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mixed varieties, sold from 8i apricot trees $572.83 

 worth of dried fruit the past season. This is at the 

 rate of §936.49 per acre. — Santa Ana Blade. 



Peaes and Otheb Feuit. 



D. W. Lewis, whose place is near Malaga, is an 

 authority in all that pertains to fruit-growing. He 

 believes the most profit^ible variety to be Bartlett 

 pears. 



This season I harvested from thirty-five acres of 

 six-year-old Bartlett pears, some twenty car loads, 

 which I shipped East. I also shipped 22,000 pounds of 

 dried pears, receiving fifteen cents a pound for them, 

 which brought me in about §5500." 



F. E, Storie says: — ^'My gross receipts from four 

 acres of peaches amounted to §1031. Among pears I 

 consider Bartletts the best variety ; from an acre and a 

 half of young trees I took off $125 worth of fruit. 

 Nectarines are a very good crop, bearing and paying 

 well. I have netted 8100 an acre on this fruit. Apri- 

 cots pay from §125 to §150. French prunes do very 

 well here ; and from four and a half acres of this fruit 

 I received §1000. With a judicious selection of fruit 

 trees there is much money in fruit." 



James Conn, living on Elm Avenue in Fresno Colony, 

 has a forty-acre tract in fruit, which yielded him §6600 

 this season. He says : I raise peaches, apricots, 

 pears^ and nectarines, having about twelve acres in 

 orchard. My apricots this year netted me §250 an acre. 

 In ordinary years I get from §150 to §200 fr om them. 

 Peaches pay me about the same. The demand for 



