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have beeu in the State. Small fruits are all right. My l)lack 

 walnuts came through O. K., although they made a vigorous 

 growth and were unprotected. Am sorry I cannot make out a 

 full report, but I will join your society soon and lend all the aid 

 I can to such a society, in my weak way. 



FEOM J. C. KRAMER, OF LA CRESCENT. 



Apples have had a severe winter. What trees the frost did 

 not kill the mice have gnawed. Have lost eighteen healthy, 

 thrifty trees, mostly seedlings and Duchess in bearing order; 

 some about six inches in diameter. Mr. Brown, here, had all his 

 grapes destroyed by mice. Duchess apple the best with me, and 

 least injured. Generally trees killed back two or three years' 

 growth, and the joints appear to be turning black. I do not 

 look for a crop this year. Have some seedlings not in the least 

 injured, some of them have not fruited yet; will send you sam- 

 ples of the best. My locality is sheltered from the east, and 

 some of my trees are twenty-one years old. One seedling, which 

 I think entirely hardy, has been injured some by the whiflietrees 

 in plowing, and it may not live much longer. Last year's growth 

 about one-third killed back. Situated in section nine, La Cres- 

 cent township. Soil sandy clay, east slope. 



Strawberries are in good condition so far. Raspberries are 

 frozen badly. Currants are in good condition. Blackberries: 

 The Snyder is frozen to the ground. Grapes: Those that were 

 laid down are healthy; the softer sorts are hurt badly. Think 

 the Concord will come out all right. About half of last year's 

 growth injured. 



I have about a dozen seedling trees of a variety that I have in 

 orchard twenty-one years of age, and from which I have had 

 eleven crops; has taken several premiums; tree slightly hurt. 



FROM H. G. GROAT, ANOKA. 



Small fruit looking well, considering the severe winter. The 

 Turner raspberry alive to the tips; lost Ruby, Clark, and Black- 

 caps — frozen down to the snow line. Strawberries are all right 

 where heavily mulched; those that were uncovered were all 

 frozen more or less. 



