FRUIT GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 
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The price per ton is about £9. 10s., though it is occasionally as 
much as £10. 
Sugar beets are now being grown to some extent, as the 
refinery at Alvarado is but fourteen miles distant. The price 
per ton ranges from 22s. to 25s., and the product per acre from 
twenty to forty tons. 
The following table shows the relative value of the different 
grades of dried prunes, reckoned with reference to quotations 
applicable to the four sizes. By “four sizes” is meant four 
grades of prunes, namely :— 
(1) Those requiring between 60 to 70 prunes to weigh a lb. 
(2) „ „ „ 70 „ 80 
(3) „ „ „ 80 „ 90 
(4) „ „ „ 90 „ 100 
The term “four sizes” used commercially means equal 
quantities of those grades ; that is, a twelve-ton car load of the 
four sizes contains three tons of each of the four grades. 
The different grades, of course, have different values, which 
are computed with reference to the basis price for the four sizes 
universally used as the sizes upon which to base values. The 
relative value of the various grades when prices are quoted for 
the “four sizes” may be seen at a glance by consulting the 
following table, which was prepared by F. M. Fighter, Esq., the 
President of the Campbell Fruit-Growers’ Union :— 
BASIS PRICE FOR THE FOUR SIZES. 
Sizes of Prunes, 
that is number ! 
required to 
make 1 lb. 
3 31 
3 } 
3 | 
1 
H 
4 | 
5 
5 i 
5 £ 
5 | 
6 
6 £ 
6 | 
6 f 
7 
71 
7 J 
7 £ 
8 
cents 
(if.) 
30 to 
40 
5k 
4 
6 
6 £ 6 | 
6 f 
7 
7i 
7 A 
' 2 
7f 
8 
8 * 
8 | 
84 
9 
9* 
9f 
10 
10 * 
40 „ 
50 
4 f 
5k 
iH 
Kll 
5f 6 ! 
6 * 
0k 
6 f 
7 
7k 
7f 
8 
8 | 
8 f 
S T 
9 
9i 
9A 
9f 
50 „ 
60 
Hi 
4 k 
4f 
5 
5im\ 
6 | 
6 “ 
6 ^ 
6 f 
7 
7* 
7A 
7| 
8 
8 ±| 
l 8 i 
8 f 
9 
9* 
60 „ 
70 
3f 
4 
'H 
41 
4f‘5 
5k 
4 
6 ^ 
6 A 
6 f 
7 
7i 
7 A 
7| 
8 ~ 
H 
8 ^ 
8 f 
70 „ 
80 
3| 
3f 
4 
to! 
i 4 f 
5" 
5k 
4 
6 " 
, 6 * 
6 * 
6 f 
7 
7*i 
7f 
7f 
8 
8* 
80 „ 
90 
2 f 
3" 
3i 
3| 
3 t;4 
H 
4k 
H 
5 
5 } 
5k 
6 f 
6 
6 £ 
6 f 
7 
7£ 
71 
* 2 
7f 
90 „ 
100 
2 ^ 
2 f 
3 
\H 3| 
3f 
4 
4? 
41 
^2 
4f 
5 " 
5 | 
5f 
6 " 
Hi 
6 J 
6 | 
7 
7i 
100 „ 
110 
If 
2 
2 i 
91 
1 2 
2f 3 
3| 
3| 
3f 
4 
H 
4^ 
4f 
5 
! 5 | 
5f 
6 
6 i 
6 | 
6 f 
110 „ 
120 
r 
u 
If 
2 
1 
H 24 
93 
3" 
3i 
1 
0 3 
1 4 
1 
4*" 
H 
41 
4 2 
4f 
5 
H 
I 54 
5f 
6 
H 
This is made out in American money, but a cent is worth \d. o f 
English money. 
