I .\ I KRCROPPING THE YOUNG ORCHARD 



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an acre, including interest on valuation. We now value it at about 

 $225 an acre. We have secured a gross income from that piece 

 of land of a little over $1,438.55, or $190.28 an acre, but it still 

 owes us $140.95, or $18.66 an acre. In other words, after paying 

 for all the labor and five per cent interest on the capital invested 

 in the land, we still lack nearly $141 of breaking even at twelve 

 vcars. The total income was obtained from the orchard itself, 

 from plum and pear fillers, and from intercrops. 



TABLE II 



COSTS, INCOME, AND PROFIT AND Loss OF A 7^-AcRE, 12-YEAR-OLD APPLE ORCHARD 

 FILLED ONE WAY WITH PLUMS AND PEARS 



Labor rates used in figuring crop profits vary according to season. 



(The $208.93 total cost was made up of $43.12 man labor, $27.20 

 lorse labor, and $138.61 for materials and interest. The income 

 rom that orchard was $807.53 from crops, or $106.80 an acre 

 or the twelve years; that is, a little less than $10 an acre per 

 r ear for crops. We charge the interest and taxes and overhead 

 :harges all against the orchard; it is net so far as the piece of 

 arid is concerned. From the plums and pears we obtained 

 5415.44, and from the apples $215.58, or about $28.50 an acre. 

 Had we not intercropped that orchard, it would have owed us 

 nore than it does now. Had we grown simply an apple orchard 



