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quarts, whiah he sold for ten cents per quart at his house ; this 

 wa=i the crop of 1881. 



Plums are not grown in this district to any extent. 



Grape culture, in favored localities, continues to be successful. 

 Worden, Delaware and some of Eogers' Hybrid, are the varieties 

 most generally planted. 



SIXTH disteict, g. w. pottee, mauston. 



Counties — Juneau^ Adams and Monroe. — The past season 

 has been one of unusual disappointment and loss to the fruit 

 growers of this district. Disappointment in not having apples 

 to supply their own tables, to say nothing of the few bushels 

 they have usually had for a friend or dealer at the village, and 

 the greater loss of the trees. About twenty-five per cent, of all 

 the orchard trees through this district are either dead, or so 

 badly injured that they will never recover, and many of them 

 were varieties that have been heretofore regarded as perfectly 

 hardy. If we were to have many such winters as that of 1880-81, 

 I should be very slow to recommend any variety as being 'per- 

 fectly hardy^ but hope never to suffer such a loss again, and 

 judging from the present winter, do not think we will very soon. 

 I think the dead trees will all be replaced next spring, but 

 greater care will be taken in point of hardiness, making quality 

 a secondary matter, and not try Baldwins, Greenings, etc., be- 

 cause they are good, and grow in the Eastern States. Experi- 

 ence teaches us we must plant only such varieties as are adapted 

 to cold Wisconsin. 



The varieties that came through last winter the best were Tetof- 

 sky. Duchess, Red Astrachan and Walbridge, the latter being 

 injured, but not as much as Pewaukee or Utters, while the Rus- 

 sets, Fameuse and Talman Sweet were much worse, and Ben 

 Davis the worst of all. Those who mulched their orchards in 

 the fall suffered alike with those who did not. The crab apple 

 crop was very light as a rule, although some trees were loaded. 

 But little blight was seen. 



Grape vines that were protected for winter came through all 

 right, and ripened a fair crop, but those who left their vines on 



