. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . inches in circumference. Theybring in Europe as high as twenty-five cents each. The second crop gener-ally of all varieties of figs, as far as known, is the best. Profits ? The fruit brings in sacks in Chicago from seven and a halfto eight and a half cents per pound, and sometimes more money. I onlystate of my own experience ; for I shipped the first that ever went East. Isent a box to New York once to the Foreign Fruit Exchange, and they didnot know what to think of them. You can consider that anything aboveone and a half cents per pound, in
. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . inches in circumference. Theybring in Europe as high as twenty-five cents each. The second crop gener-ally of all varieties of figs, as far as known, is the best. Profits ? The fruit brings in sacks in Chicago from seven and a halfto eight and a half cents per pound, and sometimes more money. I onlystate of my own experience ; for I shipped the first that ever went East. Isent a box to New York once to the Foreign Fruit Exchange, and they didnot know what to think of them. You can consider that anything aboveone and a half cents per pound, in sacks, barring freight, is profit. Treesproduce from 1,000 to 2,600 pounds per tree. I have never figured up theexact weight. HOWARD & WILSON COLONY COMPANY 27 I think those six-year old trees of mine will pay me ^20 per tree* Figs commence to bear at the third year. One advantage is, that the treeis a fast grower, makes plenty of wood, bears freely, and is not affected byinsects. My figs have never been attacked by insects; and if a tree is. MAJOR M. DENICKES SIX-YEAR OLD FIG ORCHARD (Ten acres—69 trees to the acre) affected, it should be cut back. Trees should be branched from 1^4 to 2^feet out of the ground. I planted mine about twenty-four feet apart. Whenthey get too thick I take some out. Mine grow too fast on account of themoist ground, and this hurts the fruit. Better have the soil too dry thantoo wet. 28 HOWARD & WILSON COLONY COMPANY [From the Fresno Republican.^ IRRIGATION IX FRKSNO COUNTY There are now sixteen irrigation companies, each having its own canals, taking waterfrom the Kings River, San Joaquin and Fresno rivers. These sixteen companies have 750miles of main canals or ditches, with about the same number of miles of distributories andlaterals. These sixteen systems have cost in the neighborhood of $1,900,000 to build, andthey cover about 350,(lOO acres of land. Of this, about ;500,(lC0 acres are planted in cereals,and yield a profit ot ten dollars per acr
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