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Fruit Farming for Profit in California. 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



SwoEN Statement of Paige and Morton. 



To show that the tables published in this pamphlet are very con- 

 servative, we hereby append the sworn statement of Paige 

 and Morton, who owned an assorted orchard of 500 acres 

 and a raisin vineyard of 800 acres. 



KlIfDS OF FeUITS. 



Age of 

 Trees, 

 1890. 



Cost of 

 Cultivat- 

 ing and 

 Handling. 



Gross 

 Receipts 

 per Acre. 



Net Profit 

 per Acre. 



Apricots 



5 



% 

 132 



$ 

 313 



$ 

 211 



Nectarines .... 



5 



132 



400 



268 



Peaches 



5 



150 



500 



350 



Yellow Egg Plnms 



5 



100 



500 



400 



French Prnnes 



5 



120 



720 



600 



Pears 



6 



65 



502 



427 



Raisins 



5 



65 



305 



240 



Solicitors Calif. Fruit Co., Head-oflSce, San Francisco. 



Money in Fruit. — James McPhersonof Garden Eanclie 

 has three acres of Bartlett pear trees now eight years 

 old. They were cut down when two years old by 

 grass-hoppers, so bear no more than trees six or seven 

 years old, yet last season he picked 15 tons from the 

 tract, and this season 11 tons from the same. The 

 fruit averaged him two cents a pound delivered here for 

 shipment to the Marysville cannery. This would re- 

 turn him this season $440 and last year $600, or $1040 



