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enough, hoping to raise peaches for home use when they hit. No region 

 in the United States produces better peaches than ours. 



PEARS 



We feared to plant, becase of blight; but a few men, notably Mr. G. T. 

 Luckhardt, of our county seat, have succeeded well with them. There 

 is a new interest taken in pear growing. 



PLUMS 



Have been profitable — some years very much so — and by planting the 

 right varieties among each other, and then killing the curculio, can be 

 relied upon to bring good pay for the labor given. 



CHERRIES, 



Except the Early Eichmond, are not a regular crop, being sometimes 

 very heavy and again light. The quality is very fine. 



GRAPES. 



We hope soon to control the rot, or rots, and then grapes will be 

 as sure as weeds. In no place are they of better quality than here. 



STRAWBERRIES, 



When properly cared for, do very best. 



FOR RASPBERRIES AND FOR BLACKBERRIES, 



Our soil is a natural one. Perhaps no equal area in all the land has 

 produced more or better wild blackberries than did the southern end 

 of Holt county for many years, until fires set for that purpose destroyed 

 the bushes. 



CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES 



Have done only tolerably well on the high lands, but on the Missouri 

 bottom they bear crops that are simply immense. 



SHOWINGS OF HOLT COUNTY FRUIT. 



About fifteen years ago Mr. George Meyer took from his own 

 orchards in the southern end of Holt county to the great fair at St. 

 Joseph a large collection of apples, and easily took the first premium 

 over the three or four States competing. At the show of fruit made 

 at the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural society held at 

 St. Louis in the fall of 1880, Mr. N. F. Murray, with peaches Iroin his own 

 and his brother's orchards, carried off the honors and the highest pre- 

 mium for largest and best collection of peaches. Nineteen States 



