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these items naturally varies greatly from individual to 
individual and from ranch to ranch. Land may, of course, 
be bought for less than $100 per acre that is quite satis- 
factory for growing fruit on. Clearing, for instance, may 
cost anything between $50 and $100, or even, as on the 
Pacific Coast near Vancouver, run up to as high a figure 
as $200 and $250 per acre. Then again, consider the 
dwelling-house. One man will build himself a house of 
cedar logs, and all that he will need to find money for 
will be the doors and windows, and the frames for them, 
and for the internal linings of the shell, and for the parti- 
tions, the cost being, maybe, not more than $100, or 
even less. From that figure houses cost all prices up 
to $5,000. Probably I shall not be far wrong if I say 
that the majority of ranchers’ houses cost from $1,000 
to $2,500 each. Other items of a variable nature are 
the stable, the poultry-houses and run, the family living, 
the seeds and plants, the furniture, and the fences. The 
following table is consequently offered merely as a model, 
and is not to be taken as in any sense a final, or even a 
complete, statement of the expenses connected with the 
starting of a fruit ranch in British Columbia: 
Dollars, Dollars. 
Land, 10 acres at $100 ... 1,000| Family living (2 years) ... 1,200 
Clearing and _ Plenghing at Live stock ie cow, Pigs 
$100 a ... 1,000}  poultry).. ate . 275 
Fences ae eis sia 100 6.050 
Dwelling-house ... .» 1,250) Contra: Dole 
Poultry-house —... ne 50| Potatoes, secondyear 750 
Stable a8 ae .-- 400) Strawberries .. 60 
Furniture ... eats vise 200 Eggs (2 years) -. 100 
Fruit-trees ... a Pee 250! WMilkand buttersold 100 
Seeds and Plants ... .. 250 — 1.000 
Tools and Implements ... 75 ance 
