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especially to the growing of small fruits. It may not be profitable to 

 spend too much time on apple trees, but everyone can have an abun- 

 dance of choice home-grown small fruits of every kind. 



Very little attention is given to native plums, as they grow wild 

 and can be gathered by the hundreds of bushels along the shores of 

 our lakes and running streams, and the fruit is very fine in its season. 



Mr. Mellen, north of Curry, on the Tracy road, has a fine farm and 

 a good orchard. His trees look healthy and bear well. He exhibits 

 some fine apples at the fairs. He also raises fine crops of strawber- 

 ries and raspberries; I do not know what varieties. 



Alfred Terry, of Slayton, has a farm south of town, and is taking 

 a great deal of interest in fruit and ornamental trees. He is growing 

 standard and crab varieties of apples successfully. A number of oth- 

 ers might be mentioned who are engaged in fruit growing in this 

 county, and who find it both a pleasurable and lucrative occupation. 



STATE EXPERIMENTAL STATION. 



UNIVEK8ITT OF MINNESOTA EXPEKIMENT STATION OF THE COLLEGE OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



Report of Prof . Edward D. Porter, Supt., St. Anthony Park. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen : 



I should present to you a much more detailed report of the opera- 

 tions of our experiment station, were it not for the fact that my work 

 will be embraced in my own published repoVts, and it is not worth 

 while perhaps to duplicate the report. You will find a portion of what 

 I have to say in my first bulletin, which has been issued recently. I 

 will refer to that briefly. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



As the work of this Agricultural Experiment Station is now organ- 

 ized on a new basis, to meet the requirements of recent legislation, it 

 may be well to present a brief review of the work heretofore done in 

 this department. 



The act of Congress of July 2, 1862, donating public lands to the 

 several states, for the benefit of agriculture, and the mechanic arts, 

 authorized the expenditure of a sum, not exceeding ten per cent, of 



