d with codling-moth. I do
not spray. I pick my apples by hand into a basket or sack. The shippers
do the sorting. I wholesale, retail and peddle my apples; sell the best
to shippers, culls to neighbors or make cider of them. My best market is
at home; never tried distant markets. Do not dry or store any. Prices
have been from seventy-five cents to one dollar per barrel.

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WILLIAM CUTTER, Junction City, Geary county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-eight years; have an apple orchard of 4000 trees. For a
commercial orchard I prefer the list recommended by the State
Horticultural Society. I prefer a rich bottom with a north aspect. I
prefer two-year-old trees four or five feet tall, branched low. I
cultivate my orchard as long as it lives with a disc harrow or plow. The
first five years I plant a crop that requires cultivation, and plant
nothing in a bearing orchard. Windbreaks are very beneficial; would make
them of two rows of Russian mulberries set ten feet apart in a row. I
prune very little when young to balance the tree; I think it pays. I do
not thin my fruit while on the trees, but think it would pay if I had
time. I fertilize my old orchard with stable litter, and think it
advisable on all soils. If you do not do this you must prune. I do not
pasture my orchards. My trees are troubled with canker worm, root aphis,
flathead borer, roundhead borer, woolly aphis, and leaf-roller, and my
apples with codling-moth, curculio, and gouger. I spray for canker-worm
and codling-moth--the oftener the better. I think I have reduced the
codling-moth. I dig the borers out, and kill the rabbits. I carefully
pick my apples by hand from a step-ladder, into half-bushel baskets,
and sort into three classes--first, second, and culls. Pack in barrels
rounded up and marked on the head; then send to market by rail. I sell
some apples in the orchard, usually at wholesale. My best markets are
south--Texas. I do not dry any. I am successful in storing in boxes,
barrels and bulk for home market; I find Fink keeps best. Never tried
artificial cold storage. I have to repack stored apples before
marketing, losing about one-fourth of them. I do not irrigate. Prices
have been from fifty cents to one dollar per bushel. I pay my help one
dollar per day and board.

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A. H. GRIESA, Lawrence, Douglas county: I have lived in the state
thirty-one years. Have an apple orcha