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Small fruits are grown with more success every year. The weather was 
rather too wet in the flowering season of strawberries, but in the eastern 
part of the county the crop was fair. 
Currants and raspberries had abundant crops everywhere. 
Grapes, blackberries and gooseberries are not grown here yet. 
Native fruits fruited abundantly. 
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REPORT BY L. R. MOYER, MONTEVIDEO. 
Judge Moyer: I have not prepared any written report. 
Perhaps I can give you in a few words a general idea of the 
condition of the fruit industry in our region. We do not 
succeed in raising many apple trees. A good many years ago 
I purchased some apple trees, but I think most of them have 
died. There are a few left yet with a few limbs living on the 
northside. Thecrab apples havealldied but one ortwo. The 
name of one of them is lost and the other I think is the Maid 
en’s Blush, and that gives us some very fine crab apples. We 
have not been quite successful with our plums out there, 
although some of the improved varieties have done pretty well. 
Last year we had a very large crop of currants, but our straw- 
berries have entirely failed for two years. I raised some rasp 
berries. Some of us have tried planting them in hills seven 
feet apart and laid them down, and taken care of them. A 
good many more have let them run wild, and my observation is 
that these latter people got a good many more berries. I don’t 
know that there is anything further that I can think of. I 
noticed at Minnesota Falls, a few miles from our place, that . 
the mulberry that was planted a few years ago seemed to be 
developing into a small tree. By the way, I will say in closing 
that I raised some grapes last year and they ripened very well. 
Mr. Sampson: I want to say one word in regard to Judge 
Moyer’s statement that the raspberry that runs wild yielded the 
largest quantity of fruit Ido not think the society ought to 
let that statement get out without the remark that the next year 
the yield would not amount to anything. 
