ii8 An American Fruit-Farm 



Fruit-growing is a plunge into the game of living ; it 

 is sometimes a gamble. We can only play accord- 

 ing to the rules and abide results. The laborer 

 in the field or the President in the White House 

 can do no more. 



The young man who is contemplating fruit- 

 growing as a vocation will find himself in the same 

 world as he who takes up manufacturing, engineer- 

 ing, or one of the black arts — ^law, medicine, or 

 theology. The fundamental question with each 

 is, **Am I supplying anything the world must 

 have? '' It is the problem of securing a dependable 

 clientele, or, in other words, a steady market. 



Does the world want apples, cherries, grapes, 

 currants, strawberries, prunes, peaches? 



Can you raise them? 



Can you deliver them to the market? 



Do you want to raise them and deliver them? 



Do you want to do this more than you want to 

 do anything else? 



Or would you just as soon make shoes? Or 

 clerk in a store? Or keep books? Or ring up 

 fares in a trolley-car? Or practice law? Or 

 preach? Or run for office? 



" 'Tis in ourselves, not in our stars, that we are 

 underlings.'' 



The world will always eat fruit; indeed, in 

 America the fruit-eating habit is spreading. Our 

 hundred millions will soon become hundreds of 

 millions of inhabitants, and each will eat fruit. 

 The land area is not increasing. Fruit regions 



