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gives the young trees the cultivation necessary to secure a fine, thrifty 

 growth. 



From our experience and observation in the business, we can say 

 that the canning industry, if properly gone into, with the plant well located 

 and made up of the latest up-to-date machinery and run on business prin- 

 ciples, will pay the investors ten to fifteen per cent on their capital, and 

 in addition will prove a blessing to the community where located. 



We have nojnterest in selling canning plant machinery, or anything 

 pertaining to what we have said in this article. We have retired from 

 the nursery business and are now engaged in commercial fruit growing. 

 In all public matters it is our desire and ambition to see our great State 

 move forward and excel in all of the great and growing industries for 

 which nature has so eminently endowed her. Hence we aim to give you 

 the benefit of our life time experience in fruit growing, vegetable gar- 

 dening and the canning industry. 



It is only a matter of time until we must turn our attention to the 

 intensive culture of the soil, rather than the extensive, in order to feed 

 and clothe the teeming millions of the world's rapidly increasing popula- 

 tion. We need have no fear of an over-production of canned goods. 

 They will keep and are always in demand and may with safety be shipped 

 to the world's most distant markets. 



It will be well for any community desiring to embark in the canning 

 industry to first have some competent and disinterested person to look 

 over their location, examine their lands and pass upon the crops that may 

 be grown successfully, and on all other points relating to the business. 



SOME NOTES FROM EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE. * 



(By J. C. Whitten, Horticulturist Experiment Station. Columbia. Mo.) 



The American horticulturist in Europe cannot fail to be struck 

 by the difference between their methods and ours. Their methods 

 are intensive, ours are extensive. They bestow much labor and 

 extreme care upon the individual plant, while we give less care to 

 the individual in order to produce plants in large quantities. Theirs 

 is a horticultural retail business, while we grow by wholesale. The 

 German particularly grows a variety of fruits, ripening at different 

 times, in order to secure a succession ; we grow few varieties in large 

 quantity in order to supply a large amount for a single shipment. 

 Commercially then American horticulture far outstrips European 

 horticulture. They have nothing which compares in magnitude to 

 our large American orchards. With the possible exception of their 



