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The Apple: The Kansas Apple, the Big Red Apple; the Luscious, Red-Cheeked First Love of the Farmer's Boy; the Healthful, Hearty Heart of the Darling Dumpling. What It Is; How to Grow It; Its Commercial and Economic Importance; How to Utilize It.

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The Apple: The Kansas Apple, the Big Red Apple; the Luscious, Red-Cheeked First Love of the Farmer's Boy; the Healthful, Hearty Heart of the Darling Dumpling. What It Is; How to Grow It; Its Commercial and Economic Importance; How to Utilize It.

Apples

H. E. JESSEPH, Danville, Harper county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-five years; have an apple orchard of 800 trees, 100 of them but
one year old and the other 700 are fourteen years old. For market I
prefer Missouri Pippin, Ben Davis, and Winesap, and for a family orchard
Grimes's Golden Pippin, Stark, and Cooper's Early White. Have tried and
discarded the Nonesuch. I prefer bottom land with a deep loam that goes
to water, with a north aspect. I prefer two-year-old trees set sixteen
feet apart. I plant my orchard to corn for about eight years, using a
disc harrow; and cease cropping at the end of that time. Windbreaks are
essential; I would make them of Osage orange, Russian mulberries, or
cottonwood, by planting all around the orchard, making it the heaviest
on the south side. For rabbits I wrap the young trees with corn-stalks,
and borers I dig out. I prune with pruning-shears and a chisel to
increase the fruit; I think it pays. I thin my fruit while on the trees
in June and July, and find it pays. My trees are in mixed plantings. I
do not fertilize my orchard, but would advise it on all soils. I do not
pasture my orchard; do not think it advisable; it does not pay. My trees
are troubled with flathead borer, and my fruit with codling-moth. I do
not spray. I hand-pick my apples in a sack, one corner of which is tied
up to the top, it has a strap eighteen inches long to put over the
shoulder; spread the top of the sack and pick with both hands. Sort my
apples into two classes: first and second. I pick the best first,
letting the inferior ones stay on the trees; I afterwards shake these
off and send to the cider mill. I sell apples in the orchard. Make cider
and vinegar of the second and third grades and culls. My best market is
at home in the orchard. Never tried distant markets. Do not dry any;
cannot find a ready market for them and it does not pay. Am successful
in storing apples for winter use in bulk, in an outside cave; find the
Little Red Romanite and Missouri Pippin keep best. I do not irrigate.
Prices have been from sixty to seventy-five cents per bushel. I employ
careful young men at one dollar per day or twenty-five dollars per
month.

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The Apple: The Kansas Apple, the Big Red Apple; the Luscious, Red-Cheeked First Love of the Farmer's Boy; the Healthful, Hearty Heart of the Darling Dumpling. What It Is; How to Grow It; Its Commercial and Economic Importance; How to Utilize It.

Apples

H. E. JESSEPH, Danville, Harper county: I have lived in Kansas
twenty-five years; have an apple orchard of 800 trees, 100 of them but
one year old and the other 700 are fourteen years old. For market I
prefer Missouri Pippin, Ben Davis, and Winesap, and for a family orchard
Grimes's Golden Pippin, Stark, and Cooper's Early White. Have tried and
discarded the Nonesuch. I prefer bottom land with a deep loam that goes
to water, with a north aspect. I prefer two-year-old trees set sixteen
feet apart. I plant my orchard to corn for about eight years, using a
disc harrow; and cease cropping at the end of that time. Windbreaks are
essential; I would make them of Osage orange, Russian mulberries, or
cottonwood, by planting all around the orchard, making it the heaviest
on the south side. For rabbits I wrap the young trees with corn-stalks,
and borers I dig out. I prune with pruning-shears and a chisel to
increase the fruit; I think it pays. I thin my fruit while on the trees
in June and July, and find it pays. My trees are in mixed plantings. I
do not fertilize my orchard, but would advise it on all soils. I do not
pasture my orchard; do not think it advisable; it does not pay. My trees
are troubled with flathead borer, and my fruit with codling-moth. I do
not spray. I hand-pick my apples in a sack, one corner of which is tied
up to the top, it has a strap eighteen inches long to put over the
shoulder; spread the top of the sack and pick with both hands. Sort my
apples into two classes: first and second. I pick the best first,
letting the inferior ones stay on the trees; I afterwards shake these
off and send to the cider mill. I sell apples in the orchard. Make cider
and vinegar of the second and third grades and culls. My best market is
at home in the orchard. Never tried distant markets. Do not dry any;
cannot find a ready market for them and it does not pay. Am successful
in storing apples for winter use in bulk, in an outside cave; find the
Little Red Romanite and Missouri Pippin keep best. I do not irrigate.
Prices have been from sixty to seventy-five cents per bushel. I employ
careful young men at one dollar per day or twenty-five dollars per
month.

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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Apple: The Kansas Apple, the Big Red Apple; the Luscious, Red-Cheeked First Love of the Farmer's Boy; the Healthful, Hearty Heart of the Darling Dumpling. What It Is; How to Grow It; Its Commercial and Economic Importance; How to Utilize It.

The Apple: The Kansas Apple, the Big Red Apple; the Luscious, Red-Cheeked First Love of the Farmer's Boy; the Healthful, Hearty Heart of the Darling Dumpling. What It Is; How to Grow It; Its Commercial and Economic Importance; How to Utilize It.

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