COST OF PRODUCING APPLES WESTERN NEW YORK. 



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crates. Very few of the cull apples produced in the lake counties are 

 shipped outside of the immediate district. However, in Ontario 

 County it is the practice of some farmers to sell this grade of fruit to 

 a dry house at some considerable distance. This necessitates loading 

 the apples into cars. 



The price paid for cull apples varies with the season and the condi- 

 tion of the fruit. The market prices of the by-products control, to a 

 great extent, the price paid for culls. Late in the season, just prior 

 to the time of picking, or during picking, this type of dropped apple 

 may bring anywhere from 75 cents to $1.25 a hundredweight. TThen 

 the crop is large and the price of barreled apples low, cull apples 

 usually bring 25 to 35 cents a hundredweight. Within the last few 

 3'ears this grade of apple has usually brought from 50 to 75 cents 

 per hundredweight delivered at the cider mill or drier. 



Fig. 13. — Hauling empty barrels to the orchard 



Of course cider stock will not bring the price that is paid for drier 

 stock. No separation was made of the prices received for cider and 

 drier stock, so that the figures here presented represent average prices 

 of drier and cider stock together. About 25 per cent of the total 

 yield of the orchards visited was sold as drier or cider apples. 



HAULING THE BARRELED FRUIT. 



Apple barrels are usually delivered to the farm by the cooper or 

 dealer, no separate charge being made for hauling (see fig. 12). The 

 cost of hauling barrels therefore does not appear as a separate item 



