Good Trees Are Great Money Makers 
By SAMUEL FRAZER 
(From The American Agriculturist) 
Think of the time and energy which the planter and his children 
will waste growing a scrub tree when they might be reaping dollars 
by caring for a good onel We never get something for nothing. It 
costs more to grow a tree right than to grow a scrub. 
The public can get what it pays for and no more. The fruit grower 
who wants a tree well-grown on first-class roots, propagated with 
care, will have to pay enough to reimburse for the additional expense 
in propagating. 
GOOD TREES COST MORE—WORTH MORE 
It is believed that French stocks are best for apples, because the 
roots are cleaner from aphis, crown gall, hairy root and other diseases, 
now recognized as dangerous to introduce into an orchard. These 
also thrive better. 
American grown seedlings in recent years may be purchased at 
one-third the price of the highest grade French grown seedlings. 
Naturally the man who is growing cheap trees would purchase 
straight-rooted American grown seedlings. 
FRENCH SEEDLINGS 
Northern nurserymen purchase French grown seedlings, grow 
them until August and then bud and grow their trees for three sea¬ 
sons to secure a satisfactory size. The trees grow slowly, but the 
slow grown trees weigh more than a fast grown tree of equal size. 
PEDIGREED TREES PAY BIG 
There are apple orchards which are averaging 10 barrels a tree. 
These orchards for a term of years will run in a gross revenue from 
$20, to as high as $40 a tree; in other words, one single apple tree will 
turn in as much money as an acre of beans or wheat or as much 
revenue as the average cow and have to feed her three times a day 
and milk her twice 
The same farmer who is going to buy an apple tree, when he con¬ 
templates purchasing a horse will always prefer and pay more for a 
well-bred, well put up, close-coupled work horse, because he can do 
more work. If he is well-bred be is worth more than a scrub. 
He will pay more for a cow capable of producing 10,000 pounds of 
milk than for one whose maximum is 4,000. Why not use the same 
judgment in buying trees? 
