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year's crop again demonstrates the large profits there 

 are in growing prunes. There are several hundred 

 acres of French prune orchards in this place that have 

 borne this season crops worth over §230 an acre, and 

 there are a large number of orchards that have pro- 

 duced fruit which has sold at the rate of §280 this 

 season, when the crop is not unusually large either. 

 We hear of some prune orchards that run from §325 to 

 §350 an acre. Eli W. Keller has sold the crop from 

 his French (or petite) prune orchard of six acres for 

 §2450. Louis Keller has gathered §5 worth of fruit 

 from many a tree in his orchard, which is of ten acres, 

 and is seven years old. He got §1900 for his crop in 

 the orchard when it was but five years old. The Fill- 

 more orchard, south of this city, has produced a prune 

 crop that has sold for §375 an acre this month, and it 

 is only eight years old. There are quite a number of 

 prune orchards in Pomona Valley that have paid for 

 themselves, and all the care upon them from their start 

 to bearing age by the crops they have borne in 1890 

 and 1892. The Packard prune orchard yielded fruit 

 worth §345 an acre in 1890, and a crop worth about 

 §450 an acre this year. Mr. Packard says he would 

 rather have 75 acres of good prune trees than 100 acres 

 of oranges. There is more clear money for him in his 

 prune trees than in his oranges. — Pomona Progress. 



Three of the largest prune producers in California 

 have combined to form a company, with a capital of half 

 a million dollars, to cultivate about 710 acres of prunes. 

 — Fruit Trade Journal^ London, England, 



The Howe prune orchard of ten acres has produced 

 a crop that has sold for §3700 this year. It is eight 



