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recommended. Wild plums are too plentiful for many to care to 

 plant the cultivated varieties. 



Of strawberries there was a bountiful crop. One man writes 

 that he raised i,ooo quarts. But few are raised for market. The 

 Bederwood, Senator Dunlap, Enhance, Splendid, Warfield, Crescent 

 and other varieties all seem to do well, almost everywhere, and it is 

 hard to tell which does the best. More seems to depend upon soil 

 and care than upon variety, as is true of most crops. There is no 

 good reason why almost everybody should not grow enough straw- 

 berries for their own use. 



There was a good crop of raspberries. The Turner and the 

 Loudon are the kinds generally growai. One writes that he raised 

 i,ooo quarts of the Shipper's Pride. 



I cannot advise the growing of blackberries or dewberries or 

 any of the ;iovelties that are so much boomed by some nurserymen. 



Currants should be in every garden, and with little care they pro- 

 duce an annual crop. Almost any of the varieties will do well. The 

 Red Dutch and White Grape are good, but some of the newer 

 varieties seem to do just as well or better. 



To try cherries is much of an experiment, and few cherries 

 are likely to be raised. I know of a man who has good success, 

 but most trials result in failure. Do not expect very much of the 

 Compass cherry. 



One writes that there will be no great advance in apple raising 

 as long as unscrupulous agents sell apple trees not grown in Min- 

 nesota for Minnesota grown trees, and he thinks he would be willing 

 to pay a dollar an apple for all the apples grown on $1800 worth 

 of trees sold in his own town the past year. Many will not patron- 

 ize their home nursery but will buy of a high priced agent trees 

 of a doubtful value. 



Many trees are being sold and doubtless some will live and re- 

 ward the buyer. 



VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT, EIGHTH CONG. DIST. 



R. H. PENDERGAST, DULUTH. 



In order to get as full information as I could from all parts of 

 the district as to the condition of fruit trees and bushes after last 

 winter, to know if the severe weather had injured them much; and 

 if trees set the spring before were hurt more than those that had 

 been set longer; and which varieties were injured the least; as 

 well as to get at the amount of fruit grown this season, and the 

 varieties that had done the best — I made a list of questions. As I did 

 not know if all of the counties had agricultural societies, I wrote 



