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ern, up- to- date orchard, where, if I could make half of that, 

 I should think I was doing pretty well. In raising straw- 

 berries as we do in Marshfield, that being the leading town 

 jii the state for raising the best berries, we make $300 or 

 $'400 an acre. Is it possible to raise what some of these fruit 

 growers magazines tell us, from $300 to $500 an acre on ap- 

 ples and do it as you have done, using the costs that you 

 have? 



MR. BURRITT. My answer, is, that it is possible but 

 not probable, for the average man. I wouldn't undertake 

 any responsibility for what the various magazines say. I 

 will undertake responsibility for what my own paper says. 

 "We don 't print anything but facts. I wouldn 't want to say 

 that all the others do, although they may. I wouldn 't want 

 tc take responsibility for them. As a matter of fact, on that 

 basis if you are going to make an investment or are going 

 into the orchard business on the basis of what somebody tells 

 you the profits would be, we might as well all move to Ore- 

 gon, because, according to the circulars we get from there, 

 their average income per acre is about $1500, — that is, if yoa 

 believe the circulars and papers. As a matter of fact, 

 when you boil the thing down and get down to a real solid 

 basis, you don't find those things are true. I know, for in- 

 stance, an orchard within three miles of my home where the 

 owner has had an actual gross income of $1100 an acre. I 

 know an orchard of twenty-five acres today that turns off 

 an average income of $250 an acre above all expenses. But 

 .'is a matter of fact by actual count of all the orchards in 

 Monroe County, and not only Monroe, but Orleans and 

 Niagara and Wayne as well, in the survey made by the State 

 College of Agriculture, the average gross income is about 

 $150 an acre; and if we may guess at the expense from my 

 OAvn experience the average expense will run in the neigh- 

 borhood of $75 an acre. I should say that the average 

 grower in Western New York, who is taking good care of his 

 orchard would make $75 an acre from his orchard. Wouldn't 

 ■ihat be fair Mr. Fraser? 



