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as long a season as possible. In the home market one 

 can not depend on disposing of a large quantity at 

 once, and the bulk of business must accrue through 

 the extension of the season. This requires that the 

 man who supplies the home market must grow a con- 

 siderable variety of fruits. He should be able to start 

 the season with strawberries, to follow these with rasp- 

 berries, these with dewberries or blackberries, or both, 

 these with cherries, these with early plums and green 

 gooseberries, later to bring green apples and the first 

 peaches, and so on through the year. Frequently cer- 

 tain vegetables can be handled to advantage with fruits, 

 particularly- such things as tomatoes, muskmelons, and 

 the like. In general, however, the man who is most 

 successful in fruit growing is not equally successful in 

 vegetable growing. It is hardly good policy to try to 

 handle a complete line of both fruits and vegetables. 

 Onions and strawberries do not combine well. 



Besides seeking to handle the best grades of fruit, 

 the man who supplies his own private customers should 

 use all pains to have everything as neat and clean as 

 forethought and sapolio can make them. The baskets 

 and packages should be fresh and spotless. The boy 

 who comes to the door should wear a conspicuously 

 white apron. The fruit should be delivered in a neat 

 covered wagon, bearing just enough advertising and 

 not too much. Everybody should know whose de- 

 livery wagon it is and what it carries ; but no one 

 should be able at a Uttle distance to mistake the turn- 

 out for a traveUng medicine outfit or the advertising 

 wagon of a coming circus. 



Announcement should always be made in advance 



