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rows two rods or more apart. Planted in this manner, the plots 
between can be used constantly and conveniently for cultivated 
crops, and if the rows of trees and berries are mulched there will 
be a great saving of labor during the busy season, and they will do 
the better for it. 
That we can and do raise fruit in all parts of the state was proved 
beyond a doubt to any person interested in the subject enough to 
visit the horticultural building at the last state fair, under the roof 
of which was arrayed a display which any fruit-producing state 
might well have taken pride in. 
All of our successful horticulturists are located in timber sections 
or have surrounded themselves with shelter belts, recognizing the 
dependence of the one upon the other. 
With the rapid clearing and settling up of the land in the east, 
there has been a notable decline in the fruit industry, and the New 
England states, New York and Ohio no more boast of their unfailing 
crops of apples, which with them are no surer crop at present and 
not as good in appearance or quality as our own, while a quarter of 
a century ago a failure of the fruit crop was an unknown thing to 
them. 
Conclusively, he is dependent upon forestry not only for his fuel 
and lumber but also the influences it exerts in checking the force of 
those piercing arctic blasts as well as modifying the intensity of 
the scorching winds that sweep upon us from across that section 
known as the American Desert. Besides the protection it affords to 
the tenderer forms of plant life, to men end beast, more favorable 
climatic and crop conditions prevail, and last, but not least, it lends 
beauty to the landscape and home, wherein the greatest of our 
civilizing influences lie. 
A SOUTH DAKOTA ORCHARD. 
OLIVER GIBBS, JR., PRESCOTT, WIS. 
The orchard is situated in the town of Ramsey, the northeast town 
of McCook county, South Dakota, thirty-five miles northwest of 
Sioux Fal!s and about ten miles south of the line of the Southern 
Minnesota Division of the C., M.& St. P. railway. I settled therein 
the fall of 1885. 
Going from Lake City, Minnesota, I carried with me a hundred 
appletrees, with an assortment of seedling apple trees, native plum, . 
currant, gooseberry, rose bushes, etc., from my own garden there. 
Of the apples there were fifty Wealthy, twenty-five Duchess and 
twenty-five of my favorite crabs, and some others that Mr. Under- 
wood wished to have me make atrial of. My object was to grow, as 
I had always grown elsewhere, a supply of fruits, flowers and vege- 
tables for my own family and of such sorts and qualities that they 
would suit the market if there should be a surplus of anything. 
I buried my trees and shrubs for the winter, and planted them out 
in the spring of 1886, with ninety more trees obtained from Prof. J 
L. Budd, of the Iowa College of Agriculture, consisting of apple, 
pear, cherry and plum, all Russians. 
