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 Profits. 



Does it pay to renovate the old orchard? That is a 

 question to be considered carefully before any attempt at 

 renev/al is made, for if it does uot it. v.ere better to pas- 

 Lure the old orchard and feed the wormy drops to the pigs than 

 to spend money si.-iply for the satisfaction of having a nice 

 looking, picturesque bit of landscape near the house for the 

 aesthetic edification of your city friends. 



On the face of it, it would seem to be a profitable 

 undertaking, because so xaany fruit growers, "vho are not in the 

 business for love, are taking it up and makirir money out of it 

 I t will take, in the Vv'orst case of deterioration, not mors 

 than four years to get a good paying commercial crop of apples 

 whereas if a new orchard were set out there v/ould be no apples 

 even in the^earliest bearing varieties before six years. If, 

 therefore, a man has an old orchard and v/ants to grow fruit, 

 by all means get the old one in shape while waiting for the 

 new one to come into bearing, and realize some revenue from 

 the business. Some may be pessimistic as regards the real 

 value of this work. For them a few concrete examples might 

 be helpful. 



A Vermont orchardist reports the following results from 

 renovating a twenty acre orchard. 



1908 oao thing. 



1909 gross sales,- fpl3 , 000 



1910 " " ,- 20,000 



1911 not, sold yet, fruit in storage. 



These figures seem large but are by no means impossible. 

 A man in Connecticut reports the following results from 

 two orchards, one 40 years old and the other 90 years. He 



