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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 8, 1910 
T HE modern farmer appreci¬ 
ates a thorobred. You talk 
nowadays in terms of pure-blood 
Jerseys, Holsteins, Durocs and 
Poland Chinas. 
But did you ever stop to think 
that there are different breeds 
of boots? 
There are boots that do well enough for 
awhile, but soon go to pieces. That’s 
scrub stock. 
But there’s another boot that will wear 
and wear almost indefinitely. Won’t leak 
—lasts long over the first season. That’s 
Goodrich “Hi-Press”—a thorobred. 
The reputation of the footwear man¬ 
ufacturer means just as much as the ped¬ 
igree behind your prize Jersey. 
You can tell Goodrich by the Red Line 
’Round the Top. 40,000 dealers. 
THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER CO. 
AKRON, OHIO 
GOODRICH 
HI - 
Rubber footwear 
ReadingBoneFertilizer 
Quality Service Satisfaction 
Always look for our trade mark (as shown 
below) on the bag. It means protection to 
you. Hundreds of farmers in the East have 
come to recognize it as the mark of honest, 
square fertilizer goods and methods. 
Reading Bone Fertilizer Co., Reading, Pa. 
(This trade mark means quality) 
Ask your 
dealer for 
Reading 
Bone 
Fertilizer. 
Write for 
booklet and 
further 
information. 
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The “Unit Orchard” Once More 
An Old Scheme. —It is some years 
now since we have heard very much about 
the unit orchard scheme. At one time the 
country was flooded with literature about 
this method of getting rich. The failure 
of most of the uuit orchards discouraged 
this form of investment. Now, however, 
it seems to be coming up again, and we 
propose to warn our readers in time so 
that they may avoid the loss and trouble 
which has fallen upon so many people in 
previous years. Formerly most of these 
orchards were located in the Middle 
South, the majority of them apparently in 
Virginia and Maryland. The proposition 
was usually for a few shrewd men to 
acquire an option on- a large tract of wild 
land. In most cases this land was not 
paid for, but frequently rented with the 
option of buying at a very low figure. 
The land was usually rough, rocky and un¬ 
cleared, of very little commercial value. 
Having secured an option on this land, 
the 'promoters went after “.suckers." 
Their proposition was to plant a certain 
number of trees on a given number of 
acres, the tract which they held to be 
split up into small lots. They proposed 
to plant the trees and care for them until 
they came into bearing, and for this 
service the investor was to pay them 
cash, part in advance, and the balance in 
monthly payments, which would expire at 
about the time the trees were expected to 
come into bearing. 
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Bait for the Inexperienced.— Most 
remarkable stories were told about the 
profit to be obtained in apple culture, and 
very alluring inducements were offered. 
The investors were usually people of mid¬ 
dle age, or women with a small amount of 
money for investment. It seemed like a 
very good thing to a school teacher or 
clerk, and hundreds of them, fell for the 
idea. They were told that they could 
keep right on working at their regular job. 
keep up these payments, and then when 
the time came that they could not hold 
their position they would have an income 
of ,$5,000 or more per year coming in from 
this apple orchard. It was called “the 
unit scheme” because this large tract of 
land was to be cut up into a number of 
small units, one or more of each to be 
bought by these investors. The practical 
fruit men of the country who have made 
a study of fruit growing, easily saw that 
such a scheme was not practical. The 
R. N.-Y. exposed it again and again, in 
an effort to save its readers from trouble 
and loss. In spite of all we could do. 
hundreds of people put up their money in 
this unit orchard scheme, and 00 per cent 
of them have lost every dollar they ever 
put into it. We have never heard of more 
than one orchard of this sort that has 
ever paid out and given anything like 
profit to these unit investors. The failure 
was so general that the entire scheme 
dropped out of sight. 
New England Revival. —It is now 
coming up again, this time in New Eng¬ 
land. An orchard company has been or¬ 
ganized at Brookfield, Mass., and the pro¬ 
moters are evidently working in the same 
old way to obtain investors. We hear of 
one case where a woman, who can ill 
afford to play with her money, has already 
invested $200. part of it in Liberty 
bonds, and is prepared to go on paying 
more money into the company. This 
woman lias apparently agreed to buy 100 
trees in this orchard company, and is to 
pay $5 apiece for them. No trees have 
yet been planted on the tract. The com¬ 
pany says it will plant 5,000 McIntosh 
apple trees in the Spring. They are to 
bear all expenses of planting and cultivat¬ 
ing for a period of five years, but we can¬ 
not see that there is any guarantee as to 
the quality of the trees, or to the kind of 
culture which will be given. This woman 
is told that by the end of 10 years she 
will have received her original investment 
two and one-half times over, and there¬ 
after 100 per cent income for every year 
of her life. This means $20 per tree, and 
the promoters tell her that this income 
would be small indeed. In order to stim¬ 
ulate interest in the sale of these trees, 
the promoters tell this woman that they 
have heard of a case where a McIntosh 
tree bore three boxes of apples at the age 
of three years. They hastened to tell her 
that this was probably a “freak tree,” but 
it is a good stimulant for her imagina¬ 
tion. They say that probably the fifth 
year of a McIntosh will give a fair crop, 
and the whole scheme is based on the 
fact that every tree will live and receive 
the most thorough care. The writer has 
been growing McIntosh Red trees for 
nearly 20 years, and thousands of other 
fruit growers know this variety and what 
it will do. The whole scheme is based on 
a false proposition, which is that a com¬ 
pany organized in this way can or will 
take wild land, plant an orchard, and give 
it the individual care which a first-class 
tree ought to have. It cannot be said that 
the scheme is impossible, but it is next 
door to it, as is fully evident from the 
history of dozens of other similar enter¬ 
prises. He would be a foolish man in¬ 
deed who would deliberately rent a house 
that was next door to an impossibility, 
for that kind of a disease is catching. 
Leave it Alone. —Our advice to the 
public is to let all such enterprises abso¬ 
lutely alone. We make no qualification 
or distinction. Any man or woman who 
puts up money into a unit orchard scheme 
of this sort is playing with his resources, 
and nine times out of 10 he might just as 
well throw his money into the river and 
walk away from it. We know how hard 
it is to match cold-blooded advice of this 
sort against the guff and enthusiasm 
which these promoters are fully capable 
of putting out. All we can do is to issue 
a solemn warning to our people and urge 
them to keep away from all such schemes. 
It is a painful thing to us to think of a 
woman who really needs the money, sell¬ 
ing her Liberty bonds in order to invest 
in a uuit orchard. To us that is ex¬ 
changing the happy bonds of liberty for 
the unhappy bonds of slavery. 
Fruit for Southwestern New York 
I have been much interested in the dis¬ 
cussion concerning 100 fruit trees for 
every farm. Will you give a good list o, 
such trees suitable for Western New 
York? I would also like to know the 
most satisfactory kind of raspberry for 
this section—not for shipping but only 
home use. E - B - 
Sherman, N. Y. 
In answering the query of your corre¬ 
spondent I wish to state that I agree 
with Mr. Ilotaling that 100 trees are 
more than the average general farmer 
needs to supply him with a succession of 
the various fruits throughout the season, 
and experience has shown that it is more 
difficult usually to dispose of a sma’l 
quantity of fruit than it is to market in 
large amounts, so that the surplus over 
and above that consumed on the tab’e 
fresh, dried and canned, might require 
more effort and time than the returns. 
The care of 100 fruit trees of the various 
fruits is no small undertaking, for their 
requirements, as for example, spraying, 
vary with the kind of fruit. From ob¬ 
servations of hundreds of fruit farms I 
am more convinced than ever that it is 
real economy to grow each fruit in a 
block by itself. But this is* beside the 
question in hand. 
For apples on the general farm I would 
suggest the following as having proven 
adapted to this part of the State: Olden¬ 
burg. Red Astrachan. McIntosh, Bell¬ 
flower. Spy, Rome, Baldwin, White Pip¬ 
pin, Seek-no-further. 
Pears: Clapp, Bartlett, Seckel, Shel¬ 
don, Winter Nelis. 
Plums: Middleburg, Burbank, Italian 
Prune, Reine Claude. 
Cherries : Early Richmond. Montmor¬ 
ency, Schmidt. Governor Wood, Windsor. 
Quince: Orange or Champion. 
Probably the best nil around black 
raspberry for the section about Sherman 
is the Plum Farmer. Kansas also de¬ 
serves a place. For reds, the writer 
would select Cuthbert and June. It N 
quite doubtful that the black berries 
would survive the Winter temperatures 
of this locality without protective cover¬ 
ing. Eldorado easily has the preference 
where it can be grown, either with or 
without protection. Agawam is worthy a 
trial. The choice of currants falls to 
White Grape and Wilder. f k. g. 
