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yielded fruit from §160 to §170 an acre this season, 

 over and above all expenses. We respectfully ask some 

 of our super-sceptical farmer friends in the East, who 

 smile at the idea of paying $300 or $400 an acre for a 

 bearing apricot orchard, what they honestly believe such 

 property is worth, reckoning the investment to bring 15 

 per cent, interest per year? — Progress. 



Two crop statements have just been filed at the 

 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. One was from E. 

 Bandle of Burbank, who had planted three acres of 

 sandy loam with White Burbank potatoes. From this 

 piece of land he harvested 900 sacks of potatoes, which 

 he sold for $900. The cost of production $300, leaving 

 a net profit of $600, or $200 to the acre. No irrigation 

 was found necessary. Forty of these potatoes made 

 one bushel. The second statement was from S. E. 

 Thorp, of Ventura, who harvested forty acres of ten- 

 year-old apricot trees. The total yield was 720,000 

 pounds, and he sold from this quantity sixty tons of 

 dried fruit for $15,000. The land was of the same 

 quality as the above. 



Mr. Grruenenwald, who lives north of town, sold 

 $1300 worth of apricots from two and three quarter 

 acres. Dr. G-reenleaf raised $1600 worth on a little 

 less than four acres, and there are several other in- 

 stances of remarkable yields. — Santa Ana Blade. 



A. L. Taylor reports that he has been offered 11 cents 

 per pound for his dried apricots, but he is holding out 

 for 12 cents. Another proof of the fact that it pays and 

 pays big to dry your own fruit. — Santa Ana Blade. 



Mrs. A. H. Stutsman, who resides in the neighbour- 

 hood of Tustin, and who owns a small fruit farm of 



