men in the vicinity can use it to advantage. l\Thy not let the pomace pay part or 

 all of your pressing cost if you are in the business of making cider? 



Incidentally, if you have a cider mill why not take advantage of the M.F.G.A. 

 "Certified" Cider Program? For details write 0. C. Roberts, Assistant Secretary, 

 French Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 



0. C. Roberts 



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RESEARCH FINDINGS FROM OTHER AREAS 



Costs of Producing Peaches in New Jersey 



The May, 1958 issue of Horticultural News published by the New Jersey State 

 Horticultural Society contained an article by John W. Carncross, Department of 

 Agricultural Economics, Rutgers University titled "Cost of Producing Peaches in 

 New Jersey." The following excerpts from this article which summarizes the 

 information obtained from 30 peach grov/ers as to production and harvesting costs 

 are of interest. 



"Thirty peach growers cooperated in giving information on the costs and 

 practices in the production of their crop for the year 1956. These farms were 

 located in Burlington, Gloucester, Camden, and Atlantic Counties. Most of the 

 growers produced vegetables in addition to peaches. Only two of the farms were 

 specialized in fruit that is, growing only peaches and apples. The acreage of 

 peaches grown per farm ranged from 5 to 125. Two- thirds of the farms were grow- 

 ing between 10 and 40 acres of bearing peaches. There was a total of 752 acres 

 of bearing peach orchards included in the survey. Twenty-six of the thirty 

 cooperators also had non-bearing peach trees, with a total of 221 acres „ The 

 details of the average costs for the 30 famis on a per acre basis for the bear- 

 ing orchard are shown in Table I, 



Table I. Cost of Producing Peaches on 30 Farms in New Jersey, 1956. 



(Average per Farm) 

 Yield of Peaches 



Up to Harvest 



Fertilizer 



Spray and Dust Material 



Man Labor 



Machine and Equipment 



Interest on Orchard Valuation 



All Other Costs 

 Total Cost Up to Harvest per Acre 

 Total Cost Up to Harvest per Bushel 



Harvesting 



Man Labor 



Containers 



Other Harvesting Costs 

 Total Harvesting Costs per Acre 

 Total Harvesting Costs per Bushel 



1087 lbs. 



73 hrs. 



244 bu. 



$27 

 51 

 76 

 35 

 28 

 45 



$262 

 1.07 



121 hrs. 



^128 



125 



17 



$270 

 1.11 



