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too high?” You plant the best that you have; there is no land too good 
or too high in price for fruit or nut trees. They ask me about that. Why, 
think of the long age of nut trees; they live centuries; plant them on every 
bit of land that you can spare for such purpose. 
Planting on land far away from transportation is oftentimes a great 
mistake and a handicap from the start. Transportation of the fruits that 
we grow which are largely composed of water is a very serious problem. 
In locating farms as I have had to do, and advising other people upon the 
subject, I tell them to get just as near good transportation as possible; if 
you have a railroad with station close by, that is much the better. I know 
you anticipated that yourself, Mr. President, at a location in Arkansas where 
you are growing apples and peaches; there is a railroad running right 
through the property; that was an admirable selection, rt is something like 
the large pecan orchard of which I have the management in Louisiana. We 
have a railroad with a station right on the property, thus the transportation 
is very well arranged. 
Now, about this matter of cheap labor: We know that in certain sea- 
sons when we have a great quantity of fruit it is almost impossible to get 
it picked, and when they were speaking yesterday of that immense cherry 
orchard in the Green Bay, Wis., section, with seven hundred and fifty acres, 
soon to have two hundred and fifty more added, thus becoming one thousand 
acres in extent, this question occurred to me right then: how are they going 
to pick those one thousand acres of sour cherries coming ripe at the same 
time? 
The matter of cost distribution is another problem; dividing up the labor 
over a considerable time is an advantage. For instance, you might be able 
to hold a considerable number of laborers if you had a lot of fruit extending 
over a long time. When planting apples on large orchards of which I have 
had the direction in Patrick County, Virginia, I have said we must have some 
early apples, so that we can begin on the picking earlier in the season and 
hold the laborers until the winter apples come in. I think that point we 
ought to have in mind always in hiring help. 
THE CONTOL OF ORCHARD INSECTS AND DISEASES.— Illustrated. 
W. M. Scott, Maryland. 
Before the slides are thrown on the screen permit me a few words in 
explanation. I may sound a note that will not take well with some of 
you, and that is as to the matter of overproduction. I do not say that there 
will be overproduction, but I do say that on account of the enormous plant- 
ings that have taken place in recent years s/omebody is going to get hurt 
unless they look to all their opportunities. Spraying will not do it all; there 
is the matter of cultivation, fertilizing and pruning; they all go hand in 
hand, and the slipshod method of fruit culture will no longer succeed. 
