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body in New York doesn't pay a bill of two or three thousand 

 dollars ; he keeps right on with the shoe business, doesn't he ? 

 keeps on doing business — he puts every dollar that he can get 

 into his business. What does the farmer do, or the fruit- 

 grower? He buys a few trees and then he won't put another 

 cent into it if he possibly can help it. Now if a man is going 

 into the fruit business and set out acres and acres of trees, he 

 wants to go into it understandingly ; he wants to make up his 

 mind that he is going to spray and dig and harrow and pack — 

 and he has got to have the proper place to put that fruit. He 

 mustn't go to work and raise a thousand barrels of apples and 

 then when he gets ready to pick them have no place to put them. 

 That is not business, not a bit of it ; that is only one part of the 

 business. He must have his cold storage plant and he must be 

 in shape to take care of that fruit, and be in shape so as to go 

 into the market, and put the fruit into the market when people 

 want it, and not put it into the market when he picks it or have 

 it spoil on his hands. That is not business, not a bit of it. 



And let me tell you another thing. Here is another man got 

 a boy or girl, three, four, five, six, seven years old up to ten, 

 fifteen ; he puts $25 in the bank for that child, so as to have a 

 capital for it when it gets old enough to go to school, college, 

 or somewhere else, or go into business. Why not take a five 

 acre lot, the best you have got on the farm, and set it out to 

 trees and let the young man or the woman have the trees, show 

 them how to take care of them? Don't you think in ten years 

 from now it would produce money enough, well, to put the child 

 into school and perhaps carry them through school? I think 

 it would. I think if the stories you told here last night about 

 the two or three thousand dollars that you received from apples 

 from a certain number of trees — I think if you had five or ten 

 acres in Northern Spies or Baldwins or in some other variety, 

 that you would have a real good bank account for that boy or 

 girl. And that wouldn't be all, you would be teaching the boy 

 and girl the very business that you ought to teach them to follow 

 in your footsteps. If you expect the horticulture of this coun- 

 try to live, you have got to have somebody to follow after we 

 old fellows are dead and buried. Let me tell you an incident. 

 Attending a meeting like this, some one unfortunately sprung 

 an educational sort of a question on the meeting and they got 



