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has been planted out about twenty years and is one of the very 

 best trees in my orchard, and there is the Autumn Streaked and 

 the Anis; I find them both very hardy, but the former blights 

 pretty badly at my place, and the latter has borne but little fruit 

 yet, although they have been planted ten years. The fruit is a lit- 

 tle under size and falls off the tree pretty badly, yet I think they 

 are both good trees to plant as they are sure to stay by us. 



Two or three years ago I got a fruit catalogue from E. Z. Teas, 

 of Dunreith, Ind., and in it I saw a fine cut of a berry that had a 

 new name to me, it was called Service Berry and described as be- 

 ing a half an inch in diameter and a fine thing generally, so I or- 

 dered a small lot and a few of Windham's Industry Gooseberries, 

 and some of Lee's Prolific Black Currents. I planted them all out 

 and the first winter killed all the gooseberries, root and top, and 

 the next spring the Service Berry bore a few berries, and behold 

 they were the same little dwarf June Berry that grew all over the 

 grub prairies here before we broke it up. The currents bore well 

 this season but I cannot say whether they are any better than the 

 Black Naples or not. 



REPORT FROM FILLMORE COUNTY. 



D. K. Michener, Superintendent. 



The apple is the only kind of fruit of any mention raised near 

 here. Mr. Moon, of Spring Valley, can tell you more about small 

 fruits than I could. The Duchess is the main reliance. Several 

 hundred barrels were shipped from Spring Valley the past season. 

 The Tetofsky, equally hardy, though not so many planted. 



Of crabs the Hyslop and Transcendent are in the lead — a great 

 many shipped west every season. There are a great many o ther 

 varieties of crabs raised, though not in quantities to ship. Since 

 the winter of 1884-85 only those varieties that passed all right are 

 being planted, namely, the Duchess and Tetofsky and the Wealthy, 

 on a small scale,though I still have considerable faith in the Wealthy. 

 Varieties of crabs planted now, are Hyslop, Whitney No 20, Straw- 

 berry, Minnesota, Beech's Sweet, &c, &c. I manage to have 

 Wealthy apples to sell every year at a good price. 



I could have shown you the past season of my own raising 

 Fameuse,Sweet Pear, Haas,Utter's Red, Malinda, &c.,but would not 

 recommend tbem, unless it is the Malinda. It stands the winter bet- 

 ter than the Wealthy, and the apple can be kept until spring and 

 then they are scarce and high. I only speak for this particular 

 location. We keep raising seedlings, and think it wilLbe the native 

 seedling that will produce the winter apple of the future; are fruit- 

 ing some that are very good. I have never gone into the Russian 

 apple planting business. There are but few trying them about 

 here. 



