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The Cost of a 14-Acre Apple Orchard The First Year. 



400 peach trees at 10c each 

 4 20 apple trees at 25c each 



Equipment 



Taxes 



Interest (100 per acre) . . . . 



Total cash cost 



Grand total cost 



* Protection of trees 



25.00 



.84 



.84 



8.40 



45^08 



Income and Net Profit from Crops. 



Total I Per acre 



Net income from crops )$273.57]$19.76G 



Total expense on orchard 272. 96| 19.72 



Net gain |$ .611$ -0^^ 



In a fourth example of which we have knowledge, 

 records kept by E. B. Holden of another Monroe County, 

 (N. y.) orchard, show a profit of $10.33 an acre on a five 

 acre apple and peach orchard similar to my own alreadj' 

 mentioned, at the end of four years. In this orchard wheat 

 was grown the first year and beans the second, third and 

 fourth years. The net income from these crops together 

 with a small crop of peaches in the fourth year left a net 

 Ijrofit at the end of the period of $51.63 on the five acre or- 

 chard. 



