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acre, and this will increase each year until the trees are full grown, 

 when, if they are headed back, the expense will be $o to $10. 



There will also be each year $5 to $10 for plowing, harrowing, cul- 

 tivating and hoeing. When the trees come into bearing the thinning 

 will run from $2 up to $8 or $10, and there should also be an account 

 made of hunting for borers, jarring for curculio, or spraying for this 

 and other insects and the various fuuguous diseases. In some sec- 

 tions that I know of the entire cost of picking, packing and marketing 

 does not exceed 10 cents per bushel, while in others it is seveial times 

 that amount. 



The crop and the returns are so uncertain that one would hardly 

 be justified in taking an orchard on shares. Thus last year with a full 

 crop and glutted markets many growers allowed the fruit to remain on 

 the trees, as the returns did not pay for the cost of marketing. This 

 year the cop is a failure in all except a dozen counties along Lake 

 Michigan, and there with a quarter or a half crop the orchards are 

 proving quite remunerative owing to the prices secured. — Prof. L. E. 

 Taft. 



AN OHIO OPINION. 



To set trees, plow, harrow and mark off will cost probably $6 to 

 $8 per acre. To keep the land cultivated about $8. To gather about 

 10 cents per bushel, including hauling to packing house, and about five 

 cents per bushel to grade and pack. Of course, the above is only an 

 estimate. I have 600,000 peach trees in orchard in Georgia and Ken- 

 tucky. — !JT. H. Albaugh. 



FROM NEW JERSEY. 



It is our experience that it will cost about $7.50 per acre to plow, 

 harrow, mark off and set peach tiees 18 by 18 feet. The annual culti- 

 vation will cost from $4 to $5. The cost of marketing the crop will 

 naturally depend upon the size of the crop, character of the fruit and 

 the distance from market, and it is, therefore, ditficult to make a fair 

 estimate. — Prof. B. D. Halsted. 



NATIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN PEACH CULTURE. 



The following extract from the minutes of the last meeting of the 

 Association of Colleges and Stations gives the outline of the work to 

 be undertaken : 



" A paper prepared for the section by R. H. Price, of Texas, was 

 concluded by the following memorial : In view of the importance of 



