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plentifulness, and low prices? We frequently hear this question 

 asked, and even question ourselves to that effect. And like a great many- 

 questions of this character, can be answered, yes, or no. The day has 

 gone by when the typical farmer of Missouri, (he who did everything in 

 a slip-shod manner,) could, perhaps, shake his apples from the trees, dump 

 them into a sack, and haul them to market in a lumber wagon and get a 

 good price for them ; and in the later years, he that handled his fruit 

 carefully and got it to market in good condition, secured good prices; 

 for the time was then, that the dealer was obliged to leave his place of 

 business and go to the locality where fruit was grown ; even taking his 

 help with him to make his barrels and pack the fruit bought from 

 the farmers' wagons, thus spending his time and his means in or- 

 der to secure the necessary article for his trade, and then frequently in 

 poor condition, but it was the only way he had of securing his ten, 

 twenty, fifty, or one hundred cars of fruit. The day has been, when we 

 saw the quotation of bacon, we knew that it was slaughtered and cured 

 by the farmer ; or the quotation of butter, we knew it was made by the 

 farmer's wife, or daughter ; but those days are of the past, never to re- 

 turn. He that plants an orchard with the expectation of hauling a few 

 loads of fruit to market and getting a fair living price will be disappoint- 

 ed ; and I care not how well grown, or nicely handled this fruit may 

 be. 



But he that will make fruit growing and handling a specialty in all 

 its particulars, planting the most profitable and saleable varieties, culti- 

 vating and caring for his trees, so as to induce the most thrifty and vig- 

 orous conditions possible, fighting and destroying the insect enemies to 

 fruit and trees, picking and packing in the most careful and honest man- 

 ner, and shipping his products to market as other manufacturers do, can, 

 no doubt, make it profitable. When the fruit grower can put his prod- 

 uct on the market and sell it strictly on its grade or class, as the miller, 

 the dairyman, the meat packer, then the fruit dealer will stay at home 

 and send his order (as dealers in other products do,) to the fruitgrower, 

 for his five, ten, twenty, or one hundred cars of fruit, and when he sees 

 his brand, will say, / know him. 



But I would by no means try to discourage any one Irom planting- 

 fruit, but would say to every one that has a home, /Ar////)"////, and plant 

 abundantly, it will pay to consume in your family. 



W. G. GANG. 



