. Eastern fruit . NO. 2. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY 1,1912. FIVE CENTS FROM MAINE TO NORTH CAROLINA Briel Notes From the "Fourteen Eastern States, That Grow the Best Fruits in the World, and OHer the Greatest Opportunities lor Young Men "Eastern Fruit" is the most out- spoken, persistent and Insistent advo- cate of home production for home markets. It stands for the logic of the short haul, and the cultivation of the old home farm by modern methods. It does not believe in Eastern boys going West to learn progressive meth- ods, nor in our giving to the West the native bor


. Eastern fruit . NO. 2. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY 1,1912. FIVE CENTS FROM MAINE TO NORTH CAROLINA Briel Notes From the "Fourteen Eastern States, That Grow the Best Fruits in the World, and OHer the Greatest Opportunities lor Young Men "Eastern Fruit" is the most out- spoken, persistent and Insistent advo- cate of home production for home markets. It stands for the logic of the short haul, and the cultivation of the old home farm by modern methods. It does not believe in Eastern boys going West to learn progressive meth- ods, nor in our giving to the West the native born energy and enthusi- asm of our best young men, when that same energy could be utilized to the mutual advantage of young and old right here. Thousands have gone, who to-day wish themselves back, and inquiries are coming daily lor more information about opportunities to grow food supplies at the doors of the Eastern markets. This journal is to- day almost the only mouthpiece In the United States whose exclusive mission it Is to exploit THE EAST. Our motto Is "Young man come ; The tide has already turned. "Students and hard headed business ! men have seen the pot oi gold at the { foot of the rainbow, in the meadow | of the old home ; The few Hues I we print in starting this department j from each one of the fourteen East- ern States that comprise our terri- tory while all too short, owing to lack of space, tell Indeed a wonderful j story, a greater story of opportunity, I we believe, than anywhere else on i earth: MAINE. (PopuUtlon 742,371.) | I^ud area 29,895 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile, Receives about ,000 a year from recrea- I sect pests, the laws In regard to which as published in a copy received from the Commissioner of Agricul- j ture, are up-to-date and drastic. and fourth in the total value of man- utactured products, lias cheap lands, rich in mineral plant food, and an enormous State demand for first-class food p


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