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give us battle. If our people persist in buying trees of the eastern or 

 Michigan nursery man, sooner or later the yellows will be known here. 

 Bad as this year's freeze has been, it is, compared with peach yellows, 

 as a zephyr to a cyclone. The borer, curculio and rot are our wor-*t 

 enemies and I am able to control only the first. The numerous pre- 

 ventives all peach growers are familiar with are more or less valuable^ 

 but the only "dead certainty" is the knife. 



I do not believe in trying to fatten two hogs on feed enough for one 

 only. I do not believe in trying to grow six stalks of corn in one hill, 

 ■and I do not believe in trying to grow an orchard on land that is at the 

 same time devoted to wheat, or oats, or corn, or potatoes. After the 

 second year, a peach orchard should be kept clear of all crops that tax 

 the soil. If wheat growing will pay better than peach growing, pull out 

 the trees, if not, keep out the wheat. I have never seen a crop of wheat 

 and a crop of corn grow together on the same land, and I have never 

 seen, and never expect to see, a sucessful peach grower who practiced 

 planting his orchard to grain. I plant corn the first and second seasons, 

 and nothing but fertilizing crops afterwards. Fertilize the orchard, thin 

 the fruit, pack none but first quality, sell at your station or ship through 

 the Shippers' Union, and peach growing will pay better than any other 

 top-of-the-ground industry on the Ozarks. 



COMMEKCIAL PEACH GEOWING. 



Wm. B. Hoag, Mt. Grove, now a student at the Agricultural College, 



Columbia, Mo. 



Little need be said on this subject in general to the successful 

 peach grower, but it is the beginner who contemplates planting ai 

 orchard that should by all means seek counsel of those who have had ex- 

 perience. 



The question is often asked, "In what part of the United States can 

 peaches be grown most successfully?" I answer, in south central anr] 

 southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. Of course peaches 

 can be grown for home use in every state and in almost every part of any 



