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MINNESOTA CITY TRIAL STATION. 



O. M. LORD, SUPT. 



Additions of stock to the trial grounds this spring are as follows: 



Eight apple trees, from J. S. Harris, La Crescent. 



Scions, from H, Knudson, Springfield, Minn., of the sand and Com- 

 pass cherries. 



Four varieties of plums. Scions from Theo. Williams, Omahaj 

 Neb. 



Twenty-eight trees from the University Farm (Prof. Green), apple, 

 pear, plum and cherry; also gooseberries, Douglas spruce and 

 ponderosa. 



From J. W. Kellogg, Wis., Marshall, Wm, Belt and Brandj^wine 

 strawberries. 



The season, though backward, has been favorable to newly set 

 trees and plants. Fruit promised well until the frost of June 1st, 

 which ruined early small fruits. Apple trees that did not bear last 

 year gre well set. Plums, cherries, gooseberries and currants were 

 not materially injured from the frost, while grapes were killed back. 



WINDOM TRIAL STATION. 



DEWAIN COOK, SUPT. 



Fruit trees came through the winter of '96-7 in good condition. 

 Raspberries, strawberries and most other small fruits, owing to the 

 large amount of snow that covered the ground, wintered in excel- 

 lent shape. The following varieties of apples set for a large crop: 

 Duchess, Tetofsky, Okabena, Whitney, Minnesota and Grandmother; 

 but the frosts of May 29th and other dates destroyed at this station 

 all prospects for apples. No blight has yet appeared, but we have 

 the leaf scab, which I think is the cause of so many varieties being 

 non-productive. This will apply especially to the Wealthy. 



I can say but little about plums, as they went the way of the apple 

 crop, except a few specimens that had not shed their hulls. None 

 of the trees have more than a few scattering plums. The freeze 

 destroyed most of the fruit buds of the cap varieties of raspberries, 

 as also the blackberries and dewberries, but the suckering varieties, 

 like the Turner and Brandywine, were comparatively uninjured 

 Currants promise about one-half a crop or less. Juneberries are 

 dropping their fruit, and I think there will be no crop. Strawber- 

 ries set in for an extraordinary crop, and we can't tell yet just how 

 much the frosts have reduced it, but it is considerable. We shall 

 not begin to market them until about July 4th. Our last hard frosts 

 at date of writing was June 7th. 



