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after harvesting, and it was no uncommon sight to see 

 them sold on the Buffalo market for from 75c. to $1.00 

 per barrel. With present facilities for handling them we 

 get from $3 to $5 per barrel. We endeavor to give our 

 pear orchards clean cultivation and spray them twice with 

 Bordeaux. We try to go through them once in ten days 

 and cut out the blight during the season when it is bad. 

 Formerly we headed them back quite severely, but one or 

 two seasons of bad blighting, on top of our heavy pruning, 

 caused us to do away with our pruning of them to a 

 great extent. 



Our plums are principally Niagaras, Lombards, and 

 Gold Drop. ■ Our prunes, the Fellenberg variety. We 

 never fail in having a crop of some variety and frequently 

 of all. They are also given two or three sprays of Bor- 

 deaux. In our early experience with prunes they would 

 make quite a growth up to the last of July, then the fun- 

 gus would ruin the leaves, which would drop, and after- 

 ward in September start a new growth and the trees 

 would go into the winter in bad shape. Since spraying, 

 they and the Lombard Plums carry a rank foliage all 

 through the season. 



A portion of land occupied by one of our peach 

 orchards has been growing peaches the past 70 years with 

 scarcely any interval elapsing between the removing of 

 the old orchard and the planting of the new ones. Nine- 

 years ago we removed an old orchard, principally Early 

 Crawford, that was badly infested with "yellows" and 

 "little peach." We cultivated the land one year and the 

 following year planted it to Reeves' Favorite, Elbertas 

 and Late Crawfords, and it has borne abundantly for five 

 consecutive years. The sales from this orchard of twenty 

 acres, the present year, were upwards of $9,000, exclusive 

 of packages or commission. This orchard, now eight 

 years planted, was examined by Government inspectors 

 this season, who found less than twenty trees with "yel- 

 lows" or "little peach." Since giving our peaches yearly 

 applications of the lime-sulphur wash, I have observed a 



