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BETTER FRUIT 



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BusinessThinkingOn the Farm 



Business thinking, which always 

 precedes business methods, is entering 

 the fruit growing inikistry more rapid- 

 ly than ever before. Necessity is the 

 mother of invention and while there 

 may be no spectacular discoveries in 

 the growing of apples and other fruit 

 there is a rediscovery of certain basic 

 principles which underlie all indus- 

 trial prosperity. For instance the Feb- 

 ruary number of Better Fruit opens 

 with an article by the editor, E. H. 

 Shepard, on "How Can We Make More 

 Money on Apples?" 



The first point made is to reduce the 

 cost of production. "If we can save 

 5 or 10 cents per box in the growing 

 and 10 cents per box in the harvest- 

 ing it is worth saving." Mr. Shepard 

 finds few growers keeping a record 

 of the actual expenses of pruning, cul- 

 tivation, spraying, irrigation, etc., on 

 orchards. When growers begin to keep 

 these records intelligently and per- 

 sistently and compare these expenses 

 with other growers' accounts "then 

 they will ascertain where their own 

 costs are too high and use such knowl- 

 edge that certainly ought to be able to 

 reduce each cost to a reasonable 

 minimum." 



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