202 The Fruit-Growers Guide-Book 



Growers near Wenatchee, Washington, have made good 

 profits on their orchards, as is shown by the following: 

 Four acres of six-year-old trees produced a crop in 1907 

 which sold for $4,451, and in the next year the crop on 

 these same trees sold for $4,800, and in 1909, $5,400. A 

 certain grower came to that valley in 1898 and paid $625 

 for five acres of raw land. In 1909 he sold his apple crop 

 from this five acres for $3,250 and has refused $15,000 for 

 his land. In this same valley, on a small orchard of 

 peaches the grower got a return of $2,596 per acre for the 



Tomatoes grown as a catch crop between the tree rows 

 while the orchard is young. 



fruit of one year. Fifty-four D'Anjou pear trees on two- 

 thirds of an acre produced 952 boxes of pears that sold in 

 the New York market for a price that would net the owner 

 at the rate of $3,806 per acre. Another grower got $3,250 

 from five acres of apples planted in 1897. This is a return 

 of 10 per cent on a valuation of $6,500 per acre. 



D'Anjou pears from a single tree in an orchard near 

 Central Point, Oregon, in 1907 sold for $204.75 net. 



Near this same place another man harvested 3,020 boxes 



