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Profits. 



Profits with any of the bush-fruits depend much upon location. Several 

 things are essential to profitable returns Among these are, first, favor- 

 able soil and climatic conditions ; second, available help for jncking ; 

 third, an available market. With these essentials given, to which must 

 be added intelligent care and management, any of these fruits will prove 

 fairly remunerative. Instances of exceptional profit, such as ai'e often 

 reported, give little estimate of probable returns, but with none of these 

 fruits need the expense of production be unusually large, and the price 

 obtained for good fruit is always sufticient to cover it with a satisfactory 

 margin beside. Failures will come, as with everything else, but they 

 need not be more frequent than in other lines. \\'\i\\ any of these essen- 

 tials lacking, howevei', the growing of bush-1'ruits for market is a 

 hazardous undertaking. 



