APPLES 
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Cost of box 
Making box 
Pape! 
Nails 
Nailing up 
Packing and sorting 
Overhead expense 
373 
| Apple Pear Peach 
$ 125 $ 1125 $ 0725 
009 009 006 
0075 0188 0125 
005 | 005 0035 
| 0063 0063 0042 
055 035 0275 
(4 | O4 02 
The average between the cost of putting up apples, also pears and peaches, in the 
two largest fruit growing distiicts in the State of Washington, as given (in one case 
unofficially) by the chief cooperative association operating in each district is itemized 
in the following table 
Cost of box 
Making box 
Paper. 
Nauls 
Nailing up 
Packing 
Sorting 
In addition to this is an overhead ex- 
pense varying greatly with conditions. 
Most of the above items in each table 
must necessarily be but approximately cor- 
rect, and will vary from year to year. On 
an average, 50 pounds of wrapping pa- 
per are required for one 100 packed 
boxes, seven pounds of lining paper and 
16 pounds of cardboard. 
Of course in any case the problem of 
packing house management is one deal- 
ing more or less with the fact of per- 
sonality, and the success or failure of 
any one system or method depends in a 
Pear Peach 
! 6 105 $ 10 | $ 0575 
Oi Ol : 0075 
0272 0272 : 016 
00359 00359 | 0023 
Ol 01 | 0063 
058 05 | 8 
058 0525 | 
large measure upon the character of the 
directors and overseers as well as of the 
workers themselves. 
JUDGING AT APPLE SHOWS 
Judging apples at the fruit exhibitions 
is one of the important features of the 
fruit business, since it is by this means, 
or through this channel, that many grow- 
ers receive education and obtain their 
ideals of what constitutes proper grading, 
and estimates of the relative value of 
fruits when judged by a perfect standard. 
Of course, we understand that the word 
