icking time. I use men and boys at from fifty cents to one
dollar per day.

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C. L. KENDRICK, Waverly, Coffey county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-five years. Have an apple orchard of 375 trees, eighteen years
planted. For commercial purposes I prefer Ben Davis, Jonathan, Missouri
Pippin, and Winesap; for family orchard, Early Harvest, Summer Queen,
and Sherwood's Favorite [Chenango]. Have tried and discarded Bellflower
and Rawle's Janet; they are a failure. I prefer hilltop, with a deep
clay soil, slightly sandy, and a north or northeast slope. I prefer
two-year-old trees, with smooth, heavy bodies, and a low top, set in
holes forty feet apart, with a little loose dirt thrown in the bottom,
the trees leaning a little to the southwest. I cultivate my orchard to
sweet corn and castor-beans, using a disc run deep, excepting close to
trees; I cease cropping after five years, and sow a bearing orchard to
clover. Windbreaks are essential, and I would make them of maple,
Russian mulberry, or Osage orange, set in rows close together, and cut
top off maples at four feet. I use building paper as a protection
against rabbits, and for borers I whitewash the trees; then remove about
three inches of earth from the trees and pour some around the roots. I
prune with a saw and shears, to admit more air and sun; I think it
beneficial, and that it pays. I never thin my fruit on the trees. My
trees are in mixed plantings, and I find them and Mrs. Garrison's and
several others' are thus more fruitful; the varieties used are Ben
Davis, Jonathan, Winesap, Missouri Pippin, and Sherwood's Favorite,
planted in alternate rows east and west. I never fertilize my orchard; I
think clover left in an orchard for two years and then plowed or cut in
with a disc is the best fertilizer for an orchard after it begins to
bear. I never pasture my orchard; do not think it advisable.

My trees are troubled with bag-worm, roundhead borer, bark-louse, and
fall web-worm. My apples are troubled with curculio. I spray with London
purple and lime, with a pump, just after the fruit is formed, for
web-worm and curculio. I think I have reduced the codling-moth by
spraying. I get after insects not affected by spraying with a knife. I
gather apples by hand in a sack, and sort into three classes: the large
and smooth, second size, and culls. I sort from the piles after picking;
then sell or bury them. I prefer two-and-one-half-b