6o Fntit Farming for Profit in California. 



Reports from tlce Fruit Growers. 



The 23ears from the Larkin place north of town were 

 sent east in the green-fruit shipments. The 107 trees, 

 six years old, on one acre yielded six and one half tons 

 of pears, that brought a net return of S318. 



The prune orchard, of five acres on the old Sallee 

 place, has produced over thirty-three tons of fruit this 

 season, and sold for 850 a ton. A cheque for S16871ast 

 week was the result of the sale of the prunes. 



The Muir place has yielded eighteen tons of prunes 

 from 300 trees — or three acres — this year. The crop 

 was dried and sold for 81135, and the clear profit of the 

 little orchard is put at 81016 for the past year. 



Mr. Miller reports that from 250 peach-trees of the 

 Golden Cling variety, seven years old, he shipped in 

 the green-fruit shipments to Chicago 38,270 pounds, or 

 over nineteen tons. He got three cents a pound for 

 his fruit in Chicago, and the net proceeds of his two and 

 one half acres is 8956.75. The property was bought 

 in 1889 for 8870. It has brought its present owner 

 81490 in the past three years. 



There are many prune trees in the Keller prune 

 orchard that have yielded over 200 pounds each, or a 

 crop worth between 85 and 86 a tree. One acre of six- 

 year-old prune trees was bought in connection with 

 other real estate, by John E. Whitney, for 8450 last 

 vear. The trees have been literally loaded down with 

 fruit this season. All the prunes have been gathered 

 and dried by Mr. AYhitney and his family. The dried 

 crop was sold on Saturday at ten cents a pound, and a 

 cheque for §487 is expected daily. That's the way some 

 people get rich. 



P. J. Dreher has sold 8150 worth of fruit from sixty- 



