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$700 (£140) net; raspberries, $100 to $150 (£20 to 

 £30); gooseberries, $204 (£41); loganberries, $348 

 (£69 10s.); tomatoes, $400 (£80); and dewberries, 

 $1,000 (£200) and $1,651 (£320). 



Mr. Theodore S. Darby, of Yakima Valley, 

 Washington, bought a ten-acre orchard in 1903, 

 paying for it $4,200 (£840); in 1907 he sold off it 

 mixed fruit to the aggregate value of $4,206 (£841), 

 giving an average of $420 (£84) per acre. Mr. 

 Horan, of the Wenatchee Valley, Washington, who 

 won the principal prize of $1,000 (£200) for the best 

 car-load of apples at the Spokane Apple Show in 

 December, 1908, planted an orchard of 50 acres in 

 1900, the land being at that time worth $100 (£20) 

 per acre. In 1908 it yielded 8,000 boxes of peaches 

 and 7,000 boxes of pears, equivalent to an average of 

 $440 (£88) per acre, without counting the produce of 

 1,340 apple trees. Probably Mr. Horan's orchard 

 would bring him in that year $30,000 (£6,000), or an 

 average of $600 (£120) per acre, for his winning car- 

 load of apples was sold for a sum closely approximat- 

 ing $5,500 (£1,100). Mr. Horan declares that some 

 time previous to the show he refused an offer of 

 $2,000 (£400) per acre for his orchard. 



Mr. H. M. Gilbert, of North Yakima, Washing- 

 ton, who won the second prize in the same competi- 

 tion, planted a 20-acre orchard in 1898-1901. During 

 the last six years the peaches have yielded $1,000 

 (£200) per acre, and during 1908 the total yield of 

 apples, peaches, pears, and apricots amounted to an 

 estimate of $20,000 (£4,000), or $1,000 (£200) per 

 acre. 



The last two instances quoted are for trees ten 



