The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1885-02-13

dead trees, while the blame lies in
handling. Not that l want to say a
good word in behalf of the tree dealer.
The nurseryman is generally honest
enough, for on his fair dealing rests
his success. Give the itinerant tree
peddler wide berth, unless you know
who you are dealing with. Some of
these parties pretend to represent
some reliable nursery while they buy
residenters and culls at from one to
two dollars hundred without regard
to names and then palm them off on
the public under any name they chose.
If you get trees shipped from dis
tance, of which the tops look shriveled
or dried up, bury them. tops and all,
in moist soil, for about six or eight
days, watering the pits occasionally
and the trees will come out fresh and
sound. provided the roots have not
been damaged. Plant Immediately
never plant trees more than an inch
deeper than they stood in the nursery;
stamp the ground well around the tree
leaving it dishing towards the tree.
rather than in 4 mound around it.
which will shed the water and bury
the roots SO deep that neither air nor
moisture can reach them. Mulch with
coarse manure or slough hay. Plant
the ground to have crops for three or
four years; then seed down with clov-
er or orchard grass. Never let your
trees be choked by weeds, for you can
no more succeed in raising fruit trees
by letting the weeds get the better OF
them than You can raise corn III that
manner. Use the pruning knife judi
ciously during the summer. Keep off
worms and caterpillars. Do not let
your cattle pasture in your orchard
during the fall and winter. Give the
trees mulch every winter to keep the
sap from starting early in the spring
Put your mulch not III mounds around
the body Of the tree; but us far and
farther than the limbs reach, for the
feeding roots Of tree are not close to
the trunk, but spread all over the soil
even farther than the limbs. Unless
you intend to give the orchard little
Of your labor, and not too little of it,
you had better spare your time and
money in planting one, for whoever
thinks that fruit can be raised ithout
some trouble and work labors under a
sad mistake.
OF the small fruits the strawberry
comes first i'll season. Many
varieties such as the Crescent, Seed
ling. James Nick. Wilson, Pioneer.
Sharpless and the like succeed well
here with little protection during the
winter. My way Of planting is in rows
three to four feet apart and from one
to three feet apart in the row. Keep
the horse and cultivator at work be-
tween the rows as with corn. until af.
ter the middle of July, then let the
vines have their own way. Keep the
weeds down with a hoe as with all
fruit. Clean cultivation is the only
road to success. You had better plant
q piece 10 "a feet and keep it clean,
than a larger one and fail. AS soon
as it feezes mulch with old straw or
hay, but not. too heavy for fear of
choking the plants. In the spring
rake most of the straw from the plants
but leave enough for a mulch and you
will have nice clean berries. | sold
nearly 300 boxes last season, which
proves positively that they can be rails
ed here.
The cnrrant is perfectly hardy here,
and everybody can raise them with
but little care. The Fay's Prolific is
4 new variety which gives great prom.
Ise, having large berries and branches.
The Red Raspberry, especially the
Turner, is the berry for the men who
don't like TO work. Plant four feet
apart each way. Mulch the ground
with straw the first year the second
you will have canes enough to keep
the weeds down and all YOU have to
do is to pick the berries when ripe.
Cut back some Of the superfuons canes
in the spring. But a better way is to
give them good cultivation and keep