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time found they had started too much, and about 9-10 of all 

 late planted trees perished, even some that were mulched 

 and sometimes watered. 



SECOND DISTRICT— N. N. PALMER, BRODHEAD. 



Counties — Green, Dane, Jefferson, Rock. 



Conditions of Temperature, etc. 



The last year has been comparatively exempt from the 

 violent storms and extreme cold weather that we sometimes 

 have. The early spring of '86 was very wet, causing springs 

 to break out on ground that had been worked for twenty 

 years, and had always been dry. The wet spring was fol- 

 lowed by the most severe drouth I ever knew in this dis- 

 trict. B. F. Adams writes me, that at Madison it covered 

 eighty five days. While the drouth was general there were 

 some local showers that somewhat relieved its severity. 

 The temperature was generally high, causing the pre- 

 mature ripening of all fruit, diminishing the size, and re- 

 ducing the crop, in many places fully one half. I will esti- 

 mate that strawberries were reduced one-half, raspberries 

 two-thirds, and blackberries were a total failure; apples 

 were a light crop; ripened early and did not keep well; 

 grapes were a good crop. 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg has kindly consented to write up the 

 weather record for me. Hi.; report will be found elsewhere. 



Varieties Fr%ited. 



Apples — Summer apples, Tranparent, Saps of Wine, Te- 

 tofsky. Red Astrachan; Autumn, Duchess, St. Lawrence, 

 Fall Orange, Wealthy, Fameuse, Utters, Winter, Golden 

 Russet, Willow Twig, Talman Sweet, Roman Stem, Seek 

 No Further, Walbridge, Pewaukee, Crabs, Whitney No. 20, 

 Brice's Sweet, Frankeendon and Hyslop. 



Raspberries — Gregg, Ma mmouth Chesters, Doolittle,Gou- 

 hegan, Ohio, Cuthbert, Philadelphia, Crimson Beauty, 

 Beauty, Hansell, Brandy wine, Shaffer's Colossal. 



Blackberries — Snyder, Stone's Hardy, Ancient Briton. 



