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Thanks are due to 0. M. Lord, Chas. Luedloff ; Carver, Dewain Cook, 

 and Joe Wood, Windom; S. D. Richardson, Winnebago City, and J. 

 0. Barrett, Browns Valley, for favors received. 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION AT FARIBAULT. 

 Bif 0. F. Brand, Superintendent. 



This station is on comparatively high timber land. The surface soil 

 is a deep, rich, black loam, underlaid with a yellowish and blue, 

 porus clay subsoil; soil naturally moist; exposed to west and souths 

 protected by higher ground north and east; the valley of the Strait 

 being less than a mile west and less than a mile south; the river being 

 about 150 feet lower than our station. 



Here we never have been able to raise a good tree or get fruit of any 

 account from Faraeuse, Perry Russet, Golden Russet, Haas, Red As- 

 trachan, or Talman Sweet. Such early bearing sorts as Price's Sweet 

 or Wealthy have borne one good crop as young trees and then died. 



In 1877 we planted about one thousand two-year-old Wealthy which 

 nearly all died in 1884. In 1875 we budded a large number of crab 

 trees with Miller's seedlings of the Duchess; all of the crab trees on 

 which we budded were killed with blight, except two Beaches Sweetj 

 those two are fine, large trees and have borne fruit for nine or ten 

 years. One of them is an apple a few days later than Duchess and 

 not quite as large; less acid than the parent, but otherwise almost an 

 exact reproduction of Duchess. An examination since the extreme 

 cold of Jan. 21, 1888, (48'' below zero), and also since the thaw 

 which has taken place since the extreme cold, shows no perceptible 

 injury to the wood. The original tree of this variety, now about 

 twenty years old, is still in good condition and a heavy bearer. Tlje 

 other tree bears an apple very much like the Janet, and seems to be 

 equally hardy. In quality it is third rate or about like Lieby or Hi- 

 bernal, as known to us. The young trees of this variety are as hardy 

 as Duchess. It forms a low, spreading top, similar to Leiby. We 

 have one seedling about nine years old which bore a fair crop in 1886. 

 The fruit is nearly as large as Fameuse, of fair quality, about a month 

 later than Duchess; seems to be crab wood. 



We also have a crab or Hybrid thirty-two years old, called the 

 Berry, named after the originator, the late Hon. J. M. Berry of Min- 

 neapolis. The fruit is the size of Transcendent, about the same 



