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markets of the world are crj'ing for iMaiue grown apples. You 

 cannot even afford to feed wormy Baldwins when men are clamoring 

 for canned goods at $2.40 per dozen, and it is a fact that it is 

 wastefulness to even feed the parings when jellies are called for as 

 they are to-day. 



Advancement is the word to-day. Gentlemen, if you have an 

 old orchard that is producing seedling fruit, take care of that 

 product, but don't allow a single tree in the orchard, field or pas- 

 ture, or by the roadside, that is healthy, no matter how scrubby, 

 or how ill its shape. Change it to some profitable variety, and 

 although you may not receive the full income therefrom, some trav- 

 eller along the road or the children in their strolling through the 

 pasture may eat and think of you with pleasure. 



PLUM GROWIXG. 

 By S. D. Wii.LAKD, Geneva, X. Y. 



About twenty-five years since, having learned of the success in 

 plum culture which had followed the efforts of those engaged in the 

 work on the Hudson river, it occurred to me that results equally 

 satisfactory might be attained on the good lands in the western 

 part of the state. 



. With the soil and climate'adapted to the work, shipping facilities 

 unsurpassed and a market that readily absorbed all that they pro- 

 duced, at profits far in excess of anything we could ever hope for 

 in apple growing, I found the plum orchard men the happiest fruit 

 growers of the times. 



The fruit was picked, dumped into barrels, put aboard of 

 steamers the same day and landed in New York before daylight the 

 following morning, and with no competition, sold at pi ices which 

 in some cases, netted the shippers from §300 to $500 per acre, per 

 annum. 



Are you surprised that an enthusiastic fruit grower should decide 

 without much deliberation that plum growing 150 miles westward 

 on as good land as the state afforded, was to be given a trial? 



A recently planted apple orchard, two rods apart, was the only 

 available land, a portion of which was forthwith planted wiih 300 



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