26 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



etc., it is none the less true when we come to 

 choose among the branches of agriculture. 

 Whether we are to grow grain, breed and feed 

 stock, or to spend our time in the study of the 

 soil and the various plants that it will grow. 

 These are all recognized as professions today 

 just as much as law or medicine. In order to 

 succeed in any one of them we must apply bus- 

 iness methods just as surely as must the banker 

 or merchant. While this is true of all the var- 

 ious lines of agriculture we believe it is par- 

 ticularly so of ORCHARDING AS A BUS- 

 INESS. 



There is a vast difference in growing fruit 

 for home use and attempting to produce it to 

 supply the great markets of the world. That 

 there is a fascination in the production of fruit 

 with which to provide one's own table none 

 will deny. This pleasure seems all the greater 

 if we have planted and cultivated the trees with 

 our own hands in our own garden or orchard. 

 As has been so well said 



" 'Tis strange how we learn to love the things we plant 



and tend, 

 Every tree in that whole orchard seems like some dear old 



friend." 



It seems to be the desire of every man — 

 whether he lives in the country or city-to 



