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J. C. Ross, Havana, Montgomery county. — I have 200 cherry trees, planted 

 two, four, and seven years, the varieties are Morello and Early May. Both are 

 good bearers. My soil is sandy, sloping to the south. I plant in spring; gather 

 in June; sell by the quart in town, receiving from eight to ten cents per quart. 

 Have never grown, budded or grafted my own trees. My neighbors are growing 

 cherries, and I consider them a paying crop in this locality. The fruit is often 

 wormy and is stung by some insect: we spray for them. 



Y. E. Hatliaway, Council Grove, Morris county. — My cherry trees were 

 nearly all killed in the winter of 1899. Would plant only English Morello, Early 

 Richmond, and Montmorency. Bring from five to eight cents per quart. My 

 neighbors grow cherries for home use only. They are not a paying crop in this 

 locality. The blue jays and robins trouble the fruit, but I do nothing but get 

 mad and scold. [Try the bell cure.] Do not irrigate my trees. 



John E. Sample, Beman, Morris county. — Has 500 cherry trees, planted one, 

 two, three and ten years; they are all sour varieties. The best bearer Mr. Sample 

 has is a variety brought by his ancestors from Scotland and planted in America in 

 the colonial times, before the revolutionary war. He says no one outside of the 

 Sample family is growing this variety. His land is black loam, sloping to the 

 south ; planted his trees twenty feet apart. Sells his fruit while on the trees for 

 twenty-five cents per gallon. He has grown, budded and grafted his own trees. 

 If planting over, he would set out the variety he is now growing, grafted on apri- 

 cot roots; he would also put out a few Early Richmond; expects to plant 400 or 

 500 next spring. He says: "My neighbors grow a few cherries; I am the only 

 fool (?) in this county." He considers them a good paying crop in that locality. 

 Says they are troubled with no insects. Dots not irrigate his trees. 



S. J. Baldwin, Seneca, Nemaha county. — I have lived in Nemaha county, 

 Kansas, thirty-three years. I have planted a number of orchards and about 

 twenty or more varieties of cherries. My experience in growing cherries for 

 market began in 1884;, when I planted 100 trees — 40 Early Richmond, 40 English 

 Morello, 10 Empress Eugenia, 10 Louis Philippe. All did well excepting the lat- 

 ter ; they seemed worthless and only lived about four years. The Empress fruited 

 quite regularly, often quite full, but, being very early and sweet, the birds always 

 got fully one-half, and the trees died in. eight years. The Early Richmond and 

 English Morello fruited very abundantly almost every year; the severe winter of 

 1898 and 1899 killed them. In the spring of 1888 I planted .300 more cherry trees 

 in an apple orchard; the apple trees were 32x32 feet, and cherry trees in center 

 of square, all on south slope; they were 100 Early Richmond, 100 English Mo- 

 rello, and 10 each of Dyehouse, Governor Wood, Black Tartarian, Belle de Choisy, 

 May Duke, Olivet, Ostheim, Montmorency, Wragg, and Yellow Spanish. The 

 Yellow Spanish, Choisy, Tartarian and Olivet lived about seven years and pro- 

 duced but few cherries, excepting Tartarian, which had two good crops. Gov- 

 ernor Wood and May Duke had fruit about every alternate year, but died at ten 

 years. Early Richmond, English Morello and Dyehouse were all budded on 

 Morello seedlings and produced a full crop of sprouts from roots, as well as fruit 

 every year; they were so injured by cold in winter of 1898 and 1899 that they are 

 most of them dead now. The Ostheim, Wragg and Late Montmorency are still 

 alive and very prolific ; but the two former are so dwarfed by overbearing that 

 the trees are scarcely ten feet high now, while the Montmorency trees are large 

 and in fairly good condition and have fruited pretty well generally. In 1892 I 



