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bushels per tree and several speak of yields of from twenty 

 to twenty-five bushels per tree, 



A Nemaha county apple grower tells of one and one-half 

 acres of Jonathans returning him |331.55 per acre and a frac- 

 tion of an acre of Grimes' Golden yielded at the rate of |1,000 

 per acre. Pie goes on to say that his Gano returned |958 from 

 three and three-fourths acres and his Winesap |5G0 from four 

 and one-half acres. 



A AVashington county grower reports |5,000 from a fifty- 

 acre orchard, only a part of which bore well this season. A 

 Valley county orchardist reports $2,500 received from a 

 twenty-five-acre orchard and the purchasers picked the fruit. 

 An orchard of twenty-two acres in Antelope county four miles 

 from the edge of the great sand hill district returned to the 

 oAvners |2,000 last season. 



The cherry, vihile it is not grown commercially to any great 

 extent, is to be found on almost every farm in eastern Ne* 

 braska. The sour cherries are grown almost exclusively and 

 such varieties as Early Richmond and Montmorency do ex- 

 ceptionally well when given attention. Many trees of later 

 varieties have died out during the last eight or teii years as a 

 result of a fungous disease of the leaves, but the varieties men- 

 tioned have been affected but slightly. 



Grapes can be grown very successfully in practically all 

 of the eastern part of the state. They are found growing on 

 almost every farm and there are also a number of commercial 

 vineyards. The grape blooms so late in the spring that it is 

 seldom injured by frosts, and consequently is one of the sur- 

 est of fruit crops. A number of varieties withstand the win- 

 ters south of the Platte without protection, while most varie- 

 ties require a slight protection in northern Nebraska. Well 

 tended vineyards near good markets pay handsome dividends. 

 One and one-half acres five miles southeast of Lincoln re- 

 turned to the owner |725 last season and about the same the 

 season of 1908. 



Strawberries are another important fruit crop in this sec* 



