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Total cost per spraying — • 



First spraying, total cost $ 26 40 



Second spraying, total cost 78 95 



Third spraying, total cost 36 40 



Fourth spraying, total cost 28 00 



Total $169 75 



Labor cost per tree, .096 cents. 



It will be noticed that the number of gallons of mixture applied per 

 tree in the second spraying, eight and eight-tenths, was far in excess of 

 that in either the first, third or fourth spraying, in fact, it was almost 

 half of the entire amount used. This is, of course, in accordance with 

 the generally accepted rule, that the second spraying is the time tO' do 

 your work, but we believe that it can not be impressed too strongly that 

 skimp the others if you must, or leave them out altogether, but spare 

 no pains to thoroughly cover the trees in the second spraying, and it 

 you are not sure, put on a little more. 



As a result of the best we could do in the spraying line, I am glad 

 to say that we practically annihilated the worms in our crop last sea- 

 son. 



In harvesting our crop we changed our former method in several par- 

 ticulars and were well pleased with the results in most cases. The most 

 important was in changing from payment by the day for picking, to pay- 

 ment by the bushel. Tickets good for the required number of bushels 

 Vv'ere given to each man when the wagon came for his apples and these 

 could be cashed in at any time. For use in case a man had finished 

 a tree and moved on before the wagon came, each man was assigned 

 a number and given cards bearing this number, and when he left his 

 apples he placed one of these cards in a conspicuous place among his 

 filled boxes and we were able tO' credit him with the correct number 

 of bushels and give him the tickets when we came to him. 



Of course, this "by the bushel" system required a good man to be 

 on the watch all the time to see that the fruit was not handled too 

 roughly or shaken off the trees, and it was possibly handled with less 

 care than a good man would have used working by the day; however, 

 when we considered the fact that the best a $2 per day man seemed to 

 be able to do was about 25 bushels per day, costing us 8 cents per bushel, 

 you see, and at four cents per bushel he could get from 60 to 110 bushels 

 per day, we felt able to struggle along v/ith this small disadvantage. 



We paid 4 cents per bushel for all varieties practically all the way 

 through, but towards the last the Winesaps being rather small and nat- 

 urally hard to pick, owing to the shape the trees grow, we began paying 

 five cents per bushel for this variety. Our trees being unusually heavily 

 loaded last year,— the best tree noted having slightly over 40 bushels, 

 and practically every tree of winter varieties, except Winesap, running 

 15 bushels or better, the men were enabled to make very good wages. 



