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fruit bud. The fruit is of very large size and handsome color, 

 also not so acid as Crawford Late. 



I would put Wheatland, Crawford Late and Chairs' 

 Choice varieties in the same class, ripening- in order as named, 

 and we have found the Crawford Late the best money maker 

 of the three varieties. Taking Elberta peach as the standard 

 of productiveness and selling value, I find that during the 

 bearing period just mentioned, the returns have been approx- 

 imately as follows : 



From Wheatland: 1.100 trees, less than 1,000 baskets 

 fruit (considered unproductive and trees removed three years 

 ago). 



From Chairs' Choice: 1.100 trees, not more than 4,000 

 baskets fruit; selling price, no more than Elberta. (Trees 

 mostly removed one year ago.) 



From Crawford Late: 1,100 trees, not more than 8.000 

 baskets ; selling price about same as Chairs' Choice. 



From 2,200 Elberta trees (same age and period), yield 

 close to 40,000 baskets fruit. 



The past season, what few trees we had of first named 

 varieties, gave us no fruit, while Elberta gave us 2,000 or 

 more baskets, selling for close to five thousand dollars. 



Season 1906, this same Elberta plot gave us more than 

 8,000 baskets, for as many dollars ; very light yield of other 

 varieties being compared. 



Season 1905, this same Elberta plot gave about the same 

 yield in quantity, while previous seasons gave two extremely 

 heavy yields of fruit of superb quality, although of lower 

 selling value, owing to heavy yields everywhere. 



During these years the other varieties yielded their best 

 returns, but at no time outselling Elberta. One crop of fair 

 volume and two or three very moderate ones is the record 

 for Chairs' Choice, in the same orchard as the Elberta plot 

 just described. 



Perhaps it is only fair to add that the Elberta plot of 

 ground, while not the equal in quality — that is, strength of 

 soil — of the Chairs' Choice plot, seemed acUnirable for the 



