LOCATING THE ORCHARD 9 



the pictures. One of the pictures, by the way, 

 was one that I had taken myself years before, in 

 another state. How the land artists ever got 

 hold of a copy I have never been able to find 

 out, but they used it with good effect to show 

 "what our orchard will be like in a few years." 

 It was a good picture. Their orchards, how- 

 ever, never materialized, and I have been un- 

 able to find any record of the fact that they 

 ever owned a single acre of the land they pro- 

 posed to develop. 



In securing orchard land it is usually best 

 for the prospective owner to go on a still hunt 

 for it. He should form his own ideas of what 

 he wants and then seek land that fulfills in 

 some measure his previously formed opinions 

 of what good land should be. If a reliable real- 

 estate man can be found who is familiar with 

 the chosen locality, he can very often purchase 

 the land to better advantage than can some 

 1 ' outsider ' ' who is unfamiliar with the country. 

 It is human nature for the seller to desire to 

 get all he can when he sells property and the 

 minute any one offers to buy a farm the aver- 

 age farmer adds several dollars to the price he 

 would have been glad to ge't a minute before. 



Good apple land is worth more than good 

 corn land, because it will yield a higher return 

 acre for acre, year in and year out, — but it can 

 usually be bought for much less than corn land. 



