346 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



HOLT COUNTY. 



BY WILLIAM BRODEECK, OREGON, MO. 



As I have been selected to make a report for our county in regard- 

 to fruit-growing, and the way we have been cultivating, I beg leave to 

 submit the following report : 



PEACHES. 



Mrs. Thomas Kreek has three acres in peach orchard — over one- 

 half of these trees turned out to be inferior seedlings. She sold the 

 seedlings at 50 cents per bushel and the budded at $1 50 per bushel. 

 She sold for cash $500 worth ; and if the trees had all been budded, 

 they would have cashed $1,500, as the budded trees had more bushels 

 than the seedlings. But take the original sale of $500, this would be 

 over $165 per acre. This $165 — produced from one acre — would pay 

 the interest on $1,650 at 10 per cent ; on $2,062 at 8 per cent, and on 

 $2,760 at 6 per cent. This peach orchard was cultivated about like 

 corn. 



STAWBERRIES. 



Mrs. Kreek also had one-half acre of strawberries. She sold for 

 cash, besides what the family used and gave away, $135, making $270 

 per acre. These were plowed once after the crop was gathered and 

 had no more work until the next crop was gathered again. The varieties 

 are Cresent Seedling, Minor's Prolific, Glendale and Windsor Chief. 



Mr. Luckhardt raised 163 full-grown stawberries on one plants 

 counted by John Hasness, of the Crescent. Plants cultivated in stooL 

 This certainly beats California, or any other place but Holt county. 



GRAPES. 



Concord and Cynthianna grapes pay $75 to $100 per acre with 

 moderate cultivation. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



We plow blackberries once or twice a year and hoe once or twice, 

 pinch them back, remove the old canes and cut back the latterals in 

 the spring. With this kind of cultivation, 1 picked this summer 800 

 quarts from one-fourth of an acre. Sold them at 7* cents per 

 quart; this would be $240 per acre, and would pay the interest on 

 $2,400 at 10 per cent ; on $3,000 at 8 per cent and on $4,000 at 6 per 

 cciit. These were from the Snyder, which is the chief kind generally 

 planted with as. We will put the average crop of blackberries at $100 

 or even $75 per acre, which is an under estimate of the average crop 



