PROFITS IN APPLE CULTURE. 6% 
mark, a superior and uniform quality of fruit is sold. 
The following figures represent actual crop sales from 
a large orchard: In 187%, the crop sold for $3 per 
barrel; in 1878, $2.75 and $3; in 1879, $3; 1880, 
$2, $2.50 and $3; 1881, $2.75 and $3.50; 1882, $3. 
These figures do not include the culls and cider apples, 
which were either sold to applicants from local markets 
er were made into cider or vinegar. It will be observed 
that the prices averaged about the same for each year. 
These are not prices made to a few local customers, but 
the crop was put upon the city market, where it com- 
peted with other fruit. It was placed in the hands of 
competent dealers, however, who were acquainted with 
the merits of the fruit. The prices are for barrels hold- 
ing two and three-quarter bushels. ‘This orchard is upon 
land worth $60 an acre, and it will return more money 
from apples at twenty-five cents a bushel than from 
wheat at $1 a bushel, although if is in a good wheat 
country. ‘‘ Leroy,” in a recent Philadelphia ‘‘ Press,” 
‘makes the following comment upon a very ordinary apple 
tree: ‘A prolific tree of salable apples brings much 
more money from the ground it occupies than would 
most farm crops. Ona medium sized tree thirty years 
old the owner has every year sold eightto twelve or more 
bushels of fruit. This year the crop was eleven bushels 
and sold readily at fifty cents a bushel, or $5.50. Assum- 
ing that the tree occupies fully four square rods of ground, 
which it does not, here are $220 an acre for a single year’s 
product. This is more than the land. itself is worth. 
Really, this sum, after deducting a small amount for ex- 
penses, represents the interest on the amount which an 
