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"We are having immense rains here, and I feared they had destroyed my 

 apple and plum blossoms before maturity, but I find the fruit set all right" — 

 Slayton, May 26, Alfred Terry. 



"Plums will be a very light crop, or perhaps, a total failure. Apples 

 promise a good crop. Strawberries are full of bloom, but too wet for best 

 results." — Dover, May 27, A. K. Bush. 



"Apples, plums, cherries, currants and goosebenies, are well set with fruit; 

 strawberries in full bloom; raspberries and blackberries are coming into bloom 

 and look fine. At this date fruit promises the best I have seen for years." — 

 Howard Lake, May 28, W. H. Eddy. 



"Apples and plums are in fine shape, and the trees are 'loaded.' Not 

 many currants or gooseberries, but strawberries,. Juneberries, sand and Com- 

 pass cherries, as well as Early Richmond are giving great promise of a full 

 crop."— Luverne, May 28, C. E. Older. 



"Duchess have set a fair to good crop, Wealthy rather light, all crabs light, 

 except Whitney, which is good. These apples and crabs all bore heavily last 

 year. Plums and cherries very light, probably on account of wet weather when 

 in bloom. Currants good." — Faribault, May 29, Jno. P. Andrews. 



"Currants, goosberries, raspberries and strawberries are very premising; 

 apples have set vvell, except some of the Wealthy and Patten which bore a 

 very full crop last year. Plums and Compass have set full. Blight is showing 

 some on the old Transcendents." — Excelsor, May 27, A. D. Leach. 



•'Everything (plants or trees) is loaded with bloosoms, and the fruit is 

 setting so thickly on plums, apples and cherry trees that unless we have a 

 frost we shall have a great deal to do in thining out the fruit. Up here wher- 

 ever I have been I find the same condition." — Sauk Rapids, Mrs. J Stager, 

 May 28. 



"We understand that all small fruits are very promising at this dale. All 

 orchards of plums have blossomed very full, and we think we can safely ex- 

 pect a fine crop. We understand from other parties that the apple orchards 

 have not shown much bloom throughout our county this season." — Albert Lea, 

 May 27, Clarence Wedge. 



"The fruit prospect is not very bright. Plums are almost a failure orj ac- 

 count of the continued wet weather; currants and gooseberries hurt by frost. 

 Apples— no Duchess or Tetosfky and but few Wealthy. . Some of the other 

 varieties are looking promising at present. Strawberries are looking good." — 

 Farmington, W. L. Parker, May 27. 



"The outlook is good here for a fair crop of apples and plums. Currants 

 and gooseberries will give only a moderate crop. It is too early to say how 

 the raspberries will turn out, but bushes that were laid down in the winter are 

 looking well. Very few strawberries are grown in this neighborhood." — Mon- 

 tevideo, May 28, Lycurgus R. Moyer. 



"Plums and cherries were totally destroyed by the frosts occurring the 

 last of April and first of May. Early strawberries were also injured at that 

 time, but the late blossoms are now maturing and promise an average crop, 

 especially on the older beds. Other small fruit looking favorable, particularly 

 raspberries and grapes, but currants are gone with the plums. Apples 

 blossomed profusely and gave promise of a full crop, but the recent destruc- 

 tive storms have caused them to drop badly. I think it is probable that the 

 apple blossoms were injured with frost and are now just beginning to show 

 the eifects."— LaCrescent, May 27, F. I. Harris. 



