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Profits from Renovated Or char dB. 



The following results are returns from an apple or- 

 chard of eleven acres in Orleans Co., N. Y,, nlhich was 

 taken over in 1896. The gross returns from this orchard 

 are: 



Another farmer in Monroe County, N, Y,, obtained the 

 following results. The orchard consisted of 4 acres of 

 Baldtfins over 50 years old, which had had no care whatever 

 for at least 20 years. This orchard was sold to a good 

 orchardist, who began the work of renovation at once. 

 Seventy-five loads of stable manure were applied and plowed 

 under ahd the most thorough cultivation was practiced. 



The first year not more than |25 worth of fruit was 

 sold, but the second year, in response to more scientific 

 management, $1,100 worth of fruit v.'&s sold. Pruning had 

 cost about |50, plojring and cultivation ^75, spraying, 

 $60 and fertilization |100, a total of |285, leaving a 

 net profit for the first two years of operating of $840 

 or $210 per acre. 



Another 6.1 acre orchard in western New York gave the 

 following results: 



