19 BULLETIN 614, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
52.57 per cent of the total investment. A greater valuation per acre 
was reported for ranches on which orchards are under mulch-crop 
than for those under clean-culture management. This is due prima- 
rily to location, land values being as a rule higher in the Nob Hill sec- 
tion, where more of the orchards are in a mulch crop, than in the Fruit- 
vale or Broadway localities, where clean cultivation is practiced by 
nearly all orchardists from whom data were obtained. (See Table V.) 
TABLE V.—Average size of ranch and bearing orchard and average investment per ranch 
and per acre for 64 ranches in North Yakima district. 
Method of culture. 
Item. Nl 
Clean. |Mulch-crop.| Combined. 
IN{UIMbE riOiPe Cords siyee k eee ee Or sae ae ees er eaten Oe 43 21 64 
Average acreage per ranch: 
HA 10 Fs] Rea ee gee ee) ee Pe SSN ge Aaa ne Le. Uninc ae ae 11. 96 8. 40 10. 79 
In bearing apple orchard-............-- SSeS ed ee pitt A ates, Sorts 5. 49 4, 52 5.18 
Average investment per ranch: 
LUN Gears ei ea ira Elan ee Wa ys 8 na a ai ee ees ee ee REN $16, 329. 71 | $14.225.57 | $15, 639. 29 
Land andimprovement..........-- Sapte WLS are eae nae $15, 695. 12 | $13, 532. 00 $14, 985. 34 
nbearin grap leronclvan Geer cy ele eee ee ree $7, 708.14 | $7.152. 38 $7, 525. 78 
Equipment iiGo2 oo Soa emits ete ses rt Vee et cena a $339. 88 $357. 48 $342. 97 
Average investment per acre apple orchard: 
NRO) Fe ES eee re ni en Ce een Sa oa Abe Mees $1, 469.77 | $1,657.14 $1, 531. 25 
DLO PONY eps) OD ees rk sce SIERO a MN eS Shea Den er RULE Cn Prete $33. 11 $39. 12 $35. 08 
Per cent value apple orchard is of total investment per ranch 1...... 51..00 55. 79 SPAY 
1 Average of percentage figures for the individual ranches. 
The Zillah district presents a somewhat different aspect. It is 
located in the lower valley, which is not quite as highly specialized 
an apple-producing area as the North Yakima district. The ranches 
are larger, and, although more diversified, the raising of the apple is 
the chief ranch enterprise. The homes of the ranchers here are not so 
pretentious as those of the Nob Hill section, but the people enjoy all 
the advantages of an up-to-date rural community and have good 
train service to the city of North Yakima. 
For the 56 ranches studied in the Zillah district the average invest- 
ment per ranch of 21,57 acres is $13,207.21, of which $4,409.20 is the 
estimated value of 7.77 acres of bearing apple orchard perranch. The 
value of the bearing apple orchard is 37.23 per cent of the total invest- 
ment. (See Table VI.) : 
These investments are high in comparison with many of the farms 
in the Eastern apple-producing regions, but they are not exorbitant 
as compared with those of other Western and Northwestern apple- 
producing regions. (See Table VII.) 
