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"Currants are loaded with berries. Raspberries will give a fair crop. 

 Strawberries look very healthy. I did not cover them last fall, and did nO[; 

 expect much from the patch, but now I think we will get a very good crop. 

 The apple and crab trees made a very heavy growth last season, but set few 

 fruit buds. They came through the winter in very good condition, but we will 

 get a light crop. The Wealthy stands beside the Hibernal and seems to be at 

 home here. Do not freeze back Had some very nice apples on the Wealthy 

 last year. My oldest Wealthy were set out four years ago this spring. The 

 Patten Greening is very promising." — Halstad, Red River Valley, May 28, 

 O. A. Th. Solem. 



QUESTIONS AND REPLIES. 



11. Reply. — The fruit trees in an orchard should be planted in rows, 

 which should be sixteen feet apart and the trees should be ten feet apart. 



Albert Schmidt, Cologne. 



12. Reply. — I presume I am the man referred to. I did not say any- 

 thing about the whole state; what I did say was that the only berries that 

 succeed and are grown with a profit to the grower in Richfield and Blooming- 

 ton, south of Minneapolis, were Countess and Crescent planted all in the same 

 row, one plant of Countess and two of Crescent. I can furnish Countess 

 plants. Vine Grove Nursery Co., Minneapolis, are the only parties I know of 

 who catalog the Countess. William Lyons. 



2924 Clinton Avenue, Minneapolis. 



13. Question. — When the fruit trees are in bloom and there is danger of 

 frost, how can the blossoms be kept from freezing? 



14. OdesTton. — What saved my plums just as the white began to show 

 on the blossoms? The ice began to form on at 4 p. m., and the next morning 

 barbwires on the fences were over an inch through solid ice; it thawed a little 

 at noon, but snow began to fly at 3 p. m. It cleared that night, and the ther- 

 mometer registered 15° at 6 a. m. the following morning. Very few of the 

 blossoms seem to be hurt, and now, twehe days after the storm, my orchard 

 is a solid bank of bloom. The pistils are some of them hurt but not many. 



E. D. CowLES, Vermillion, S. D. 



15. Question.— Can you inform me of what you consider the best 

 method of keeping ants off from trees and shrubs? 



16. Question.— What is the extreme limit of depth in planting fruit trees? 



17. Question.— What is the average cost (trees and work) of setting 

 out an acre of apple trees? 



18. Question. — What should conslitute an average day's work in set- 

 ting out fruit trees, i, e., in number of trees set out? 



19. Question. — What is the average value added to an orchard by each 

 year's growth of a tree from time of setting to bearing? 



20. Question. — Can any kind of apple trees be rooted from cutting in 

 this climate? 



2 1 . QuESTiON.-What is considered the average life time of a Wealthy tree? 



