STARTING AN ORCHARD ON A MINNESOTA PRAIRIE. 



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the market. Leave alone all varieties that are tender, easily blighted 

 or that produce fruit of a poor quality. 



Buy your trees from responsible northern nurseries. If pos- 

 sible, get trees either on crab roots or that have been grafted by the 

 long scion and piece root method. 



Plow your ground deeply, either in the fall or as early in the 



Young Duchess tree in J. I^. Tiegland's orchard. 



spring as possible. Disc or drag it several times to get it well pul- 

 verized and to kill any weeds that may start. 



For staking out the ground and planting I have found the fol- 

 lowing plan easiest to follow and surest to give satisfactory re- 

 sults : Stake out your ground on two contiguous sides, being sure 



