watch for borers closely, and cut them out. I pick in a grain
sack, and make three classes. The best I keep for spring, the second
class for winter, and the culls I turn into cider. I peddle my apples
out at home. We dry some apples and have a good market at home. We store
for winter in the cellar in bulk, and find that Winesap, Rawle's Janet
and Missouri Pippin are the best keepers.

FRUIT DISTRICT No. 2.

Following is the second fruit district, comprising twenty-three
counties, in the northwest quarter of state. Reports, or rather
experiences, from each of these counties will be found immediately
following. We give first the number of apple trees in this district,
compiled from statistics for 1897. Many thousands were added in the
spring of 1898.

_Bearing._ _Not bearing._ _Total._
Cheyenne 211 1,708 1,919
Decatur 3,925 4,990 8,915
Ellis 3,846 1,321 5,167
Ellsworth 17,491 12,474 29,965
Gove 214 1,202 1,416
Graham 508 3,636 4,144
Jewell 120,509 56,550 177,059
Lincoln 19,619 18,846 38,465
Logan 468 1,465 1,933
Mitchell 55,806 20,624 76,430
Morton 264 171 435
Norton 7,220 6,803 14,023
Osborne 21,647 15,043 36,690
Phillips 16,765 9,486 26,251
Rawlins 806 2,065 2,871
Rooks 8,127 6,815 14,942
Russell 6,788 5,045 11,833
Sheridan 218 1,148 1,366
Sherman 169 1,477 1,646
Smith 41,919 22,988 64,907
Thomas 509 470 979
Trego 745 1,409 2,154
Wallace 223 1,343 1,566
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Total in district 327,997 197,079 525,076
Estimate in acreage 60,000 35,000 105,000

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WILLIAM BAIRD, Vesper, Lincoln county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-seven years;