PROFITS OF A FRUIT-HOUSE. 



Bartlett pears may be bought when abundant in the market at $5.50 

 per bushel, and in one month's time they will double in price with a 

 quick sale. One room containing two thousand bushels devoted to 

 Bartlett pears would yield in one month a net profit of eleven thousand 

 dollars. Grapes by being preserved from three to four months would 

 yield profits as follows : 



Twenty-five tons of grapes could be put into the fruit-house in the 

 autumn, at two hundred dollars per ton — making the cost five thousand 

 dollars. In January, February and March they could be sold at from 

 thirty to forty cents per pound. At thirty cents per pound (six hun- 

 dred dollars per ton) they would yield a clear profit of ten thousand 

 dollars. 



From the best evidence, after consultation with all the dealers in for- 

 eign fruit, C. M. Hovey, Esq., the President of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, came to the following conclusion, with reference to 

 the profits on foreign fruit preserved in the fruit-house : 



Ten thousand boxes of lemons bought in February and March, after 

 grapes, pears and other domestic fruits were removed, would cost three 

 dollars and one half per box. Say — 10,000 boxes lemons at $3.50 per 

 box, $35,000. The same could be sold in July and August for seven 

 dollars per box, as it has been well established by many years experi- 

 ence that foreign fruits double in price from March to July. Ten 

 thousand boxes at $7.00 per box, $70,000, yielding a net j)^oJit of 

 $35,000, ivithout risk from loss by decay or loaste. Oranges, Pineap- 

 ples and other foreign fruits would yield an equally large profit. 



On strawberi'ies, the season of which could be prolonged from four 

 to six weeks, by packing in the fruit-house, a profit of several hundred 

 per cent, could be made in six weeks of time. 



Nothing has ever been presented to the public which promises greater 

 returns from invested capital. And with judicious management large 

 dividends can be made from year to year without risk or fear of loss 

 to stockholders. 



