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BETTER FRUIT 



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Cost of Operations and Returns 



Continued from page 8 



ufacturing costs would approximate 

 2.7 cents per dry pound, or $6.75 per 

 ton of fruit used. Deducting these 

 amounts from $18.50, we would have in 

 the first case — that of the general pur- 

 pose dryer with a long working sea- 

 son— $13.00, in the second case $11.75. 

 From these amounts the operator must 

 obtain his profits — my estimates of 

 manufacturing costs include a reason- 

 able salary for his services as general 

 superintendent of the plant — and pay 

 the grower for the fruit used. If we 

 allow the operator of the plant 10 per 

 cent of the gross returns as his profit, 

 and make a further deduction of $1.85 

 from each of these amounts, we have 

 remaining $11.15 and $9.90. These 

 sums do not represent the amounts 

 which growers may expect to receive 

 from their fruit, for two reasons: in 

 order that he evaporator may have 

 assurance of such supplies of material 

 as will keep the plant running at 

 capacity throughout each season, he 

 must usually contract with growers for 

 his supplies for a term of years in ad- 

 vance, and must therefore protect him- 

 self against the possibility of a future 

 more or less permanent decline in the 

 price of his product; also, he must pro- 

 vide a sinking fund to meet the ex- 

 pense of carrying his product in 

 storage over an occasional year of 

 overproduction and consequent tem- 

 porary disorganization of the market. 

 After these contingencies are provided 

 for, it will be seen that the grower may 

 legitimately expect a price of $9.00 to 

 $10.00 per ton for his cull fruit upon 

 contracts extending over a term of 

 years. A well-equipped plant might 

 profitably pay an additional $1.00 per 

 ton for packing-house culls of uniform 

 size, reasonably free from imperfec- 

 tions, since there would be made from 

 these a product most of which would 

 grade higher than prime and which 

 could advantageously be packed in 

 fancy cartons for the retail trade. In 

 years of limited production in the East- 

 ern evaporating districts, such as the 

 present, the price paid to growers 

 could a.dvance proportionately as the 

 price of prime dry stock rose above 

 OVa cents per pound on board cars at 

 the point of origin, but $10.00 per 

 ton would seem to be an equitable 

 valuation of the material, which will 

 scarcely be materially altered by 

 changes in market conditions for some 

 years to come. 



It seems to be generally agreed by 

 the members of this conference that 

 the annual production of culls in our 

 bearing orchards is not far from 1% 

 tons per acre. This figure will of 

 necessity be somewhat increased as the 

 trees become older, but if we were able 

 at present to fully utilize the unmarket- 

 able fruit through evaporation, the 

 growers should realize approximately 

 $15.00 per acre from material which is 

 at present wholly or practically wholly 

 lost. 



I wish to digress for a moment from 

 the primary purpose of this article and 

 to speak of the possibilities for evapo- 



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