ated. Flesh yellow, tender,
juicy, rich, aromatic subacid. Best. November to February.

ARKANSAS BLACK.

Medium, slightly conical, regular, smooth, glossy; yellow, generally
covered with deep crimson, small, light-colored dots. Basin shallow. Eye
small, closed. Cavity shallow, russeted. Stem medium. Flesh very yellow,
fine grained, firm, juicy, subacid, rich. Very good. Arkansas. (Thomas.)

WHITNEY.

Medium, handsome, rich, good. Very hardy. Illinois. (Thomas.)

NOTE.

All the descriptions of apples given here are taken from Downing's
"Fruit and Fruit-trees of America," excepting otherwise noted.

THE STATE, BY DISTRICTS.

For convenience, Kansas was divided by the official board into four
fruit districts, simply quartering the state. The first district is
composed of the following twenty-seven counties, in the northeast
quarter. Reports, or rather experiences, from each of these counties
will be found immediately following. We give below the number of apple
trees in the first district, compiled from the statistics of 1897. Many
thousands were added during the spring of 1898.

DISTRICT No. 1--APPLE TREES, 1897.

_Bearing._ _Not bearing._ _Total._
Atchison county 150,024 70,691 220,715
Brown county 160,583 57,488 218,071
Clay county 89,725 26,087 115,812
Cloud county 68,832 24,451 93,283
Dickinson county 110,351 31,926 142,277
Doniphan county 156,661 163,701 320,362
Douglas county 159,706 120,375 280,081
Franklin county 126,906 70,831 197,737
Geary county 39,148 19,357 58,505
Jackson county 123,485 84,533 208,018
Jefferson county 120,509 86,837 207,346
Johnson county 88,395 69,709 158,104
Leavenworth county 199,212 216,015 415,227
Marshall county 157,279 66,556 223,835
Miami county 101,541 82,069 183,610
Morris county 93,182 45,555 138,737
Nemaha county 140,278 62,535 202,813
Osage county 246,265 56,478 302,743
Ottawa county 40,538 30,149 60,687
Pottawatomie county 117,234 50,079 167,313
Republic county 128,076 58,662 186,738
Riley county 1