- Good Trees Vi 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 one! 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. 
GETTING YOUR MONEY’S WORTH 
The possibility of the tree repaying the expenditure depends to 
an enormous extent upon the judgment used in the first purchase. — 
If a cheap, poorly grown tree is planted, one may never get the 
reward. | 
_. It is interesting to note that the yield of the bearing trees of 
the United States is frequently one-tenth of a barrel per tree; in_ 
other words, there are a lot of drones in the orchards. For the 
live producers the important question is: Am I going to plant 
a drone tree or a producer? 
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 > 
$20.00, to as high as $40.00 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 
contemplates purchasing a horse will always prefer and pay more 
for a well-bred, well put up, close-coupled work horse, berause he — 
can do more work. If he is well-bred he 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? 
