VICE-PRESIDENT S REPORT, SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 93 



VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT, SIXTH CONGRESS- 

 IONAL DISTRICT. 



W. L. TAYLOR, HOWARD LAKE. 



The strawberry crop was good. Varieties doing well, Crescent, 

 Bederwood, Warfield and Sample. Raspberries did well, especially 

 Nemaha, Older and a new kind of red called Seattle. This last 

 named variety has not winter-killed although I have not covered it 

 for five years. It resembles the Cuthbert, but ripens latest of all. 

 Currants and gooseberries were almost a failure on account of the 

 currant worm. 



Early Richmond and Wragg cherries fruited nicely, but the 

 birds took all the Richmonds ; the Wragg, however, ripening at 

 the same time as the red raspberry, were not molested by the birds 

 and carried a good crop. 



DISPLAY OF FRUIT AT THE LITCHFIELD, (MEEKER COUNTY) STREET FAIR. 1903. 



Of plums, the Surprise, Wolf and Freestone bore abundant 

 crops as also the Compass cherry plum, but it blighted badly. 



Grapes were about half a crop. Varieties doing well are con- 

 cord, Delaware, Agawam, Moore's Early, Worden, Janesville and 

 Beta. 



The apple crop was good although there was a good deal of 

 blight on some varieties. There was none on Peerless, Northwestern 

 Greening, Anisim and Lyman's Prolific. The display of fruit at 

 the Wright County Fair was the largest in the history of the county. 



We visited the orchard of John Schire, three miles north of 

 Howard, and saw five Northwestern Greening trees, which had been 

 planted seven years, loaded with fruit. One tree had on seven 

 bushels, and the smallest about three bushels. The Okabena trees 

 were looking thrifty and carried a large crop of fine apples. One 



