THE KANSAS PEACH. 59 



EXPRESS ON INFERIOR FRUIT. 



The express and freight charges on fruit of inferior size and qual- 

 ity are just as much as on the finest that can be produced; so the dif- 

 ference between a profit and loss is the difference between inferior, 

 ordinary fruit and that of fancy size and top quality. 



VOLUNTEER TREES. 



Wherever there were peaches last season there no doubt will be 

 found seedlings coming up, which can be taken up carefully, and set 

 in rows three feet apart, and six inches apart in the row, to let grow 

 until August or September, says Judge Miller in Rural World, when 

 they can be budded. If of a select good variety, they might soon be 

 planted to bear without budding. 



TO GET EARLY PEACHES. 



J. H. Hale, the jjeach grower, gets ripe i^eaches two weeks earlier 

 by the following method : In the middle of the growing season put a 

 strong wire around a large arm of a tree and twist it fairly tight. This 

 checks the flow of sap and causes fruit-buds to form early and in great 

 number. The fruit on the branches of this arm will ripen two weeks 

 earlier than that on the untreated branches and will be much more 

 highly colored. But this part of the tree will be so weakened by the 

 treatment that it should be cut away after fruiting that new shoots 

 may come and take its place. Thus one large arm or limb of a tree 

 may be forced each year. 



TEN PEACH COMMANDMENTS. 



Mr. J. H, Hale, of Connecticut, lays down the following, and says: 

 ''On these ten commandments hang most of the law and all of the 

 profits": 



1. High, dry, sandy or sandy loam soil. 



2. Careful selection of varieties most hardy in fruit-bud. 



3. Vigorous, healthy seedling stocks budded from bearing trees of 

 undoubted purity and health. 



4. Trees given entire possession of the land from the start. 



5. Thorough culture from the opening of spring till the new growth 

 is well along. 



6. Liberal annual manuring, broadcast, with commercial manures 

 rich in potash and i3hosphoric acid and lacking in nitrogen. 



7. Low heading and close annual pruning for the first five years. 



8. Keep out most borers with some suitable w^ish, and dig out all 

 others. 



9. Search for traces of yellows every week of the growing season, 

 and at first sign jduU up and burn every infested tree. 



10. Thin the fruit so that there shall never be what is termed a 

 full crop. 



