First Harvest Pays for the 200 Young Peach Trees, Sept. 10, 1925

Paid All Expenses of Orchard with First Year’s Sales

Lincolnton, N.C., Sept. 10 (AP)—Jack Lemon of Lincolnton, Route 3, has paid all the expenses of his orchard with his first year’s sale of fruit, J.G. Morrison, farm agent, reports.

Three years ago Mr. Lemon bought 200 young peach trees through a co-operative order, the trees costing him $21 per 100 delivered. “He has kept his orchard well worked and fertilized,” says Mr. Morrison, “and each year I have gone out and demonstrated how the trees should be pruned. This is the first year that they have produced fruit in commercial quantities and Mr. Lemon had some of the finest Hale and Elbertas I ever saw.”

Mr. Morrison says that 40 bushels of peaches have been sold from the orchard at $1.75 per bushel, besides much fruit that has been canned and used at home.

From the front page of the Concord Times, Thursday, Sept. 10, 1925

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