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result has been dead trees. Last fall we secured a few trees from 

 a near-by nursery and carefully planted half of them and heeled in 

 the balance. In the spring we got a few more trees as a spring 

 delivery, and at once set them and the heeled-in trees. The result is, 

 that nearly every one of the fall set and the spring delivered trees 

 are dead, while the trees heeled in through the winter have made 

 a good growth and look promising. The trees were several va- 

 rieties of apple and twenty varieties of plums. 



J. S. Park's apple exhibit of 200 varieties at Blue Earth Co. Fair, in 1900. 



One of the two seedling trees from the Gideon homestead has 

 made a satisfactory growth ; the other is sickly and not likely to 

 live. Owing to my inexperience in this business and the late 

 setting apart of our station, I am not prepared to report on indi- 

 vidual specimens, which I hope to do hereafter. 



SAUK RAPIDS TRIAL STATION. 



MRS. JENNIE STAGER, SUPT. 



Last spring all vegetation started beautifully. The trees blos- 

 somed and the birds sang. Then came a severe frost which killed 

 not only blossoms and leaves but, in some cases, the trees also. The 

 frost seemed to move in waves, taking sometimes two and three 

 rows and leaving other rows entirely unharmed. So we were not 

 bereft of all. The plum orchard, on a northeast slope, escaped 

 all harm. After this came a long continued drought, which low- 

 ered our hopes to zero. The first of June we had a good rain and 

 then another drought, but we were surprised with a fine crop of 



