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The market demand, for example, is a specific 

 condition which well repays any effort expended 

 in transforming plants to meet. 



The grower of early cherries, early asparagus, 

 early corn and every fruit and food which can 

 be offered before the season of more abundant 

 production commences, is rewarded with a 

 better price, which means a larger profit to the 

 producer. 



The early bearers, too, may be supplanted 

 with those still earlier, until the extra early 

 ones come soon after the extra late ones, thus 

 filling out the whole year. We now have 

 strawberries which, in climates where there is 

 no frost severe enough to prevent, bear the year 

 around. 



The Crimson Winter Rhubarb, another year- 

 around bearer, is an improvement which shows 

 what can be done in the way of meeting market 

 demands. 



Cherries of my Early Burbank brought $3.10 

 a pound wholesale, because of their sweetness 

 and extreme earliness. This may give an idea 

 of the profit of changing the bearing periods of 

 our plants as against taking their product as 

 it comes. 



Besides the market demand for fresh fruits 

 and vegetables ahead of the usual time, there is 



