. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . ted to !B1,031. Among pearsI consider Bartletts the best variety ; from an acre and a half of young trees I took off $125worth of fruit. Nectarines are a very good crop, bearing and paying well. I have netted-1100 an acre on this fruit. Apricots pay from 112) to .?lnO. French prunes do very wellhere; and from four and a half acres of this fruit I received .SI,000. With ajudicious selection of fruit trees there is as much money in fruit as in raisins. James Conn, living on Kim Avenue in Fresno Colony, has a forty-acre tract in fruitand raisin g
. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . ted to !B1,031. Among pearsI consider Bartletts the best variety ; from an acre and a half of young trees I took off $125worth of fruit. Nectarines are a very good crop, bearing and paying well. I have netted-1100 an acre on this fruit. Apricots pay from 112) to .?lnO. French prunes do very wellhere; and from four and a half acres of this fruit I received .SI,000. With ajudicious selection of fruit trees there is as much money in fruit as in raisins. James Conn, living on Kim Avenue in Fresno Colony, has a forty-acre tract in fruitand raisin grapes, which yielded him $6,600 this season. He says: I raise peaches,apricots, pears, and nectarines, having about twelve acres in orchard. On the whole, Iconsider peaches the most profitable fruit. My apricots this year netted me $230 an ordinary years I get from $150 to $200 from them. Peaches pay me about the demand for nectarines has been very active; and I got $300 an acre for them CALIFORNIA PEACH GROWING ILLUSTRATED-No. 2. 1
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