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Ohio, sixty per cent. 

 Oregon, thirty per cent. 



Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Michigan, 

 Maine, and Pennsylvania, report a total failure. 



PEACHES. 



The principal peach-growing sections in the United States, 

 report as follows : 



California, full crop. 



Colorado, half crop. 



Florida, nearly a failure. 



Georgia, total failure. 



Idaho, twenty per cent, of a normal crop. 



Maryland, total failure in the Blue Mountain ridge belt, 

 and report twenty per cent, on tidewater lands. 



Southern Oregon, very full crop. 



Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Ohio, about twenty per 

 cent, of normal crop. 



Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mis- 

 souri, Massachusetts, Montana, Mississippi, Michigan, New 

 York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode 

 Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the Virginias, all re- 

 port a total failure. 



PRUNES. 



California reports sixty-six per cent, of normal crop, rang- 

 ing from twenty to eighty per cent, in different sections. 



Idaho will have a half crop. 



Oregon and Washington will not have over twenty-five per 

 cent., these ranging from failure to one hundred per cent., 

 according to locality, the highest percentage in Oregon being 

 French prunes. 



The picture is not a brilliant one, as far as fruit prospects 

 are concerned. All of the reports state from a total failure of 

 one or all of their crops to some sixty per cent, of some par- 

 .ticular variety, which holds true throughout the world, except 

 two bright spots in Oregon, one being Eagle Valley, Union 

 County, in Eastern Oregon, and the other the Rogue River 

 and Umpqua valleys in Southern Oregon, where all varieties 

 of fruits, apples, pears, French and Italian prunes, peaches, 

 grapes, French walnuts and almonds have a full crop, while 

 other portions of Oregon share with the rest of the world. 



The reports are a unit as to the cause of these failures. In 



