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supply the markets of the country — this in 

 spite of the fact that some centers of produc- 

 tion have been confronted with problems of 

 overproduction. Taking the country over we 

 never have a sufficient supply of either fruit, 

 and with the increasing transportation rates 

 this will be still more apparent and should re- 

 sult in a more wide-spread planting of these 

 trees as well as of other fruits. Centralized 

 production will probably never again be such a 

 conspicuous factor in any branch of the fruit 

 industry as it has been in the past. The ten- 

 dency will be more and more toward growing 

 fruit in smaller orchards to supply local de- 

 mands rather than to make large plantings with 

 a view to distributing to customers on the other 

 side of the continent. 



Such an arrangement should work out easily 

 enough with both plums and cherries, because 

 some varieties of both fruits may be grown in 

 nearly every state in the Union, and with devel- 

 opment of special varieties for local use, the 

 industry should be placed on a firm basis all 

 over the country. Not every state nor every 

 county in any one state may expect to produce 

 all kinds of plums and cherries. Some vari- 

 eties are extremely particular as to their soil 

 and climatic requirements and will probably 

 never be much grown outside of their present 

 rather well-defined areas. 



