SUMMER MEETING AT OREGON. 



REPORT OF J. M. KELLEY, SPRINGFIELD, MO. 



D. S. Hoi ma II, Esq. 



Dear Sir : — In reply to your request, I beg leave to make the fol- 

 lowing^ report of my experience in peach growing in Green County. 

 Most of the figures arc exact, and in those which I have estimated, I 

 have been careful not to make a better showing than is warranted by 

 the facts : 

 Ten acres of land in suburbs of Springfield, bought June, 1883. ..$1,000 



Fencing with cedar posts and six foot pickets 250 



Grubbing and plowing lOO 



Fruit trees one year old, set spring of 1 884 215 



■ Total $1,565 



Crop corn and vegetables raised on ground, 1884, exclusive 



of seeds and labor $400 



Crop vegetables, 1885 250 



Crop vegetables, 1 886 1 00 



Crop peaches, 250 trees, all early, 1887 500 



Total 1,250 



Balance including cost of the land $ 315 



At this date all my peach trees, 1,000 in number, promise a fine 

 yield, all being full, and barring any accident will produce from one 

 bushel to two and one-half bushels to the tree, ripening from June 20th 

 to October. 



In addition to the above-named 1,000 peach trees, I have on the 

 same ground about 400 apple trees, 120 plums, 80 cherries and 40 

 quinces. The plums of the Wild Goose variety are in full bearing. 

 The apple trees have made a fine growth and are thirty feet apart with 

 peach trees between them in the rows and a row of peach trees between 

 each two apple rows. Thus you will see that when the peach trees de- 

 cay, which they are likely to do in say ten years, I will thus have an ap- 

 ple, plum and cherry orchard instead. I have not taken into account 

 the value of the growth of my apple trees, which is in some places es- 

 timated at $1 a tree per year, nor the prospective peach crop of 1888, my 



object being to ascertain if peach growing in Southwest Missouri pays. 



Yours respectfully, 



J. M. KELLY. 



