EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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protected aud that the trees must be headed strongly without weak 

 crotches and that great care must be exercised not to prune severely, 

 keeping the heads rather full for protection. 



Small fruits as currants, gooseberries, raspberries and strawberries 

 yielded well. 



Garden Vegetables. — Owing to the lateness of the spring of 1917, 

 most garden truck was delayed in its growth. Beans were destroyed by 

 frost on Angust 2Sth. This spring, (191S), beans, sweet corn and toma- 

 toes were badly damaged by frost after starting. 





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PART OF DAIRY HERD 



LIVE STOCK SITUATION. 



The Upper Peninsula comprises a vast area, a little less than one- 

 third of the state. The present condition of the land area may be di- 

 vided into four groups, viz.: (1) timbered, (2) cut-over, (3) undrained 

 and (4) broken, hilly and sandy lands. Enormous areas have splendid 

 agricultural possibilities when developed. The figures which follow in- 

 clude some costs of production at the station which would not arise in 

 the case of the private farmer for the following reasons: (1) The de- 



