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A SPARE TIME JOB FOR FRUIT GROWERS 



Currently, fruit growers are selling Mcintosh npples from 6<: to 12c 

 a pound. An increase of ^c a pound would seem to be a modest attain- 

 able Increase. 



What does %c a pound mean? 



Let's take a crop of 10,000 bushels. 

 That crop would weigh 400,000 pounds. 

 One-half cent a pound would be $2,000. 



If a person spent 8 hours a day, five days a week (40 hours) for 10 

 weeks (400 hours) to get $2,000, he would be earning $5.00 an hour 

 for 8 hours a day for 10 weeks'. 



This is being done. More can do it. 



Probably the most profound and yet the most practical counsel a grower 

 could get, as a way of increasing his returns, would be "Get out and 

 sell 'em", and get the half cent or more. It is a winter time job that 

 pays good money, provided, of course, that he did not already have a 

 job that paid more. As a spare time job, it has its points. 



•--F. F. Cole 



Extension Marketing Specialist 



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