ng about one-third of them. I do not
irrigate. Prices have been about fifty cents per bushel.

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D. J. FRASER, Peabody, Marion county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-three years; have 380 apple trees ten inches in diameter,
twenty-two years planted. I prefer for commercial purposes Ben Davis,
Missouri Pippin, Grimes's Golden Pippin, and Maiden's Blush; and for
family use would add Early Harvest, Sweet June, and Winesap; have tried
and discarded about thirty other varieties, because they did not yield
or were subject to disease. I prefer bottom land, with north slope, made
land. I plow out deep, dead furrow; set trees and plow the earth back to
the trees. I prefer two- or three-year-old strong trees. Have tried root
grafts and seedlings with good success. I cultivate the trees the first
ten years with the plow and harrow. I grow nothing in a young orchard,
and seed the old orchard to clover. I think windbreaks are essential on
the south, and would make them of Osage orange or mulberry, planted in
double rows, a few feet apart. Wrap trees for rabbits, and for borers
keep trees thrifty. I prune some to keep the top balanced, and think it
beneficial. I have thinned fruit some, but do not think it pays. My
trees are in mixed plantings, and I keep bees. I have used fertilizer,
but could not see much benefit; would advise it only on thin soils. I
have pastured my orchard with hogs, and think it advisable; it pays. My
trees are bothered with canker-worm, root aphis, flathead borer, and
twig-borer; the codling-moth troubles my apples. I have sprayed with
Bordeaux mixture, London purple, and Paris green; could not see much
good; have reduced the codling-moth some. I pick my apples the
old-fashioned way--with a sack. Practically, the crop has been so light
that very few have been sold, and they were fall apples. Have never
dried any; have never stored any. Do not irrigate. Prices have been
unsatisfactory.

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J. B. MOSHER, Lawrenceburg, Cloud county: I have lived in Kansas
seventeen years. Have an orchard of 150 trees, planted from one to
seventeen years. For family orchard would plant Early Harvest, Cooper's
Early, Duchess of Oldenburg, Grimes's Golden Pippin, Winesap, Rawle's
Janet, and Ben Davis. Medium elevation, with northern or northeastern
slope, and clay-loam soil with clay subsoil, is preferable. When
planting, I dig a hole large enough to r