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PECAN TREES YIELD RICHEST CROP OF THE WORLD
The Pecan tree was first discovered by French explorers in the early history of
this country. It was found to be one of the staple foods for the Indians,
a palatable nut growing wild in the Southern forest.
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Ten Years Old Pecan Tres at Savannah Valley
Pecan Company’s Grove.
ANNA R. CAMPBELL &, CO.
524-525 Dyer Bldg. Augusta, Ga.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Pecan trees have the greatest
vitality of any known trees; they
will live and bear large crops of nuts
for generations, always yielding
abundantly. Pecan trees in the
Gulf States have been found to ex
ceed seven hundred years in age.
Culture and improvement have brought the wild
pecan nut into a high state of development and pro
ductiveness, and today as this King of Nuts becomes
better known the demand is far in excess of supply.
The Paper Shell pecan is by far the choicest nut
known in America, or for that matter in the world.
The certainty of a large and regular yield; the
vigor and longevity of the trees; the ease with which
the nuts are gathered, graded and shipped, and the
rapidly growing popularity in the markets of the
world gives the paper shell pecan commercial possi
bilities so enormous that they stagger the imagina
tion.
We know of many instances where owners ol pe
can groves have refused offers of $1,000.00 and more
per acre for groves not more than 10 or 31 years old.
A pecan grove is the best asset one can possess,
the industry can never be overdone; its yield in
creases annually; we have the world for a market; for
the crop of this King ofj)4st* the best nut in the
world.
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The paper shell paean retails on the Chicago
and New York marketed t from SI.OO to $1.25 per
pound. At no time during the year 1913 was, the
price below 50c per it is shown by growers
who kept records of gloves that a tree ten years old
will bear at least 50 potinds. Take 20 trees to the
acre and you have 1000 pounds of nuts. If they
should only bring 25c per pound, an acre would bring
an income of $250.00.
The Savannah Valley Pecan Grove, owned by
Anna K. Campbell & Co., of Augusta, Ga., is located
in Aiken county, S. C., on a direct line of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad from Augusta, Ga., to New York
City, in the rich and fertile Savannah Valley, only 10
miles from the city of Augusta. Ga., and about the
same distance from Aiken, S. C., both cities now fa
mous winter resorts of the South.
The soil iis a dark loam, deep and rich and will
produce any crops grown in the South, but the soil
is best adapted to pecan culture.
There are 1227 acres in the tract having a rail
road frontage of one and a half miles, station and
sidetrack on the place. We have 58 acres bearing pe
can trees that are 20 years old and 53.4 acres bearing
trees 10 years old, making a total of 111.4 acres. In
addition to this, we have 400 acres cleared that can be
planted in pecans at a cost not exceeding $20.00 per
acre, the remaining part of the tract is in wood and
timber, and it is estimated that the wood and timber
will more than pay for clearing, stumping and plant
ing this part of the land in pecans.
Ii interested in the Pecan industry
write us for our proposition.
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vannah Valley Pecan Company’s Grove.
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General View of Grove Twenty Years Old. Sa
vannah Valley Pecan Company’s Grove.
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General View of Grove Twenty Years Old. Sa
vannah Valley Pecan Company’s Grove.
“AUGUSTA IN 1914”