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notice as I write. In 1908 Mr. R. A. Bevan, of 



Creston, shipped strawberries all the way to Sault 

 Ste. Marie, between Lakes Superior and Huron, in 

 Eastern Canada, a distance of 3,000 miles, and they 

 arrived in good condition. In January, 1909, he sold 

 his crop for the following summer in advance for 

 $3.10 per crate, equal to about $1,300 (£260) per 

 acre. 



If we now add these figures to the returns for even 

 young apple trees, we obtain an average gross return 

 per acre of $575 (£115) to $1,500 (£300). Allowing 

 50 per cent, for cost of production, we get as net 

 yield an average of $275 (£55) to $750 (£150) per 

 acre. These figures, it will be seen, compare not 

 unfavourably with those from the older fruit-growing 

 regions of Washington and Oregon. In the matter 

 of strawberries alone the returns for British Columbia 

 are easily 100 per cent, superior to those from the 

 Hood River Valley. 



In British Columbia nearly all orchards are 

 planted as yet with mixed fruits, so that it is difficult 

 to obtain the actual figures for each kind of fruit 

 separately. We have, however, the result of the 

 Coldstream Ranch, near Vernon, belonging to Lord 

 Aberdeen, where even a few years ago 20 acres of 

 Northern Spy apples produced $10,000 (£2,000) of 

 fruit, or an average of $500 (£100) per acre. Peaches 

 at Peachland, beside Okanagan Lake, have yielded at 

 the rate of $467 (£93) per acre; and tomatoes in the 

 same locality have yielded $1,500 (£300) per acre. 

 Mr. Thomas Morley^ already quoted, says that $400 

 (£80) per acre can be produced from a four or five- 

 year-old orchard. Mr. John Hyslop has gathered 



