FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. 71 



The total receipts from llie iii)iitw sold was |1\()T(;.1(;. The cost of jjrow- 

 in<T. ]n'ckiui»-, packing and packa<;es was -tf8-l().:'.(;, Icavino; a net profit of 

 |!l,2lM).S0. Our accounts show that the pickin<>' and hanlino- of the winter 

 apples cost approximately 35 cents [K'r barrel, the packing 20 cents, 

 barrels 30 cents, s])raYing 42 cents. These figures include the care of tlie 

 trees not bearing. The average number of trees to the orchard was Go, 

 and the average distance from home and shipping point four miles. 



This year with perhaps two-thirds of the trees bearing a good crop 

 we have harvested about 2,000 barrels. The fruit is not all sold so I 

 have no detailed figures on the returns, but I have computed the cost of 

 the crop from the largest of these orchards and estimated the value of 

 the crop from the part already sold. 



This orchard comprises about 175 trees perhaps fifty years old. and 

 up to last year had received practically no care. The greatest amount 

 the owner had ever obtained from the fruit was |100. The trees reminded 

 one of brush heaps and were quite badly infested with the scale. Last 

 3'ear we leased this orchard for two-thirds of the net proceeds, pruned 

 about two-thirds of it and sprayed it as thoroughly as we could. The 

 orchard blossomed very lightly, producing less than fifty barrels of fruit, 

 and leaving us about |100 on the wrong side of the ledger. 



This year we pruned the balance of the orchard. It blossomed full 

 and Ave s])rayed it thoroughly, thinned the trees most heavily loaded, 

 and mulched about half of them with straw. The figures on this orchard 

 for the season are as follows : 



Total. 



Pruning and burning brush |55 10 



Spraving, 3 times, applications, 



112 barrels sprav 108 35 



Thinning 29 55 



Mulching 11 75 



Picking 179 75 



Hauling to packing house 90 80 



Packing 171 65 



Marketing (to car) 55 50 



Barrels 385 00 



Total expense of crop 1,090 45 



Value of crop (partly estimated) : 



827 No. 1 at |2.75. . . . «2,276 25 

 92 No. 2 at |1.50.... 138 00 



271 drops at |1.50... . 40G 50 

 23 cidei-s at 50 cents. 11 50 



2,832 25 IG 18 2 57 



Net profit 1,741 80 9 95 1 62 



Net profit owner's share 580 GO 3 32 54 



Net profit renter's share 1,161 20 6 64 1 08 



DISCUSSION. 



Question — On those trees, what has been your experience in heading 

 them back, cutting out old limbs — does it injure the tree? 



Mr. Hai-tman — No, I do not think it injures the tree. One objection 



Per l)hl. 



