. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. FRUIT-GROWING FRUIT-GROWING 353 Cost. The cost of setting up a fruit-growing business depends on many circumstances and conditions, chietiy on wiiether tiie fruit is destined for the general trade or the fancy trade and whether clean tillage is practiced. The present-day fruit-grower is a man who invests confidently and heavily in apparatus and supplies; and this is characteris
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. FRUIT-GROWING FRUIT-GROWING 353 Cost. The cost of setting up a fruit-growing business depends on many circumstances and conditions, chietiy on wiiether tiie fruit is destined for the general trade or the fancy trade and whether clean tillage is practiced. The present-day fruit-grower is a man who invests confidently and heavily in apparatus and supplies; and this is characteristic of the present tendency in American agricul- ture. Better and heavier horses, stronger and more powerful tools and machines, heavier fertilizing, more thorough-going methods, are among the things that are to save farming from weakness, desul- toriness and incompetency. The experience of growers is the only safe guide. The intending fruit-grower should visit representative fruit-farms to determine these points. Estimates of act- ual fruit-growers are given on pages 187-193 in Volume I. As a further con- tribution, two statements from successful men are now added. The first of these statements is from a thorough-going fruit-grower in western New York who practices very clean tillage: "The expense and equip- ment on a 100-acre fruit-farm de- pends very much on the kind and varieties of fruit and whether the sod-and-mulch method or thorough tillage is practiced. I am a strong advocate of thorough tillage, cover- crops and commercial fertilizers; and one can readily figure that such a system involves considerably more expense than the mulch systems. After nearly ruining a ten-acre apple orchard by the sod-and-mulch method and then bringing it back into very profitable bear- ing by changing to thorough tillage, cover - crops and fertilizers, one can scarcely wonder why I speak so strongly in regard to this method of handling an orchard. "The expense of tilling and carin
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