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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



their genuine delight because of the successes they 

 have met, all knowing that at last they have 

 broken the shackles that have bound them for 

 years, and from the sad experiences of losses of 

 their year's expectancy by the frost. From my 

 experiences of three years ago to the present time 

 orchard heating has grown to the proportions of 

 national and international interest, and the busi- 

 ness of supplying the necessary equipments for 

 this work has assumed amazing proportions, and 

 by next spring there will be installed in the 

 orchards and vegetable tracts of America alone 

 several million heaters. In the orange groves, the 

 pineapple tracts and the vegetable gardens of 

 Florida are now close to a half million little 

 stoves, ready to belch forth their tiny fires in 

 defense of the crop at the call of the grower. In 

 every state, extending from Florida northward to 

 Maine, the growers are bestirring themselves and 

 preparing to equip their orchards with heaters. 



Likewise the Central and Western states that 

 suffered so severely from the frosts last spring 

 are now teeming with interest, and scores of car- 

 loads of orchard heaters are even now being 

 bought, while westward as far as the Sunset State 

 and northward to Washington orchard heaters is 

 the topic of conversation, and hundreds of thou- 

 sands are being purchased by the growers. Even 

 in sections of the country that have always been 

 considered practically free from frost because of 

 favorable topographical conditions the heater is 

 winning its way, as there is no section, upon 

 critical examination, but that has lost more or less 

 fruit by the ravages of the frost, and the anxious 

 fear of the declme in the prices of realty that 

 would occur if the fact became known to the 

 world that they used orchard heaters has assumed 

 a new phase. The purchasers of fruit tracts are 

 now looking for the sections of the country where 

 all orchard operations have been reduced to the 



best science, and orchard heating is now the most 

 important item in orchard work. The most famous 

 fruit valleys of the country, including the Grand 

 Valley of Colorado and the valleys of the North- 

 west, are the sections farthest advanced in the 

 science of orchard heating, and it is a question of 

 but a very short time when every section that 

 strives to keep up with the rapid march of prog- 

 ress will necessarily have to adopt orchard heaters. 

 It is silly to deny that insurance of any descrip- 

 tion is a good thing, and certainly any grower 

 who has felt the keen loss of his valuable crop 

 of fruit cannot but recognize in the orchard heater 

 a friend that has come to him in the time of need, 

 and I venture the assertion that after a grower 

 has lost his crop two or three years in succession 

 his one hope is for a crop of fruit, and his con- 

 cern is but little about the value of his land. As 

 with all new enterprises, there is a crop of skeptics 

 who say there is nothing in this operation, and 



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