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spraying. Says box-elder bugs sometimes collect on juicy peaches and spoil 

 them. Borers trouble his trees some. Says there has been but little leaf-curl 

 for seventeen years, but in 1898 his trees were generally affected by it, to the de- 

 struction of the fruit. He grows only rye among the trees and plows it under in 

 the spring. Allows no live stock but poultry among his trees. Has sold seed- 

 lings at twenty-five to fifty cents per bushel; budded fruit from $1.50 to $2 for 

 choice. Thinks it would pay well to plant largely for market. 



Geo. R. Barnes, Chapman, Dickinson county, a resident of Kansas for 

 twenty-eight years. He has only a few trees now of bearing size; many years 

 ago he grew seedlings enough to gather them by the wagon-load. He now has 

 Amsden, Alexander, and Crosby. The seedlings he had and some now growing 

 are very fine, good size, luscious, and cannot be beaten for family use. He would 

 recommend, for market, Elberta, Crosby, and Dean's Orange [a Saline county seed- 

 ling]. He would plant young trees never over two years old, sixteen feet apart each 

 way, and thinks the nurserymen shovild trim them to stubby proportions, cutting 

 off all long and broken roots, making all symmetrical. He does not head in or prune 

 bearing trees. His Alexanders ripen July 4, and Heath is his latest. Thinks 

 the cold of February, 1899, killed the tops of the trees. Says hot, dry winds 

 cook his late peaches sometimes. Has some trouble with curculio; has had 

 peach-tree leaf-curl from wet feet. He says borers at the collar are the worst 

 pest he has. Says the trees will not grow with crops among them; and no live 

 stock but fowls should be allowed among any fruit-trees. For two years past 

 peaches have sold for fifty cents per bushel. As to planting largely for market, 

 says it is doubtful as several have tried it and quit. 



J. D. Hazen, Leona, Doniphan county, is an old settler, having resided in 

 Kansas over forty years. Has 300 bearing peach trees fifteen years old; 100 of 

 these are seedlings, but none of his seedlings are of superior quality. His trees 

 are on high, clear land, which he firmly believes is the best. He prefers northeast 

 slope. He has also 100 young trees set out. He has several varieties, but has 

 lost the names. For family use, he says plant for the seasons, to have them from 

 earliest to latest. He sets two- to three-year-old trees, sixteen feet ajmrt; prunes 

 some, cutting about a foot off the top, and does not trim the roots at pjlanting 

 nor the tops of bearing trees. All were injured by cold of February. The sun 

 cooks many of his late peaches on one side. The curculio troubles his Crosby 

 most; has never tried spraying. Has no disease on fruit or trees. Allows horses 

 to pasture among the trees. Picks from ladders by hand, and markets in half- 

 bushel baskets, retailing at about fifty cents per basket. Feeds culls to hogs. 

 Does not think it would pay to go into growing peaches largely in his locality. 



A. H. Griesa, Lawrence, Douglas county, thirty-two years in Kansas, has 

 275 peach trees, 200 of bearing size, all choice budded varieties, planted from 

 three to eighteen years, on black prairie soil, which he thinks good; says any 

 sloxje is good if it drains well. He is growing Early Rivers, Elberta, New Pro- 

 lific, Ringgold's Mammoth Cling, Grey's Rareripe, Shippers' Late Red, Stevens's 

 Rareripe. He has discarded Early and Late Crawford, Hale's Early, Troth's 

 Early Red, Early York, Heath Cling, Tong-pa, Heath Free, Morris White, and 

 Haines's Golden. He would recommend for market and family use Early 

 Rivers, Elberta, New Prolific, Bray's Rareripe, Emma, Ringgold's Mammoth 

 Cling, Grey's Rareripe, Shippers' Late Red, and Stevens's Rareripe. Put out 

 only trees one year from bud, sixteen feet apart each way, cutting away most 



