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S. F. Heath, of Heath's Corners, about 1865 or 1866 purchased
five acres of bearing peach orchard for $1,300.  His
first crop sold for $1,800. He then sold the five acres to
Wm. Gates for $7,000. Mr. Gates sold his first crop for 
$2,000, and his next one [1868] for $4,000. It is said that
he had "good prospects for a greater crop <s>in</s> the following
year."  D. A. Winslow.  History of St. Joseph. Lyon. p. 239.

"Mr. Carley, four years ago [1865], purchased forty acres
of peach orchard for $5,000 down.  The first year
after his purchase he cleared from his peaches $2,800. <s>He</s>
He has since paid for his place, has money left, and is now
independent, all of which, except the $1,500, he has made
from his peaches," D. A. Winslow. Ibid. p. 239.

In 1868 (?) in a letter to D. A. Winslow[,] George Parmelee
states that in 1865 on his farm in Berrien Co. "forty-one  Early
Crawford trees produced a few baskets over 1,000, and sold
for two dollars per basket, amounting to $2,200.  The trees
were twenty feet apart each way, which puts 109 trees on an
acre, and makes the yield at the rate of $5,848 to the acre.
This, of course is given as an extreme result, but if any man
        