Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1859 — Profits of an Orehard. [ARTICLE]

Prof its of an Orehard.

It is reported that a farmer in the neighborhood of Nashville, Tenn., has this fall, after making a large amount of cider and vinegar sold the balance of his apples to a New Yorker for .S9OIO, End the New Yorker claims that he will make $6,000 by the operation. We suppose there is little doubt of his being able to do it. The orchard consists of some five thousand trees that have just come into bearing. The enterprising proprietor has, twelve thousand trees already set out, and will soon have ail orchard that will yield him an immense revenue. One hundred acres of orchard will contain some six thousand trees, and they will yield enough the sixth year after planting to pay all expenses of trees, planting and cultivation. When in full hearing, they will furnish from three to twelve barrels of apples to the tree every other year. If the orchard is on any of our railroads, the apples will net $2 & barrel, or $6 to $24 to the tree. Thus we see the annual handsome income from one hundred acres, or an orchard of-six thousand trees, is from SIB,OOO to £72,000. If these statements are exaggerated by one-half, it will be seen at a glance that nothing promisee half so well. But there are a thousand facte that prove thie •iMerate hekrw inatea-d of above the reelity.