COST’ OF PRODUCING APPLES IN YAKIMA VALLEY. 61 
TABLE XLII.—Cost of all hauling on 120 farms studied. © 
Cost | Cost per | Cost per 
Num- 
Operation. ber of | Yield. | Load. | Miles. per | packed | box per 
records. acre. box. mile. 
Hamline ShoOKSs saree ees sane ne Seiacic sees 120 432 462 1.81 $1.66 | $0.0038 | $0.0021 
pouling boxes to and from orchard!_....... 120 432 DAL |e aenas 8. 84 AAU losdooscec 
auling packed boxes to station (108). -..--. \ e 
_ | Hauling loose boxes to association (12)...... 120 432 81 1.85 7.12 - 0165 - 0089 
i aerelve orchardists hauled empty boxes to the orchard, but hauled their full boxes to a central packing 
shed. 
TOTAL HANDLING COST. 
The total net handling cost of the North Yakima district (64 
orchards considered) was $89.26 per acre, or $0.1932 per box, while 
in the Zillah district (56 orchards considered) the acre cost was 
$86.12, or $0.2164 per box. The labor cost, with no credit for culls, 
was $0.0232 more per box in the Zillah district. 
Considering all orchards studied, there appears to be little difference 
in the total net handling costs per box between the orchards under 
clean-cultural and those under mulch-crop management. On the 
former it is 56.97 per cent, the latter 63.12 per cent of the total net 
labor cost. 
The total net handling cost for the 120 orchards studied was $87.79 
per acre, or $0.2032 per box. This cost is 58.92 per cent of the total 
net labor, or 25.40 per cent of the total net cost of production. 
TOTAL LABOR COST. 
When the total labor cost for the 120 farms studied in the Yakima 
Valley is considered, there is found to be a net labor cost per acre of 
$149.01, or $0.3449 per box, after credit has been allowed for hay or 
pasture, wood for fuel, and all fruit not packed in boxes. This total 
credit amounts to $0.0190 per box. The net maintenance cost 
amounts to $0.1417 per box, or 41.09 per cent of the total net labor 
cost, while the net labor cost for handling amounts to $0.2032 per 
box, or 58.92 per cent of the total net labor cost. As will be seen 
from Table XLIII, the total net handling cost per box is practically 
the same under both the clean-cultural and the mulch-crop system, 
but the net labor cost per box for maintenance labor is much less in 
the case of the mulch-crop system. There is a net maintenance cost 
of $70.03 per acre in the case of the 75 clean-cultural orchards and 
$46.49 in the case of the mulch-crop orchards. If no credit is given 
the mulch-crop orchards, there is still a difference of $9.35 per acre 
in their favor. The cost per box, if no credit is given, is practically 
the same for the two systems, as the yield is 54 boxes per acre greater 
in the case of the clean-cultural orchards. 
