30 The Principles of Fruit-growing 



Much may be learned from such simple records, for 

 the mere keeping of cost-accounts is not the end. The fol- 

 lowing are a few of the facts that the farmer used in the 

 preceding records and the suggestions derived from them : 



Total crop: Bus. Total crop: Bus. 



Baldwin 421 Brought forward 611 



Greening 93 Wagener 21 



Hubbardston 30 Spitzenburg 6 



Spy 23 Fall Pippin 3 



King 22 



Snow _f DropsandcuUs 105 



Carried forward 611 



He was able to determine the yields to the tree of dif- 

 ferent varieties; 



Yields to the acre good apples, 214 bushels; 



Yields to the acre culls and drops, 33 bushels; 



Percentage of culls and drops, 14; 



Total receipts, good apples, less cost of barrels, $233.07; 



Average price a bushel, good apples, without barrels, 

 36 cents; 



Hours of man-labor, to the acre, 164; 



Hours of horse-labor, to the acre, 65; 



Profit, to the acre, $17; 



Profit, by hour of man-labor, 10 cents; 



Cost, by bushel, good apples, without barrels, 28 cents; 



Profit, by bushel, 8 cents. 



It will be seen that the cost of barrels was very high 

 owing to buying late in the season. Ten cents a barrel 

 extra cost is more than equal to the profit on a bushel of 

 apples, or one-third of the entire profit. Usually the profit 

 on an enterprise can be greatly changed by small changes 

 in cost. 



The profit to the acre is in addition to pay for use of land. 



