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grow, handle and eat fine fruit. We can 

 scarcely enter a bank or store or ride on a rail- 

 road train but what we hear the men engaged in 

 these various lines of work express a desire to 

 get out on the farm and grow fruit. We find 

 the merchant, the lawyer, the banker and the 

 man in the shop who by years of hard work 

 and rigid economy have laid by a few thousand 

 dollars looking forward with great pleasure to 

 the day when they may either have an orchard 

 all their own, or at least hold some stock in 

 one. 



This is a day of specialties, and while we 

 find men of all classes and professions interested 

 to a certain extent in the production of fruits 

 they — many of them — ^would fall far short of 

 making a success of orcharding as a business. 

 While this interest in rural life, especially In 

 fruit growing has existed for a long time it is 

 even more noticeable today than ever before. 

 City men who have made their millions in other 

 pursuits are forming stock companies, buying 

 large tracts of land and preparing them for 

 planting fruit trees. 



This preparation difiFers in character as to the 

 section of country in which the land is located. 

 In some cases it has been the arid lands of the 

 west where tfie large scattering stones have to 



