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The Svenson apricot trees (100 of them) on the 

 Kingsley tract bore the lightest crop of fruit ever known 

 for them. Yet when the yield was dried it amounted to 

 1050 pounds. It sold for twelve and one half cents a 

 pound, and a cheqne for 8131.25 was given for the 

 acre's yield. 



E. B. McDill reports having taken about twenty- 

 three tons of Moorpark apricots from two acres (200 

 trees, seven years old), this season. He dried his own 

 fruit, and got 7643 pounds of dried fruit. He sold for 

 twelve cents a pound, and after paying for labour in dry- 

 ing and for hauling his fruit, his clear profit from the 

 crop was S805.16. 



If one is properly prepared for it, it pays better to 

 dry one's own fruit than to sell it green for others to 

 dry. If I can get 2 cents a pound for my apricots 

 delivered within two miles of my place, I will sell them 

 green. Otherwise I will dry them. — D. Edson Smith, 

 Fiural California . 



The report that 860 per ton is being obtained in cer- 

 tain sections for apricots this season should remind 

 orchardists that if apricot and peach growing are stuck 

 to, the average profits will thoroughly justify the 

 investment necessary. Even the orange and raisin here 

 have their unfavourable seasons, and yet this has no 

 tendency to discourage intelligent growers. The former 

 disposition to drop a given line of horticulture every 

 time another department has an unusually profitable 

 season is now likely to influence people less than 

 formerlv. The man who sticks," wins in the lono; run. 

 — Fiver side Fress. 



We hear of a number of apricot orchards that have 



