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was anything to be gained by it he wanted the benefit. His trees 
have done well. The Gravensteins have come into bearing 
five years from the time he planted the seeds for the stocks. 
Hundreds of trees of several varieties that were seeds in a tin 
box seven years ago bore this last summer crops of one to two 
bushels per tree. Some bettered even that record and bore a 
bushel or more this summer at the end of six years from the time 
of the seedling. 
MACINTOSH SEEDLINGS 
Planted in the fall and photographed the following August 
D IFFERENT varieties produce stocks that are different in 
their characteristics. Tolman gives a seedling with abun- 
dant roots, well adapted to dry land. From which it may be 
seen that the scheme of home-raised stock, as Watson does it, 
permits him to select not only his fruiting varieties, but the 
character of stock on which they shall grow. 
Quinces are a success in the orchard. The first lot was set 
out two years after the ground was bought. Other plantings 
followed. The ground beneath the trees is heavily mulched, 
and they have thrived. Their fruit commands a high price. 
For the last three years they have paid the taxes on the farm. 
Peaches have been profitable, coming into bearing early and 
bringing a high price, with customers in autos taking the output 
and hauling it away in their 
cars. The choice of varieties 
has resolved itself into two: a 
yellow — Rochester, and a 
white — Carmen. It is the yel- 
low-flesh peach that the public 
demands for canning. The 
white-flesh variety finds its 
sale among customers who 
want a dessert fruit or one to 
eat uncooked. Nowadays 
Watson raises his own Peach 
trees just as he raises his own 
Apples. 
Cherries have yielded well, 
and the trees are easily cared 
for. A hundred of these were 
planted seven years ago, and 
another block of a hundred 
and fifty were set out two 
years later. The drawback in 
cherries has been the expense 
of picking. Hand labor comes 
high. 
SIX YEARS AGO A SMALL SEEDLING 
This tree is already bearing two bushels of apples. The variety is Delicious 
THE PROFITABLE QUINCE 
Quinces have proved a good investment, two rows 
of them paying the taxes on the entire orchard 
Plums have not panned out. 
Fifty trees were planted, but 
the fruit did not sell. Much 
of it was given away to neigh- 
bors. The trouble with plums 
in this region seems to be that 
people will buy them only for 
canning, and they haven’t es- 
pecially wanted them for that. 
The best sales of fruit lie in 
the kinds that are good to eat 
uncooked as well as to can. 
Two rows of Raspberry 
bushes have been money- 
makers, taking into account 
the limited amount of space 
that they occupy and the rea- 
sonable amount of care that 
they demand. The sales of 
this fruit have totaled nearly 
a hundred dollars in favor- 
able seasons. 
Strawberries have been 
grown only for home use until 
the last year or two, though there has been an abundance for that 
purpose. Recently people have been coming in autos to buy 
Strawberry plants, and the sales of these are beginning to 
amount to something. 
One fruit grows wild on the place, sells well, and brings a 
high price: blueberries. There are patches where one can 
easily pick two or three quarts an hour. The berries are un- 
usually large. Every bushel that was available this last sum- 
mer sold at the rate of forty cents a quart. 
During one period since Watson bought the place he has been 
able to maintain a flock of poultry, through the agency of a 
properly interested hired man. I he interest and skill of the 
hired help is the key to a proposition of that kind. Throughout 
that period, amounting to four years, there were a hundred or 
more hens on hand. They earned a good surplus. 
The question of help in the orchard has been settled in the 
following manner. Watson has hunted up the best farm hand 
he could find, paid whatever was necessary to get him, and then 
hung on to him as long as he could, hiring him usually throughout 
the year in order to be sure of a competent man. 
He has hired only three different men in the eight years since 
the place was far enough advanced to need a man. The first 
man stayed through two summers and a winter. He was 
