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The total cost of the trees for the first year varies of course 

 largely in proportion to the cost of the trees themselves. The 

 "season's crop net" as it has been given to us, — was the cost of 

 producing the crop and the fertilizer that was applied, and the 

 nets that they received from the crops. You notice that that 

 varies quite considerably. These orchards I think that year 

 were all under cultivation with a crop. 



1911. 



This sheet shows the second year of the contest and we have 

 fewer figures for this year than we have for any of the others. 

 In no case are all the costs brought down and they have been 

 estimated as near as the grower could estimate them. The cost 

 of fertilizer varied somewhat as did the other costs on the 

 sheet. Here we begin with the spraying cost. You see three 

 of the orchards were sprayed the second year of the contest. 

 One orchard, the last, was mulched — cultivated first during the 

 season and a light mulch applied late in the fall as a protection 

 in the winter. The costs that year per acre did not vary mate- 

 rially, but here again the costs, if you figure them for individual 

 trees, varied quite a good deal. You see the cost of this first 

 acre was $4.05, this acre down here only twenty cents. The 

 variation of the crop nets is of course very noticeable and 

 depended quite a good deal on the crop. I do not know what 

 that 62 cents net was. I think probably it was grain. That 

 sheet is not of very much importance. 



