IV 



GETTING ALONG WITH HELP 



A T the bottom of fruit-farming is the labor 

 -'^ question: somebody must do the work. 

 Whatever the labor question that bothered our 

 grandfathers, it is our labor question that bothers 

 us. *'How can I get the work on my fruit-farm 

 done?** There is only one solution to this problem: 

 Make the work so profitable that it will be desir- 

 able to the persons you want to do the work. This 

 is the only hope, not alone for the fruit-farmer but 

 [for every other employer of labor. But its realiza- 

 tion is not easy. Walpole^s dictum, "Every man 

 ^has his price," is true in farming. Possibly the 

 price is prohibitive to you; if so, you will not long 

 run a fruit-farm; you will close the farm just as 

 the manufacturer closes his factory. His ma- 

 chinery speedily rusts into uselessness. Your farm 

 quite as speedily runs wild. Both are ruined. 

 But men must live; the laborer must labor, and 

 every man is or ought to be a laborer. The 

 farmer must farm, the manufacturer manufacture, 

 or "chaos and dark night.** 



Laboring, working, is not only the result of a 

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