ESTIl'riTR OF COST^ OF COFTinUOUS STEI''G FIJ.G'^IFG 



• The cost of applying tho continuous string flagging method is moderate 

 Virhen one considers the immonso losses sonetines occasionod' by failure to 

 protect highly valuable crops. The estimates here given are based upon- 

 materials necessary to stake and. flag one acre, 208 x 208 foet, v/ith the 

 stages placed 50 feet apart in the rows, and tho rov/s 25 feet apart. It 

 should be noted that in tho illustrated specimen acre the stakes and flags 

 are carried to the margin of tho aero; the stakes on the boundary, therefore, 

 will serve the adjacent acre Vi^hich x-rill thus require one less rnvr -^f stakes 

 excepting at tho ends of the field. ■ - 



Costs of staking and flagf^ing vary v;ith the local labor crests and mth 

 fluctuations in prices of m.aterials. For materials alone, in 1936, the cost 

 ranged from 35/ per acre with paper streamers to (-1 •85 pei' acre v.i-th cloth 

 streamiors. Costs quoted in Y/ildlife Research and Management Leaflet BS-6i4, 

 ■^f September 1936, were obtained in January 193^ in the trading center of an 

 area in v/hich hundreds >f acres of crops vrere protected each j'"ear by this 

 methj-od. Revised costs listed below Tvere obtained in tho same trading center 

 in May igl+S. 



Stakes : 



Lath, [4.- foot, ^'oL . , v2.10 per hundred,' 



Lath, Ix-foot, v2 • ■ . . .- 2.00 per hundred.. 



Car strips, U^ x l/2" x l-J/u" , , 3»00 per . hundred .- 



Tivinc : 



Pour-ply cotton v:rapping trv-rino may be pro.cured in balls and cones 

 ':^-f varying v;cight. The best grades run about 2,000 linear 

 feet per pound. Price offered on a t'.vo pound ball . . ^;;1.60 

 per ball . _ . ; 



Streamers ; •. . 



VHiite muslin, good grade heavily sized, the regulation bolts 

 running . 5^0 square feet (36 inches by 180 feet). 

 Prices at 50/ Poi" yard, . " •. * 



Heavy, light- tan butcher's paper. A 2i4.-inch roll, approximately 

 [j.,000 linear feet,- weighing 30 to 35 pounds, is priced at '^^^ 

 per pound , 



Streamers already cut, 2" x 21;", from w-axed lettuce paper are 

 priced at 23>^ per hundred. . _ 



Iho. same sized streamers cut from pa rchi-aont' paper are priced at 

 36^2^ p er' hundred* ■ . , 



For tho basic acre to be flagged the following materials " sho.uld cost.: 



y.'ith muslin : - ■ '. • . . 



Stakes (car strip s)--i.|.5 .,.,.,..,....., ^^1.55 

 L|.-ply cotton wrapping twino--2,000 f -,ot 3/(Sco'p.ll) ,80 

 Muslin streamers, 2 x cU inches, --36O 6.75 



^8.90 



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