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Show Fruit Instead of Grain. Much more food can. be grown on an acre devoted to fruit than can be produced with any kind of grain. Fruit growing also provides a greater amount of work and requires a larger number of helpers, to the extent that if fruit-growing is substituted for grain-growing there will naturally be an increase of country farming population. popu-lation. This is what is the most needed to make land valuable. The growing of grain makes the land poorer, especially where the grain is sold. Where fruit is grown :Uhe chief loss to the soli is in the mineral elements, and tho Bale of the fruit brings money to purchase these. Selling grain never returns enough to restore the fertility expended in j growing it |