The Dickinson press., 1911-09-23

GROW TREES
GET fruit
Dakota Farmer Editor Tells of
Visit at Dickinson Expert
ment. Station. Wants More
People Growing Trees.
Editor M. F. Greeley who visited the
Dickinson experiment station the past
summer tells about fruit and tree grow
ing, in the Dakota Farmer of September
IS.
He says:
This has been dry year and still in
both North and South Dakota. we have
seen an abundance of fruit. especially
small fruit. on every farm we visited.
Even in the so-called dry sections and
without irrigation we have been surprised
at the yield of small fruit FROM not long
planted trees and bushes. We have
always believed that every prairie
farm could have ample fruit for family
use without buying it, and we were
never more convinced of it than we are
at the present time.
While at Bismarck. recently, we rode
out with Oscar Will. the we'll known
seed man. to the little garden orchard
of Francis Jaszkowiak and were sur
prised al the size and number of the
different kinds of crab apples growing
there. Three and four year-old Hysops
Transendants and one or two other
varieties were nearly loaded with ripe
fruit. Young Duchess apple trees also
looked thrifty and we never saw more
thrifty mulberry and Russian olive trees
than we saw here, all growing with no
irrigation other than cultivation.
On the farm of D. j. Stiner, two
miles northeast of Beach, near the
Montana line, Mrs. Stiner proudly
showed us through one of the thriftiest
four-year-old, orchards we have ever been
in, and whole rows Of the better crab
apple trees were loaded with fruit and
some of il. ripe. We also saw many
heavily loaded plum trees and thrifty
currant, gooseberry and other bushes
1t is true. Mr.. Stiner's 10-acre orchard
and garden are protected by wind
break of gray willows. act out three
years ago and watered the first year
only. They are now from ten to
fifteen feet tall.
why don't more farmers on these
bare prairies do this?' We asked Mrs.
Stiner as we looked over this surprising
and encouraging growth.
THE only reason know was the
quick reply. 1T takes work and work at
the right time.
That is just it. yet many have tried
and worked hard. but did not fully
understand how to 60 at it. They may
not have plowed deep enough. then they
may not have thoroughly watered and
cared for the slips till we'll started. or
possibly used post aueer to set out the
apple trees with.
Where we saw currants. eooseberries.
sand cherries, the later both wild and
Hansen's improved: plums aid many
other kinds of fruit at their best. just
running wild in fact. was at Dickinson
on the experiment farm. But Supt. L.
R. Wa]dron has promised to tell our
readers all about his fruit and his truly
wonderful garden. in the near future,
and we will not spoil his story by try
ing to tell it too. Suffice il to say, that
here we saw some kinds of fruit yield
ina as we never saw fruit yield before,
and this, too, in very dry year and
wholly without irrieation. We saw it
in the cellar at the home also. (and
, this ton was not irrigated only by one
very, very small glass of currant-some-
thing)in jars and fruit cans by the hun
} dreds and the end was not yet. for Mrs.
, Waldron assured US. while she proudly
:, and justly so-shswed US the tempting
shelves and tables that she was only well
begun with the work of putting down for
the winter. At dinner. that day there
was sand cherry pudding. and such
puddingl Different kinds of Jelly and
sauce from wild black curran,s, home
grown and other fruit The long table
fairly groaned under its load of good
things and nearly all came from the gar
, den-all the best part of it at least.
, There Were no tin cans in that back
yard and no packer or middleman had
gotten in his work-just one middle
woman, that's ell
Yes. we are convinced more than ever