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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Prolific, 100; Engel, 350; Kalamazoo, 200; Gold Drop, 120; Elberta, 125; 

 Banner, 100; Fitzgerald, 100; Smock, 250, and Salway, 200. Here again 

 the orchard is typical of the majority as 120 supposed to be Smock, 

 proved to be Champion, and nearly all ordered for Banner are unknowns. 



The trees are twenty feet apart each way, but at least a portion of 

 the orchard should have been planted twenty-four feet, as the tips 

 of the limbs touched when the trees were only four years old. 



A crop of corn was grown between the trees the year they were set. 

 The orchard land was not cropped after this first year, because there 

 was so much other land on the farm to attend to at planting time and 

 also, it was thought best to give the orchard every opportunity possible. 

 If some crop had been grown during the second season, the total profit 

 from the land up to this time might have shown a considerable increase. 



A complete cost account of the first three years was not kept, but 

 it has been carefully estimated by keeping a strict account upon younger 

 orchards that are growing beside this one. For the past three seasons, 

 a complete record of every hour devoted to the orchard has been strictly 

 recorded. All manual labor, except pruning, has been charged at fifteen 

 cents per hour. As pruning is considered a higher class of work than 

 the other operations, it has been charged at twenty cents per 

 hour. Horse work is charged at the rate of fifteen cents per 

 hour for a team. For hauling to market, a flat rate of two dollars 

 per trip has been charged. In computing the cost per acre of each 

 item, it has been based upon the total acreage of the orchard, thus 

 with some of the items, it does not give the true cost per acre for the 

 operation, as the whole area was not included in performing the work. 

 Illustrations of this would be the application of manure or some of the 

 cover crop seeds. However, the general operations apply to the whole 

 orchard, thus the cost per acre as computed, would be correct. The 

 results for the six vears are given in the following tables : 



COST ACCOUNT OF A FIFTEEN ACRE PEACH ORCHARD.— 1907. FIRST YEAR. 



Operation. 



Plowing 



Fitting 



Marking 



Trees, 1590 at 7c 



Digging holes 



Planting trees 



Cultivating 



Marking for corn 



Planting corn 



Seed, 2 bushels, at fl.OO. 



Cultivating, 2 horse 



Cultivating, 1 horse. . . . . 



Hoeing 



Rye, 15 bushels, at 75c. . 



Sowing rye 



Cutting corn 



Husking and crib 



Hauling fodder 



Equipment charge 



Interest on land 



Totals. 



Total Hours. 



Man. Horse. 



70 

 45 

 15 



40 

 100 

 30 

 15 

 30 



80 

 60 

 20 



10 

 100 

 240 



40 



895 



140 

 90 

 15 



50 

 60 

 15 



160 

 60 



20 



610 



Total 

 Cost. 



S;21 00 

 13 50 



3 38 

 111 30 



6 00 

 18 75 



9 00 



3 



4 



2 



38 

 50 

 00 



24 00 

 13 50 



3 00 

 11 25 



1 50 

 15 00 

 50 00 



9 00 



5 00 

 90 00 



$415 06 



Hours per Acre. 



Man. Horse. 



4.66 

 3 00 

 1.00 



2.66 

 6.66 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 2.00 



5.33 

 4.00 

 1.33 



.66 



6.66 



16.00 



2.66 



9 33 

 6.00 

 1.00 



3.33 

 4.00 

 1.00 



10.66 

 4.00 



Cost 

 per Acre. 



1.33 



59.62 40.65 



$1 



40 

 90 

 22 

 42 

 40 

 25 

 60 

 22 

 30 

 13 

 60 

 90 

 20 

 75 

 10 

 00 

 33 

 60 

 33 

 00 



$27 65 



