APPLE GROWING 



Total cost an acre, exclusive of income $72.10 



Total cost an acre, including income 9.47 



Total net cost a hundred trees 4.73 



Total net cost an apple tree 376 



Total net cost an apple tree, exclusive of income. . . . 2.86 



These figures show a still lower cost of grow- 

 ing trees to bearing age. After paying all ex- 

 penses connected with the growing of the trees, 

 including the interest on the land at $150 an 

 acre, and deducting the net profit from the 

 crops of beans and the sales from the first crop 

 of peaches we find that the growing of the 

 trees has cost us $9.47 an acre, or 37 J^ cents 

 an apple tree at four years old. Had no crop 

 been grown in the orchard it would have cost 

 us at least $62.89 an acre after deducting the 

 income from the first peach crop. The peach 

 trees are now at full bearing age, and should 

 show a good profit from this time on. Possi- 

 bly at ^vt and certainly at six years of age this 

 orchard will entirely have paid for itself. 

 The only possible further charge which could 

 be made against this orchard is the crop income 

 which might have been obtained from the land 

 had the trees not been there. We estimated 

 that the presence of the trees cut down the 

 crop of beans from the land 30 per cent. As 

 the average net income from beans was $13.35 

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