Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22

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farm should have for home use ut least
few acres set apart for fruit and
flowers, as there is no question but
that there can be an abundance of
fruit raised for home use at least, pro-
vided care is given to its culture. But
as one passes through the country he
will very soon observe that the fruit
patch and orchards are the most
neglected parts of the farm and one
would wonder how they expect to raise
any fruit under such management.
What would you think of farmer
planting his corn and never cultivating
it but saying he had no time to fool
away III that corn field for it ought to
grow and do we'll as he took lots of
pains in planting it and knows that it
was done right? This is the case with
fully two-thirds of the fruit Cultivat-
ing is neglected, the weeds are allowed
to grow absorbing what moisture that
ought to go to the tree. l have had
men take ne ont to see their grapes as
they said that they had done fine, and
We would have to paw among the weeds
in order to see them at all, and would
find them alive perhaps but struggling
along making a weak growth to what
they should have done and would have
done if they had had proper culture.
The fact is, that we live in as good
state as any in the union and there is
no reason why farming aud fruit grow
ing crnnot be a profitable branch of
industry, but to raise good crops a
man must first understand the princi-
pie of keeping his land in a fertile
condition, and to know what crop sue
ceeds best to follow another. And in
cattle his success is in starting with as
good ones as possible and improving
them by care or breeding. Have good
breeds of hogs and then take good
care of them.
| think that an institute of this kind
is as good a place rs one can be to gain
knowledge. Where one man seems to
get along and make success of hogs
without disease and loss, let others in
vestigate and make inquiry how he
feeds and what he feeds and try and
pattern after the successful man. So
in cattle and poultry and the different
lines of farm industry and with the
fruit also. Some parties always raise
fine grapes. | have seen Concord
grapes brought into the market here in
Audubon thlt We're raised in this
county, about which some made the
remark that they were California
grapes, the punches were so well filled.
The man that raises them was on to
his job, so to speak. Simply care and
culture and knowing what and how to
handle the growing vine. The same
occurs with the apple, plum and
cherry. 1 expect that most of us have
noticed some farmers succeeding and
making money while perhaps the man
on the other side of the road with an
equal chance is making a failure and
soon has to sell and try it again in some
of the heavenly homes in the lar north
or perhaps in Texas, then to only meet
with the same results, and who is to
blame? The administration suppose.
l think that the most happy person on
Gods earth is the farmer that owns
eighty or one hundred and sixty acres
OF land and farms it right, and has
contented ard satisfied mind With
what stock he can attend to we'll, with
plenty of groves and fruits of all kinds
for the family use and some to spare,
this surely is heavenly home below.
But what must we plant and what
varieties to best succeed? l am not
sure what varity it was that so attracted
the eye of Eve, perhaps it was the
Duchess or Wealthy, some one may
be able to tell us in the discussion, but
we can safely plant Duchess, Wealthy,
Kaump, North Western Greening,
Scots Winter, Janett, Iowa Blush,
and am sure that some if not all of
them will attract the attention of the
good wife and she will not only want
her better half but her children to per-
take of the fruit, The grape plant that
you know succeeds best in your own
county and neighborhood is, Concord,
Worden and Moors Early, and of
cherries, Early Richmond, Morella;
plums, DeSoto, Wyant and Hawkeye;
raspberries, Palmer, Kansas and Older;
blackberries, Snyder; currants, White
Grape, Victoria, Cherry and for black
currants, Lees Prolific; strawberries,
Warfeld, Beeder Wood and Crescent;
gooseberries, Houghton, Downing and
Champion. The above list can be re-