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Title: Cost of producing apples in Yakima Valley, Washington : a detailed study of the current cost factors involved in the maintenance of orchards and the handling of the crop on 120 representative bearing orchards
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, G. H. (George Harvey), 1884- Thomson, S. M. (Samuel Mable), 1891-
Subjects: Apples
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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five creasings, 33 made four, 22 made three, 6 madetwo, and 1 made one. In the clean-cultivated orchards 28 orchardists used the 6-footcultivator and 41 the shovel plow (28 with a crew of one man and onehorse and 13 with one man and two horses); 2 used the alfalfa marker,and 3, miscellaneous implements. 34 BULLETIN 614, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. The most economical method of making furrows is with the 6-footcultivator, using a crew of one man and two horses. (See fig. 6.) Thiscrew will cover 9.9 acres in 10 hours, making the usual number of fur-rows, six, at a cost of $0.55 per acre. A little more time is required tomake the furrows with the same size crew using a shovel plow, althoughfewer furrows are to be made between rows. A crew of one man andone horse with a shovel plow making the usual number of furrows,four, will cover 6.02 acres in 10 hours, at a cost of $0.67 per acre.Table XXVIII gives the average number of acrescreased in 10 hourswith different implements and crews.
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Fig. 6.—Furrowing out ditches for irrigating in a 4-year-old orchard in the Nob Hill section. Thescarcity of leaves near the tops of the branches is due to rosette, a disease brought about by soilconditions. Table XXVIII.—Average number of acres creased with different crews and implementsin 10 hours and the cost per acre. Clean-cultural management. Mulch-crop management. Implement. Num-berof rec-ords. Num-beroffur-rows. Man. Horse. Acresin 10hours. Costperacre. Num-berofrec-ords. Num-berof fur-rows. Man. Horse. Acresin 10hours. Costperacre. 6-foot cultivator 282813 645 11 1 212 9.906.027.30 SO. 55.67.75 5 1618 655 11 1 212 10.995.755.59 SO. 50.70 Do .98 Considering all records under clean-cultural management, what-ever implement or crew is used, the annual charge for all creasingsis 4.79 man-hours and 7.23 horse-hours per acre, at a cost of $2.27. COST OF PRODUCING APPLES IN YAKIMA VALLEY. 35 In the mulch-crop orchards of the Yakima district the annualcharge for creasing is about

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