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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



HORTICULTUEE ON NEW PRAIEIE FARMS. 



PROF. W. M. HAYS, FARGO, N. D. 



On no general farm is a knowledge of horticulture of more value than 

 on the new farm in the great prairies of the west. The average settler 

 has failed to grasp the few main elementary facts needed to guide him in 

 planning one of these farms, so that it may he conveniently arranged 

 when developed, and be well sheltered by trees. Most of the farmers 



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 who have passed the pioneer struggles and have become financially able 

 to erect buildings, are at a disadvantage in carrying out plans for build- 

 ings, stocli lots, gardens and lawns, because their pioneer work at laying 

 out groves and building spot was cramped and poorly calculated. On the 

 other hand, many well arranged and thoroughly sheltered places are to 

 be found, which nature along her wooded streams can hardly surpass. 



How many of us knew no better than to plant our shelter belt only a 

 few rods north from an east and west road, and parallel to it, with too 

 little sheltered room between the trees and the road. The south ex- 



