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varieties from these favored counties along the lake shore, 

 though we should not recommend anything outside the belt 

 of its adaptation. We should encourage the bringing out 

 of such varieties as are still living and bearing choice fruit; 

 and if our committee of observation would report the best 

 paying kinds in their counties, and the soil and surround- 

 ings, it will enhance our report and . be far better guides to 

 beginners than our continued remodeled lists, which can 

 never be applied to our state at large. 



Geo. J. Kellogg, 

 Self- Appointed Committee of Observation at Large. 



third district — H. ROBBINS, PLATTVILLE, WIS. 



Counties — Grant, Iowa, La Fayette. 



Conditions of Temperature, etc. 



The season of 1886 is one that the fruit growers of the 

 third district will not be very likely to forget soon, on 

 account of the marked absence of all storms daring the 

 fruit season. From about the 1st of May until after the 

 berry season was over, there was not enough rain at any 

 one time to more than wet the foilage through, and with 

 dry hot winds prevailing part of the time, it has been the 

 most trying summer on fraifc of all kinds that we have ever 

 known. 



Where strawberries were well mulched they bore a very 

 fair crop, but all other small fruit suffered more or less, and 

 some patches not properly cultivated did not pay for the 

 picking. 



We had several late frosts that did considerable damage 

 to early fruit blossoms. 



Varieties Fruited. 



The growers of this district have not experimented much 

 with the newer fruits the past year. 



In apples we have fruited the Duchess, Talraan Sweet, 

 Fameuse, Golden Russet, Alexander and Tetofski. 



