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portant things for the orchardist. Then if there is a good man at 

 the selling end he can divert the cars after shipping and place them 

 where they will bring the most money. For a succession I would 

 use Greensboro. Carman. Hiley. Champion. Slappey. Belle Georgia, 

 Captain Ede, Elberta. Late Crawford. 3*Iathe\vs Beauty, ]\Iunson 

 Free, Fox Seedling, Geary's Holdon, Klondyke, Salway and Iron 

 ^Mountain. Salway does well high up on the mountain slopes where 

 it does not mildew. Do not plant September peaches belo^\' 750 

 feet elevation if you wish success. 



Pruning. 



Before planting I trim the roots that are broken and cut back 

 those that are very long so as to make them uniform, always being 

 careful to make the cut slanting on the under side of the root so 

 that the cut surface will come into contact with the bottom of the 

 furrow. It will callous over more readily and soon send out small 

 feeding roots. If trees are planted in the Fall we do not trim 

 tops till the following spring. Spring planted trees are pruned as 

 soon as set. If a low-headed tree is desired, cut back the main 

 stem to ten of twelve inches. If a high-headed tree is preferred 

 cut to 28 to 30 inches. As the tree grows during the summer cut 

 off all but 3 or 4 of the main branches which should be used for the 

 future frame work of the tree. These main limbs should be trained 

 to grow as nearly at an angle of 45° as possible, then the trees will 

 be easily sprayed and the fruit can be nearly all picked from the 

 ground without the use of a stepladder. All centres should be kept 

 cut out to admit sunlight. 



Cultivation. 



The first and second years after planting the orchard, 

 I plow it with a barshear plow following with spring tooth har- 

 row and plant to corn, potatoes or cantelopes, to make the orchard 

 self-supporting till it comes into bearing, which is usually the third 

 year after planting. The following years, when the orchard is 

 in bearing, we give only shallow cultivation with a spring tooth or 

 disc harrow. This cultivation commences as early in spring as 

 possible so as not to endanger bloom and tender fruit, in case of 

 cold \\ eather. \\q cannot begin much before ^larch 20th without 

 danger. On one occasion I had part of an orchard harrowed when 

 the weather was cold and had a lot of damage on the cultivated part 

 and none on the other portion. The cultivation seemed to lower the 

 temperature to the danger point. Wq continue the cultivation every 

 four or five days until the 15th of July. In this way a fine crop of 

 peaches can be grown and a lot of strong hardy fruit buds developed 

 for the next year's crop. 



Maintaining Fertility. 



I believe in fertilizing the trees well. A fertilizer which con- 

 tains 2 per cent, of Nitrogen, 8 per cent, of Phosphoric Acid and 10 

 per cent, of Potash seems to be a good balanced fertilizer. I use 

 from 500 to 1.000 pounds of this mixture per acre annually, com- 



