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this orchard were filled up as it should be, there would probably 

 have been a profit of $45.00 per acre. These figures are worth 

 considering, especially by those who do not believe that fruit can 

 be grown with profit in the northwest. 



The Jewell Nursery Company raised 3,500 bushels of apples, 

 the same being sold at an average of 75c per bushel. The trees 

 v/ere grown on about twenty acres of ground, six acres of the 

 ground being sand and gravel. Some 500 Okabena trees were on 

 land of this character. This would mean gross receipts of 

 $130.00 per acre. 



Dell Howard, of Hammond, Minn., has some twenty acres 

 ill orchard, ten acres of which are in bearing. In the year 1904 

 there was a large yield, but prices were low, yet his profit on 

 these ten acres was $1,500. In the season of 1905, the crop was 

 smaller, but prices were higher, the total receipts being $2,000, 

 and the net profit $1,500. 



John Glover, of Galesville, Wis., has seventeen acres in ap- 

 ples, many of the trees being planted on bluff land. As given by 

 Mr. Frank Yahnke, of Winona, the net profit in 1905 was $2,800. 



It is frequently stated that there will be an over-production of 

 apples in the northwest at the rate tree planting is carried on. 

 That day is far distant, however, as the demand is constantly in- 

 creasing, and the manner in which surplus apples may be taken 

 care of in case of overproduction has not even been attempted 

 in the northwest, such as canning, evaporating and drying. Mr, 

 Hughes, who has canning stations for vegetables at Cannon 

 Falls, Le Sueur, BellePlaine and Ort'onville, states that there is 

 not a point in the northwest that is growing sufficient apples to 

 warrant the placing of a canning factory there for canning ap- 

 ples, as there should be from fifteen to twenty thousand bushels 

 of fruit that could be used for this purpose alone. He estimates 

 that an average price could be paid for such fruit — good qual- 

 ity — of 50c per bushel, and for the poorer class of fruit, such as 

 windfalls, 25c per bushel and up, according to quality. Apples 

 could be brought to such factories in wagon loads, and one could 

 afford to sell them at a lower price than where they are care- 

 fully picked and shipped to commission merchants. We men- 

 tion these points for the benefit of those who are interested in 

 growing apples as well as to remove the doubt of those who feai* 

 over-production. 



In the November issue of "American Fruits," a report from 



