234 ANNUAL REPORT 



HARVESTING AND MARKETING. 



Use clean new packages, hand pick with care and carefully 

 handle all sound fruit, picking it a few days before maturing or 

 danger of falling, pack carefully, rejecting all defective specimens 

 and mark the name of the variety upon the outside of the package 

 with your own name as grower. Take your fruit to depot or to 

 your customers in a spring wagon. 



Ship whenever possible all fruits by freight. It pays a large 

 profit to give a basket of fruit frequently to the men at each end 

 of the line, and if by express to the messenger on the train. 



Your fruit if properly handled will create a demand for your 

 brand, and always command the highest market price. 



I have written this with full reference to apple orcharding. 

 Soils and site would be the same for any of the other large fruits* 

 If you desire to raise plums, graft the De Soto on the wild stock 

 and cultivate the best known native sorts. If you wish to raise 

 pears, and the best varieties of plums and cherries, sell out and go 

 to California or Oragon. 



If you fail to raise Duchess and Wealthy in paying quantities, 

 dig up your orchard and plant Early Ohio and White Elephant 

 potatoes and buy your apples. 



Now here is the index of this paper: 



Hijjh Elevation ; Clay Soil; Dry Feet; Sound Stocks; Double and Thribble 

 Worked; Low Heads; Few Varieties; Body Shaded Winter and Summer; 

 Annual Fall Mulch; Thumb Pruning; Insect Destroying, and then enjoying 

 the fruit of the harvest. 



To accomplish all this, a large amount of grit and a good deal 

 of common sense is necessary. 



May success attend your labors and the efforts of your societv, 

 and the time soon come when you may add many varieties like the 

 Duchess and Wealthy to your lists. 



