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BULLETIN 14385, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
TABLE 24.—Summary of costs per farm for 100 groves, Polk County, Fla., 1917-1922 
Items of cost 
Cash costs: 
Spray material 
Waxes: and insurances tes =) aoe 
Repairs— 
Bull Gim os ae ee Ss Fa 
NMachinery:s 3252838 22 oa ee ise Pee 
ences ba) aie ie aie Se 
Feed, horseshoeing, and veterinary ---_---- 
Hurelandsoils S42 soe ok Se eee 
IATICOMOL Earl USCh aes See se ee ee 
Miscellaneous 2-202 2 tr see ae ee eS 
Cost per farm 
1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 
1922 | Aver- 
Dollars | Dollars Dollars Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars 
1 
MNotalucashicosts= tenes ee 
Noncash costs: 
Reserves for depreciation— 
SUL GIN SES eee SR eee ae es ee 
QUI INO Gale ae eal ae 
Operator's labor =soese2 = 2a SS eee 
amily) abons a= see see ee sue 2 oes 
Total noncashecos [Sao sa ewe 
Total COStS see Se Sas a ae 
Credit deductions: 
@are of young eToves] 22> s22en eee See 
Receipts from other crops_____------------ 
Mascellancouss= 2" 282" 6 ae 
MotaleGeduchionS# = ses a 
Net cost, without interest____________--------- 
Interest on capitalization, 8 per cent_______-___ 
Net costs per grove (with interest)_-__.______- 
Net cost per acre, all fruit: 
Wathanberest =e 2-2 ee 
SACLE Eryn G5 a Sai ea ea SE ee aD 
(OAM S 2 ee eee 
Net cost per box: 
Oranges; withiinterest= oe 
Oranges, without interest_________-______- 
Grapefruit, with interest___.______----_--- 
Grapefruit, without interest___-_--..-----_- 
442 561 1, 027 1, 085 , 032 821 
641 994} 1, As 1, 730 rf 512 | 1,428 1, 277 
39 52 91 110 118 130 90 
90 151 197 241 277 298 209 
28 27 29 30 30 30 29 
12 12 14 21 16 21 16 
7 8 9 9 9 10 9 
111 140 162 187 157 141 150 
E5 9 9 18 17 27 14 
7 12 22 61 66 71 40 
18 25 34 46 57 67 41 
1, 400 1, 991 2, 705 3, 480 3, 344 3, 255 2, 696 
58 57 62 71 80 86 69 
22 25 36 65 67 69 47 
364 380 529 558 531 509 | 479 
if 9 20 5 16 18 12 
451 471 647 699 694 682 607 
1,851 | 2,462 |} 3,352 | 4,179 | 4,038 | 3,937 3, 303 
286 243 200 177 134 168 201 
136 85 533 64 27 32 66 
121 157 130 103 64 26 100 
543 485 383 344 225 226 367 
1,308 | 1,977 | 2,969 | 3,885] 3,813] 3,711 2, 935 
1, 447 1, 561 2, 143 2, 736 3, 124 3, 214 2, 371 
PETS | Bi BStsy Lay IT ORG AL 6,937 | 6,925 5, 306 
191 222 281 335 337 330 288 
91 124 163 196 185 177 160 
= SSS 
Bores | Boxes | Boxes | Boxes | Boxes | Bozes | Bozes 
114 138 171 224 164 185 166 
109 134 184 194 142 146 152 
120 145 155 259 181 234 182 
Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars 
IE 70s) 1. 66 1 GB} 1. 73 2. 73 2. 26 1.89 
. 84 . 93 . 89 1.01 1.30 1, 21 1.05 
1. 59 52 1.81 1, 29 1. 86 1. 41 1. 58 
. 76 . 86 1.08 . 76 1. 02 . 76 . 88 
The costs for a great many of the groves are distributed over 
different kinds of fruit. 
That is, many of the growers had oranges, 
grapefruit, and tangerines interplanted for which it would be prac- 
tically impossible to get .separate costs. 
But since the average 
practice of all the growers in cultivating, spraying, and fertilizing 
showed little variation in costs and in quantities, the groves have 
been given the same weight per acre regardless of kind of fruit, the 
cost per box then being obtained by dividing the acre cost respec- 
tively by the per acre yields of the different kinds of fruit. | 
The cost per acre of producing citrus fruit in Polk County increased 
from $191 in 1917 to $337 in 1921 and then decreased to $330 in 
1922. 
or 73 per cent. 
The cost per acre over the six-year period has advanced $139 
The items most important in the cause of the increase’ 
in the cost per acre were: Fertilizer the cost of which went from $44.51 
per acre in 1917 to $68 in 1922; labor, the cash cost of which went 
