No Investment Can Be Safer
Think it over. Let your own judgment decide. Ask yourself these questions in regard to any investment under consideration.
What is the security back of my investment? In the Keystone Pecan Co. there is an acre of land which becomes yours on the payment of price shown on page [71]. Remember this—you own the acre of land itself.
Productive land—yielding needed food of highest value
Land is the safeguard of this safe investment. Land cannot burn up, cannot be stolen; land cannot be wiped out by panics. The biggest trusts base their bond issues and their mortgages on land—yet the manufacturing plants which are built on that land may, due to panic, fail to produce enough to pay interest on the bonds or mortgages. Many of the largest industrial companies have suspended or decreased dividends since the European War ended, yet nature continues to provide foodstuffs and man still needs to eat them.
Productive land is the best of land investments. Tree crops are the profitable crops, which make land most productive. Note on page [37] that a leading farm paper tells of single pecan trees making more human food than a whole acre of Kentucky blue grass.
A 3½ YEAR OLD TREE ON OUR PLANTATIONS