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maiketiug, is variously estimated. Some set it at 30, others at 40, and a few at 

 60 per acre. In such cases of divergence it is wiser to take the mean of the first 

 two = 35, than of the whole = 43 6s. 8d. It is easy, however, to account for the 

 difference in the results through situation, soil, varieties, and management. Where the 

 orchard grass is eaten off by lean, unfed sheep, the returns cannot possibly be so good 

 as where the sheep are fed with cake or corn, nor where the orchard receives 30 or 

 40 tons of stable or farmyard manure, in addition to eating the grass off by cake- fed 

 sheep and occasional applications of chemical manure. This liberal attention costs 



Kg. 61. UKCHABU CHERBT TEEE IN BLOSSOM. 



about 10 per. annum, and is returned with interest in mutton and cherries, some 

 estimating the grass equal in value to the rent, but that is a fruit-grower's not a 

 farmer's view ; therefore, putting the expenditure for all purposes at 25 per annum, 

 and the gross returns at 49 19s. 9d. (half a full crop at mean average gross returns 

 in good years to allow for bad seasons and losses), the clear profit is 24 19s. 9d. a 

 year per acre = 50 per cent, interest on capital and cost of production. 



The illustration, Fig. 64, represents a cherry tree in blossom, from a photograph 

 supplied by Mr. Walter Kruse, Leeds, near Maidstone, who gives the following 

 dimensions of the tree: Diameter of head, 55 feet; circumference of trunk near the 



