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'alley as in other valleys. To this use the owner 

 of to-day hands on his land to the next generation. 



And what shall this generation and its successors 

 do with the Fruit-Farm? Of course they must use 

 it and pass the use along to others. It is to the 

 man we come at last. He is the soil as he is 

 the thinker. The harvest is his thinking. These 

 grapes, peaches, cherries, plums, prunes, berries 

 — Romeo's raspberries — are his thoughts. The 

 whole matter then is of thinking. Each gener- 

 ation must think peaches if it would raise peaches. 

 Ideas in the soil become plimis on the tree; no ideas 

 — no plums. 



There are postulates, corollaries, and addenda 

 to the vocation of fruit-farming which the next 

 generation must duly consider. The grower is a 

 Producer; there remain three other factors in the 

 problem, — the Consumer, the Exchanger, the 

 Laborer. This classification is somewhat rough 

 and conventional, for we know that each factor has 

 functions in common with the others. The next 

 generation of fruit-growers must bear the burdens 

 of government and misgovemment. Immigra- 

 tion has passed the saturation point in America, 

 and the excess is a factor of unknown powers. 

 Certain it is that the individualism of the pioneers 

 cannot distinguish the next generation. Co- 

 operation, combination, convention, association, 

 must henceforth be the supreme quality of deter- 

 mining functions. Public opinion has ceased to 

 be merely local; no one fruit valley can control 



