102 



4th year. 1906. 



Cultivating, 318.00 



Manure, 125.00 



I'runing '. 12.00 



Clover seed, 17.00 



By Hog pasture, 171.00 



5 th year. 1907. 



Cultivating 260.00 



3^ianure i35-00 



Pruning 22.00 



Spraying 86.00 



r.y Hog pasture 150.00 



!)}• Apples and Cider, 65.00 



6th year. 1908. 



Culiivating 367.00 



Manure 60.00 



Pruning, 20.00 



Spraying and material 225.00 



By Hog pasture 141.00 



By 150 bbls. Apples and Cider 308.00 



Clover seed, 24.00 



Picking, packing and handling apples, 63.00 

 7th year, 1909. 



Cultivating 165.00 



AJanure, 115.00 



Pruning 17.00 



Spraying and material 293.00 



Fertilizers. 78.00 



Picking, packing and handling 255.00 



By Hog pasture, 192.00 



By 850 bbls. Apples and Cider, 1,952.00 



$3,259.00 $4,173.00 



These figures sho^v that up to the end of the seventh year the 

 orchard has not been self-supporting by $914.00, yet if we consider 

 the increased value of the land, due to manure and cover crops, at 

 $20.00 per acre the deficit is reduced to $314.00. 



Some old apple trees on land purchased by ^Ir. Cohill several 

 years ago have produced a full crop of apples each year for the last 

 five years. 



Another orchardist in Washington County makes the following 

 statement from memory as he has not kept accurate records : 



The trees cost $4.80 per acre and the planting $1.00 per acre. 

 Crops were grown among the trees for the first five years and about 

 paid the running expenses of the orchard. Ben Davis began to bear 

 at eight years and York at twelve years of age. At the present time 

 one-half of the orchard is twenty-one years old and the other half 

 eighteen years and the most profitable crop brought $150.00 per acre 

 while the average income is about $90.00 per acre. The crop is good 

 on bearing years and about one-fourth of a crop on ofif years. 

 Spraying costs S15.00 per acre, pruning $1.50. picking, etc., $16.00 

 annually. 



