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the son who elects to stay on the farm. I am often 

 amazed to see the way in which the best business men 

 put their confidence in fruit. An apple evaporator of 

 my acquaintance, who followed the fruit crop of the 

 country year by year, evaporating in whatever part of 

 the country was most prodigal of fruit in any one year, 

 set a 45-acre farm entirely to apples just before he was 

 ready to settle down. A young fellow of 18, of my ac- 

 quaintance, who, years ago, was left with a mortgaged 

 hill farm and a family of seven on his hands, set the 

 whole farm to fruit, and now is the envy of all the 

 neighborhood for his handsome furniture, good clothes, 

 and other evidences of prosperity. But I think he has 

 worked harder than any one of those who envy him ! 



In the middle West lives a fancier of poultry who has 

 built up one of the best plants in the country, and does 

 a very large and successful business. All his fine flocks 

 run in orchards — they could not have a better environ- 

 ment — and it is said that he could any day give up his 

 poultry and live easily, even luxuriously, from his or- 

 charding. There are no two products that grow to- 

 gether more naturally than poultry and tree fruits, 

 unless one shut active hens up with a newly set lot 

 of small trees. This is likely to be the death of some 

 of the trees, unless green feed is supplied with extreme 

 liberality. 



The list put out by the government in February, 191 1, 

 shows that Colorado, though having a man on the staff 

 in charge of poultry investigation, and having a Farmers' 

 Week in midwinter, does not offer a poultry course. 

 Connecticut offers a Six-Weeks' Poultry Course. Indiana 

 has not only a man as instructor in Poultry Husbandry, 



