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it on long enough to cool the plants before you take the water 

 away, but you must leave it there long enough to cool them. 



Mrs. Franklin: I want to say that we only have a small 

 patch, about 20x30 feet possibly, of strawberries, and the second 

 year we got over fifty quarts more of strawberries off it than we 

 did the first year? How do you account for that? 



Mr. Rasmussen : In the home garden I would not advise 

 replanting every year. You can take care of them in such nice 

 shape that you can keep them three or four years. We are apt 

 to talk too much on the commercial side of it. 



Annual Report, 1916, Vice-President, Third Congressional 



District. 



JOHN K. ANDREWS, FARIBAULT. 



In this district nearly all fruits excepting strawberries were 

 quite deficient in quality and quantity. Very wet, cold weather 

 in June, followed by a hot, dry July and August, are what our 

 fruit growers attribute this deficiency to. 



Of apples we had in most parts a fair crop, but of a poorer 

 quality than usual, excepting where the trees were sprayed. 



Plums. — Ranged from nothing to a very light crop. 



Cherries. — About the only cherries we raise in this district 

 are the Compass cherries, which bore some this year. 



Grapes. — A light crop of good quality. 



Blackberries were a decided failure on account of the very 

 hot, dry weather in July and August. 



Raspberries. — Reports on these are very uneven, ranging 

 from no crop to a very good one. 



Strawberries. — The cool, moist weather in June was very 

 favorable for strawberries, which returned a good yield, No. 1 in 

 quality. Most patches were reported October 15 to be in good 

 condition for 1917. 



Not much interest is taken by planters in general about con- 

 trolling blight or in spraying the orchards. Wherever spraying 

 is practiced the growers seem satisfied that it is the proper thing 

 to do. The difference between sprayed and unsprayed orchards 

 was very marked this year, the unsprayed fruit in many places 

 being worthless. 



Our trees and bushes , came through last winter in good 

 shape and were ripened up well this fall, but the ground is 

 extremely dry, and it seems very probable that we may have 

 some winter injury to some of our less hardy trees and bushes. 



