COMMERCIAL ORCHARDING IN WEST VIRGINIA. 15 
RELATION OF THE SIZE OF THE ORCHARD TO SUCCESSFUL MANAGE- 
MENT. 
The size of an orchard is a very important factor. The small 
srower of 5 to 20 acres may find the business profitable as one of the 
enterprises of diversified farming. He must sell in less than carload 
lots and depend wholly on such prices and such market facilities as 
are offered at his shipping point, unless, of course, he belongs to an 
organization which looks after such marketing. 
The large grower, however, should have his orchard of such a size 
and have the varieties so distributed that he may market from day 
to day in carload lots. Another determining factor in the size of an 
orchard is that of labor. The small grower may board his workmen 
Fig. 5.—An orchard on chert land on top of a mountain, viewed from the valley at a distance of about 
amile. The camp for the menis located at the left. 
in the family and thus make them feel satisfied socially, but it is 
found difficult to keep less than from 10 to 20 men together in a 
group in orchards where they are lodged and boarded under camp- 
life conditions. 
The orchard shown in figure 5 contains 400 acres, all on a mountain 
top. 
DISTANCE OF ORCHARD FROM SHIPPING POINT. 
A factor of great importance in peach orcharding is the distance of 
hauling to the shipping point. The expense of hauling not only 
increases as the distance increases, but the hauling over the average 
mountain road for a considerable distance injures the peaches. for 
