itable
for that length of time if they have sufficient space, receive proper
care and cultivation, and the fertility of the soil is not allowed to
become exhausted. Many set their trees 16x32 feet for the purpose of
getting a large crop when the trees first come into bearing, with the
intention of cutting out every other row when they crowd, but we fear
very few if any ever think this will have to be done in fifteen years
from the setting or the orchard would be ruined and the land very much
impoverished. It would be much better and more profitable to set the
trees 24x24 feet and cut every other row out in twenty-four years, at
least one way, and if they crowded, both ways, and not crop the land at
all, except to keep up the fertility of the soil. By this method we
could have a good bearing orchard for forty years or longer, which would
pay better than closer planting and cropping the land to pay the
expenses.

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DAVID BROWN, Richmond, Franklin county: Have lived in Kansas thirty-four
years; have an orchard of 2000 trees, averaging twenty years planted,
composed entirely of Ben Davis, Jonathan, and Winesap; have discarded
everything else. I would plant on nothing but deep upland soil, planting
good yearling trees. I grow no crop in the orchard, and cultivate
thoroughly always with plow and harrow. I have quit pruning, as it kills
the trees. Never pasture the orchard. I spray with London purple for the
canker-worm and codling-moth. Borers I cut out. I always sell at
wholesale to shippers at about eighty cents per barrel. Never dry any or
store any for winter.

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FRANCIS GOBLE, Leavenworth, Leavenworth county: Have been in Kansas over
forty-three years. I have 13,000 apple trees, ranging in age from last
spring's setting to forty years. For commercial purposes I use Ben
Davis, Winesap, Jonathan, Missouri Pippin, Ingram, Maiden's Blush,
Grimes's Golden Pippin, and Smith's Cider. For family use I would advise
Jonathan, Winesap, Early Harvest, Rambo, and Milam. I have tried and
discarded numerous varieties. I prefer medium to high land, with a clay
and loam soil on a subsoil of clay and sand; any slope is better than
southwest. I have planted trees of all ages, and all look well. I plant
thirty-two feet east and west and sixteen feet north and south. I
believe in thorough cultivation with plow, harrow, etc., as long as the
orchard lives. Som