i SMALL FRUITS AND HOW TO PROW THEM 
this is fancy fruit and bring-.s the hig-hest 
price. Now for the additional cost: 
Pe«li{{'V«'<' plants cost from $1.50 to $2.00 
per thousand more than "alley plants" or 
those from between the rows or plants g'rown 
on swamp land, all of which are of low 
fruiting- power. Subsoiling costs the same 
as plowing-. Extra harrowing, rolling- and 
surface fitting not over $4.00 per acre. Here 
we g-et all the manure we can draw for 
nothing- and unleached furnace ashes for 
live cents per bushel. 
Cro<lit lalxH- .saved by using automatic 
runner cutter and the time in weeding- by 
machine, etc., and the extra time saved in 
selling by having- fruit that will secure per- 
manent customers and the further fact that 
such fruit always commands several cents 
more per quart to say nothing of the large 
annual sale of plants. 
Now visit s rowers in your vicinity and 
ascertain average yield and grade of their 
fruit and make all the allowance you think 
necessary and get the difference of profits of 
the two systems. 
You need not fear competition from 
old growers. Depend upon it they will stick 
to their old ruts. They -will continue to do 
things as their fathers did. 
I have the pleasure of a wide acquaintance 
among- fruit growers and while many towns 
are surrounded with fruit gardens not one 
in twenty makes an effort to grow fancy 
fruit but all sell "slop stuff" in the opeii 
market for what they can get instead of 
an extra price for fine fruit to select cus- 
tomers. 
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GETTING A START. 
You may say you cannot have all these 
tools and do all this work, and therefore 
cannot make a beginning. It costs too much. 
Very well, you do not have to have them 
all to make a beginning. I did not have 
them at first, neither did I have fine horses 
and carriages and a tine bank account to 
meet all contingencies and pay bills at sight, 
but after I got my plants worked up to hig-h 
fruitage these things came to me very fast. 
5 
If you can't do it all at once, do what 
you can. 
Begin riglit, }•<> ahead, follow the 
directions of this Ijooklet carefully and if 
you get stuck, write me full particulars and 
I will g-ive you the benefit of my experi- 
ence. It gives me a great deal of pleasure 
to give a beginner pointers that will place 
him on his feet. 
TuK Enhance. 
No eapital. If you do not have the capi- 
tal to buy land, rent the best piece of land 
you can get for a term of six or eight years 
and go for the manure piles. What I have 
done you can do. I had to study out these 
things as I went along. I had no one to 
grive me a pointer and it costs many dollars 
to experiment and prove the correctness of 
the ideas advanced in these pages. 
Oon't be a wage earner all your 
life. Be independent. Be your own master. 
SELLING PLANTS. 
Whether or not it will pay you to invest a 
larg-e sum of money in printing- and send- 
ing out larg-e expensive catalogs and other 
advertising, is a matter for you to determine 
in the future. But when you appear on the 
market with fine large fruit that leads the 
trade, and visitors flock to your farm and see 
all your plants loaded with magnificent 
berries and they learn that you can furnish 
pure pedig-ree stock from your propagating- 
beds, the demand for plants from your 
neig-hbors will be large and gradually in- 
crease until it will of itself grow into a 
profitable business. 
It has been so in my own case and will be 
so with you, if you send out the highest 
grade of stock. 
Althoug-h I have more than doubled the 
size of my propagating- beds every year and 
increased my help from one lone hired man 
to more than one hundred hands, I have 
never been a*le to supply the demand, and 
old customers are giving notice of largely 
increased orders for the coming spring. 
You will need to test all the new varie- 
ties and determine their value for yourself 
before you will dare to commend "them to 
your friends and patrons. I have now pur- 
