_The Profits and Other Items._--The profit varies, of course, greatly, but an average profit may be considered to be from about $125 to $150 per acre. The yield of an acre is variable, but from eight to ten tons of fresh grapes is said not to have been uncommon. In some cases the yield has been much higher and the profit larger. I have from trustworthy source the statement that one vineyardist who owns only a few acres, I believe only five, and who has given all his time and attention to these vines, has realized as much as $430 per acre. This I quote only as an instance of what might be done with care and expense in an exceptionally favored locality. Some few growers have realized $250 profit on each of a few acres, which also is to be considered exceptional. I believe my former statement of $150 per acre as being reliable and attainable by all San Bernardino county raisin-growers who have good land, and who give their vines sufficient care. As another instance of a high yield, I copy below an account of the vintage of C. Newton Ross of Etiwanda, San Bernardino county, California. The article appeared in the _Press and Horticulturist_ of Riverside, September 27th, and I have every reason to consider it trustworthy. The writer adds that the yield is extraordinary. “Mr. Ross has seventeen acres of 8,000 vines five years old from which he picked 8,648 trays of grapes that average twenty-five pounds to the tray, or a total of 108 tons of grapes, which will make thirty-six tons of raisins,--equal to 3,600 boxes,--over 200 boxes to the acre. This is the first picking only, and it is estimated that the second crop will be half as large as the first, which will give a total yield of 318 boxes to the acre. Mr. Ross has sold his first crop at five and one-half cents per pound in the sweatbox, which will give him an income of $242 an acre on the first crop, and half as much more on the second crop if he succeeds in saving it in good shape, or a total income of $363 per acre on his crop. Mr. Ross estimates that $50 an acre will cover the entire cost of taking care of the vineyard and putting the crop in the sweatbox, and this would leave him a net income of $313 an acre for his vineyard, which is ten per cent on $3,130 per acre.” But, I may add, it is not likely that such a profit can be realized year after year. As regards care of the vineyard and expenses of running the same, they vary, of course, and are estimated at from twenty dollars upwards. But the best vineyardists spend from thirty to forty dollars per acre in the care of an acre, but in this do not include interest, trays bought, etc., nothing in fact but “care.”