The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-06-08
FARM AND i. GARD EN-
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRlCuLTURIsTs.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cnltiya.
ton of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture. yitieulturs and Floricul
ture. 55
Fruit Trees for Profit.

profit to the planter. Some ten years
ago we bought SO pear trees. Half of
them have died since that time and
nearly all have blighted badly One,
Duchess de Angelyn, planted near
the south door of the kitchen, has
never blighted, and is the only one
Of several Duchesses that has done any
good. Last year it was heavily loaded
with large luscious pears. Two years
AFTER it was planted we concluded to
put porch over the door and to the
west of it, Not wishing to dig it UP
we left one board short in the floor
so that it would not be disturbed.
Inc top leaned to the south and away
from the porch. Some predicted that
1t would do no good there; but it has
never been affected with blight or sun
scald. The tree leaned enough to the
south so that the leaves protected the
BODY from the sun. Each spring 1t is
laden with heavy clusters of blossoms
as beautiful as white roses, and its
glossy green leaves during summer
make fine shade.
The Keiffer pear trees have also
bllghted badly and some have died:
but more are living than Of any other
kind. They have also borne more fruit
than all the other kinds put together.
This, however, amounts to only about
. four bushels all told. But they are only
now old enough to bear good crops.
We hope that people now, living will
yet get something from them. 1t has
been said that the Lincolns never
blight, and ours did not for several
years. But last year they 5lighted
badly-fully as badly as any other pear
trees. We have taken pains: to cut
off the blighted portions two Or three
times during the summer. They
blighted worse during May and June
when the young twigs are tender. The
winter Bartletts and Idahos all blight
ed and died out in two years or sd.
Apple Trees-Many of our apple
trees turn out to be inferior fruit,
some good for nothing. Other trees
bear fall fruit, when we ordered win
ter fruit trees. This makes our Or
chard almost a failure. Ours is not the
only orchard that turns out SO. Almost
every one that has put out an or
chard will tell of their failure to get
the kind of trees they had ordered.
Possibly one reason for the failure il
that apples that are winter apples in
one locality are fall apples in another
so that anyone contemplating putting
out trees should inquire OF neighbors
he|e hoaains arnhards what kinds
are giving satisfaction. If possible
buy only from nurseries direct. What
is better is to go to the nurseries and
get. the varieties you: want. There is
no use paying high prices to agents for
trees that they claim are superior to
the trees of other agents. We have
bought. trees from such men paying
fancy prices for them, and found that
they We're in no way superior to the
trees We might have purchased at a
lower price. -
Peach .Trees-There are so many
kinds of peach trees that it is very diff
flcult to know what to buy. At first
we bought IS different kinds, but later
discarded many. of them. Possibly the
ones that proved worthless with us
would do well in other states or even
and late CraWfords,, Susquehanna
Washington Cling, Levy Late, or Hen
rietta Foster and some others bear
no fruit worth the name, though we
had many hundred trees. But Crosby
and Champion always bear when any
peach trees have fruit ON them Crosby
oserbears and needs much thinning.
Champions have generally Just
enough or. need some thinning,
liberia is fine looking tree, but bears
little fruit for us, and that little rots
more than does the fruit of some of
the other trees. We have discarded
them, yet others tell us that they do
well in some other parts of the coun-
try. For profit neither too early nor
very late peaches pay so well as those
ripening in August and September, ex-
cept a few trees for table use. BY get
ting few of the very earliest and very
latest we prolong the peach season to
Re four and a half months. Peaches are
exceedingly healthful fruit, after one
gets use to eating them.
:: In buying peach trees it is very diff
heult to get them true to name It
Is very provoking, when one has cared
for, trimmed and cultivated trees for
/. years, to find them Crawfords instead
..sof some better fruit. Some OF them
+ even do not bear any peaches. And
the trees are about as worthless that
bear big crops of early peaches that
rot as soon as they are off the trees.
s We find that the best way to avoid this
iS condition Of affairs is to bud them our
selves from bearing trees. Then we
y know we get the kind we want. The
next best thing is to get them from
nurseries known to be reliable. There
Z are men engaged in the nursery busi-.
ness that will sell only fruit trees that
# are true to name. Character is worth
something in a nurseryman as well asS
elsewhere Mrs. L. G. Axtell. Warren
County, Illinois.
Peat bog Pasture ana Meadow,
From Farmers Review: The i ff-
tty and great value of "a peat bog in
"a large pasture for cattle are not gem
orally understood have noticad ~