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be profitable even longer. Later, after your apples 

 are well grown, you will get from the same ground 

 another crop and it should average twenty dollars 

 to every apple tree that is in perfect condition. 



Right after the berries follow the cherries and 

 then the plums, with more or less early pears and 

 apples, and after that both the apples and the pears 

 that go into winter storage. If you learn how to 

 handle apples as they should be handled and secure 

 private customers, you will net these years at least 

 four dollars per barrel. I am to-day selling my 

 extra select Spys for six dollars per barrel. In the 

 South we start with oranges, but we do not expect 

 much profit during the first five years. We look 

 to our Japanese persimmons and mulberries and 

 loquats and plums for fruit about the third year 

 from planting. The Southerner, however, is almost 

 sure to combine truck growing and orcharding, ex- 

 cept only where celery or some other hobby has se- 

 cured the field. These specialties win big prices for 

 awhile but soon glut the market 



You see I am not counting on any large amount 

 of income during the first year or two, only we must 

 have a full family supply at once. The surplus 

 from strawberry beds or vegetable beds must be 

 canned for winter use. There is no better winter 

 food than what you can grow yourself if you will 

 learn how to put it up. A little later you may depend 

 upon it that a small canning establishment will make 



