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$5,000 (£1,000) from six and one-third acres!" 

 In "Southern British Columbia, the Garden of 

 Canada," issued by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it 

 is said (pp. 8-9): " Mr. J. M. Durr has four acres of 

 bottom land on St. Joseph's Creek, south of Cran- 

 brook [in the Crows' Nest Pass]. He has 3^ acres 

 under cultivation. Off nine-tenths of an acre he raised 

 12 tons of first-class potatoes. An acre and a half of 

 cabbages yielded the enormous quantity of 15 tons, 

 which sold for 8 cents (4d.) per pound. He also raised 

 5 tons of carrots from a quarter acre. Mr. Durr's 

 profits for the season, after retaining all the vegetables 

 required for his own use, was $800 (£160), equal to 

 over $200 (£40) per acre." 



A privately-issued pamphlet, in speaking of the 

 Kootenay Valley fruit lands, says: "One peach-tree 

 produced 23 crates of marketable fruit, which sold for 

 $40.25 (£8 Is.), and one strawberry patch, containing 

 an acre and five-eighths, produced 498 crates of first- 

 class berries, which at $2.25 (9s.) per crate, means 

 about $690 (£138). The above are, of course, not 

 average prices; but the prices obtained last year for 

 strawberries netted the fruit farmer about $200 (£40) 

 per acre. An apple orchard of about 3,000 trees, four 

 years old, netted $4 (16s.) per tree, with 76 trees to 

 the acre. Cherries sold from $20 (£4) to $25 (£5) per 

 tree." 



My next extract is from an ably-conducted Nelson 

 newspaper, " The Daily News." In describing the 

 valley of the Kettle River, which lies west of the 

 Kootenays, it says: "Italian prunes grown on the 

 Covert estate by J. D. Honsberger, who purchased a 

 portion of the estate two years ago, were shipped by 



