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coming into bearing [visit this farm next year] that was sold
at public sale, in the winter season, a few years since for
$31,500.  That same year the purchaser sold peaches from it
to the amount of $52,000."  The author states that the expenses
were:

Picking, $1,500.

Transportation, 9,000. .

Cash paid for
steam boat, 10,000.
[underscore]
20,500
Cost of Farm, 31,500.
[underscore]
$52,000.

--Parry. l.c. pp. 47-8.

Mr. Parry also says (pp. 49-50):--"So far as peach growing
on a large scale is concerned, the net profits may very
safely set down at from $160, to $175, per acre.--While in
many instances they yield right through from $175, to $250.
per acre."

Root lice occur on apple trees.--Tilton's American
Journal of Horticulture<s>l</s>. 1871. p. 310.

Three years ago (1867 or '88) 300,000 boxes of peaches
were shipped from the vicinity of Centralia, Ill. This year
        