SAUK RAPIDS TRIAL STATION, ANNUAL REPORT,. 

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Mr. E- Cross. 



Mr. Geo. A. Stager. 



7. Mrs. E. Cross. 



8. Mrs. Jennie Stager. 



I spoke about the strawberries in my vicinity, but on my own 

 place there was not one that came througli in nice shape except 

 the Brandywine, and there was no blight or anything of the sort 

 on that. 



As to apples, we have a little orchard, only four years in 

 bearing. We had a very high wind that blew over a number of 

 trees. We had no blight in the orchard this year, and 

 no scab except on the Longfield. Our currants and goose- 

 berries did very will. We sprayed our plums, and they promised 

 well, but we had such continuous rains through the season that 

 vvhen they were almost ripe they began to rot, and spraying 

 would do no good with so much rain, and a great many rotted so 

 quickly that we did not have time to take them oflf the trees 

 before they were gone. I received a dozen trees grafted on the 

 Pyrus baccata, and they made a very good growth. We have a 



