GENESEE COUNTY. 305 



Flint 30,000 



Fenton 5,000 



Linden 2, 6 .^5 



Swurtz Creek 2,700 



Davison Station 2,500 



Mt. Morris. 10,500 



Clio . 3,500 



Geneseeville 500 



Rogersville 3,000 



Grand Blanc 2,500 



Total 62,825 



Adding 25 per cent for fruit not yet shipped the aggregate becomes 78,500 

 iDushels ; the price paid for this fruit will average sixty cents per bushel, 

 amounting to $47,100. 



There are in the county three extensive evaporating establishments, whose 

 aggregate production is fifty tons of evaporated apples, the product aggre- 

 gating $16,000. There are in the county nine jelly factories, consuming 

 32,500 bushels of second grade apples, from which is produced 13,000 gal- 

 lons of jelly, worth $9,750. From a still lower grade of apples are produced 

 9,126 barrels of cider, worth $25,000. The evaporating. establishments pro- 

 duce from the refuse 600 barrels of vinegar, worth $2,000. The whole, as 

 above, aggregating $99,850, as the cash value of the apple crop of Genesee 

 county for the year 1882, which is regarded as much below the average. 



To the above Mr. Aldrich adds for peaches $3,000 ; for pears, cherries and 

 plums, $3,000; for small fruits, $3,500; for grapes and wine, $4,000; for 

 cane syrup, $5,000 ; giving a total of $118,450. 



In a short paper by Mr. C. T. Kosenkrans, he gives the names of the best 

 five winter apples for profit, which he names in the order of their value for 

 this county as follows : Eed Canada, Baldwin, Northern Sj)y, Ehode Island 

 Greening and Golden Eusset. 



In a paper on " Stone Fruits for Genesee County," A. S. Partridge, of 

 Flushing, mentions six of the Mazzard class of cherries as desirable for this 

 county, viz.: Bigarreau or Yellow Spanish, Black Tartarian, Burr, Downer 

 and Governor Wood; also two Morellos, Early Eichmond and Late Kentish. 



Of peaches he names Barnard, Early and Late Crawford, Coolidge, Hill's 

 Chili, Smock Free, Large White Cling, Tippecanoe Cling and Richmond. 



Of plums he remarks that they can be grown in any part of the county, 

 and upon any of its soils. Among those considered most desirable are the 

 following: Green Gage, Bavay's Green Gage, Canada Egg, Cois Golden Drop, 

 Imperial Gage, Lombard, Washington, Prince's Yellow Gage and Smith's 

 Orleans. 



In 1883 the County Horticultural Society reports that the bad season had 

 prevented the ripening of sugar cane, and hence no syrup had been manu- 

 factured; also that the same cause had nearly destroyed the strawberry crop, 

 and thus interfered with the holding of a contemplated strawberry exhibi- 

 tion. 



The report further states that the awarding of premiums at the fair of the 

 'County Agricultural Society had been committed to the horticultural society, 



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