Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-13
SCHEMES OF NURSERY MEN.
FRUIT TREE BUYERS ARE CAUTIONED BY
AN OLD APPLE TREE MAN.
Mr.. LaFlash Tells of the Relative Value Of Budded
and Grated Stock Buyers are Told Of Model Or
ehard Methods as they Appear to the Writer

FhI. Lar lash leHS OF tne helauNc sdiuc Oi buuucu
and Grated Stock Buyers are Told Of Model Or
ehard Methods as they Appear to the Writer.
Hoping TO do the readers of your val
liable paper some good | write a piece
for publication. exposing the tricks that
have been practiced through the country
more notably in the last year by nursery
agents, In the first scheme they come
80 YOU with pieces of roots, and trees.
showing You the difference between n
grated and budded tree, showing the
poor rotten specimen of root graft they
got on purpose, and telling you this is
the tree you have been buying and this
is the reason ynu fail in having good
orchards, and that root gratis are not
good for anything; and are only the very
cheapest of cheap trees; and You have
been swindled ont of your money for
years Then they show You the other
side of the story, by producing budded
tree. nice and sound, telling you this is
the process Of propagp ting trees by their
company, the only company growing
apple trees this way, claiming that il is
great de V more expensive. and the
ony tree that will do you any good
Their story seems very plausible, With
the samples they carry you are eonvinc-
ed it is So You buy some goods of
them and pay twice the price of other
good goods, and nine chances out of ten
you are swindled worse than you ever
have been before. Don't bite at such
tricks. They are after your money and
get it; and what do you get? A lesson
through the same old way-bitter exper-
ience. a good root graft of hardy var
ieties that are adapted to this section la
just what you should have and are the
very best there is grown. | have looked
up this matter in the experiment stations
of six states and they don't laud the bud
ding process for the propagation of
apple trees.
Another scheme they work il by the
gang and model orchard method A
nursery away out of our winter apple
belt, on even ont of our hardy tree belt
will send gang of FIVE or six to work
the territory with the model orchard
plan and this is a worse swindle than
the first They come to you and sell
Won model orchard of their wonderful
budded stock at very high prices, all the
way from $40 TO Si00 You pay half of
this down as you get the goods and the
other half in five years. You have the
option of giving them the money for
the last payment or one half of the fruit
born by this orchard, they doing the
picking and selling of said fruit They
are to help plant and spray, trim and
replace trees free of charge, and they
six or eight hundred miles away Does
this sound like good business2 | should
say not. They are after your money
again. The first payment you make IL
what they are after, which is too often
double pay for what You get. | would
say again. don't bite. Better make
your dog bite. You think ami crank
and don't want you 10 have apple trees.
Yes. want you TO have an orchard.
You need one very badly. Get "a good
one as quick as you can, but don't throw
your money to strangers with oily ton
CUES, that You can't trust and who leave
no foundation for their arguments A
man came TO me last spring to sell me Z
model orchard tthe biggest fabrication
believe | ever saw He said his com
pany grew apple trees on their own
roots. He also talked of the budded
trees very strongly, but he soon got 80
he did not care to discuss the apple tree
with ne. locked over his list of apples
and he did not have the N. W. or Patton
Greening / asked him the reason and
he said his company did not grow them.
| knew they did net away down in
southern Ohio, but / notice my neigh
bors got plenty of them in their model
orchards He sold them after that.
My advice in getting an orchard
would De to deal with an agent who
knows the business; one who is living in
the country and has gone into the bust
ness TO stay. Not the kind who sells to
you once End you never see him again.
Place your order with well posted
man who knows what you must have If
you make a success of it. With twelve
years on the road and five in this line. j
know an agent has got to swindle the
people or he is an expert If he makes ii
pay, over territory the first year, selling
nursery stock There have been too
many thousands of dollars taken out of
the country in this way Buy small,
thrifty and hardy trees, one or two years
old of grated stock that are grown in
Dur winter apple belt and of well tested
varieties for Wisconsin. Plant them
well, cultivate them, mulch and work
with them half as much as you do with
your corn or tobacco and you will have
one of the best orchards you ever saw
one that will pay and surprise you. We
can grow good apples in Wisconsin and
plenty Of them If we So at it tine right
way. The finest apples in the world are
grown in this state. We have shipped
within the last few years thousands of
bushels of apples to Germany and France
and they have just begun to recognize
our apples The markets will not be
supplied for years and there will always
be a good demand for fall and winter
fruit of this kind look for bright
future in this line for our good old Bad
ger state. Plant good orchards and
take care of them and they will bring
you money, but IL you don't give the
care, you had better leave it alone.