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amount of the cost of said treatment, removal or destruction, and 

 if not paid to him within sixty days thereafter, the same may be re- 

 covered together with the cost of action. 



Section 8. Any person violating the provisions of this act or 

 offering any hindrance to the carrying out of this act, shall be ad- 

 judged guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction before a 

 magistrate or justice of the peace, shall be fined not less than ten 

 dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for each and every 

 ofifense, together with all the costs of the prosecution, and shall stand 

 committed until the same is paid. 



SMALL FRUITS IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA. 



H. H. CHAPMAN, SUPT. SUB-EXPERIMENT STATION, GRAND RAPIDS. 



There is practically no prairie in northeastern Minnesota. 

 Every farm becomes such only by dint of such labor as our fore- 

 fathers underwent in New England and Ohio. But the soil resem- 

 bles much more closely New England than Ohio conditions, there 

 being but little of the clay ancf black loam soils peculiar to the latter 

 state, which made the labor of clearing yield such rich returns. 



Ours is a frontier section and like all such has its proportion 

 of shiftless as well as industrious settlers. The growing of small 

 fruits on a large scale for market will be limited for some time to 

 come, first, by the fact that so little of the soil is subdued to any 

 kind of agriculture; second, by the indisposition of settlers to diver- 

 sify or specialize while the main struggle for a livelihood is press- 

 ing them so hard; third, by the distance from market and poor 

 roads, which handicap many of them. 



Here and there, where local conditions are favorable for grow- 

 ing and marketing, men are found specializing in strawberries and 

 other fruits, with good results. When strawberries are grown com- 

 mercially this far north, they have the decided advantage of a late 

 market. At Grand Rapids the crop ripens between the 4th and 18th 

 of July. 



Wild fruit is very abundant, especially raspberries and straw- 

 berries. The blueberry crop is more uncertain, but in favorable 

 years there is never more than a small fraction of the crop gathered 

 for market — the labor involved being greater than the returns. 

 High bush cranberries are abundant in favorable seasons. 



These native fruits supply the settler's table for the trouble 

 of picking them, and delay the advent of the day when the culti- 

 vated varieties will take their place. In the main, small fruits are 

 now grown in northeastern Minnesota, in a small way, as the set- 



