26 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



Apples. Trees should not be planted less than thirty-five feet 

 apart, and forty would be better. I would not advise planting 

 more than three varieties in an orchard. Yellow Newtown, Spitz- 

 enburgh, Jonathan, Eome Beauty, Grimes Golden, Northern Spy, 

 Eed Cheek Pippin and Ortley are all standard varieties. There 

 have been large plantings in my district the past fall and winter. 



Pears. Bartlett pears should be the principal pear planted, with 

 a good cross fertilizer. 



Prunes. When we get together and properly dry the fruit, and the 

 packers do not try to inject too much water, prunes will come into 

 their own. 



Cherries.. Eoyal Ann, Lambert and Bing are the cherries to be 

 planted in the order named, if you have cherry land. Not enough 

 cherries are grown to supply the canneries, and if you have an old 

 orchard that is not producing, if you will cut it back and turn hogs 

 or sheep in, spray well, in a few years it can be made to produce 

 profitable crops. Personally, I have tried hogs, and the results 

 have been astonishing. Five years ago my orchard produced forty 

 dollars' worth of cherries. Last year my crop sold for three hundred 

 and fifty, and I will be much disappointed if it does not return 

 five hundred this year. Eing your hogs well. 



Small Fruits. Not enough small fruits are being planted to 

 supply the demand for cannery purposes. More Cuthbert rasp- 

 berries, Clark Seedling strawberries. Mammoth and Himalaya Giant 

 blackberries should be" planted, also the Kansas black-cap raspberry. 

 Currants are also in good demand, but the best small fruit crop to 

 grow, the easiest to c'are for and the best payer, is the gooseberry. 



Jamep H. Eetd, 

 Commissioner First District. 



