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Other local conditions to consider, before setting 

 a commercial orchard, are transportation, marketing 

 facilities, and the help problem. In some localities 

 it is possible to employ transient help just when most 

 needed, men for picking (for example), or women 

 for packing; in other localities it is almost impossible 

 to secure such temporary assistance. 



Carefully study the question of soil in its relation 

 to the fruits, etc., to be grown. Some kinds of fruit 

 do best on light soils, some do best on heavy soils. 

 The difference between a 

 sandy or a clayey location 

 may mean the difference be- 

 tween success and failure. 

 In this book will be found, 

 in the special chapter de- 

 voted to each kind of fruit, 

 etc., hints about the soil best 

 suited to the species. 



The foregoing sugges- 

 tions apply with most force, 

 of course, to large orchards 

 planted for market purposes. The home orchard for 

 family use necessarily means an aggregation of various 

 kinds of trees probably all set together on one kind of 

 soil, and therefore it is not in this case always possible 

 to cater to all the requirements of each. But it pays 

 to do so, as nearly as is practicable, even with a small 

 family orchard. 



Examine the subsoil. Is it so hard and so near 

 the surface that tree roots can never hope to find 

 a secure anchorage? Does water stand above the 



SUGGESTION FOR HOME- 

 ORCHARD ARRANGEMENT 



