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THE FRUIT INDUSTRY ix XEW YORK STATE 



is no cost at all. One may say that he will not count the cost of 

 his buildings, or telephone, or other things, but all these items 

 enter in ; they are there just the same. 



Let us compare the cost of different crops Table I. Xotice 

 how the labor runs up. I can grow an acre of hay for l-S 1 /^ man- 

 hours ; an acre of wheat, 26 man-hours; beans. 43; apples, 175. 

 Horse labor runs up the same way, but not in the same proportion. 



TABLE I 

 COSTS OF PRODUCING FARM PRODUCTS 



Of course these prices will vary on different farms. Some 

 men can handle their business so well that they get man labor 

 for from 15 cents to 18 cents an hour. Horse labor varies from 15 

 cents to 25 cents; the average is a little over 15 cents an hour. 

 Every time I take a team out of the barn it probably costs about 

 30 cents an hour for that team, without a driver. We do not 

 always think of this. 



