SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM 
Mauwell. 
THB RICH MAN 
gets rich because he gets the best soil, uses the 
best tools, sets the best plants which produce the 
best fruit and sells to the best people who will pay 
the best prices to get the best things. His cus- 
tomers are not slow to learn that he can be relied 
upon to furnish the best in the market and know 
they must pay him the highest price to secure his 
products. He becomes rich by getting a large 
profit on everything he touches and employs labor 
enough to do everything at the right time and in 
the right way and is always ahead with his work. 
There is fast accumulating an army of fruit 
growers — formerly day laborers, living on a small 
and precarious income — who have by former edi- 
tions of this booklet been led to see the profits of 
fancy fruit growing, and with its help have pushed 
to the front, rented land and afterwards bought 
and paid for it and are now free and independent. 
What the average young man needs is grit, push 
and ' ' get-there-a-ti veness. ' ' 
You must have dash! First study the field 
to get your bearings and then tlirow your whole 
being into the charge. Make it move. If you are 
a lazy, good-for-nothing fellow and can't find 
pleasure in surrounding your home with comforts, 
and would not enjoy the approval of your neigh- 
bors by being somebody and doing something above 
the ordinary, then in all goodness don't change 
but tag along just as you are. 
DOI,i:,ARS AND "SENSU." 
It is important that you comprehend the diiler- 
ence in profits between intensive fruit growing as 
taught in these pages and the common methods of 
the average fruit grower. Take one thousand 
bushels of berries as the basis of calculation for 
comparison. 
The average crop imder ordinary methods is 
from 50 to 75 bushels per acre, and so to produce 
the 1 ,000 bushels we must furnish and fit at least 
I3J^ acres of land. You must then buy and set 
^3,300 plants, {7,000 to the acrel. The cost of pick- 
ing and marketing berries grown in the old way is 
always greater because you must go over so much 
more land for the same amount of fruit, and on the 
market you must accept what the purchaser sees fit 
to pay. You cannot secure regular customers at an 
extra price for common fruit. 
To produce one thousand bushels by these 
improved methods and basing calculations on my 
own experience I should not think of using over 
four acres of land, (250 bushels per acre) and 
should therefore have to purchase and set only 28,- 
000 plants. My crops have rarely dropped as low 
as that and have exceeded five hundred bushels per 
acre. Now I should sell this fancy fruit at from 
three to five cents per quart more than the common 
fruit grown by the old method and can hold regu- 
lar customers who are glad to get this grade of 
fruit at the advanced price 
Wliile it does cost some more work to give this 
intensive culture, yet the extra price of $960 re- 
ceived for the fruit would pay for the entire cost 
of plants, use of land, manuring, marketing, etc., 
and leave me more than the gross price of common 
fruit for net profits. " 
As these plants would be grown in hills or 
hedge row they would not become so much ex- 
hausted by seed or fruit bearing and would pro- 
duce large crops for three or four years while by 
tlie old way the beds generally cease to be profit- 
able after the second year and must be plowed 
under and re-set. 
These comparisons are not exaggerated, for in 
this calculation I have taken the larger estimate of 
common crops — 75 bu. per acre — and the smaller 
amount grown by the improved method — 250 bush- 
els per acre and the lowest per cent of gain on 
quality — 3 cents per quart, which gives a very con- 
servative comparison. 
SHORT CHAPTER ON "DON'TS." 
Don't try to lift the whole 
world at once but only as 
much of it as will afford 
you profit and pleasure. 
Don't imagine you must 
have all the fancy tools to 
start with; you will be able 
to get them later. 'Any good 
farm tools will answer the 
purpose. Don't set any more 
plants than you can manure 
the ground for and cultivate 
[ thoroughly. 
Don't forget that one 
acre of rich land set with 
Pedigree Plants and given thorough tillage 
will produce more clear profits than five acres of 
ordinary land set with scrub plants. 
Don't forget that while many markets are 
glutted with poor fruits dealers find it exceedingly 
difficult to get really fine fruit and are hunting for 
the man who can produce it. 
Don't forget that you can talk Pedigree Plants 
and high tillage to nine-tenths of the fruit growers 
till Doomsday and they will keep right on in the 
old ruts traveled in hy their fathers and grand- 
fathers and use scrub plants and give poor tillage 
and thus leave the profits to the "up-to-date fruit 
grower." 
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. 
The question sometimes arises whether a "Pedi- 
gree Plant," with its high breeding and culture, 
will succeed on ordinary land with common culti- 
vation, as well as common plants? 
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