84 Fruit Fanning for Profit in Califor7tia, 



Income. 



2,500 boxes oranges .S2,5C0 '""O 



1,500 boxes lemons . 2,000 00 



37,000 ponnds peaches 740 00 



2,000 ponnds pears . 40 00 



3,500 pounds apples . 70 CO 



1,500 pounds bei ries . 120 00 

 1,000 pounds English 



walnuts . 80 00 

 500 pounds crab 



apples . . 10 00 

 400 pounds necta- 

 rines . . 8 00 



Gross .§5,913 00 



Expenses. 



Two men employed . $711 CO 



Hay and grain for three 



horses . . . 267 50 



Taxes . . . . 118 67 



Family expenses, team 

 supplies, and do- 

 mestic . . . 1,710 00 



Net income over all 



expenses . . . 3,072 83 



§5,913 CO 



The family averages six. In this report no account 

 is made of eggs, chickens and two cows, the retnrns 

 being consumed. An alfalfa patch on the place main- 

 tains two COWS. — Eev. Dr. Haskins, Editor Southern 

 Calif ornian Churchman, Los Angeles. 



The Oltye. 



An olive orchard is a gold mine on the face of the earth." — 

 Italian Froverh. 



Profits of Olive Culture'. — Mr. Kimball, the olive oil 

 manufacturer, has stated that olive trees three years 

 old will pay expenses ; that trees four and five years 

 old will pay a handsome return ; that he bought olives 

 at 85 cents per gallon as they were gathered from trees 

 a few months over four years old, some of the trees 

 yielding thirty gallons of oil ; that he paid one of his 

 neighbours over 8200 per acre for his olives, the trees 

 having been planted three years ago last March ; that 

 he has picked eleven gallons from a tree four years and 

 six months old from the cutting ; that he has taken 

 twenty-three gallons from a tree less than six years 



