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higher jn-ice than clingstones. To say what you should plant of 

 early, medium and the latest, must be determined from the dif- 

 ferent kinds of peaches in your section, or what kinds do best for 

 your neighbors around you. In this way you can raise without ex- 

 perimenting. If Amsden June, Alexander, Early Kivers or any 

 other variety of the early kinds do well for your neighbor with 

 ordinary care, they certainly will do better with proper care. The 

 above kinds are generally understood tu be very good for this sec- 

 tion. Crawford's Early, and the Fosteis are a little later. There 

 are others a little later than Crawford's, Late, 0. M. Free, tStump 

 the World, Red Cheek, President, Heath free and many others for 

 medium late. Later ones are Heath cling. Smock, Mammoth 

 Heath, Ward's Late and White Imperial. There are many other 

 kinds Just as good, or better than the ones I mention, as I said 

 before you want to plant such kinds as do well in your section, 

 or what do well for your neighbor. 



As new kinds are offered by nursery men you have as good a 

 chance to try them as any other parties that are in other localities. 

 As to the yellows on peach trees out west here, is, I think a rare 

 thing, as for me I have the first to see yet, but we have got some- 

 thing else ; it is not new, the rot of the peaches on the tree while 

 green and just in ripening. The kinds that rotted for me were the 

 Crawford's Early and Early York. I put up with it as long as I 

 could and dug all of them up, and I think I am rid of it now. I 

 see them grow and do well on other places, perfectly clear of rot, 

 yet I believe they are somewhat subject to this disease. 



Some kinds of peach do best on low moist soil, while other 

 do well on either high or low land. I noticed the Steadly on high 

 and low land in my orchard. They grow to perfection on the low 

 ground. One tree on low land is worth more for peaches than a 

 dozen on high ground. The Steadly wants the low moist soil to 

 fruit well. This is my experience. 



There is something as important as raising or growing the 

 crop ; that is to know how to dispose of it at a price to joay you 

 for raising it. So many raise peaches — I might say worlds of them. 

 They don't manage to get cost out of them, then they say peaches 

 are not profitable to raise, and a failure to them. It is because 

 they are not successful in disposing of their crop advantageously. 

 One is successful in raising plenty, wliile other men can't raise 

 enough. Tliis is the diiference m men. It is a question of vital im- 

 portance to educate all growers to dispose of their goods at a profit. 

 Strictly first-class peaches always sell at good prices. 



