. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . 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 Adria
. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . 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 COLONY COMPANY. LIWB OF 8-YEAR OLD FIG TREE LOADED WITH FRUIT FIG THE GREAT FUTURE PREDICTED FOR THIS INDUSTRY—PROFITSAND POINTERS Fresno county is undoubtedly one of the best localities for the cultureof the fig that one could find. The climate is exactly the climate requiredfor the successful culture of this most valuable fruit. Our summers beingdry and hot, gives us an excellent opportunity for drying fruit; and therewill never be any necessity for drying figs by artificial heat, because theyare ready for picking long before the rains commence. The degree of success one obtains in fig-growing depends upon the soilin which the trees have been planted. The soil particularly adapted to thispurpose is the sandy soil of this valley. It has been found by actual experi- 26 HOWARD & WILSON COLONY COMPANY ence that figs will thrive and bear large crops where the peach, pear andmany other varieties of fruit grow slowly and sometimes produce little or
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