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Table 7. -- Total Costs Per Box for Buying and Selling, Picking and
 Hauling Citrus Fruits, Four Seasons.


 : All Operations:
 No. Buying Picking Buying and Selling
 Season of and Hauling Picking and Hauling
 Firms Selling Oranges: Grft. :Tangerines Oranges: Grft : Tangerines

 Specialized Citrus Dealers
 1950-51 9 3.84% 10.31% 28.36% 18.62X 56.93X 42.51% 32.77V 71.08%
 1951-52 15 3.37 10.19 28.33 20.41 53.06 41.89 33.97 66.62
 1952-53 11 3.02 9.63 27.82 21.12 50.07 40.47 33.77 62.72
 1953-54 13 2.74 9.50 29.83 19.73 62.14 42.07 31.97 74.38

 Fresh Fruit Packers and Processors
 1951-52 11 1/ 9.24 28.53 19.23 62.59 37.77- 28.471/ 71.831/
 1952-53 18 / 9.75 29.77 22.24 59.78 39.52-/ 31.99-/ 69.531/
 1953-54 24 1/ 9.67 28.41 20.70 60.81 38.08/ 30.37-1 70.48i/

 Total, All Firms
 1951-52 26 3.372 9.81 28.42 19.51 61.93 41.60 32.69 75.11
 1952-53 29 3.02/ 9.71 29.12 21.98 59.62 41.85 34.71 72.35
 1953-54 37 2.742/ 9.61 28.87 20.58 60.86 41.22 32.93 73.21

 1/ The cost of buying and selling unpacked fruit is not incurred by fresh fruit packers and is
 not included in the total of all operations. Thus their total costs are not comparable with
 citrus dealers.
2/ Average cost for specialized citrus dealers.