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five Salway peacli trees, but four years old, on his 

 place north of town. 



We hear of many orchards here of French prunes 

 that have yielded a crop worth 8200 an acre this 

 season, and of a number that have brought their owners 

 over §250 net per acre. 



Several orchards of Golden Cling peaches have 

 brought their owners about 8275 an acre this year, 

 and one or two have brought over §325 an acre. — Losa 

 Times. 



The money there is in prune growing by careful and 

 industrious orchardists, is only just beginnirg to be 

 realized by many of our landowners. In the settlement 

 of an estate in San Jose last week, an overseer of a 

 Eanche testified that the fifty acres of French prunes 

 on the estate had yielded a profit of about §180,000 

 in twenty years, or an average of §180 an acre every 

 year since the trees were four vears old. Durino' the 

 past eight years — since American prunes have forced 

 the foreign product out of the market — the fifty acres 

 have never brought less than §-125 an acre, and some- 

 times nearly §600 an acre. — San Francisco Weekly 

 Chronicle, 



Wealth in Prunes, 

 Another year has rolled around and added yet an- 

 other proof that California is a paradise for the intel- 

 ligent and industrious fruit grower. In this year of 

 1892 we see what many of us have been arguing for 

 ten or a dozen years — that a handsome fortune can be 

 made in a decade from 80 or even 40 acres of prunes, 

 and big money can be had from 10 and 15 acre prune 

 orchards. I propose in this communication to prove 



