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berry, seventy-five; pears, twenty-five. Black Twig and Minkler not 

 more than ten; grapes will be full. 



Levi Chnbbnek, St. Louis. — Peach reports are for a small crop; one 

 orchard has one-third of the trees which promise a half crop. 



Y. E. Atwood, Carroll County. — Winter apples will give us a third 

 of a crop; pears are fair, cherries a fourth of a crop. Peaches, black- 

 berries and raspberries, none; strawberries will be plentiful. 



Mrs. A. Z. Moore, Cedar Gap. — Southwest Wright county will 

 have fifty per cent of an apple crop. Southeast, full sixty per cent Small 

 orchards through the lower part are full. Texas county reports sixty 

 per cent from her small orchards. There are no Ben Davis, no pears, 

 no peaches and no cherries. Grapes will give us half a crop. 



H. S. Wayman, Mercer County. — Apple prospect is for twenty-five 

 per cent. Willowtwig is the best at sixty per cent. Strawberries are 

 full, hardy small fruits are fair. Pears, plums and cherries will be 

 about half. 



G. A. Atwood for W^ebster County. — Four hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand apple trees have one-half crop of Ben Davis. 



A. i^elson. — Fruit growers from Webster county report a fourth of 

 a crop of w^inter apples. Peliable information from seventy-five mile^ 

 is for not over twenty-five per cent; if the scab comes it will be less. 



Sarcoxie. — This week will end Sarcoxie's berry harvest. There have 

 been reports published that our berry crop was a complete failure and 

 prices so ruinous that our growers would quit the business, but such 

 reports are purely fake and will not stand iuA'cstigation. Tt is tiue that 

 the heavy rainfall during the time the plants Avere in blossom cut the crop 

 short of what had been expected and injured the quality of the berries, but 

 Avhen anvone savs the growlers are ruined, it is not true. We are informed 

 that the returns so far received by the Horticultural Association show 

 $1.06 per crate for the combined grades, A., B. and X. Berries have 

 been selling for better prices during the past week and $2 was the quota- 

 tion for good berries on Monday, so there should be no reason for the 

 net average being below $1 per crate for this season. The Horticultural 

 Association has shipped about ninety-five cars and the Gaudy growers 

 about thirty-two cars to date and tlic total shipment will no doubt reach 

 130 car loads, exclusive of the express shipments for this season. 



