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has been favorable, a late bloom was developed and there is a good 

 prospect of a respectable crop. There are but few plum trees in 

 that section; of these, the cultivated varieties are well loaded with 

 fruit, while the wild varieties were much injured by the frost. 

 Grapes bid fair to yield a good crop, and the raspberries were never 

 better. The advantage of elevated locations was clearly shown by 

 the effect of the frost on Mr. Greenman's grounds. His land is 

 about fifty feet higher than other places around, and though there 

 was a slight appearance of frost, not the least injury was done, even 

 to tender plants. 



Senator Arnold said that in the northwestern part of the state 

 all the fruit except strawberries had been killed, with the excep- 

 tion of a few places along the Mississippi river; there the high 

 elevation and the warm air from the river protected it; even the 

 wild plums and crab-apples were all killed, Transcendents and all. 



Mr. Clark, of New Lisbon, gave a discouraging account of the 

 effect of the frost in his section. Crab-apples all killed; grapes 

 also, with a very few exceptions; strawberries wintered well, but 

 will yield one-half or one-third of a crop; currants and gooseber- 

 ries stripped by worms; apples all killed except occasionally a Tal- 

 man Sweet and a few other trees with a little fruit on. 



Mr. Plumb and Mr. Palmer, from the southern part of the state, 

 reported a general destruction of the apple crop, except on the 

 high grounds; cherries are a small crop; plums an entire failure, 

 and the trees nearly ruined by the frosts and the green aphis. 



President Smith gave a very encouraging report of the fruit pros- 

 pects at Green Bay. Grapes were injured somewhat, but apples, 

 pears, crabs, and the small fruits generally, promised a full yield. 



Mr. Hirschinger, of Freedom, said some of the orchards in his 

 section were injured in the foliage and in fruit, but there was a 

 prospect of considerable fruit. With him Golden Russet and 

 Rawle's Janet were unharmed, while the other hardy varieties were 

 injured; currants would be only a partial crop, but the other small 

 fruits never promised better. 



Hon. A. A. Arnold, of Galesville, read the following paper on 



