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Our Pear Culture all ^lackery. 



1S62 was the great pear year, when the best Bartletts sold for $1.50 

 per bushel ; and the present year, 1869, lour hundred bushels of pears 

 were picked up after the gale of September 8, which greatly reduced 

 the value of the crop, and we say about $2,400.00, as we have yet of 

 I>e Cure, Hovey, Lawrence, Glout Morceau, and other sorts, about 

 one hundred bushels on hand. 



Here are the exact figures, and Dr. Houghton, if he wishes, can sec 

 the exact quantity of every variety sold, and the exact price for every 

 bushel, the exact nimiber of bushels of every variety named, the 

 average price per bushel of each kind, and the average prices for the 

 whole ; just the exact number of poor pears, which are classed in our 

 schedule as mixed sorts. Every reader can do his own figuring ; we 

 make the average price for the entire crop, which includes every pear 

 produced, except decayed, or so small as to be of no account ; any- 

 thing as large as the smallest Seckel being sold. We make the average 

 I^rice — leaving out the great pear year of 1863 — $3-7o per bushel. 



We now leave out of the calculation the mixed pears ; of them we 



had, in 



226 bushels, which brought 9:158.93 

 " " 269.07 



" " 41972 



447-75 

 430.50 

 366.50 

 343.C0 

 " " say 340.00, 



Leaving out the great pear year of 1S62 again, the following is the 

 result : — 



Seven crops, 1S63 tf) 1S69, brought as follows : — 



