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.
FOREWORD
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.
The man who is alert to changing food standards, who realizes how largely the cattle herds of the world have been depleted during the World War, who has learned how long it will be before they can be built up, will see in this condition an opportunity paralleled only in a small way by the noted investment opportunities of the past.
About a hundred years ago the railroad offered an investment opportunity which the Vanderbilts were wise enough to see—and to seize. You know that the Vanderbilt wealth has lasted through generations—increasing year by year.