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Average Income, Cost of Growing and Net Profit a Barrel of 

 Apples in a Six Acre Orchard for 11 Years 



To sum up these items of cost we find that, taking the 

 average of eleven years, with an annual crop of 418 barrels 

 or 70 per acre, on 6.1 acres of old apple orchard, that spray 

 material costs $.037 per barrel ; packages, $.338 ; interest on 

 the land $.087, use of equipment, $.068; taxes, etc., $.011; 

 labor, $.523, or a total of $1.07 per barrel. If the estimated 

 cost of the manure, six cents, be added, the total will b^ 

 $1.13. This cost, of course, varies with the size of the crop. 

 When our yield was 100 barrels an acre the cost a barrel 

 was only $.88, When it was only 35 barrels an acre the cost 

 a barrel rose to $1.73. In 1912 we grew a crop of 68I/2 bar- 

 rels per acre for $.95 a barrel. 



To put it in another way, we believe we could grow and 

 deliver on board the cars at our station a barrel of apples 

 for from $1 to $1.25 with an average crop under average 

 conditions. In doing this we would expect to make five 

 per cent on the capital invested and to receive fair wages 

 for our labor. In addition to this we should have all tho 

 culls and the windfall apples to sell at a clear profit, for the 

 cost of producing and handling these has been included in 

 the costs given above, as it could not well be separated. 

 These have -amounted to an average of 33 cents a barrel in 

 the last eleven years. To reduce the matter to a still lower 

 basis, our experience has shown that we can grow a barrel 

 of apples for 75 cents. 



