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Raspberries. — \A'ere an excellent crop of 95 per cent of red and 

 black caps. The raspberry enjoys the freedom of old wood and 

 choice, rich, mellow soil, with an abundance of rainfall, while it is 

 forming and ripening its fruit. They also love that blanket of 

 mulch to draw mloisture from when needed. 



Strawberries. — Were nearly next to no crop, about 20 per cent. 

 The late frost with the continuous cold rains prevented the dis- 

 tribution of pollen among the flowers to fertilize the berries. 



Currants and Gooseberries. — Yielded about 90 per cent" where 

 the currant and gooseberry were kept' free from currant worm and 

 mildew. We like to use Paris green on the currant bushes just after 

 the currant is well formed, or when we first notice the currant 

 worm working in the bushes. It brings good result's and is not 

 dangerous if applied a week or ten days before the currants are 

 ripe. We like to keep the gooseberry bushes up by using old barrel 

 hoops or crotched stakes, to keep them from mildew during wet 

 seasons. North Star, Stewart Seedling, Pomona, Red Dutch, Long 

 Bunch Holland and White Grape currants are among the varieties 

 most generally planted ; the Houghton, Downing, Smith's Improved, 

 Pearl and Red Jacket are the most favored gooseberries. 



We find the dwarf Juneberry, buffalo berry, high bush cran- 

 berry and Lucretia dewberry doing well with proper care. 



There was more nursery stock planted the last spring than ever 

 before, and about all the stock planted was purchased from northern 

 nurseries. Our northwestern horticultural people are aware of the 

 fact that they must plant' hardy apple trees if they want to succeed 

 in orcharding, and our northern nurseries want to furnish their cus- 

 tomers with hardy trees, which means successful orcharding in 

 Minnesota. We find that blight and sunscald are the two tender 

 points of an apple tree. We need to learn more of the ways of 

 overcoming these difficulties as well as the tree sharks. 



The Northwestern Greening and Winter King suffered some 

 fromi cold last winter. Fruits are going into winter quarters in 

 good shape. 



Following you will find a list of fruits doing best in general 

 through our district on black loam with clay subsoil : 



Apples and Crabs: Hibernal, Patten's Greenings, Duchess, 

 Anisim, Malinda, Whitney No. 20, Sweet Russet, Virginia, Dart's 

 Hybrid, Okabena, Briar Sweet. 



Plums: De Soto, Forest Garden, Wolf, Wyant, Rollingstone, 

 Surprise, Cheney. Cherries : Compass, Rocky Mountain, or sand 

 cherry. 



Raspberries: Red, purple and black cap: Turner, Marlboro, 

 Loudon, Golden Queen, Columbia, Gregg, Nemaha. 



