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2. One and one-fourth acres, 24 years old, 52 trees. 

 Summer Apples 



62 bu., 51c per bushel $3162 



125 bu., 20c per bushel 25 00 



Winter Apples 



Firsts, 412 bushels, 77c per bushel 317 24 



Windfalls, 50 bushels, 47c per bushel 23 50 



Cider Apples, 100 bu., 20c per bushel 20 00 



51 bushels, 75c per bushel 38 25 



Total $455 61 



Expense spraying, picking, etc 87 00 



Find the net profit. 



Problems. 



1. In 1909, the Ohio Experiment Station sprayed part of an orchard 

 of 450 apple trees for an Ohio farmer; the orchard was 34 years old and 

 the experiment resulted in a profit of $475 on the acre that was sprayed. 

 If the whole orchard, consisting of ten acres of trees of the same average 

 condition had been treated uniformly, what would have been the total 

 profit? 



2. A class in agriculture in 1913 took charge of an orchard, with 

 the following results : Only 5 per cent of the apples in this orchard 

 were windfalls, and the good apples brought 20 cents more per bushel 

 than the apples from an untreated orchard that produced 60 per cent 

 windfalls. If each of these orchards produced 500 bushels, and the price 

 received from windfalls from each orchard was 40 cents per bushel, what 

 was the difference in the receipts from the two orchards if the apples 

 that were not windfalls from the treated orchard sold for $1.00 per bushel? 



Marketing Apples. 



The price of fancy apples is one of the important factors 

 of success in fruit growing and depends to a great extent upon 

 proper pruning, thinning and sorting. 



PROBLEM. 



1. If perfectly sound and well colored apples below 2 inches in 

 diameter are only worth 15c a bushel, and the same kind of apples 2| 

 inches in diameter are worth $1.25 per bushel, how many times has 

 increasing the diameter inch, increased the market value? How many 

 per cent? 



