make them of one row of box-elder and two rows of
plums. I fertilize my orchard with straw and hay, and think it
advisable, on all soils. I never pasture my orchard; it is not
advisable. I do not spray. I pick my apples the old way. [?] Sell my
apples in the orchard. I sometimes store for winter in bulk in an arched
cellar, and am successful. I find the Ben Davis, Missouri Pippin and
Winesap keep equally well. Prices have been from fifty to seventy-five
cents per bushel.

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J. T. TRAVIS, Aurora, Cloud county: Have lived in Kansas twenty-six
years; have an apple orchard of seventy-five trees from five to twenty
years old. I prefer low land, black loam soil with clay subsoil, and a
northern slope. I prefer two-year-old trees, straight, with no forks,
the limbs low down, planted in furrows made by a plow. I cultivate my
orchard as long as I can get through it, with potatoes and sweet corn,
using a harrow often enough to keep weeds down and ground smooth. Cease
cropping when the trees get too large for sweet corn to do any good.
Windbreaks are essential; would make them of Russian mulberry, planted
in two or three rows, eight to ten feet apart, on all sides of the
orchard. I prune little, only enough to thin out the tops and keep limbs
from rubbing each other, and to give light. I fertilize my old orchard
with any kind of coarse stable litter; I pile it in heaps between the
trees and let it lay until it rots. I pasture my orchard with hogs when
it grows to wild rye and is too large for me to plow; I think it
advisable only when the trees get foul; it pays if not pastured with too
many and they are not kept on too long. My trees are troubled with
leaf-roller, and my apples with codling-moth. I have sprayed, but only
to a limited extent.

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SAM KIMBLE, Manhattan, Riley county: Have been in Kansas thirty-eight
years. Have an orchard of 2500 trees not yet in bearing. They have been
planted three, four and five years. I have set out for market Ben Davis,
Missouri Pippin, and Winesap, and for family use about thirty kinds, in
variety. I am located on upland, with clay subsoil, mainly northwest
slope. I planted three-year-old trees, stocky and low headed, in holes
twenty-five by thirty feet apart, getting on my knees to work the soil
in about the roots. I crop to corn, cultivating well, and shall keep
this up as long as three rows can be fairly gro