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If tliey are set twenty-five feet apart each way it will take sixty-nine 

 trees to the acre, costing tliirtccii dollars and eighty cents all planted. 

 As it will be about six years before the trees begin to bear, the 

 ground should be cultivated and kept well stirred. When the trees 

 commence bearing, seed the land to grass, as apple orchards in 

 bearing do better in grass. We will take the average yield per tree 

 for the first three yeni's at one peck or seven barrels a year, which 

 wouhl be worth at fifty cents per barrel on the tree, three dollars and 

 fifty cents : the tince years would give ten dolhirs and fifty cents. The 

 next three years one gets three pecks from a tree or twenty-one bar- 

 rels each yejir, worth ten doihus and fifty cents, or thirty-one dollars 

 and fifty cents for the three years. Tiie next three years one gets 

 one and one half bushels from a tree, or forty-one barrels, worth at. 

 fifty cents a bai-rel twenty dollars and fifty cents per year, or sixty- 

 one dollars and fifty cents for the thi-ce years. Now we have, over 

 and above the uf-e of the land and all labor, ten dollars and fifty cents, 

 thirty-one dollars and fifty cents, and sixty-one dollars and fifty cents, 

 or one liundi-ed and three dollars and fifty cents : deducting twelve 

 dollars and forty-two cents, interest at six per cent, on the cost of 

 trees for tlie fifteen years they have been planted, we have over and 

 above all expenses ninety-one dollars and eight cents, as the hay cut 

 will pay for the use of the land. 



Now if corn had been planted from the time the trees had begun 

 bearing, Ave wojild have ten dollars profit each year, or ninety dollars 

 for the nine years the trees have borne : this gives one dollar and 

 eight cents in favor of the apples. 



The orchard now having been planted fifteen years is just begin- 

 nin"' its work, and for the next twenty-five years will average one 

 and a half barrels per tree, worth at fifty cents per barrel on the tree, 

 about fifty-two dollars per acre above ail work and use of the land. 

 Now let us take the actual yield of ten trees not above medium size, 

 four Baldwins and six Greenings. Tliesc trees produced sixty-four 

 barrels of picked ajiplcs, which at fifty cents per barrel on the tree, 

 or to be exact, forty-seven and a half cents, the price for which they 

 were sold, gives three dollars and four cents per tree, or two Iiundi'ed 

 and nine dollars and sevcnty-!<ix cents to the acre. Reckoning a crop 

 only every other year, we have one hundred and four dtdlars an J 

 ei'dity-eight cents every year. These ten trees bore two years ago 

 over seventy barrels of picked apples. AVe have called apples worth 



