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Is it advisable for a young fruitgroicer to go into debt at the present time to 

 extend his business? 



Mr. Kiehl : It depends on the man. I have done it, Mr. Hale has done 

 it; and thousands of others have tried it and did not succeed. It depends 

 on the man. 



Mr. Stevens: There is alwajs room on the top for a good, energetic 

 young man who is willing to work and push himself forward to success. 



Why is it that a peach orchard that has been tcell cultivated and made a 

 very rapid growtli did not bear irhen one that had never been well cultivated 

 bore well? Both orchards were three years old. 



Mr. Harrison: I think perhaps there were different varieties. 

 Mr. Slayton: And the soil and the location were different. 



Should a man grow everything he fancies he would have a lilingfor, or would 

 he better nude a specialty of a few branches f 



The President: I would say that would depend entirely upon his 

 capacity. The most successful men do not reach for too much; they 

 reach for what they can accomplish. 



Mr. Morrill, would you set plums in an old apple orchard from which the 

 apple trees had been removed the previous fall ? If not, wliat would you do with 

 the ground f 



The President: I will give it up. I do not think, though, that I would 

 set plum trees on such land, because it has already been bearing largely 

 of fruits requiring the same ingredients. Ordinarily we find an old apple 

 orchard in good condition for grain crops, potatoes, or anything of that 

 character, in our country. I do not know what character of soil this is, 

 or anything about it, but ordinarily I like to put orchards on other land. 



Mr. Perkins: I have a plum orchard I set three years ago the coming 

 spring, and I do not think anything in the country can be better. The 

 apple trees were taken out and moved. 



The President: Has your plum orchard begun bearing? 



Mr. Perkins: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Smith: I would put the plum trees just where the apple trees 

 were. 



Mr. Perkins: I planted the plum trees sixteen feet apart. 



The President: I don't think that would make much difference, any- 

 way. A great deal, as I say, depends upon the soil. 



To what extent does the heavy importation of bananas affect the demand and 

 consumption of home-grown fruits ? 



Mr. Garfield: 1 should rather put the question the other way. It is a 

 question of whether we can keep bananas out by raising good fruit 

 enough for the people to satisfy them. If we furnish apples that are good 

 enough, and plenty of them, Ave need not fear the bananas, because the 

 apple is a better fruit than llie banana; and our northern fruits, if they 

 are raised in good quality instead of poor quality, will certainly take the 

 place of the southern fruits that arejmported. The trouble is. we dis- 

 tinguish too strongly between the fruit that we put on the market and 

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