FRUIT GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 



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and night watchman, all office expenses, telephone, telegrams, 

 interest on borrowed money used in handling the crop, and for 

 making advances on fruit delivered, insurance, light, tax, depre- 

 ciation of plant, and 7 per cent, interest on stock, is given by the 

 Campbell Fruit Growers' Union as follows : — 









1892 





1893 



1894 



1895 





£ 



S. 



d. 



£ s. d. 



£ 



s. d. 



£ S. 



d. 



Apricots . 



1 



9 



5 



1 1 10 



1 



5 0 



0 17 





French Prune . 



0 



8 





0 8 0 



0 



9 0 







Silver 



0 



9 



o 



0 8 0 



0 



9 0 







Egg Plums 



0 



9 



0 



0 8 0 



0 



8 0 







Washington Plums . 









1 16 11 











Pears 









114 











Early Peaches 



1 



3 



4 



0 19 U- 



1 



5 0 







Muir 



1 



3 



lh 



0 19 1 





not carried out. 





Cling 



1 



5 



5± 



14 8 







> J 5> 





Salway „ 



1 



7 



10 



1 0 10| 







>> »J 





The best graders and dippers now in use are those manufac- 

 tured by the firm of Messrs. Cunningham & Barngrover, of San 

 Jose. Their machines have innumerable advantages over any 

 others made, and are designed to meet the wants of large, as well 

 as small, growers or packers. I cannot speak too highly of the 

 material and workmanship employed in the manufacture of these 

 indispensable articles, and the testimonials which have been pre- 

 sented to the makers are of the highest order. Sometimes the 

 wet season is early, and Prunes are not all sun-dried ; then it is 

 that they have to be evaporated, and this costs about 24s. a ton. 



I think that at this stage it would be well to give reports of 

 interviews with ranchers, drying, canning, and packing com- 

 panies around San Jose, the county town of Santa Clara 

 County. 



The Great Dunne Eancho. 



Choice fruit land in the Santa Clara Valley is cheaper at £40 

 an acre than the best corn land in the Middle States is at £10 an 

 acre, because ten acres of land here in full bearing fruit trees will 

 produce more than fifty acres of corn land in the East. It is 

 not at all an uncommon thing for our orchardists to realise 

 a net income of from £10 to £20 an acre. Yet there is land in 

 the county which can be had for from £20 to £25 an acre, which 



