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li trees, 100 to the acre, produce fruit when 

 i profitably till about the fifteenth year. By 



Ac am i $450 per acre, for results prove 



e than this has been done. The average profit to the farmer 

 at shipping point is $150 per acre. There* is a splendid markr 

 large peaches of the white-Bcshcd variety in the Old Country, where 

 a good avcrax nay he expected. 



Pear trees bring the grower a n of from $65 to $100 



Plum trees real ire him from $40 to $75 per acre net. 



: hearing in the i ar. and continue fruit 



ful i .; prodiK t i three tons per acre, and 



'lu- ; : $$O tO $6O t 



smaller frn aspberries, black 



:cs, goost yield the farmer hand-iome net 



about $60 or $100 up to $500 per acre in some casts. 

 ird of 400 trees has paid in a few years for the reft of 

 the- faun of 160 acres. A thirty-five acre orchard had a grots 

 n of over $10,000 one year from exported and evaporated 

 A foi .ml latterly changed hands, increasing to 



$10.000. and then to $17,000. 



Men h.ivc worked up from being labourers on a fruit farm or 



a mixed farm to various stages of prosj. One bought 



arc land and earns a living of $800 to $850 a year on 



ther has ten acres of market garden, which has 



in In- ban.! of $15/100 or $3OjOOO t free of encum- 



. good house with all city 



1 with net pr uit of $1,000 in a year. One 



labon liis earnings, clears off a mortgage of 



$600 in three \ > a small home. Another has a 



caul i ful h.-iivr Another 



labor. . of peach and other fruit trees, with 



houses trie of delit. and ha-. M.ld in a year $J.75 worth 

 "thcj has 43 acres of fruit and veget.i 

 ^.1,700 to $3,500. 



r:r own purchased holdings: 



\ man from I.oiil. rid. arrucd in this i ^er* 



ago and j'tKVM.i os of frit:: land. Sugar :. paying 



$150 per acre. He planted his entire farm in fruit trees and bet 

 and after 4-S years sold hi* a Canadian fruit-grower for 



per acre, and 1 taught another farm of too acres in 



the neighbourhood. 



