PLEASANT MOUNDS TRIAL STATION. 259 



PLEASANT MOUNDS TRIAL STATION. 



J. S. PARKS, SUPT. 



Another year's harvest of fruit has commenced with a bountiful 

 crop of strawberries — never better in this vicinity. The Senator 

 Dunlap takes the lead. The Hynson, a local variety, shows well 

 among the old sorts. 



There is no insect enemy doing damage to fruit or plant, except 

 that the currant worm has taken the foliage from all the currant 

 plants in this section, leaving a liberal supply of fruit without leaf 

 protection. 



Gooseberries and grapes promise a bountiful crop. Raspberries 

 wintered without protection better than usual and are promising. 



Apples blossomed bountifully, but have been dropping until a 

 fair crop only can be expected. Some varieties, such as Talman 

 Sweet, Wealthy, Whitney and many others, have been affected by 

 spur blight to such an extent as to lose most of the crop and seri- 

 ously cripple the growth of the trees. All our Haas and Ben Davis 

 that stood in orchard rows died from effects of scab of two years 

 ago, but a few trees that stood in a thicket of trees came out all 

 right. 



Plums bloomed full, but a northeast wind at the time blighted 

 nearly the entire crop, and the plum pocket took the rest. 



All garden crops are in fine condition. 



Bees are not doing satisfactory work — slow in swarming and 

 very little honey. 



WEST CONCORD TRIAL STATION. 



FRED COWLES, SUPT. 



This Spring has been a sea of bloom ; every little shrub and tree 

 was full ; they seemed to be saying to us "we are doing our best to 

 show the fruits of your labor." 



The frost the last of May thinned the apples and plums so we 

 will not have to do much thinning. Plums will not be a very 

 large crop ; the plum pocket is showing up quite a good deal. 



It looks now as if there would be a large crop of apples. 

 Wealthy does not seem to be as full as many other varieties. 



For the past two years we have been troubled with apple scab. 

 We are trying the dust sprayer this year and hope to make a favor- 

 able report at winter meeting. 



Currants and gooseberries are a good crop and are troubled 

 with the currant worm but verv little. 



