36 The Principles of Fruit-growing, 



manufactured goods), and especially in improving the 

 quality of the product and increasing the attractive- 

 ness of the packing. 



It is a common practice to estimate the amount 

 of fruit which will be produced at any given time in 

 the future by multiplying the number of acres of 

 plantation by the yield of a normal acre of that kind 

 of fruit. The fallacy in these calculations lies in the 

 fact that very many of the orchards which are 

 planted in hope and expectation yield only bugs and 

 fungi. It is probably not too much to say that fully 

 half of the fruit plantations which have been set in 

 the past fail to produce any crop for the market. 

 There are numbers of people who devote their entire 

 energies to copying their neighbors ; but having no 

 original grasp of the subject, they are likely to 

 achieve only a haphazard success. 



