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by the curculio. C. H. Perkins, Newark, has thirty-five trees, eight 

 and twelve years old, all Montmorency. "They bear," he writes, 

 "from 2000 to 3500 pounds of cherries per year, and the average price 

 that we get for them is six cents. They net us from $100 to $175 a 

 year. They are the most regular and sure cropper of any fruit we 

 have ever tried to grow, and the fruit always finds a ready market at a 

 good price." The Maxwell orchard, at Geneva, yielded over eleven tons 

 of Montmorency, this year, from 800 trees. — Ithaca, N. Y., Bulletin. 



PROFITS OF THE CHERRY CROP. 



The profits from the cherry industry depend mainly on the effor 

 of the grower in producing first-class fruit and in placing it on t 

 market somewhat after the directions given. In 1888 an acre of cherry 

 trees, eighteen years old, including Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, Na- 

 poleon Bigarreau, Elton, Yellow Spanish, and Downer's Late Red, 

 netted $380, while an acre of rye netted eight dollars. 



The following sample figures are taken from sales from the orchard 

 this season, trees twenty-five years old : 



Five trees of Robert's Red Heart averaged 280 pounds per tree; the 



fruit sold for nine cents per pound, bringing $25 20 



The expenses were: 



Picking $2 80 



Packages 1 40 



Packing 1 25 



Express 2 80 



Commission 2 52 



10 77 



Net profit per tree $14 43 



One tree of Robert's Red Heart yielded 416 pound=!, which sold to retail 



dealers at ten cents per pound at the express office $41 GO 



Expenses : 



Picking $4 16 



Packages 1 56 



Packing 1 75 



„ ■ 7 47 



Net profit $34 13 



One acre of Windsors, containing seventy trees, eight years old, yielded 

 eighty-four pounds per tree — 5880 pounds — which sold at ten cents 

 per pound $588 00 



Expenses: 



Picking $58 80 



Assorting and packing 20 00 



Packages 30 00 



Express and commission 70 00 



Cultivation ( plowed once and harrowed six times) 3 50 



Fertilizers (300 pounds potash, 100 pounds bone, 15 pounds 



Crimson clover seed ) 4 25 



Interest on land, at $150 per acre 9 00 



195 55 



Net profit $392 45 



