lyo An American Fruit-Farm 



dishonest commission men, of high cost of labor, 

 of low prices and poor markets for fruit, of wind 

 and weather, of man, beast, and corporations. If 

 you decide to become a fruit-grower and come into 

 the land a stranger, or, being acquainted, or even 

 to the manor born, are an innovator, you are 

 looked upon somewhat askance, — ^not wholly with 

 enmity, but with a delicately tempered derision. 

 When the college president turns politician, the 

 bosses 



"First loathe, then pity, then embrace." 



So too when the man turns fruit-grower, the very 

 old cherry trees nod their heads and wink their eyes 

 and wrinkle the very toes of their roots, but gladly 

 take the food the new master gives them and prick 

 up their leaves and take on a new lease of life. 

 The newcomer will find kind neighbors, but none 

 who quite share with his vivid ideas of improve- 

 ments. Fruit-farming has one traditional motto: 



In statu quo, 



which freely translated means, 



As it was, is, and ever shall be. 



The only incentive here is greater profit. Will it 

 pay? I have never known a fruit-grower who 

 deliberately declined an additional dollar of profit. 

 If he sees that improved cultivation will produce 

 the dollar, he will improve his cultivation. The 



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