CHAPTER XIII 



FEUITS 



FRUIT raising can succeed in either of two ways. Either 

 planting the orchard in some one fruit and specializing 

 thereon, or diversifying the operation to cover many va- 

 rieties. In the first way it is usual to establish orchards in 

 favorable localities without special regard to nearness to 

 market ; because in these days of refrigerator car lines the 

 product of an orchard in any part of the country can be 

 sent to market quickly enough to avoid loss. Where many 

 varieties are grown, the best site is usually near a large city 

 where the grower can market his own product on wagons 

 and get the benefit of retail prices. 



Remember that it is far more profitable to raise twenty 

 baskets of fine, well-shaped, clean, handsome apples or 

 peaches or any other hand-eaten fruit, than to raise a hun- 

 dred barrels of stuff that is good only for the common 

 drier or for the mill or hogpen. 



Care and common sense are the jackscrews to use in 

 raising fine fruit. 



The apple is the great American fruit for extensive orchard- 

 ing. The question is whether there is a profit in apple 

 growing. The answer is, where the conditions are favor- 

 able and when the business is well conducted there is. 

 Under average conditions, with poor business manage- 

 ment, there is little or none. 



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