100 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



GREENE COUNTY. 



J. C. BuRRUSS, of Carrollton, Greene county, says : 



" The summer Apple crop was unusually large. Every tree, of every kind, in 

 ever)' place, was full. The winter apple crop is above average — some orchards very 

 full, others only reasonably so. Some varieties dropped badly. 



" Peaches were an entire failure in most orchards, but an occasional one had a 

 good crop. 



" Grapes almost all rotted, except on young vines, where an occasional crop was 

 secured. 



"Small Fruiis are little raised here. Crop about an average, except blackberries, 

 which were very abundant, especially the wild ones." 



JERSEY COUNTY. 



Orville a. Snedeker, for Isaac Snedeker, of Jerseyville, Jersey 

 county, writes as follows : 



" The Apple crop can be said to have been veiy fair the county over, though not 

 heavy. While some orchards have been very heavily loaded, others have had a very 

 light crop. Among the best bearers for the year, I think, have been the Smith's Cider 

 and Wine Sap. They have been comparatively free from the bitter rot. What did 

 appear was perhaps caused by the wet season. More free from scab than usual, though 

 from some cause unknown the crop did not hang on the trees until matured and ripe, 

 but fell off badly. This is so of all varieties. 



" Peaches. — Were but few raised ; scarcely any maturing in a good first-class 

 manner. Cracked open, and were scabby and bitter, and j)oor satisfaction indeed for 

 any one to try and have a feast on the delicious fruit, unless he relished worms and 

 bitter fruit. 



" Plums, Apricots, Nectarines and Quinces, were poor. 



" Cherries were rather a light crop. 



" Blackberries, Raspberries, Strazuberries, Gooseberries and Currants, were all 

 abundant, which was perhaps due to the wet weather which predominated during the 

 earlier part of the season. 



" Vegetables were all abundant, except cabbage, which was poor. A little louse 

 seemed, with the help of the cut worm, to destroy several of the plantings. 



" Flowers of all kinds were abundant. And all kinds of trees made a good 

 growth. 



" Grapes, I had forgotten to say, were a poor crop. Many varieties were bitter 

 and sour ; fell off badly, on account of wet weather ; and many kinds rotted on the 

 vines." 



James E. Starr, of Elsah, Jersey county, says : 



" My own experience and observation with regard to the fruit crop has been, the 

 past season, (juite limited. In the early spring, I made some careful observations of 

 some thirty varieties o^ Apples, which, with exceptions, promised finely. The result has 

 not fulfilled the promise. The scab utterly ruined many sorts, the worst being the Ort 

 ley, the Carolina Red June doing but little better. This trouble is now the most formi- 

 <lable that the apple-gro« er has to overcome. .Some varieties do not seem to be affected 

 l)v it, and by limiting ourselves to those orcharding may be made a success. 



" The Early Harvest was a failure. About the period of re-opening, the weather 

 was warm and damp, so that a few days ripened and ruined the entire crop. I ha\e 

 noticed (what has probably been noticed by others) that the leaves of those apple trees 

 whose fruit is scabljy are unhealthy ; they have upon them spots somewhat like the 

 ap])earance of mildew upon the grape leaf. Whether there is any connection between 

 this sjjot and the scab 1 am unable to determine; but certain it is that you find the two 



