ushel barrels, with
straw in the bottom and around the sides, marked with a tin tag, and
hauled to market in a heavy spring wagon. I sell in the orchard,
wholesale, retail, and peddle; I sell my best apples to shippers, peddle
the second and third grades, and make cider of the culls. My best market
is Ottawa; have never tried a distant market. I store apples in bulk or
bin, in a fruit house built on a well-drained place; the house is made
of flax straw, posts, and wire or boards to hold the straw in place; the
walls are three and one-half feet thick, four and one-half feet high,
and the roof two and one-half feet, with ventilator in the center. The
door is in the east end. I use two doors, one on the inside, and one on
the outside, filling the space between with flax straw. Am successful in
keeping apples, and find those that keep best are Jonathan, Winesap,
Missouri Pippin, and Smith's Cider. Winter apples have been forty-five
cents per bushel.

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W. J. ALBRIGHT, Julia, Kingman county: Have lived in Kansas eighteen
years; have an apple orchard of 500 trees, six to seventeen years old,
four to ten inches in diameter, I prefer bottom land for an orchard. I
cultivate my orchard by subsoiling and shallow cultivation, using a disc
and Acme harrow; I grow nothing in a bearing orchard, not even weeds.
Windbreaks are essential; would make them of Osage orange or Russian
mulberries. Am not troubled with rabbits or borers. I prune some; it
makes better trees. I do not thin the fruit while on the trees. I
fertilize my orchard with cow-stable litter, but do not think it
beneficial. I do not pasture my orchard. My apples are troubled with
codling-moth. I sprayed five years with Paris green and London purple,
and was not successful. I gather my fruit off the ground. My best market
is at home. We dry apples for home use, and do not store any. I irrigate
with a windmill and earth reservoir; it makes big trees.

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L. J. HAINES, Galena, Cherokee county: Has been in Kansas nineteen
years. Has an orchard of 2500 trees, fourteen years planted, averaging
eighteen inches in diameter, planted for commercial purposes, and
comprising Willow Twig, Ben Davis, and Winesap, which varieties he would
also recommend for family orchard. Has tried and discarded Snow and
Missouri Pippin, as they would not bear fruit; cannot tell why. Prefers
alluvial soil, with clay subso