. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 6g. APPLE ORCHARDS ARE WITHIN 300 Miles of 25,000,000 People VIRGINIA APPLES are rapidly acquiring a world-wide reputation. Tliey have sold this year at $2 to i?3 per bushel box, and it only costs 10 cents per box in freight charges to put them into market. NO IRRIGATION NECESSARY Virginia's average rainfall is 45 inches. Our climate is unsurpassed, with no extremes of heat or cold. Streams and springs flow everywhere, and clear, cold, crystal water abounds throughout this section. CONVENIENCES AND ADVANTAGES Schools and churches are conven
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 6g. APPLE ORCHARDS ARE WITHIN 300 Miles of 25,000,000 People VIRGINIA APPLES are rapidly acquiring a world-wide reputation. Tliey have sold this year at $2 to i?3 per bushel box, and it only costs 10 cents per box in freight charges to put them into market. NO IRRIGATION NECESSARY Virginia's average rainfall is 45 inches. Our climate is unsurpassed, with no extremes of heat or cold. Streams and springs flow everywhere, and clear, cold, crystal water abounds throughout this section. CONVENIENCES AND ADVANTAGES Schools and churches are convenient and well equipped. Our rural agricultural high schools are equal to the best in the Union. Rural mail delivery and telephones serve all country districts. Low- taxes, with abundant supplies of building material and labor at reasonable prices. Only twelve hours to New York City by fast passenger train service, and we are within three hundred miles of twentv-tive million population. WHY PAY $ PER ACRE When you can secure apple land at .$ per acre that is the equal ot the higher priced land in every respect? We challenge your investigation of this very broad statement. Below are cited two instances of property now on the market. There are dozens of others similar to them. 129 ACRES, $20 PER ACRE High grade apple land, two miles from Stuart's Draft, Virginia, and overlooking the town. Lies nicely; well water and well drained. Every foot available for orchard. In the celebrated Shenan- doah Valleyâright at the largest apple shipping station in Virginia. Bargain at this price. 6,000 ACRES, $ PER ACRE 6,000 acres fruit and grazing land in South- west Virginia. Fertile soil, well adapted to apples and other fruits, also fine grazing or winter wheat land. Altitude about 3,000 feet. Cut-over land, with plenty of good timber still standing. Write for purposes. our Special Bulletin of large undeveloped tracts suitable for orchard WHY NOT INVESTIGATE THE OLD DOMINION? Y
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