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all limbs and mutilated roots; heads back severely after a hard winter. His 

 earliest are Alexander, Amsden, Arkansas Traveler, etc., but says they are no 

 good — curculio is too fond of them. His latest is Bray's Rareripe. Says leaf- 

 curl prevails during cold, wet seasons, but has done no permanent injury. No 

 crops or live stock allowed among his trees. Picks by hand into ten-pound grape 

 baskets, and sells to central Kansas grocers; gives culls to pickers. Says good 

 kinds always pay. Says the greatest injury was done in October, 1898, Vjy the 

 snow and the cold succeeding it: the trees were not prepared for it. Says fur- 

 ther: "No doubt old trees are most seriously injured, which will make room for 

 new plantings of better kinds, and in time revive tree jjlanting. The profits in 

 peaches fail because the kinds are no good. Experts here make a good profit on 

 special varieties not in the old lists," 



T. J. Brewster, Lawrence, Douglas county, has only a few trees, on upland. 

 He is growing Arkansas Traveler, Elberta, Heath, Snow, Early and Late Craw- 

 ford, Believes Elberta and Heath best for market or family. Plants 10 x 20 feet, 

 pruning tops to correspond with mutilation of roots. Has not tried heading in. 

 Says twenty per cent, of new growth was killed by the cold weather. No insects 

 of any kind trouble his fruit. Does not believe there is a diseased peach tree in 

 the county. Grows potatoes and corn among young trees; prefers potatoes. Al- 

 lows calves and hogs in his orchard, but keeps large animals out. Believes irri- 

 gation would be a great help at times. He receives one dollar per bushel at home. 

 Thinks they would pay if planted largely in his vicinity. 



P. Vo<»rliees, Lawrence, Douglas county, has 2700 peach trees: 1800 of 

 these in bearing, on dark upland soil, which he thinks is good, although he thinks 

 in a wet season a red land may be better. He likes a north or eastern slope. He 

 is fruiting Alexander, Triumph, Sneed, Early and Late Crawford, Early Rivers, 

 Japanese Dwarf Blood, Mountain Rose, Early Michigan, Emperor, Orange Free, 

 Summer Snow, Lorents, Late Rose, Lemon Free, Lemon Cling, Wilkin's Cling, 

 Bonanza, Gold Dust, Bequet's Late, Bray's Rareripe, Crosby, Old Mixon Cling, 

 Old Mixon Free, Moore's Favorite, Troth's Early, Champion, Pride of Franklin, 

 Chair's Choice, Beers Late, Wonderful, Early York, Steadly, Hale's Early, 

 Stump the World, Salway, Elberta, Foster, Globe, Smock, Golden Rareripe, 

 Grey's Rareripe, Reed's Early Golden, Jennie Wosthen, Connet Early, Bishop 

 Early, Wheatland, Horton's Rivers, Greensboro, Fitzgerald, Belle of Georgia, 

 Boyds, Iron Mountain, Emma, Walkers, Variegated Free, Couper, Skillman's 

 Beauty, Fox Seedling, Stevens's Late Rareripe, Bokara, Christiana, Ward's Late, 

 Reeves's Favorite, Hill's Chili, Wager, Susquehanna, Minnie, Bilyere's Late 

 October, and many others. He has tried and discarded Early and Late Craw- 

 ford, Foster, Early Rivers, Troth's, W^onderf ul, Bokara, Summer Snow. He rec- 

 ommends, for market, Horton, Rivers, Mountain Rose, Stump, Old Mixon Free, 

 Grey's Rareripe, Elberta, Beers Smock, Globe, Lemon Free, Lemon Cling, 

 Crosby, Gold Dust, Wilkin's Cling (sometimes called Ringgold's Mammoth), 

 Bonanza: for family, Alexander, Early Rivers, Mountain Rose, Reeves's Favor- 

 ite, Stump, Elberta, and Smock. Sets trees one year from bud, pruned to a stick 

 two feet high, with roots severely pruned, set eighteen feet apart each way. 

 Believes in heading in bearing trees; says all were injured by cold winter, and 

 will never fully recover. His earliest are Sneed, Japanese Dwarf Blood, July 1. 

 Latest: Bilyere's Late and Bonanza, in October. Planted to have peaches every 

 day from July 4 to October 10, and did it in 1898, with a large crop. Curculio 

 sometimes troubles his early freestones. Elberta has curled badly for two years 



