16,698
Ford 2,281 4,178 6,459
Grant 852 300 1,152
Gray 410 2,715 3,125
Greeley 10 402 412
Hamilton 741 2,242 2,983
Harper 36,296 20,508 56,804
Haskell 328 141 469
Hodgeman 415 675 1,090
Kearny 4,405 7,312 11,717
Kingman 39,249 23,416 62,765
Kiowa 1,683 2,212 3,895
Lane 1,647 2,524 4,171
Meade 1,340 2,200 3,540
Ness 1,188 1,630 2,818
Pawnee 11,137 7,800 18,937
Pratt 12,894 12,963 25,857
Reno 141,460 280,713 422,173
Rice 65,069 45,133 110,202
Rush 2,118 2,629 4,747
Scott 229 1,936 2,165
Seward 432 602 1,034
Stafford 22,914 27,377 50,291
Stanton 10 150 160
Stevens 897 1,651 2,548
Wichita 90 959 1,049
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Total in district 397,304 513,633 910,937
Estimated acreage 60,000 100,000 160,000

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D. J. McNEAL, Scott, Scott county: I have lived in Kansas ten years;
have an apple orchard of sixty-five trees five years old, seven feet
high. I prefer a clay soil with a north aspect. I plant two-year-old
trees in ground that has been plowed for two years before planting. I
cultivate my orchard with a disc harrow and cultivator, and plant
nothing. Windbreaks are essential; would make them of cottonwoods. I rub
rabbits' blood on the trees to protect them from other rabbits. I prune
my trees with a knife and a fine saw; I think it beneficial. I have
fertilized my orchard with stable litter, but it causes a too rapid
growth; I would not advise its use on all soils. I do not pasture my
orchard; it is not advisable; it does not pay. I am not troubled with
insects, and do not spray. I do not irrigate, but think it would pay.