


Orchard of D. Gold Miller, Geraldstown, W. Va. Largely Harrison’s trees. 136 acres, 
yields $10,000 net income every year. 
Make Your Orchard Pay from the Start 
When you invest the $50 to $100 an acre that it takes to plant an orchard 
and care for it five years, you want to make the venture, or the business, 
pay as much as possible and as quickly as possible. It is a plain business 
proposition. You do not want to wait ten years before you get any money 
back. It’s all right to experiment if you have money, but those who do 
not have it should put off their experimenting until they have made money 
by caring for standard trees in the proper manner. 
Because of this, we say plant two or three of the best-paying varieties, 
and then grow crops between the rows. We advise every planter of an 
Apple orchard to put Peach trees between the Apple trees as fillers for 
the first eight to ten years, if you want to grow Peaches, and the land is 
suited to Peaches. If the land is not adapted for Peaches plant Apple 
fillers, and grow beans, peas, tomatoes, early potatoes or other vegetables 
between the rows of trees for two or three years. If you plant a Peach 
orchard, set Apple trees 30 to 50 feet apart among your Peach trees. Then, 
when your Peach trees are done for, as they will be in twelve to fifteen 
years, you will have an Apple orchard left, and you can plant a new Peach 
orchard on fresh ground. The use of fillers and intercrops will make your 
orchard pay from the very beginning. Early bearing of fruit trees depends 
somewhat on treatment, but to a larger extent on the varieties planted. 
York Imperial and Yellow Transparent, especially, will bear abundantly 
when they are from four to six years old. Surely that is soon enough. 
APPLES 
May we take it for granted that you are thinking of planting Apple 
trees, and that you want them to return to you the greatest cash profit in 
the shortest time? If you are planting for experimental purposes, or if 
you intend the fruit trees to take the place of ornamental trees on your 
home grounds, then what follows will not apply to you. But ninety out 
of every hundred readers of this little catalogue want their plantings to 
be a success financially—to produce paying crops early. 
We are fruit-growers, just as you are now or plan to be soon. We have 
orchards and are planting new ones. And they must be made to pay. Last 
fall.we paused, took a square look at our profits, and asked them where 
they came from. The answer surprised us, and we asked a great many 
other growers in the East where their profits were coming from. Here is 
what we found to be true as a general rule. More than half of the money 
now made from Apples comes from no more than three or four varieties. 
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