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care and cultivation. This may appear to you as an exaggerated 

 statement, but first, let me give you a few facts, then you may 

 judge whether I have given the amount of yield per acre too 

 large or not. 



Frank Olmsted of Chester, Orleans County, New York, sold 

 from ij/^ acres of apple orchard, 379 barrels of picked apples 

 at $2.40 per barrel, amounting to $909.60, or $606.30 from an 

 acre; and he had besides 300 to 400 bushels of apples for 

 evaporating. 



George T. Powell of Ghent, New York, wrote me two years 

 ago, that the apples from two Baldwin trees near his place sold 

 for $110. 



Mr. Washburn of Chappaqua, Westchester County, New York, 

 sold the apples on the trees from his four-acre orchard for $900, 

 or $225 per acre. 



John Miller of Guardstown, West Virginia, sold 6,000 barrels 

 of apples for $14,520. They were raised on 34 acres, thus 

 giving him $427 per acre. 



Twenty years ago, R. D. Tilson, of the same place, planted 16 

 acres of orchard. The crop in one year has brought over $6,000, 

 which is $375 per acre. 



Mr. Morrill of ]\Iichigan stated before the Connecticut Pomo- 

 logical Society one year ago that a party in Western New York, 

 that fall, sold from 4 acres of orchard $3,000 worth of apples. 



Tliirty years ago we picked from Baldwin and Rhode Island 

 Greening trees, set 15 years, 12 barrels per tree. This would 

 be from an acre containing 35 trees 420 barrels, which at $1 

 per barrel would be $420. 



There are many more instances where like large yields and 

 profits have been realized, but enough have been cited to justify 

 the statement made, viz., that from $200 to $500 per acre may 

 be realized from an orchard intelligently managed. 



There should be no doubt then that the apple can be made a 

 money crop, and more money gotten out of it than from any 

 other farm crop we now raise. 



Now, this brings me to the second or most important part of 

 my subject, viz., "How to get the most out of the Apple 

 Orchard." What many farmers, no doubt, would like most to 

 learn is, how to manage their present orchards so as to make 

 them more profitable? That is a question for another paper. 



