Farm,
second; and Marshall Hertig, third.

Score
First--D. C. Webster 87-1/2
Second--P. L. Keene 81-1/2
Third--Marshall Hertig 77-1/2
Fourth--Timber Lake 76-1/2

There were twelve men in the contest.

Judges: Prof. T. M. McCall, Crookston; Frederick Cranefield, Wisconsin;
Prof. E. C. Magill, Wayzata.

Annual Report, 1915, Collegeville Trial Station.

REV. JOHN B. KATZNER, SUPT.

It is with pleasure and satisfaction that we are able to make a material
correction of our estimate of this year's apple crop as noted in our
midsummer report. We stated that apples would be about 15 per cent of a
normal crop, and now we are happy to say it was fully 30 per cent. We
picked twice as many apples as we anticipated. Considering that, as
Prof. Le Roy Cady informed us, the apple crop would be rather small
farther south and that they would practically get no apples at the State
Farm, we may well be satisfied with our crop. In general, the apple crop
was not so bad farther north as it was farther south in the state. This
may have been due to the blossoms not being so far advanced here when
the frost touched them as farther south.

The best bearing varieties this year were the Wealthy, Charlamoff and
Duchess, in the order named. These three kinds gave us the bulk of the
crop. The Wealthy trees were not overloaded, and the apples were mostly
fine, clean and large. The Charlamoffs were bearing a heavy crop of
beautiful, large-sized apples and were ahead of the Duchess this year.
The Hibernals, too, were fairly good bearers. Most other varieties had
some fruit, but it was not perfect; it showed only too well the effect
of frost. More than half of the blossoms were destroyed. Many flowers
were badly injured and though they were setting fruit the result of
frost showed off plainly on the apples. While some had normal size and
form, many of them were below size, gnarled, cracked or undeveloped and
abnormal. Most all of them had rough blotches or rings about the calix
or around the body. Malformed apples were picked not larger than a crab,
with rough, cracked, leather-like skin, which looked more like a black
walnut than an apple.

Of plums only some young trees gave us a good crop of nice, perfect
fruit. The old trees have seen their best days and will have to give
place to the new kinds as soon as they are tested. We have quite a
variety of the new kind