The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-17

Owing to the fact hat conditions
in a new country are entirely differ
ent from the older states, the rails
ing of large fruits has not been gen"
| orally begun here. In the early
| wears of settlement it was though
| that the soil must have several years
of cultivation before the large fruit
trees were set out. Furthermore,
| the breaking up of III land, the put
| ting up of the buildings, and the
! manifold other duties necessary in
| the pioneer life, left little time to
the settler for the purpose Of beauti-
| fying his home grounds by planting
| fruit trees and caring for them after
| they were planted. Now, however,
| conveniences and leisure On the
| farms are much greater than they
were in the early days, and it seems
to the writer that is intelligent and
| enterprising a population as that OF
| Emmons county ought to begin add
ing to the comfort Of the family as
well as the value of their home
premises by beginning a fruit garden
and raising those fruits which expert
| ence has demonstrated can be raised
here as we'll as anywhere. IS
In last weeks Record the writer
promised that he would this week
give a statement of the methods m
nloyed by him in the raising of large
and small fruits, as this year az! OF
his big apple trees have come into
| bearing and some fine specimens or
Duchess of Oldenburg and Wealthy
fruit have been produced. How
ever. after writing said statement,
we find that we haven't room for the
entire. article in Que weeks issue, and
renee will make two bites OF 1T. ana
publish the remainder next week.
Two trees Of the T~ranscendent va
riety of hybrid ("crab apple. 50
called have also this year yielded
nearly five bushels of as fine fruit Of
the kind as can be found in n To-
healthy. we also have two Eiyslop
trees fairly loaded with fruit just
about ripe, the Hyslop not being as
| early as the T~ranscendent. In our
Judgment the latter named fruit Is
preferable to the former named, as il
is such a prolific yielder, although
the Hyslop Is a pretty large and sol
id apple. Both are unexcelled by any
IF the apples, large or small, for jel-
ly. preserves, apple butter'-in fact
for all other purposes to which apples
are put except winter keeping.
Only Small Plot.
Ali Of the writer's orchard-garde1
lis situated on a plot of ground bacl
Of and on either side of the Office
building rs by 140 feet, with thu
ground covered by the office and sta
BILE to come out of that. On that spac'
.. there can be grown--fs grown
4. enough large and small fruits for twt
OF three families. as we'll as yegeta'
Ibles Of the ordinary variety. And Their,
is absolutely no reason why ever!
farmer or city resident who has a wei
and a windmill cannot in a few year!
have the I'm In fact. our trees tha
are now In bearing were started will
Il. water. carried by the writer in pal
and pumped by hand from aswell tina;
was exhausted for the time being aft
er halfS al barrel had been pumped. +
was only after a seven-foot standpoint
was attacked to the pipe and driver
into the gravel at the bottom of Thu
well that an ~exhaustless now sof waite
was obtained. So lit will be seen tina,
a. windmill is not absolutely necessary
In order to saw time and hose w
have three-qtlarter-inch water-pipe!