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Show Cost of Prune Curing In California. The prunn harvest has begun, an I In some plates there ' rirelts of labor whllo other districts be fnlrl) well supplied This Is a ' i.tut sear, anl thi laborers and trareportotlon men an like. Is to get mot of tho gross proceeds of the dried fruit croo. In the Santa Clan valbs harvest men aro demanding ant getting II ft to K per da), the la ler price of course being lull onls lo kood while mem nr the vlclnlts worth two Japanese Japan-ese or Chinese Ihe ustiul price paid for hirtcst bunds In Hie orchirds Is from II0 In JI36 per das rhewi hav. been tha prlien when prunes have been worth 314 to I cents and upward With prunes at .' rents for the four or llvo sites II will cose more to hirvest small prunes-from prunes-from lis un-thin inn be nbtalned for them It insts more to gather these 1 runes than laiger ones, and If the cist of 1 drslng Is put down as low as half a rtrt h pound these very smill prunes after paving all charges, nre llkilj tn bring Ihe grower In debt on harvest account I or tun ileli thini nro hut few on hards ot that kind, but thero are some ml their owners will bo hurilir If they let their fruit fall to thn ground and rot With the Dresent cost ot labor tho avirakO cost of gutherlng tho prune crop and delivering de-livering on Ihe ilrslng ground on the farm will hardly be less than one-fourth of a cent tier dry pound 'tho cost of diylng nnd delivery to packer cannot, this star, ho estimated nt less than three-fourths of a cent per drs pound and wllPpiobubl) exceed that frequent!) exceed It a good deal so that a growir whose prum crop will nverago eighty lo the pound cannot expeit If hn sills at .', tints In get more than Pi cents net after p slug his harvest tills With n shilnkui.ii In fin Ing of two and a Imlr to one Hint la cqulialrm to flO oer on for the fruit on the ire li b 'rr t in i 'i g 1 ut do 3 in t pa, Sau 1 nn i:"o nron Wit. |