The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-10-23

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catalogued for sale under the name "Un-
Known but it is not now offered under
any anne. The variety is SO promising
that nurserymen will grow a stock OF 1t
In the future, without doubt, and apple
growers are advised to keep watch Of it
when offered and plant at least enough
Tor testing purposes. There are many
good varieties of fruit we'll known to old
growers. which are better than ONE Of
the new sorts on the market today, but
somehow they a been lost sight of in
the rush for new things. Some day some
progressive nurserymen will get a stock
pf these good old sorts and growers will
be glad to buy them.
Winter Vegetables Poor.
Much complaint Is being heard regard
Ing the rotttng Of potatoes after they have
been dug and stored. The tubers are Of
good size and without a blemish yet they
begin to rot quickly. often before they
can be shipped. Consumers complain that
the small quantities bought by them rot
before half of them can be used. The wet
season during q vital period in the growth
- Tx MlApCI q
Tor the rot and, unfortunately, there is no
remedy. With tomatoes the situation is
serious in that the crop for canning pur-
poses is small. One o the large factories
Of the country which annually cans many
IONS OF tomatoes had hard work to get to-
yether a thousand crates to start the sea-
son with. The wet weather is RESPONSE
BILE for this trouble also. 1t is safe TO as
sumo that growers of tomatoes will find
It profitable to extend operations another
year. The demand will not be less this
winter because of the shortage and can
aers will use VI very close n surplus
stock they may have accumulated. Next
year they will gladly prepare for any 9TH
er season OF shortage and while there
nay be no material increase in the Trices
obtained by growers, it will be a poor
crop that cannot be disposed of readily.
Keeping Winter Apples.
AS a rule winter apples are picked too
early and, in a measure, this accounts for
.he rapidity with which they rot. Exper-
;enced growers make a practice of picking
over each tree several times; that Is, the:
will pick the fruit from the south side OF
the tree, where it ripens first, go
around and through the trees in this way.
Such growers never think of packing
8indfalls In the same barrels with the
E Ii j 81 a A'.S~
experienced grower. While it may be tm-,
practicable for apple growers to have in
iiyidual cold storage houses, the plan adj
yocated in this department some tim ago
of a number Of large growers In a sec
lion combining the building storage
aouses. will yet come about. In the mean
line there should be some plan of storage
devised whereby at least the best OF the
crop can be cared for SO that 1t may go
10 market at a time when IT VIII bring
The best prices. What such plan will be
must depend largely upon the facilities
If the grower. The main essentials IN
atoring apples are that the fruit be Kept
cool and dry. If one has a fruit cellar q
good plan Is to pack the apples IN barrels
10 soon after they are picked as posi-
Bile. seeing that eacn specimen Is perfect
- dry and after setting the barrels on
acks SO tina there will be as near per-
.ect ventilation as possible, cover the top
with boards. The heads should not pc
out in until the fruit Is prepared for snip
ment. 1t would be a good plan to try
several methods OF keeping apples this
winter.
MuIching Strawberry Plants.
while 1t is early to speak OF mulching
The strawberry plantation the question Is
wrought IN ct this time TO warn growers
against the plan which IS peihg aovoca.eu
y sowing some sort Of grain between the
,tra wberry rows to give the strawberry
solants winter protection. As an old straw
harry grower the writer does not thtnk
thia a practical plan: indeed, 1t was tried
,ayara1 Years ago and abandoned for the
reason that 1t was felt the strawberry
Giants were injured by the grain taking
rom them the nourishment they neeoeu.-
Possibly had the soil been sufficiently
e,ch this would not have been noticed.
urhara nlants must be mulched, either as
/, nrntectton or to prevent the plants from
saing heayed out of the ground IN the
snrinr 4 is safer to grow the mulch on
iona other part Of the farm and apply&it
ia the strawberry plantation at the proper
iime which is am time after the ground
ireezes and before the spring thaWs begin
Bedrooms for Fowls.
ryhra writers In his department have
i. vnredg the scratching shed as a part OF
the en,ipment for the poultry plant, II -
that. many poultrymen DO not
iira this plan. The novice In poultry
sats,ng should not gain the idea that be-
.o,,.a s,1h men as are reerred 70 90 NOT
sarn Tor the shed that they house their
Snu,ls IN An Indifferent manner for such
not tho case. II there Is one thing IN tne
OF q poultry house mat Is
8 IL ia building the house 80 tna1 .ne
fowls must occupy the same room .uay
night. cut oNt the scratching sned
that 1the house Is built 30 that one
M II nortion. Just large enough to contain
-. requisite root and nest boxes, y kept
nirht use and the rest OF the mouse
rssarved for the use { the 1oW0 ~
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