m ANNUAL REPORT OF THfi Off. Doc. 



It is the petinies that count, not the dollars in discarded tools. 



There are times not to do things. 



Trim the plani wlion it is at rest; its work is to bear fruit. 



Much trimming means quality of fruit. 



Better trim with a pen-knife than an ax. 



Don't wound the tree or the vine, no man can at the same time lie 

 in hospital and do active service. 



The most profitable labor is profiting by its labor. 



The eye makes the package and the package uiakes the market. 



Look out for the lean spots on the farm ; one lean spot eats up seven 

 fertile spots. 



The land likes a mixed diet, but it must be fed. 



The best market comes to the best farm. 



The man who knows all about fruit raising has not yet been born. 



Handsome fruit brings handsome profits. 



Stones and culls in your package sell the other man's fruit. 



The quality of your fruit reflects your own. The quality shows the 

 willingness of the land. 



Don't expect more fiom your fruit farm than you put into it. 



Results. — Responding to care, a fruit farm located on the South 

 Shore of Lake Erie, Erie County, Pa., shows: 



Gross Returns. — 1125 per acre, grapes; |4()0 per acre raspberries; 

 1550 acre cherries (sour); fTOO per acre goose berries; |G00 per 

 acre prunes; |.'>50 per acre peaches. This means land at $1,500 to 

 112,000 per acre. 



CONVERTING A RUN-DOWN FARM INTO A PAYING ORCHARD 



AND xMARKET GARDEN 



By HORACE ROBERTS, Orchardist and Gardener, Moorestown, N. J. 



Members of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Two weeks 

 ago it was my privilge to attend the session of the New York Fruit 

 Growers' Association, and after attending that meeting and 

 hearing the New Yorkeis speak of their own apples and their own 

 barrels, I would be very doubtful about buying a New Y^ork barrel 

 of apples without seeing the middle of the barrel. What do I find 

 in a Pennsylvania program? I find on top, a law professor. Dr. 

 Thorpe. In the bottom one of the best known investigators in the 

 United States, Prof. Stewart, and in the middle of the barrel, a ])]ain 

 New Jersey farmer, not even a specialist. I realize I am the middle 

 of the barrel, and Mr. President, as soon as it gets tiresome, cut 

 me off and make room for Professor Stewart. 



I will begin by telling you how I started taking up old farms then 

 tell you what the farms have done for me and after that tell you of 

 our system of management. 



