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 
i 1 
1 
10 
1 
5 
0 
0 
17 7§- 
French Prune . 
0 
8 
9 
0 
8 
6 
0 
9 
0 
— 
Silver ,, 
0 
9 
0 
0 
8 
0 
0 
9 
0 
— 
Egg Plums 
0 
9 
0 
0 
8 
0 
0 
8 
0 
— 
Washington Plums . 
— 
1 
16 
11 
— 
—. 
Pears 
— 
1 
1 
4 
— 
— 
Early Peaches 
1 
3 
4 
0 
19 
lb 
1 
5 
0 
— 
Muir ,, 
1 
3 
7| 
0 
19 
1 
not car 
Tied 
out. 
Cling 
1 
5 
4 
1 
4 
8 
,, 
Salway „ 
! 1 
7 
10 
1 
0 
10b 
” 
” 
5 5 
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 Rancho. 
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 £§5 an acre, whicti 
