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The dash ( — ) placed before the difference in price indicates that 

 a lower grade sold for more than the next higher grade. This oc- 

 curred several times among the grades of oranges, but not among 

 those of grapefruit. The only explanation that can be offered for 

 this irregularity is that the lower grades had the sizes desired by 

 the trade at the particular time of the sale. 



Table 7 shows the differences in price for the grades of 400,805 

 boxes of oranges and 126,193 boxes of grapefruit when these are 

 divided into three instead of five grades. 



Table 7. — Differences in the price receved in the New York market for different 

 grades of oranges and grapefruit during the season of 1015-16. 





Difference in price received between the grades of — 



Month. 





Oranges. 





Grapefruit 







First and 

 second 

 grades. 



Second 



and third 



grades. 



First and 

 third 

 grades. 



First and 

 second 

 grades. 



Second 



and third 



grades. 



First and 

 third 

 grades. 



November 



SO. 342 

 .243 

 .221 

 .168 

 .099 

 .226 



SO. 044 

 .136 

 .117 



.114 

 .054 



.110 



SO. 385 

 .379 

 .338 

 .282 

 .045 

 .336 



SO. 517 

 .369 

 .237 

 .378 

 .295 

 .059 



80.314 

 .654 

 .362 

 .325 

 .569 

 .279 



SO. 831 



December 



January 



February 



April 



1.023 

 .599 

 .703 



.864 

 .338 



If the difference in price received for the first and third grades be 

 added and the sum be divided by the number of months, an average 

 difference of 30 cents in price received for the oranges and 72 cents 

 for the grapefruit is obtained. In a miscellaneous lot of 5,427 boxes 

 of fruit, the first grade averaged 48.8 cents more than did the second 

 grade, and the second averaged 8.3 cents more than did the third 

 grade. 



Opportunity is seldom presented for comparing the price of 

 sprayed and unsprayed fruit from the same grove. Through the 

 cooperation of Mr. J. A. Stevens, of De Land, this was done with 

 two carloads of grapefruit shipped in 1914 from sprayed and. un- 

 sprayed trees, that were picked and packed on the same day and 

 sold in the same market. The sprayed fruit sold for $1.94 per box ; 

 the unsprayed fruit for $1.69. These respective prices are disap- 

 pointing. It had been anticipated that there would be at least a 

 difference of 75 cents instead of 25 cents in favor of the sprayed 

 fruit. The net profits clue to spraying, however, were sufficient to 

 pay one-fourth of the freight charges. Although the difference is 

 slight, it is more than four times what it cost to spra} 7 the trees. The 

 prices of the respective grades of the fruit could not be obtained. 



In a grove about 1 mile distant from the grove previously men- 

 tioned 516 and 300 boxes of grapefruit, respectively, were picked from 



