176 FRUIT RANCHING. 



$589 (£118) per acre. This, I need hardly point out, 

 is an exceptionally valuable record, partly because it 

 is for the same piece of land, partly because of the 

 length of time over which the records have been 

 continuously kept. 



As regards pears, the gross returns for the same 

 four districts range between $150 (£30) and $3,806 

 (£761) per acre, the average being $200 (£40) to 

 $400 (£80). 



Cherries, principally from the Wenatchee Valley, 

 Washington, gave fruit to the gross value of $150 

 (£30) to $1,120 (£224). The net returns, in two at 

 least of the returns quoted, amounted to 75 per cent, 

 of the gross returns. The owner of one of these 

 orchards, containing ten acres, Mr. Enos Presnall, 

 of Salem (Wenatchee Valley), Washington, paid 

 $1,500 for the property in the spring of 1907, and 

 in the summer of the same )'ear sold off it cherries 

 to tlie value of $1,700 gross, answering to $1,350 net: 

 in one year he had a gross return greater tlian the 

 original cost price of the property. 



The returns from peaches grown in the Wenatchee 

 and Yakima Vallevs of Washington run at a more 

 uniform figure, the average being $1,678 (£335) per 

 acre. 



Prunes give gross returns ranging from $88 (£18) 

 to $328 (£6^6), the average being $156 (£31). These 

 are for the Wenatchee Valley only. 



Strawberries, taking returns from Hood River, 

 Oregon, and Wenatchee, Washington, range be- 

 tween $115 (£23) and $350 (£70), the average being 

 $232 (£46 10s.) per acre. 



For other kinds of fruit there are returns — grapes, 



