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fruit but he must know how to market it. In other words, he 

 must be a good business man. Some of the most successful fruit 

 growers and horticulturists have been men who were not raised 

 in the work but have taken it up late in life and succeeded large- 

 ly because of their business training and ability. This is not 

 to say that farmer's sons do not make good farmers, but they 

 often fail to get the most out of their farm practice owing to 

 the lack of business training in which perhaps another man ex- 

 cels, although he may not understand the practice of handling 

 the land. The fruit industry is especially adapted to the man 

 of ready resources who can quickly adapt himself to changes 

 of situation. 



Choice of Locations. Most people who are making a spe- 

 cialty of fruit growing, and most farmers who contemplate a 

 change to fruit growing, are held fast by social ties, by land 

 holdings or in other ways, so that they cannot easily change 

 their location even if they wished to do so, therefore the choice 

 of location for them is a settled fact. If they engage in fruit 

 growing at all it must be in their present surroundings. To 

 them it is a selection of crops and methods of management best 

 suited to their conditions. If fruit growing cannot be made 

 profitable where they are they had better devote their land to 

 other purposes. 



On the other hand, there is a small class of people who 

 wish to grow fruit of certain kinds who do have the opportunity 

 of changing their location. For such, it would be a good plan 

 to visit the principal fruit sections and thoroughly study their 

 conditions and probable future before locating permanently. In 

 making such a study it is not well to be too quick to form an 

 opinion as there are many factors to be considered. Rarely, 

 indeed, is it desirable for a grower to change from a line of 

 fruit growing that he is thoroughly acquainted with to one that 

 is very different. Occasionally it may be desirable or necessary 

 to do so, but in any case the change should be made with great 

 caution. The successful apple grower of Missouri may make a 

 successful California orange grower after he has had experience, 

 but he will have much that Is new to learn before he can do 

 this. The man who is starting anew in the growing of fruit of 



