PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1783, 7 March 1888, Page 2

PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING.

Five or six years since land about Freran, Cal., was as barren as a barn floor. The following we take from a Fresno paper : — 11 Mr H, F. Ball, proprietor of the Ball vineyard, was interviewed briefly recently as he was staring on'a trip to the East m regard to the success of the fruit-growing business the past season, end a few figures «rer<) obtained from him which are not calculated to dimmißh faith m tho productiveness of Fresno soil. The pact year nras Mr Ball's first experience m farming of any sort, and he does not reem to be at all discouraged by the result of hi* summers work. The fruit on his lands was all sold to one firm, the peaches and pears as they oame from the trees and the raisins m the sweat boxes. From ten acres of peaches he received $2 522. From three and a half acres young pear trees, $101, and from fiftyfive a-, res of raiain vineyard of three year old vines, $3,7 0 ; a total of $11,333. The net returns are something over $ <,000 a neat sum to lay away for one season's work and a modest investment of capital."