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Now in regard to planting trees, some favor planting them a? 

 Capt. Reed does, and some a great deal further apart than we have 

 been planting them. On timber soil it is a good plan to plant the 

 standard trees far apart, but on the prairie where we have those 

 terrific winds we must plant them close together because so many 

 kill out; planted close together one tree is a protection to the 

 other. For that reason I have planted them from twelve to six- 

 teen feet apart. I find this a very good plan when the trees are 

 young. Of course, they are crowded, but we reason in this way. 

 we get so many apples when planting close together, so that it pays 

 to plant the trees in an orchard close together and harvest the crop 

 when the trees are small, and then let them take care of themselves 

 when older. I remember last year my young Northwestern Green- 

 ing had a very heavy crop of apples, but most of them are dead this 

 year. I want to throw out a word of caution in that respect. As 

 soon as a little apple tree will bear it is usual to let it have all the 

 apples that will ripen. I have seen little apple trees so loaded with 

 fruit that they were propped up. This is wrong ; the apples should 

 all be picked off except a few that might possibly be left as a sam- 

 ple of the fruit. I set an orchard of nearly 500 trees for a man, 

 and he picked nearly 50 bushels of apples from those young trees, 

 some of them bearing as much as half a bushel. The result will 

 be that his trees will all be dead next spring. I consider this a 

 point to which we all ought to pay more attention, and if we do I 

 do not think we shall have so much trouble with our young apple 

 trees killing out. 



Mr. Emil Sahler : What varieties ? 



Mr. Taylor : Patten's Greening, Hibernal and Wealthy. There 

 is one point I want to bring out in regard to the Hibernal and 

 Wealthy. When I began in the nursery business I supposed the 

 scions should be cut from bearing trees, and I had to cut from a 

 good many trees, because a bearing tree does not yield many scions, 

 but I got all I could from good bearing trees. I found from those 

 scions I could produce young trees that bore heavy crops of apples, 

 and I recommended people to get their scions from good bearing 

 trees. 



There is one thing I want to call your attention to, and that 

 is the so-called "strawberry-raspberry." It has been sold all over 

 Wright county and has become a nuisance almost as bad as the 

 Canada thistle. It is necessary to put on buckskin mittens to pick 

 the berries, and they are not fit to eat after they are picked. Every- 

 body that has it would like to get rid of it. 



