114 THE KANSAS PEACH. 



THE THIRD DISTRICT. 



D. D. White, Enon, Barber county, has lived in Kansas twenty years. Has 

 500 bearing trees from five to eighteen years old, and 100 smaller. Of these 500 

 are seedlings, 400 of which are fine in quality and size. Grows them in sandy 

 loam, and considers it best if not too sandy. Would prefer permanent water 

 within ten feet of the surface. Likes an eastern slope on account of hot sun. 

 Grows the Crawford, Foster, and Heath Cling. Believes the Crawford the best 

 for market, as they are solid and will not bruise in shipping. Prefers seedlings 

 for family use, as they bear annually. Prefers two year-old trees for planting, 

 and plants twenty feet apart north and south and forty feet east and west. 

 Prunes at planting to three or three and one-half feet high, but does not prune 

 the roots. Does not head back bearing trees. His earliest is Amsden — last of 

 June; latest. White October — first to middle of October. Fruit does not cook 

 "if planted twenty feet apart north and south." Has some curculio in early 

 freestones. Has sprayed, but does little good. Troubled some with borers. 

 Has no peach disease of any kind. Pastures with a few hogs; or, rather, pigs, 

 as they do not " ride down " the limbs. Picks for market from step-ladder. For 

 home use shakes them off. Markets in half-bushel baskets. Average price for 

 ten years has been fifty cents. Does not think they would pay in large quanti- 

 ties for shipping. He evaporates all the culls, etc. \ 



E. T. Daniels, Kiowa, Barber county, thirty-six years a resident of the state, 

 has now 175 peach trees; about half of them are seedlings; six of these bear fine 

 fruit. His trees were planted from six to seventeen years ago, in soil of a red 

 loam, underlaid with red rock at from two to ten feet. Thinks the light red lands 

 of Barber county the best he knows of for peach growing. Any slope is good, 

 but low land is preferable. His varieties are Alexander, Hynes's Surprise, Riv- 

 ers, Bishop, Reed's Early Golden, Old Mixon Free and Cling, Mountain Rose, 

 Elberta, Heath, Reeves, Yellow St. John, Beatrice. Has discarded Crawford's 

 Early and Late, as shy bearers. For market would recommend the above list, 

 excepting the Yellow St. John and Beatrice, and would add "some of my seed- 

 lings, both for market and family." Rivers is too tender, excepting for near-by 

 market. Plant yearlings, fourteen to twenty feet apart — the latter distance for 

 lowlands: prune to a stick eighteen inches high, cutting roots back from two to 

 four inches long. Head in bearing trees annually. Alexander ripens July 1; 

 and seedling No. 2 the last week in October. A large per cent, cook on sunny 

 side while on the tree. Never had curculio but one season, six or eight years 

 ago; borers troublesome of late. Saw yellows or curl in Ohio, but never in Kan- 

 sas. Lost a few trees on wet land with root-rot. Grow corn or potatoes only for 

 first year or two. Pick with ladder or light picking table, and place in wagon on 

 hay and haul to towns and to settlers in Oklahoma. Sells seedlings from twenty 

 cents to ninety cents, and choice varieties from fifty cents to one dollar per bushel. 

 Feeds all refuse to hogs. He believes the day for good profit has gone by. Says, 

 further, cold of February killed soft-shelled alnionds. Mr. Daniels has two peach 

 seedlings originating with him, viz. : No. 2 and Cream. On examining fifty buds 

 each of Crosby, Early Rivers, No. 2, and Cream, he finds Crosby, 42 dead and 8 

 alive ; Rivers, 43 dead and 7 alive ; No. 2, 40 dead and 10 alive ; Cream, 31 dead and 

 19 alive; examined 160 Elberta buds — not one alive. Says he is proud of his two 

 new peaches, and will propagate them largely. Says Cream is of the best quality, 

 and No. 2 is better than Crawford Late. Says further: "There are four or five 



