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excellent orchard at Kaslo, have kindly favoured me 

 with the following particulars. "In 1907," they 

 write, " we picked thirty-two boxes from about forty 

 trees of Wealthy, at that time seven years old. In 

 1908, from the same trees, we harvested 118 boxes. 

 In the year 1907 we picked twenty-four boxes of 

 Ontarios from thirty trees, and in 1908 fifty-four. 

 From one Fameuse tree, eight years old, we had 3| 

 boxes. All these apples sold at $1.75 per box. This 

 works out as follows : Yield of Wealthy per acre, 1907 

 $67 (£13 10s.) and 1908 $142 (£28 10s.); Ontarios, 

 1907 $67 (£13 10s.) and 1908 $151 (£30 5s.); Fameuse 

 in 1908 $315 (£63). " In 1907," continue Messrs. 

 Mawdsley and Eskrigge, " we had potatoes planted 

 between the rows of trees, with a crop of about ten 

 tons, which we sold at an average price of $26.50 

 (£5 6s. 8d.)." This would be, I suppose, equivalent 

 to a return of about $175 (£35) per acre. Adding 

 this to the value of the apple crop, we obtain £64 as 

 the gross return per acre of this particular Kootenay 

 orchard. 



Mr. R. W. Hulbert has kindly placed at my dis- 

 posal the subjoined particulars of the yield of his 

 orchard at Granite, two miles west of Nelson. In 

 1908, twenty Ribston Pippin trees yielded four to five 

 boxes each, which sold at $1.75 per box, equivalent to 

 a gross return of $380 (£76) per acre; Wealthy, seven 

 year old trees, yielded eight to ten boxes each, 

 averaging a gross return of $540 (£108) per acre; 

 Duchess of Oldenburg, nine year old trees, gave an 

 average of $15 (£3) worth of fruit per tree, equivalent 

 to $720 (£144) per acre; Northern Spy, nine year old 

 trees, gave four boxes each, which, selling at $1.75 



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