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$10.00 to $20.00 per acre. Closer to our towns and best farming communities 
the fruit lauds will cost $20.00 to $30.00 per acre. 
3. Varieties: Apples— Gano**, Ben Davis**, York Imperial**, Clayton**, 
Winesap*, Jonathan**, Rome Beauty*, Grimes*, Maiden Blush**, Mammoth 
Black Twig [Arkansas]*, Ingram, Huntsman*, White Pippin*, Early Harvest 
**, Lowell*. Pears— Kieffer**, Seckel**, Bartlett**, Anjou*, Sheldon*, Angou- 
leme**, Clairgeau*. Plums— Wildgoose**, Miner*, Abundance*, Burbank*, 
Damson**, Lombafd*. Peaches — Champion**, Mountain Rose**, Reeves 
Favorite*, Family Favorite**, Elberta**, Mrs. Brett*, Oldmixon Free**, Old- 
mixon Cling*, Picquet**, Wheatland**, Late Crawford*, Salway**. Cherries. 
Early Richmond**, Ostheim*, English Morello**, May Duke*, Wood*, 
Wraggf. Grapes— Concord**, Worden**, Moore Early **, Goethe*, Norton*, 
Niagara*. Strawberries— Crescent*, Warfield**, Capt. Jack**, Bulbach*, Hav- 
erland**, Bederwood**. Raspberries— Kansas**, Hopkins**, Cuthbert*. 
Bla ckberries— Snyder * * , Ta y lor * . 
4. Cultivation: Young orchards are generally well cultivated in corn, 
potatoes and other crops. The older orchards are sown to cow peas or clover, 
the former being plowed under every year and the latter every second year. 
5. Cover Crops: Cow peas and rye are most used. Usually the corn stalks 
nre left on the ground. Good cultivation pays well and cow peas are the best 
■cover crop. 
G. Fertilizers: Barn-yard manure, cow peas, clover and ashes are all 
profitable. The cow r peas are the best and cheapest. 
7. New Varieties: Apples— Hopewell, Shackleford. Peaches— Evans, El- 
berta, Dewey Cling. 
8. Insect and Diseases: Codling moth, curculio, gouger, canker worm, 
woolly aphis, borers, root rot, apple scab, peach leaf-curl, bitter and black 
rot on the apple, grape rot, and peach rot during very wet periods. 
Remedies used: Bordeaux mixture, blue vitriol, kerosene emulsion, Paris 
green, London purple. 
Irrigation: Practiced very little and only for berries and celery, but is very 
profitable where water can be had cheap enough. 
10. Statistics: It is impossible to give even a fair estimate of the orchards. 
There are very many orchards of 1,200, 1,400 and 2,000 acres. Many of 100 
to 400 acres, and thousands of lesser size, both of peach and apple. Fruit 
growing is spreading rapidly and the State will become a vast orchard both of 
apple and peach. 
11. Evaporated Fruits: Apples are evaporated in large quantities and 
other fruits in smaller amounts. Berries and peaches are canned quite largely. 
12. Hardiness: Both apple and peach have been injured badly by the cold 
of February, which reached twenty-five to thirty degrees below zero. Grapes, 
raspberries and blackberries also were badly injured. Location seemed to 
have more to do with the hardiness of varieties than the varieties themselves. 
NORTHWEST MISSOURI. 
BY N. F. MURRAY, OREGON. 
1. The best fruit sections of the northern half of the State are found along 
the streams and consist of bluffs and rolling lands originally covered with 
timber. A good deal of this land is yet in timber. The very choicest of all 
