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JASPER COUNTY. 



Reports orchards in good condition. Fruit 8o per cent of a crop, 

 and medium in quality. 



Insects on the increase from year to year ; no particular effort is be- 

 ing made to check their ravages. 



Orchard planting has increased 20 per cent the last two years, and 

 90 per cent of trees planted last year are in good condition. 



LACLEDE COUNTY. 



Orchards in good condition ; some injury to fruit by cold wave and 

 hail storms. 



But few commercial orchards ; all kinds of fruit do well. 



WAYNE COUNTY. 



Conditions all good. Heavy crops of all kinds of fruit. 



No commercial orchards; but planting for home use, on the increase, 

 and of better varieties ; people beginning to cultivate a taste for fruit 

 growing. 



All kinds of fruit do well. 



RIPLEY COUNTY. 



Orchards in bad condition ; causes improper planting ; digging a 

 small hole, and wedging the roots down, starving the tree, using no fer- 

 tilizer and no effort to destroy borers, or other insect pests ; but where 

 proper care is taken, orchards are in good condition. 



Speaks of an apple tree 54 years old, healthy and vigorous. 



Has lived in Ripley courty 17 years, have had but one failure in 

 fruit within that time, that was in '86. An increase of 50 per cent of 

 orchard planting, some commercial. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Conditions good ; have had the best growing season, and crops for 

 years. The quality of fruit has never been excelled, taking all varieties. 

 Orchard planting on the increase ; but greatest attention is paid to 

 plums and pears. The Keiffcr is the principal variety grown ; and of 

 plums, the blue Damson. The number of trees planted the past year 

 about 20,000. 



