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situated about three miles southeast of the city of Moorhead, in 

 Clay County, in the very midst of the rich, level prairie lands of 

 the famous Red River country, which produces such wonderful 

 yields of small grain; here he has planted several thousand trees 

 as an experiment largely, but with every promise of success. 

 His fruit trees consist of the hardiest varieties, selected from the 

 nursery of Underwood & Emery, of Lake City. He has a dozen 

 rows of apple trees, a quantity of native plum and some twenty- 

 two hundred Russian mulberry trees. He protects his orchard 

 with rows of Scotch and N^orway pine, and tamarack, set in zig- 

 zag shape; while farther back, some one hundred and thirty-five 

 feet, is a double row of arbor vitse, for a hedge or windbreak; 

 all arranged so as to form a protection uj)on three sides for farm 

 buildings and yards. The trees are further protected with corn- 

 stalks and leaves of the amber cane. The trees have been 'set 

 two years, and Mr. Schreiber says his success has been very sat- 

 isfactory thus far. He is also interested in stock raising, has 

 forty head of Percheron horses, and sixty head of cattle of Short- 

 horns and Poland Norfolks of England. 



DRAKE SEEDLING. 



Mr. J. P. Andrews, of Faribault, gives, at our request, a brief 

 description of an apple w^hich he is propagating, originated in 

 Rice County, known as the Drake apple, which promises to be 

 of considerable value in favorable locations. This variety is 

 supposed to be a seedling, and was raised upon the farm of a 

 Mr. Drake, formerly residing near l!^orthfield. The apple is of 

 the size of the Duchess, rather tart in flavor — a good pie 

 apple; season early winter, keeping into December; it is a 

 nice nursery tree, and stands about the same as the Haas as to 

 hardiness; a good bearer. Mr. Andrews is growing this with 

 many of the leading varieties of apples and hybrids in his nur- 

 sery near Faribault, where he has some 75,000 trees. He makes 

 a specialty of the following: Wealthy, Duchess, Tetofsky, Or- 

 ange, Early Strawberry, Maiden's Blush, Virginia, Beach's 

 Sweet, Gen. Grant. Is also testing some fifty of the Russian va- 

 rieties. He believes that it is desirable with fruit growers to 

 keep pretty close to the hybrid varieties, planting very few of 

 the standards, except in favorable locations. 



