The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-12-17
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This installation. is of course per-
manent and will last for many years
The cost of operation was, say:
For 5000 gals, oil a 4c .. =. $4,000
operations 10 mea for G days
a Sl.50 per day. plus trans
portation of oil say about, e.. 10000
$4,000
Some of the pots were in orchard
tracts subsequently sold by us, but
from the best information we can
get | think it safe to say that tlis
investment of $1,i56 ($3S6 of which
was for permanent equipmenD saved
fruit which was sold for $4,000.
The question of labor is, of course.
a most serious one. The first labor
comes in distributing the pots: then
the labor of filling the pots with oil; (;
then the labor of lighting them. In
passing | will say that We have our
selves up to date had experience only
with the small pots, OF about one gal
Ion capacity, which will burn from
four to six hours with one filing.
Wi pots of from four to six gallons
capacity the cost of labor for the sea
son, (presuming that the pots are
burned three or four times) would be
considerably deminished, though the
cost of installa ion would be increas-
ed.
To fill $500 / gallon pots took all
day using two 500 gallon wagons
with three men. II took the time of
two more men for a day to put in the
wicks, and of two more to put the
tops on the pots and cover them witl
earth TO keep the tops from blowing
or falling or
As for lighting it took ten men
about | Aour to light the $500 pots.
From 260 to 300 pots per hour per
man is a fair rate for lighting.
In order TO show you graphically
what smudging may mean to the Val
ley | Will give you figures on a piece
II orchard on which We used Trout
man pots. This was s acres of a 10
acre tract sold some months previous
" TO New York parties. The 8 acres
which were smudged contained 5S
trees 10 the acre or AGA trees. The
varieties were Babbiat, Jonathan,
~hackelford and some Black Twig. In
all 913 boxes of No | and No. apples
Were shipped, bringing delivered from
81 go to $500 per box in Texas points,
and in addition 31S bushels of culls
w,sre sold in bulk at soc per bushel.
After deducting all expenses of the
freight. icing. picking, packing, haul
ing and handling and commission, the
owner was paid SS6S.05 or $10S.5o per
acre, being 19 per cent on the cost of
her whole 10 acres.
On the basis of these previous OBJ
Servations | will attempt to show you
what - speaking conaarvatively =
smudging might mean to this district
at the present time. | take as a ba-
sis of estimate that there are 1,500
acres of bearing apple orchard in the
Roswell-Hager-nan district at the
present time.
Net value of the crop to the
owner, 800 per acre $50. 10000
Add the cost of packing and
handling in wages paid
out to the people of the
valley. 25 cts. per bushel
a $50 bushels per acre
About. :. :. :. $4,000. 90
Total value of crop to
the Valley. . p. $500. .ooo. .oO
Cost of Saving This Crop.
Cost of Installation.
With 80 pots to the acre
$4,000 pots a lie each $23, 100000
Storage for 100000 gals. of
crude oil, enough to fill
the pots about times or
to fill a gal pot once.
so 10000 gal. tanks, cost
ing $3.50 each mounted 12,5000C
I Tank Wagon for eacl
1.500 pots. /. e., 10000
gal. wagons at 800 $9.0ot
Total, =. :. e. :. ..s44. 500 o,
Cost of Operating:
On basis of running nights
at 1 gal per night
$4,000 gals a C =. :. 10000
| $4,000 gals. a 2 C :. =. 10.s00.0
Let US say that the cost of
1 installation t$44 4,500.) -
good for 10 years, the in
stallation charge per year
would be, :. :. :. .. :. 4,45O.0
or 1895 per acre.
The cost of operation with
oil at c. would oe. >. :. 21,000.0 %
Or with oil at 2 C. ii would
be. :. :. :. 10000
Or S14 per acre with oil at
C. or 81 per acre with
oil at 2 cts
At present. therefore. with oil Z