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8. Eenovating old orchards costs from $30 to $57 an acre. 



[Applause.] 



PRESIDENT FROST. I hope you will feel free to ask 

 any questions of Mr. Burritt that you wish. He has 

 given us some very valuable information. 



DR. H. J. WHEELER. I should like to ask Mr. Bur- 

 ritt what he charges in there for management, in connection 

 with his orchard and in connection with the other orchards 

 which he mentions. He did not mention what the charge 

 per year was. 



MR. BURRITT. I didn't charge anything for my own 

 orchard, for this reason: It doesn't cost me anything to man- 

 age it. I have been on a salary working for somebody else 

 during the past six years and the management I have given 

 it hasn't cost anything. I have therefore charged nothing 

 for that item for myself, as my management is largely done 

 by letter and by occasional visits to the farm every two 

 weeks or once a month. I operate my farm with a farm 

 manager, who is paid by share of the income from the farm, 

 but net in the ordinary tenant way, because I own all the 

 equipment, horses, machinery and everything, to operate 

 the farm and keep it under my personal direction. 



MR. SAMUEL FRAZER. Might I say a word on tho 

 cost of management? I am charging $10 an acre, because 

 we use a method in the proposition which gives us that 

 amount. Mr. Timothy Costello, of Pen Yan has a 50 acre 

 orchard, and he is charged with $30 an acre. So, you see, 

 we have got from $10 to $30 for an operating charge. 



MR. BOURNE. When I get my tax bill the cost of 

 taxes is a lump sum for real estate. How shall I establish 

 what the valuation of this field of apples is and the valua- 

 tion of the other fields which have other things? How shall 

 I know what the increase of taxes will be with the increased 

 value of the land that the apples are on, as the apples grow 

 older? 



MR. BURRITT. That is a knotty proposition, sir; I 

 wouldn't tackle some of those things because my experience 



