4th Grade Reading Comprehension (Set 6) - Apple Tree

_____You probably know that a person can rent a car if he or she needs one. But have you ever though about renting an apple tree?
_____A farmer in upstate New York has an entire ORCHARD of apple trees for rent. For an annual rent of $21.95, you can have an apple tree just for you. In return for this fee, you can have the year’s crop of apples from you tree. You can use the tree for a whole year. You can sit under the tree, look at it, or even climb it is you wish. Just about the only thing you can’t do with your tree is cut it down.
_____In a good year, the tree you rent might yield as many as twenty or thirty bushels of fruit. The market value of the apples could be mote than double the rental price of the tree. All you have to do is pick them.
_____With all his trees rented, what would the farmer do to keep busy all summer? He wouldn’t have to pick any apples. The people who rent the trees do that. His five thousand trees, if fully rented, would bring in more than $100,000.00. Perhaps he should keep one tree for himself. He could sit under it and count his money.