Costs And Labor Efficiency Of Specialized Egg Marketing Cooperatives In The Northeast Preliminary Report

Author : Harry E. Ratcliffe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331397321
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Cost of Marketing Eggs and Labor Output of Selected Cooperatives, Vol. 1 written by Harry E. Ratcliffe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cost of Marketing Eggs and Labor Output of Selected Cooperatives, Vol. 1: Northeast The analysis reveals wide varia tions in direct costs per unit and out put per man-hour for most of the 12 Operations among the 8 associations studied. NO association had uniformly low or high labor costs or outputs in all operations. These 12 operations were collecting, receiving, inspecting, sizing, candling, cartoning, packing, coopering cases, stacking, loading out, delivering and egg breaking, Direct labor costs for collecting eggs averaged cents and ranged from to cents a case. Output per man-hour averaged cases and ranged from to 14 cases. Truck costs ranged from to cents a case and averaged cents. Direct labor cost for receiving eggs into plants averaged cents and ranged from to cents a case labor output ranged from to cases per man-hour and averaged nearly 94 cases. Four associations inspected eggs. The labor cost averaged cents per case and ranged from to cents. Output averaged cases per man-hour and ranged from to cases. The labor cost of sizing eggs by four associations averaged cents and varied from to cents a case, while labor output averaged cases and ranged from to cases per man-hour. For candling eggs the direct labor cost averaged 52 cents a case for eight associations and ranged from 36 to 75 cents. Labor output averaged nearly three cases. Per man-hour and varied from to cases. The average labor cost of packing cartoned eggs was cents a case for 8 associations and ranged from to cents. Output averaged nearly 17 cases per man-hour. The range was 11 to 26 cases. The average labor cost of coopering cases for eight associations was only cents a case, with a range from to cents. Labor output aver aged 67 cases per man-hour and ranged from 31 to 141 cases. Stacking eggs in the holding room cost an average of 2 cents a case and varied from to cents, whilelabor output averaged 94 cases per man-hour and ranged from 54 to 163 cases. The labor cost of loading out eggs averaged 2 cents a case, with a range from 1 to cents. Labor output averaged 105 cases per man-hour with a range from 58 to 196 cases. 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.