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Is found most abundantly on cold, stiff soils and after 

 cold, easterly storms. I have rarely seen it on warm, 

 sandy loam soils, even after such storms, unless when 

 long continued and very severe. 



Question 15. I think the best way to market the 

 peach is to pack them, Extra fine fruit, in small baskets, 

 say one peck baskets. The strictly prime, in the | 

 basket ; and when the crop is not abundant, crate the 

 residue, except the culls, and sell them to the dryers, or 

 dry them yourself When the crop is very large I prefer 

 to sell all to the dryers except the extras and strictly 

 prime. We sell here, at Wyoming, almost every grade for 

 the last three years to the buyers, who come here from the 

 north, east and west, to sojourn with us for the peach 

 season, and peaches bring here 20 per cent, more than at 

 any other station on the road except Bridgeville, and 

 some 10 per cent, more than at Bridgeville, 



May I suggest what I deem an improvement over 

 the mode of setting out peach orchards usually followed ? 

 Almost every person plants peach trees 20 feet apart 

 each way. The finest fruit in flavor, size and color that 

 I have ever known raised on any orchard in this section 

 of the country, grew on one which I planted twenty- 

 seven years ago, and pulled up seven years ago. Instead 

 of planting the trees 20 feet apart east and west, I set 

 them 24 feet apart. By so doing the trees never inter- 



