losing nearly all the fruit, others just eoniniencing. I took 

 the two-horse plow and turned the sod over, ploughing 

 toward the trees thus leaving a strip of sod two or two and 

 one-half feet Avide in the tree row which has not since been" 

 disturbed, only mowing it often. The disc harrow was im- 

 mediately put on and it was given a thorough harrowing.. 

 In a few days the peaches stopped dropping and soon the 

 leaves began to grow darker in color. In ploughing this- 

 land not a particle of moisture was found, while in the 

 cultivated orchards with a dust mulch, there seemed to be- 

 sufficient moisture and there was practically no drop. Last 

 fall these trees produced some of the best fruit we had — the 

 orchard contained about two hundred Elberfas. The El- 

 t)erta is our principal variety, although Carmen. Belle of 

 Georgia, Crawford Early, and a few other varieties are 

 grown in a small way. Our trade demands a canning peach,, 

 the Elberta being called for and when it ripens on the trees, 

 as it does here, it has everything to recommend it, color, 

 size, flavor, and keeping quality. With a large testing or- 

 chard, we have found many varieties suited to our locality,, 

 and many which are worthy of trial. The tinest cpiality we 

 found in the Mamie Ross and ]Mi'ss Lolo. 



For fertilizers, last year a mixture of two hundred 

 pounds nitrate of soda, three hundred pounds high grade 

 sulphate potash, and five hundred to eight hundred pounds 

 basic slag per acre was used, this being put on with the 

 Hoosier endgate broadcast seeder before ploughing. 



We market in fourteen quart baskets, using the cushion 

 and wooden cover, costing about seven cents. Each bas- 

 ket is distinctly marked fourteen quarts. 



Our planting of apples has been very successful. In 

 1904 an orchard of Mcintosh and Wealthy was interplantect 

 with peach here we made a mistake in putting in too many 

 Niagara for they were nearly a failure. In 1908 we picked 

 our first apples, in 1909 some trees produced a half bushel 

 and last fall we picked over a barrel from a few trees and 

 several had one half barrel each. These were sprayed with 

 commercial lime-sulfur when dormant 1 to 11, and Avhei> 

 the petals fell 1 to 30, with the addition of two pounds 

 Pyrox to forty gallons Avater. Before using this formula 

 I wrote our Experiment Station regarding it. After I had 

 used it, I received a letter saying, don't do so, so you can 

 imagine my anxiety in the niiatter. Wha;t was the result?' 



