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of the American Fruit Product Company at Newark make about half 

 a million gallons of cider and vinegar per year. Many others make 

 smaller quantities of cider and vinegar. 



Prices. Apples for evaporating are sold by the 100 pounds. The 

 average prices and the prices of barreled apples are given in table 44. 



TABLE 44. 



Average price paid for apples to evaporate per 100 Ibs. (2 bushels). 

 Year. Price. 



$0 30 

 64 

 44 



1903 41.3 



Average price per barrel. 



1902 i 75 



1903 i 85 



Average price per bushel picked apples sold in bulk, 1903. . 44.2 

 Average price per pound for dried stock, 1903 .0504 



Apples sold on the streets and to grocerymen in Rochester are quite variable in 

 price, but usually bring two to three times as much as when sold to dry. 



The vinegar factories pay the lowest price of any market. The 1902 prices ranged 

 from 12 to 20 cents per hundred. 



Income per acre. The average gross income per acre for the entire 

 county from orchards set before 1880 has been as follows: 1900, $37.80; 

 1901, $14.28; 1902, $48.18. The averages in Walworth township have 

 been considerably better than the average for the county. If these incomes 

 seem rather small, it must be remembered that averages include orchards 

 that have received no care of any kind as well as those that have received 

 the best possible treatment. Unfortunately the average expense can not 

 be obtained, for very few men keep an account of the expense of caring 

 for the orchard. In a very large number of orchards the ones that lower 

 the average yield and income there is practically no expense except the 

 use of the land and the expense of hauling the apples to the evaporator. 

 Table 45 will give a better idea of the average income, as it gives the 

 number of orchards for each difference of $10 in income. 



