Published by Good Press, 2019

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       THE CHEMISTRY OF THE APPLE TREE.

       SOME APPLE-PRODUCING STATES.

       THE APPLE BUSINESS.

       A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE WELLHOUSE ORCHARDS.

       REVISED LIST OF APPLES

       DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES REFERRED TO IN THIS BOOK.

       THE STATE, BY DISTRICTS.

       DISTRICT No. 1—APPLE TREES, 1897.

       FRUIT DISTRICT No. 2.

       FRUIT DISTRICT No. 3.

       FRUIT DISTRICT No. 4.

       A SUMMARY OF THE FOREGOING DISTRICT REPORTS.

       MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES RELATING TO ORCHARDS.

       APPLE CULTURE.

       ORCHARD CULTURE.

       ORCHARD TREATMENT.

       PICKING AND PACKING.

       A PICKING SACK.

       A DISCUSSION ON PACKAGES.

       HOGS IN THE ORCHARD.

       COLD STORAGE.

       A FRUIT DRYER.

       THE MOYER FRUIT EVAPORATOR.

       A MISSOURI APPLE HOUSE.

       MANY WAYS OF USING CULL APPLES.

       ENEMIES OF THE APPLE. [A]

       APPLE-WORMS.

       SPRING CANKER-WORM.

       TENT-CATERPILLAR.

       CODLING-MOTH.

       FLAT-HEADED BORER.

       ROUND-HEADED BORER.

       TREE WASHES FOR BORERS.

       BUD MOTH.

       APPLE CURCULIO.

       LEAF-CRUMPLER, OR LEAF-ROLLER.

       TWIG-GIRDLER, TWIG-PRUNER, AND TWIG-BORER.

       ROOT-LOUSE, OR WOOLLY APHIS.

       ROOT-LOUSE.

       FRINGED-WING APPLE-BUD MOTH.

       RABBITS.

       APPLES FOR THE TABLE.

       INDEX.

       REPORTS ON APPLE CULTURE.

THE CHEMISTRY OF THE APPLE TREE.

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      Written specially for "The Kansas Apple," By Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, Chemist at the Kansas State University.

      In the cultivation of the apple tree, which, like most plants, gets its nourishment from two sources, the soil and the atmosphere, these must be first considered. From the soil come the mineral ingredients, those that are given back to the soil when the plant is burned, and from the atmosphere come the ingredients of no less importance in the growth of the tree, but which mostly disappear as invisible gases upon combustion. Upon the character of this soil, and upon the climate, a general term that may be said to cover the conditions of the atmosphere, depend the success of the horticulturist. In addition to this, insect pests are liable to constantly menace the crop.

      In the making of soils, a process that is constantly going on, the most important agents are water, air, frost, sunshine, and the action of living organisms. By this combined action, the mountain, with its rich store of mineral matter, is disintegrated, its constituents are partly dissolved in the water and partly carried mechanically to the plains below;