. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. COST OF PRODUCING APPLES IN HOOD RIVER VALLEY. total labor and material cost for harvesting is per cent of the total of all costs. Credits.—Cnll fruit pays a net annual cash credit of $ per acre (gross $, less $ per acre for extra labor on culls). Twenty-four mulch-crop orchards show an average annual credit of $ per acre for hay (gross $ per acre, cost of harvesting $). Size and type of farms.—The 54 farms studied average acres in size, Avith 69 per cent of the farm
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. COST OF PRODUCING APPLES IN HOOD RIVER VALLEY. total labor and material cost for harvesting is per cent of the total of all costs. Credits.—Cnll fruit pays a net annual cash credit of $ per acre (gross $, less $ per acre for extra labor on culls). Twenty-four mulch-crop orchards show an average annual credit of $ per acre for hay (gross $ per acre, cost of harvesting $). Size and type of farms.—The 54 farms studied average acres in size, Avith 69 per cent of the farm area tillable. Apples and straw- berries are the staple fruits. Considerable quantities of alfalfa and of timothy are grown and a small acreage of grain. The orchards.— The orchards studied average acres in size, 12 years of age, and 72 trees to the acre. Apple or- chards constitute 32 per cent of the total farm acreage. Yel- low Newtown and Esopus are grown, practically to the exclusion of other varieties. Investments.— Total investment per farm is $23,; per acre of apple orchard, $ Orchard manage- tnent.—Thirty of the 54 growers practice clean cultivation, while 24 use mulch crops, usually in the form of alfalfa or clover. In general the clean- cultivated orchards are not as A^et irrigated, while all the mulch-croi? or shade-crop orchards are under irrigation. Yield.—The average yield, all records, is 222 boxes per acre; for clean-cultivated orchards, 218; for mulch-crop orchards, 228. This refers to packed boxes of marketable fruit Fig. 1.—Map of western Oregon showing the location of Hood River Valley, where the investigation was made. The shaded area is Hood River 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 perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washin
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