MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



Bulletin No. 224 March. 1925 



THE COSTS OF MARKETING THE APPLE 

 CROP OF 1923 



Bv LoRiAN P. Jefferson 



Knowledge of costs is a necessary antecedent to control over them. In- 

 creasing competition from other producing regions makes it necessar>' that 

 Massachusetts orchardists know their costs, and be prepared to reduce them, 

 or to give better marketing service, in order to maintain the strategic position 

 which is and should continue to be theirs. The study which this bulletin re- 

 ports was initiated, therefore, as an attempt to determine the factors of cost 

 which Massachusetts orchardists must meet in getting their product from the 

 tree to the market which they sei-ve. 



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