64 Fruit Fanning for Profit in California. 



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The seventli year yonr trees will be in full bearing, and 

 will yield each year from 150 to 200, or even 300 pounds 

 to the tree. Each tree will bring yon about $5 net 



• each year or for the orchard 5000 



It does not take miicli perception to see tliat on an 

 outlay of not more than $2760, a person can have an 

 easy income of $5000 in 10 years' time. I don't know 

 of any better and easier way of insuring a large income. 

 I have made these figures with care and prudencp on 

 the basis of financial results from the profits of my 

 own seven-acre prune orchard, and from the figures 

 given me by four of the most careful fruit growers 

 in Pomona Valley. — (E. C. Thurman, for Rural 

 Oalifornian.) 



Almonds. 



An Ojnnion on our Almonds, 



California orchard productions are constantly forging 

 ahead and beating the imported article in the leading 

 markets of the world. First the California raisin, then 

 the prune, peach and walnut. Now the almond is 

 crowding the foreign article for supremacy, as is wit- 

 nessed by the following correspondence addressed to 

 Mr. E. E. Pierson of Banning: — ''Dear Sir, — Our ex- 

 perience with California almonds is very satisfactory ; 



