Tj^ial C!tatioi^s. 



MIDSUMMER REPORTS, 1901 . 



CENTRAL TRIAL STATION, UNIVERSITY FARM, 

 ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



PROF. SAMUEI, B. GREEN, SUPT. 



These summer reports from the experimental stations are not 

 supposed to have in them the exact data that would naturally be ex- 

 pected in an annual report, but they are a sort of report of progress, 

 such as one would give to a friend in a few minutes conversation. 



The season, as a whole, has been very favorable thus far, and 

 our nursery stock and fruit plants have come through the winter in 

 excellent condition, there being very little winter-killing. The out- 

 look now is for a crop of strawberries, raspberries and plums. Ap- 

 ples will be rather light, this being the off year, but some trees have 

 set heavily. Our cherries promise a fair crop. Our seedling beds 

 are in as good condition as perhaps we have ever had them, and if 

 present indications hold we shall have about 3,000 seedlings of Rus- 

 sian olive, 16,000 buffalo berries, 14,000 Pyrus baccata, 500 high 

 bush cranberries, and perhaps ten or fifteen thousand seedling pines 

 and spruces. The campus is in excellent condition, and the frequent 

 rains have renewed the lawns so that but little artificial watering has 

 been required. Shrubs never bloomed better, and our show of tulips, 

 irises and peonies has been first class. The only insect that has been 

 especially abundant with us is the plant aphis, which has infested 

 snowballs, box elder, elm and a few varieties of plums. I have pre- 

 pared some new hoop tents, with the intention of smoking our plum 

 trees to rid them of lice, as earlier in the season it seemed as if it 

 would be necessary to resort to some such treatment ; but at present 

 the necessity is not apparent, largely due I think to the fact that the 

 beating rains and lady bugs have checked the ravages of the lice. 



While our experiment work has been very successful, and we 

 have closed perhaps the most successful year in the history of our 

 school of agriculture, yet we have met with a very serious and re- 

 grettable loss in the death of Dr. Lugger, who was well known to 

 most of the members of our society. He had been connected with 

 the university farm for thirteen years, and his death is the first break 



