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Mr. Mackintosh: They should be picked off and destroyed 
when they appear. That is the advice of Dr. Lugger, and that 
is the way we do it at home. 
Mr. Harris: Did it do any good? 
Mr. Mackintosh: That we can tell in the future. 
Mr. Harris: Idonot think it affects them after the first crop, 
and that takes all the plums on the trees. 
Mr. Anderson: Arewild plums as much affected with the 
pockets as tame ones? 
Mr. Mackintosh: Icould notsay,but I think cultivated plums 
are more subject to it. I have not been out in the woods very 
much; I could not say. 
Mr. Wedge: I think that my experience is that cultivated 
varieties are not more subject to the disease than the wild. 
There are some varieties of our cultivated plums, like the 
Cheney, that are usually very much injured by it, but I needed 
something like it to thin my Desota. I think the plum 
pocket in some varieties would prove a blessing. 
Mr. Harris: It was a benefit to the Cheney plum last year. 
I had some Cheneys that were nearly two inches in diameter. 
It was the same with the Desota. I never had a heavier crop. 
They yielded about bushel for bushel with the Rollingstone, 
after the pockets were taken off. 
Pres. Underwood: Then you advise cultivating pockets? 
(Laughter ). 
Mr. Harris: Yes, in somecases. Sometimes, it takes the 
whole crop of the Cheneys. 
VICE-PRESIDENT’S REPORT; SIXTH CONG. DIST. 
MRS. JENNIE STAGER, SAUK RAPIDS. 
In our district the extra early season and copious rains brought 
forward asparagus and other early vegetables and strawberries 
wonderfully, giving us good returns. The season of strawberries 
was very short, as all kinds seemed to ripen up at about the same 
time. Currants and gooseberries also did exceedingly well, ripen- 
ing immediately after the strawberries. Then came the drouth,and 
our raspberries and blackberries were almost a complete failure. 
There were no apples of any account. Plums bore well. We were 
not troubled with blight on those trees which had blighted other 
years. 
I have heard quite a number of persons say that Fay’s was nota 
prolific currant; but last summer proved the contrary, as I never 
had the common Dutch bear any heavier. 
Of grapes, we have had full crops and compact bunches of all 
kinds except Moore’s Early. 
