Laying Down Trees in Kansas. 105 
wherefore their amputation to facilitate laying down 
was no longer needed. 
“The result of the last trial, shown in the pro- 
duct of the summer just past, may be summed up 
briefly in these statements: The trees are now in 
good, healthy condition. The bearing wood is in a 
compact head, with no long branches to be broken 
down by the fruit. The shoots and spurs are, at 
this writing, covered with plump fruit-buds. The 
lateral roots are strong, while those at front and 
back are no longer an obstacle to the operation of 
laying down the trees. There was this vear a full 
crop of fruit, and such fine Crawfords, Oldmixons, 
Smocks, Stumps, Elbertas, Columbias, Bonanzas and 
Ringgolds were not to be found in any orchard but 
our own in this locality, though in some favored 
stations outside the college farm certain seedling 
trees were in fruit in a limited way. We sold most 
of the product readily on the spot at the rate of 
sixty cents per basket for the finest early, and fifty 
eents for the later fruit, the basket being the ordi- 
nary ten-pound grape package. 
“The cost of putting down seventy-one trees in 
the fall, including labor and hay bought, with the 
expense of replacing them in the spring, amounted 
to about twenty cents per tree, the labor being paid 
at the rate of ten cents per hour, and the hay 
costing two dollars. The average yield of the trees, 
accounting for fruit gathered and sold, and aliowing 
by estimate for some stolen, was not far from one- 
half bushel each, leaving, at the prices obtained, a 
