. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I7 BETTER FRUIT Page 31 Cost of Operations and Returns Continued from page 8 ufacturing costs would approximate cents per dry pound, or $ per ton of fruit used. Deducting these amounts from $, we would have in the first caseâthat of the general pur- pose dryer with a long working sea- sonâ$, in the second case $ From these amounts the operator must obtain his profitsâmy estimates of manufacturing costs include a reason- able salary for his services as general superintendent of the plantâand pay the grower for the fruit used. If we allow
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I7 BETTER FRUIT Page 31 Cost of Operations and Returns Continued from page 8 ufacturing costs would approximate cents per dry pound, or $ per ton of fruit used. Deducting these amounts from $, we would have in the first caseâthat of the general pur- pose dryer with a long working sea- sonâ$, in the second case $ From these amounts the operator must obtain his profitsâmy estimates of manufacturing costs include a reason- able salary for his services as general superintendent of the plantâand pay the grower for the fruit used. If we allow the operator of the plant 10 per cent of the gross returns as his profit, and make a further deduction of $ from each of these amounts, we have remaining $ and $ These sums do not represent the amounts which growers may expect to receive from their fruit, for two reasons: in order that he evaporator may have assurance of such supplies of material as will keep the plant running at capacity throughout each season, he must usually contract with growers for his supplies for a term of years in ad- vance, and must therefore protect him- self against the possibility of a future more or less permanent decline in the price of his product; also, he must pro- vide a sinking fund to meet the ex- pense of carrying his product in storage over an occasional year of overproduction and consequent tem- porary disorganization of the market. After these contingencies are provided for, it will be seen that the grower may legitimately expect a price of $ to $ per ton for his cull fruit upon contracts extending over a term of years. A well-equipped plant might profitably pay an additional $ per ton for packing-house culls of uniform size, reasonably free from imperfec- tions, since there would be made from these a product most of which would grade higher than prime and which could advantageously be packed in fancy cartons for the retail trade. In years of limited produc
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