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It is a classic labor, and the classic, whatever its 

 form, is immortal. Before many years the avail- 

 able fruit-land of our country will have been taken 

 up. Chemical and horticultural knowledge will 

 in later times, and yet at no very distant time, turn 

 to land now ignored, and convert it into fruit- 

 plantations. It is improbable that any fruit-land 

 will be abandoned. On the contrary, the best 

 located fruit -lands will increase in value, though 

 not, relatively, in productive power, save as 

 intensively cultivated. This is the condition on 

 the continent of Europe, and notably in Germany. 

 Pressure of population means necessary intensive 

 cultivation of the land. The problem of fruit- 

 growing is therefore one of knowledge, increasing 

 with experiment and experience. 



The fruit-grower depends upon labor; without 

 it, soil, productivity, location, are as nothing. 

 Fruit-growing is a special business and requires 

 expert knowledge in the grower. Here it is the 

 attitude of the grower towards labor that largely 

 determines the labor question. In America, as 

 the years pass, there is less and less disposition 

 for one man to work for another. The relation 

 between employer and employee is more or less 

 strained and the tension makes or mars the crop. 

 As yet labor has not learned that it may not 

 become the employer rather than the employed. 

 The very easiness of life in America has bred our 

 labor difficulties. No man is willing to settle down 

 for life as a laborer. The rise from poverty to 



