Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — Cultivate Fruit on the Farm. [ARTICLE]

Cultivate Fruit on the Farm.

If you have pot already planted an orchard do so at once. Go to the nursery and buy. your trees if there is one within a reasonable distance. You want to be certain you are getting what you buy, and that your trees ate fresh, healthy and in good growing condition. Experience has taught farmers that there is more fraud and deception practiced by fruit tree dealers or agents, than with. a,ny other class of men they have to deal with. It is much better to send your order direct to some good, reliable nursery, if'you cannot make your selection in person, and have your bill of trees shipped to you. It is perferable to get northern grown trees for this climate. Some of the most successful fruit culturists advise purchases to be made from nursery stock grown north ol where the trees ate to be planted for fruit purposes. Before planting an orchard it is absolutely necessary to put the ground in a good state of cultivation. It should be piowcd !C the greatest depth possible and thoroughly pulverized. “I see you have mortgaged youhomestead, Mulllg itawney; what d.oei that mean?” “Oh, 1 merely bought u tea of b*rd coaL that’s aIL”