uestion: If the above treatment had been given every second or third
row throughout orchard, what would the results have been?

Strawberries and raspberries proved their superior ability to withstand
the assaults of King Boreas and Jack Frost. Strawberries were in blossom
and were saved from total loss by a two or three inch blanket of wet
snow that fortunately preceded the frost. Consequently they are reported
as fair to good crop. Raspberries, owing to the abundant and regular
rainfall, are reported from all over the district as a fair crop. One
grower having one-half acre of the St. Regis everbearing red raspberry
reports having ripe berries from the last week in June to the 8th day of
October, when a big freeze-up put them out of commission. This one-half
acre produced 2,000 pints, that sold for fancy prices. Also the
everbearing strawberries are reported as making good and proving their
claim to recognition as an established institution in the fruit world.

A few of the largest growers report spraying with lime-sulphur and
arsenate of lead. However, the rainfall was too abundant at the right
time (or wrong time) to get best results.

Very little blight is reported as present the past summer, and what
little there was yielded readily to the pruning knife applied five or
six inches below infected wood, being careful to sterilize tool in
solution of corrosive sublimate. The most serious injury from blight is
caused by its attacking tender sprout growths on trunks or large
branches. The blight runs very rapidly down the tender wood, penetrating
to the cambium layer, where it causes cankers, often girdling entire
trunk and killing tree outright. This is especially true of the Virginia
crab and Wealthy apple.

Trees and plants came through last winter in A1 condition as a
consequence of a mild winter, and this fall they go into winter quarters
with abundance of moisture and well ripened wood.

Considerable nursery stock was planted last spring with excellent
results, due to plentiful supply of moisture from spring to fall.

While fruit growing in Minnesota is not so extensively engaged in as in
some reputed fruit growers' paradises we read about, I wish to state
that the South and East (to speak in the vernacular) "has nothing on
us." I have reliable information that the same freeze that cleaned us
out up here in the North did the same trick for growers at Mobile,
Alabama. Therefore, I advise members not to yield to