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should be one who is suited to his work, one who has the time and 

 patience to wait year after year, to wait and falter not, but continue to 

 cultivate his bump of hope as well as his orchard, he will surely find it 

 quite as necessary, for his reward in money, and that is what every man 

 who plants an orchard expects, is often delayed several years beyond 

 his expectations. However, it takes only the same tenacity of purpose 

 and perseverance to win in orchard growing that it takes to succeed in 

 any other line of business. 



Success can come in any business only to the man who sticks to it, 

 always using his best judgment, not too changeable in his methods nor 

 yet too much set in his way to change if he finds some better method than 

 his own. 



The man who has spent the best years of his life in some other 

 business, with orchard growing as his "pipe dream," is but poorly adapted 

 to the work. 



The location of an orchard must be in a section adapted to growing 

 fruit, if one hopes to succeed. The first settlers usually selected the 

 smoother and more productive districts, leaving the less productive tracts, 

 which were remote from the highways. As a rule, the very best lands 

 for agricultural purposes are the best for orchards. The so-called cheap 

 lands, "good enough for anything and just the thing for orchards," held 

 out as a tempting morsel by immigration agents and real estate men, 

 are a "snare and a delusion." The very best land is none too good for 

 an orchard. Usually the man who buys the cheap land finds it much 

 more expensive in the course of a few years than if he had in the first 

 place bought good land not too remote from market facilities. Yet these 

 less desirable lands, after a considerable length of time, are becoming 

 better adapted to orcharding, since their settlement by a hardy race of 

 farmers, who are often foreigners, who by their unceasing perseverance 

 and industry have lived with rigid economy and made these soils more 

 productive. Smaller acreage and better cared for trees should be the 

 watchword of every man in the business. 



Upon location depends the soil and climate conditions as well as 

 market facilities. Soils adapted to the growing of certain kinds of fruits 

 can now with almost certainty be located by studying the varying 

 characteristics of the stone underlying the soil, for it is of this stone that 

 the component parts of the soil consist. Here in the rock or soil forma- 

 tion may be found a partial solution of many vexing problems, such as 

 why this or that variety is better adapted to certain localities than others. 

 It is often the influence of soil constituents and not climate that afifects 

 the quality, quantity and vitality or carrying quality of fruits. 



