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Show Money In Apple Orchards, Tasmania has loug boen known as tho apple land of tho south, but few at homo have any real Idea ot tbo monoy that can be made, nnd la being mado, out bf apple .growing Jn that Island. Last year, for Instance, thero woro many small orchards in tho south which returned as much as 1,200 bushels bush-els to tbo acre, and one owner of four acres, who picked over 4,000 bushols ot marketable fruit, whtoh ho sold at four shillings a bushel, rcap&d' a gross return ot 800. As his expenses at tho outside would not bo 'inqro thaii 100, his profit an aare worked out at somothlug like 175. Of courso, this was an extrvnio case, but orchards or-chards of 20 ncros and upward averaged aver-aged full 500 bushels an aero and yielded a clear not profit, pt qulto 1,500 in oach cuso. The area nctu ally planted at the present tlmo In domestic do-mestic and commercial orchnrds,f Is about 20,000 acros, and upward of half a million cases pf apples weroj exported ex-ported to this country last yciarV-lFrl-tanhla. ' " |