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of apples in the right kind of soil, and care for them properly, will make 

 it pay. I will contract for the apples ten years hence. I believe that 

 an orchard will pay for the land every year for ten or twelve years. 



N. F. Murray — The supply of fruit for three families for thirteen 

 years is quite an item of profit. The fruit may have sold for much 

 higher prices in the years when it was scarce and there was little or no 

 surplus to sell. The account stated that it had paid eight per cent on 

 the entire valuation for seventeen years, furnished the fruit for three 

 families, and made a net profit of $2.50 per acre for the whole time : 

 what business has paid better in the last seventeen years ? 



Chas. Patterson — Perhaps a few varieties of apples paid all the 

 profit. 



C. C. Bell— From a forty-acre orchard with six rows of Ben Davis, 

 29 rows of Gentt and five rows of summer, fall and mixed varieties, 

 which paid but little, I have bought the crop for six or seven years at 

 prices varying from $800 to $1,500 per year. If the owner had planted 

 the whole orchard in good market varieties, I would have paid $4,000 

 for the crop more freely than I paid $1,000. He made the mistake of 

 getting wrong varieties. 



President Evans — Mr. Carpenter is a neighbor of mine. He is 

 farther from being a commercial fruit farmer than any man I know of. 

 Four-fifths of his varieties are almost utterly worthless. He has about 

 enough of small fruits to supply himself and his neighbors. Very little 

 of his fruit goes to market. He has not enough to take to market at 

 one time to make it pay to take it to market. Notwithstanding all 

 these drawbacks, his apples have paid a little profit. The motion is 

 that we give this paper of Mr. Carpenter's the hearty indorsement of 

 this society. It is carried. 



WHAT MANAGEMENT OF ORCHARDS HAS SECURED THE 



BEST RESULTS? 



N. T. MURRAY, ELM GROVE, MO. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, you have the subject assigned to your 

 humble servant by our worthy Secretary for a paper at this meeting? 

 and were it not for the fact that doctors differ iu horticulture as well as 



