o not fertilize; our soil is rich enough; ashes or potash
might be beneficial. I think hogs beneficial in an orchard. My trees are
troubled with root aphis, and my apples with codling-moth and curculio.
Pick apples by hand from a ladder into a bag. Sort into two classes,
perfect and imperfect, from piles on the grass or ground. Pack my apples
in barrels by hand, mark with my name, and haul to market in a spring
wagon. Generally sell apples in the orchard, also wholesale; peddle the
second and third grades, and make culls into cider for vinegar. Never
dry any. I stored some in boxes in the cellar last fall, also buried
some in the ground, and was successful. Found Limber Twig and Rawle's
Janet kept best. We had to repack stored apples before marketing; lost
about one-half of those in the cellar, but very few of those buried in
the ground. Do not irrigate. Prices were about forty cents per bushel at
wholesale in the fall on the trees.

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S. F. C. GARRISON, El Dorado, Butler county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-seven years; have an apple orchard of 1000 trees, twenty to
twenty-five years old, ten to twelve inches in diameter. I prefer for
commercial purposes Ben Davis, Winesap, King of Tompkins County, and
Rawle's Janet; and for family orchard Maiden's Blush, Milam, Jonathan,
and Sweet Bough. Have tried and discarded Keswick Codlin, Willow Twig
and Dominie on account of blight. I prefer second bottom, reddish soil,
with liver-red subsoil, and a north slope. I prefer two-year-old,
short-trunk, smooth and round trees. In planting, plow both ways with a
coulter and subsoiler, then dig out. I cultivate my orchard to corn for
three or four years, using a plow; I cease cropping after eight years,
and plant nothing in a bearing orchard. I use sulphur mixed with axle
grease to protect against rabbits. For borers I use fish oil spurted in
with sewing-machine oiler. I prune the under limbs to prevent hanging on
the ground. It does not pay, and is not very beneficial. I thin Rawle's
Janet apples when the smallest ones are as large as marbles. My trees
are in mixed plantings. I fertilize with stable litter, and think it
beneficial; but would not advise its use on all soils. Never pasture my
orchard. My trees are troubled with canker-worm, root aphis, twig-borer,
leaf-roller, and bark-louse, and my apples with curculio. I spray with
London purple and strychnine when the leaves are small; think I