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anew or go back. This check of the foliage affected the whole sea- 

 son, both in fruit and wood growth. In some varieties there was not 

 sufficient power to develop the little fruit that had escaped the frost, 

 and it blasted; and in those varieties that bore sparingly even, as 

 the Duchess, Keswick's Codling and Golden Russet, the fruit was 

 imperfect in form and inferior in quality, because there was not 

 vitality enough to develop it. The foliage of some of the hardiest 

 varieties was affected the most; as the Transcendent, Fall Orange 

 and Plumb's Cider. The Tetofsky was not affected in this way, but 

 bore no fruit. Later in the season, a severe drought all along the 

 lake shore seriously affected the development of tree and fruit. 



Mr. Geo. P. Peffer, of Pewaukee, had experienced the same 

 trouble "as Mr. Stickney. Even the foliage of the plum tree, tame 

 and wild, was injured, not apparently by the frost, but by the cold 

 weather following. The leaves curled up, withered and dried up, 

 and the fruit, where there was any, fell off. His Flemish Beauties 

 cracked on the northwest side of the tree, the fruit was bitter, and 

 the foliage poorly developed. With him, the trees orr the south- 

 eastern slope suffered the most, or more than on the southern. 



Mr. Phillips, of West Salem, had in a measure escaped the inju- 

 ries suffered by most of the fruit growers in the southwestern part 

 of the state. He thought he had about two-thirds of the apples 

 raised in La Crosse county. His trees were mostly young; had 

 been set three or four years, and they had as much fruit as they 

 ought to carry. There are no apples on the low lands or in the 

 valleys, and generally but a light crop on the ridges. Mr. Wilcox 

 had also informed him that it was the same in the country west — 

 no fruit on the prairie, all on the high land. 



Mr. Plumb thought that manv causes tended to injure the fruit 

 crop of the season. It was not all the frosts of May, or the sub- 

 sequent chilly weather. Our trees had^been weakened by the heavy 

 fruitage of the previous year, and had not yet recovered their 

 vitality; insects, too, had done much injury. The canker worm and 

 leaf roller had caused much damage in many parts of the state. 

 Various causes operate together, and each intensifies the effect of 

 the others. It is specially noteworthy that high locations have 

 suffered the least, and in some instances seem to have escaped in- 

 jury entirely. 



Mr. Kellogg remarked that in his experience and observations 



