Two high schools entered the contest, namely Central High, Minneapolis, and Wayzata High.  Central High, of Minneapolis, won first with a total score of 697.8.  Wayzata ranked second with a score of 672.

Minneapolis won on apples and potatoes, Wayzata winning on the corn judging.

Chester Groves, of Wayzata, was high man of the contest.

County Adviser K. A. Kirkpatrick, gives a banner to the winning school.  Judges of the contest were:  Apples, Prof.  T. M. McCall, Crookston; potatoes, Prof.  R. Wellington, A. W. Aamodt; corn, Prof.  R. L. Mackintosh.

Fruit Judging Contest.

(At Annual Meeting, December, 1915.)

One of the important features of the Wednesday afternoon program of the State Horticultural Society was the apple judging contest.  This contest was open to all members of the society and students of the Agricultural College.

The contest consisted of the judging of four plates each of ten standard varieties.  The total score of each contestant was considered by allowing 10 per cent for identification of varieties, 40 per cent for oral reasons and 50 per cent for correct placings.

The prizes offered were:  First, $5.00; second, $3.00; third, $2.00.  D.C.  Webster of La Crescent, ranked first; P.L.  Keene, University 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.