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Table XXIII. — Items considered in figuring packing-house charge (87 ranches). 



Operation. 



Cost per 

 box. 



Operation. 



Cost per 

 box. 



Sorting and packing 



$0.07 

 .06 

 .0166 





$0. 0278 

 0083 



Packing sorted fruit 



Stamping and nailing 



Nailing and "waiting" 





.0030 







The average packing-house charge, figured from the above aver- 

 ages, was $0,087 per packed box. 



Fig. 7. — Hauling apples to station. There are US boxes in this load. 

 1-man and 2-horse crew is 89.69 boxes. 



The average load hauled with a 



HAULING PACKED BOXES. 



During harvesting the apples are usually delivered to a local 

 association or a shipping point. The majority of growers do their 

 own hauling. Eighty-one followed this practice, 68 with a crew of 

 1 man and 2 horses, and 13 with a 1-man and 1-horse crew. The 

 load varies from 70 to 130 boxes with the former and from 30 to 70 

 boxes with the latter. (See fig. 7.) Four of the growers contracted 

 to have their apples hauled, the price per box varying from $0.01 to 

 $0.03 with the distance. Two loaded their apples directly on cars, a 

 railroad siding being close at hand. The crew doing the hauling was 

 governed to some extent by the distance to the point of delivery. 

 (See Table XXIV.) 



