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Three cords of compost, at $5, 

 Cultivating it in with horse, 

 Care and attention, 

 Decay — to set new or keep good. 

 Taxes and interest, 



$85 00 

 This estimate is for good culture.* 



Five bushels per tree is a fair average crop, taking twenty or 

 thirty years together, and twenty-five cents per bushel a fair av- 

 erage price for them in the orchard — 



Making the annual income, . . . $125 00 



Deduct annual expense, . . . 85 00 



Leaves a net profit for each year of . . $40 00 



Good apples^ often bring much more than I have set these at, 



and what is gained by marketing I am willing to call profit ia 



trade and lay it out for manure, or grain to make manure, to go 



on grass lands. 



An acre of grass land in good culture I also call worth one 



hundred dollars — the annual expenses I reckon as follows : Three 



cords of manure once in three j'ears is equal to — 



One cord, (fur one year), . , .$5 00 



Harvesting the haj', , . . . 5 00 



Taxes, $1; interest, $6, . . , . 7 00 



Annual expense. 



Crop, two tons of hay at $10 per ton in the 



barn, .... 



After-math, .... 



$17 00 



Making, 



Deduct expenses as above, 



Net profit, . . . , $6 00 



If these figures are correct, there would be thirty-four dollars 

 yearly in favor of Uie acre of orchard over the acre of grass, or six 

 hundred and eigiity dollars in twenty years." 



* Flow many orclianl.s in tliis State receive fiff} dollars' worth of care and atten- 

 tion annually inchi litig what replanting is needed, or half of it? 

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