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kill; many thousands of young apple-trees planted this spring ; grape prospect good. 
Winneshiek: Nearly all the pear-trees, many apple-trees and three-fourths of the grape- 
vines winter-killed. 
MissourL.— Crawford: Peaches all killed by freezing, with many of the trees; apples 
not hurt. Platte: Peach-crop will be a complete failure; most of the trees winter- 
killed. Holt: Apple-bloom very copious ; peaches winter-killed ; pears look well, but 
this fruit-is unreliable through blight. Ozark: Peach-trees mostly winter-killed. Saint 
Genevieve: All trees that bore peaches last year have been winter-killed. Cass: No 
peach-bloom. Vernon: Hail, on the night of May 26, beat the fruit from the trees to a 
greatextent. Maniteaw: Old peach-trees mostly winter-killed; young trees seriously 
injured. De Kalb: Peaches a failure. Shelly: Peaches all killed. Pulaski: Many old 
peach-orchards killed by severe weather; grape-vines starting vigorously. Daviess : 
Peach-buds all winter-killed, and many peach-trees badly injured. Jasper: Early apple- 
bloom killed; no peach-crop; trees badly injured by winter. Taney: Peach-crop win- 
’ ter-killed. Newton: Peaches all killed with many of the trees. Jackson: Apple-bloom 
very copious, but within a few days the blight has reduced the yield one-half. 
Kansas.—Montgomery: Fruit largely winter-killed. Washington: Peaches promise 
well in all trees three years old and upward; small fruits, good promise. Franklin: 
Peach-bloom all winter-killed. Riley: Apples, peaches, and pears nearly all killed by 
spring frosts. Leavenworth: Peach-bloom profuse, but fruitage thin; young and vig- 
orous trees stood the winter better than old ones; small fruits abundant. Woodson : 
Peaches entirely killed; all old bearing trees killed ; apples reduced one-half by blight. 
Morris: There will not be 5 bushels of peachesraised. eno: But few apples. Smith: 
Very many fruit-trees planted. Doniphan: Peach-trees, seeded and budded, generally 
killed; cherry-trees largely killed; pears a failure; apples and small fruits promising. 
NEBRASKA.—WMerrick: Fruit-trees with southern exposure were ruined by snow-drifts 
in April. Jinn: Have heard of no peach in the county; trees injured. 
CaALIFORNIA.—dlameda: Fruit injured by drought and frost. Lake: Peaches nearly 
all killed by frost; apples half killed. Sonoma: A very heavy and unusual frost 
visited the entire fruit region of the State just as the fruit was forming and the 
grapes in bloom, causing immense losses; Sonoma County, however, loses but a 
small percentage; peaches and grapes suffered most. Butte: Late frosts killed much 
fruit. Mendocino: Heavy frosts have ruined a fine fruit prospect; varieties in bloom 
were destroyed; apples badly injured. Nevada: Army-worm badly injuring fruit, es- 
pecially grape-vines. Placer: Late frosts cut down our fruit one-half. Napa: Grape 
erop injured severely by the frosts of April 3 and 4; crop of the old vines 40 per cent. 
below last year. 
OrEGON.—Lane: Fruit prospect good; better than last year. Clackamas: Late frost 
injured pears and peaches, yet these crops average higher than for many years. 
Urau.— Kane. Fine early prospect of fruit entirely blighted. 
