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that we may replace or enlarge our orchard as occasion requires. The 

 expense is but little if any more than to purchase the trees. If you raise 

 them yourselves, you will be sure to get the hind you desire. There is 

 such n babel of names for fruits on this coast tkat the same variety of 

 fruit may be known to the farmer and nurseryman by entirely different 

 names, so that we are not always sure of getting the kinds we want. 

 This one fact shows the great necessity of a standard work on Califor- 

 nia fruits. 



THE MARKETS. 



To realize the greatest price, be always in the market with a full sup- 

 ply of all seasonable kinds. Thus, every day, from the first of May till 

 the first of December, we have a profitable trade for eight months in 

 the year. Should some sell so low as to realize but little over the 

 expense of marketing, or eve»n be given away, it only sharpens the appe- 

 tite, and we are fully compensated by having those kinds that bring the 

 highest prices. By all means, be careful in selling that the purchaser 

 may get just what he bargains for. Get your fruit into the hands of 

 the consumer in the most direct way possible. Be ready to fill all 

 orders with dispatch. Be obliging to your patrons; let them know that 

 you consider what is for their interest to buy it is for yours to sell. Be 

 sure you charge no more than the market price, as reputation has much 

 to do in disposing of your commodities. Never allow your crop sold on 

 commission, unless disposed of in the larger towns, where the demand 

 is great, and only to those houses that make rapid sales, quick returns, 

 and charge small percentage. There will necessarily be much that is 

 unmarketable; we should take the most direct way of turning this into 

 cash, by employing such help as work for their board, lodge themselves, 

 and live on the fruit, making returns in good sweet bacon and lard. 



GOOD TOOLS AND WORK. 



Have good implements to work with, and keep them in good condition 

 and in their proper places. Nothing is gained by spending time in look- 

 ing after lost tools. Leave nothing for to-morrow that may be done 

 to-day. Bisc early, for the industrious find capabilities in the soil that 

 the sluggard never dreamed of. Take the papers — an agricultural as 

 well as a general newspaper. They are as much a necessity to one in 

 this department of industry as in any other. I would not impose on 

 you by consuming time to point out their utility, which must be self- 

 evident to every thinking person. You show me a fruitgrower that 

 does n't take a paper, and I will show you one that does n't make his 

 business pa} r . It is a sufficient cause of failure, and he should subscribe 

 for one at once. But however anxious we are that we may have cash 

 to show for our year's operations, we must not forget to nourish well 

 the goose that lays our golden eggs. Our trees must be well pruned 

 and cultivated, and if any tree bring not forth good fruit it must he 

 grafted with better or hewn down and. cast into the fire. With the 

 showing 1 have made, our markets continually being enlarged by an 

 increasing population, with the facilities afforded by rapid transporta- 

 tion, opening up distant markets for many of our fruits, I think his 

 vision must be obscure who cannot see in the future, as well as the pres- 

 ent, bright prospects for those engaged in this pleasant avocation. 



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