_Bearing._ _Not bearing._ _Total._ Atchison county 150,024 70,691 220,715 Brown county 160,583 57,488 218,071 Clay county 89,725 26,087 115,812 Cloud county 68,832 24,451 93,283 Dickinson county 110,351 31,926 142,277 Doniphan county 156,661 163,701 320,362 Douglas county 159,706 120,375 280,081 Franklin county 126,906 70,831 197,737 Geary county 39,148 19,357 58,505 Jackson county 123,485 84,533 208,018 Jefferson county 120,509 86,837 207,346 Johnson county 88,395 69,709 158,104 Leavenworth county 199,212 216,015 415,227 Marshall county 157,279 66,556 223,835 Miami county 101,541 82,069 183,610 Morris county 93,182 45,555 138,737 Nemaha county 140,278 62,535 202,813 Osage county 246,265 56,478 302,743 Ottawa county 40,538 30,149 60,687 Pottawatomie county 117,234 50,079 167,313 Republic county 128,076 58,662 186,738 Riley county 103,053 44,640 147,693 Saline county 74,648 24,400 99,048 Shawnee county 207,779 130,720 338,499 Wabaunsee county 108,942 50,195 159,137 Washington county 152,768 80,194 232,962 Wyandotte county 112,541 79,903 192,444 --------- --------- --------- Total in district 3,377,661 1,894,136 5,271,797 Acreage, about 600,000 300,000 900,000 * * * * * FRED WELLHOUSE & SON: Have been in Kansas since 1859, and grow no fruit but apples, having 117 acres in Leavenworth county, planted in 1876; 160 acres in Miami county, planted in 1878; 160 acres in Leavenworth county, planted in 1879; 800 acres in Osage county, planted in 1889, 1890, and 1891; 300 acres in Leavenworth county, planted in 1894; 140 acres in Leavenworth county, planted in 1896--total of about 100,000 trees, set out from two to twenty-two years. We prefer for commercial orchard, Jonathan, Missouri Pippin, Ben Davis, Winesap, and York Imperial, and for family orchard would add to these, Red June, Chenango, Maiden's Blush, Huntsman, and Rome Beauty. We tried sixteen acres of Cooper's Early White, but have discarded them as unprofitable, shy bearers. We consider upland the best if soil is of good quality. We have them on all slopes; can see no particular difference where soil is equal. We prefer rich, black soil (vegetable mold), clay subsoil. We plant in furrows, the rows thirty-two feet apart, the trees sixteen feet apart in the rows, running north and south.