FRUIT PRODUCTION IN NEW YORK 



Introduction 



Fruit growing at the present time is receiving more attention 

 than perhaps any other form of agricultural production. Thou- 

 sands of questions are asked relative to every phase of the subject 

 and many earnest queries come from persons who have but little 

 conception of the nature of the business and who seem to have an 

 impression that a small investment will soon or ultimately pro- 

 duce a large income. Persons without experience should not 

 enter upon commercial fruit growing on a large scale. It takes 

 time to rear an orchard to bearing age and from the start trees 

 must have attention. Chances of full success are favorable only 

 when every favorable factor prevails. 



The essentials to profitable fruit growing are many — the lack 

 or neglect of even one may prove fatal to the enterprise. Of the 

 leading commercial fruit growers in the State not one achieved 

 his record by chance but by intelligent application of the principles 

 involved and hard work. 



Some Essentials 



First, and perhaps most important is the personal factor. 

 Trees seem to do their best for those who love them. Attention 

 is given to objects of love. Attention, application, persistency, 

 business ability, observation and integrity of purpose are all 

 fundamental. 



Second. Location should be in that portion of a fruit produc- 

 ing area where trees of a desired species seem to thrive naturally. 

 Apples grow in nearly all counties of the State but attain great- 

 est commercial importance near the lakes and in the large river 

 valleys. Peaches do best near large bodies of water as in Niagara 

 county, along the Hudson and on Long Island. " Sweet " cherries 

 in peach sections and " sour " cherries wherever apples thrive. 

 Grapes near Lakes Erie and Ontario, the finger lakes and the 

 Hudson river. 



Third. Small fruits can be grown in most portions of the State 

 where soil can be cultivated and is rich enough to grow anything. 



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