72 Fruit Farming for Profit in California, 



four boys and girls she hired, and her net returns from 

 her little orchard are $243. — Rural California, 



M. B. Fassett, of the North Ontario Fruit Company, 

 vouches for the statement that one Southern California 

 fruit rancher sold his crop of Eoyal apricots this year 

 from three acres, for between $1000 and $1100. That 

 is nearly $400 per acre for apricots, and if anybody 

 has a better showing we should like to hear from 

 him. The price received was only a cent a pound, so 

 that there must have been about 20 tons of fruit to the 

 acre. — Rural Galifornia, 



The Ventura Free Press says : A. E. Newby of Ven- 

 tura will make a small fortune this season out of 

 apricots. It is said that he bought 2000 tons, for 

 which he paid $15 per ton, or say $30,000. He will 

 make 330 tons of dried fruit, worth $240 a ton. After 

 making expenses he will, doubtless, clean up $30,000 to 

 $40,000 out of the venture. 



Money in Fruit Growing. 



The Johnston apricot orchard on Crowe Avenue in 

 this place yielded from $190 to $210 an acre this 

 season. 



The Wilson apricot orchard of four acres near Lords- 

 burg in this valley, had a crop of thirty nine tons that 

 sold for $22 a ton at the depot. The cash returns from 

 the fruit were $837, or $209 an acre. 



J. J. White, of this place got twenty two tons of 

 apricots from his 200 trees on two acres, and sold to 

 Sherman, Marr & Higgins for $20 a ton. A cheque for 

 the crop from two acres for $440 would make our 

 Eastern farmers' eyes stand wide open with surprise. 



