pin, Ben Davis and Winesap for
market, and Duchess of Oldenburg, Maiden's Blush and English Rambo for
family use. I prefer bottom land, of level, sandy loam. I plant
two-year-old thrifty trees in rows two rods apart. I grow nothing in the
orchard, and never cease cultivating with a stirring plow, disc, and
harrow. I believe windbreaks are essential in this county, and would
make them of any thrifty forest-tree; Russian mulberry is good. I would
put double rows around the orchard. I prune with shears and saw to thin
the tops. I never use any fertilizer, and never allow stock in the
orchard. Am troubled some with the flat-headed borer, which I remove
with a knife. I spray with London purple just as the bloom begins to
fall. I pick by hand, and sell in the orchard and otherwise; never dried
any. I store for winter market in a cave in bulk, and am successful. The
best keepers I find are Limber Twig, Striped Vandevere, and Ben Davis.
Prices prevailing have been fifty cents per bushel; dried apples, from
five to seven cents per pound.

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JOHN PIMM, Enon, Barber county: I have lived in Kansas sixteen years.
Have an apple orchard of 2250 trees from four to twelve years old. For
commercial purposes I prefer York Imperial, Ben Davis, Mammoth Black
Twig, and Nero, also Shackleford; and for family orchard Jonathan, Early
Harvest, Maiden's Blush, Missouri Pippin, and Winesap. Have tried and
discarded White Winter Pearmain, Red Astrachan, and Mann. I prefer
bottom land with a northern slope. I prefer two-year-old trees planted
in a deep dead furrow. I cultivate my orchard to corn and garden-truck;
cultivate four or five times during a season, the more the better; I use
a disc; believe an orchard should always be cultivated. I cease cropping
after six or seven years, and plant nothing in a bearing orchard.
Windbreaks are essential; would make them of two rows of mulberries. For
rabbits I use wrappers of wood veneer. I prune to shape the tree and to
get rid of all surplus wood, and think it beneficial. I do not thin my
fruit on the trees; the insects and wind do it for me. I do not pasture
my orchard. My trees are troubled with flathead borer and twig-borer,
and my apples with codling-moth. I have sprayed with London purple.

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L. L. LOVETTE, Toronto, Woodson county: I have lived in Kansas
thirty-two years; have an apple orchard of thirty trees twelve to