COST OF PRODUCING APPLES WESTERN NEW YORK. 



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Table XIV. — Average time and cost for pruning 218 orchards, tcestern Neio 



York, 1910-1915. 





Number 



of 

 records. 



Acres in 



in 

 orchard . 



Trees 

 per 

 acre. 



Age. 



Trees 

 in 10 

 hours. 



Man 

 hours. 



Cost. 



County. 



Per 

 acre. 



Per 

 tree. 



Per 



barrel. 





44 

 42 

 47 

 50 

 35 



13. 88 

 11.31 

 13. 31 

 17.04 

 13.97 



35 

 33 

 36 

 34 

 37 



36 

 36 



41 

 44 

 39 



14 

 12 

 16 

 14 

 11 



32.05 

 33.81 

 28.22 

 30.41 

 36.18 



$6.41 

 6.76 

 5.64 

 6.08 

 7.24 



$0. 1831 

 .2048 

 .1567 

 .1788 

 .1957 



SO. 0876 





.0725 





.0661 





.0700 





.0889 







All counties 



218 



14.00 



35 



40 



14 



31.85 



6.37 



. 1820 



.0757 



Table XIV shows a summary of average expenditures for priming, 

 with tree and barrel costs. A man will prune, on an average, 14 

 trees in 10 lipurs, making an acre cost of $6.37, a tree cost of $0,182, 

 and a barrel cost of $0.0757. The annual pro rata pruning cost per 

 acre is $4.85, or 20 per cent of the total net maintenance cost, or 4 

 per cent of the total net cost of production. 



Table XV. — Average pruning cost for different commercial apple-groicing areas. 



Locality. 



Number 



of 

 orchard. 



Age of 

 trees. 



Trees 

 per acre. 



Trees in 

 10 hours. 



Hours 

 per acre. 



■ Cost. 



Per acre. 



Per tree. 





218 

 87 



120 

 54 



125 



40 

 11 

 13 

 12 

 17 



35 



81 

 74 

 72 

 74 



14 

 19 

 14 

 30 

 14 



31.85 

 40.31 

 52.55 

 24.36 

 53.67 



$6.37 

 10.08 

 13.14 

 5.48 

 18.78 



$0,182 



Hood River Valley, Oreg. 3 



.124 

 .179 

 .076 

 .254 











> Dept. Bui. 446. 



2 Dept. Bui. 614. 



3 Dept. Bui. 518. 



• Dept. Bui. 500. 



Table XV gives a comparison of the number of trees pruned per 

 day and the cost per acre in western New York and four other apple- 

 growing areas, Wenatchee Valley and Yakima Valley, Wash., Hood 

 River Valley, Oreg., and western Colorado. It should be borne in 

 mind that in these areas there are different varieties and conditions, 

 and the trees are considerably younger and also are set very much 

 closer together than in New York. 



Summer pruning is not practiced by the growers in western New 

 York. Past experience has taught them that it is not practical. 

 Many of the growers make a practice of pruning a portion of their 

 orchards each year; some prune heavily one year and lightly the 

 next. The size of the orchard seemingly has little effect on the time 

 required for pruning. 



