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Show FRUIT FROM IRRIGATED LANDS. First grade Spitzbergen apples bring ?L5Q a box. Four acres , of Elberta pears netted 1,000 an acre. Peter l3ach got $2,137 from peaches ou an acre and a half. Prom fiv acres of Italian prunes an Oregon man got $3, COO. One and three-qitsvters ncrcs of Spitzbergen apples brought Russell & Sons $1,000. .Mrr. Thekla Woisberger of Oregon got $2,000 from three and a half acres of peach trees. Otic-year pear trees produced pe&rfc 11 Inches around, Many trees bear in their second year, Fl'om irrigated fruit landa Washington Wash-ington orchardmen are making from $1,000 to $2,000 net per acre. A yellow Ne"Wtort apple tree yielded 19 boxes of first grade apples at $2.23 per Ijiox, aiid five boxes Of culls at 1. The Yakima Output wad. roughly estimated: es-timated: Peaches, SoOcarSj at $800 a car; plums and prunes, 25 cars, $550 a car; peal's, 40 cars, at $750 a tar; apples, 225 cars, at $900 a car. |