Fruit Farming for Profit in California, 1 1 



enumerated in and valued with the 460 acres at $87, 

 which proves the estimated purchase price to be low at 

 Mr. Whiting's figures. 



The fruit industry in California will receive a great 

 impetus the moment the Nicaragua Canal is completed, 

 as freights will be lowered and new markets opened 

 up. 



Intention. — The main idea of Mr. Whiting is to 

 sell the shares to young gentlemen, at once making 

 them interested working shareholders, who will during 

 the first two years be taught how to manage a farm in 

 all branches, fruit-growing, drying, budding, grafting, 

 nursery business, blacksmithing, carpentering, pruning, 

 stock raising, grain growing and haymaking. The old 

 way was for parents to pay a premium of £100 to £150 

 a year for one or two years to have their sons taught or 

 not taught as the case might be. Here Mr. Whiting 

 makes them profit by their own work from the start. 



A second idea being, if gentlemen with families wish 

 to become purchasers of shares, they can rent a house 

 plot from the owners at a nominal rent and erect thereon 

 suitable cottages for themselves, which they can sell 

 or remove whenever they wish, the owners of the 

 Eanche simply reserving the right to become first 

 purchasers at cost price. Any shareholder not wish- 

 ing to take his share of work during the first year 

 shall furnish competent substitute when the Eanche 

 absolutely needs it, to be at the discretion of the manager. 

 The families of shareholders, after owners themselves, 

 shall always have preference of fruit picking and pack- 

 ing, at regular contract pjices. One of the main 

 objects of buying out this Home Eanche of 560 acres 



