The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-19
THE HOME ORCHARD
Mrs. G. E. BAKER, PLAINR, MONTANA.

,-e leading ones, and each has a diff
| ferent effect on the system. Apples
have the w1uest range and produce
the best general effect on the nervous
system and skin. They are stimu-
| lants of the highest order and a con-
slant use of their active principles
will in time bring the roses. Grapes
| have much the same effect, but are
greater tissue builders. Black rasp-
| berries are also tissue builders, and
| the absence of acids makes them
especially useful in convalescence
| from exhaustive diseases. Blackber-
ries have the most kindly effect in
| typhoid fever. Heat the juice and
allow the patient to drink small guam
titiestities frequently. The way to
get the active principles OIL these
fruits is to use Jneir juices"
| The home orchard is something to
be greatly desired, for the value of
fruit can hardly be over estimated.
1t enhances the value of the land
and brings beauty and health to the
home. There is hardly locality in
western Montana in which some kind
of fruit will not thrive, and it is the
duty of those who are conveniently
situated to plant fruits that are
adaptable to the locality in which
they live. Location is one of the
most important problems which con-
fronts the horticulturist, and he does
RI 70 m
find the desirable and undesirable in
that respect
| AT my home there is a young or
chard of 500 trees. The location is
very good, with the exception of one
corner, which contains 40 trees. This
plat of land is very low and wet and
/ the trees stand in a pool of water
part of the winter. They easily win
ter kill and are subject to the black
heart. We have been constantly re-
placing them for the last three years,
and will have to replace 25 in the
spring. Those 40 trees have given
more trouble than all the other AGO.
We have decided to build drainage,
which no doubt will prove beneficial.
The home orchard is just as i'm
| portant as the commercial orchard,
besides the time is coming when the
| farmer who neglects to grow fruit for
his family will be considered inferior
to his more enterprising neighbor. A
visitor passing through farming set
Element had his attention drawn
| toward an attractive looking farm,
which was considered a good adver-
tisement for that community The
house was unpretentious, with vines
running over it. The barn buildings
were not costly, but were well
painted, and the place was sur
rounded by a thriving orchard and
many shade trees, which gave it a
very pleasing and homelike appear
ance. The gentleman inquired for
the name of the party who lived
there. But" he added, what is
wrong with his neighbor? He has
nothing around his place and every
thing seems to be in a neglected con-
dition" ''He is shiftless," was the
reply. The Incidence and shiftless-
ness of such occupants destroy all
the love for home life on the farm,
and the children are not to be
blamed for going elsewhere as soon
as they can care for themselves.
To the farms with their green pas
lures, waving grain fields and beau
tiful orchards belongs the honor OF
having reared the largest number of
great men, and more than one great
man has expressed a desire to end
his days In such a home-Daniel
Webster, for instance, or Robert G
Ingersoll, who said:
Homes make patriots. Happiness
should be the object of life, and il
life on the farm can be made really
happy, the children will grow up in
love with the meadows, the streams
: the woods and the old home Around
the farm will cling and cluster the
happy memories of the delightful
l years. | said, and | say again nc
day can be so sacred but that the
laugh of a child will make the hottest
day more sacred still. Strike will
the hand of fire, o, wierd musician
lily Heii SCluhS Will Apoilo SoiuSl
t hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles
/ with syphonies sweet and dim, def
y TOUGHER of the organ keys; blow
bugler. blow, until thy silver notes
/ do touch the skies, with moonli
waves, and charm the lovers wander
l. ing on the vineclad hills; but know
u your sweetest strains are discords all
II compared with childhood's happ.
" laugh, the laugh that fills the eye
e with light and every heart with joy.
Insure with the man who live
. among you and don't get the Wors