PLACE OF INTENSIVE FARMING 



may be rectified the following season, but if 

 a mistake is made in planting tree fruits, it 

 may, as in the case of apples, require ten or 

 even 20 years to discover the error. 



The growth in commercial orcharding is 

 due in part to the need of special knowledge 

 and facilities for combating fungous dis- 

 eases and insect enemies and to the better 

 markets which a large production of uni- 

 form quality makes possible. While these 

 are extremely important considerations, 

 there is a more fundamental reason, which 

 may in the long run exercise an even more 

 potent influence. The location of the 

 ordinary family orchard, so called, has been 

 determined in almost every instance by the 

 location of the farm buildings. There is no 

 necessary relation between a good site for a 

 farm dwelling and a suitable location for 

 an orchard. It happens, therefore, that 

 family orchards, taken as a whole, are not 

 grown under as favorable conditions as 

 are commercial orchards. This is a suffi- 

 cient reason in itself, even if the other rea- 

 sons above mentioned did not exist, why the 

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