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kept prett\- careful records, the sales from the peach orchard 

 during- the fourth year amounted to about two liundred dol- 

 lars. In the fifth year the sum reached seven hundred and 

 fiftv dollars, while at the close of the next year, the owner 

 had a net sum of oiie thousand and ninety dollars to the cred- 

 it of the block, making a total net sale of over two thousand 

 dollars at the end of the sixth year. While these fine sales 

 were being made from the peach fillers, he was also g-ro'wing 

 a young- apple orchard, which slicws indications of putting oil 

 a fine bloom another spring, even with such varieties as 

 Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, and King. 



In the entire state the system more g-enerally employed 

 is to use other apples for fillers, especially those so-called 

 early bearing varieties. At the present time Wealthy and 

 Mcintosh probably lead. Four or five years ago Duchess 

 was heavily planted. In some sections it still continues to hold 

 its own. Kings are employed frequently chiefly because of the 

 small size of an old tree. If apples are used for fillers, the 

 plantings are seldom, if ever, closer than twenty by twenty. 

 More frequently the distance is twenty-five by twenty-five, 

 in which case the diagonal system of planting is used, espe- 

 cially in all cases where the trees are of medium or small size. 

 One-half the trees under this system will ultimately be cut 

 out, solid rows being- cut diagonally across the field. This 

 system gives a distance between the permanent trees of be- 

 tween thirty-five and thirty-six feet. Another point in favor 

 of this system of planting, which carries weight with the New 

 York farmer, is that it is not necessary to determine which 

 of the two varieties planted together will ultimately be left. 

 This gives the owner an opportunity of planting one of the 

 old time varieties and also one of the newer varieties, but it 

 does not require him to determine now which he will want in 

 his permanent orchard. 



If peaches are used for fillers, the distance apart will 

 be not over twenty feet, more often it is eighteen. The rect- 

 angular method of planting is used, where every other tree 

 on one row is a permanent, and each alternating one a filler 



