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Third Year. 



Pruning *'-' •}<» 



Spraying two times 



Plowing two times 



1 i.i rrowing 



Cultivating 



Sulphuring 



Irrigation 



Digging around trees 



Water Eor irrigation 



Taxes 



Int. Test on $171.1'..". 



Fourth Year. 



Caring for $10 00 



Curing 20 00 



200 trays 25 00 



5 sweat boxes 3 50 



10 picking boxes 1 60 



Sulphuring 12 00 



$62 10 

 One-half ton peaches produced, $50.00. 



$29 75 



Fifth Year. 



Caring for $20 00 



Sulphur 24 00 



200 trays 25 00 



:, sweal lioxes . 3 50 



10 picking boxes 1 60 



fining — 40 00 



$01 10 

 One ton peaches produced, $100.00. 



We now have-an orchard five years old and in bearing. The next 

 thing is to dispose of the produce of the orchard and through the efforts 

 of the California Peach Growers, we have found that medium. 



Some three or four years ago there was a cured fruit exchange 

 organized and we had quite a meeting at that time in Selma and they 

 selected five of us to go to Sacramento and investigate their proposi- 

 tion. There were four of us went up there but we could not see our 

 way clear to join it. The trouble was that they were buying on the 

 same market without any money and selling on the market with the 

 packers. The packer goes out .and pays you cash and the exchange 

 agreed to pay what they could possibly get out of the peaches when sold 

 and it was something on the order of the Farmers Union. When a 

 farmer delivers his peaches he has to have the money for them for it 

 costs money to raise and cure them. If you can not pay him the cash, 

 he has to go where he can get it. 



A year ago the twenty-second of hist August there were about lit'teen 

 or twenty men met in the Chamber of Commerce building in Fresno 

 and after one or two hours' deliberation a committee was appointed to 

 go and see the California Associated Raisin Company and ask them 

 if they would not consider taking over and marketing the peaches the 

 same as the raisins were being marketed at that time. I was selected 

 as one of the committeemen and there being a full hoard of the raisin 

 company in session that afternoon, we conferred with them for several 

 hours and finally they told us that it was impossible for them to take 

 the responsibility of marketing the peaches that belonged at that time 

 to the different farmers all over the San Joaquin, Santa Clara and 

 Sacramento valleys, and they turned the proposition down. We 

 adjourned to the Chamber of Commerce building again and passed a 

 resolution that we would form a peach growers organization and use 

 the raisin association as a model. We selected William Glass as our 



