03,053 44,640 147,693
Saline county 74,648 24,400 99,048
Shawnee county 207,779 130,720 338,499
Wabaunsee county 108,942 50,195 159,137
Washington county 152,768 80,194 232,962
Wyandotte county 112,541 79,903 192,444
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Total in district 3,377,661 1,894,136 5,271,797
Acreage, about 600,000 300,000 900,000

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FRED WELLHOUSE & SON: Have been in Kansas since 1859, and grow no fruit
but apples, having 117 acres in Leavenworth county, planted in 1876; 160
acres in Miami county, planted in 1878; 160 acres in Leavenworth county,
planted in 1879; 800 acres in Osage county, planted in 1889, 1890, and
1891; 300 acres in Leavenworth county, planted in 1894; 140 acres in
Leavenworth county, planted in 1896--total of about 100,000 trees, set
out from two to twenty-two years. We prefer for commercial orchard,
Jonathan, Missouri Pippin, Ben Davis, Winesap, and York Imperial, and
for family orchard would add to these, Red June, Chenango, Maiden's
Blush, Huntsman, and Rome Beauty. We tried sixteen acres of Cooper's
Early White, but have discarded them as unprofitable, shy bearers. We
consider upland the best if soil is of good quality. We have them on all
slopes; can see no particular difference where soil is equal. We prefer
rich, black soil (vegetable mold), clay subsoil. We plant in furrows,
the rows thirty-two feet apart, the trees sixteen feet apart in the
rows, running north and south.

The best trees to plant are two years old, the lowest limb or limbs not
over two feet from the ground. We grow most of our trees from our own
root grafts. Cultivation: We cultivate for the first five years, by
throwing the soil first to and then from the trees, with a single or a
double turning plow, and grow only corn. At five years from planting we
sow the ground to clover, and this with other growths, such as weeds, is
left on the ground as a mulch and fertilizer. We have never used any
windbreaks at any of our orchards. Think they would be an advantage in
some localities. We use traps for rabbits, knife and wire for borers. We
prune very little, such as removing broken limbs. We have never
fertilized any of our orchards. We do not believe it pays to pasture
orchards, and do not allow it.

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