Pase 26 



BETTER FRUIT 



December 



PORTLAND 



TWO DAILY LIMITED TRAINS EAST 



THE INLAND EMPIRE EXPRESS 



NORTH BANK LIMITED 



PORTLAND TO SPOKANE, ST. PAUL, DES MOINES, 

 CHICAGO, DENVER, KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS 



Fastest Route Between the Northwest and California 



"The North Bank Rail" and Twenty -sis Hours' Ocean Sail on the Mammoth Steel 

 Liner, SS. "Northern Pacific" (licensed for 800 passengers), sailing every four days, 

 approximately, between Portland and San Francisco, via Flavel-Astoria. 



December Sailings from Portland — December 7, 11, 16, 21, 2t, 30. 



Best of the Trip in Daylight. Same Time and Rate as All Rail. 



Call or write for details about the 15-day de luxe cruises to Hilo and Honolulu of 

 SS. "Great Northern," December 16, January 5, 25, February 14. 



TICKET OFFICES 



Fifth and Stark Streets and North Bank Station. Tenth and Hoyt, PORTLAND 



SPOKANE. Davenport Hotel. SEATTLE, 107 Yesler Way. Corner Second Avenue and Columbia 



SAN FRANCISCO. 665 Market Street 



R. H. CROZIER, A. G. P. A. 



SPOKANE, PORTLAND & SEATTLE RAILWAY 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



15,000 PEAR TREES 



Mostly Anjou and Bartlett 



Also Other Varieties 



Extra fine trees, clean and well grown. Can make you very attractive prices. 

 We have also a general line of nursery stocli. 



CHRISTOPHER NURSERIES, Christopher, Washington 



through the abihty of your association 

 manager to secure supplies in this line 

 at a less price by placino a very lar^e 

 order early with some paper mill 

 anxious to secure the business. 



Superintending cost me .01 per box. 

 I charged up my own time at only S2.0fl 

 per day while engaged in this line of 

 work. Considerable saving could be 

 made in this expense in accordance 

 with the quantity of apples harvested, 

 as I could have rendered the same serv- 

 ice on twice the amount of apples, 

 which would have reduced this cost 

 to one-half cent per box. 



I desire to call your attention to the 

 way these costs should be ascertained. 

 A perfect record should be kept of each 

 man's time and every item of expense 

 in every one of these twelve items con- 

 nected with harvesting the crop. Most 

 growers figure their picking expense 

 per box on the actual number of boxes 

 packed out, which is incorrect and a 

 way that will never show you anything 

 comparatively. This cost should be 

 placed on the entire number of boxes 

 picked, whether they are packed out 

 or sent to the vinegar factory. The 

 grading cost per box also should be 

 placed on the entire crop, whether 

 packed out or sent to the vinegar fac- 

 tory. Making up the boxes should be 

 figured on the actual number of boxes 

 packed; ijacking on the actual number 

 of boxes packed; orchard hauling on 

 the total number of boxes harvested; 

 association hauling in the same way. 



because it makes no great dilTerencc in 

 the cost whether the apples go to the 

 warehouse or to the vinegar factory. 

 Hel]) in the packing house should be 

 figured on the total number of boxes 

 harvested. Knocked-down-box hauling 

 should be figured on the total number 

 of boxes packed out; nailing up on the 

 total cost of the boxes packed out, and 

 the cost of boxes on the total number 

 packed out. Paper should be figured 

 also on the total number of boxes 

 jjacked out, while superintending 

 should be figured on the total number 

 of boxes harvested, whether packed 

 or not. Permit me to say that these 

 costs are determined on a crop of 5.^20 

 boxes packed out and 530 boxes to the 

 vinegar factory; total crop 0050 boxes. 

 The 530 boxes .going to the vinegar 

 factory made SSKl'^e of the total crop; 

 300 boxes, or .OJO'o being windfalls and 

 the other 230 boxes, or .038% being 

 culls due to all other causes such as 

 bruises, scab, stings, worms, etc. I had 

 7G7p 4 tier, 17% 4% tier, 7% 5 tier 

 and 89% extra fancy and fancy com- 

 bined, and 10.2% C grade. 



Allow me to state the costs of each 

 department connected with harvesting, 

 with the hope that this information 

 will help some of you to do the work 

 more efficiently and more economically 

 than I have done it, because I believe 

 it can be done for much less and con- 

 siderably better. Cost of harvesting 

 per box in my orchard was as follow: 

 Packing, $.04; picking, .1!.054(); grading. 



$.0321; making boxes and nails, $.01; 

 orchard hauling, .*.0087; association 

 hauling, ■$.0205; hel]) in packing house, 

 .?. 008(1; knocked-down-box hauling, 

 .$.0025; nailing up and stamping, $.0096; 

 box, $.09; paper, $.0331; superintemfing, 

 $.01; total, $.3197. 



The cost of harvesting a crop of 

 apples can be reduced in proportion to 

 facilities afi'orded, through economy in 

 material and the wages paid the work- 

 men. I also desire to call your atten- 

 tion to the fact that a saving can be 

 made by maintaining a well-balanced 

 crew in each department of harvesting 

 so that no one department will be held 

 up by a lack of efiiciency or help in 

 any other department. It goes almost 

 without saying that the larger the crop 

 the more economically the work can 

 be done. My crop was a moderate 

 sized one, and I want to be frank and 

 state that I know many growers har- 

 vested at a less cost than I did this 

 year. My aim has been to outline a 

 plan showing the costs, which would 

 afford every grower a comparison and 

 thereby be of value to him, enabling 

 him to determine where he could re- 

 duce his cost in any department, 

 whether his crop be large, of moderate 

 size, or even a small crop. 



In conclusion permit me to state that 

 I think the following savings could be 

 made in each one of the departments in 

 my classification. A saving could be 

 made in: Packing, $.005; picking, $.015; 

 grading, S.0075; orchard hauling, $.0037; 

 help in jmcking house, .*.0044; hauling 

 knocked-down boxes, $.001; nailing up, 

 $.0034; superintending, .$.005; total, 

 $.045. Or, in other words, I believe a 

 crop of api)les can be harvested, with 

 proper facilities and business-like 

 methods, at a cost of $.2757, which is 

 just about one-half of what harvesting 

 cost us four or five years ago. 



ONE MAN 



is all that is needed. 



See why on page 12. 



FEIJOA SELLOWIANA 



A wonderfully delicious fruit of delightful 

 aroma. About size of hen's egg. Remark- 

 able keeper and .shipper. Pre-eminently 

 adapted to Paeitie Coast. 'Will stand tem- 

 perature of 10 degrees above zero Be 

 tirst to plant and reap greatest profits. 

 Illustrated circular free. 

 GIANT WINTER RHUBARB 



From \ of an acre first season after plant- 

 ing I sold over 20,000 pounds of rhubarb, re- 

 ceiving for same fti7:i.T0 Reduced prices on 

 plants. Booklet free. 



W.A.LEE, Covina, California 



Hood River Pruning & Grafting Wax 



READY FOR USE 



Without Heating 



l-lb. Can. postpaid, I'lOc 

 Made by 



A. NIEHANS, Hood River, Oregon, R 2 



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