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Show On a largo proportion of tho farms in this country, fruit-growing, in gome one or more of its many lines, can bo made a profitable branch of the business. It will not bo a short road to wealth, nud it will not yiold li,rge returns to the man who merely puts out trees or vines, and then lets them entirely alone. Hut this is not n valid argument against fruit-growing, .short roads to wealth are fuw and they aro hard to find. And tho crop that will pay well without putting put-ting tho owner to any troublo or expense ex-pense iu growing iU has not yet been discovered. Maw a business man could doublo his profits if ho halved his operations, where tho List half is dono on bor-. bor-. rowed capital and hired help. To a man with largo capital mid large resources and largo experience, mammoth mam-moth schemes movo on to successful achievement. On the other hand, the man with limited capital, resources and exporienco will often mark with failure tho attempt to compoto with his bettor equipped noighbor. Thoro is more pleasure and satisfaction in doing a Bmnll thing well, than in the strain and worry of the attempt to ' accomplish something which overtaxos all tho available resources. |