heast slope. I plant three-year-old
trees, not very deep, and cultivate my orchard to corn, using a
cultivator run very shallow every year, and cease cropping when they
begin to bear; then plant nothing. Windbreaks are essential here; I have
trees planted around my orchard. I protect from rabbits by wrapping the
trees with corn-stalks. I never prune, and do not thin the fruit on the
trees. I fertilize my orchard with straw, and would advise its use on
all soils. I do not pasture my orchard. My trees are troubled with
flathead borers and leaf-crumplers, and my apples by gouger. I spray
with Paris green in June; have not reduced the codling-moth. Pick my
apples; sort into two classes, pack in bushel boxes, sell in the
orchard, also retail; I make cider of culls. My best market is Green. I
never dry any. I store some in boxes in a cellar, and am fairly
successful; I find Ben Davis keeps best. We have to repack stored apples
before marketing, losing about ten per cent. Do not irrigate. Prices
have been from twenty-five cents to one dollar per bushel.

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HARRY L. BROWN, Muscotah, Atchison county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-two years. Have an apple orchard of 150 trees, ten to twenty-five
years old. For market I prefer Ben Davis, Winesap, Jonathan, Missouri
Pippin, and Grimes's Golden Pippin; and for family orchard Maiden's
Blush, Early Harvest, Red June, Smith's Cider, and Rambo. I prefer
hilltop, with a deep, sandy loam, and a gravel subsoil, northeast slope.
I prefer two-year-old, straight, thrifty trees, carefully set, 30x35
feet. I plant my orchard to corn, potatoes, beans and garden-truck for
ten or twelve years, using a one-horse cultivator between the rows and
around the trees, and cease cropping after twelve or fifteen years;
plant strawberries or small fruits in a bearing orchard. Windbreaks are
essential; would make them of two rows of evergreens planted around the
orchard. I trap the rabbits, and wash and cut out the borers. I prune to
thin and keep the tree in shape; think it beneficial, and that it pays.
I do not thin the fruit while on the trees. My trees are in mixed
plantings. I fertilize my orchard with horse- and cow-stable litter;
think it beneficial, and would advise its use on all soils, unless very
rich. I pasture my orchard with nothing but chickens; it is not
advisable; does not pay. My trees are troubled with flathead and
twig-borers, leaf-rollers and crump