THE RIGHT MAN 5 



regard for the demand at that particular time and place. What 

 would happen to any other manufacturer if he followed the 

 methods of many of our apple manufacturers? Bankruptcy 

 sure and speedy ! It simply shows what a good business orchard- 

 ing is, that it has kept up under the methods too often in vogue. 

 The Right Man. — AVe have said that for the right people 

 carrying on an orchard by right methods and in the right place 

 the future is anything but dark. Let us close this brief review 

 of the orchard situation with a word on this desirable combina- 

 tion. Who are the right people? Anybody wdth a love for the 



Fig. 2. — Anothcrrcason why orcharding will not be over-done. Thia young orchard has been 

 set five years aud some of the trees are little if any larger than when they were set. 



business and who has the knowledge, or who can hire somebody 

 with the knowledge, to do the work. To begin with, the man 

 brought up on the farm has an immense advantage over the man 

 who is city bom and bred. He knows already the practical de- 

 tails of farming. The writer is always doubtful about the 

 success of one who knows nothing of farm life. It takes a 

 tremendous amount of enthusiasm and hard work to overcome 

 the handicap. Here is an example of the kind of man who ought 

 not to go into orcharding. He wrote to our Agricultural College, 

 saying that he expected to set a large orchard, would use fifty 

 thousand trees, and since the nurserymen must make a lot of 



