18 ORANGE CULTURE IN FLORIDA. 



Third year, fifteen dollars per year 150 



Fourth year, twenty dollars per acre 200 



Fifth year, twenty-five dollars per acre 250 



Other expenses incidental to work 550 



Total for five years ... $3800 



Interest on investment 1200 



Total $5000 



This is the expense account. There will be some 

 receipts. If good budded trees are planted, the third 

 year will give a little fruit, the fourth year still 

 more, and at the end of the fifth year there will be 

 quite a fine crop. In order to be safe in these calcu- 

 lations we will place the yield and prices at the 

 lowest possible estimate : 



Third year crop, scattering oranges a few hun- 

 dred or thousand not counted. 



Fourth year, an average of fifty oranges to the 

 tree 50,000 oranges at twenty dollars per thou- 

 sand $1000 



Fifth year, 200 to the tree 200,000 oranges at 



twenty dollars per thousand 4000 



" If these prices are maintained the owner has his 

 investment all back again at the end of five years, 

 and is ready to ship oranges in large quantities every 

 year thereafter. 



" All persons planting orange orchards do not do as 

 well as this, and some do better. Those figures 

 represent what can be done with good judgment and 

 thorough work. If a man thinks to save by getting 

 cheap and incompetent work, he may succeed in re- 

 ducing the cost a few dollars, and the receipts a few 

 hundred dollars, or even a few thousand dollars. If 



