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season cost 24 cents per bushel over a 13-year period. Over a 

 period of 5 years, on a lot of 15,000 bushels from an orchard 

 in the same state, it has cost 10.33 cents for picking alone; 

 3.48 cents per bushel for hauling apples from orchard to the 

 packing house; 5.92 cents for grading and packing the fruit, 

 exclusive of wages of the foreman of the crew. In the Hudson 

 Velley of New York State, for the crop of 1931 it cost 217 

 growers who operated 509 apple orchards an average of 10 

 cents a bushel for picking, 7 cents a bushel for packing, and 

 8 cents a bushel for hauling and marketing. The price of labor 

 for these 509 orchards varied, some growers paying by the day 

 and some by the box. See also Table 43, page 354, and 

 Table 45, page 427. 



4. Storing. Storage plays an important part in the fruit 

 world. Were it not for the development of storage and re- 

 frigeration systems whereby fruit may be held for extended 

 periods, the different varieties and kinds would be avail- 

 able only through their periods of production. Movement 

 to market would of necessity take place immediately. Stor- 

 age extends the season and tends to make the supply uniform 

 throughout the season. It stabilizes both supply and prices. 

 This has its advantages from both the producing and the con- 

 suming standpoints. 



Factors and Procedure: 



(a) Determining advisability of storing. 



(b) Forms of storage. 



(c) Determining whether to buy storage space or to build. 



(d) Factors for successful common storage. 



(e) Determining the type of common storage to build. 

 (/) Operating the storage plant. 



(g) Picking and packing fruit for storage. 



(a) Determining Advisability of Storing. It is evident that 

 some fruit must be stored each year if prices are to be satisfac- 

 tory. It cannot all be forced on the market in the fall months. 



