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are more apples than you can think. If you were told how many 

 apples there were in Niagara county, New York, today you 

 would not be any wiser for it — you could not comprehend such 

 large numbers. You ride there in an express train for hours and 

 see nothing but orchards. One tree in western New York that 

 I happen to know about bore eighteen barrels one year and 

 twenty-one barrels the next, and it is no uncommon thing for 

 them to get twenty barrels of Baldwins from a tree there. The 

 apples in one orchard sold for $14,000 on the trees. In another 

 orchard, near Rochester — twenty-eight acres — the apples were 

 sold for $21,000. I don't know but what I shall be getting into 

 the situation of the circuit minister who went to North Carolina 

 preaching among his own people, his own denomination. He 

 stopped at an old farmer's and went out with him — this farmer 

 was an elder in the church — went out with him into his barnyard, 

 was walking around and noticed him milking a half a dozen cows 

 into one pail. This minister was from New Hampshire. He 

 says: "Is that all the milk you get from those half dozen cows?" 

 "Why, yes, it is." "Why, one of my cows would fill that pail." 

 \v^ell, the old elder had nothing much to say to him for a little 

 while. Finally, after they had talked a while he told the minis- 

 ter he thought he had better move on. "Why, is there anything 

 wrong about my doctrine?" "No, thy doctrine is all right, but 

 no man can preach acceptably in North Carolina and tell such 

 cow stories as thee does." 



There are, beside these instances that I have told, plenty of 

 orchards of the early bearing sorts in the vicinity where I live 

 that pay for themselves by the time they are a dozen or fifteen 

 years old. Now if that was all there was to it, it wouldn't look 

 so large, but you have an investment in an orchard and it pays 

 for itself when it is a dozen years old — your orchard is just as 

 valuable as if it hadn't borne an apple to that time because it is 

 going right on to its bearing age. The growth of your trees is 

 worth a dollar a year if you keep them growing. If you don't 

 grow them any it isn't worth anything, but if you keep the trees 

 growing, the growth of a tree for one year is worth at least a 

 dollar — the tree will be worth ten dollars when it is ten years old. 

 I think that is making money faster for the capital you put in 



