Grand Traverse Herald (Newspaper) - March 24, 1870, Traverse City, Michigan VOL. TRAVERSE MARCH 1870. 13. AT Traverse Grand Traverse Mich. O- Two Dollars a Year In Inserted Cur One Dollar per for the and for- each subsequent Advertisements for one square two for three squares for half column aud dollars for one Legal advertisements at the rates by seventy per of 100 for the first and cents for each Every figure a Figure work witbont 50 per double to be for ly in JOB OK JOB The Publisher the is happy to an to the Public he hag one of Gordon's Job And a large quantity of COUNTY W. fif E. OP GOUHT Co. or OK COUNTY OF I. C. C. Co RON KM. R-A Y. W. or J. COUNTY V. W. W. OF M. COUNTY OW 41BTEVIA. OF D. OF CO OF P. OF C A A. H B. COUNTY 1'. E. J COUNTY C. OF THEODORE O. OF OF A. E. L. 1NCALLS. OT 1'itos. Co. OK S. W. SOLOMON STATUS LAND SJS MIC BATES AT r Assessor Attorney at Traverse SETH Attorney ut North of the fj Traverse JENSE Public ami Licensed Mich. Klk 51. 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Club met pursuant to adjournment Subject for discussion this country to the raising of Pratt not iu fact a fruit man but hud noticed some things which migh perhaps be of Our soil is cer tainly well adapted to fruits for he hac otten found apple trees arrowing wild bearing every of course without care Among the Indians as fur north as Mack you find apple trees doing well Notwithstanding the quality these apples is texture and ner cr affected by The Indians them much as you would potatoes anc they keep till It must be re that these tipples arc taken from the trees in an unripe fot if allowed to longer they may be appropriated by their these if produce a belter Ho had seen that tested The Indian apple tree is found as fai north as Cheboygan and from two to live milus from the Those near Laic Michigan arc usually larger than thos further back or near the smaller He hns seen some thirty feet attained that probably because in the midst of On the Island of he had seen line bearing During the war of 1S1'2 there was a fortification on Snow Island Currants were planted there then which growing and produce line fruit From these and facts he had long since come to the that this is naturally a fine fruit growing Mr. When 1 bought my residence the fruit trees weic in a bad They bad been much and the roots injured by careless every ami they bear f have 3iow in my cellar windfalls from these Irees still fa York they would On I now prepared In In Ihe All kindri of Iron the lo Uie KTO Old Pictures Good Pictures in Particular attention puid to Children's A good of Always on 30-Giu L RARE CHANCE AN EXTRAORDINARY Do not Send til T ii e Agricultural Journal In the Country 1W.R Tho American felock class double devoted to Farming ami Stock containing regular fur tho practical Stock Wool and Poultry with numerous line engravings nnd bound in tinted Farmers this monthly a very aid in all Hie departments of Farming and Slock lias a Veterinary Department under the charge of one of tho ablest 1'rofessors in the United who through the free of nil questions the In- or Diseased Swine or Thus every Subscriber has a Horse lurl Cattle Doctor are now prepared to the AMERICAN STOCK JOURNAL as free for one to all lew subscribers or lo the lo December who shall subscribe turd pny in This is a rare op- which the intelligent people of our section will no doubt duly Hand in subscriptions at once and STOCK free for a t- D. C. ei of nc of set t 1. of no set ot ne set of i w o f n w I of set ol I t of nwf of net oi sci uct ol net n ii in 11 11 n 11 11 n u u 11 11 11 11 Ml I fill ill ion LEACH Brokers Land S p Careful I to local ion oi Government ID S State and ELIMINATION OP TITLES Improved and hand Hold on Com- Notary ami REVENUE spoiled long Some 1113' ripen in were sound and well flavored in ary no decayed ones among mens of these apples were f look at the as u very im- portant Jn this we are Any man who will set oat an orchard here and properly take care of will in a years be a rich of once set 200 acres to J lis neighbors him for that year's Apples wilt be shipped here lo fur the orchards dying out The keeping ties of our apples as well as their other line will give the command of the present use it lie uell to out fall Last Call Mr. of received from the of r. a quantity of and ilis friends ed to lest their and them us yood as ever came to that They preferred the of the pear to that grown in J will further that from one of my inches in f gathered last year 20 of Had seen last fall a euse certainly not over one aud one- half inches in with eight or nine tine apples on it. There were other young trees in that orchard doing about as r. Pratt One On the farm 1 now occupy the peach ticcs were- Killed down in tho winter of 1 them they sprung up again and now bear 1 mention this fact lo correct the idea that peaches arc short lived t have now in my den a peach tree whose roots are years Tn the slonn to which T have cherries and pears were but do not remember to have seen an apple tree which Mr. Brinkman The question with me is whether trees will bear sis early here as JT they do it is owing perhaps to My frees were- set out H years but for S years they had little j still some have borne for li or o Mr. orchard which wits ed in his absence now bears very One Trees have borno hero every year for 10 years Mr. Martin Wait's orchard has borne every year for and would do a great deal belter with more Peaches will do Mr. Tyler's peach trees have for the lust nine years borne most of the time full They are now J2 or years old and made last a growth of from G to 10 and hung full of M r. liarly Crawford have borne every same is true of his and they ripened every year but the hist. Mr. Thought if trees plant a later variety than Old Mixon Our early peaches arc as highly flavored as are the fact that we gel a slow gives our apples a value that will make orchards a Properly packed and stored they will keep without loss till tion Then they to Orleans perfectly and sold for almost any pi ice yon may choose to Tint we have other markets where they can't raise The will open up an immense extent of country where fruit will ho in great We have water tion eastward as far as and some years wo shall find line markets ir. that J we can beat anything in the for texture and other high We don't have extremes of cold which require us lo discuss hardy as they do iu Illinois and We have only to select the all do In the storm lands did of ISoO poaches on the hi not kill to Ihc but out in the heads and bore Mr. Ladd tells me they not jailed to since that Jo. men can't say I hey have had peaches every year 185U. There is not a peach in the State of will keep till apples come 1 have seen peaches killed but they were ten miles back Irom the 1 pear t rees bearing heavily in sandy soil 1 mean sand thai blows and Oni own section is admirable for all kinds but the islands in tho vicinity are well adapted to this nnd we have in fact an extensive fruit growing Mr. 13. years since my place had but very little fruit on and f ilm therefore not able to say much from My pear trees have done 1 have from two trees gathered a large hail bushel of that Jly ries have borne for the last One year ago last the cherries were J The variety is the My strawberries have done They ripen till late in the J have picked from my A ines fruit of superior after there had been some light flurries of 1 have lived in Cleveland but have seen better fruit Heller tor cherries and liner The Rhode Island Greenings grown in the orchards of Messrs. and are the finest J ever saw Mr. A. all that had been said and though there Illinois that dales back of that so arc some they arc fewer than far as f can As to tipples there is no country where they will bear heavier crops or keep Our is not as it is but exceedingly limy and therefore line for apple With the same treatment they will bear as caily here as 1 have known the to bear the first but trees should not bear too Vou want a head The Ked Astracan will icar young Flare the on ground and cultivate wellund it will bear every Owing to our water roundings frost will not kill the blossoms of the arc lender because they throw onfc their blossoms so All his interests fruit growing to a success nor was he afraid to tell the whole There lo for this was the best fruit growing in his in his orchard pears nre with lenf The apple tree hail annoyed him He not able to destroy it lint seemed to conic to his fur while they phi bnt by he had last Tho had injured adopting the year saved his the last two years his grapes ripened Tho Jirst year there was no frost till the luul Our will not seriously nl fullin chards if the ground is Tn I lie incurs are subject to very hottest weather in the drouth of blight we should know it. i in this kepi my plains from seen trees here that have and and ivas no si Cap Raspberries do well bo on our both the tender and the hardy There is no blight our They have bonus rn of I have for 10 This is the first have heard 1 would ask JJ r. how his are and they jM r. A. leaves I urn for ten years in our trees are and Bland in Dr. Hall that new the ground is in n high do in lor u lime and then stale of cultivation and heavily Hut have 1'ruiis here planted by j Uai are many The to Tears do not do oss of will our I south of Mieh Vuit have I he years ago I took freezes over tho middle charge of an on the rarely before and j of that was supposed lo be storms arc In j The second year I 10 storm was barrels of 1 bold for per distal before I picked My have done All pitted fruit boars as well hero as So also will Tho does not my nor have I been troubled with pear E. stung my peaches last Mr. Borer must bo watched iu the peach It is easy to his Mr. not noticed them til within two Mr. plum should be planted by so as to allow hogs mid chickens free access to This plan early will exterminate the They wont trouble peaches if they can Mr. f tried this plan out Pigs wont cat the A. experience is My pigs eat The eur- culio is not found in very small Mr. first thu is to the If the fruit is not stung till pretty well it will not But this is a subject perhaps should be reserved for future I said at our last meeting that the climate of the grape growing portions of 32urope not The high lands are the and western as you see by the is ill most surrounded bv The Ag. for shows the grape from which Chateau Margeaux and other line wines are grows on a. coarse aud poor Tho best wines are grown on dry and meager soils and they manure 1 cannot give you the tables of but the climate and the result of observations is the grape requires a slow The idea grapes require a warm climate is a. In California the grape ripens in the here of course in mer and 1 have prepared the ing comparative table of designed lo embrace the growing mid ripening season of the grape there and The figures are taken from the Smithsonian meteorological ord for the year 180S. March illy Aprn I Mean of of 0 08.8 Our temperature hern therefore during i grape season is in fact a little higher corresponding period in same here as at n that of was no moro in the thermometers at niton White Muskegon Jo. t' had on the same from ten or to fourteen de- These observations were taken on low At a ligh point at St. t I fell only below Hack Irom the Lake it killed all the mid still in the interior many of the pencil the third day of 1 took some strangers lo Mr. Hubert's house to cut island Green ngs grown in his They were hut were incredulous until and which was pronounced the lies eidi r seen tin years I out an orchard of 100 grafted at Old The trees had been ship i poil Irom the in a bad and 1 for many years did do It rd 10 he whether they would live at Of late years they have done of the fruit is splendid and nil ami would no doubt keep longer if it Six or eight of the trees set out at the did tlo for they bore the year nnd have continued bear for Id peach trees from the pit have fruit years in Some of peaches are inches in circumference and finely aw for These The have On Slulo Avr. being 13 nf onu story 0 x 20 with kitchen liberal terms will Ijo is regards U 1 A Floral Guide for 1870. The edition of hundred and of VicKs of and Floral j published and lo send It is on tinted with about 200 lac wood of Flowers and and ti Colored of even varieties of making a B 0 Uq UET OF PILL It is the us well as the most Diving plain nil thorough directions Culture of Flowers The Floral Guide is published for the benefit if my to whom it in fiee but will be forwarded tc ail who ly by for Ten which K not half the Address i- GRID j TRAVERSE MICH. REPAIRING DONE AT SHORT In. near o ii sections IS mid T K L on the fiom crso City by hind and 10J hy w acres story a lii x Frame barn 'M x and etc. shed M x Well at and All kinds of fruits in plums A locution at unce coin and tiro exemption from lji balance on properly set and well cared they would bear as early its in the southern part of the There is no reason why they should not do well Cultivate your orchards 11' you them to bear well and Mr. 1 came to this State 33 years they thought it a poor wouldn't grow There arc now in that very section splendid Mr. de- It is were hastily and of course carelessly and thrown down on the cellar where they remained till late iu tho i J took these Golden Sweet nto the southern part of this The fruit men did not recognise the They had a beautiful looked like except that the was a fine You don't find I hem so 200 miles further on the Ohio Kiver is nearly 1 better fruit in Ohio when lived have Blue Damson plum which bore in. four years from the and has continued to bear for y sue Aly cherry are 1-J years They bear every year and e trees all on low hinds near the arc ing which are years old and bear regard to trees bearing early from will stale Unit I helped Ladd to put out bomo od with a light At St. Jo. it is slightly so at each end of the red ics have one year from bore common Herc there is none of it. lie called at- 1 JM r. informed to that he had cultivated the the .As lo raising fruits here it must bo remembered we don't have killing frosts a in the spring than at W. Our fall frosts around the Bay hold generally till into There is no section north of where they have a longer growing seen the Isabella grape ripened lo as line u flavor as lit or elsewhere and I have been in eral This is true of ihe and other tion in our The discussion was then deferred till the next with special reference to the of and the club ad- and Mrs. Martin who lived neighbors lo and now reside near the place by at Old since Uie informed tho that Ihc exception of ono peach trees on place not failed to bear for 1870. Club met lo adjournment nnd resumed the discussion of fruit Mr. regard to buying Irees from I have seen most of the men in country who have pet out orchards and am surprised to how they have f saw ono of lying about when his trees were in the boxes at docks around the man sold trees was all brass and it hurt but injure Send lo responsible nurserymen they can but they will they can't fair and very brii brought in by 3Ir. which was j plum for jears but had to In beginning an orchard raised near Ann The dark i troubled with es seen on il find more ing here will be more than say in there i gold A gentleman some is none of We ran beat worl L. Feb. Club met and resumed the of fruit grow Mr. have raised apple Irees here from seed and brought them lo bear in 8 J once procured sonic hind near Grand Haven at 25 per Tho soil a red sand It was set to fruit and is now worth per have the varieties of soil for the ferent kind of band at Kelly's is worth per Mr. of II in tiie land need not be very but sloping and rolling laud is less liable to spring and fall J do not believe in a very expensive ration for frees or drift formation is capable of sustaining any of Our subsoil is have seen no country where you can go deep in the The very is much bettor than the Island told me thai I plant portions of Mr. farm included j pears and apples thu reason apple trees from Adrian after being clies of set ono bore Others which J obtained frum Klk Rapids bore the second yea i and have continued to bear every year J grafted one of trees bore the year from setting the In my opinion trees can brought to bear as early here as and J have had some experience for is my fourth J had two in one in the part of this and the ent They will bear as curly and as One fact mentioned by serves great It that some of I heavily here as c his apples ripening in have kept I ing not placed too Jiear Ihc trees till the present They were mellow The mulching should be placed the laud ever saw for certain they require u Jn night not to be over- very largo apple orchard it to the varieties of looked in future is good for plant it docs not injure the Mr. They arc lo infest any young Mr. wish to say one word about a variety closo need ice the splice of the ground thoroughly in 'the curly part of nothing nearer than four or live feet lo your t mildew on tn herries are it bar I to grow n I had in garden the finest for berries 1 They bore The wo plow twice and This was true wheat arid that the ground is the was It JH bud policy to no sign of During my trees grow late in the Ilien and have kept remarkable fact attract general Now this is true of of our J have some Indian apples which arc good though my cellar is many degrees too The further north yon can raise the higher their flavor and the better cider they Montreal apples are the est flavored and make the best The samu fact is true of ft is a to conduct the water towards the Washing every other year before buds swell is also highly I have pear trees which have been some of them have borne five of the My apricot trees which have been sol four bore the second My I think of several bushes were j toes worked late some will give too the turf allowed to grow bile a growth to The host growth nothing but wouldn't recommend when you get 'a .si and rapid growth they grow too laic in I think a portion of ground in orchard may used for wheat and 1. am trying an my apple rows are feet and J sow two-thirds of the space and cultivate a 11 about they are with is the result of or or can't but desire information on the r. the three I have had good success with and have great confidence in its generally My yield ly and the among others two from trees cet only years after setting and continued to i tics of my peaches Old i in the center of this strip is the tree do so every year The clingstone Mixon bore one year from sel in which 1 raise a row of set six years ago have borne for I be I ing and have continued to do so for to make from the straw and hay Vfo have for sale a splendid of running or any kind of situated in. tho midst of a rich farming yet in close to largo tracts of 'The European summers arc comparatively very The in one of the George t he 41h and I by plowing in -ana resolving to take to suppose that grapes can be grown I hist tin eo My grapes six years last live 7 cultivate Halo's manure for the cultivated strip and to only in a warm The truth I ago have borne for four last year i Old i manure the hay strip once in years ri One of Uie in there are on high places and on Traverse Region for a local the country around is filling up and the site promises to be the most Uie County acres of land will be sold in connection with the Tho most of this land is good The whole will be if disposed of sold at a low Hi of section town 2J 12 choice on Soil hrst lot 1'j Pee Being sec. town 27 north 12 7.J miles west of ialu sandy surface 25 and log Price balance in 2 and 3 f JL. 18. Rood loir of farming SIK miles south of Price in 1 and 2 at 10 per cent. No. 103. Grand For Price of tho Keport of the Map alone 50 poor grapes grown in cool places make the best California not a lint At ban the thermometer is rarely above 78Q or below They have no they the finest grapes on the This goes to show the value of this country for Mr. Dougherty's grapes never nor do Judge and these the vines I have Then too bear as early here as Mr. tic last year picked from 0 to S clusters from sets one year old propagated from layers only one year Vines should not bear before their third and even 1-hcn should not be allowed to fruit Blight docs not affect the grape here as in other As to Judge Coolidge trees have borne for 0 nor have they failed to bear since old enough to do so. The peach trees were full here in and -in both which years they failed at St. Jo. We shall be likely to have peaches here when they arc a failure for not fulled since 18i3G. Tho fact that our summers are a little cool is favorable to There is no point so free spring frosts as St. Jo. has the ad- nt present in shipping perishable when we have fruit to ship there will be ample Some kinds of peaches may not be profitable the latest T. would not Mr. apple trees are ever saw is to last year very and the last year variety did Corn but for ripened the from layers I do so The t j is the There of Ihe previous year have borne handsome I pear has given me the best no objection I o for they need i a I Of lute apples J cultivate almost all be Pear trees are subject four from the graft which bore last ties and 3'car. Illinois is but you do cultivation the 20 bushels ol applet from one these to the my and Early j processes aie At St. Joe Their fruit favorably excelling Some of this 1 pears have been neglected they did with the cultivated i a to and Mr. i but when cultivated they were sub- the most pei I told me Ihal my pears and lo those in fence corners and thing J. ever Jt is three years and other spots did The is not excelled lo blight and they are mailer fruits no raised with high and much to Messrs. The Illinois i the natural Dear well and j Noble called at my place last recommends every These trees are i tome Mr. from He I available to prevent blig of fifty years J told me my was equal in appearance this by checking high ci and bore this season ono of J. never havo tasted better flavored the best there at that My I pear trees know are in apricots ripen about the first of 100 feet high the land lias L. it really melts in the t have also i The trees have been set six and have never been the soil is alluvial and Bartlett pear but one inch in diameter borne every year but My quinces arc j Those pears don't six years They were very when ting prevents the spread of blight on from which J gathered this year one peck of My seedling peaches only two but have borne for the hisTt I the tree for the but prevent years old bore The apples of j In my opinion this is a better paying crop I it the next neighbor's pear r 4 I l i i f. in which I have spoken will keep till the 4th of Jf it is that our peaches and apples are in the growing son they grow with ever I have now in my garden trees only two years old which bear havo been here 12 n section equals Orleans county which I than apples Mine are largo nnd fair i chard cultivated the trees and much better than somra I saw in sod about his door yard lived nnd did said to be from St. Jo. I have taken So they will do well one bushel of plums from a three year old i in the Apples should The tree was not larger than my j and apples wrist and had to be propped The lie planted though there is little blight Peaches and apples are defy was the Purple f have taken nnd will say that for apples this two and one half bushels from a tree six years From my standard pears six years I have taken pose is saying a great The quality of our apples is of 1 under- fact that bushel of fruit to tho from dwarf Seckle ono bo re- membered that those fruits had all been blight planted together peaches are supposed to die in my St. Joe are Peaches than apples and by At SPA PERI
