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ments, in developing this class of fruits in a climate like ours. If 

 our standard of success with the apple has not been high, we have 

 great reason for encouragement in the successful cultivation of all 

 kinds of small fruits where we have planted them judiciously with 

 proper surrounding elements. 



There is hardly any place so bleak but where some varieties of the 

 small fruits will thrive and produce profitable crops when planted and 

 cared for with intelligence, unless in some few exceptional cases under 

 peculiar circumstances. 



MARKET SUPPLY AND DEMAND. 



Within the last decade great alterations have been produced for 

 improving the business methods relative to increasing the facilities 

 for handling and distributing large quantities of horticultural prod* 

 uets expeditiously. Now, one of the first things to be considered is 

 how a market can be obtained for produce, and how production can be 

 limited to the capacities of the market. 



A few J ears ago our market gardeners held back in extending 

 improvements, for fear of overstocking the market. Sales were slow, 

 prices low, much that they raised was necessarily disposed of at a 

 gr^-at sacrifice. New manure and machinery, together with greater 

 intelligence in the use of fertilizers and management of sowing, cul- 

 tivating, harvesting and marketing their products has served to revo- 

 lutionize the whole system of market gardening, and create new rela- 

 tions with producer and consumer regarding supply and demand, that 

 are alike beneficial to both. In this business as in every other, the 

 more system introduced in the carrying of it on the better the chances 

 will be of success; and if all used the same enterprise and judgment 

 in their operations their expenses would be reduced, their profits 

 increased, and a general prosperity prevail. 



It always has been and always will be these enterprising, persistent 

 men, who never fail in producing first-class products, and obtaining 

 good, remunerative prices, that come to the front, prosper and are 

 happy; and it remains for the shilly-shally laggard who always has 

 poor, unshapen vegetables and fruits to sell to do the grumbling about 

 poor markets and low prices. I have heard it said by gardeners: " If 

 it were not for these commission men that are shipping in such large 

 quantities of fruit and vegetables, we could dispose of more produce at 

 better prices." Now those men do not stop to think what an import-^ 

 ant factor the commission or middle man is, or to consider if it were 

 not for their tact, push and energy our markets would be much more- 

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