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generally and severely injured by frost. Monroe: Apples slightly injured by frost; 
peaches partly winter-killed. _ 
Kentucky.—McLean: Fruit greatly damaged by frost. Taylor; Frost spared the 
fruit of only a few sheltered localities. Laurel: Apples, peaches, and pears largely 
dostroyed after blooming. Spencer: Fruit prospects injured by frost. Livingston: 
Pear-blossoms dropped without maturing ; peach-bloom copious, but largely killed — 
in the low grounds by March frosts. Grayson: All the peaches and pears, and three- 
fourths of the apples, frost-killed. Zarue: Peaches killed, except in the hill country, 
by April frost. Nicholas: Peaches mostly fallen from the trees ; leaves crisped; erops 
will be light. Breckinridge: Peaches killed in all the valleys ‘and low grounds by the © 
frosts of April 26. Russell: Fruit almost an entire failure; found four apples on 
seventy-five trees; scarcely any peaches or pears. 
On10.—Logan: Peach-bloom nearly all killed. ‘Vinton: Fruit prospects small; prob- 
ably apples enough for home-consumption. Franklin: Apples ‘attacked by a black or 
dark-brown worm 12 inches long. Geauga: Peach-trees largely winter-killed; scarce 
a bushel of the fruit will be raised; only the hardier varieties of apples escaped. 
Defiance: Grape-vines generally winter-killed, and had again sprouted from the roots ; 
the sprouts were killed by the heavy frosts of May 31. Hardin: Copious pear-bloom, 
but little or no fruitage. Jefferson: Peaches nearly a failure; not one-tenth of an 
average. Warren: Few apples; no peaches; a few pears and cherries. Sandusky: 
Peach-trees all winter-killed ; pears winter-killed, with many trees. 
MicHiGgan.—Apples and pears in full bloom; peach-trees nearly all dead; fruit of 
all sorts much injured. Lapeer: Peaches nearly all winter-killed; few blossoms. 
Wonroe: Peach-trees nearly all killed; have not seen a peach-blossom. Newaygo: 
Fruit-trees generally injured by winter; peach-trees nearly all ‘killed; some other 
fruits promise a fair crop. Calhoun: Peach-trees nearly all killed. Cass: Peach-trees 
generally killed. Barry: Peach-trees mostly killed. Mecosta: Peach-trees frozen 
down to the ground; pear-treés greatly injured. Mason: Very little peach-bloom. 
Clinton: Apples barely out of blossom. 
INDIANA.—Switzerland: Peaches on bottom-lands killed by late frosts. Ripley: 
Apples and pears not more than a fourth of a crop; few peaches; many peach-trees 
winter-killed. Hendricks: Quite a number of trees in young orchards winter-killed ; 
in an orchard of 500 white pippins, one-third will die. Kosciusko: Hard winter killed 
nearly all the peach and many of the cherry trees. Morgan: Peach-trees killed or | 
badly injured. Union: Blight cut down the pear crop one-fourth ; apple-trees injured 
by caterpillars, and forest-trees by measuring-worms. Brown: Peach-trees all killed 
except on the highest table-lands. Newton: Grape-vines, and peach and pear-trees, © 
damaged by the very cold winter. 
ILLINOoIs.—Champaign: Nearly all the peach-trees and many ‘apple-trees killed. 
Clinton: Peach-trees all killed; apricots and cherries killed, as also half the pears ; 
many apple-trees also killed. Marion: Many fruit-trees and most of the fruit-killed ; 
gooseberries and currants willyield asmallecrop. Williamson: Early apples frost killed 
in March and April. Macon: All the old peach-trees killed and 20 per cent. of the 
pears; grapes injured; Catawbas stood the winter the best of all the varieties. Hdwards: 
Tent-caterpillars destroying apple-trees and forest-trees; peach-trees largely winter- 
killed. Randolph: Eighty per cent. of peach-trees winter-killed. Wayne: Poorest 
show for fruit ever known; ruined by cold and caterpillars. Edgar: Peach-trees 
winter-killed; many apple and pear trees injured; nearly all grape-vines, except Con- 
cords and Clintons, were killed. Moultrie: Peach-trees killed. Putnam: Peach-trees 
all winter-killed. Henry: Apple prospect poor. Fulton: Apple-trees badly injured ; 
one-sixth will die; peach-trees all dead; pears nearly all killed; Flemish Beauty stood | 
the winter best. Macon: Peaches all winter-killed. McHenry: Grapes and early 
strawberries slightly injured by frost. Piatt: Old peach and pear trees mostly killed. 
Montgomery : Peach-trees mostly killed. 
Wisconsin.—Richland: Apple-trees largely winter-killed. Clark: Frost of May 30 
destroyed all early varieties of fruit with most of the apple and pear bloom. Doug- 
las: Many fruit-trees set out last year have been destroyed by mice. Saint Croix: 
Apples blooming; some early buds and leaves killed by frost, May 11. Dunn: Frosts 
injured fruit. Vernon: Apple-bloom abundant, but deceptive; orchards of Western 
Wisconsin greatly damaged last winter. 
MINNESOTA.—Dodge: Many varieties of apples winter-killed. Steele: Fruit some- 
what affected by the severity of the winter; transplanted trees never looked better. 
McDonald: Peaches a failure; no bloom. Hennepin: Copious early bloom not followed 
by fruitage ; trees seemingly injured. Goodhue: Apples-trees greatly injured. 
Iowa.—Tama: One-fourth of pear-trees injured by winter. Decatur: Orchards 
mostly young; bloom very great; thousands of trees just coming into bearing. Louisa: 
Fruit-bloom abundant, but the frnitage probably ruined by cold rains and northeast 
winds. Marion: Peach-trees mostly winter-killed. Grundy: Nearly all the pear-trees 
killed with blight. Des Moines: Apple-bloom abundant, but the trees were so badly in- 
jured that many will die, and the fruitage small. Harrison: Peach-trees liable to winter- 
