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'Creasing their appetite for good fruit more rapidly than it 

 is being produced, and because many who are planting very 

 heavily now will lose their enthusiasm and drop out, and 

 while there may be at some time temporary surplus of fruit 

 the careful grower who sticks to it need have no fear for the 

 future market. 



Bacon wrote, ' ' When ages grow to civility and elegance, 

 men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely as 

 though gardening were the greater excellence." History 

 has proved this to be true. It is only when the development 

 of the sciences gives us the keys to nature's secrets, when 

 the study of the fine arts has created a refined taste, and 

 when the development of manufactories and the extension 

 of commerce has created the wealth to purchase, that the 

 united application of art, science and distribution to agri- 

 culture gives us the finished product of the modern skilled 

 fruit grower. 



While there may be no especial knack needed for suc- 

 cess in fruit growing, one must be prepared to give careful 

 study and attention to details, and the man is really the 

 :first requisite to success. He must get in close touch with 

 his trees and plants, he must get into communion with them 

 so he can talk with them, ask them their needs and under- 

 stand their answers. He can then supply their needs and 

 reap his reward. Not everyone is such a man, but any man 

 who is willing to study and learn and watch and work, get 

 up with the sun and fight insects and diseases, smile when 

 frost destroys or muggy weather rots his promised 

 crop, take his medicine and smack his lips when the bulk of 

 his crop strikes an overloaded market and his returns barely 

 pay the freight bill, such a man is sure of success in fruit 

 growing. 



I believe that the time is past when we should spend our 

 strength trying to stimulate the planting of fruit, but should 

 bend every effort to improve the quality of that being 

 grown. The fruit grower who makes quality his Avatch- 

 word will never have to search far for his market no matter 

 how much is planted. The public are becoming more dis- 

 criminating every year, and better able to pay for the privi- 

 lege of having the best. 



It is a hard problem to stand before this body and try 

 to tell anything new about small fruits. Some of you were 

 :growing small fruits before I was born, and for years the 



