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He had a three-acre peach orchard, five years set. which had 

 given him a gross profit of two hundred dollars per acre last 

 season. Naturally all the neighbors are inquiring about the 

 matter, and I predict a large business in tree fruits in that sec- 

 tion of the country in the near future, if all who take up the 

 work are fortunate (as was this man) in setting the right va- 

 rieties and taking proper care of the trees. 



Another man in the same neighborhood had a few apple 

 trees in his garden. He showed me a Baldwin tree seven 

 years old, from which he had picked a barrel of fine apples, 

 which he sold the day I was there for three dollars and a half. 

 Most people don't think of getting a Baldwin into bearing by 

 that time. He also showed me some Alclntosh Red trees, of 

 the same planting, that gave him four bushels this year. That 

 was hard to believe, but I was assured it was a true statement. 

 Now if a man had a number of acres giving these returns he 

 surely would have a good proposition. 



Another case : People ordinarily think of an agricultural 

 college as a place where they spend money, instead of making 

 it, and where they do everything in an expensive way. Yet 

 we have in one of our orchards tv/o rows of trees — one of 

 Wealthy and one of Alclntosh Reds (now some thirteen years 

 set) that have averaged us two bushel boxes per tree each year 

 since they were five years old ; and we sell these apples at two 

 dollars per box ; and since I have been there we have not been 

 able to supply the demand for this fruit at this price. The 

 trees are planted 40 feet apart, and at two dollars a box and 

 two boxes per tree, it doesn't give a large yield, but with 

 these varieties the trees could be planted much nearer and the 

 income be materially increased. 



Still another case : A year ago this fall I was up in "Ap- 

 ple A^alley,'' in Franklin County, where they are said to grow 

 the very best apples that are grown in [Massachusetts, — and 

 in talking with one man (who. I must say, didn't seem to have 

 very much of an orchard, although he said he harvested some- 

 thing like a thousand barrels that year and got around three 

 dollars and a half a barrel for his crop), in speaking with him 

 about the value of farms about there, I asked him what a 



