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BULLETIN 500, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



HARVESTING OPERATIONS. 



Under harvesting operations are included all those items pertain- 

 ing to the harvesting of the crop from the time the apples are picked 

 until they are delivered at the station or warehouse. These opera- 

 tions include hauling the box shooks, making the boxes, hauling the 

 empty boxes to the orchard and the full ones to the packing shed, 

 picking, grading, sorting, packing, nailing, and stamping, waiting, 

 and all other packing-house labor, and, lastly, hauling the boxes to 

 the loading station. These operations will be discussed under three 

 general headings, viz, hauling, picking, and packing-house time and 

 costs. 



HAULING. 



HAULING BOX SHOOKS. 



In hauling the box shooks all the growers on the farms studied 

 hauled with a 1-man, 2-horse crew. The average distance hauled for 

 the three counties was 3.11 miles, with a cost of $0.0047 per box, the 

 average load 402 boxes. Table XXIII shows the relative cost for 

 the farms studied in the three counties. 



Table XXIII. — Hauling shooks (1-2 creiv). 



County and number of records. 



Man- 

 hours 

 per 

 acre. 



Horse- 

 hours 

 per 

 acre. 



Boxes 

 per 

 load. 



Num- 

 ber 

 miles. 



Boxes 



per Cost per 

 hour | box per 



per mile, 



mile. ; 



Cost 

 per 

 acre. 



Cost 

 per box 

 average 

 distance 

 hauled. 



Mesa, 49 



Delta, 61 



Montrose, 15 



All counties, 125 



1.87 

 2.77 

 2.94 



3.73 

 5.55 



5.87 



428 

 383 



400 



3.03 446.8 i SO. 00123 

 3.13 330.5 .00166 

 3.3 I 305.4 ' .00180 



81.03 ! SO. 00373 

 1.53 , .00519 

 1.62 .00594 



3.11 I 373. OS 



00151 



1.34 



.00471 



HAULING FULL BOXES TO CAR. 



As in hauling shooks, the ordinary crew used in hauling to the 

 station is the 1-man, 2-horse crew. The average for the three coun- 

 ties is 73.5 boxes per load; distance, 2.45 miles; cost of 1 cent per 

 box per mile, or $0.0249 per box for the average distance hauled. 

 As will be seen from Table XXIV, the cost per box per mile varies 

 but little. 



Table XXIV. — Hauling full boxes to car (1-2 crew). 



County and number of records. 



Man- 

 hours 

 per 

 acre. 



Horse- 

 hours 

 per 

 acre. 



Boxes 

 per 

 load. 



Num- 

 ber 

 miles. 



Boxes 

 per 



hour 

 per 



mile. 



Cost per 



box per 



mile. 



Cost 

 per 

 acre. 



Cost 

 per box 

 average 

 distance 

 hauled. 



Mesa, 49 



9.87 

 15.10 

 14.04 



19.74 



30.20 

 28.08 



76 

 71 

 76 



2.1 



2.53 



3.3 



58.53 

 49.20 

 64 



SO. 00940 

 .01117 

 .00860 



§5.43 

 8.31 

 7.72 



SO. 01974 



Delta. 61 



. 02826 





.02838 









12.92 



25.85 



73 



2.45 



54.63 



.01017 



7.11 



.02493 







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