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Everybody likes fruit and good fruit. One never hears con- 

 sumers say anything against a good quality. No purchaser 

 objects to paying a good price for a good article and will 

 continue to purchase and re-purchase while, if he gets in- 

 ferior fruit even at less prices, he tires of it and soon lets it 

 alone. We have heard it said "fruit is poor this season, 

 don't want any more." My idea is to grow a less quantity, 

 put more time into production. Get the best quality. I am 

 of the opinion that the man who in the future is to be called, 

 a successful fruit grower is the one who is something of a. 

 specialist. One who devotes time and money to produce the 

 best. You may have noticed that the fine fruit is always 

 sold first and that dealers are often asked for more of "same 

 kind obtained as before." Quality counts. Quality is the 

 name of the most successful fruit grower. It means to 

 feed the roots, cultivate the soil, spray the trees and shrubs. 

 All these matters require attention. They demand work, 

 hard work, and much care. Yet what is worth doing at 

 all is worth doing well, and I may repeat, it is better to 

 grow less fruit in a good manner such as will bring you 

 satisfactory results, after a little the labors will not be so 

 arduous ; the crop Avill somewhat take care of itself. There 

 appears to be a sufficient variety of pears, strawberries, 

 raspberries, and blackberries. It is possible there can be 

 improvements made on these berries. My own idea is that 

 one better try to get the best quality of the varieties al- 

 ready in hand rather than spend time and c^sh to obtain 

 or up-build some new and untried kinds. No one can deny 

 the fact that color lends much to the selling of fruits. Make 

 the fruits inviting to the eye, the first impression is the one 

 all sellers of any commodity wish to catch, something like 

 "love at first sight." 



Where is there a dealer who ever asks growers to send 

 him white currants. The traders are always wanting red 

 ones and in the dark none could tell the difference, but it's 

 the color, the eye makes many purchases. Red apples have 

 proven their claims time and again. It may be a fact that 

 there are a few varieties of apples like the Greening whose 

 reputation was established years ago on which the color- 

 line is not drawn, but take it on the other side, notice the 

 thousands of barrels of red colored apples as against hun- 

 -dreds of green, yellow and white ones. The Greening of 

 itself is a magnificent apple of excellent qualities and had' 



