AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Path 
successful, and progress was made in determining the best 
kinds to recommend for planting. Native plums again gave 
a good crop from orchard trees set in 1899. Apples have not 
-succeeded, due to poor location of orchard in sandy sub-soil 
as well as severity of winters. The hedges of ornamental 
shrubs are doing well. 
The flock of grade Oxford sheep are now being bred to a 
Shropshire buck, and continue to give valuable illustrations of 
their proper use in clearing land. 
The herd of cattle bred to a red polled bull is in good con- 
dition, and the dairy work is now capable of very satisfactory 
development. 
The ten acre plantation of young white and Norway pine 
set at intervals of 4, 6 and Io feet, on cut over land in 1900, is 
thriving, and will soon be one of the most interesting features 
of the Experiment Farm. 
In the winter of 1902-1903, a bulletin containing 69 pages, 
No. 81 of the Experiment Station, was published and distri- 
buted throughout Northeastern Minnesota. This bulletin 
contains a full review and summary of the work of the North- 
east Farm since it was established. 
BULLETINS. 
The bulletins are sent free to about seventeen thousand 
subscribers. Requests from out of the state for our bulletins 
are increasing rapidly. Many of our files, especially those on 
special subjects, are exhausted. Readers of our bulletins are 
showing their appreciation more each year by thousands of 
personal letters received here during the year relative to our 
school and experiment station work. 
Six bulletins, comprising 280 pages, with many illustra- 
ticns, have been issued during the year, as well as one press 
bulletin, “The Criddle Mixture,’ and one class bulletin, 
“Growing Field Peas for Seed.” Bulletins are issued for 
gratuitous distribution to the citizens of Minnesota who apply 
for them. 
Respectfully submitted, 
WINE Vi DIG GE IT: 
