4 PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



worn-out orchards nearly all over the country,, 

 with fruitless homesteads and treeless gardens on 

 every hand ? Let us see what can be done for 

 those who are willing to help themselves in 

 increasing the supply of useful, wholesome, hardy 

 fruit. 



METHODS OF PROCEDURE AND EXAMPLES 

 TO BE FOLLOWED. 



First, the principle has to be determined whether 

 fruit shall be grown as a substitute for, or as an 

 adjunct to, other crops. With very few exceptions 

 the latter is strongly recommended. Unless a 

 small holder of land is sufficiently near a town to 

 drive in on market-days, with poultry, eggs, and 

 butter, or any other products of his little farm or 

 garden, he may not find the cultivation of fruit so 

 profitable as he anticipates. The grower of a few 

 hundredweights is so handicapped in respect to 

 freightage that he cannot compete with the large 

 fruit farmers in supplying distant markets ; and 

 whether railway companies reduce their rates for 

 small consignments or not, with the view to- 

 developing trade, it is probable that the advantage 

 will still rest with large consigners. 



