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tant market, but seema to be just the berry for home use for those 

 who want to grow only one variety. We shall discard the Enhance 

 on account of its unattractive appearance in the box. My straw- 

 berry fields wintered perfectly, but I have reports from many about 

 here that their strawberry patches all winter-killed. 



Currants a ligfhl crop, no variety bearing- as it should. Long 

 Bunch Holland very healthy and vigorous. 



Sand cherries two years from the seed are bearing freely. Dwarf 

 Juneberry is bearing a heavy crop. This seems to be one of the 

 fruits that is perfectly adapted to this section. 



Cherries are not bearing anything to speak of. All varieties seem 

 about alike ; from forty to sixty per cent of the buds were killed by 

 the cold winter, and those that blossomed were mostly destroyed by 

 cold storms. 



We have had a great amount of rain so far this season. I have ex- 

 amined this spring several orchards on the hills along the river, 

 and while they are now bearing more freely than my prairie orchard, 

 they also suffered more severely, even where well sheltered by trees, 

 by the very cold weather of the past winter. I have set in experi- 

 mental grounds the past spring the Compass cherry and Patten's 

 No. 102 apple, from C. W. Sampson; Surprise plum, from O. M. Lord; 

 a fine collection of shrubs and Rocky Mountain evergreens, from 

 Prof. S. B. Green; plum and apple scions in variety from various 

 sources. We have had no apple blight as yet this season. 



THE MINNESOTA STATE FORESTRY BOARD, ANDITS 

 FIRST MEETING. 



Minnesota's new State Forestry Board held its first meeting in the 

 capitol in St. Paul, Monday, June 26th, elected officers and appointed 

 three committees. There was a full attendance, and the liveliest 

 interest in the work that lies before the board was expressed by all 

 the members. Assurances were given that in the near future gifts 

 of forest lands aggregating hundreds of thousands of acres will be 

 made to the board. The personel of the board is as follows: 



Orville M. Lord, Minnesota City, Winona county. 



John Cooper, St. Cloud. 



Albert L. Cole, Walker. 



Judson N. Cross, Minneapolis. 



Greenleaf Clark, St. Paul. 



C. C. Andrews, State Fire Warden. 



Professor Samuel B. Green, State Agricultural College. 



Frederick Weyerhauser, St. Paul. 



Judge William Mitchell, Winona. 



The forest law required the governor to make appointments on 

 the recommendation of the regents of the university, the state 

 forestry association, the horticultural society, the game and fish 

 commission and the agricultural society, while the state fire warden. 

 Gen. C. C. Andrews, and the professor of horticulture in the 

 state agricultural college. Professor S. B. Green, were made e^-oSScio 

 members of the board. 



