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"James Fennimore, of New Castle Co., sold from an orchard
of 100 acres (10,000 trees) in four consecutive years
$87,000 worth of peaches. x x Another case is true where
an orchard of less then 2,000 trees yielded in one season
$4,000 net profit. ["]

"Another near Dover, which I myself saw in crop time,
yields from seventy acres a profit of $10,000 yearly [?], the
purchaser buying the crops on the trees. ["]

"There are other instances where a place of forty acres
yields $2,000 per year; one of three and one-half acres yields
$500. per year [They would not do so every year]; one of five
acres $1,300; one of twenty acres yielding fruit to the amount
of $4,300 annually; and one of five acres where the income
from peaches is greater than from the rest of the entire
farm of 350 acres. ["]

"At Milford between $8,000 and $9,000 have been cleared
in three seasons from 2,500 trees.["]

"Orchards in the two lower counties range from 5,000 to
20,000 trees, and one gentleman in Sussex put out 60,000 last
season [1867]."
        