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BETTER FRUIT 



May, 1922 



Most of the small pcnr growers have no 

 storage room and must sell the fruit as soon 

 as harvested, so every season there is a 

 period with each leading variety when it 

 becomes a "drug on the market." This is 

 especially true of the B.irtlett. Prices ac- 

 cordingly fall. When the marke.t is over- 

 stocked for a few days Bartletts may sell at 

 from 75 cents to $1.00 a box, while in two 

 or three weeks they may bring from $1.50 

 to $2.50 per box. A small concrete store- 

 house, with packing room above, will soon 

 pay for itself. 



Grade and pack carefully as a good ap- 

 pearance goes a long way toward a good sale 

 and w-ill pay big wages for the extra time 

 it requires. .Always use new boxes, as no 

 contrast is greater than fine fruit in old 

 dirty boxes or scabby, ungraded fruit in 

 fine new boxes. Don't sell all your best 

 pears, but keep a few boxes of the finest 

 for the folks at home. I know of nothing 

 finer to the taste than a well-ripened pear 

 just before retiring at night. 



Do not plant pears for profit just because 

 vou happen to own a piece of mother earth. 

 While pear trees will grow on almost anv 

 kind of soil and location, it does not signify 

 that you can grow pears for profit. Make 

 up vour mind vou are going to have a good, 

 commercially paying pear orchard and 

 select the soil and location best adapted for 

 the specific purpose. If you don't know, 

 get someone who does. Then do not be in 

 a hurry. Put the soil in good fertile condi- 

 tion ; buy the trees from an absolutely re- 

 liable nurseryman; plant with care, and 

 then, above all, cultivate the soil con- 

 tinually the first three or four years, and at 

 least every other year after that. 



In the cultivation do not try to see how 

 close you can get to the trees without bark- 

 ing them. Do a little extra work with the 

 hoe and keep the horse and cultivator away 

 from the trees. 



I planted and have done the pruning of 

 a large pear orchard for the last five years. 

 This last season the owner of the orchard, 

 a city man, had a very careless teamster plovv 

 and summer fallow the ground. I have 

 just finished pruning the trees for the 

 fifth season, and while I am not inclined 

 to use strong language, it was hard to re- 

 frain. Of the 1800 trees fully 100 w^ere 

 practically ruined, large main branches 

 broken off at the trunk, barked down to 

 the ground and the tops eaten off by the 

 horses. Five hundred or more were barked 

 on the trunk by the singletree and, alto- 

 gether, the trees were in a deplorable con- 

 dition. Next season someone else will cul- 

 tivate or someone else will prune. 



Use common sense, study local growing 

 and marketing conditions, varieties best 

 adapted to the soil, climate and markets, 

 intercrop until the trees begin to bear, and 

 there is no reason why a good profit can- 

 not be made in growing pears. 



Companies Sell Their Fvaits At Juctm 



66% of the Fruits sold through the New York Auctions are 

 sold for the account of large Cooperative organizations and 

 million dollar concerns like the United Fruit Co. 

 ; Big organizations can afford to hire big men to select the 

 best selling methods. And big men, like big companies, do 

 not make many mistakes. They know what they're doing be- 

 fore they make a move. 



When concerns like these sell at Auction, isn't it a pretty 

 safe guide for you to follow ? 



If you are dissatisfied with the prices you are receiving for 

 your fruits — if you are displeased with the service you are 

 getting, or with the delay in getting your money, then you 

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