TABLE No. 5. 



Showing Average Net Price per Box Received by Growers for No. 1's, No. 2's and 

 No. 3's During the Tears 1917 to 1920, Inclusive. 



Variety. 



No. 2' 



No. 3's. 



Delicious 



Snow (Fameuse) . . 



Spy 



Yellow Transparent 



Mclntosh 



Yellow Newtown . 



Spitzenburg 



Winter Banana . . . 



Winesap 



Stayman \Vinesap . . 



Rome Beauty 



Ben Davis 



Gravenstein 



Duchess 



Tompkins King . . 



Jonathan 



Wealthy 



Gano 



Grimes Golden . . . 



Ontario 



Wagener 



Cox Orange ...... 



Canada Baldwin . . 



Jefferies 



St. Lawrence . 



$2.18 

 1.61 

 1.60 

 1.56 

 1.54 



54 



46 



$1.63 

 1.36 

 1.26 

 1.38 

 1.18 

 1.25 

 1.23 



20 



1.43 



1.38 

 1.37 

 1.36 

 1.36 

 1.36 

 1.36 

 1.34 

 1.34 

 1.30 

 1.30 

 1.30 

 1.28 

 1.27 

 1.23 

 1.18 

 1.15 



1.17 

 1.13 

 1.18 

 1.13 

 1.12 

 1.14 

 1.06 



05 

 04 

 OS 

 02 

 04 

 04 

 .86 



1.07 

 .91 



1.07 



.79 

 .73 

 .64 

 .98 

 .91 

 .61 

 .66 

 .64 

 .63 

 .66 

 .57 

 .57 

 .83 

 .97 

 .64 

 .65 

 .90 

 .55 

 .71 

 .61 

 .58 

 .62 

 .54 

 .86 

 .59 



As will be noticed in the above table, there is a difference of over one dollar 

 per box for No. 1's between the high-priced Delicious at the top of the list and 

 the St. Lawrence at the bottom. Whether the Delicious, which has brought a 

 premium price in the past as compared with other varieties, will continue to do 

 so in the future is problematical; but undoubtedly it will always be at or near 

 the top, as it is an apple of excellent quality and good appearance. 



In Table No. 5, the varieties are arranged according- to the price received 

 for the No. 1 grade of each variety. When it is remembered (as was shown in 

 Table No. 4) that the grades vary greatly between varieties that they range 

 from 84 down to 36 per cent, in the case of No. 1 fruit, while grades No. 2 and 

 No. 3 vary just as widely it will be seen that averaging the prices received for 

 No. 1's, No. 2's and No. 3's of any one variety would not give a fair comparison 

 for the different varieties in regard to total returns per tree. 



RETURNS. 



The main object of the fruit-grower is to produce maximum yields of fruit 

 at the minimum cost, so that the profits may be as large as possible. "The grower, 

 however, must not lose sight of the fact that, apart from yield, grade and price 

 exert no small effect on the returns from the fruit crop. 



The following tables, Nos. 6, 7 and 8, indicate the comparative value of the 

 varieties when yields, grades and prices are considered together. 



The comparison of returns for the different varieties would be more striking 

 if placed on an acre rather than on a tree basis; but, since the number of trees 

 planted per acre varies a great deal in the different orchards, the acre basis 

 cannot be used. 



The yield, of course, exerts the greatest effect on returns; but, as has been 

 observed above, grade and price also have an important effect. This fact is 

 clearly seen in Table No. 7 if one compares, for instance, Delicious with Canada 

 Baldwin. In point of yield, the former shows 18.72 boxes as against 30.18 boxes 

 of the latter; while the returns for these varieties, due to grade and price, show 

 a difference quite the reverse the Delicious, the lower yielding variety, pro- 

 ducing $3.77 per tree more than the Canada Baldwin. 



