"Tshen yields of apples £s.re 350 boxes ner acre and the selling price 

 is ^1 a box, there is a loss of $20.50, but ^vhen the ;'ield is 700 boxes, 

 the proi'it is (172. At 900 boxes the profit is Si-SSS. An average crop in 

 '^enatchee on full-bearing, heulthy trees is j;;iven in the neighborhood of 

 700 boxes per acre. If, now, the price is increased from v'l a box to s,1.25 

 the profit per acre on a JOO-box crop is v£07. Or, shovdng the results in 

 a different way, the cost per box for a 350-box crop is vl^OG, for a 400-box 

 crop it is 99 cents, for a 500-box crop it is 38 cents, for a 500-box crop 

 it is 80 cents, for a 700-box crop it is 75 cents, for a 800-tox crop it 

 is 72 cents, and for a SOO-box crop it is 69 cents. 



Profits on sweet cherries are reckoned at "sero" when cherries are 

 sold at 6 cents a pound and when the yield per acre is 1 5/4 tons, but they 

 reach *542.50 when the ;deld is 7 tons. Even at £ cents a pound the pro- 

 fit is v402.50 on a 7-ton crop, v,1-iereas there is a loss of i,3£ on a 1 3/4- 

 ton crop. 



Peaches and apricots shov; similar relations, with a profit of C2.80 

 per acre on a 10.8-ton crop sold at v20 a ton, and a profit of C432 on a 21.6- 

 ton crop at the same price per ton. V/hen the price goes to v60 a ton the pro- 

 fit fro:;: the 21,6-ton crop may reach vi,33G. 



Do You Ilnow 



^-^^ That bees carry about three pounds of nectar into the hive for 

 every pound of honey they store? Then thej, work it over and over in a cur- 

 rent of air which they make by fanning their wings, until excess moisture is 

 evaporated. 



That there may be as mary as 100,000 species of one particular 

 group of insects, the parasitic Hj-menoptcra, in existence in the vrorld? 

 This is tlie group to Vv-hicli the peach moth parasite (Macrocentrus) belongs. 



That a leaflet containing more than 30 Apple Recipes may be ob- 

 tained from the State College? Prepared by i,!ay E. Foley, the leaflet tells 

 hoTiT to make Apple Pan Dov.'dy, Applesauce Cake, Indian Apple Pudding, and other 

 tempting dishes too numerous to mention. 



That there arc today on farms in tliis country about 60 automobiles, 

 25 tractors, and 15 motor trucks for every 90 farms? The numbers of horses 

 and mules on farms in 1940 totaled about 13,368,000 compared with 22,386,000 

 in 1920? L. Southv:ick 



That orna^npntal stock represents about three quarters (74.43^;) of 

 all nursery sales in the iJnitod States? A country-wide survey of nurseries 

 reveals this interesting situation. L. S. 



That an acre of productive apple orchard utilizes beti^een 44 and 

 90 grams of boron (or 14 to 25 oz. o^ borax) annually? This is the estimate 

 of Canadian investigators. L.S. 



That orange growers in California and P'lorida recaive almost ex- 

 actly the same percentage of the consumer's dollar? The distribution among 



