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Washington, of the census commissioner, and the duplicate copies 

 of the returns, instead of being deposited with the secretary of 

 state, as heretofore, have been left with the county or district 

 clerks and are hence inaccessible. 



COMPARATIVE YIELD OF APPLES — CROP 1879 AND 1878. 



Counties. 



Bushels — 

 1879. 



Walworth. 



Rock 



Waukesha 



Grant 



Dane 



Jefferson . . 

 Kenosha . . 

 Dodge 



Racine 



Milwaukee. . . 

 Fond du Lac. 



Green 



Iowa 



Washington . 

 Columbia. . . . 

 Sheboygan. . . 



Sauk 



La Fayette. . . 

 Green Lake. . 

 Winnebago . . 

 Crawford 



61,342 

 57,383 

 56,919 

 44,108 

 42,416 

 38, 404 

 35,623 

 27, 295 

 26,284 

 25,810 

 25,447 

 25,400 

 25,053 

 23,460 

 20,919 

 19,876 

 19,866 

 15,600 

 12,179 

 11,125 

 10,100 



Bushels — Gain 

 or loss. 



gain 

 gain 

 gain 

 gain 



loss 

 gain 



loss 

 gain 

 gain 



loss 

 gain 

 gain 



loss 

 gain 



loss 

 gain 

 gain 



loss 



loss 

 gain 



2,000 

 8,000 



22, 000 

 6,000 



13,000 

 3,000 



15,000 

 6,000 

 8,000 



10,000 



12,000 

 5,000 



11,000 

 5,000 

 6,000 

 4,000 



10,000 

 1,000 



17,000 



22,000 

 1,000 



Stand ing- 

 1879. 



1 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 13 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 



Standing- 

 1878. 



1 



2 



6 



4 



9 



3 



13 



8 



15 



16 



5 



14 



19 



11 



18 



12 



23 



17 



10 



7 



22 



Insect Depredations have been fully as extensive, and with 

 one exception as injurious as in past years. The codling moth 

 has not attracted as much notice as usual because there were ap- 

 ples enough for all and to spare. The curculio has been faithful 

 to his mission and harvested the crop of plums throughout the 

 state. The tent caterpillar and canker worm have maintained 

 their foothold in most of their old colonies, and have extended 

 into new fields. In some localities the Cecropia moth, one of the 

 finest of the moth family and usually regarded as ornamental 

 and harmless, has been so numerous as to completely strip large 

 trees of their foliage, causing much loss. The cabbage worm, the 

 exception noted above, has been much less destructive in many 

 places than last year, but still has done a vast amount of damage. 

 The partial exemption from the total loss of the crop is attrib- 

 7 — Hort. 



