380 The Commercial Apple Industry 



Table XXIV. — Total Harvesting Cost 

 (Cost refers to marketable fruit only.) 



Other harvesting and packing labor, aside from the pick- 

 ing, averages about 1.8 barrels to a man an hour. This is 

 the case in New York, the Middle West, and commercial 

 sections of Virginia. The western grower figures that he 

 is repaid for any extra cost in handling and packing his 

 crop by increased returns for his fruit. The secret of his 

 success on the market has been due to this intensive effort. 



Table XXV shows fixed costs, including charges for 

 interest on investment, for several important apple regions. 



The fixed costs, as before stated, comprise those annual 



Table XXV,— Total Fixed Costs 



