Show BEGIN WITH SMALL FRUITS Prof H E Van Deman in a recent interview in-terview on the comparative profits of small and large fruits urged the planting plant-ing of small fruits for immediate returns re-turns One can plant small fruits and receive re-ceive an income almost at once The strawberries grower can get a return at lease the second year after planting and from blackberries and raspberries a good return can be got the second or third years But for orchards you have to wait from three to five or six years before you begin to get any considerable return If I were called upon to recommend one species spe-cies of small fruit for profit for a poor man I think the strawberry all In all would pay the best but he must not grow poor berries Ho must cultivate them thoroughly thor-oughly and raise choice fruit and not something that will bring a poor price on th3 market It Is the poor fruit that is the most expensive to the grower The man who grows an acre of strawberries makes a larger percentage of profit than the man who grows fifty acres Because he has a better oportunlty to gIve them thorough culture and because he does not have to sell In such a wholesale way and run the risks of big losses In the heat of the season in the big cities A small business thoroughly done is much more profitable than a big business half done |