SMALL FRUITS. 1 91 



BLACKBERRIES. 



With a little care this fruit may be grown suc- 

 cessfully wherever Indian corn is a success, and, 

 with laying down and covering in winter 

 much further north, provided there is sufficient 

 rainfall. An extended drouth at or near the time 

 of ripening is fatal to the fruit, as it dries up 

 badly. For this reason it will be well in selecting 

 the location for the small fruit patch to locate it 

 where it can be irrigated from the tank or well. In 

 most parts of South Dakota where there is cheap 

 artesian water this will become an easy task, and is 

 one of the many advantages that this highly favored 

 state enjoys, yet seems not to be fully appreciated. 

 The presence of an artificial or other pond near the 

 orchard or fruit garden is of great benefit, aside 

 from its value for other purposes. 



Where this fruit is raised along garden fences or 

 the edges of timber belts, without cultivation, as 

 it frequently is and very successfully, too, the danger 

 of these drouth periods are greater than where grown 

 in cultivated land checked off like corn. 



Where there is plenty of rainfall the blackberry 

 succeeds well grown in the cottonwood groves, 

 provided that the trees are not too close and the 

 ground is good. They will probably succeed as 

 well in the orchard or in the ash groves, but they 

 are a failure in the box elders. 



In the above it is supposed that they are to be 

 grown by what is known as the "slip shod" manner, 

 that is, no particular work except planting and 



