Price Of Berries And Profit
Description
This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
Price Of Berries And Profit
The average price for ten years past of the blackberries we have sold of all kinds, has been fifteen and six-tenths cents per quart, which gives about the following result per acre :
2,000 quarts per acre, at 15.6 cents.............. | $312 | ||
Commissions, 10 per cent...... | $31 | 20 | |
Picking, at 1½ cents per quart.............. | 30 | 00 | |
Interest on land................ | 10 | 00 | |
Use of boxes............. | 10 | 00 | |
Pruning, cutting, etc............... | 30 | 80 | |
Net Profit per acre......... | 200 | 00 | |
$312 | 00 | $312 | |
(TO BE CONTINUED).
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