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from succeeding' is the competition they meet with in men who know more 

 than they do. Industry is truly important, but alone it will not win. Still 

 it is by no means difficult to raise fruit. I think that frequent visits to the 

 best orchards, and a g-ood share of common sense, will enable one to suc- 

 ceed. If he do fail, he will be a fool if he does not try till success crowns 

 his efforts. 



"Still, from various causes not more than a quarter of the fruit trees set 

 out in our county will amount to much. The price of fruit has advanced 

 during the last twenty years. In twenty years more, if fruit growers are 

 very industrious, and if too many children are not born, common people 

 may be able to buy early fruit; and early fruit can be raised as easily as 

 late fruit. A man who works right can afford to work for less than one 

 who works wrong; that is, if he have the product of his industry to dis- 

 pose of 



"Let a wide-awake Yankee come hither and set out well known and g-ood 

 varieties, and he will do well. He will want ten or forty acres of g^ood 

 high land. Ten acres will do as well as forty acres for many men. At 

 South Pass suitable sites sell from $20 to $30 per acre. When covered 

 with bearing trees they easily sell for $100 an acre. There are farms there 

 which can be sold for $150 an acre, and the trees are only four years old. 

 They make the trees bear at this age, often sooner. I saw trees two years 

 from tlie bud, for which $5 were given for the fruit from each tree. South 

 of the point named, good improved farms near stations, and where peaches 

 never fail, can be bought for $15 an acre. I know of twenty or thirty such 

 chances. The railroad will sell suitable land, mostly timber, for less, and 

 give long time. They offer every inducement to fruit growers. The freight 

 that is paid them for an acre of peaches exceeds what they get for what is 

 paid for a hundred acres of wheat. The receipts from five acres of peach 

 trees, in full bearing, will buy a good farm. 



"Pears do well here; so do apples and strawberries. Plums, cherries and 

 currants do poorly. Grapes are uncertain; they rot. One man expected 

 to have twenty tons; he hopes to have two. 



" Much disappointment is felt regarding certain varieties of peaches. The 

 early York, serrate, was supposed to be the earliest and best; it rotted. 

 One man makes his loss $3,000 by the early York, and yet his receipts will 

 reach $500. Crawford's Early is the finest peach, but it is so large that 

 it does not retail at a profit, and it is a shy bearer. The first shipments 

 were the early Tillotson, which was about the 18th inst. The peach which 

 ripens first is wormy; it ripens first because it is stung. The peach which 

 now is esteemed most for the qualities of earliness, size and color, is the 

 Honest John, of New Jersey, and Western New York. The tree is full 

 size, fair color, mostly red, flavor good. 



" Some wishing to come hither would like to know how much money they 

 ought to have. I consider myself posted on this head. I answer that with 

 from two to five hundred dollars you can start yourself handsomely. With 

 five hundred dollars one can do well. Some have commenced with less. 

 But, whatever you have, you must have earned it at some kind of labor or 

 honest business. If you come by it without labor, or without having been 

 brought up to labor, you probably will lose it. If you have been brought 



