Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-19

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land, engaging such general and wide
attention and employing so much capt.
tai as the growing and culture of pc
cans, merits wider publicity and clear
err education than it is receiving.
Let it be understood that in the
statements | shall make and the sug-
gestions | shall offer from time to
time do not pose as an infallible an
thority. While have given years to a
close study of the industry, visited and
investigated most of the large and
small nurseries, orchards and propost>
tons in the great pecan belt ard iu-
vested my own money in the nursery
and orchard growing, there is much !
do not know, yet the facts and lessons
| have learned in that dearest of all
schools, experience, ought to be help
full and valuable to many of the read
ers of this paper.
Few people have engaged in the cul-
ture of pecans from the motives OF
philanthropy only, but it is safe to say
that those who have reached the higher
planes of success really loved the
work and were influenced not only By
the financial rewards anticipated, but
also very largely by the hope of doing
good and bringing good to others.
No man can continue to give his
time, thought and earnest efforts to
this interesting branch of horticulture
without becoming better and broader in
mind and morals, and no man can
grow in these character essentials
without becoming better citizen AMI
more useful in his community.
Just as in other avenues of industry
or occupations, some entirely selfish
characters are engaged in the pecan
promotion business, selling prospec-
tive groves to innocent but ignorant
and anxious investors, without intent
or endeavor to give value for the
money received.
Such methods are condemned by oil
the associations that represent the in
dustry, local, state and national, and
every effort is made by them to protect
! the public from exaggerations and mis-
representation. Indeed the warnings
sent out through the press, and
through state and national bulletins,
as well as by private correspondence
with inquiries, have been the direct
means of saving untold thousands OF
dollars to would-be investors.
[ l have in my correspondence files
letters from hundreds of people living
in different states, who are able, will
ing and anxious to purchase a pecan
grove and yet are kept, from doing so
through the fear of not getting what
they are promised for their money. Iii
almost every instance, however, those
who do buy and lose, buy sight I'M
SEEM and then, when too late, they
realize that conditions and property
were not as expected or represented.
| A satisfied purchaser of real estate
is the best advertisement for any COM
munity, while the dissatisfied deceived
purchaser will do more to bring any
section into disfayor than can be over
come by the expenditure of thousands
of dollars in advertising. 1t is my can
did opinion that the selling of land i'm
proved or unimproVed, or pecan prop
ositions, whether growing orchards or
groves to be planted and cared for by
the seller and promoters, when the
selling is done by advertising and oy
correspondence with parties who have
never seen the property they buy, is
an unwise practice, hurtful rather than
helpful to the community where the
property sold is located. Even per-
sonal inspection at one season of the
year might result in favorable inn
preston but if seen at other seasons
the party would receive very different