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Currants and gooseberries were fairly good when trimmed up 

 and mulched, as they should be in the spring. 



Only a few varieties of raspberries withstood the drouth enough 

 to make a crop. The Turner, planted in a grove under the trees, 

 bore a good crop; Older, grown in rows in the open between two 

 shelter belts, bore nicely to nearly the close of the season; Kansas 

 about half a crop, under the same conditions ; and Loudon almost a 

 failure, with Columbias entirely dried up without ripening a berry. 



Being an off year for apples, there were very few, but what 

 there were brought good prices. The Martha crab blossomed very 

 full, and the late frost killed every bloom, when other varieties like 

 the Wealthy, Duchess, Whitney, Virginia, etc., were only partially 

 injured. This may indicate that the Martha will not stand as much 

 frost without injury as the other varieties in the blooming period. 



The Wealthy seems to hold its own as the leading apple. All 

 varieties have made a good growth and have ripened their wood 

 nicely for winter. 



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



W. J. TINGLEY, STILLWATER. 



I am pleased to say that the outlook for the future of horti- 

 culture in my locality is very encouraging. Fruit trees came 

 through the winter in good condition, with the exception of some 

 varieties that made a late growth; in the fall of 1900 those were 

 damaged some on the tops. Apples showed very little bloom, and 

 after the frosts of May 23rd and June 7th, our prospect for an 

 apple crop was blighted. Nevertheless, the show at the Stillwater 

 Street Fair was very fine, fully equal if not excelling the state fair 

 in quality, but of course not in quantity. It was very noticeable 

 that the apple booth was the leading feature of the fair, and many 

 expressed surprise that such fine apples could be raised in Minne- 

 sota, and could hardly believe that most of them were raised within 

 a radius of ten miles of the city of Stillwater. The varieties most 

 prominent were Wolf River, Okabena, Wealthy, Duchess, Hiber- 

 nal, Patten Greening and others I did not know the names of. 

 Crab apples : Whitney, Martha, Hyslop, Transcendent, Briar 

 Sweet and Florence. 



On my farm the Duchess apple did well on the low land, the 

 frost seeming to have had less effect on these than on any other va- 

 riety. In orchards that I visited, the Virginia and Martha crab 

 bore the best. 



The plum crop was light on an average, but in some places 



