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TEL IRK! CATION AGE. 



of farm gardening and presents so good an illustration of the progress 

 of land values in the Rocky Ford region during the period named. 



Mr. Manny, who is an old friend and boyhood school mate of the 

 writer, is a college graduate as well as a practical, successful gard- 

 ener, a close observer and a man of the utmost reliability. He says: 



"January, 1899, 1 bought twenty acres of orchard of r *. W. Swink 

 for $150.00 per acre Oct. 1st, 1901, I secured a loan on the twenty 

 acres of $150 an acre. The twenty acres had sixteen acres of apples, 

 one acre of peaches, one-third 'of an acre of plums. The first year I 

 came out about even. The second year I made about $700 over and 

 above interest. The third year I made $1,200 clear. This was really 

 off of fourteen acres. About six acres was uncultivated apple or- 

 chard, which set full, but the wind blew off all apples. 



THE FACTORY FliOM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW. 



"Apples have not paid anything. Peaches have not paid any- 

 thing. Plums have paid about $200 per year off one-third acre. I 

 have cut out thirteen acres of apples, so this year I will get in more 

 beets. Had I taken out these trees last spring, I would have had 

 $1,500 from the twenty acres, on the basis of this year's results. 



"May 1, 1899, I bought ten acres of G. W. Swink for $115 per 

 acre. Feb. 1, 1901, I secured a loan of $120 per acre on the 10 acres. 

 In both cases the borrowed money was to pay the purchase price. 

 (Loans made on a basis of 50 per cent.. , of actual value.) The first year 



