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 



