MICHIGAN" STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 451 



DOES FRUIT-GROWING PAY ? 



This question has been well answered in the Chicago Eve- 

 ning Journal, by its correspondent at St. Joseph, in this State: 



That fruit-growing is largely remunerative is no longer a 

 doubt, and in proof I will cite a few instances. What is known 

 as "The Cincinnati Orchard,*' sixty acres of peaches, netted 

 117,000. Z. D. Nickerson, in 1868, from 480 trees, took 3,100 

 baskets; in 1869, 3,500 baskets; — on five acres, and trees six 

 and seven years old. Mrs. A. N. Kelly, in 1869, from 900 

 trees five years old, 5,000 baskets. A. E. Nowlen, in 1869, 

 from 3,000 trees, 10,000 baskets. Dr. Collins, in 1869, from 3i 

 acres, took 3,327 baskets. J. Whittlesey, from 850 trees, 4,300 

 "baskets. N. D. Brown, from 20 acres of fruit, all kinds, in 

 three years, netted $14,000. Strawberries, although cultivated 

 extensively elsewhere, pay well here, if properly cultivated, 

 netting from $200 to $400 per acre. This list might be ex- 

 tended indefinitely, but this will sufficiently indicate the profit 

 of fruit fanning. But then, of course, it requires labor and 

 care, and a lazy and shiftless man had better not undertake it ; 

 and, in any case, twenty acres are enough, and many are con- 

 tent with ten, if well set out to choice and well-established 

 varieties. 



WILL APPLE CULTURE PAY t 



Ftom the Miehigan Farmer. 



For the benefit of those who think apple culture will not 

 pay, we produce Mr. P. L. Austin's statement, published in 

 the Detroit Tribune, respecting an eight-acre apple orchard 

 owned by George Hall of Decrfield, Mich.: "I have helped 

 to harvest applet this fall for George Hall, and the quantity of 



