44 BULLETIN 500, U. S. DEPARTMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SUMMARY OF ALL COSTS. 



In Table XXXV is given a summary of all costs, including every 

 item of expense chargeable to the orchards on all records. 1 



Table XXXV. — Summary of all costs . 



Item. 



Mesa. 



Delta. 



Montrose. 



All 



counties. 



Total labor cost per acre 



Total material and fixed cost per acre . 



Total all costs per acre 



8116.01 

 140. 76 



256. :; 



Total labor cost per box 



Total material and fixed cost per box. 



,423 

 ,512 



Total all costs per box. 



935 



S109. 99 

 123.97 



8106. 30 

 102. 05 



233.96 



373 

 ,422 



392 

 375 



;^b 



767 



Sill. 88 

 127.91 



239. 



.394 

 .450 



844 



This, it should be borne in mind, is the average cost of all records 

 figured on the acre basis and giving all an equal weight. Care was 

 taken to include every item, and_ the figures obtained may be 

 considered as fairly accurate averages for the region. The com- 

 paratively high cost in Mesa County is due primarily to the more 

 intensive system practiced there and to the fact that the investment 

 per acre in bearing orchard is considerably greater in Mesa than in 

 the other counties. The cost, therefore, of producing a box of 

 apples in the Grand Valley is greater on the average than in Delta 

 or Montrose Counties. When all of the 125 records are considered 

 it was found that the cost was SO. 844 per box, which, for all practical 

 purposes, may be said to be the average annual cost per box of pro- 

 ducing apples in western Colorado. 



i No account is taken of smudging, which is not a regular practice, nor of credit for the mulch crop taken 

 ofi as hay, which credit at the time the records were taken would about balance the cost of taking it off, 

 which was not a practice. 



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