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Show GROWING TREES IN MONTANA Cannot Successfully Be Done East of Mountains Without Use of Artificial Arti-ficial Water. R. N. Sutherlin, editor of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman, says: "We have written many columns in regard to planting trees for use and ornament, but we are not of the class that recommend orcharding In any part of Montana without Irrigation, although trees do grow and bear fruit, in the region west of the mountains, but it is love's labor lost to try to grow trees or shrubs for ornament or use anywhere east of the mountains without artificial watering for it cannot can-not be done. Anyhow, it never has been done, and many attempts have been made. We love growing trees, but in order to shade our dry farming homes it will be necessary for our friends to draw water from the well or haul it from the creek to keep them alive through July 'and August. We find the buffalo berry bush trying to grow upon the dry land, but it kills back although it sometimes manages to survive, but it is not a growth that you would be proud of, since it requires re-quires entirely too much time for the bush to make a tree. It will take 50 years at least, so we would not attempt at-tempt to grow trees on our western praises without we could get water from some source." |