. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 3:)4 FRUIT-GROWING FRUIT-GROWING the third year possibly two rows, the fourth year not over three rows,' the tifth year about the same, and so on till the end of the seventh year. I would ce;ise cropping ground entirely and expect to get some returns the eighth year. *' As to profits to be derived from the orchard, I I can only give my experience in the Arkansas valley. When my
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 3:)4 FRUIT-GROWING FRUIT-GROWING the third year possibly two rows, the fourth year not over three rows,' the tifth year about the same, and so on till the end of the seventh year. I would ce;ise cropping ground entirely and expect to get some returns the eighth year. *' As to profits to be derived from the orchard, I I can only give my experience in the Arkansas valley. When my apple trees were nine years" old, the crop netted $90 per acre. Next year we did not spray and lost half the crop by codlin-moth. The third year we sprayed part of the trees four times and part twice, and the part sprayed four times (these trees being twelve years. ^"^m Fig. 504. Delivering peaches to cars in New York. old) dropped scarcely any fruit and it packed over 75 per cent No. 1; these are now bringing $ per bushel. The better parts of the orchards netted $150 per acre. We figure that spraying, picking, sorting, packing, hauling to storage and loading in the car cost us, including the package, thirty-five to forty cents per bushel box, with labor at $ to $2 for an average picker. In this lo- cality, wheat on the same kind of land might aver- age twenty bushels to the acre and the average price be about sixty cents. Some land will produce thirty to fifty ; Market problems. In a general article, it is impossible to give spe- cific practical advice on the harvesting and market- ing of fruits, for the practices differ with each fruit and sometimes with the community. Yet it is possible to make statements of points of view. If a crop is worth raising with much labor and care, it is equally worth marketing. It is perhaps unusual that one man is equally competent in the growing and the selling. The professional sales- man seems to be a nec
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