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Reports of different counties regarding the prospect for fruit 

 crop of this year. 



Mr. VanFleet of Salem, IMo. — We have a fine prospect for fruit 

 this year. Our apples are fine. Red June and Ben Davis are full. I 

 never saw a finer prospect for peach. I will have to thin ni}' Elbertas 

 down about half. 



Question : Is not your fine prospect due to the fact that most 

 of your orchards are young? 



VanFleet. — It may be. We have a great many young orchards 

 but some old ones. 



Mr. Nelson. — Our crop is not as good as it is sometimes. I do 

 not think we have but about half a crop. But the young apple trees 

 are all better, the}^ have a fine crop on them. -Now our peach crop is 

 all right. We haven't many very large orchards but they are certainly 

 fine. We will have to thin them and thin heavily. The varieties of 

 apple are Ingram, Gano, and Winesap. These all are pretty full. 

 But the crop of Ben Davis is ver}^ light indeed. 



Mr. Evans. — In Clay county, our apple trees will all fail with 

 the exception of Ben Davis. Our orchards are hurt by the Canker 

 worm. What peach trees we have are all full. Would say our per 

 cent. Avill be about 50. 



Mr. Goodman. — The 3'oung trees, with us, will be full, about 100 ■ 

 .per cent, on them. But trees of about 15 years will not have more 

 than one-half crop. Taking it on a whole Jackson coun'y will have 

 about one-half crop. 



W. A. Gardner. — Our apple crop is about 125 per cent. Splendid* 

 crop. A full crop of both peach and apple. The varieties are Ben • 

 Davis, very full, and York Imperial, Romen Beauty, Jonathan, and 

 the Clayton, well, nearly all varieties. Ben Davis is the main variety 

 down there. 



Mr. Atwood of Springfield, Mo. — Our crop of apple is better than 

 ever. Newton county has the best prospect they ever had in this 

 world. Good crop nearly all through the southern part of Missouri. 



Mr. Haseltine of Greene county. — About three-fourths of a crop in 

 Greene county. Some trees are very full and some a little shy. We 

 have Ingram and Ben Davis mostly. 



J. J. Riser of Gentry county. — Jonathan, Ben Davis, and Willow 

 Twig bid fair to have about half a crop. Our peach are entirely 

 killed. . - 



Mr. Waters of Canton, Mo. — The apples of Northeast ^Missouri 

 were injured by the cold weather. The Ben Davis did not bloom out 

 well. The Jonathan look pretty well, but did not blossom. I would 

 give our apple crop at about 40 per cent. Our peaches are fijie. 



