er. Never dry any; store in a cellar in barrels
for home use only. Am not always successful. Winesap keeps best. I lose
one-fourth sometimes. Prices range from 70 cents to $1.37 per barrel. I
use good trusty men, at one dollar per day.

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W. M. FLEEHARTY, La Cygne, Linn county: Have lived in Kansas thirty
years. Have an orchard of 325 trees, mostly thirty years old, twelve to
twenty-four inches in diameter. I prefer for commercial purposes
Winesap, Ben Davis, and Willow Twig, and for family use Winesap, Willow
Twig, Rawle's Janet, and Milam. Have tried and discarded Esopus
Spitzenburg, on account of sun-scald. Prefer hilltop with square-jointed
[?] subsoil, and northeast slope, deep, rich soil. I plant in check
plats. Have tried root grafts. I cultivate until the trees interfere
with working. I plant young orchard to corn and potatoes; bearing
orchard to nothing, and cease cropping when it injures the limbs of the
trees. Windbreaks are essential sometimes, and should be made of Osage
orange, because of its quick growth. I prune when limbs interfere. I
thin apples a little. Do not mix my trees; bees do the work. Fertilizers
are beneficial on all soils. Pasture my orchard with hogs and calves. My
trees are troubled with canker-worm, root aphis, bag-worm, flathead
borer, roundhead borer, woolly aphis, twig borer, fall web-worm,
leaf-roller, leaf-crumpler, and others. My apples are troubled with
codling-moth, curculio, and gouger. Spray when the blossoms are open,
with Bordeaux mixture; have not reduced the codling-moth. I use the
knife on borers and insects that are not affected by spraying. Sort into
two classes; have both perfect. Sell in the orchard sometimes. Store
some apples for winter market; have not tried artificial cold storage.
We have to repack stored apples before marketing, losing one to ten per
cent. The prevailing price has been sixty cents per bushel. I employ men
at from fifteen to eighteen dollars per month.

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F. L. KENOYER, Independence, Montgomery county: I have lived in the
state ten years, and have an apple orchard of 240 trees from three to
nine years old. For market I prefer Jonathan, Missouri Pippin, and Ben
Davis, and for family use add Maiden's Blush. I prefer hilltop with a
sandy loam and a porous subsoil. I prefer two-year-old, low-headed
trees, with plenty of roots. I plant them one rod north and south, and
t