COST OF PRODUCING APPLES WESTERN NEW YORK. 



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Table XIV. — Average time and cost for pruning 218 orchards, western New 



York, 1910-1915. 





Number 



of 

 records. 



Acres in 



in 

 orchard. 



Trees 

 per 

 acre. 



Age. 



Trees 

 in 10 

 hours. 



Man 



hours. 



-Cost. 



County. 



Per 

 acre. 



Per 



tree. 



Per 



barrel. 



Warne 



44 

 42 

 47 

 50 

 35 



13. 88 



11.31 

 13. 31 



17.04 

 13.97 



35 

 33 

 36 

 34 

 37 



36 

 36 

 41 

 44 

 39 



14 

 12 

 16 

 14 

 11 



32.05 



33.81 

 28.22 

 30.41 

 36.18 



$6.41 

 6.76 

 5.64 

 6.08 

 7.24 



$0. 1831 

 .2048 

 .1567 

 .1788 

 .1957 



SO. 0876 



Ontario 



.0725 





.0661 





.0700 





.0889 







All counties 



218 



14.00 



35 



40 



14 



31.85 



6.37 



.1820 



.0757 



Table XIV shows a summary of average expenditures for pruning, 

 with tree and barrel costs. A man will prune, on an average, 14 

 trees in 10 hours, making an acre cost of $6.37, a tree cost of $0,182, 

 and a barrel cost of $0.0757. The annual pro rata pruning cost per 

 acre is $1.85, or 20 per cent of the total net maintenance cost, or 4 

 per cent of the total net cost of production. 



Table XV. — Average pruning cost for different commercial apple-growing areas. 



Locality. 



Number 



of 

 orchard. 



Age of 

 trees. 



Trees 

 per acre. 



Trees in 

 10 hours. 



Hours 

 per acre. 



Cost. 



Per acre. 



Per tree. 



Western New York 



218 

 87 



120 

 54 



125 



40 

 11 

 13 

 12 

 17 



35 

 81 

 74 

 72 

 74 



14 

 19 

 14 

 30 

 14 



31.85 



40.31 

 52.55 

 24.36 

 53.67 



$6.37 

 10.08 

 13.14 



5.48 

 18.78 



$0,182 



Wenatche Valley, Wash. 1 



Yakima Valley, Wash. 2 



Hood River Valley, Oreg.3 



.124 

 .179 

 .076 

 .254 







Dept. Bui. 446. 



Dept. Bui. 614. 



Dept. Bui. 518. 



* Dept. Bui. 600. 



Table XV gives a comparison of the number of trees pruned per 

 day and the cost per acre in western New York and four other apple- 

 growing areas, "Wenatchee Valley and Yakima Valley, Wash., Hood 

 River Valley, Oreg., and western Colorado. It should be borne in 

 mind that in these areas there are different varieties and conditions, 

 and the trees are considerably younger and also are set very much 

 closer together than in New York. 



Summer pruning is not practiced by the growers in western New 

 York. Past experience has taught them that it is not practical. 

 Many of the growers make a practice of pruning a portion of their 

 orchards each year; some prune heavily one year and lightly the 

 next. The size of the orchard seemingly has little effect on the time 

 required for pruning. 



