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Show Apple I'aruia, '' A fanner In Wlntbrop, Me., had a rocky hllWJo farm of the tjlw eiactly llut to nny Ihouumla of the Kow IiigbuilagrlcultiirUU liars been abandoning aban-doning af lata yrare larauao they dM not jay f )r tUUa. Mnch of tbo aound ent ol 1 blooil In tbh country hat Ikvii Hint lott to New toiglui 1 In tbo but twenty jeara. Unt the Wlntbrop farmer waa ono of tlio few who undrretood that with cliange.1 tuetlioila to meet the changed comlllloM the agrlcaltarUt could ttlll inikea llrlng, eren oil hie rocky bill ablet. Ho bad obaerred that Koibury rniaetfl of peculiarly fine growth and flaror grew to prfn.tlon In tint heigh liorfooib So ho liegan aettlngont an acre or to of flrtt clane yonnt Itoibnry mwt urafti each 3 ear. At the treea came Into la-arlns and prudnreil talable frnll be waa eiccedlngly careful with tkoplckln;, packlngaml marking of thle fruit. Ho looked, carefully nbont, too, till be gut n giel market, ami then runhe-l bit Itoxbury rnta In on tbetr tnertta. Soon hla nrtlcnlar brand of applet ap-plet got a fine rvrntatlon In market, an that lie wai alHA)a able to difponoof tbem at rool firioea. Huvr that fiiruier who nae-1 hla bralin at well aa Ida liatubt geta 5,000 off Ida farm In goal ytara. Ho hat a flrtt claei llrlng anl eplendll Independent!) with little labor. The ap-iJea ap-iJea grow when be la asleep. Waa not that better than telling off the old farm and eliding Into tome fao tory town tnwork In a Htfl!n atmot-llieretenor atmot-llieretenor twclrobourt adayanldle cf coutmuptton finally, learlng children to follow the anme way? Applet are alwaya In demand. They aro riorcr rery cbetp In tho largo dllet, there aro nercr enough of them tu ttipply tho retail demaud at reasonable rate. Tbeynro thrnrit bealthfnt food man can eat, and we ought to coninmo ten timet aa many of them aa wo do. Tho rucky Now Kngland fanua aro lejieclally will adapted to producing the b-iat qllal Ity of winter fruit. Among unr Utt fiplerf arethnte from CatiaiU, and tho Kew Kngland cllroato It not ao very un like Hi it of tho Dominion. Again, the Amerlcau -ieop!i am booming race of mutton ratira, and Ktw Kngbind will jimiloce uutloTl of excellent n,nallty Willi ancb iioaitbllitlra, ahvii fanning and fruit, particularly ap-11-1 and pmirt, IS'tw 1-nglanl fann ought not tu go barging aa tbey do. Veu the quaatlon of ihenper trantportation for farm nl ecu cun botalUfactorllyaettb-l In time. |
