THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 477 



It should be noted that there are two special sprayings for thrips, 

 while Black Leaf is combined with the codling- moth spray, to make 

 sure of any stragglers that may be present. Also, there is one special 

 scab spray, and another combined with the codling moth spray, making 

 six sprayings in all. 



The grower who owns the orchard furnishing these figures went 

 over his trees each day during the time that pear blight was being 

 carried in the spring, so that with his intensive spraying he obtained a 

 maximum crop, and now has a full growth of fruit spurs for next 

 season. 



Instead of a mineral fertilizer being used this year, a vetch crop has 

 been put in, using fifty pounds of inoculated seed to the acre, which is 

 a general practice with the successful growers of the delta, and should 

 be practiced more by the orchardists of the uplands, where the entire 

 supplj' of humus and nitrogen is seldom half as much as is found in the 

 river soils where cover cropping is not practiced. 



The cost of transportation from the growers' ^\harf is all deducted 

 from the gross returns by the fruit exchange, so should not be figured 

 in the cultural costs. 



Yield of 189 tons of pears, 7,000 boxes, from 1,000 trees, 25 to 40 

 years old : 



CULTURAL COSTS. 



One man pruning- 7 trees per day, at $1.75 or 25 cents per tree $250 00 



Pear blight pruning in spring, at 20 cents per tree _ 200 00 



One man plowing one acre per day, at $2.25 per day 43 00 



6J acres, 3 cultivations, 19 days. 



Pumping, irrigating on 6$ acres, at $7.50 per acre, per season 47 50 



One man hauling from orchard to packing shed 42 75 



19 days, at $2.25 per day. 



Two tons fertilizer, at $38.00 per ton 76 00 



One team, 130 days all, cultivating, spraying, hauling, etc., feeding at $1.00 



per day 130 00 



COST OF SPRAYING. 

 For Thrips — 



22 gallons distillate per tank, or 30 trees, at 18 cents $3 96 



One pint Black Leaf per tank, or 30 trees 1 25 



$5 21 



Or 17 cents per tree, per spraying, 1000 trees, 2 sprayings, season 340 00 



For Codling Moth and Thrips — 



12 pounds lead arsenate per tank, or 30 trees, at $1 20 



One pint Black Leaf per tank, or 30 treees 1 25 



$2 45 



Or 9 cents per tree, per spraying, 1000 trees, 3 sprayings, season 270 00 



For Pear Scab— 



500 pounds lime sulphur spray, at 7* cents per pound 36 25 



(one special spraying and one combined with coddling moth spray) 



Labor — 



Three hose men, one driver, at $2.25 per day ; 5 tanks, or 150 trees per 



day, 6 sprayings, season, 42 days 378 00 



PICKING AND PACKING. 

 Picking — 



One man, 30 boxes per day, at $2.25, or 7* cents per box, 1000 boxes 525 00 



Shook, nails, paper, 12 cents per box, 7000 boxes 840 00 



Making boxes and packing, 6 cents per box, 7000 boxes 420 00 



Total cost of production $3598 50 



RECEIPTS. 



189 tons, or 7000 boxes, at $1.10 net $7700 00 



Deduct cost of production 3598 50 



Balance $4101 50 



