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size and beauty than the same varieties in the older fniit sec- 

 tions. 



PEACHES. 



Nine years ago I planted an acre of ground with peach 

 trees of one year's growth. The ground was prepared as for 

 corn, and marked out with a four-foot marker. In every 

 alternate cross each way, a tree was set, in all about seven 

 hundred trees being planted. They received the same culti- 

 vation as the adjoining cornfield until the tliird year, when 

 they shaded the ground and kept down the weeds. The fourth 

 year they bore a light crop. The fifth year about three hun- 

 dred bushels were gathered, and sold at one dollar and a 

 quarter to two dollars per bushel. Perhaps I have said enough 

 of fruit growing here to show that where proper attention is 

 given, the best results are secured. 



CLIMATE. 



I must allude to our climate, or I shall not do justice to 

 Nebraska as a farming country. To the farmer, who, as you 

 may say, lives out of doors, it is important tliat he have as 

 much sunshine and fair weatlier as is consistent with the 

 growth of his crops. Comparing our climate with that of the 

 States east of the Mississippi river, we have more sunshine, 

 less foggy, murky, sulky weather, cooler nights througli the 

 Summer season, more high winds, a less amount of snow (hav- 

 ing very little use for sleds), and a clear, pure, invigorating 

 atmosphere, comparatively exem[»t from malarial inlluences. I 

 know of no healthier climate, or one more enjoyable. 



