iy ON _ ANNUAL REPORT. Se 
the south side. Cause—hot spring sun. I have never had a tree 
firebligbt yet, and only know of one orchard within ten miles that 
had a few Transcendent stock with fireblight last summer, 1874. 
The only insects that are injurious to fruit trees are worms of two 
varieties, green and brown, that unless hunted off and killed will 
eat the leaves entirely off. 
Plum trees are infested with caterpillars that make inane webs 
or nests in the branches. The best remedy I have found for de- 
stroying them is to smoke them with tobacco. Put tobacco leaves 
in an old pan with fire in and hold it under their nests and it is sure 
death and does: not injure the tree or fruit. 
I have visited the principle orchards within ten miles around and 
find the prospect for fruit isgood. Currants full crop, gooseberries 
and raspberries are well loaded with fruit. Grapes, but few are in 
bearing. ‘ 
REPORT OF L. D. MILLS, GARDEN CITY, BLUE EARTH COUNTY. 
JUNE 28th, 1875. 
C. Y. Lacy: 
Dear Sir:—Yours of May 29th received, informing me of my 
appointment as member of General Fruit Committee of Minnesota 
State Horticultural Society. Cannot send a report that will be of 
much interest, except, perhaps about grasshoppers, and the extent 
to which they have damaged small fruits, as you say, small fruits 
are the principal subjects of discussion for the meeting of June 
30th. 
Currant bushes are nearly stripped of both foliage and fruit. 
Hoppers eat off the stem of fruit, allowing it to drop; also eat 
some of the fruit. 
Gooseberries eaten some, but not as bad as currants. 
Strawberries, foliage not eaten much ; fruit about one-third eaten. 
Raspberries, foliage nearly all eaten, and fruit damaged to a con- 
siderable extent, but if hoppers emigrate soon (which they proba- 
bly will) there will be half or two-thirds of a crop. 
Wilson’s Albany is the most successful strawberry cultivated 
here, and about the only one that is grown to much extent. Of 
raspberries, the Doolittle, Black-cap and Philadelphia are the ones 
mostly cultivated, as they are the most successful. Houghton 
Seedling Gooseberry is the only one grown here. It is very pro- 
lific, and is grown with good success. 
Grapes do well where proper care is given them, but are not very 
extensively cultivated in my immediate locality. Mr. Kenworthy, 
