. Cost of production of apples in the Payette Valley, Idaho : a detailed study of the current cost factors involved in the maintenance of orchards and the handling of the crop on 38 representative bearing orchards, Payette district in western Idaho. Apples. COST OF PRODUCTION OF APPLES, PAYETTE VALLEY, IDAHO. 9 is acres, with acres in bearing apples. This is a much higher percentage of orchard land than would be found by taking all the farms in the valley. The farms about Fruitland are very largely specialized fruit farms, and in many cases the acreage is made up wholly of fruit. I
. Cost of production of apples in the Payette Valley, Idaho : a detailed study of the current cost factors involved in the maintenance of orchards and the handling of the crop on 38 representative bearing orchards, Payette district in western Idaho. Apples. COST OF PRODUCTION OF APPLES, PAYETTE VALLEY, IDAHO. 9 is acres, with acres in bearing apples. This is a much higher percentage of orchard land than would be found by taking all the farms in the valley. The farms about Fruitland are very largely specialized fruit farms, and in many cases the acreage is made up wholly of fruit. In the somewhat outlying districts, which were settled more recently and irrigated, the type of agriculture is much more general. The community as a whole may be considered a staple farming community, as there are enough of various farming enterprises to insure the success of at least a portion of the ranchers each year. Dairy farms, of which there are a number in this region, are organ-. Fig. 5.—A farmstead scene on one of the higher bench lands. Owing to difficulty in irrigating and the high cost of water, some of these settlers have had to economize in order to retain their land. ized on the basis of raising all the feed to be used on the place. On most of the dairy farms considerable hay and grain are sold. (See fig. 4.) Nearly all the fruit growers keep at least some stock, those with mulch-crop orchards keeping the greater number. Nearly every rancher raises hogs for home use and several for sale. The growers also raise garden truck, potatoes, etc., for home use, so that the farm contributes a very large percentage of the products used by the occupants. Tributary to this region are large stock-grazing areas. Much of the land recently irrigated is devoted to raising alfalfa. (See fig. 5.) Raising clover and alfalfa seed is also an important and profitable branch of farming found here. As might be expected, the more intensive type of farming is found near the towns, where
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