. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . acres in my place. Fifty-seven in bearing. This place is seven yearsold. I paid for it twenty dollars an acre when I bought. I ask $()0,000 for it now. Croplast year brought me $6,000,—a little over that. This year I sold my fruit on the trees andvines for $7,125, and the purchaser does all the work of picking and packing. A prettygood income from twenty-dollar land; is it not? Income is off of fifty-seven acres. Ihave twenty acres of Muscat Grapes and ten acres of Zinfaudel. The latter brought twoand a half cents per pound. These ten acres br
. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . acres in my place. Fifty-seven in bearing. This place is seven yearsold. I paid for it twenty dollars an acre when I bought. I ask $()0,000 for it now. Croplast year brought me $6,000,—a little over that. This year I sold my fruit on the trees andvines for $7,125, and the purchaser does all the work of picking and packing. A prettygood income from twenty-dollar land; is it not? Income is off of fifty-seven acres. Ihave twenty acres of Muscat Grapes and ten acres of Zinfaudel. The latter brought twoand a half cents per pound. These ten acres brought $1,125. Only eighty-two dollarsexpenses on me for plowing and cultivating. Income would be much larger if I had allMuscat Grapes. Why do you sell your fruit on the trees instead of drying and packing yourself ? I am a Californian, and a Californian gets too lazy and dont like to work all the yearround. KAISIN GRAPES, WITH FIGS INTERSPERSED. Figs? Yes; I have about ten acres of this fruit, and they will do better than any-thing else. Particularly in alkali, where nothing else will ^row well. They will bringme, if everything is favorable, they ought to bring me $150 an acre this year at six3-ears old. They brought me $550 last year clean money. I cut them back to get a bigyield of cuttings, and sold the cuttings off of them for $800, so they really brought me in$1,400 to $1 500. I also have some vines planted among my figs, and they brought about$900 last year.* My figs are of the White Adriatic variety. I intended to cut the vinesout that are among the fig trees, but I dont think I will do so now. I am four and a halfmiles from the Court-house. Received last year ten and a half cents for my figs, boxed,F. O. B. cars here ready to go East. Average cost is three cents per pound to get thempicked and boxed ready for market. */. ^., a total of S3,350 from the ten acres of figs and raisins interspersed. HOWARD & WILSON COL
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