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I sold most of this crop in Davenport, Iowa, at two dollars, and 

 two dollars and lifty cents per bushel, clearing about eight 

 hundred dollars on the crop. In 1874, I took the remaining 

 trees from the nursery and put out four hundred, matching 

 them with the rows of the first orchard. In 1878, I had half a 

 crop from twelve hundred trees, which I sold for five liundred 

 dollars, clearing about four hundred dollars. I have, in eight 

 years from planting the pits, cleared twelve hundred dollars. 

 Who can equal this showing with an apple orchard? We 

 import annually thousands of dollars worth of this fruit from 

 Michigan and the Southern States. 



It certainly pays better witli a crop once in three years, 

 than any apple orchard that can be grown. 



I will add that I now have two thousand peach trees set. 

 Eight hundred of them are three years old. The older trees 

 are in sod. Last year, 1879, I had the promise of a fair crop, 

 but the curculio stung them, and nearly all fell when a cjuarter 

 grown. I succeeded in marketing twenty-six baskets of six 

 quarts at sixty cents. My trees all went into Winter in splendid 

 condition, and at this time, February, 1880, I have the 

 promise of an immense crop the present year. 



SECRET OP SUCCESS. 



The secret of my success lies in my peculiar method of 

 growing, wiiich is, first, to set deep to protect the roots from 

 frost j second, to cut out the center stalk so as to leave from 

 three to eight bodies to each tree; third, to plow to the tree 

 so as to cover the forks six or eight inches under ground,whicli 

 prevents the borer from getting in the forks ; fourth, I divide 

 the bark among six or eight bodies, which keeps it too thin for 

 the borers to work under, as it is known that they never attack a 

 young tree; fifth, I never trim the peach tree except to remove 

 a dead limb, as much trimming forces growth, and kills back. 

 Where trees are grown in this way they seldom get move than 

 eight or ten feet high, which is a convenience in picking the 

 fruit. Such trees, too, furnish better protection for each other 

 and from wind, and have open heads to let in the sun. 

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