54 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY

No mention is made of spraying and pruning the fruit trees, the cost
of which may well be charged to the orchard when it comes into bearing.
Nor has the marketing of produce been tabulated, the cost naturally dif-
fering according to local circumstances. Neither is the cost of clearing the
ground included in this calculation.

Fencing, Breaking, Planting and Cultivating an Orchard of ro acres.
FIRST YEAR.

160; Cedar Posts: @u18t hy Skane VES: $28 .80
S800"lbsi:BarbedeWire @)4ic s28 eS ee 34.00
d0nbs.cStaplesi@ Gerri nit Sas Saas te et 1.80
2 men, 4:days, per day $2250: sa. 2 ae ees 20.00
See Oe 00
Man and Team breaking 6 days @ $6.00. .......... 36.00
Man and Team, Disc and harrow @ $6.00.......... 24.00
SSS 60.00
Man and Team, ploughing furrows and covering seed,
4 dayss@! SO00 saris eet ee oe BR ee 24.00
3 men cutting and dropping seed, 4 days @ $2.50... 30.00
—— 54.00
31% tons Seed Potatoes @ $20.00.................. 70.00
Cultivation with heeling 4 times through, man with
single‘horse, 10 days @ $3.75... 2... . 3t.50
Digging and pitting, 11 men, 5 days @ $2.50........ 137.50
ieman-and:team, oidays @:96.002 23... ee 30.00
Bags, 60:tons, per ton @ Gls60. 55 oe 96.00 —
————— 371.00
SECOND YEAR. — —
Harrowing twice and ploughing in Fall of First Year after $569 . 60
; taking off crop.
6 days man and team @ $6.00................... .. $ 36.00
500 fruit trees planted 50 to the acre, average cost
$25 00 :per bundredic. 20 cee ee $125 .00
Planting dittoseach L0G 25 a See wee, 50.00
314 tons seed potatoes @ per ton $20.00........... 70.00
Ploughing furrows and covering seed, 4 days @ $6.00. 24.00
3 men cutting and dropping seed, 4 days @ $2.50.... 30.00
Cultivation, man and horse, 10 days @ $3.75........ 37.50
Extra ditto for trees, 2:days @.$3.75. <2... 05.2 6
Digging and pitting, 11 men, 5 days @ $2.50........ > 137250
1 Man and Team, 5 days @ $6.00................. 380.00
60:'ton* bags, per ton°@ $6025. es OO 96 .00
(SSS TEE 468 . 50
THIRD YEAR.

Harrowing twice and ploughing in Fall of Second Year after $643 .50
crop has been taken off.

Man: and’ Team, 6: days: @ $0.003.. 02 Ho ee ees $36 .00
314 tons seed potatoes, per ton $20.00.............. 70.00
Ploughing furrows and covering seed, man and team
Ardays: Qs SOOO ies ee eee antes ee 24.00
. Three men cutting and dropping seed, 4 days @ 2.50 30.00
Cultivation, man with 1 horse, 10 days @ $3.75..... 37.50
Extra cultivation for trees, 2 days @ $3.75.......... D0
Digging and pitting, 11 men, 5 days @ $2.50........ 137 .50
Man and Team, 5 days @ $6.00................... 30.00
GU:tons* bags, per TONG OO wees ccc eeeer ee ere oe 96 .00

$468 . 50