lers; and my apples with codling-moth
and curculio. I do not spray. I pick my apples from ladders into baskets
and sacks, and sort, as I gather them, into three classes: perfectly
sound, second best, and culls. I pack in baskets and boxes. I retail and
peddle my apples; feed the culls to stock. My best markets are near-by
towns; never tried distant markets. We sun-dry some, and pack in sacks
and boxes; we find a ready market for them; it pays. Am successful in
storing apples for home use in boxes and bins in a cellar, and find Ben
Davis, Winesap, Rawle's Janet and Smith's Cider keep the best. I have to
repack stored apples before marketing. Do not irrigate. Prices have been
from forty to fifty cents per bushel, and dried apples five cents per
pound. I pay men eighteen to twenty dollars per month, or one dollar per
day.

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F. W. WILCOX, Corning, Nemaha county: I have resided in the state
twenty-three years; have an apple orchard of seventy-five trees, all
sizes and ages. For market I prefer Ben Davis, Winesap, and Wealthy. I
prefer a dark, loose soil, on a hillside with a north and east slope. I
prefer good, healthy three-year-old trees, set in holes dug two feet
deep and three feet across. I plant my orchard to sweet corn, using a
cultivator, and cease cropping when I think necessary and seed down to
red clover. Windbreaks are essential--would make them of Osage orange. I
prune my trees with a saw to give shape; I think it pays. I do not thin
the fruit while on the trees. I fertilize my orchard with rotten stable
litter, but would not advise its use on all soils. I pasture my orchard
with horses, and think it advisable, and that it pays. My trees are
troubled with canker-worms, tent-caterpillar and flathead borer. I do
not spray. I pick my apples by hand in pails. Sort into three
classes--first, second, and cast out. I do not dry any. I store a few
for winter market. I do not irrigate.

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JAMES ANDERSON, Leonardville, Riley county. I have lived in Kansas
seventeen years; have an apple orchard of 200 trees from one to sixteen
years old, four to sixteen feet high. For market I prefer Winesap,
Missouri Pippin, Jonathan, and Ben Davis, and for a family orchard Early
Harvest, Missouri Pippin, Winesap, Jonathan, and Ben Davis. I prefer
bottom land with black loam and clay subsoil, with a southern slope.
When setting trees, I dig holes four fee