature’s Most Powerful Food Producer
