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come per acre, we have very close to $100 as the average net income 

 :.per acre for the cherry orchard during the entire lifetime of fifteen 

 years. If it can be made to live and bear ten years longer, as I have 

 Icnown them to do, so much the better for the average income. These 

 ^figures will be found conservative and should encourage the owners of 

 «mall orchard tracts near our growing towns and cities to engage in the 

 growing of this very desirable and popular fruit. In the spring of 1899 

 the writer planted for one of our large western ranches in this state 

 a cherry orchard of 5,000 trees, covering thirty acres. The idea of t^e 

 proprietor at the time of planting was to establish a canning factory in 

 •connection with it for taking care of the surplus fruit, but so far the 

 demand for the fruit has been such as to find a ready sale at fair prices 

 for Immediate use. Though this orchard has met with some severe 

 losses on account of the killing of the late varieties, and from severe 

 liail storms, yet my faith in the enterprise is good for a fifteen or 

 twenty-acre orchard, well located anywhere in the eastern half of the 

 state. 



