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Tables Shoiinng Yearly Expense Items. 



1910. 



Name. 



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Hobbs. . 

 DollofI . 

 Morse . . 

 Bragger. 

 Hescock 

 Bearce.. 

 Morrill . 



$27,675 



52.80 



13.00 



61.40 



12.75 



Now on the first sheet, the first item is the cost of the trees. 

 Looking down through the column it looks as if the trees cost 

 very much the same all the way through, but that must be con- 

 sidered not as an acre but as a certain number of trees. For 

 instance, in the first orchard, there were 27 trees on the acre, 

 each tree costing fifty cents. In the second, 44 to the acre, or 

 30 cents. In the Bragger orchard the whips cost only eight 

 cents each. As near as we could estimate, these trees (Hescock) 

 cost 39 cents with 48 trees to the acre; and they cost 36 cents 

 in this orchard (Bearce) and 28 cents in the other (Morrill). 



The cost of setting varied quite considerably. In fact, I 

 can't understand why it should vary as much. For instance, 27 

 trees in one orchard cost $3.38 to set, while in another 30 trees 

 cost $1.20. There were three orchards with practically the same 

 number of trees varying a good deal in the cost of setting. The 

 others did not vary as much. The cost of fertilizing in some 

 cases was kept separate from the crops, but in most cases it was 

 carried on with the crop and nothing was charged against 

 the orchard, so that we do not have a complete record of the 

 fertilizing cost. The cost of care included what pruning was 

 done and any of the work carried on in the orchard that year. 



