nto
sacks or pails from a step-ladder; sort into three classes; pack very
closely into two and one-half bushel barrels, and mark with variety and
grade; haul to market on wagon. I have sold apples in the orchard; I
dispose of them any way I can; I feed culls to the hogs. My best markets
are Kansas City, Denver, and Western points; have tried distant
markets, and found it paid; but better sell at home. I do not dry many
apples; it does not pay for good apples. I am fairly successful in
storing apples in boxes, barrels and bulk in a cellar. I find Ben Davis,
Jonathan and Rawle's Janet keep best. Never tried artificial cold
storage. I have to repack stored apples before marketing, losing about
ten per cent. of them. I do not irrigate. Prices have been from 75 cents
to $1.25 per bushel for winter apples. I employ men at one dollar per
day.

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FRED. WAHLENMAIER, Arkansas City, Cowley county: I have resided in the
state thirty-five years. Have an apple orchard of five acres,
twenty-four years old. I prefer Maiden's Blush for a family orchard. I
prefer a sandy loam, hilltop, with a north slope. I prefer two-year-old
trees, planted thirty feet apart. I plant my young orchard to corn, and
plant nothing in a bearing orchard. I prune my trees, to produce better
and more fruit. I do not thin the fruit while on the trees. I fertilize
my orchard with stable litter. I pasture my orchard with calves. My
trees are troubled with canker-worms and roundhead borers. I sprayed
last year for canker-worms, with coal-oil and water, when the leaves
were coming out. I wholesale my apples. Make cider of the culls. My best
market is Arkansas City. We sun-dry some apples for our own use. I have
stored some apples in the cellar; never have tried artificial cold
storage. I do not irrigate. Prices have been from twenty-five to sixty
cents per bushel.

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C. R. DAVIDSON, Yates Center, Woodson county: I have lived in Kansas
fifteen years; have an apple orchard with trees from five to twenty
years old. For market I prefer Ben Davis, Missouri Pippin, Jonathan,
Winesap, and Maiden's Blush, and for family orchard add Early Harvest.
Have tried and discarded Yellow Bellflower; it will not bear. I prefer
bottom land with a northern slope which has a black loam. I prefer two-
or three-year-old trees, set in rows thirty feet east and west, and
sixteen feet north and south. I plant