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Show H I HORTICULTURE IS PROFITABLE. M , It Is interesting to note In an Inter- Hf I mountain farm journal that Colorado, V I Oregon and Washington orchards H ' f change hand at from 1500 to 1,600 Vi jj per acre. In the same publication are I figures showing that the cost of set HI I ting out and tending an orchard until V I the sixth year, when fair production m begins, averages about t27 yearly, or V H 9135 for the whole time of unproduc- S ' fe tlveness. This Includes the cost of trees and all work incident to planting fl t. and proper care. . f Considering the fact that during the K first five years an excellent crop of one M'.' kind or another may be raised between BWa tlle rows ot trees, and that a fair yield By ' of apples In tho sixth year at oven Bb I 75 cents a bushel will very near, pay Ht the entire cost, of tliu orchard, It Hit ' would appear that.frult growing offers H . Inducements not held out along other Bl lines of Investments BBv ' 4 .t ' |