Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-10-27

Now is the glorious, golden time OF
the year when one may not only mar
vest ones fall and winter fruit, put
Uerchance bring 70 book those some
what foxy individuals who promul-
gate such wonderful new varieties OF
fruit! In thinking OF the catalogues
of geedsmen and nurserymen, | am
disposed 10 parody famous saying OF
famous president as follows. Some
seed catalogues lie all the time; all
seed catalogues lie some Of the time;
INIT all seed catalogues do not He all
the timei So that, after all, some
times II Is well 10 follow them, But
the pefplexing question Is when, ana
now Is the season Of veriication In
so far as fan and winter fruits are
concerned. For this reason 1t pays
amazingly well to go to the agrcul-
tural fairs. Judged by what one
sees there, and by what our pomolo-
gists at the agricultural colleges say,
the famous old Baldwin apple has a
lively rival in Sutton's Beauty 1t
Is firm in flesh a quite highly colored
red, 81 II FL favor and Is youched
for as I good keeper An excellent
fall apple Of which most people know
little the Mother, a dark red, not
unlike the old Sapsoylne (Which rip
ems IN Augusta, but with higher
flavor Unlike Suttons Beauty 1t is
in its prime In October
PLAN. or prepare TO plant, an
orchare. If not large one a small
one. passes bclef-the extent to
portun les IN this respect. The very
rocks, which are such a curse in the
fine ca walton OF land, supply to the
roots o trees needed nutrment This
Is not a conjecture. but fact abund-
antly demonstrated by chemistry,
Both H. feldspar and mica, which 20
largely enter into the composition OF
our re KS, have in them large in
gredient5 of both potash and phOs-
phoric acid 4 constant process Of
detritloU goes on through the opera
ton of summer rains and winter
frOsts. and thus the roots Of the tree
are directly nourished In planting
the trees take great pains. One is
safe in saying that at no single point
in the whole course of farming opera
lions does extra care so richly pay as
In setting out the tree Let me H.
lustrate Some eight years ago my
hired NJ n set out In the edge of my
garden l3lf dozen apple trees. The
ground had been wen cultivated, but
he took no extra pains simply dig
glng tn. holes deep enough To admit
of the DTS and nlling in with loan
That same autumn | SET ont 70 addi-
tional d nes, taking more care. / dug
my hole about two feet deep, was at
the pairs 10 bring good loan from "A
nelghbur.ng field to put into them, and
sprnkIoi a few quarts of ashes and
bone dust into each hole. Mark the
result. these trees on the average
have twice the diameter of trunk as
those 6gst planted In other words,
the groy IN has been three times as
great, and the bark IS cleaner and
the whole tree much more "stocliy."
Remember in planting a tree that YOU
will never again have chance to get
under the roots. In trees set out
last spring was at the pains TO put
about peek OF coarse bone at the
bottom of all the holes where trees
were 10 be SET out II those trees
should last 80 years believe they will
always be the more hardy ana thrifty
by reason of This bone ana the extra
cost was next 90 nothing DO not
forget the great advantages OF, ar