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Grading, wrapping and packing apples. Eastern growers must use this style of packing. For details, see pages 122 to 128 of "How 



to Grow and Market Fruit" 



Now, it costs only from $50 to $100 an acre to properly subdue the land, buy trees and plant them, 

 then prune and cultivate and spray these trees till they are five years old and bearing. Proper care will be 

 pretty certain to make five-year apple or pear trees produce a half-bushel of fruit each. Each year after 

 that the crop will increase half as much again till it reaches twenty bushels or so around the twelfth or 

 fifteenth year. Peaches, plums and grapes w'ill begin bearing profitable crops the third year, and straw- 

 berries the second year. Suppose you gave the trees the very best of care, and it cost you almost $100 an 

 Cost and ^^^^^ scattered over the five years. Add to that $50 for the cost of the best land you could buy, 



and you still have at the very least a profit of $150 an acre for your work of developing an or- 



RetumS chard. That is, if you decide to sell. If you keep your orchard, you will make much more out 



■^ of it, for the commercial orchards of the East are now making a net profit of from $100 to $400 



an acre every year. 



Can you not see where you should plant ten, or twenty, or fifty acres of your farm in apples or pears 

 or other fruits? You can prepare the land on short notice and get the trees in, even though you do not have 

 on hand enough money to finish the woik. You will need only enough to buy the trees and a few special 

 tools. Then grow crops of strawberries, tomatoes or other such fruit in between the trees, giving the needed 

 cultivation and producing profitable cash crops. You can pay all the expenses of taking good care of the trees 

 from what you produce between them till they bear, then gradually diminish the amount of inter-crops 

 grown, till the trees are in full bearing at ten or twelve years of age. It is by all means the best way eastern 

 farmers have of making their farms pay better, without so much man-destroying drudgery as lumbering 

 or grain-farming requires. 



Our Trees Are Budded from Bearing Orchards 



Any fruit tree or plant inherits the bearing characteristics of its parents, and not all trees or plants 

 of the same variety bear alike; in fact, hardly any two trees, even in the same orchard, produce fruit alike 

 in color or quality, or produce the same amount every year, while a good many trees are practical failures 

 because they produce only poor fruit, or have so many off years. 



Because of this, it is of prime importance that buds or grafts be cut from bearing trees that show 

 satisfactory characteristics, and that a system be used which will absolutely assure us that the young trees 

 produced are tagged correctly — that every bunch of buds is followed carefully from the time it is cut from 

 the parent trees till the young trees are planted in the orchard. Such care means an orchard that will pro- 

 duce 100 per cent more fruit than one planted with trees propagated under less favorable conditions — may 

 mean in figures no less than $100 an acre every year to the orchardist. 

 »p_.jp ±^ We will not consider trees that do not prove true to name. An error such as that is inexcusable. 



It is where the trees are true to name, but of inferior bearing habits, that the most harm is done. 



Name The grower will worry along with them, thinking they will bear "next year," hoping against hope, 



and never quite realizing what the real trouble is. 



By our system we cut buds for propagating from bearing trees only, where each tree is tagged and its 

 habits are matters of record. Not only do we guarantee that our trees will prove true to name, but that they 

 will be of a superior strain or type of each variety. 



The beginning of this "pedigree" idea undoubtedly was in our test orchard of peaches near Berlin. 

 Here we have six or more trees each of over 100 varieties. On a tag en every tree, careful records are kept of what 

 each one has yielded, the date of blooming, ripening, etc., growth records, and every other point that will 

 be of value to us in judging the varieties. We cut buds from these trees, plant out breeding orchards of our 

 own with the young trees grown from such buds, and discard the trees that prove in any way inferior. 

 This system makes us absolutely sure of every tree we grow, and shows what the results should be in 

 your orchard; for with such selected trees there is no reason why you should not get big crops, provided 

 you give the trees proper cultivation, spraying and pruning. 



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