The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-01-30
FRUIT CULTURE.
Profitable Session of the Horticultural
Society.

Profitable Session of the Horticultural
Society.
The State Horticultural society held
an interesting three days session at
Woonsocket. The meetings were at.
tended by representatives from all
parts of the state excepting the Black
Hills. Topics were discussed pertain
Ing to forestry, orcharding and orna-
mentals. One of the interesting feat
ures brought out in the discussions
was the fact that there are successful
orchards in every part of the state,
from the extreme north to the south,
and from the east to the Black Hills,
bearing from a few bushels of apples
to thousands each, and grown on all
kinds of soil from the loose, sandy
loan to the hardest hardpan. The va
rieties of apples recommended for gen.
eral planting throughout the state are
Wealthies, Duchess and Hibernal; in
crab apples, the Florence, Virginia
and Martha; plums, De Soto, Rockford
and Wyant; cherries are not consid-
cred strictly hardy, but the Early
Richmond, English Morello, Ostheim
and Weagg are generally planted and
quite successfully grown in the south
half of the state and in the Black Hills
region. There was a fine collection OF
apples at the meeting, showing the va
rieties that may be grown in the state.
There was also an exhibit Of fine Da-
kota-grown apples. w. II. Head had
on exhibition a collection of plums
grown from the seeds OF h De Soto,
and stated that at an expense Of IS
cents and a little labor he had pro-
duced a plum orchard which in six
years time from the planting OF the
pits had yielded $3.50 worth of fruit,
and trees only beginning to bear well.
An extensive exhibit of ~evergreens
was made, EN- bracing twenty or more
varieties, all growing successfully in
South Dakota; the red cedar was pro-
nounced the hardest and greatest
drouth-resister of any tree grown in
the state, not even excepting the ash.
The Black Hills spruce and the bull
pine were considered next to the red
cedar the most valuable for planting
in the state.
=, p. J. Bentz, editor of the Woonsocket
Times, was reelected president for
the ensuing year; A. Norby of Madi-
son vice president; Prof. N. e. Hansen,
professor of horticulture in the state
agricultural college at BrOOkings, Sec
rotary, and M. J. Wolf Of Letcher
treasurer.
A resolution was passed favoring a
state exhibit at the st. Louis exhibit
ton, and one against the bill now be-
fore the state legislature concerning
the removal of trees and hedges from
the farms along public highways. A
resolution was ais passed favoring an
appropriation from the state for the
publication of the proceedings Of tlis
society and c.. w. Guerny and G. H.
of Woonsocket were made a commit
tee to go to Pierre and present the
claims of the society before the legis-
lature. The society arranged to pub
lish a monthly paper to be called The
South Dakota Horticulturist, to be
edited by the president and secretary
and issued from Woonsocket, the first
number to appear some time in March.
The purpose of the paper will be to
give reliable information concerning
tree planting and orcharding in South
Dakota, and to afford a medium for
the preservation of the society's rec
ords and papers, which up to this time
have not been available to the public
except at the meetings.
Madison was selected as the place
for holding the next annual meeting.