The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-25
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
The Great Value of Small Frrft,' to n Farm
cris Frmiiy-Inlustrial Bres. tiles.
Small Fruits on the Farm.

Small Fruits on the Farm.
/ always advise the growing of
plenty of small fruits on the farla,
writes a correspondent of Fick's lia9a-
si7ae, not as a matter of profit in the
way of dollars and cents, but because
l believe that such products are condu-
Give to the health ard pleasure OF the
family, therefore profitable in the best
meaning of the word. In no other
way a SO much variety in the line of
fruit be secured. The woman who I'M
dertakes to set before a family daily,
on a farm where little or no attention
is paid to the growing of small fruits,
a bill of fare which shall not be open
to the charge of monotony, finds her
self often at her wits end to accom-
plish her undertaking. Potatoes,
meat, and bread. and butter are ali
good iii their way, but we tire of a
repetition OF them day after day, and
wish there might be something new"
The sklllful housewife VIII contrive
various attractive dishes from the lin
tied list of material which most farms
afford during tile winter, but she will
sigh for ''something new, also, for
every woman knows bow much easier
it is to please the palates of the .'men
folks when she has a variety of ma
tcrial at hand to work with. With
plenty Of fruit, canned or dried, at her
disposal. she can concoct pjes. pud-
dings, and sauces which will afford the
desired variety. and act as s.relishn
for the more substantial articles of
food. But on not one farm IN ten. I
think | can safely assert. is there
small fruit enough grown 10 SIMPLY
the family through the winter. This
is not as it should be.
Some farmers are under the imnres-
| sion that there is a ..knack'' in crow
ing fruit which prevents any buf the
professional rowe from succeeding
| with IT. Others thinS,tis ..p~uttorino, '
work. like GARDENING. therefore thev
never undertake. it. Some begin maxi.
inc a collection. but they soon lose
their enthusiasm. and in a wear or two
the bushes they set out are swallowed
up in n sea of GRASS. and tbev CON
clude if doesn't a to bother with
it.me 1t does not nav to ..bother with
it'' in that wav. but II does nav to soft
out strawberries. raspbcrries. entrants
gooseberries. and cranes. and crlti.
waite them well. Tho amount OF space
and labor required is greatly overesti-
mated in he opinions of most persons
who have no practical knowiedoe of
smnll-frnit GROWING They have No
idea Of the amount that can be raised
on a small piece of Ground well cared
for. The labor of attending to the
plants is small. Give the plants YOU
set out on an eighth or a quarter OF an
acre of ground the same amount Of
care each ear that yo,, owe yonr
corn and YOU can grow small fruits to
perfection. Let the soil be made rich
and mellow to beoin with. after th,t
keep the weeds down, and rive the
plants proper pruning or thinnino out
and in some asses protection in win.
ter. and that is about AN Won have to
do. You can do ali the work at times
when YOU can not work to adyantnge
in the fields. A half hour now and
then with the hoe Will keep the Ground
clean and mellow around the entrants
and the raspberries, and between the