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RECORD OF YOUNG PEACH ORCHARD 
IVE years ago the writer visited a 
young peach orchard which was then 
maturing a line crop of most beautiful 
fruit, and became very much interested in 
peach culture. I purchased a 40-acre 
tract for which I paid $335. and through 
which the same knob ridge ran. On top 
of it there lay at 200 feet elevation above 
the valley about nine acres, mostly 
desired and level enough to cultivate. 
This orchard is located four miles from 
tlie farm on which I live, and this dis¬ 
tance. together with the steep hill and a 
soil not naturally strong, has kept me 
from inter-cropping to much advantage 
so I have done the cultivating principally 
with an extension reversible cutaway 
disk barrow followed up with a cover 
crop of rye or cow peas. Good elevation 
litis proven to be a very important fac- 
tor in getting a crop of peaches from my 
lives, and had the orchard been located in 
'THIS RURA.L, 
orchard on it is valued by the owner at 
many times its original cost, and why 
not? EMIL V. IIELI.EU. 
Jackson Co., Indiana. 
Transplanting Fruit Trees. 
W ILL young fruit trees do as well if 
planted temporarily close together 
in row, and one year later trans¬ 
planted, as they would if planted per¬ 
manently at once? n. 
This plan of planting trees close to¬ 
gether and transplanting them later is 
practiced by a good many fruit growers 
and usually with considerable success. 
It saves space, and enables the farmer to 
cultivate his fields to better advantage 
than would be the case if the little trees 
were planted all over the field. Trees 
closely planted in these rows may be 
trimmed and watched to better advantage 
than where they are spread out. and at 
three or four years old. after making a 
fair growth in these rows, may be dug 
I he low land I would not have had fruit 
the past two seasons. 
The cultivated orchard consists of four 
acres of five-year, 1 \'-± acre of four- 
year. and 2% acres of two-year trees, also 
one neri of one-year trees. On the side 
of the hill too steep to cultivate with a 
team are 2% acres of four-year peach 
and one acre of five-year sweet and sour 
cherry around all of which a heavy hoe 
Is used and the weeds and other wild 
growth mowed down each season with a 
scythe. I do not like this steep part of 
the orchard and yet it gave me some good 
fruit the past season, which has been a 
year remarkable for the fine peach crop 
on the hills. In case a profitable inter¬ 
crop was grown the cultivation was not 
charged against the orchard. 
Greensboro, Carman, Early Crawford, 
Elberta, Globe, Crosby, Smock and Sal- 
way are the varieties planted, and are 
satisfactory except Globe and Crosby; 
the former being a shy bearer and the lat¬ 
ter inclined to overbear, resulting in small 
fruit. Notwithstanding the fact that 
only about half the trees have come into 
bearing the venture shows a good net 
profit to date. 
Fig. 145 shows writer standing by a 
row of Carman trees holding a fifth- 
bushel basket filled with Carmans, and 
it was in this package that the early 
fruit was sold direct to customers in 
the nearby towns. The. mid-season and 
later fruit was picked in cantaloupe bas¬ 
kets holding over one-third bushel, the 
lids placed on, and hauled to market in 
farm wagons, using bolster springs to 
break the jolts from rough tracks and 
lessen bruising on long hauls. 
Expenditures. 
Owner’s labor 235 days at $1.25 
per day . $293.75 
Use of team, 147 days at $1.50 
per day . 220.50 
Hired labor and spray material 248.29 
('ommercial fertilizer and ashes 25.00 
Labor hired in fruit harvest. . . . 153.15 
Int. on land and expenditures.. 175.85 
Total $1,116.54 
Income. 
Profit from inter-crops. $110.00 
Peaches sold the fourth Summer 78.50 
Peaches sold the fifth Summer 1,535.00 
Total $1,723.50 
Less total expenditure. 1.116.54 
Net gain $606.94 
The land is considered not decreased 
in value and therefore is not counted from 
the net gain. Indeed the land with this 
up, properly trimmed, and then put in 
their permanent places. < >f course the 
habit, of growth of trees should be consid¬ 
ered, as naturally a tree with a small 
compact head may be more closely plant¬ 
ed in the row than could other varieties 
which broaden out, and occupy more 
space. 
Apricot-Plums in the West. 
I HAVE paid some attention to plums 
and plum varieties, and I wish to 
write just a word about these new 
plums. Here wo raise all the good Euro¬ 
pean varieties and some Japanese. Some 
lack a little in hardiness, it is true, but 
most of them can be raised if given prop¬ 
er care, and if one cared to keep setting 
out. Gold does well, though it is poor in 
quality. 
Two years ago, last Spring, I bought 
two one-year trees of Kaga. We had a 
few plums the second season, and last 
year we had two gallons. I took some to 
the county fair' and they created a sen¬ 
sation right among all the good old Euro¬ 
peans and Japans. They are not extra 
large and not so fine raw, but stewed 
they are excellent. Cooking brings out 
the apricot flavor, and they e itirely lack 
that bitterness common in most cooked 
natives. At first the color of the fruit 
is mottled, but if let hang they become 
dark coppery red. They are firm fleshed 
and would ship well. 
There are four of this class of plums, 
Kaga, Toka, Ilanska, and Inkpa. Kaga 
is a very spreading grower, the others 
are said to grow upright. The fruit of 
all is similar. Kaga is the only one I 
Lave fruited. Toka had a few plums but 
they fell during last Summer’s drought. 
I would guess that Toka was larger but 
lacked a little of the color of Kaga. They 
bloom rather early, but not so early as 
the Japans. 
These plums are hybrids of the Chin¬ 
ese apricot with the native plum. They 
were originated by Prof. Hansen of 
South Dakota. I consider them the most 
promising plums I know of, for South¬ 
ern Iowa, even if they were intended for 
standing a more severe climate. I do not 
know the conditions in the Eastern 
States, but I see no reason why these 
plums should not be tried in all plum¬ 
growing sections, and where something of 
hardiness is required it seems to me they 
would be especially valuable. 
WENDELL T*. WILLIAMS. 
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