keeping the Missouri Pippin, Winesap, and
Ben Davis. I irrigate by flooding. The average price has been about
sixty cents per bushel.

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JOHN BAILEY, Harper, Harper county: I have resided in Kansas twenty
years. Have an apple orchard of 400 trees, set sixteen years, eight to
twelve inches in diameter. For all purposes I prefer Missouri Pippin,
Winesap, and Jonathan. Have tried and discarded Rawle's Janet, because
the fruit cracks open, Snow, because they are poor, and White Winter
Pearmain, because the tree is subject to disease. I prefer good, sandy
soil, with a northeast slope. I prefer healthy two-year-old trees, with
good roots, planted twenty-eight feet apart each way. I cultivate my
orchard every year with a cultivator and harrow, to keep the ground
loose and mellow, and plant nothing. Windbreaks are not essential. For
rabbits I wash the tree with weak lye and sulphur; have found no remedy
for borers, excepting to keep the trees healthy and growing. I prune, to
let in sun and keep the limbs from rubbing; I think it pays, and that it
has been beneficial. I thin my fruit by pulling it off when small; I
think it pays; it keeps the trees from breaking. I fertilize my orchard
with stable litter; I think it beneficial, and would advise its use on
all soils. I do not pasture my orchard; I do not think it advisable. My
trees are troubled with canker-worm, tent-caterpillar, woolly aphis, and
twig-borer, and my apples with codling-moth and curculio. I spray after
the blossoms fall, and once a week for three or four weeks after that,
with London purple, for all insects. I dig borers out with a fine wire.
I sort my apples into three classes--first, second, and cider. I sell my
apples in the orchard, wholesale, retail, and peddle. Sell the best ones
in barrels. Make cider and vinegar of the culls. My best markets are at
home and Oklahoma territory. I do not dry any. I am successful in
storing apples in bulk; find the Missouri Pippin keeps best. I do not
irrigate. Prices have been from twenty-five cents to one dollar per
bushel.

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JACOB REDIGER, Maherville, Barton county: I have lived in Kansas twelve
years. Have an apple orchard of 200 trees eighteen years old. I prefer
sandy bottom land near the river, with a north slope. I cultivate my
orchard all the time with a disc and harrow, planting no crop.
Windbreaks are not essential. I prune with a