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through the ravages of the worms last year. But all vines and bushes made 
an exceptionally strong growth this year, so we live in hopes of a large 
harvest next time. 
WINDOM TRIAL STATION. 
DEWAIN COOK, SUPT. 
Strawberries were a iair crop, though the late berries did not seem 
to be perfectly fertilized. I am favorably impressed with the Bederwood 
for a home and near-by market berry. It should not be planted on too rich 
soil, in sheltered places, as in such places it is often too soft to handle, but 
where grown in not very rich soil and where there is a free circulation 
of air the berries are firmer and of a better color. 
Dwari Juneberries, as usual, bore a heavy crop, and we found a quick 
sale for them at five cents per box. 
Currants were only a fair crop, Long Bunch Holland doing a little 
the best. Cheap strawberries and raspberries have had a tendency to crowd 
out the currants. We brought the price of currants down to six cents per 
box, at which price they sold readily. 
My sand cherry bushes bore heavily, but the fruit about all rotted on 
the bushes. Unless the sand cherry does better in the future, we will have 
to consider them of no value. 
As but few apple trees bore anything, I can report but little of value 
about them. With few exceptions my apple trees made a fine growth the 
past season, and my apple orchards are looking better now than ever before. 
A couple of bearing Wealthy trees that looked sickly and made but feeble 
growth this season, dropped their leaves early and are very full of extra well 
developed fruit buds. I have noticed that any not fatal root injury by cold 
to bearine apple trees will set them to bearing extraordinary crops after the 
first year is past. In this section, on the high prairie, where blight and sun 
scald is not as prevalent as in some other localities, the orchards that have 
the benefit of windbreaks are doing the best; in fact, there are no orchards 
where there is a full exposure to the northwest winds, as the trees always 
kill out the first or second winter after planting. 
We have had lots of experience with plums the past season. I believe 
that we have all the tent caterpillars exterminated that were on the place, and 
we have been making a vigorous fight against the borers, that had got a 
strong foothold here. We cut out or made firewood of the trees that were 
infested the most; the other trees we examined each one, and got after each 
individual borer with a jackknife early in the autumn, and a few days later 
went over each tree again, getting a few that were missed the first time. 
We think that by keeping up the fight another season that we can eradicate 
the borers. The plum is the only tree troubled by them. 
The gouger and curculio are increasing in numbers and destructive- 
ness each season. We are again to resort to the jarring process next sea- 
son. We are not going to be beaten by them. We gathered and destroyed 
all of the down plums this season, which, of course, destroyed many larve 
of curculio. We have also cut out all of our wild plum trees, also a good 
many of the inferior named varieties. It seems that the gouger especially 
breeds almost entirely in those small plums that have a large pit, while 
those large plums, like the Wolf, that have small pits are rarely attacked 
by them. 
