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"Wealthy apple? about oae-fourth crop; Duchess, one-tenth; no winter 

 apples. Plums will hi a full crop." — \udrew Wilfert, Cleveland, La Sueur 

 Co., May 31. 



"Our apple and plum trees look very healthy and are going to bloom full; 

 though we have had an extraordinary season, I do not think it affected fruits 

 unfavorably in this vicinity." Alfred Terry, Slaytou, Murray Co., May 13. 



"Prospects of fruit on standard apple, plum and cherry trees, excellent. 

 Plums are overloaded with buds. Crab apples will be below the average. 

 Raspberries and blackberries in good shape. Strawberries not covered early 

 badly injured by root-killing." A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, May 14. 



"Prospect for the fruit this far is very favorable, better than I have known 

 it for a number of years. If we don't have any frosts I thihk there will be an 

 abundant crop of fruit of all varieties." William Oxford, Freeberg, Houston 

 Co, May 14. 



"Trees are apparently all right and so are strawberries. Plums are blos- 

 soming full. Have been examining some of the apple trees and find that very 

 few of them have any blossom buds. Crab trees are full of buds." S. D. 

 Richardson, Winnebago City, Faribault Co., May 13. 



"No blossoms on apple trees except a few on Peerless, University and 

 Duchess. No blossoms on crabs. Plums have bloom but not open. Will open 

 in two or three days. Apple crop will be a total failure. Strawberry and 

 raspberry plants look well." Martin Penning. Sleepy Eye, Brown Co., May 13. 

 "Our apple trees wintered well and promise a good crop. The plums 

 promise a large crop; they are in full bloom. Raspberries wintered well, even 

 uncovered where the snow drifted. All small fruit promises a good crop 

 except blackberries." J. S. Jerabek, Silver Lake, McLeod Co., May 19. 



"The prospect for an apple crop is rather slim in this locality. Some 

 trees are quite full of bloom, but majority show up poorly. Plums are very 

 promising. Strawberries almost a failure. Hardy raspberries, very good; 

 tender varieties, dead." — Thomas E. Cashman, Owatonna, May 31. 



"Raspberries, currants, blackberries and plums promise a first-class crop. 

 Strawberries are picking up wonderfully, and a moderate crop of apples 

 seems assured. In general the prospects are very flattering." — Clarence 

 Wedge, Albert Lea, May 31. 



"Apples promise well. Trees full of bloom. Plums are very well set. 

 Strawberries look fine. Blackberries and raspberries where uncovered are 

 are killed dead, and grapes also, but where properly covered are looking 

 well."— O. M. Lord, Minnesota City, Winona Co., May 30. 



"Plums promise fair, good in some varieties, poor in others. Apples a 

 light crop. Strawberries good. Gooseberries killed back and currants poor. 

 Raspberries killed back more than I expected. Some damage to apple trees, 

 but I think they will outgrow it."— C. E. Older, Luverne, Rock Co., May 30. 

 "Outlook not good for fruit. Winter hard on some varieties. Scarcely 

 any bloom on apple trees bearing heavily last year. Strawberries looking 

 very well. Plums will be a fair crop." — Jewell Nursery Co., Late City, 

 May 25. 



"Malinda. Longfield and Wealthy are in better shape than I had expected 

 to see them. Crabs and the hardy apples have suffered the least. Wild plums 

 are O. K. and some of the kinds that I bought. Compass Cherry trees look 

 sick; they seem to look worse as the days go by." — A. T. McKibben, Ramey, 

 Morrison Co., May 16. 



