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BETTER FRUIT 



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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICULTURE CORPORATION 

 407 Miller Bldg., North Yakima, Wash. 



Mr. Shepard finds that vinegai fac- 

 tories and cider mills paid last year 

 %1 and $8 per ton and this year they 

 paid i?6 per ton for cull apples which 

 constitute from 10 to 20 per cent of 

 the entire cro]) and which cost the 

 grower just the same amount of money 

 to grow and to jjick and to grade as 

 the merchantable fruit. Selling these 

 culls at ifG per ton would amount to 

 about •'i!20 per acre, which by-product 

 no reputable business man would 

 neglect. 



Those who know E. H. Shepard will 

 forgive him for using the following 

 words, as the pressing need of point- 

 ing a moral would justify him in us- 

 ing this figurative language: "For 

 nearly 40 years I have tried to find a 

 way which would enable me to earn 

 a living by working half of the time 

 and loafing the other half, but I have 

 not found it." Mr. Shepard adds: 



"You know and I know that the av- 

 erage orchardist does not actually put 

 in much more than six or seven 

 months' work on his place during the 

 entire season outside of his chores. 

 By that I mean that after the first of 

 November, when a crop is harvested, 

 and during the months of December, 



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