Show i t GROW APPLES IN NORTHWEST cost of production and orchard management studied by department of agriculture prepared by the united states department of 0 culture the current cost of producing ap pies in the payette parette valley la in western idaho averaged 71 cents per bushel box bos under the normal prices of tana farm labor and material which existed lu in 1915 1015 when farm management specialists of the united states department of agriculture conducted a study in the district the report of their study has been published in bulletin end Is 13 one of a series of publications covering the studies in intensive commercial ap ale growing groning districts in the northwest it was found that yield i was as the principal factor which affects the cost per I 1 Z ma 41 4 1 4 saving all the apples box bos in the payette and other valleys where chere studies were made and that the cost ot of maintaining an orchard remains practically the same per acre whether the yields are high or low other factors affecting the cost per hot boh are the size of the orchard the system of oe orchard management which is and the amount of credit derived from wood and cull apples from too the orchard the study in the payette val ley brought out the fact that diversified farming fanning in combination with fruit growing gives stability to agriculture although specialized fruit growing may be more successful la in that section in some seasons says the bulletin tile the general arid and more diversified farms are the more successful on tile the average of i a series of years |