58 Fniit Farming for Profit in California. 



years old. Two years ago it bore a crop tliat netted the 

 owner §294 an acre. — Sana Blade, 



The Egan prune orchard on Fifth Street is eight 

 years okl. It has netted its owner this year $456 an 

 acre. It paid §318 an acre in 1890, and §20 D an acre 

 last year. 



H. J. St. John's orchard in the Kingsley tract has 

 brought its owner nine and one-third tons of fruit per 

 acre. The fruit was sold at §53 a ton on the trees, 

 and Mr. St. John's profits from his property is §466 an 

 acre. He is a greater believer in prunes as a source of 

 profit to the orchardist than in oranges. 



The three-acre peach orchard on the old Sherman 

 place was bought last September for §950 cash down. 

 The crop from the property this year has brought in 

 §516. Mr. Allen, the new owner, says he has owned 

 farm property in four States in the East during the 

 past twenty-six years, and never had such a good pay- 

 ing piece of land before. 



Captain J. S. Garcia has a prune orchard of five 

 acres that will bring him the nice little sum of §2000 

 this year. He has be?n offered §50 a ton for the crop, 

 and a very conservative estimate is eight tons to the 

 acre ; that means §400 an acre, which is as good as 

 oranges. Several other prune orchards in Ontario will 

 make nearly as good a sho^Ymg— Ontario Record. 



Laege Yield of Prunes. — Yisalia Delta : Several 

 persons from Visalia and elsewhere went to the Brigg5 

 orchard to witness the harvesting of the crop of some 

 nine-year-old prune trees, and. those who were present 

 will sign an affidavit setting forth the facts. After 

 arriving at the orchard three trees of the French- 



