FRUIT INTERESTS OF THE STATE. 
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The Siberian varieties, the Transeendant and the Whit¬ 
ney, are everywhere being exterminated by this disease. 
Five or six years ago, some degree of interest was 
awakened in fruit culture, and as a result, there are now 
quite a number of small orchards of standard fruit just 
coming into bearing. The marked success of some of these 
small orchards is encouraging further planting. Mr. Geo. 
J. Spear, proprietor of the Greeley Nursery, has /i large 
stock on hand, and he informs me that his sales of trees 
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and small fruit plants for spring planting already amount 
to nearly $3,000. Other dealers have sold over $2,000 
worth, and some stock will be shipped to individuals. It 
would thus appear that considerably more than $5,000 
worth of fruit plants will find their way to Weld County 
farms in the spring. 
It is to be hoped that those who plant will give their 
trees that care which is essential to success. In riding 
through the County, I was impressed with the idea that 
the average farmer was too much absorbed with his po¬ 
tato and grain. crops to be successful with fruit. Many 
small orchards show evident signs of neglect, and little 
can be hoped for from them. Fruit trees will no more take 
care of themselves than will potato or corn crops, but they 
will respond to good care as readily as any other plants. 
That it pays to care for fruit trees properly, the experience 
of those who have tried it fully demonstrates. At Eaton, 
six miles north of Greeley, Mr. A. J. Eaton is deriving 
pleasure and profit from a three-acre plantation of fruit. 
Besides small fruits in good variety, he has Martha and 
Whitney crabs, the latter much effected with blight, and 
soon to be discarded; the former thrifty, free from blight 
and bearing good crops; Oldenburg, Excelsior and a few 
other varieties of apples; several varieties of plums, be¬ 
sides a number of native wild varieties. The wild plums 
yield enorrhously and the fruit sells readily. Mr. Eaton’s 
