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fits. There is not much money in apples at 75 cents or $\ 

 per barrel, but New England wants more apples and l)etter 

 apples, for which the people will pay a price that will make 

 them profitable. In the way of small fruits there is a won- 

 derful opening. He knew that sometimes, when the prices 

 were low, as they often were with strawberries, it was dis- 

 couraging, but that is witli cheap berries. He himself had 

 no trouble with good fruit. The danger of raising small 

 fruits is the using of too much stable manure. He hinaself 

 had done better with commercial fertilizers rich in potash 

 and phosphoric acid. If there is a great use of stable 

 manure we get a soft berry. 



In his peach ventures he began about twenty years ago. 

 New England is rather out of the peach belt — not below, 

 but above it — but he had found by observation that on liigh 

 elevations, exposed ground, he was apt to get more peaches 

 than in the hollows and around the buildings. He kept 

 stable manure away from the trees, but used potash, which 

 made the tree grow more slowly, but harder wood, firmer 

 and wonderfully productive. Winter killing is the one bad 

 thing for peach raisers to face. He had found that in 

 trimming for shape of his trees he sacrificed their fruit by 

 cutting off here and there a bud. Now he trims for fruit 

 instead of looks, and has the most outlandish looking set of 

 trees to be found anywhere, but they all bear largely. Mr. 

 Hale saitl " thirty-five acres in 1889 gave us $28,000 from 

 our peach trees." 



He advised to plant a few trees every year ; make it a 

 rule to do it, and choose only the hardiest. We cannot ob- 

 tain hardly two crops in five years, but one in four years is 

 practically sure, and with some varieties a crop every year, 

 and when you get your fruit to market you will find some- 

 thing to learn there. Put your fruit in good, new, clean, 

 white boxes, never use boxes for fruit of. any kind after 

 they are colored, and regular travellers on the road. In 

 good, clean, white boxes the fruit will bring enough more 

 to pay for the boxes. 



