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diseases and from insects. It should be studied what to use to 

 advantage. The Bordeaux mixture is certainly to be recommended 

 where rust, scab and similar diseases appear, also for plum 

 pockets. 



Insects the trees have been nearly free from all over ; only one 

 report says an unknown insect has attacked trees in Roseau county. 



From Becker county to western parts of Clay and Xorman 

 counties, mice have done great damage to all sorts of fruits. They 

 commenced to eat strawberry plants in the spring and raspberries. 

 In first part of August they commenced to gnaw the bark from 

 apples, plums and gooseberries. The mice are claimed by all to 

 be a rodent new to this part of the country, and they are in great 



O. J. Hagen's Orchard In Bloom at Hendrum, Red River Valley. 



number and are doing great damage to small grain, especially bar- 

 ley, also to potatoes. From further north no mention was reported 

 to me on this subject. 



In regard to cherries : there are but few grown, but Erick An- 

 derson, from Lake Park, reports Compass and Pennock's Hybrid 

 a good crop, Wragg and Vladimer a few. With me last year^ there 

 were some on the Ostheim and E. Richmond, but this year it was 

 a blank. The trees were hurt some by last winter freezing back 

 and buds hurt by cold. 



Grapes there was no report on and so with blackberries. Rasp- 

 berries promised a good crop but turned black in the rain — in some 

 places a half crop. There are a number of apples doing well here. 

 Peter is one among the leading sorts, with some Duchess, Hibernal, 



