ers and Indians; make
cider and vinegar, and give away the second and third grades; feed the
culls to the hogs and cattle. My best market is at home; never tried
distant markets. Don't dry any. I have stored apples in boxes and
barrels, and find Ben Davis and Winesap keep best. I have to repack
stored apples before marketing, losing one-third to one-half of them. Do
not irrigate. Prices have been from twenty cents to one dollar per
bushel.

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JOHN REED, Oak Hill, Clay county: I have resided in the state twenty
years; have an apple orchard of 100 trees six years old. For market I
prefer Ben Davis and Winesap; and for family orchard add Jonathan and a
few early varieties. I prefer low land with a porous subsoil, and a
northeast slope. I prefer two-year-old trees with branches one foot from
the ground. When setting I dig big holes and loosen up the subsoil about
a foot. I find this gives the best satisfaction. I have always
cultivated my orchard, and intend to do so three or four years longer; I
plow twice a year--in spring, and the middle of June; I keep the ground
well stirred. I planted corn the first three years, listed it in, but
would not recommend it, as the trees will do better if the land is
plowed. Windbreaks are essential on the south and west sides of the
orchard; would make them of two rows of cottonwood trees planted zigzag
with one another. For rabbits I wrap with corn-stalks. I dig borers out
and wash the trees with lye water twice a year for the first three
years; it keeps the tree nice and clean and the borers out. I prune my
trees, by cutting out the limbs that cross, and to keep the trees from
leaning to the north, and it pays. I fertilize my orchard with decayed
corn-cobs. I think it beneficial, and would advise it on all soils, as I
think too much straw mulching is an injury to the trees when they get
old. I do not pasture my orchard; it does not pay. My trees were
troubled with canker-worms last spring. I do not spray. My best market
is in the neighborhood. Prices last fall were fifty to sixty cents per
bushel.

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GEO. R. BARNES, Chapman, Dickinson county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-seven years; have an apple orchard of six acres old enough to be
at their best. For market I prefer Ben Davis, Missouri Pippin, Jonathan,
and Winesap, and for family use Early Harvest, Red June, Maiden's Blush,
and Missouri Pippin. I p