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of apples, the fruit from fifty-two trees, which netted 

 $1,747.62. 



This happened in a valley famous for its fruit crops and 

 its enormous returns. In that valley one grower got $1,050 

 net from one acre of Spitzenburg apples, and $1,420 front 

 an acre of Newtowns. Another got $1,620 from an acre of 

 Spitzenburgs. In another orchard the crop of Bartlett 

 pears from a single acre brought $1,244 after all expenses 

 were paid. 



Near Phoenix, Ariz., one man got $3,300 in net profit 

 from the first crop of fruit produced on nineteen acres. 



Not far from Mt. Selma, Texas, a fruit grower got a 

 profit of $500 from five acres of peaches. Another man 

 gets $2,800 from nineteen acres, ten of which are in peaches 

 and the rest tomatoes. 



In Michigan a fruit man got $900 from three acres of 

 strawberries, and another man down in Mississippi got 

 $450 from one acre of strawberries. A farmer in Marien- 

 ette County, Wisconsin, sold $250 worth of strawberries 

 from one-fourth acre of land. A neighbor of his got 

 $922.54 after paying all expenses in harvesting and market- 

 ing the crop from two and one-fourth acres of strawber- 

 ries. A man near Superior beat these men a little in 'get- 

 ting $800 from one acre of strawberries. 



From these figures it is evident that the fruit grower 

 has abundant opportunity to obtain large returns from his 

 efforts. These returns are not the maximum that is pos- 

 sible to obtain, but represent incomes received by the aver- 

 age intelligent grower. 



