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are as follows : 3 Northern Spy, 2 King, 1 Bellflower, 1 Tolman Sweet, 

 1 Red Astraclian. 



In all there are 52 trees, which if collected and placed 36 feet apart 

 would cover 1.6 acres at 33 trees to the acre. 



WORK AND RESULTS FOR THE FIRST YEAR, 1904. 



Nothing was done to the orchards this season except to pick the 

 fruit, which for some years previous had been allowed to go to waste. 

 Apples w-ere abundant this j-ear and prices very low. The writer had 

 taught school the previous year and had the farm work to do during 

 the summer, but found time during the fall to pick the apples rather 

 than see them go to waste. The only money expended in harvesting 

 was |7 for help in picking. No provision had been made for shipping, 

 so most of the fruit was sold to local buyers at 40 cents per hundred 

 weight, or about 20 cents per bushel. We drove four miles to the 

 orcliard in the morning, put the apples into the crates from the picking 

 sacks, and drove home with the load in the evening, unloading at the 

 car the next morning. In all about a car-load of apples was sold for 

 $126.37. Money costs, including shipping boxes purchased later and 

 packing were 119.34, leaving a net balance of $107.03 to pay for 18 

 days labor of myself and team, or about |6 per day. 



Fifty-three bushels of the best of this fruit were sorted out, packed 

 in bushel ajtple boxes and consigned to a Chicago firm. These sold for 

 85 cents per box. This set me to thinking that if this fruit could be 

 so cared for that a larger per cent would be perfect, the increased re- 

 ceipts would more than offset the added expense. Accordingly, we pre- 

 pared to give the orchard some care the following season. 



WORK AND RESULTS SECOND YEAR. 1905. 



A good brass pump with two leads of 20-foot hose, 8 and 10-foot 

 bamboo brass-lined extension rods, two double vermorel nozzles, and 

 a good brass strainer were purchased, the entire outfit costing |27.50. 



The orchard of 8 trees near home w\as pruned at a cost of |2, but 

 help was scarce and spring work pressing, and no pruning was done 

 on the other orchards. 



The pruned orchard was sprayed four times; a part of the other 

 trees twice, with Bordeaux mixture, just before and just after blossom- 

 ing, at a cost of $15 for labor and materials. 



This was an off year, and the cro]) very light, yet it was better and 

 larger than in the neighboring orchards, and the foliage had a more 

 healthy appearance and remained on the trees longer in the fall. 



The cost, including labor of picking, grading, packing, and market- 

 ing the crop, was $13.70; packages for early ap])les, $1.56; pruning, $2, 

 and spraying $15, as noted above; total expense for the season, $32.26. 



The late a})ples were consigned to a Chicago .firm, selling for 90 

 cents and $1 per bushel ; and the early apples were sold to neighbors 

 at from 50 cents to 85 cents per bushel, the total sales being $46.23, 

 leaving a net balance of $13.97. 



No account was made of the apples used by three families. Hired 

 labor was charged at cost; my time at $1 per day; team at $1 per day. 



