with codling-moth. I do
not spray. I hand-pick my apples in a sack, one corner of which is tied
up to the top, it has a strap eighteen inches long to put over the
shoulder; spread the top of the sack and pick with both hands. Sort my
apples into two classes: first and second. I pick the best first,
letting the inferior ones stay on the trees; I afterwards shake these
off and send to the cider mill. I sell apples in the orchard. Make cider
and vinegar of the second and third grades and culls. My best market is
at home in the orchard. Never tried distant markets. Do not dry any;
cannot find a ready market for them and it does not pay. Am successful
in storing apples for winter use in bulk, in an outside cave; find the
Little Red Romanite and Missouri Pippin keep best. I do not irrigate.
Prices have been from sixty to seventy-five cents per bushel. I employ
careful young men at one dollar per day or twenty-five dollars per
month.

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SAM JONES, Springfield, Seward county: I have lived in Kansas thirteen
years. Have an apple orchard of fifty trees. I am not keeping them for
the fruit, but for the pleasure of the birds--to build nests and sing
their sweet songs in. I cultivate my orchard all the time to keep the
weeds down; plant it to vines, such as squashes, pumpkins, melons, etc.
Do not pasture my orchard. I do not know of anybody that ever irrigated.
In regard to "the Kansas Apple," in this part of the state, they are no
good. I will say there never was ten bushels of apples grown in Seward
county. I planted out two acres of apple trees ten years ago; they grew,
and looked very well. I took good care of them, but they never would
bear; and that is the experience of every one else. I cannot tell the
cause, unless it gets too dry and hot, with hot winds. [Such things were
said of the whole state of Kansas by many intelligent men thirty years
ago. Mr. Jones does not tell what varieties he tried, and his remarks
need not discourage any whose lot is cast in Seward county. While there
are only 1034 apple trees reported in the whole county, yet the low
price of trees should encourage every farmer to plant a few of the
hardier varieties, if only as an experiment.--Secretary.]

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JOSEPH BAINUM, Langdon, Reno county: I have lived in Kansas twenty-five
years. Have an apple orchard of twenty trees, most of them ten years
old. For market I prefer Miss