SUCCESSFUL FRUIT RAISING. 707 



"How many bushels will you have this Fall ? " 



" Well, there are four hundred trees , of these there are 

 four varieties of forty trees each, making one hundred and 

 sixty trees. There is not a full crop this year. They will only 

 average about two bushels to the tree, or three hundred and 

 twenty bushels. The remaining two hundred and forty trees 

 will average five bushels to the tree, or one thousand two hun- 

 dred bushels. Add these to the three hundred and twenty 

 bushels, and I have one thousand five hundred and twenty 

 bushels from the four hundred trees." 



" What are they worth per bushel, or barrel ? " 



" I sold one thousand bushels, the purchaser furnishing the 

 barrels and taking them from the orchard. He paid me fifty- 

 five cents per bushel for them. I pay my pickers five cents a 

 bushel for picking and putting in the barrels. I head them up ; 

 that leaves me just fifty cents per bushel, after paying for pick- 

 ing, but I do not count for my time heading up, etc." 



" Those you are storing are as good as what you are sell- 

 ing, are they ? " 



" Certainly, just the same." 



" Then your income from your orchard this year will 

 amount to, on apples sold, five hundred and fifty dollars ; apples 

 stored away, five hundred and twenty bushels, at fifty-five cents 

 per bushel, two hundred and eighty-six dollars ; added to the 

 five hundred and fifty dollars, gives eight hundred and thirty- 

 six dollars. Now if you deduct cost of picking, at five 

 cents per bushel, you have seven hundred and sixty dollars. 

 You say the small and faulty apples made up into cider will 

 net you about forty dollars more, leaving the profits of the 

 orchard this year at eight hundred dollars. And I see your 

 trees are nice and thrifty, and look as though they might con- 

 tinue to bear for a lifetime yet. With a gradual increase in 

 size, the profits from them will also increase. You are satis- 

 fied, then, that fruit growing pays ? " 



" Yes, sir, if a man understands what he is going at, and 

 gives it proper attention. So many fail simply because they 

 exercise no judgment in the matter. They think that any 



