Marketing Appalachian District Apples

Excerpt from Costs of Marketing Appalachian Apples Packinghouse expenses are a major component of marketing charges in moving fresh.apples from the farm to consumers. The average price of a carton of tray-packed u.s. Fancy Red Delicious Appalachian apples delivered to retail stores during the 1957-58 season was $h.56. Packing costs accounted for al most or over 24 percent of the price delivered to retail stores. Average labor costs comprised over 22 percent, materials almost 57 percent and over head expenses 21 percent of the total packinghouse charges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.