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FRUIT RANXHIXG. 



$100 per acre. But with this I shall deal again 

 towards tiie end of the book. 



Let us now look at another estimate of cost, 

 framed by a firm of land-agenis interested in selling 

 fruit-lands. 



$1,625.00 

 This tabular statement ignores fencing, cost of 

 house and implements, and the settler's living 

 expenses, and it puts the cost of clearing 100 per cent, 

 too low. As a result, the amount of capital quoted 

 ought to be at least doubled. 



However, the printed statement from which I have 

 quoted the tabular formula above goes on to say: 

 " Should the purchaser do his own work and cultivate 

 between the trees, and raise vegetables, etc., during 

 the first years, he may not only obviate the cost of 

 cultivating, pruning, etc., but may count on an 

 annual income from the first year from his vegetable 

 crops. The usual price of potatoes is 60 cents (2s. 6d.) 

 per bushel in car-load lots, and at retail lots 90 cents 

 per bushel is a low price. Tomatoes sell on the 

 market at from 3 cents (l^d.) to 20 cents (lOd.) per lb, 

 depending entirely on how early in the season they 

 are placed on the market. In the second year 

 strawberries come in, peach-trees produce fruit in the 

 third year, and apple-trees in the fourth. In addition 

 . . . eggs sell at 40 cents (Is. 8d.) per dozen, and during 

 the winter 75 cents (3s.) is a low price." 



