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YIELD. 
The prune is a prolific bearer and can be relied upon for annual crops. 
Unlike many fruits, it does not take an occasional season’s rest, but will 
yield its average returns every season. If properly cultivated some 
fruit may be gathered the third year, and the fourth year will yield a 
fairly profitable crop; the fifth year will give from fifty to sixty pounds 
to the tree, which the sixth year should double. From this time on the 
tree can be considered as in full bearing, and will give from one hundred 
and fifty to three hundred pounds of green fruit annually. The average 
yield for Santa Clara County is about three hundred pounds per tree. 
In some instances six hundred to eight hundred pounds to the tree are 
reported, and one six-year old tree in Visalia is credited with eleven 
hundred and two pounds of green fruit in one season. 
