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sand, making the snug little sum of seventy-four dollars from 

 one eleven-year-old tree. 



Seventy-five seedling orange trees or one hundred and nine 

 budded trees are usually set on an acre. Seedlings eleven or 

 twelve years old can be relied on to produce one thousand 

 oranges each, and budded trees the same number annually per 

 tree at eight or nine years of age ; provided, the buds wereyfrj/- 

 class when set, and both buds and seedlings had proper con- 

 ditions. 



If oranges were sold at five dollars per thousand to dealers 

 who would receive them on the trees, an orange orchard would 

 even then be handsome property. One hundred and nine 

 budded trees, averaging one thousand per tree, at five dollars 

 per thousand, would yield a revenue of five hundred and forty- 

 five dollars; seventy-five seedlings per acre, at the same price, 

 and with the same average yield, three hundred and seventy- 

 five dollars. 



By referring to Chapter XX., it will be found that an orange 

 orchard can be brought to a bearing and self-sustaining con- 

 dition for one hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre, cost of 

 land included. Here we have an investment of one hundred 

 and twenty-five dollars per acre returning an income of five 

 hundred and forty-five dollars on budded trees, which income, 

 at the handsome rate of twelve per cent, per annum, brings the 

 orchard up to a value of more than four thousand five hundred 

 dollars per acre ; or, if seedlings, three thousand one hundred 

 and twenty-five dollars. From these estimates there should be 

 deducted from the value per acre of the orchard six hundred 

 and twenty-five dollars, leaving more than three thousand nine 

 hundred dollars as the value of an acre of budded trees in or- 

 chard, and two thousand five hundred dollars for seedlings. 

 Six hundred and twenty-five dollars, at twelve per cent, per 

 annum, yields seventy-five dollars interest. This is more than 

 enough to pay all expenses of cultivation. 



While the author was delivering a lecture on the subject of 

 orange culture in California before Raisina Grange, Central 

 California Colony, August 3d, 1878, he said : 



"The first question to be examined lies at the foundation of 



