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 worked with them 1© years so that now the one is 50 years old 

 and the other 100 years. 



"Have no accurate figures as to cost and returns but have 

 sold from $200 to "^300 per acre from vilnter fruits for several 



years,- and there is certainly a handsome profit in the 



n 



operation* 



Another reports,- "Formerly one to two barrels, IIo.S and 

 Ko. 3, now 5 to 8 barrels, No. 1, per tree. 



An orchardist in Ploradale , Pa. reports an increase in his 

 profits of -'over 200,^". 



The Frost and Bartlett Co., Landscape foresters and 

 entomologists, when questioned concerning the value of reno- 

 vation state;- 'It is impossible to quote you exaat figures from 

 a cominercial standpoint as to the value of orchard treatment. 

 I can state positively, however, that many of the orchards 

 that have not borne fruit for many years, have produced enough 

 fruit to pay for the treatment of the trees, both pruning and 

 spraying, cavity work, etc., and to give a handsome profit 

 besides. Each year after such treatiaent, they have improved 

 and it is almost all profit after this done. 



Another man from New Hampshire writes as follows: 



In rega.rd to profits, will say that I have established a 



retail trade for all my best apples; for the past tv7o years 



have sold all of my fancy grade as follows: 



bbl. box 

 Baldwins 5.00 2.00 



Mcintosh 7.00 2.50 



And sell good IIo. I's at '|^4.00 per bbl. lly cheaper 

 grades go through the cormnission merchants, v/here I think I can 

 do the best. Have put in lots of work, but think it is paying 



