A commercial traveller fur a large wholesale li>u -routo. 



after being *e\eral \cars in llieir employ, saw that there wa- no 

 prospect of promotion. He wa- ad\ i-cd hy some friends, who 

 were f nut-growers, to purchase a fruit farm of i . He had 



no fund- with which to Mart: hi- friends lent him $I,OOO to hm 



N and implements and to make a small payment on the farm. 

 He was forty \car- of age when he started; he had a wife and live 

 children. The farm was half planted in fruit and in full hearing 



thei He sold $1,800 worth of produ 



of $350. The farm i- now entirely planted with fruit: he lia- 

 built a new house costing $3,000, and several uuthuildin-. The 



children have all received a good education, and he is living in coin 

 fort. When asked hy a friend if he would go hack to city life, he 

 answered that a span of horses could not pull him hack. 



A hank clerk, on account of ill-health, was advised to lake up 

 fruit-farming, lie purchased 25 acres, and heing an unmarried man. 

 induced his sister to keep house for him. He paid S;_>5 per 

 paying $I,OOO down, and spent Sj.ooo on the house, buying -lock and 

 implements. The farm was half planted in pcachc- and grapes in 

 full bearing. He has in two year- planted the balance of his farm 

 in fruit. He met all payments promptly, and has refused an offer 

 of $600 per acre for his farm. He is now a- healthy a specimen of 

 vigorous manhood as you would wish to meet, and could not be 

 induced to return to city life. 



Through the illness of his wife, a man was forced to leave the 

 for the country. He had no knowledge of farm life. Ik- 

 bought thirty acres of fruit land convenient to a shipping point at 

 $130 per acre. Then he secured the services of a practical fruit- 

 grower and his wife, and proceeded to plant out his entire farm in 

 us kinds of fruit- . pears, plums, cherries, grapes. 



strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and currants. While these 

 growing he met current expenses and built a modern bungalow 

 by raising tomatoes, bean-, corn and other vegetables, which lie -old 

 to the canning factory. In three and a half years he sold hi> farm 

 for five hundred dollars per acre. 



\ carpenter by trade, with no knowledge of fruit growing or 

 market gardening, bought three acres of unimproved land with 

 house, paying $250 per acre. The first year he cleared $300, the 

 second $700, and the third $800. Then he built a greenhouse cost- 

 ing $200, and the fourth year, after paying all expenses, he had to 

 his credit $1.700. This js only one of many instances that could 

 be cited of mechanic- doing well on small holdings in the Niagara 

 district. 



