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when the time comes. The fruit business, like all other lines, 

 has become specialized, and the need of specialization becomes 

 more apparent as the years go by, and the specialist will make 

 money while the novice will make a failure. It is coming- to 

 be so in every line of business, and especially in every branch 

 of farming. The dairyman, if he is onto his job, has got to 

 take every means within his power to make the product of his 

 cows the best. There is room at the top, but, while that is 

 true, there is a mighty small platform at the top, and the man 

 that once gets there has got to struggle mighty hard to main- 

 tain his position. We have got to have everything in the 

 best of condition and keep it there. The farm in all its 

 branches has got to be right up in tip-top shape. Everything, 

 as I say, is becoming specialized. Farming particularly, in 

 all its branches, is becoming more and more specialized, and 

 the man that doesn't pay careful and constant attention to 

 every little detail can not make a success in the dairy business. 

 That is so in all lines, but the truth of that statement was 

 never better illustrated than it is in farming operations at the 

 present day. I don't care whether a man is trying to grow 

 fine fruits, or whether he is carrying on a dairy farm, or try- 

 ing to do general farming, he has got to pay the most careful 

 attention to all of the little details, and be right up to date and 

 wide awake all the time, in order to be successful. And just 

 that sort of thing is becoming more and more necessary with 

 the man that grows fruit. It is something that is going to 

 increase, rather than diminish. The demand upon the thought 

 and care of a successful fruit grower is going to be a larger 

 burden than it ever has been before. 



In planting an apple orchard the location may make the 

 success or failure of the orchard. The land must be well 

 drained, and the n:ore elevated the better. An apple tree will 

 not thrive with wet feet, nor will it produce an annual crop 

 of fruit if the situation is so low that the air drainage is deli- 

 cient. The reason why some orchards seldom miss a crop, 

 and some others near by with the same apparent advantages 

 seldom raise a crop, is more likely to be found in the fact that 

 in the first orchard the fruit buds are seldom injured, because 



