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POINTS IN DAKOTA ORCHARDING. 



M. J. DE WOLF, LETCHER, S. D. 



We were told when we came to Dakota in 1887 that we could 

 not raise fruit there, and some went so far as to affirm that forests 

 could not be made to grow either. I replied that we had come 

 five hundred miles to Dakota to build us a home and that we were 

 going to try and make the spot we called home as attractive and 

 homelike as possible. 



Beginning at first in a small way, while the soil was still too 

 new and the trees one was able at that time to buy not the best 

 nor the varieties well chosen in regard to hardiness, our first ef- 

 forts in orchardine were not verv successful. 



M. J. DeWolf, I^etcher, S. D., Pres. S. D. State Hort. Society. 



At the end of three or four years there were left of the thirty- 

 six trees that comprised the original apple orchard but six. 

 four Hyslop and two Whitney. The choice varieties of large 

 apples planted were all gone. 



As I had but four Hyslops in the beginning, this was a good 

 showing for this variety. These continued to grow and flourish 

 until they were large trees, large enough to bear five bushels of 



