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most of which were ripe at the time of the tornado, we should have 

 been in much worse condition. We fruited one hundred and three 

 varieties in all, including forty Russian sorts. The best bearers of 

 summer were Duchess,Early Champagne and Tetofski;fall, Wealthy, 

 Hass and Cooper; winter, Rollins Pippin, Elgin Beauty, Pewau- 

 kee. 



R. L. Cottrell sold fruit to amount of $225, a good showing for 

 1883, but not equal to 1882. E. B. Jordan is one of the most ex- 

 tensive fruit growers in the state, but we have not been informed 

 as to the number of bushels produced. We understand that he 

 sold fruit to the amount of |3,000, the past season. M. W. Cook, 

 $900; M. J. Hoag, $790; E. Leonard, $300. There was a large 

 amount of fruit raised in my senatorial district, but I have not had 

 time to gather in the statistics. The strawberry and raspberry 

 crop was all l^he most selfish natures could ask for. Gooseberries 

 and currant crop but moderate. We fruited this past season for 

 the first, a new seedling raised from the Houghton by W. 0. Crit- 

 tenden of Dover. The fruit is a size larger than its parent, and we 

 think better in quality. We think it bids fair to supercede both 

 the American and Houghton seedling gooseberry. Owing to early 

 frost grapes were almost a failure. A. W. SIAS. 



Neglected to state at the proper place that the Wealthy stands head and 

 shoulders above all other early winter varieties, and that Wm. Somerville, one 

 of our most successful fruit growers, says he has raised fifty bushels from one 

 hundred trees, six years old. a. w. s. 



FRUIT REPOBT FROM THE OWATONNA 

 DISTRICT. 



The past season has been a very trying one to the fruit interests 

 of this section of the state. And the question of variety was never 

 of more vital importance than at the present time. 



Heretofore we have had hopes of several varieties of standard 

 apples, but now we have come to regard the Tetofski and the 

 Duchess as the only well known varieties that can be planted here 

 with a fair prospect of success. With the former this did not seem 

 to be the bearing year, whilst the latter would have produced a 

 good average crop but for the heavy wind of July 2 1st, which 

 almost entirely destroyed the fruit and ruined many trees. 



