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I would suggest that a combination of specialties be made, 

 as for instance, the raising of poultry, pigs or sheep. Any- 

 one of these can be made extremely profitable even by itself. 

 During the past five years great interest has been aroused 

 in the growing of apples. Many feel that so many trees will 

 be planted that when they commence producing the market 

 will not be able to consume all of the fruit. There cannot 

 possibly be any difficulty in marketing all the crops that will 

 be raised in New England. 



First, I feel safe in predicting that at least seventy-five 

 per cent, of the men who plant fruit trees will so neglect 

 them that they will never produce any first-class fruit. A 

 great number of city residents are buying land and setting 

 out trees. They little realize the difficulties of farming in 

 its true sense. Insect pests and fungous diseases are increas- 

 ing so very rapidly that luiless the fruit grower makes up his 

 mind to fight diligently, his trees must succumb. By the 

 grower who will use scientific principles and keep up-to-date, 

 nothing need be feared. 



With the improvement of the quality of the fruit, and 

 possibly of the packing and marketing, the demand will in- 

 crease much more rapidly than production. The average 

 consumer at the present time is demanding more fruit than 

 ever before, and there always has been and always will be, 

 a shortage of perfect fruit. 



I have never yet been in a city in the United States but 

 what I have found the greater part of apples, pears, peaches, 

 etc., either wormy or badly covered with fungous growth. 

 During a recent trip in Europe, at which time I passed 

 through six different countries, I was not able to get any 

 perfect native fruit. The only apples which I could find 

 that were not wormy came from the States. I was so sur- 

 prised at the condition of the fruit industry that I made it a 

 point to meet the entomologists of the different countries, 

 and found that the fruit industry of the greater part of 

 Europe was practically ruined. This applied not only to the 

 apple and pear crops, but also to the olive and fig. 



"With such conditions in Europe, and with our tremen- 

 dous market in the eastern United States, can you wonder 

 that I do not fear over-production? 



As I travel over New England, I see everywhere great 

 orchards which are either completely killed or about half 

 dead. When I am told by reliable fruit growers that they 



