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CHAPTER VIII 



Profits in Fruit Growing 



There is such a gradually increasing amount of interest 

 in the matter of fruit growing that thousands of persons 

 are each year leaving their jobs in the offices, school 

 rooms, shops and stores to undertake fruit growing for 

 a livelihood. Some of them succeed in making a living, 

 some make a failure and return to their former occupa- 

 tions, while others become wealthy. Many extravagant 

 statements have been made by enthusiastic promoters of 

 some certain sections concerning the unbelievable profits 

 that it is possible to make from given areas of their land. 

 In many instances these profits are purely visionary, while 

 in many others they are. entirely reliable. 



From reliable data which has been collected in several 

 states, it is apparent that sums ranging from $1,000 to 

 $3,000 per year can be obtained from an acre of land under 

 some conditions. Usually these conditions are beyond the 

 reach of the amateur, and have been obtained by expert 

 horticulturists, who have been several years in developing 

 their product and their market. But it is also possible in 

 many cases for inexperienced persons to make excellent 

 incomes from fruit plantations, and it does not matter 

 what state or section of the country one goes to, splendid 

 returns can be obtained. There is this one fact to be 

 learned from the data collected, and that is that some sec- 

 tions of the country are more favorable for the inexperi- 

 enced to obtain large returns. These sections are gener- 

 ally in those regions where there is an abundance of fer- 



