APPLES 
Expenditures Per Year—Same Years 
Work on orchards (includes clover on best orchards).... $ 
Taxes, depreciation, repairs, etc...... .. 
Overseeing and incidentals.... 
Total expenditures per year . 
Net income per year . we nese aneene 
Net income three years... 
Net income first ten years... 
Value of orchard end fourth COPD nee cc ee ccsceceeesecvs cee 
Total assets fourth term............ 
Less original investment....... . 
Total net profit 13 years.... ....000..... 
Average net profit per year 
Interest on investment per year 
Cost and Result of Fertilization 
This is the touchstone to which every- 
thing must yield, and we claim the sys- 
tem advocated will give infinitely better 
results than any other known. It is a 
system that demands just the material 
required to make fruit, and in as exact 
proportion as science can indicate. Under 
this system each tree may be regarded 
in the light of a factory, changing well 
selected raw material into the finished 
product. Nothing can be more reason- 
able, nothing more simple. To produce 
the results given below, the retail cost of 
fertilizer has only been from $8.00 to 
39.00 per acre, or about eight cents per 
barrel. My average has been 110 barrels 
for ten consecutive years, omitting the 
present year. This means 1,100 barrels 
from every acre of orchard in the time 
named of good packed fruit. This com- 
pletes my experiments along the line of 
low fertilization, and the results are 
gladly given to my brother orchardists. 
Now the question arises, How much has 
been lost by following so closely a system 
that furnishes material, seemingly, in- 
adequate to the needs of a heavy crop? 
How much more of the same fertilizers 
could have been profitably used? Would 
50 per cent or 100 per cent more have 
increased the crop proportionally? These 
are live questions to the man whose in- 
terests lie largely in apple trees, and are 
questions which the writer now turns to 
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7,D00.00 $ 3,000.00 
1,250.00 650.00 
3,500.00) 1,250.00 
~% 11,750.00 $ 4,900.00 
. 133,637.50 11,806.25 
401,012.50 35,418.75 
311,029.84 55,787.50 
.. 800,000.00 70,000.00 
.51,012,042.34 $161,206.25 
39,500.00 23,500.00 
$972,542.34 $137,706.25 
eesteseen venee 74,810.90 10,593.00 
195% 45% 
BEN NEWHALL 
North Manitou Island, Mich. 
with full purpose of making a satisfac- 
tory solution. 
Results of Fertilization 
Below is an account kept with the only 
four acres of orchard in full bearing at 
the time it was made. It is a fair index 
of many other like crops, and in no way 
misleading, as many others, with the 
same treatment, have done even better. 
Pruning  ............ seseee $ 610.00 
Fertilizer, 4 acres at $9. we cece aveceee 36.00 
Sowing fertilizer 2... 2 ww 2.00 
Discing and harrowing .... 8.00 
Seed for cover Crop..........0.. ee . 5.70 
SOWING COVEr CYOP lice. wee cece eeee sees 1.50 
Spraying three times........ ww. 22.40 
Barrels, 451 at 25e.... J... 113.00 
Picking, packing and truckage, 
At 25 Lecce cceeccceentecnence ceeseeeenee nee 113.00 
SUNArY @XPeNSeS oo. eee ce eeee cece 8.40 
$ 320.00 
451 barrels apples, net proceeds.. 1,017.74 
Net YeturDs 2.0... ceceeeeseeeeeeeeeees $ 697.74 
This is but a fraction short of $175, 
net, per acre, or 1714 per cent for the 
owner on a valuation of $1,000 per acre. 
This seems better than bank stock yield- 
ing 415 per cent, or even gold mines in 
the West, which promise wealth quickly, 
but usually wind up with loss of expected 
dividend, and investment as well. The 
statement of 17% per cent returns is not 
given as something wonderful or phe- 
nomenal. On the contrary, it is sent forth 
with the full knowledge that even better 
