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and in some cases a light setting of buds indicating a liglit bloom. 

 However the major part of the reports indicate a prospect for a good 

 bloom on American sorts and light bloom on foreign sorts. 



PEARS. 

 The prospect for pear bloom, is excellent. Some report injury 

 due to blight and light setting of buds, owing to the excessive drouth 

 of last summer. 



RASPBERRIES. . 

 Raspberries are in fiad shape. A good many reports state tha^ 

 canes are entirly killed and others from one-third to one-half aead. 

 Part of this trouble is due no doubt to anthracnose and the extreme 

 drouth of last season. Prospects are on an average poor. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



The strawberry prospects are anything but encouraging for 

 bumper crop this year. The major part of the reports indicate 

 patches are in poor condition. The d;outh of last summer is.j'espon- 

 sible. Old beds were badly injured and spring set beds did not make 

 the usual number of plants. A few report excellent prospects. 



Blackberries are generally reported in good shape. 



Grapes are reported in good shape and prospects excellent for 

 a crop. 



Peach buds are reported injured from nearly all parts of the slat-?, 

 where grown. Some reports sta'e that nearly all the buds are dead and 

 others 9 per cent alive. Ave. aging all reports received an averag-^ of 

 33 1-3 per cent are alive. The buds still alive may have vitality 

 enough to b'ocm an dset fruit so that a fair crop may be assured. — 

 "April Horticulture." 



FRUIT PROSPECTS IN NEBRASKA. 



July. 



Reports from over Nebraska received by the secretary up to 

 July 7th are not as encouraging as prospects earlier in the season had 

 indicated they would be. The effects of the extreme drouth of last 

 season are becoming more apparent as the season advances. In all 

 uncared for and only partially cared for orchards some trees died last 

 year, others went into winter with the promise of living, but did not 

 leaf out this spring; others partially leaved out and still others came 

 out in leaf and blossomed full, but didn't have vitality enough to carry 

 the fruit through the season and a heavy June drop was the result. 

 In those orchards where up-to-date care has been practiced the trees 

 are in good shape and prospects are good for a crop this year after pro- 

 ducing a crop last season. These orchards have from 20 to 30 per cent 

 better prospects than the unsprayed and uncared for orchards. A 

 good object lesson is to be drawn from the drouth of last season. A 

 fruit tree cannot be set out and left to shift for itself with the expec- 

 tation that it will continue in a vigorous, healthy condition, producing 



