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THE OUTLOOK FOR ORCHARDING 



money out of their business did we not think it would be well for 

 him to propagate his own trees. And in the event that we 

 agreed with him as to the advisability of this, would it not 

 be well for him to " start the apple seeds in the house during 

 the winter so as to have the little trees well under way by 

 spring." While the writer does not want to discourage unduly 

 the city man who wants an orchard, it does seem to him that 

 few of them can qualify as . " the right man/ 7 Figure 3 

 represents another plan of orcharding. 



FIG. 3. Still another reason why orcharding will not be over-done. The owner of this 

 orchard was a liveryman and wanted hay! He had the good sense not to try to raise both 

 hay and apples on the same land. 



Now while there are, of course, many exceptions, it would 

 seem that two classes of orchard ventures are especially likely to 

 be successful. One of these is that of the farmer in an orchard 

 section who already has his living assured and who decides to 

 add to his orchard plantings. And the other is that of the man 

 who has money enough to go into orcharding on a reasonably 

 large scale so that he can devote his time to it if he has the 

 knowledge himself or if not can hire an expert foreman. As a 

 rule the thing for the inexperienced man to do, if he is sure 

 that he wants an orchard, is to work with some practical orchard 

 man until he acquires a reasonable knowledge of the business. 



Right methods are only less important than right men. The 

 writer has tried, in the following pages, to suggest some of the 



