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bushel net, $22,000. Has ten acres of strawberries, eleven of raspberries, 

 three of quinces, 



Vergennes. — 10,000 apple trees, 300 pear, 900 plum, 26,000 peach. 

 Estimate of peaches sold in 1894, 6,000 bushels, $6,000. 



East Half of Cascade— 2,800 apple trees, 2,400 pear, 3,600 plum, 22,000 

 peach, 15 acres of strawberries, 63 of raspberries. First peach orchard 

 set by Dr. Woodwokth in 1864. Peaches sold in 1894, $4,500. 



Keene.—4:,500 apple trees, 1,900 pear, 1,000 plum, 105,000 peach. 19,000 

 bushels peaches sold in 1894, $19,000. In the Hesler neighborhood in 

 Grattan, 15,000 peach trees. Sold in 1894, 7,000 bushels, $7,000. 



School District No. 6, Loivell. — 5,000 apple trees, 1,000 pear, 700 plum, 

 29,283 peach. Peaches sold in 1894, 6,543 bushels $6,543. 



Lowell Township, including above. — 19,000 apple trees, 2,000 pear, 3,900 

 plum, 107,000 peach. 21,000 bushels sold in 1894, $21,000. 



Total of peaches sold in above sections for the year 1894, 79,500 bushels, 

 $79,500. 



For the purpose of showing the profits of peach lands, under a thor- 

 ough and systematic system of cultivation, we will give the results of a 

 few orchards. 



E. E. Church has an orchard of 500 peach trees; location, seven miles 

 southeast of Lowell; soil, elevated clay loam; timber, white oak and 

 hickory; well fertilized at the time of setting, with barn-yard manure. 

 Trees set out six years and given thorough cultivation; cropped the first 

 two years with corn, the third with buckwheat, the returns from the crops 

 more than paying the expense of setting out the trees and cultivation. 

 Received from the fruit sold: 4th year, net,. $400; 5th year net, $500; 6th 

 year, net, $600. Total for three years $1,500. The trees are set one rod 

 apart each way and occupy about 3^ acres. The above shows a net profit 

 of over $140 per acre each year since the orchard commenced bearing. 



Frank White, from 2^ acres of peach orchard, realized $462.75; orchard 

 on Peck's hill, in corporation of the village of Lowell. 



J. E. Lee has an orchard 1^ miles northwest of Lowell, 700 trees set 12 

 years, from which he sold in 1891, 8o0 bushels; 1892, 985 bushels; 1893, 

 1,335 bushels; 1894. 1,230 bushels, a total of 4,410 bushels at $1.15 per 

 bushel net, $5,071. The trees cover 7| acres. A net profit of $169 per 

 acre yearly for the first four years. Mr. Lee has pursued a thorough and 

 systematic course of cultivation, pruning, thinning, sorting, and grading 

 his fruit, fertilizing annually. 



Matthew Hunter has a peach orchard of 910 trees, set in the spring of 

 1888 and '89, from which he sold in 1892, 929 bushels, $1,161.25: '93, 750 

 bushels, $750; '94, 921 bushels, $1,151.25, a total of $3,062.50. The orchard 

 covers about six acres; cultivation thorough; not fertilized; orchard is in 

 the southeast part of Lowell township, five miles from the village. 



Totals for the number of fruit trees in the Lowell district: Boston, 

 133,000 peach, 22,000 apple, 2,000 pear, 1,000 plum. 



Yergennes, 26,000 peach, 1,000 apple, 300 pear, 900 plum. 



East half Cascade, 22,000 peach, 2,800 apple, 2,400 pear, 3,600 plum. 



Keene, 105,000 peach; 4, 500 apple, 1,900 pear, 1,000 plum. 



Lowell 107,000 peach, 19,000 apple, 2,000 pear, 3,900 plum. 



Totals, 404,000 peach, 49,300 apple, 8,600 pear, 10,400 plum. 



Evaporators. — Eighteen evaporators were in operation in the year 1894. 

 Amount of apples used, 159,000 bushels, at an average price of 25c per 



