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Cost: 



Fertilizer 6.00 



Spraying 6.00 



Incidentals 3.00 



Totals $25.00 



Receipts : 



2 barrels per tree — 80 barrels 



80 barrels at $1 net $80.00 



Eighty dollars minus twenty-five dollars equals fifty-five dol- 

 lars profit on forty trees, or at six per cent would give the value 

 of a tree at about $23 or $920 per acre. 



If you wish to figure it out in any other way, why figure it 

 out in }'Our own way, but figure it by some plan, estimate the 

 value of your tree, and then go to work and do as thorough 

 work as you do with your corn patch or potato field, and you 

 will get results. I had the great pleasure of visiting some 

 extensive orchards this fall. One orchard in particular, the 

 oldest in that section — some of the trees were planted by the 

 Indians — had the record of over a hundred years, and that 

 one orchard will pay this year a net profit of $6,000. Another 

 orchard in a good vigorous condition — as you looked down the 

 rows of trees you could see them loaded with apples, the 

 branches bending under their weight — that orchard will net its 

 owner this year $14,000. Why, we had one owner here in this 

 state show a check for $3,001 for his apples, and yet we say 

 that we cannot raise apples in Maine, that it doesn't pay. Now 

 it does not pay to buy trees like some I examined last spring. 

 I examined one lot of two thousand trees bought by one man 

 here in the state this last spring that I wouldn't set out for 

 -them. They cost the man $7 a hundred. If you pay seven 

 cents for a tree, what can you expect to get? I would rather 

 pay 15 cents and get a first class tree of some size, some vigor, 

 some vitality. I will guarantee that half of those 2,000 trees 

 are dead today. The man set them out at night, took about a 

 month to set those trees, his good wife holding the lantern for 

 him at night. They were set in grass land, a furrow was 

 plowed where he wished his trees to set. The same gentleman 

 set a thousand trees two years before and I don't believe there 

 are ten trees out of that thousand that you would accept as a 



