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tection from both sun and rabbits I am in favor of a bundle of millet 

 as the quickest applied and the cheapest. A spry man can apply 

 it to from 300 to 400 trees in a day. 



I mulch my apple orchard every fall, and in the spring be- 

 fore plowing- I spread the mulch between the rows, where it will 

 be turned under, thus making it answer the double purpose of 

 winter protection and summer fertilizer. 



The varieties I have found hardy and non-blighting or 

 nearly so are, viz, Duchess, Patten's Greening, Harry Kaump, 

 October, Wealthy, Malinda, Lou and Iowa Beauty ; Florence. 

 Virginia and Martha crabs. 



The native plums I plant a trifle closer, about twelve feet apart 

 in the row, and rows about twenty-seven or twenty-eight feet 

 apart. These are cultivated the same as apples and planted to 

 hoed crops. I keep down all sprouts except when on own roots, 

 when I save a few of the choicest for resetting or for sale. 



The plums, I find, do not require to be mulched nor protected 

 from sun or rabbits. 



view in orchard on farm of Mr. M. J. DeWolf, Letcher, S. D. 



My varieties are Forest Garden. Hawkeye. Stoddard. Wolf, 

 Wyant, Rockford and for early, Cheney and Odegard. 



Odegard is very much troubled by curculio and pockets some 

 seasons. 



The Cheney, while perfect in tree and a large choice fruit, 

 runs so much to pockets that I have not found it profitable. 



I have a couple of seedling plums I am very proud of which 

 have only borne one crop as yet. They are fully as large as 



