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way are now standing from two to three feet high. I keep them well trimmed 

 and top them back, and they are as fine as any budded trees, and a great deal 

 healthier. Last year I got a good crop of seedlings, and I sold them readily in 

 the orchard at seventy-five cents per bushel." 



Geo. T. Elliott, Great Bend, Barton county, has been a Kansan twenty-two 

 years. Has 500 peach trees, 200 of which are six years planted and bearing, 300 

 are younger, 200 are seedlings; 100 of these are choice in quality and size. They 

 are on sandy land, which he says is the best. He prefers an eastern aspect. His 

 budded varieties are Salway, Stump, York, Early and Late Crawford, Elberta, 

 Crosby, and Champion. He would recommend for market, Elberta, Bokara, 

 Crosby, and Champion; for family use, he would add a few early varieties. 

 Would plant two-year-olds. He has been planting 18 x 18 feet, but will this 

 spring [1899] plant 400 trees 12 x 12 feet. He would trim to a stick, and clip all 

 bruised roots. He heads in bearing trees, and says it is the best way. His 

 earliest peach is Wyandotte, coming July 1: his latest, Chinese Cling and Heath, 

 in October, Says by heading trees low the fruit does not sunburn or cook on 

 trees. Has few curculio on early and medium varieties. Has not sprayed for 

 them. Grows corn among trees for two years, after that nothing; never allows 

 live stock among trees. Picks carefully, and sells in bulk, in home market, at 

 from one to two dollars per bushel. He thinks it would pay to plant largely for 

 market, and he intends to plant 400 this spring — 200 Elberta and 200 Bokara 

 No. 10. He planted, in spring of 1898, 100, in ten varieties, as follows: Greens- 

 boro, Early and Late Crawford, Stump, Arkansas Traveler, Sneed, Henrietta, 

 Elberta, Chinese Cling, Champion. Mr. Elliott says, further: "I have a wind- 

 break of forest-trees around my peach orchard, and find practically no damage 

 from the severe cold, excepting a few seedlings. The demand for peaches at 

 Great Bend is good, and have received four dollars per bushel for extra-nice 

 clings." He will continue to extend his plantings for commercial purposes. He 

 believes there will be 100,000 peach trees set out in Barton county this spring 

 [1899]. 



Jacob Redig-or, Great Bend, Barton county, has resided in Kansas thirteen 

 years, and tells the following: Has .300 peach trees, all seedlings, 200 of them of 

 medium quality and very acceptable ; 200 are sixteen years old, on high upland, 

 but he would prefer "sandy river bottom," with north alope. He planted two- 

 year-old trees, 10 x 16 feet, with tops cut back to about six inches. He is troubled 

 with curculio and borers. Says the hot sun and southwest winds scald the trees 

 and the borers attack them. Says it is best to grow no crop among the trees, 

 but to turn in hogs. Says "it would pay to irrigate if the trees would bear every 

 year, but I have had but two crops in twelve years. Some winters the bud is 

 killed and other seasons the frost has killed them in May." Sells them to farm- 

 ers at retail at from forty to fifty cents per bushel. Gives all refuse to hogs. 

 Says they would not pay to plant largely for market. Says, further, that the 

 cold of February, 1899, killed all buds and most of the "timber" on old and 

 young trees. 



J. W. Hollinback, Coldwater, Comanche county ; resident for thirty-eight 

 years. He has 250 bearing peach trees ; three-fourths of these are seedlings ; 175 

 of the seedlings bring choice fruit. His seedlings have been planted nine years; 

 his budded trees have been planted seven years; all on sandy loam; slope no dif- 

 ference. His varieties are Stump, Alexander, Lord Palmerston, and Heath, all 



