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land that has nothing on it but the house, barn and buiklings 

 necessary to run it, moves on the land and if there is no fruit 

 around him he will say, "Well, I just guess I won't plant any 

 trees on this man's land, I will be doing something for him or 

 for some one else that may follow me." Unless there is sonio 

 suggestion on the part of the landlord to him, that if he makes 

 any outlay he will not have to lose it, he never will plant any 

 trees or set out any fruit, but there is just the chance for them 

 to get together on that question. There are lots of men farm- 

 ing who have farmed the same place for ten or twenty years ; 

 I know of a number who have farmed the same farm for ten 

 years, and I know some of those men who haven't as much as 

 a peach tree or a blackberry bush or a strawberry plant on 

 that farm, and just think what Uu^y might have had in that 

 length of time. I am going to illustrate what some men have 

 done in our own case. In the spring of 1904 we had a man 

 that went into a cornfield and built a house and barn in 

 May while I was in Illinois. And when I came back that 

 man, without any suggestion on my part whatever, had 

 set out a complete fruit farm. That is from the green t<'n- 

 ant's standpoint. He had planted peaches, strawberries, and 

 blackberries. Different kinds and as much as the average 

 farmer can care for. That was in the spring of 1904, and now 

 he has all kinds of fruits, except apples. He has had peaches, 

 cherries, grapes, l)lackberries, stra^^ berries, and raspberries. 

 He has made a home out of that place, and it is a pleasure to 

 him. He is a farmer who has a famil}^ of children, and they 

 feel towards that farm as though it were a home. There are 

 other men that could have been on that same place and they 

 would simply have had a big cornfield there yet. From the 

 landlord's standpoint you couldn't hire that man away from 

 us, and we do something, too, to try to balance what he has 

 done. We say to him that we will give him a little more im- 

 provements than we do to the other man, ])ecause he shoAvs a 

 willingn(^ss to do his part, and \xo are going to help him on 

 our part. Another illustration : Two years ago this man's 



