COST OF PRODUCING APPLES IN WENATCHEE VALLEY, WASH. 35 



single item, that of interest on investment, which in the case of the 

 farms studied is nearly 26 cents per box. When this and other 

 charges are considered it is found that the average cost of producing 

 apples on the farms studied in the Wenatchee Valley having bearing 

 orchards under clean cultural management in 1914 was $0.7921 per 

 box. In orchards under mulch-crop management the cost is approxi- 

 mately $0.02 per box less. 



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