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clear water, the same grade sold as pie peaches and brought $1 per 

 dozen cans. One bushel of peaches on the average filled only 16 

 3-pound cans, while a bushel of pears filled on the average 24 3-pound 

 cans. It cost as much to put up one as the other and they sold at 

 about the same price, grade for grade. 



PROFITS. 



The costs and profits from each culture were studied at the Missis- 

 sippi Station °' in a 6-acre orchard made up of 94 per cent of Elbertas. 

 The cost of the trees and the expense of preparing the land and plant- 

 ing was $66.75, and the care of the orchard up to the time the trees 

 came in bearing $270, making a total expense of $336.75, up to the 

 bearing period. The culture of sweet potatoes and peas between the 

 rows during this period brought in a total of $390, thus paying the 

 entire cost of the orchard and leaving a profit of $53.25, which may 

 be regarded as good rental value of the land for three years, at the 

 end of which time the orchard was ready for fruit bearing. For the 

 next rour j^ears the average returns from the orchard were $104.16 

 per acre and the amiual expense of caring for the orchard $30 per 

 acre, leaving a clear gain of $74.16 for each acre during four years. 



A New Jersey peach grower, S. B. Yoorhees, states,'' as a result of 

 fifteen years' experience, that in an orchard of 25 acres containing 

 3,000 bearing trees the number of baskets marketed has averaged 

 5,160 annually, the gross receipts for the same $2,800, the average cost 

 of baskets, picking, carting, and marketing 25 cents, and the average 

 net receipts 290- cents per basket. 



LITERATURE. 



A large number of the experiment stations have published practical 

 treatises on peach culture with reference to local conditions. These 

 treat as a general thing very fully of the details of peach culture, 

 including control of insect and fungus diseases and descriptions of the 

 varieties best suited for difl^erent purposes. Among the more impor- 

 tant of these are: Canada Central Experimental Farm, Bulletin 1, 

 new series; Georgia Station Bulletin 42; Maryland Station Bulletin 

 72; Michigan Station Bulletin 103; Missouri Station Bulletin 38; 

 Missouri State Fruit Station Bulletin 12; New Jerse}' Stations Bulle- 

 tins 133 and 197; New Mexico Station Bulletin 30; New York Cor- 

 nell Station Bulletin 74; North Carolina Station Bulletin 120; Ohio 

 Station Bulletin 170; Pennsylvania Station Bulletin 37; Texas 

 Station Bulletins 39 and 80; West Virginia Station Bulletin 82; U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin 33; separate from the 

 Yearbook for 1902, entitled Cultivation and Fertilization of Peach 



a Mississippi Sta. Bui. 93. & Proc. New Jersey Hort. Soc. 25, 1900. 



