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BULLETIN 32, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table V. — Cost of and income from renovating <ni old 30-tree apple orchard on 
the English farm. 
Renovation. 
Cost. 
Income. 
Gross 
receipts. 
Xet 
receipts. 
Pruning and thinning trees 
So 
6 
6 
8 
2 
3 
10 
50 
400 bushels from 30 trees: 
100 bushels of early fall apples, 
at 50 to 75 cents per bushel 
2S0 bushels of first-class winter 
apples, at SI per bushel 
20 bushels of seconds, at 50 
170 
280 
10 
Thomas slag for fertilizer (one-half 
ton) 
Spraying (twice): 
Total 
Picking, at 5 cents per bushel, and 
marketing, at 5 cents per bushel, etc 1 
Total 
90 
360 
90 
Deduct cost of renovation 
Average gross income per tree 
S270 
12 
i The total cost stated includes all incidental expenses in connection with picking and marketing. 
Fig. 5. — View of the English farm, showing the general topography of the hill land 
in southern New York and the stony character of much of the Volusia soil. The 
field in the foreground is the one in which the young apple orchard was sot. 
The result of one year's work in this old orchard is at hast ten 
times its income in fo? v me?" years. 
SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS ON THE HILL FARM. 
It was necessary to make a number of improvements on the hill 
farm in 1911. The barn was repaired at a cost of $100. Old fences 
were torn down to make ready for new ones, and the fence posts and 
wire purchased. Eighty apple trees were set in a 3-acre field adjoin- 
ing the old apple orchard at a cost of $35 (trees. $20; labor, etc.. 
