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"A. H. TESKE
wages for orchard labor and price* for spray chemicals and other or* chard material will tend to increase in 19*1.
Production costs are already the highest in the history of apple growing in the state, and so it is difficult for many apple growers to sea bow any added prac> tic« or operation, such as removing a part of#th« crop from the trees early in the. season, can result in a greater return from the orchard* v1W>’ 1.1.1 % i
It is not hard to follow the thinking of apple growers on this point, because every item of labor * in the orchard today adds sharply • to tiie cost of production. Effici— ent production must become 14great e r watchword for apple growers. •*
Every practice and operation must be put to a stronger “willit pay” add test, not alone as to -how—much it will cost hut how many dollers iwilT it return over and above the amount of money expended. In other words, what will be the rate of interest on the investment? fr% ‘ j Thinning apples has not been
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