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CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS. 



Average Gross Income per Acre 

 1900, .... S122 



1901, 58 > 



1902, .... 134 



It is most significant to find, however, by an examination of 

 the incomes derived, that they vary from nothing in the case of 

 the totally neglected orchard to as much as $500 per acre in the 

 case of the orchard well tilled, pruned, sprayed and on a favorable 

 soil and site, but, more than this, the orchard from which the 

 product has been marketed advantageously. The question then 

 resolves- itself into this form, viz., How much can each man beat 

 the average ? The variations of income from orcharding are shown 

 in the following tabular statement : — 



Five-year Average, 1900-1904, fob All Growers in Orleans County, 



New York. 



To make the evidence more convincing, I present the returns 

 from another county. In the great fruit-growing region lying 

 alongside the Niagara Eiver and Lake Ontario approximately 

 35,000 acres are occupied by apple orchards. A survey of this 

 county of Niagara, covering conditions and returns, has been made. 

 This examination, undertaken by the Department of Horticulture 

 of Cornell University, reveals the fact that the returns from all 

 orchards in which the fruit is harvested have for the past three 

 years given an average gross income of $100 per acre, — very much 

 greater than any other farm crop cultivated. 



The Factors of Success. Spraying. — There is no longer any 



> Small crop. 



