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Also, in regard to the value management. I think, if 

 I understood rightly, the statement was made that $1500 for 

 8 man able to handle fifty acres of orchard was paid in some 

 cases. I should feel that if I were making such a deal as 

 that I should hire the man as superintendent, would want 

 him to be able to handle very much more than fifty acres, to 

 be worth such a sum. 



MR. J. F. FROST OF BELMONT. You stated that you 

 eliminated two crops and made a larger profit on the balance 

 grown. Isn't that the tendency of modern farming from 

 New York westward, to specialize ? 



MR. BURRITT. Now that is a great big question aijd 

 I might spend half a day on it. I had to give them up since 

 they couldn't hold up the profits along with the others, sa 

 that my income with the remaining three was greater than 

 with the previous five. 



I would like to point out in my talk that specialization 

 must be accompanied by a good system of agriculture, with 

 good management behind it. If I were to go into the busi- 

 ness of growing apples today I would put seventy-five acres 

 of general farm crop lands against twenty-five acres of or- 

 chard, every time. Mr. Frasep has done the same thing. I 

 told you that I had purchased extra land to go with my or- 

 chard, and I bought twenty acres more to back up the twen- 

 ty-five acres of orchard. Mr. Fraser purchased about 200, 

 to back up 50 or 60 of apple orchard. I would be willing 

 to stake my reputation and pocketbook on this, that you 

 could produce apples on a general farm, with a general sys- 

 tem of agriculture behind you, 25 or even 50 per cent less 

 than the man who goes into the orchard business and has 

 nothing else, with the possible exception of a man who has 

 several hundred acres of orchards, or perhaps you might 

 have 100 acres and a number of varieties of fruit, and per- 

 haps a vegetable garden or something like that connected 

 with it. I belive in specialization, but I think we have over- 

 emphasized it in agriculture. 



