Uncle Sams Battle-Line for Food 
Stretches from Coast to Coast 
Now, THIS year, not a year or two hence—is the time for nurserymen to 
unite in telling U.S. the value of fruits and how easily they can be grown. 
The man with a home and a hoe must get back of the man with the gun. 
Every foot of American soil MUST be made to produce more than ever before 
There are ’steen Thousand 
Back Yards 
in this land of Uncle Sam’s without a single 
fruit tree where there ought to be at least 
two. There are side yards and front yards 
where a fruit tree will be as ornamental 
as a pine or plane, and more profitable. 
There are more than 6,000,000 farms in 
Sammie’s land, and every one of these is a 
potential market for the fruit trees grown 
by the members of the American Nursery¬ 
men 
There are ’steen Million 
Fruit Trees 
that will go up in brush-pile smoke this 
spring because a united effort to develop a 
market for these trees has never been put 
forth. Cooperative effort will show our 
people the necessity of raising more fruit; 
will tell them how to care for their trees 
and emphasize the profits they can get 
from their orchards. Cooperative effort 
will reduce the nurserymen’s enormous 
waste and increase their gross profits. 
Let Nurserymen Stop Advertising 
“Fruit Trees for the Cost of Digging” 
Let them be business men, asking a reasonable profit from their 
honorable calling. To the last live man, let them subscribe immediately 
and liberally to the Market Development Fund, to the end that 
business may be improved and profits increased. Mail subscriptions 
today (on the basi«^ of a definite sum per year for five years) to the 
editor of this paper, or to E. S. Welch, Treasurer, Shenandoah, Iowa, 
or to any member of 
The Temporary Committee to Solicit Subscriptions for 
the Market Development Fund 
F. L. ATKINS, President, Rutherford, New Jersey 
E. S. WELCH, Treasurer ROBERT PYLE, West Grove, Pa. 
JOHN WATSON, Secretary, Princeton, N. J. HENRY B. CHASE, Chase, Ala. 
J. EDWARD MOON, Morrisville, Pa. PAUL C. STARK, Louisiana, Missouri 
When writing to Advertisei’s pleuse mention tlie National Nurseryman. 
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