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kind in the state. Under the efficient care of Mr. Watson's 

 present manager, Mr. N. C. Dunlap, this orchard will be heard 

 from in the near future. There are thousands of bearing 

 cherry trees and many thousands of apple and peach trees. 

 These orchards are showing that even the hill tops in Buffalo 

 county are valuable for the production of peaches. 



If asked to enumerate a list of varieties of apples for far 

 western Nebraska, I would suggest, Yellow Transparent, 

 Duchess, Wealthy, Longfield, Patton's Greening and North- 

 western Greening. In cherries plant the Early Richmond, 

 Montmorency and English Morello. In plum trees rely on the 

 American group of plums. The Lombard and German prune 

 may be planted under favorable conditions after the wind 

 breaks are so perfected as to protect the trees from sudden 

 changes and trying winds. 



SUGGESTIONS AS TO PLANTING. 



When planting be sure to avoid low ground and alkali. Se- 

 lect the drier and more loamy soils, not too near the water level. 

 The advent of irrigation ditches has in some cases raised the 

 water level too near the sarface. In planting set the trees six 

 inches deeper than they grow in the nursery. Keep the trunk 

 of the tree protected twelve months in the year for at least 

 five years. Grow a dense, branched head. This offers some 

 protection against hail. Protectby efficient windbreaks. If the 

 orchard should unfortunately be in the track of a hail-storm, 

 hail that comes straight down is not so destructive as that 

 driven by the full sweep of a violent wind. 



It is of the utmost importance that the orchard should be ir- 

 rigated in early November and carried into the winter with 

 ample subsoil moisture. 



The market for fruit grown in western Nebraska is at this 

 time local, and a large amount will be needed to supply the lo- 

 cal markets. The soil, properly irrigated and suitably planted, 

 is peculiarly adapted to the growing of small fruits for distant 

 shipment. The strawberry is quite as productive in western 

 Nebraska as in the Wood River Valley, Oregon, and a thousand 

 miles nearer to market. The Kansas black raspberry does 



