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in the lot. Soon after I bought it I fenced oft" about six acres 

 in one corner and put out some fruit trees. I kept them culti- 

 vated for several years. It was a mile and a half from home 

 and I didn't haul any dressing, but I mulched it and used ferti- 

 lizers, and grew crops there for one or two years, and then I 

 turned it out to a sheep pasture in one sense of the word. I 

 allowed the sheep the run of the 60 acres and to come into this 

 exclusively when they wished to. The result has been \vonder- 

 ful. Today that orchard is worth $1,000 to me. The present 

 year I got over a thousand bushels — last year not quite so 

 many — and the buds are started the present year for a large 

 crop. I wouldn't take $1,000 for the orchard today. At night 

 you will see those sheep going off down on the low ground, and 

 in the morning you will see them returning to that orchard, and 

 there they lie all through the day time. What is done to that 

 orchard is done by sheep. I never have seen a trypeta, and not 

 over one out of ten but what are perfect apples. I tell you, 

 brothers and sisters, there are lots of these hills, that if you were 

 to take some corner, some high elevation, and put out an orchard 

 there and fence it, and put sheep in. the result would be wonder- 

 ful. It would be worth more than your whole farm in a few 

 years. 



Then again, a great many people have an idea that the fruit 

 business is going to be over done. Years ago — even when I was 

 a boy — that was not a great many years ago — I know v/e used 

 to speak about going to market with wagon loads of fruit. At 

 the present time we speak of carloads in the same manner we 

 did then of wagon loads. At the present time fruit is selling for 

 more than it was in those days. There is a greater demand for 

 it. Why, with the transportation we have at the present time 

 there is no danger of overdoing the fruit business. When you 

 can reach any Xew England city within twenty-four hours and 

 the European markets in ten days you need not be afraid that 

 the ]\Iaine fruit is not going to sell and at a good profit. I think 

 there is no stronger inducement for a young man todav than to 

 go into orcharding. W'hy, I expect the time is coming, when 

 this little cake of bacteria that is talked so much about in W^ash- 

 ington — when we are going to get them and vaccinate our land 

 and we are going to sit right in the house and see the things 



