Excerpt from Crew Work, Costs, and Returns in Commercial Orcharding in West Virginia At the present time there is great interest in orchard enterprises, and many seem to be led to invest their savings in them with no knowledge whatever of the factors which must inevitably determine the success of such enterprises. Such may have an opportunity to profit by the principles worked out by past experience. The fact is emphasized in this bulletin that the specific operations described in some detail are meant to explain the organization of the fruit farm and to determine costs and that they are not pre sented to give information regarding the technical Operations of fruit production. 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.