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with a hundred gallon tank, two hose attached, using a double vermicelh 

 nozzle. It takes three men to handle the outfit. 



I use the regular Bordeaux mixture and for two years have used 

 Paris green as an insecticide; this year I used in its stead Disparene, 

 which has given me much better results, as my fruit is rusted but very 

 little. In going through the orchard, I spray from both sides of the wagon 

 to center of tree, making two stops at each tree, following back next 

 row till orchard is finished. So thorough has my work been done, that 

 when my orchard is completed it looks as though it had been painted. 



My first spraying is done about four days before the buds open, and 

 my next about the time when blossoms are falling, just before the calyx 

 closes ; this, I think is the most important spray. But spraying is not all 

 it takes to raise good apples; it takes thorough cultivation, and that, 

 too, till the middle of July or the first of August, owing to the season. 

 In cultivating I use Clark's cutaway orchard plow. 



One plowing I throw to tree, the next reverse, throwing it from the 

 tree, thus keeping my ground perfectly level, repeating this from four to 

 six times a season. For cover crop, I let nature furnish it, running mower 

 over ground a couple of limes, so as not to allow any weeds to go to 

 seed. Now, these are just the high bumps of my plan, leaving out all the 

 minor details and attentions. It may be your plan too, for there is noth- 

 mg new in this world, and common sense and good judgment suggest 

 the same thing to one man that it does to others. 



The fruitage of the apple tree, 



Winds, and our flag of stripes and stars 



Shall bear to coasts that lie afar. 

 Where men shall wonder at the view. 

 And ask in what fair-groves they grew; 



And sojourners beyond the sea 

 Shall think of childhood's careless day, 

 And long, long hours of summer play, 



In the shade of the apple tree. 



La Plata, Mo., December 18, 1904. 

 Hon. L. A. Goodman, Kansas City, Mo. : 



Dear Sir — I am sending you the paper on girdling. Use it as you 

 see fit. Could not think of any way to put the treatment of the injured 

 tree only in plain language, and you may change that if you see lit. I 

 simply told our experience. Wish I had used the method on all my 

 \'ork and M. B. Twig in June, 1903, as it would have made us over a 

 thousand dollars this year. I send you under separate cover two photo- 



