id well. It is a
wonderful plant producer, having a very heavy, dark green foliage, it
seems to be a good bearer of large, dark red berries.

With the wood on the fruit trees thoroughly ripened, and fruit buds in
good condition, we may look ahead to the future with courage, believing
that all things come to him that waits in Minnesota, providing he
hustles while he waits.

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RED ROSE BEETLE IS EASILY KILLED.--Did you ever wait patiently
in the spring for your favorite Japanese rose to bloom and find when the
buds were ready to burst that it was scaly and spotted around punctures
made by the red rose beetle? Then did you vow once more to destroy the
beetles when you saw the roses begin to wither from punctures made by
the beetle in the stem?

The destruction of the red rose beetle is simple, according to a
circular recently issued by the Minnesota state entomologist, University
Farm, St. Paul. The method is to cultivate the ground around the rose
bush early this spring and cultivate it again in the late fall. This
will destroy many of the beetles, for they live in the soil in the
winter. Then a few of the pests can be hand-picked and destroyed.

If they are still too thick, they may be removed next fall for safety to
next year's blooms. The beetle lays its eggs in the hip of the rose.
These can be seen after the rose is in full bloom as a black spot,
covered over with no noticeable depression. The growing pests leave the
old blossom by the middle of September and go into the soil until next
spring.

The bush should be examined in the latter part of August for any flower
hips containing insect larvae and all found should be plucked and
burned. A few hours' work will insure a beautifully blooming bush next
year.

Annual Report, 1915, Jeffers Trial Station.

DEWAIN COOK, SUPT.

The 1915 apple crop at this station was a complete failure, owing to the
freezes of late May and early June. This apple failure, so far as I have
been able to ascertain, was prevalent over the entire county of
Cottonwood, although we could hear of plenty of apples being grown only
a short distance over the county line in all directions excepting to the
west of us.

[Illustration: A windbreak at Dewain Cook's, mostly white willow.]

The season has been one of cool weather and much rainfall, so much so
that although we had no killing frosts this fall until October 5th, yet
no corn or melons