Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-12-06
Profits of-Fruit. Culture.

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The following facts, exhibiting tho
large profits which may be derived from
the skilllul culture of fruits, are furnish.
ed by s. w. Cole, of Boston, who is 9
remarkable fact galherer, and who re-
marks:-
We give some extreme cases and 9th.
e-s which common skill may compass
The culiivator will do well with medi.
cal success.
Yet il is well to have standard Of or
binary attainment, or the perfection o
excellence as a goal for those who in.
scribe on their banner "frceIsior."
Mr., Moses Jones, of Brookline, in
this vicinity. most skillfui cultiyator
set one hundred and twelve apple Mees
two rods apart, and peach trees between,
both ways. The eighth year he had two
hundred and twenty eight barrels of ap-
pies, and in few years from setting the
trees, four hundred dollars worth OF pea
ches in one year; and the best part oil
the story is that large crops of vegetable
were raised on the same land. nearly pay
ing for the manure and labor. The
tenth year from setting many of the
apple trees produced four or five barrels
each. the peach trees having mostly gone
by old age. Mr.. j. grated tolerbly
large pear tree to the Bartlett, and the
third year it produced thirty dollars
wo.th.
MIR. 5. Dudley, a very successful cul-
ilva,or in Roxbury, an adjoining city.
sold the crop of currants from one
eighth of an acre for one hundred and
eight, the next year for one hundred and
twenty-five dollars, and he had good
crops for several years. He picked five
hundred quart boxes from one-eighth of
an acre the next season for setting the
bushes in the fall. He had twenty. five
dollars worth of cherries from one MAJ.
zard tree.
We saw, in Na,ick, Mass, on the
banks OF the "classic Charles" on the
farm of M. Eames, Esq, an appletree
grgfted 10 the Porter when seventy-five
years old: it soon bore, and the seventh
year il produced fifteen barrels, which
sold at thirty dollars. The original IIurl-
but apple tree produced forty bushels in
year. N. Wyeth, Esq, Cambridge, in
this region, had from Harvard pear
tree, nine barrels of fruit, which sold
for $45.
A farmer would not plant an orchard,
thinking he should not live to eat the
fruit; his son had the same views; but
the grandson planted for posterity, yet
his predecessors shared in the fruit also,
for the grandfather drank hogsheads of
the cider.
Hovey states that Dix pear tree in
Cambridge, produced forty.six dollars
worth of fruit at one crop. We saw in
Orange, New Jersey, one hundred bu-
shells of apples on d Harrison tree,
which would make len barrels of cider,
then selling at ten dollars barrel in New
York.
Downing says that the original Dubois
early golden apricot produced forty five
dollars worth in 1914, fifty dollars in
l845, ninety in 1916. A correspondent
Of The Horiicullurist says that Mr.. Hill
Pennell. Derby, Pa, has grape vine
that has produced seventy-fve bushels
yearly, which sell at one dollar oushel.
James Laws, Philadelphia, has Wash
ington plum that yields six bushels a
year that would sell for sixty dollars.
Judge Linn, Carlisle, Pa, has two april
cot trees that yielded five bushels each,
worth one hundred and twenty dollars.
Mr.. Hugh Hatch, OF Camden, New Jer-
sey, has four apple trees that produced
one hundred and forty bushels, ninety
bushels of which sold at one dollar each
In 1874. tree of the lady apple, al
Fishkill Landing, New York. yielded
fifteen bushels that sold for forty-five dol.
lars.-Farmer and Mechanic.