Excerpt from The Cost of Producing Apples in Hood River Valley: A Detailed Study, Made in 1915, of the Current-Cost Factors Involved in the Maintenance of Orchards and the Handling of the Crop on 54 Farms The Hood River Valley is a limited area, 80 miles east Of Port land, Oreg., on the south side Of the Columbia River. 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.