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CHAPTER XVI. 
THE PROFITS OF QUINCE CULTURE. 
THE profit of quince raising depends, first, on the vari- 
ety raised, some being too unfruitful to ever yield profit- 
able crops; next, on the skill and care of the cultivator, 
the best varieties being unprofitable when neglected ; and, 
lastly, on the demands of markets. Hitherto there has 
been a market for even poor quinces; but as crops increase, 
only good fruit will be in demand at paying prices. 
N. Ohmer, of Dayton, Ohio, reported, in 1869, that he 
had two acres in quinces ; that three-fourths of an acre, 
ten years planted, had yielded crops six years regularly; 
and that in 1868 he gathered from three-quarters of an 
acre 300 bushels, which he sold at $2.50 a bushel, whole- 
sale. A New York cultivator of the Rea’s Mammoth 
raised on a third of an acre acrop worth $500. I have 
found a ready market for quinces when well put up in 
both tin and glass cans, at paying prices, in the markets 
of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and smaller cities. 
My first planting of the Meech’s Prolific was only 
eight feet apart, quincunx, and the trees averaged half a 
peck when five years old; doubled it the next year, and 
trebled it when seven years old. Taking one year with 
another, my entire crop has averaged $2.50 a bushel. I 
found, when the trees were eight years old, that they 
averaged $1.22 a tree that year, being about $450 an acre. 
The Rea’s has yielded a crop next in value to the Prolific 
at my place in Vineland, N. J. 
By the report of the New Jersey Horticultural Society 
for 1884, it will be seen that C. L. Jones had a yield of 
782, making seven and a half bushels, from two trees in 
his yard at Newark. He sold many of them at $6 a 
hundred, realizing $22.50, besides having 200 for himself 
