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Show THE INDUCEMENT FOR FRUIT RAISING Many fruit growers have. felt somo discouragement this fall, owing to tho cutting off of markets by tho war. Apple culture, in particular, Is receiving receiv-ing a hard blow, tor this year. In war time Europe Is buying llttlo food but grain. Tho dccllno In vnlue ot exported fruits affects sympathetically sympathetical-ly tho market for all fruits. This temporary condition Is not tho slightest slight-est reason for discouragement. It Is n matter of every dny observation, observ-ation, that tho consumption ot fruit Is Increasing enormously. Formerly fruit was n luxury, now it Is a ncc csslty. People do not eat very much moro grain than thoy used to. Owing Ow-ing to high prices, they cat less meat than formerly. Fruit Is ono ot the principle substitutes. The old fashioned family had meat for breakfast, steak, sausage, hash, warmed over roasts. Now they cost too high. Tho same families today aro eating fruit, cereal, hot muffins, and eggs when they can bo afforded. afford-ed. Similarly for millions of families, fam-ilies, fruit Is a favorite dinner don-sort don-sort In place of heavy pastries. Doctors Doc-tors all talk fruit eating. It Is tho food of the future. Our farmers will do well to plant moro fruit. The habits ot the peo plo aro turning toward the orchard. The demand for fruit gains from threo directions, from Increase of population nt homo, better knowledge abroad ot our fruits, and the change In the diet ot our people. There Is ono old fashioned fallacy that must bo avoided. Tho old time farmer used to think he could plant fruit trees and thoy would care for themselves. On tho contrary they need culture, Just like any crop. The farmer who cares for apple trees scientifically gets $3 to $5 a barrel for tho fruit, whore his father got $1.50. Similar gains are made in nil other kinds of fruit culture. . |