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SPRAYING, YIELD, AND INCOME PER ACRE, ORLEANS 

 COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1904 



SPRAYING, YIELD, AND INCOME PER ACRE. ORLEANS 

 COUNTY, 1904 (ORCHARDS ALL WELL CARED FOR) 



The difference in income is clue to larger yields and to a larger 

 proportion of fruit suitable to barrel, which result in higher prices. 

 These conditions in turn depend on better orchard management 

 and careful attention to spraying. Allowing for the additional ex- 

 penditure involved in the purchase of a spraying outfit, — barrels, 

 spray materials, labor, etc., — there is still a good profit in the re- 

 turns from sprayed trees as compared with those from unsprayed 

 trees. It is therefore clear that the extra expense and work are 

 justified on economic grounds as well as from the standpoint of 

 satisfaction in producing a large percentage of high-grade fruit. 



Cost of spraying. It will cost from 10 to 30 cents per tree to 

 spray, varying with the number of applications, the size of the tree, 

 the kind of machine used, the area of the orchard, the price and 

 character of the materials used, and the efficiency of the labor. In 



