Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-09-09


The gain to knowledge from DIR.
Cooks discovery is inestimable.
There still is much to learn of tides,
currents and the oceans.
Now. although we propose to say
something favorable to a Bismarck
business man. it is not in the nature
of paid ad, for the said business
man knows nothing of it. This
article is written for the reason
that we know from having seen
them growing in Bismarck and Far
go that apples can be raised in this
country. Twenty years ago the
writer first bought large and small
fruit trees from Oscar Will. We
have never lost a tree or bush
purchased from him that is, from
any lack of hardness or Their cause
for which he was responsible. Up
at the old Williamsport farm we
had some vigorous apple trees one
of them just coming into bearing.
But one winter the snow piled up
against the woven wire and picket
fence and far enough into the gar
den for the jackrabbits TO get above
the boxing and gnaw them; which
proceeding of course caused the
trees nibbled to die. Will has been
in business as nurseryman for, as
we remember. more than twenty
years. He has tried all sorts of
fruit trees, and has settled upon
handling those only which he knows
from experience are hardy in this
region. Every package of bushes
or trees that comes from him at
least to points as near as Emmons
county reaches its destination we'll
packed, dripping with moisture
and in good condition every way.
The -outside nursery agent will go
to your house, show you the pic
lures of a collection of big red APP
piles of a variety that absolutely will
not withstand the severe winters i'm
North Dakota, and the next spring,
after they are winter killed, you
may whistle for your satisfaction, as
the agent has probably hied himself
to greener fields and pastures new.
Or, if they survive until they bear,
you may find some miserable crab
apple of an olden-day variety, such
as We're common before crab-apples
were improved and crossed into by
birds much more like an apple in
taste and size than like crab. We
have heard so much complaint in
this county by those who have
bought from distant nurseries, far
Their south. that we are constrained
to publish this article. to the end
that those who want fruit trees and
shrubs that are true to name, and
that with proper care will do just
what the seller says they will do, may
know where to obtain them. Mr..
Will has tried many kinds of apple
trees, and has tossed into the dis
card all but three varieties: the
Northwestern Greening, the Ouch
ess of Oldenburg and the Wealthy.
He raises and sells no others, for
the reason that the other known
varieties will not do we'll here. In
the line of hybrids (apple-crabs) he
raises Hyslop. Transcendant, Whit
ney No. 90 and General Grant.
These apples and crabs are all adapt
ed to this region. They are as hardy
as the boN-clder (ash-leaved maple).
In fact, it is not the cold weather
that is the cause of this section be-
ing backward i'm apple-raising. The
trees winter all right without ashel-
ter-belt; but, where there is neither
the protection of buildings. as in a
city, town or village. or bya natural
or hand-planted grove, the hard
winds blow off the blossoms or
young fruit. Mind you, the trees
do not have to be put away in band
boxes when the prairie zephyrs are
at work. An ordinary wind does
them no harm. 1t is only the very
strong winds. which set the limbs