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Mr. Parry says, "Several fruit growers, whom I could
name, sold [in 1869] from twenty to sixty thousand baskets
each, at an average price, after deducting the expenses of
picking, freight and commissions, of fifty cents per basket<s>s</s>,
yeilding [yielding] them various sums from $10,000 up to $30,000 each,
clear profit; all gathered in about six weeks,"--l.c. p. 47.

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"A fruit grower near Delaware City last year [187[illegible]] had
140 acres in peach trees, and cleared over $16,000 from them." [Yellows]
has now destroyed all orchards].--Ibid. l.c. p. 47.
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"A peach grower near Middleto<s>n</s>wn [Middletown], Del. [almost no peaches there
now] who formerly went from New Jersey, had four hundred acres
in peaches last year, and although not a full crop, was offered
$30,000 for them, but refused to sell, and had them
pick<s>l</s>ed [picked] and marketed on his own account, and cleared $38,000."
--Parry, l.c. p. 47.

"Many of us are no doubt familiar with the history of
the 'Peach Blossom Farm' in Kent Co., Md., containing six
hundred acres, with four hundred acres in peach trees just
        