PROFITS IIM FRUIT GROWING, 
Twenty-five years ago the great cry was "you will overdo the business." 
This same prediction has been made many times since, but largely by people 
who neglected to plant, or those who after planting failed to care for their 
orchards intelligently. Our improved facilities for disposing of our crops, and 
the enormous increase in our population warrant us in saying that twenty 
years hence the best piece of property a man can own will be a good apple 
orchard . 
With our present refrigerator service our fruits reach the cold Northwest, 
and by the same service our Apples and Pears find ready sale on the Euro- 
pean markets, and are eagerly sought for, and the promise in the near future 
of much quicker time and cheaper transportation in reaching foreign mar- 
kets, make prospects bright for better profits in the future. 
During the last months of the year 1901, the Apple crop from some of the 
orchards in Franklin and Kennebec counties in Maine, was sold for more 
money than the price formerly asked for the farms on which they grew. 
PACKING APPLES IN OUR ORCHARD. 
