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Orchards and Small Fruits 
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TINNESOTA is 
rapidly becoming 
famous for her apples, 
an over-production of 
which, viewed from 
the standpoint of the 
economist, is an im- 
possibility. Nine Hun- 
dred Dollars has been 
cleared from one acre 
of Apple Trees in one 
year and the small 
fruits are looming up, 
commercially, very 
large. We have an 
excellent supply of 
hardy Minnesota win- 
ter proof apple trees 
grown at our nurseries. 
Some of the fruit, of 
which has measured 
1 4y 2 inches in circumference. Our small fruits, too, are thoroughly winter proof and will be found a most prof- 
itable investment to the man owning any amount of land, from a back yard to a I 00 acre farm. We cannot 
urge this sort of planting too strongly on the Minnesota people. A small outlay of money invested in an orchard 
of Plums, Apples, Cherries with rows of Raspberries, Blackberries, Strawberries, etc., will in one or two 
years yield 50 to 100 percent on the investment. 
Planting of Roads and Lawn Planting 
JUST a word of suggestion to the farmers, to those men who think they have neither the time or money for 
embellishing their homes but must put everything to what they consider practical use — they must have 
windbreaks for protection of stock and saving of fuel in winter. Fences will break down and wear out, and 
some day a prospective purchaser may happen along and do you know that well grown shade trees will enhance 
the value of place thousands of dollars to the man who has money to spend? Let us make you a plan and 
show you how to plant your windbreak of Evergreens or Willows artistically, replace some of your fences with 
hedges that will never wear out, but grow more luxuriant every year, let us plant trees and shrubs at a nominal 
expense now that will make your farm a beautiful place in a few years; -nd to you men who are Road Com- 
missioners — why not plant your roads as did the commissioners of England and the eastern states a few hundred * 
years back, and have beautiful drives as they have now. Don't you want to attract the tourist and pleasure 
seeker who have money to spend? Set out Elms, Poplars or Evergreens on either side of the road. The ex- 
pense is very little and the results in a few years will be great. A beautiful country is its own recommendatioj 
while an ugly barren place is shunned by automobilist and traveler. The roads of England are shady an] 
•-auti'ul for miles in length and all through the New England states the relics of some public spirited indivic 
terlare green branches overhead. Be public spirited and if the Road Commissioners will not, 
n farm with Maples or other trees and future generations will rise up and call you. 
