706 COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO. 



" Yes, just the same. Lots of my neighbor's orchards go 

 the same way. I think our land and climate are not adapted 

 to fruit growing. It don't pay any way, and if we can get 

 enough for home use, we do well." 



THE OTHER ORCHARD. 



" How about Mr. B.'s orchard, set out at the same time 

 you set yours ? Have you visited it lately ? " 



" I was there two years ago, in peach time. I bought 

 some peaches of him. He had a big crop that year ; guess he 

 has had lots of peaches and apples from his orchard. I got a 

 few bushels of apples of him last year, which were nice, and 

 good keepers. I had to pay him sixty cents per bushel for 

 them. I had apples at home, but mine were small, knotty, and 

 not good for any thing. I do not see why it is he raises such 

 nice, large, and fair fruit, while the rest of us have nothing 

 but inferior fruit. I would like to know the secret of Mr. B.'s 

 su6cess.'J- 



" Gome with me, and we will go over and interview him 

 and his fruit. I know you think you have not got time to go, 

 but just get in with me ; we need not be gone over two or 

 three hours, and probably we will learn much of interest to us 

 both." 



We arrived at Mr B.'s, found him in his orchard superin- 

 tending the picking and barreling of his apples. 



" I see you are busy with your fruit to-day; thought I 

 would drop in and see how your orchard was doing. I brought 

 neighbor A. along with me, as we wanted to get a little infor- 

 mation on the secret of your success in tree and fruitgrowing." 



"Am glad to see you, gentlemen. I am at home in my 

 orchard. I have five men picking apples. I keep a general 

 oversight, so that they do not get the different varieties mixed, 

 and to look out that nothing but nice, smooth apples are put in 

 the barrels. When these are full, I head them up and mark the 

 variety. They are then ready to be sent at once to market, or 

 to the fruit house for storage ; we can talk and attend to this 

 all at the same time." 



