Treat, an authority on almond culture, has contributed the following to the Woodland _Mail_: 'This year from 190 California paper-shell almond trees (five years old), covering two and five-sevenths acres, I gathered 3502 pounds of nuts, which sold in Chicago at twenty-two cents a pound.

This is $316.82 to the acre--a little over $4 to the tree--181/2 pounds to the tree.

When these same trees were four years old they averaged about three pounds, and in eight years they will double what they bore at five.

They will at eight years bear full 40 pounds to the tree.

At twelve years they will bear fully 100 pounds to the tree without the least exertion.