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True, he may be able to buy an orchard with young 
trees planted within the last few years that will answer 
well enough to his conception of a modern commercial 
orchard, but such are rare. It is the fashion to sell 
orchard land, planted or not planted, in small lots— 
10 acres or even 5 acres. There is a vastly greater 
demand for fruit land in lots of this size than there is 
for tracts of even 20 acres in area. Consequently, larger 
orchards of the right description are rare. 
Men who possess smaller amounts of capital must 
naturally content themselves with a smaller orchard. 
And provided a man understands his business, and is 
willing to do a fair share of the work himself, he can get 
a good living off a 10-acre orchard, and even off some 
5-acre orchards. And there exist easy means by which 
he can overcome or temove any disabilities that may 
attach to the more modest scale of his operations. His 
remedy is co-operation, working through a local Fruit- 
Growers’-Association. (See further, Chapter XIII.) 
To men who grow fruit on this scale and under these 
conditions, the older orchards may in some cases be 
recommended as suitable purchases, or they may be 
wise to buy improved ranches with growing fruit-trees on 
them. The local association will be certain to have more 
or less large quantities of fruit of each or all of one man’s 
special varieties sent in by other ranchers in the locality, 
go that the association will be able to do what the in- 
dividual cannot do—namely, make up a carload of this 
or the other variety or similar varieties. 
Prices oF Fruit Lanp.—Prices of fruit lands vary 
considerably, both the prices of raw lands and the prices 
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