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success in that severe latitude. In each case there was a sufficient 

 protection on the south side of the orchard. In at least one case 

 there was none whatever on the north, and in other cases the north 

 and west protection was an indifferent one, but in each case there 



A TWENTY-YEAR OLD APPLE TREE IN ORCHARD OF MR. BERNARD SAMPSON, 



CROOKSTON, MINN. 



was this south protection, and generally also on the west. It seems 

 to the writer that this is a very important point in connection with 

 fruit growing in that region, and indeed, from the opportunities of 

 observation that have come to me, I judge, in all parts of the state. 

 A good protection on the south and southwest from the drying 



