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Title: Eastern fruit
Identifier: easternfruit01phil (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Vind begin farming and orchard grow- ing in New York State. Eastern Boys Should Know. The Eastern boys should-know that while irrigated orchard land in the far Northwest and Southwest is be- ing sold at $500 to $1000 per acre, planted with young apple trees (and this land is being sold today in New York, Bo^ton and Philadelphia), that there arc ai)ple lands in Virginia, .Maryland and Delaware, in Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey, as well as in (."fiunecticut and Vermont, which will pro«luce as fine apples as are grown .anywhere in the world, and these lands can be bought for from $25 to $40 an acre, approximately, where the growers will be near markets, schools .and have temperate climate and beau- lilul scenery. The Wonderful Potato Exhibits. The exhibits of potatoes at the New York Land Show last fall should have been witnessed by everv farmer in .\merica. The genial judge of pota- toes. .Mr. E. H. Grubb, of Colorado, a man of national reputation, who studied potato culture in Europe ;i- Conimissioner from the United Statk county, Maine, which single county ships 32,(X)0 carloads of the tubers in one season, the potato exhibit from Briti-h Columbia was also a chief attraction; for there were one hundred different varieties of po- tatoes, half a bushel of each, on dis- play, uniform, smooth and true to type. The potato growers in Aroos- took crk. Tell the Eastern boy that 75 per cent, of the eggs, butter, poultry, meat and vege- tables consumed in North Carolina were imported from outside that State last year. Eggs per dozen and but- ter per pound cost more this winter on Broadway than lobsters per pound. Fancv the mechanic coming home to his family with a bottle of champagne in one hand and a lobster in the other, exclaiming to his amazed wife that he had bought champagne and lobs.ter because butter and eggs were too high! Shows the Whole Nation. No f.ivoritism is shown by the New York Land Show either for the West, the Ea-t, the South or New England. It is a national exposition built on national lines, and in the language of President Hegeman, of the Metropol- itan Insurance Company, "It astound- ed New York with its showing of the products of our glorious country." Immigrants and farmers from up- State, from Jersey, from Connecticut, from Massachusetts, from Maine, from Pennsylvania and from Dela- ware, jostled the Wall Street brokers. Concluded on page 11 Vacation Work for Students A GOOD PROPOSITION FOR BRIGHT YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN Sri(S( HI;»TION ACiKNTS and <'orrs;»oiMliit s Wantoil for "EASTERN FRCIT". an Illustrated Monthly Magazine devoted to Eastern Progress and modern methods for ALL products of Eastern soil. Special depart- ments on Poultry Raising, the Rural Woman and ller Problems, and the Young .Man's New Viewpoint "Better Success in The Great East." Sample copy free. Two years for one dollar NOW, (more later). Address EASTERN FRUIT, 216 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. CommUtion and Cash Prizes to Producers. WRITE TO-DAY

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