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are using the Standard sixteen-quart basket. This should be made 

 of clean white wood, material one-eighth inch thick, well hooped, 

 with a solid bottom. This carries the fruit firm without bruising, 

 but costs a little more than those made of light veneer, but the 

 fruit is carried in such fine condition that it readily brings from 

 twenty-five to fifty cents more per basket. If the grower wishes 

 to cater to the tastes and fancies of the best customers, it pays to 

 have carriers and small handle baskets that can be carried along, 

 holding from one-quarter to one peck, this being all one customer 

 wants, and he is willing to pay for the privilege of getting just what 

 is wanted. If the grower has not too large a crop, he can realize 

 more money by canvassing the smaller towns. If he has several 

 hundred baskets a day, he had better have one good man who has 

 a fancy trade, and ship him daily what he wants, setting the price 

 at your end sending an invoice with each lot. Never overload him. 

 If you have peaches to spoil, let it be at your end, not in a glutted 

 market. Have a man in as many towns as necessary, never have 

 two men in the same town, thus putting your own goods in com- 

 petition between your own salesmen, to your detriment and theirs. 

 Never ship them anything you cannot guarantee, putting your name 

 on each package, and having them sold as your goods. If you have 

 sufificient to ship in carload lots, let the same rule hold, consign to 

 but one man in the same town. Use the same care in grading and 

 packing; make your goods so attractive that the public cannot help 

 buying. Then have them packed with such honesty that a cus- 

 tomer once secured is always retained. 



In conclusion, I wish to say, that for the man possessed with 

 intelligence, good judgment, industrious habits, and a love for the 

 calling, there is no business of the present age that offers such 

 strong inducements, such sure and profitable returns as peach rais- 

 ing. 



THE SUCCESSFUL FARMER'S EDUCATION. 



BT Prop. Wm. G. Owens. Lewishurg, Pa. 



Before trying to discuss the subject, it will be necessary to deter- 

 mine what we mean by a successful farmer. Is he a success who 

 knows not what goes on in the great world around him, who living 

 in the Twentieth Centurv uses imnlements of the Nineteenth and 

 the methods of the Middle Ages? Is that man a success who, work- 

 ing early and late, without taking time to enjoy life as he goes 

 along, becomes so overpowered with greed for gain that never a 

 kind word is spoken or a gracious act performed unless he can see 

 a dollar in it? Or could you call that man a success who, by fair 

 means and foul, has added acre to acre, farm to farm, until he owns 

 a vast tract of land? Is he who makes a simple living only or he 

 who acquires health always a success? The questions are a suffi- 

 cient answer. 



