when too full, when about the size of marbles; believe it
pays. My trees are in mixed plantings. I fertilize my orchard with
stable litter and ashes, but cannot see any benefit; think it would do
no harm, unless heavy coats of coarse manure are plowed under. Never
have pastured my orchard, but am going to very soon; am fencing now, so
I can turn in hogs. My trees are troubled with twig-borer, and my apples
with codling-moth. I do not spray. I sell apples in the orchard, and
peddle the best second and third grades; give the culls to the hogs. My
best market is in Oklahoma; never have tried distant markets. I am
successful in keeping apples for family use in bulk in a cyclone cellar
dug in the red rock. Missouri Pippin keep the best for me. Prices have
been from fifty cents to one dollar per bushel.

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D. D. WHITE, Enon, Harper county: Have lived in Kansas twenty years;
have 500 apple trees planted from three to eighteen years. For
commercial purposes I prefer Ben Davis, Missouri Pippin, and Winesap.
For family orchard I would add Maiden's Blush and Grimes's Golden
Pippin. I prefer sandy bottom with an eastern slope. I would plant
yearling trees, with every limb cut off, in rows twenty feet north and
south, and forty feet east and west. Cultivate with double-shovel plow
until they get too big to get among them, and grow nothing near them. I
believe in a windbreak of mulberry, or any trees planted thickly, on the
south. I prune only so that I can get under the trees. I use plenty of
barn-yard litter, for it pays in the orchard. I pasture my orchard with
hogs, and think it advisable, as it pays. I have sprayed, but never saw
any good in it. I dig the borers out with a wire, unless they are in the
heart of the tree, and then there is no help for the tree. I pick from a
step-ladder, and sort into three classes: windfalls, wormy, and perfect.
In picking we drop the decayed and gnarly to the ground, carry the rest
in baskets to the barrel, put the perfect ones in one barrel, and the
others in another. Do not disturb the best ones until you sell; the
others should be sorted again before you sell. I sell some in the
orchard, but peddle mostly; my best I sell to the stores in the spring;
of the culls I make cider. My best market is the towns in the "Strip." I
dry some satisfactorily on a cook-stove evaporator, pack in flour sacks,
and find a ready and profitable market for them in the sprin