200 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



For May the thermometer ranged from 50° to 81° at noon. 



For June the thermometer ranged from 70 to 90°, hottest, 

 •June Uth, 70 to 90°. 



For June, twenty-one days 80 to 90° at noon with very 

 light showers. 



For July, twenty-nine days 80 to 98° at noon, the hottest 

 July 25th, being 73 to 97° the 28th being G2 to 98° — July 9th 

 cool, 59 to 65° with fine local showers. 



August, twenty- four days from 80 to 94° at noon, hottest, 

 August 21, 67 to 94°; fine showers the 4th and 5th with gen- 

 eral rains the 16 Ch to the 2Lst; August 21st, very high winds 

 blowing off nearly half the light crop of apples. 



September, thirteen days 80 to 90°; the 11th, 12th, 15th, and 

 30th, very destructive winds; light frosts the 14th and 17th, 

 and severe one the 29th, .but the grape crop had been se- 

 cured. 



The severe winter of 1885-6, 29 days, giving a total of 274° 

 belcw zero, killing many of our already injured trees, tlie 

 freeze of May 7th, while the apples were in full bloom, tlie 

 three months drouth, the terrible winds, the excessive heat, 

 the ravages of the codling moth, and the destruction by the 

 apple gouger and curculios, give increasing evidence that 

 apple production in Wisconsin is an up hill business. 



Occasionally there have been small orchards on high 

 ground, clay ridges, that have borne all that was possible 

 even after the loss by winds, but the crops in this district 

 have been very light, apples selling in the fall at 40 to 60 cents 

 per bushel, and in winter at $3 to $4 per barrel. 



The drouth checked the growth, and when the August 

 rains and heat came many trees started into second growth 

 and even apple blossoms were not uncommon in September, 

 leaving our trees in poor condition to withstand a severe 

 winter. 



The only full crop of fruit the past season was grapes, 

 which sold at 4 to 6 cents per pound, about three-fourths of 

 which were Concord, Bal-Warden, Delaware and Janesville, 

 with a few other varieties. Most of the Rogers have been 

 discarded, and but an occasional man is found with sand 

 enough to plant many of the new varieties. 



