The apple industry in the United States : a selected list of references on the economic aspects of the industry together with some references on varieties /

Abstract

At wood, 6. A. Best method in rrarketang apples, (in American apple growers' congress* Trans. 4th, 1906, p. 78-80) 81 Am34 19. Auchter, E. C. An apple orchard survey of Berkeley County. Morgantown, 1915. 75p. (ft. 7a, Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 151) "This bulletin presents the results of a survey of the commercial apple orchards in Berkeley County, made during the summers of 1912 and 1913. Information is also given relative to the importance and distribution of the other fruit industries in Berkeley County, together with statistics on the fruit industries of West Virginia as a whole. "-Exp. Sta. Record, v,33, p. 839/ There are fifty tables covering such items as production, value of crops, number and acreage of trees, plantings by years, 1863 to 1913, size of orchards, relation of management, soils, fertilizer to yields and incomes, costs of spraying, man and horse labor, picking, packing and hauling crop, yield per tree, price per barrel, gross income per tree, total cost of production per barrel, etc. 20. Auchter, E. C. live years' investigations in apple thinning. Morgantown, 1917. 56p. (¥. Va. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 162) "Bibliography on apple thinning": p. 54-55. "Partial bibliography on peach thinning": p. 56. "This bulletin reports thinning experiments carried on by the station for the 5-year period 1912 to 1916.,. The results of other investigators dealing with thinning apples are cited. "-Exp. Sta. Record, v.37, p. 448-449. Illustrated by a number of tables. Several of these show, cost of thinning per tree 21. Auchter, E. C. The price of apule varieties on different markets. (In Va. state horticultural soc. Proc. 28th, 1924, p. 68-89) 81 V81 The writer has used the daily market reports of the United States Department of Agriculture as the source of the information presented in this paper. Tables give average price received per variety (all markets considered) 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923; average priceper barrel on different city markets for the same years; four months* average price per barrel received for Grimes Golden, Jonathan, Stayman Winesap, York Imperial, Arkansas, Mcintosh, Baldwin, and Ben Davis apples on the , different markets for the same years; and four months. 1 ., average price paid for each variety on the Hew York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Kansas City markets for the same years 22. Bailey, L. H. 'The recent apple failures of western I\Tew York. Ithaca, 1895. 34p. (2T.Y. Cornell. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 84) Reprinted in Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta. Rept. 1895, p. 53-83.

Reliability and adequacy of farm-price data /

“…Table 23 shows correlation studies of this kind with wheat, cotton, and potato prices. The entire period from the time monthly prices were started (1908 or 1909) through 1925 was divided into three periods: (1) the pre-war period (1908)(1909)(1910)(1911)(1912)(1913)(1914) -a period during which the change in the general price level was not an important factor influencing the relationship between the two price series; (2) the war period, through deflation (1915)(1916)(1917)(1918)(1919)(1920)(1921) -a period during which changes in price level, first upward and then downward, would tend to increase the correlation; (3) the postwar period (1922)(1923)(1924)(1925) -a period during which changes in price level would have much less effect than during the second period, but perhaps more than during the first or pre-war period. Figures for the entire period are also given for the sake of comparison.…”

“…1 The standard deviation expressed as a percentage of the average. 2 The probable error of the average is equal to 0.6745 times the standard deviation of the series or array, divided by the square root of the number of reports; or P. E. average =0.6745 VN.…”

“…1 The probabilities are ninety-nine out of one hundred that the average of a much larger sample collected in the same way and at the same time would not vary from this average by more than four times the probable error. 2 The Dee. 1 prices were reported by crop reporters, and not by the regular price reporters, who report on the 15th of each month.…”

“…In January, 1926, the value of hogs was obtained from about half of the list of crop reporters on the basis of all hogs, as shown in Table 17; from the other half of the list on the basis of three subclasses; namely, ( 1) pigs under 6 months, (2) sows and gilts bred or to be bred for spring pigs, and (3) all other hogs 6 months old and over, including boars. The average price of all hogs was higher when determined on the basis of the three subclasses.…”

“…Freight charges and local demand are the most important elements contributing to the geographical variation of farm prices (i£,13,IJj.). 2 2 These three bulletins contain a detailed description of the geographic variations of farm prices of wheat, corn, and oats by counties.…”