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once or twice a week, will be suflicient for fifty hogs, and prevent cholera and 
keep them in a healthy condition. 
Sullivan county, Tenn —The hog cholera made its appearance about the 1st 
instant, but in a mild form; is there no preventive or remedy? Other farm 
stock exempt from disease. [There is no remedy whatever—kEp. Rep. | 
Hickman county, Tenn.—Hog cholera is again making its appearance. In 
some neighborhoods one-half of the killing hogs for the coming season have 
died. It is difficult to find a preventive. 
CULTIVATION OF FRUIT IN NORTHERN IOWA. 
George W. Wheaton, esq., of Wilson’s Grove, Fayette county, Iowa, sup- 
plies the following interesting details of his experience in fruit-growing on the 
prairies of northern Lowa: 
For the last ten years I have been endeavoring to raise an orchard on the prairie in 
northern Iowa. After many disappointments, by not knowing how to do it, and the varieties 
that would flourish here, I have at length succeeded tolerably well. Raising an orchard here 
is a very different matter from what it is in northern Indiana or other good fruit regions ; 
yet, by selecting the proper varieties, and the right kind of cultivation and protection, suc~ 
cess is certain. Many persons are deterred from emigrating to this country under the im- 
pression that fruit cannot be grown here, but Jet the news go forth that, with judicious 
selections, and proper care, as good apples can be grown in northern Iowa as in any part of 
the northwest. |The proper varieties are hard to find, however, as most nurserymen will 
recommend such as they have to sell. I am not a nurseryman and have no trees to sell, 
but I have tested quite a number of varieties of grafted fruit and a good many seedlings,. 
and my experience may be of benefit to others who contemplate starting orchards in this 
region. Every person, before paying his money for trees, should resolve to take care of 
them or he had better keep his money. Thousands of dollars are lost in this country every 
year by buying unsuitable trees, and more by not taking care of them after they are planted. 
The varieties which have succeeded best with me are, Duchess of Oldenburg, Tallman’s 
Sweet, Fameuse, English Golden Russet, Perry ;Russet, Roxbury, Antrim, Strawberry,. 
and Red Astrachan. The Duchess of Oldenburg, is the hardiest of all, and I never have 
had any of the trees injured in the least by our hardest winters. The Jonathan also suc- 
ceeds tolerably well with me, and I have one tree, about ten years old, which last year bore- 
a bushel of most excellent-apples. I consider the Oldenburg, Fameuse, and ‘T'allman’s 
Sweet the most valuable for this place, and they are all abundant and early bearers. 
Many suppose seedlings to be more hardy than grafted fruit, but I do not find such to be- 
the case. Out of 500 seedlings I have not more than 8 or 10 as hardy as the kinds 
eh a besides, there is an uncertainty in getting productive trees or good fruit from: 
seedlings. 
The next thing in order is the preparation of the soil. If it is designed to set trees on 
prairie with a clay subsoil, which most of our prairies have, it should be ploughed at least: 
a foot deep in order to make a better and firmer soil for the trees; the surface soil alone 
being too loose and peaty, and gives too soft and sappy a growth to the trees. I think it best 
to set the trees about three inches deeper than they grew in the nursery, and they should be 
well cultivated until about the middle of July, when cultivation should cease in order to let 
the trees ripen up for winter. 
About the time the ground freezes there should be an inch or two of barnyard manure 
spread about the roots in order to prevent dry freezing, which destroys great numbers of” 
young trees and shrubs on the prairies. I have lost quite a number of young trees from 
this cause. It is also best to set the trees leaning somewhat to the southwest, as they 
generally do better when set in this manner than when perpendicular. Before winter sets. 
in each tree should have the trunk wound with a rope made of prairie hay, which is an 
effectual preventive against injury by rabbits, and also prevents the bursting of the bark of 
the tree. This bursting of the bark seriously injures the tree, and various expedients are 
resorted to to prevent it; some nail a piece of siding on the south side of the tree, others tie 
a few cornstalks around the tree ; either will do some good, but a hay rope is best; itshould 
be removed in the spring. 
It is a good plan to raise corn in the orchard every year, and to leave the stalks standing 
until the next spring, as they help to keep the snow on the ground and prevent deep freezing. 
If a part of the orchard is set with currant bushes or black-cap raspberries they will answer 
the same purpose, and will be found profitable. At the time the orchard is set a screen should 
be planted on the north and west sides. A row of Scotch pine set six fect apart, ora row of 
Norway spruce set four feet apart, will make a beautiful and effective screen by the time the 
