. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . ld. The gross receipts for the seventy acres last year (1890j were S17,750, or S353per acre. A. C. Bryan, of Oleander, said: Peaches are the most profitable, and I consider thelemon clingstone the best variety. It is a sure bearer in this country, comes into themarket in the middle of August, and is good for either canning, drying, or shipping. Inordinary vears they veill yield $300 an acre gross, the trees being from six toeight years old. This having been an exceptional year, the profits were intend planting twenty acres more in pe
. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . ld. The gross receipts for the seventy acres last year (1890j were S17,750, or S353per acre. A. C. Bryan, of Oleander, said: Peaches are the most profitable, and I consider thelemon clingstone the best variety. It is a sure bearer in this country, comes into themarket in the middle of August, and is good for either canning, drying, or shipping. Inordinary vears they veill yield $300 an acre gross, the trees being from six toeight years old. This having been an exceptional year, the profits were intend planting twenty acres more in peaches this winter, French prunes are veryprofitable. From about two-thirds of an acre I received S500 net. I takeextraordinary care of the trees, thinning out by hand and spraying in winter. Whitenectarines come after prunes in value. D. W. IvCwis, whose place is near Malaga, is an authority in all that pertains to fruit-growing. He believes the most profitable varieties to be Bartlett pears and peaches. CALIFORNIA PEACH GROWING ILLUSTRATED-No. 1. IRRIGATING PEACH ORCHARD JUST PLANTED, IN THE HOWARD & WILSON COLONY This season I harvested from thirty-five acres of six-year old Bartlett pears. some twenty car loads, which I shipped east. I also shipped 22,000 pounds of driedpears, receiving fifteen cents a pound for them, which brought me in about $6, grow as well in our fcothills as anywhere on the Coast. Of the nut trees I thinkthe pecans will do well on the river bottom lands of this county; and Italian chestnutswill also thrive here. Theodore Minturn says: Of the cost of caring for five acres ol almonds on his Chow-chilla estate, he kept a careful record. Every hours work of plowing, cultivating,pruning, picking, etc., was noted, and good prices charged in the account therefor. Thealmonds were of good quality. They found a ready market, as almonds always do; andalter every charge against five acres had been allowed for, there remameda clear profit
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