BULLETIN 130, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



apples over the entire country, for to do that would require a much 

 more extended study. 



No figures are available from which to determine the cost of 

 planting and caring for this orchard up to the time it began to return 





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profitable crops. No attempts have been made at estimating the 

 profit or loss that may result from this area during the declining 

 years of the orchard, and no loss factors incident to crop failure such 

 as occur in the life of every orchard enterprise appear here. It 





