Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-06-17

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they were not hardy.
When I thought Of moving to this
place, l wrote to Mr.. Adams to know
what kind of Apple trees he had test
cd. He sent me long list of them.
l brought forty other kinds of apple
trees and tortysi.c kinds of plum
trees. Out of the apple trees |
brought, there may be two kinds
that will suit the climate aud soil.
The plums do about as the wild plums
do in Ohio no good. If your trees
suit the soil and climate, it is easy to
raise good orchard. Dom use
manure or pruning kny5s; they kill
more than the climate. The poorest
soil we have is the best suited for
fruit trees. --sss
Plant apple trees one rod apart ;
that would be Hooper acre; cost, %
cts. each. when planted, would be
$500. When they have grown one
year, they are worth 50 cts. each,
equal to $4,000. When two years
old, they are worth 81 each; value
$3.50. When planted six or eight
years and bearing, they are worth
$40 each, or 81 600 per acre. If you
have forty acres, it would be worth
$4,000. Estimated to average one
barrel Of apples to each tree, at $685.
per barrel, would be worth s22, 400.
Allowing Sc, 400 to pay expenses you
would have $4,000 clean cash.
There will be an increase as your
orchard gets older. l have known a
great many orchards to average from
three to ten barrels per tree. II you
want to sell your farm at any time
after your trees are planted it will
increase its value and pay larger
per centage than any investment yon
can make.
RAISING GRAPES.
In eastern Ohio Western Nirg MA,
and many other places, they are rais.
ing grapes on land that cost from
500 to $1,000 per acre, and cost
from $500 to $4,000 per acre, to get
it undcrdrained and in good order
for planting. Then the cost of cul-
tivating, after it is ready for planting,
is more than three times as much as
it is here.
Land in Northern Iowa and South
ern Minnesota can be 60. for say $40
per acre. Cost Of blowing, say $3.50
per acre then it is in better condi-
ton for planting than they can make
that Of Ohio and Virginia with all its
cost. Nature has under drained and
made ours just right. Besides, we
are not liable to disease; nor are we
rs liable to be frozen out in the
spring.
The grape grows more perfect here
than in any place ever saw, and l
have seen them at many fairs in Ohio,
Virginia aud Pennsylvania. The first
perfect branch of Delaware grapes l
ever saw, grew in ID. W. Adam
garden in Wankon.
WILL GRAPES PAY?
One acre Of grapes planted 9 feat
apart will make $50 vines, surposing
them to yield Is lbs. to each, it will
be $500 lbs; at 10 cts. per ID. il
would amount to $3.50. Gall the cx-
pcnses $50, and you have 5000 profit
left, and your soil no poorer. Re
member We have no stone walls to
build, no der-draining, as they
have east; our land is Just right with
out manure. We can do most Of our
work with e horse ; they do theirs by
hand.
This estimate may look large to
some. planted, here in town, good
one year old Concorls; after they
grew two years they averaged 90 lbs
to the vine. The best one ] gathered
by itself 1t bore 50 lbs. have a
vine which, when FIVE years old, bore
1924 lbs. last season it was six ycars
old, and bore 40 lbs.
I did not follow Mr.. Grants or Mr.
Fuller's directions. ] don't believe
in violating t,lc laws Of nature so
much, and going to so much extra
trouble, when it is worse than useless.
Rather aid nature 10 doing her duty.
Grapes do not require great deal Of
care as is generally supposed. You
can raise pound of grapes as easily
as you can pound OF potatoes.
IMPROVED BLACK CAP RASPBERRY.
choice fruit easy to cultivate.
We raised in the east from $50 to
800 bushels per acre. Last season
Mr.. D. Reed raised on one rod three
bushels. Myself and others in town
have done well. This would be at
the rate Of 48o bushels to the acre.
The Barnard Improved Blackberry
last season yielded more than the I'M
proved Black Cap Raspberry. l
have tried them both here for four
years; during two years the black
berry yielded the best, and for two
years the raspberry yielded the best.
They are both a choice hardy
fruit.
THE STRAWBERRY
yields n large and profitable crop.
They do better ere than in very
large portion Of the east. | have
cleared, after all expenses paid, in the
east, $500 per acre.
Currants, gooseberres, whortleber-
ries, tomatoes, all do well her. Now
figure yourselves and see if large
truit garden Of, say from 20 to &c
acres, would not pay to can youl
fruit and sell them in the winter,
and you can easily find market fol
them. If eastern people can raise
fruit on snch high priced land, cam.
ing and shipping it here, why cannot
we raise the fruit here, saving that
which we now pay oat for fruit and
selling besides. When you raise
fruit you do not injurc your sol
when you raise grain and send il
away you send away the strength Of
your soil. And look at all the pleas.
ures of a home where there is an