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ferior fruit. The answer is apparent when we find in 
the same markets, western apples selling from the box at 
five cents apiece, - juet about double the price of 
oranges. Sections that will produce citrus fruits are 
very limited in thig country and sharply defined by frost 
limits; while apple producing sections are country wide. 
Western crowers have demonetrated that there is 
money in apples, and even after they have paid out more 
for transportation than is received for much of the 
Eastern fruit, there is still enough margin left to pay 
a good interest on a valuation of one thoucand dollars 
or over per acre. An orchard survey of one of the 
average fruit producing sections of Oregon, was published 
in Bulletin 101 by the Experiment Station, Computing all 
the orchards of Jackson County - good and poor - the av- 
erage gross return was $244.30 per acre, expense for cul- 
tivation, epraying, marketing etc., $60.72, leaving an 
average net return of $183.58 per acre for the whole county 
Vany of the better orchards of the county produced from 
$500 to $600 per acre, and one 20 acre orchard of New- 
town's produced $1341.60 per acre, - these went to Eng- 
land. Bqually large returns have been produced in some 
of the best eastern orchards - particularly those that 
receive scientific treatment, in the Ontario Lake region. 
A casual survey of the older apple orchards in many 
parts of New York State, shows a very large list of varie- 
