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TABLE X XII.—Total time and cost chargeable per acre for cultivation in 32 orchards of 
various sizes under clean-cultural management in the Zillah district. 
| 
Per acre. 
Number | Acres in avcaee 
ofrecords.| orchard. | y,.)_ Taorse | ia wana 
hours. hours. | _ 
13 1-5 21.07 39. 86 $11. 25 16.77 
11 6-10 17. 36 31.97 9.14 20.89 
8 11-20 16. 59 31.34 8. 85 33. 06 
The intensiveness of cultivation varies to a considerable extent in 
each of these districts, but the figures indicate that costs of cultiva- 
tion per acre in each district are higher for the orchards between 1 
and 5 acres in size than for the larger orchards. Of course there is 
not any set rule as to the amount of cultivation which shall be done, 
but the whole plan of orcharding on small ranches in the Northwest 
tends toward intensiveness, and hence to a high cost of maintenance. 
On account of the small number of records for the larger orchards and 
ranches, it was impossible to bring out this fact as forcibly as was 
desired. Nevertheless, it would seem from the data that the smaller 
ranches and orchards tend toward more intensive methods. 
The annual cost of cultivation on orchards of from 1 to 5 acres on 
ranches which average 10.25 acres in North Yakima was $12.99, 
while in the Zillah district, with orchards averaging approximately 
the same and with ranches which average 16.77 acres, the cost of cul- 
tivation is $11.25, and over $2 per acre more than on orchards of 6 to 
10 acres in size where the ranches contain between 4 and 5 acres more. 
Taste XXIII.—Average man-hours and horse-hours and cost chargeable per acre for 
cultivation, exclusive of plowing, in orchards under clean-cultural management in 
the Yakima Valley. 
Per acre. 
3 pverage on 
Saree Number | number ost per 
: STE ofrecords.| ofacresin| 44). Horse: box. 
orchard. Woune nouns Cost. 
INOnthipvalklmn aes een ete ee ey eT 43 5. 49 24. 26 41. 28 $12. 26 $0. 0258 
VAG Se ee eee SR eae ee tie Eee eee eee 32 7.70 18. 67 35. O1 9.92 . 0236 
North) Yakimarand Zillah. 2. 222.52. 75 6. 44 21.88 38. 60 11. 26 . 0249 
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There is a total charge of 27.33 man-hours and 46.99 horse-hours, 
or $13.88 per acre, for all cultivation, including plowing, in orchards 
under clean-cultural management in the North Yakima district, 
and of 21.12 man-hours and 39.90 horse-hours, or $11.27 per acre, 
in the Zillah district. Table XXIII gives the cost chargeable per 
acre for cultivation exclusive of plowing in orchards under clean 
cultivation. 
Considering the valley as a whole, there is a charge of $12.76 per 
acre for all cultivation, including plowing, or a packed-box charge 
of $0.0282. ; 
