THE COST OF GROIVING APPLES 



field worked upon, and the number of hours 

 worked is more convenient and therefore more 

 desirable. 



An Example. — For a number of years 

 the author has kept such records on his 

 farm in western New York. As an il- 

 lustration of the method and in order to 

 give the reader a general idea as to what 

 the costs above referred to are likely to be we 

 venture to give the following tables. It must 

 be remembered, however, that practically 

 everyone of the above mentioned factors varies 

 with the conditions under which the orchard 

 is managed and that these figures are not an 

 average but one average and on one farm. 

 True averages are arrived at only by bringing 

 together a large number of figures. In any 

 case, the question of cost is essentially an indi- 

 vidual problem on every farm. These figures 

 are of value only as an example of the method 

 and the cost on one farm under its own special 

 conditions. 



The orchard for which the following figures 

 were given was set In the spring of 1903, and 

 the records begin with that year and end with 

 19 10, covering a period of eight years in all. 

 Throughout this period other crops have been 

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