Ko. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 439 



ELK COUNTY. 



Apples, pears and grapes do well. Only the hardiest kind of 

 native peaches are grown. Japan plums succeed in favored locali- 

 ties. All sorts of cherries can be. grown. Fruit is very uncertain 

 on land less than GOO feet above the creek level, as late and early 

 frosts kill the buds. Apples can be grown on land 100 feet above 

 creek level, which is about 1,200 feet above sea level. All the late 

 winter varieties should succeed in this elevated country. 



ERIE COUNTY. 



All kinds of fruit succeed, and large quantities are grown and 

 shipped out of the county. The grape belt has a world wide reputa- 

 tion for the quantity aod quality of its product. Fine Baldwin, 

 Spy and King apples are sent from here as can be found anywhere, 

 but they ripen early and are generally marketed before the holidays. 

 Canning factories take large quantities of cherries, plums, peaches, 

 Kieffer pears (which are sold to the public in cans labeled Bartlett), 

 (luiuces and currants. All varieties of plums and all varieties of 

 cherries succeed. Grape growers are making their principal plant- 

 ings of Concord, Niagara, Moore's Early and Delaware. It is a poor 

 peach county generally, but in certain parts of the grape belt are 

 found some fine orchards. 



Corry is a poor section for fruit, being too far from the lake shore. 

 At Platea many vineyards are being pulled out on account of grape 

 rot. Growers are just beginning to spray. 



FAYETTE COUNTY. 



While fruit cannot be profitably grown for market in many parts 

 of Fayette county on account of the fumes from the coke ovens which 

 i«jure its appearance, yet on elevated land away from the coke 

 ovens, all kinds of fruit can be profitably grown. Most varieties of 

 winter apples ripen in the fall, but York Imperial and Rome Beauty 

 can be grown for late winter. Baldwin and Grime's Golden for 

 early winter. Northern Spy ripens in the fall and drops from the 

 tree before maturity. Peaches, plums and cherries must be planted 

 on high ground to e'scape late frosts. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Franklin county is destined in the near future to become the apple 

 orchard of Pennsylvania. Large plantations have recently been 

 made of Ben Davis and York Imperial, and others still larger are in 



