One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money

by Harold Morse Dunphy

PLAN No. 613. REMARKABLE YIELD FROM TWENTY-THREE ACRES

The following figures taken from a 23-acre tract, near North Yakima, Washington, illustrates what can be accomplished in the irrigated valleys of the Inland Empire, when intensified farming methods are followed:

Six thousand boxes of apples, 10 tons of cherries, 400 boxes of peaches, 700 boxes of pears, 100 crates of small fruit, 1,800 boxes tomatoes, 40 tons of wheat and alfalfa hay, 15 tons carrots and mangel-wurzels, 2 tons grain and vegetables, 50 bushels corn, 400 pounds butter, 14 pure bred Duroc hogs, 220 dozen eggs, one Holstein heifer and one colt.