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Title: Eastern fruit
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Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Eastrn Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Penn State University
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VOL.1. NO. 2. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY 1,1912. FIVE CENTS FROM MAINE TO NORTH CAROLINA Briel Notes From the "Fourteen Eastern States, That Grow the Best Fruits in the World, and OHer the Greatest Opportunities lor Young Men "Eastern Fruit" is the most out- spoken, persistent and Insistent advo- cate of home production for home markets. It stands for the logic of the short haul, and the cultivation of the old home farm by modern methods. It does not believe in Eastern boys going West to learn progressive meth- ods, nor in our giving to the West the native born energy and enthusi- asm of our best young men, when that same energy could be utilized to the mutual advantage of young and old right here. Thousands have gone, who to-day wish themselves back, and inquiries are coming daily lor more information about opportunities to grow food supplies at the doors of the Eastern markets. This journal is to- day almost the only mouthpiece In the United States whose exclusive mission it Is to exploit THE EAST. Our motto Is "Young man come East." The tide has already turned. "Students and hard headed business ! men have seen the pot oi gold at the ( foot of the rainbow, in the meadow ; of the old home farm." The few Hues I we print in starting this department j from each one of the fourteen East- ern States that comprise our terri- tory while all too short, owing to lack of space, tell Indeed a wonderful j story, a greater story of opportunity, I we believe, than anywhere else on i earth: MAINE. (PopuUtlon 742,371.) ; I^ud area 29,895 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile, 24.8. Receives about 115.000,000 a year from recrea- I sect pests, the laws In regard to which as published in a copy received from the Commissioner of Agricul- j ture, are up-to-date and drastic. and fourth in the total value of man- utactured products, lias cheap lands, rich in mineral plant food, and an enormous State demand for first-class food products. CONNECTICUT. (Population 1,114,750.) Population per square mile 231.3. lias. Invested in agriculture, an esti- mated capital of $115,000,000 though the land area is only 5,004 square miles. The Connecticut tobacco crop in 1909 brought the growers ;3,000,- 000. Total agricultural products amount to about $30,000,000 a year. Kememl)er that these figures are from a "manufacturing" State. years ago with an old gray horse and half an acre of strawberries, the Har- risons, consisting of father and sev- eral children, have Increased then- nursery business until it occupies al- most 3,000 acres, and grows young trees by the tens of millions. There is not a community in the whole east- ern United States where Harrison trees are not growing in orchards of customers. But very early the policy of plant- ing out orchards of their own was be- gun by these Berlin nurserymen. From time to time, by themselves or in association with others, they plant- ed orchards In West Virginia, Mary- land, Delaware and other States. Now , 250,000 trees bear fruit to swell Har- rison bank accounts, and fruit men : recognize their orchards as among the largest in the world. These orchards are not utilized for profit alone. Everything they teach in regard to fruit growing is given freely to any- one who asks, and they furnish the sent to school, homes improved or bought, all because the man at Ber- lin realized that planting trees and giving them proper care bFings pros- perity for those who do it or help do it. All over the fruit growing world, the tests and trials made in Harrison orchards are making results more certain, lessening work, and increas- ing profits. Varieties are tried out, their requirements learned and their adaptabilities proven. Every kind must prove that It is commercially valuable before any of the trees are permitted to reach planters in general. Likewise orcharding methods are test- ed, experiences recorded, and the benefit of the experience freely given to frtiit growers everywhere. Doing such a work as he does, we wonder if Mr. Harrison does not of- ten reflect—as he hears that some one of his customers has improved his house, or bought an automobile, or sent his boy to college—how much RHODE ISLAND. (Population 542,ffl.) Laud area 1,0G8 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 508.5 (high- est). miles. 191.2. never NEW YORK. (Population 9,113,614.) Land area 47,620 square Population per square mile Greater Inducements were made by New York State than are made under present conditions. The report of the Commissioner of Agri- culture, who desires to assist "East- ern Fruit" in every way possible, will appear in this department next month much condensed. (Continued On Second Page-) ORLANDO HARRISON NURSERYMAN An Untiring and Successful Business Man and Commer- cial Fruit Grower. NEW HAMPSHIRE. (Population 430,572.) Land area 9,006 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 47.7. Attracts Tlwre are a few really big men In this country whose Interests are weighty enough to affect large sec- tions and the fortunes of great num- bers o£ people, and whose sympathies are so strongly allied with some wor- thy Industry that they continually
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OBLANDO IIAKRISOM almost as many summer visitors as I '*"*^ '^^^^^ influence to its country- Maine. Receives Cor manufactured ! wide development, even at great ex- goods $48,377,000 and for paper pulp and lumber $21,414,000. VERMONT. (Population 355,956.) I^nd area 9,135 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 39. Has (in Rutland) the largest marble centre in the world, with an invested capi- tal of $6,000,000. pense to themselves. No other Indus try has more possibilities of benefit; for people In general than fruit grow-1 Ing, and no big man has done more I for any line oi work cnan Orlando Harrison has done for this. Primarily, his business always has been the growing of young fruit trees, but he has looked beneath the surface of his work and has seen the hopes and plans and motives that are brought MASSACHUSETTS. (Population 3,366,416.) Land area 8,040 square miles. Pop-1 *n^o P^^y when men plant trees, ulatlon per square mile 418.8 (2d), j Though a comparatively young man, Owns half the fishing vessels of the i the things Mr. Harrison has accom- United States, and does the world's ' pllshed amount to more than the biggest business in fresh and preserv-! whole lifework of ninety-nine men i ed flsh; •tandi seventh in population ; cue of a hundred. Starting thirty i best examples of what fruit growing iu the East really is. in building up such an enormous fruit business, nu- merous farms became the property of the Harrisons. These have been im- proved, many are planted to orchards, and nearly all are sold in the course of a few months or years, to those who want homes. Growing and selling trees, planting orchards, or making good homes out of run-down farms, has romantic and human sides of more importance than the financial or material considera- tions involved. When a man comes to Mr. Harrison for trees, either by letter or in person, some of his hopes and plans are explained; and when the trees go to him, they are accompa- nied by much valuable suggestion and disinterested help. The man's for- tune usually Is Influenced by what he gets beside his trees. Many a family's financial succesf It due to the ideas they get erom Harrlsont. Children are they were helped In accomplishing this result by the trees and sugges- tions he gave them, probably years before. It may be a farmer who comes for trees, and explains about the slim pile of money that must be made to cover the expense o£ his orchard. It doesn't take much imagination to see him. five or six years later, in th« first flush of his success and well on the road to independence. TRUER VALUE NEARER HOME. Foreign fields are always fairer Distance lends enchantment there; It is always over yonder We find bliss beyond compare. If we viewed with keener vision We would less incline to roam. We would place a truer value On the blessings nearer home. JOSEPH H. PASCHALL. Chester Helghti. Pa.

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