REPORTS OF COUNTY SOCIETIES. 



COLE COUNTY. 



OflBcera — J. B. Brooks, President, Jefferson City; T. M. Barker, 

 Vice-President, Centertown ; A. J. Davis, Secretary, Jefferson City : 

 F. M. Brown, Treasurer, Jefferson City. 



Fruit trees generally stood the drought well, and have gone into 

 winter quarters in good condition. About 90 per cent of the straw- 

 berry and blackcap raspberries died out during the months of Sep- 

 tember and October. Red raspberries and blackberries withstood the 

 drouth well, and were not seriously damaged. The following varieties 

 of apples gave best results with us the past season : Rawls' Janett, 

 Ben Davis, Wine Sap, Gilpin, Missouri Pippin, Jonathan, York Im- 

 perial, Huntsman and Grimes' Golden. Our peach crop was a fine 

 one, Elberta, Henrietta and Piquetts, late, heading list for profit. 

 Smock, Old Mixon, free, and Crawfords, late, were well loaded with 

 tine fruit. Crosby bore an abundant crop, but is too small for a profit- 

 able commercial peach. Gold Dust, light crop, too small. Champion, 

 large, fine peach, but not over 10 per cent of full crop. 



There was a good crop of cherries in our section the past season. 



Quite a large quantity were shipped from Jefferson City. Early Eich- 



mond is the one most generally known in our locality. Plums bore a 



good crop of the natives. Wild Goose is the only profitable sort. 



Damsons, common blue, and Shropshire gave good results. Japans and 



Abundance were the only ones that did not rot badly. Pears were 



killed in the bloom, causing almost a complete failure of this fine fruit. 



Grapes are but little grown in our county, but what few vines there 



are grown yielded an abundant crop the past season. Our fruit men 



have done fairly well the past season, and there will probably be quite 



a large increase to the acreage of young orchards in our county next 



spring. 



A. J. Davis, Secretary. 



