. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. SW^'^mTU BULLETIN No. 851 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. Contribution from the Office of Farm Management. H. C. TAYLOR, Washington, D. C. July 30, 1920 COST OF PRODUCING APPLES IN FIVE COUNTIES IN WESTERN NEW YORK 1910-1915. By G. H. Miller, Assistant Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 Summary of results 3 Labor 4 Farm investment 5 Farm organization 7 The orchards 9 Page. Orchard management 12 Handling the crop 29 Summary of costs 39 Influence of yield per acre on cost per barrel 43 Prices received for fru
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. SW^'^mTU BULLETIN No. 851 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. Contribution from the Office of Farm Management. H. C. TAYLOR, Washington, D. C. July 30, 1920 COST OF PRODUCING APPLES IN FIVE COUNTIES IN WESTERN NEW YORK 1910-1915. By G. H. Miller, Assistant Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 Summary of results 3 Labor 4 Farm investment 5 Farm organization 7 The orchards 9 Page. Orchard management 12 Handling the crop 29 Summary of costs 39 Influence of yield per acre on cost per barrel 43 Prices received for fruit 46 INTRODUCTION. The western New York fruit belt is the oldest commercial apple- growing district in the United States. Few other regions in America have had the benefit of the experience of former generations in the production of apples. Thus, among 218 apple growers upon whose experience this bulletin is based, there are men who have orchards 30 to 60 years of age, as well as those who have recently planted young orchards. In this region the apple orchard is only a part of the farm busi- ness, other fruits and such crops as beans, potatoes, and hay being extensively grown. This bulletin treats of the relation the orchard bears to these other enterprises, of the orchard practices followed by the more successful growers, the effect of these practices on yields, the returns derived from different systems of orchard management, and the cost of maintaining orchards under each Detailed Note.—Acknowledgment is due to the Office of Horticultural and Pomological In- vestigations of the Bureau of riant, Industry for material assistance in the preparation of this bulletin ; also to Messrs. S. M. Thomson and J. C. Folger, who aided in securing the necessary data. 162274°—20—Bull. 851 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not per
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