508 Report of the Department of Horticulture of the 



ency should be made up by a charge for superintending the work. 

 The Station paid for this service $300 per year. This is a fair 

 price since there are few competent orchardists who could not super- 

 intend a farm enterprise of several times the magnitude of a ten- 

 acre orchard. The charge to be entered against a barrel of apples 

 then for superintending is 25 cents; against the acre unit, $30; 

 against an apple tree $1.10. 



harvest expenses. 



Picking, packing, sorting and hauling have been done in diverse 

 ways during the ten years and the items cannot be segregated. But 

 the total cost of these operations has been 24.4 cents per barrel. 

 The apples, it should be said, were sorted and packed in the field. 

 The crop was hauled to a station one and a half miles away over a 

 country road not better than the average. 



The following is a summary of the cost sheet for a barrel of apples: 



Interest on investment $0.21 



Taxes .012 



Tilling .063 



Pruning .03 



Spraying . 096 



Cover crop . 023 



Superintending orchard .25 



Picking, packing, sorting and hauling . 244 



$0.93 



COST OF BARRELS. 



All of the first and second-grade apples from the Auchter orchard 

 have been packed in barrels. The average price of barrels for ten 

 years has been 36 cents each; the price fluctuated from 30 cents to 

 40 cents. The culls have been handled in crates and a charge for 

 packages cannot be entered against them. Adding the cost of the 

 barrel to the cost of production we have $1.29 as the total cost of 

 a barrel of apples at the shipping point. 



