386 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



Packing Expense in Missouri Orcliards 



— Grower No. — 



12 3 



Box material and making $0.14 $0.11 $0.13 



Pacliing 07 .05 .07 



Paper 02 .04 .02 



Nailing and pacliing bouse lielp 03 .01 .01 



Hauling to cars, loading and bracing 03 .25 .01% 



Hauling to packing house 02 .01 .02 



Picking 05 .03 .03 



Total $0.36 $0.50 $0,291/2 



Orcbard Expense 



Interest $160.00 $40.00 $160.00 



Pruning and hauling brush 22.50 3.50 6.00 



Cultivating 30.50 3.90 



Thinning 2.00 



Spraying 10.00 3.70 10.00 



Irrigating 10.00 5.00 



Taxes 10.00 1.53 10.00 



Propping 5.00 



Water assessment 1.50 1.50 



Repairing fences 1.00 



Fertilizer 40.00 



Irrigation flumes and ditches 10.00 



Spraying chemicals 1.75 



Total $300.00 $54.63 $202.50 



Total number of boxes harvested 600 300 600 



Orchard expense, box $0.50 $0.17 $0.33 



Packing expense 36 .50 .29V4 



Total cost, per bushel $0.86 $0.67 $0.62yo 



In connection with the method of keep- "Bearing Orchard. — First, take an esti- 



ing track of the cost of producing a crop mate of all of the property for what it 



of apples, Peter Hovland, Wenatchee, can be sold for at present. Never mind 



Wash., sends us an outline of the system what you paid for it, or what you want 



which he follows, and says that it "will for it. Put upon it the price that it is 



show the correct expenses and tell the worth today, then add the interest of 



grower about the leaks in his business. this valuation to the producing and mar- 



if there are any." Mr. Hovland's system keting expenses and divide them by the 



is as follows: number of boxes harvested." 



Value of land: 



Irrigated, with pipe lines, flumes, ditches $ 



Unirrigated 



Value of buildings 



Total $ 



Productive expenses: 



1. Interest on valuation of property. 



2. Water rent. 



3. Taxes. 



4. Pruning. 



5. Brush hauling. 



6. Plowing, harrowing and cultivating. 



7. Grubbing weeds. 



