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Minnesotra.—Dakota: Grass of all kinds is very heavy. Houston: Grass seldom 
better. Goodhue: Red clover severely damaged by successive freezings. 
Iowa.—Lyons: The hay-crop will be below average; nine-tenths of the clover in 
pasture and meadow killed last winter. Zowisa: Clover was nearly all frozen out.. | 
Des Moines: Clover about all winter-killed; timothy will make about half a crop. Lee: 
Many timothy-meadows badly damaged last year by grub-worm, which, with little rain 
for a month, will make the yieldshort. Monona: Clover reduced by the severe winter. 
Missouri.—Plaite: A great deal of rain in June; clover has been injured. Gass: 
Pastures extra. Bollinger: Clover and timothy good. Soone: All timothy-meadows 
very much injured by the white-blossom weed. De Kalb: Clover and timothy very 
heavy. Harrison: Grass fine and strong. Manieaw: Timothy badly frozen out. Ozark: 
Clover, timothy, and pastures look fine. Phelps: Abundant showers, and the pastures, 
clover, and timothy are looking finely. Hay is being cut. Barry: Continuous showery 
weather through May and June brought the grasses forward rapidly. Schuyler: Grass 
in all its conditions very fine. 
Kansas.—Douglas: Hay is excellent. Leavenworth: Grasses never were better. 
Butler: Pasturage excellent. Osage: Clover and timothy the finest I ever saw. 
CALIFORNIA.—San Luis; Drought and grasshoppers have made sad havoe with our 
pastures. Tuolumne: The early cessation of the winter rains has caused the pastures 
to dry up nearly two months earlier than usual. Humboldt: Pastures are looking extra 
fine. A ’ 
OREGON.—Multnomah: The season throughout the entire Willamette Valley favorable 
for grass. Douglas; On account of our dry summers, timothy as a meadow lasts but 
ashort time. Most farmers depend on raising wheat and oats, and cutting green for 
hay. Columbia: Timothy looking exceedingly well. Polk: More rain in June than 
usual, erass-crop presenting a fine appearance. 
FRUITS. 
-In the northern sections of the country, the intense cold of last winter, 
and in the southern, late severe frosts and freezes in the spring, did im- 
mense injury to the fruit-trees aud grape-vines, and, only in a less de- 
gree, to the strawberry-vines. Vast numbers of peach-trees and many 
apple-trees were killed outright, (as will be seen from the subjoined ex- 
tracts,) and very many more were seriously injured. The injury to 
apple-trees was more serious and extensive than was apparent when the 
report for May and June was made up. Many trees that leaved out 
and bloomed profusely have since died; and where apples appeared to 
be well set the complaint is general that they wither and drop off. In- 
sects are doing more or less injury to the portions of the crop which are 
othetwise in fair condition. In Kansas an “apple-tree blight” prevails 
somewhat extensively. It is described as closely resembling the “ pear- 
tree blight.” 
Apples are below average in condition in every State except Oregon, 
(where but few are produced,) which is 101. The States in which the 
condition is lowest are Tennessee, 36; North Carolina and Illinois, 50; 
Delaware, 53; Connecticut, 55; Kentucky, 56; Massachusetts, 58; South 
Carolina, 60; Rhode Island and Wisconsin, 66; Indiana, 69; New Jer- 
sey and Texas, 70; Pennsylvania, 71; Iowa and Missouri, 73; Maine, 
Maryland, Georgia, and Minnesota, 75; New York and Ohio, 76; New 
Hampshire, West Virginia, and Kansas, 77. 
Peaches are below average in condition in all the States producing 
them ; the lowest is in Ohio, 26; Tennessee, 33; Pennsylvania, 35; 
Kansas, 36; Illinois, 42; South .Carolina, 44; Michigan, 45; Connecti- 
cut and Missouri, 48; North Carolina, 54; West Virginia and Kentucky, 
56; New Jersey and Maryland, 58; Massachusetts and Nebraska, 61; 
Indiana, 63; Texas, 66. The highest condition is in Rhode Island, 98; 
and the next in Oregon, 95. 
Pears, the condition of which is not reported by figures, promise 
relatively better than apples and peaches. 
Grapes.—The average condition of grapes in Nebraska is represented 
