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sorts, are verj' vigorous and making- pretty trees, but have not yet 

 produced much fruit. Our Juneberry plants are loaded with fruit, 

 as is usual with them. This j^ear we are again making a study of 



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the prevention of tomato rot, varieties and comparison of the yields 

 of potatoes from Northern and Southern grown sets and a special 

 study of potato machinery. We have set out an orchard of 650 seed- 

 ling apple trees, many of them from hand-crossed seed; put out a 



