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pruning, harvesting and packing, is not usually done either 

 rapidly or thoroughly by a new hand at the business. Lab- 

 orers who have grown up in the orchard are far more efficient 

 and satisfactory than raw hands. Communities in which or- 

 charding is an old and well established business do not have 

 a serious difficulty with inefficient labor. 



In some sections, there is complaint of scarcity of 

 labor and high wages demanded by the laborers. The farmer 

 who grows fruit as an exclusive farm product, can not employ 

 labor through the entire year. There are times when he needs 

 a great deal of labor and there are times when there is no 

 way for him to keep his labor profitably employed. The re- 

 sult is, he must keep just a few men all the year and depend 

 on picking up extra help in the busy season, for example at 

 harvesting time. The evidence at hand seems to indicate 

 that a combination of fruit growing with some other type of 

 farming is the most economic method of management. 



Many growers find marketing an economic difficulty. 

 This is a question of many phases. The simplest solution of 

 this problem is to sell the fruit to the apple buyers who 

 come to the orchard. But the grower does not know what his 

 fruit is worth. It is almost impossible for the individual 

 grower to keep in touch with the markets. One man expressed 

 this well when he said W I don't know how to get in touch 



