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mens for a single plate and I did not exhibit any of the fruit at the 

 Fair as I intended to do. The list of apples that we recommend down 

 there for cultivation is the Duchess of Oldenburg and Wealthy: and 

 for trial, the Duchess of Oldenburg. 



REPORT OF F. J. SCHREIBER, MOORHEA.D. 



Mr. Schreiber, of Moorhead, was requested to make a verbal report. 



Mr. Schreiber. Mr. President, I would say that in our cold section 

 of Minnesota there are quite a number of amateurs trying to raise 

 fruit, but thus far the prospects are not very good. I have never re- 

 ceived any cions but we are working and experimenting right along. 

 One of my neighbors located near the Red River in a little timber 

 belt has made a partial success with a small orchard of Transcendents. 



President Smith. Have you an orchard or are you engaged princi- 

 pally in growing small fruits ? 



Mr. Schreiber. I have a little of everything; but you know I am 

 located on the open prairie about three miles southeast of Moorhead. 

 I have several thousand trees all told, including evergreens and fruit 

 trees. My trees exist but I cannot say that they are very healthy, at 

 least not so thrifty as I would like to see them. The Transcendent 

 seems to be about the only variety of apple grown to any extent, and 

 that only along the river where there is shelter; some two or three or- 

 chards there are doing very well. Mr. Probstfield, an old settler, 

 has an orchard of bearing trees, mostly Transcendents. He has ex- 

 perimented with the "Ironclads" but says there is hardly anything as 

 hardy as that variety, and they are dying off gradually. The Black 

 Walnut is raised there. One of my neighbors has some hard Maples 

 which are doing well. He is also making a partial success with hardy, 

 Russian apples. The orchard is three or four years old but not yet in 

 bearing. 



Mr. Underwood. Have you the Russian Mulberry and is it hardy? 



Mr. Schreiber. I have a thousand small trees from six to ten inches 

 high. They stood well last winter. I lost very few trees but they 

 were killed back some. 



President Smith. How are small fruits, strawberries, etc., doing? 



Mr. Schrieber. Quite well. There is an abundance of wild straw- 

 berries on the praries. I think all that went into raising small fruits 

 have been making a success of it. Cultivated strawberries are doing 

 well. Evergreens do well; I have several thousand trees. The White 

 Cedar is doing well. 



