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dead or dying from the effects of last winter. De Witt : Apples average in condition, 
but lamentably deficient in quantity ; also grapes, Lfingham: Apples have dropped 
off ; no peaches ; over one-half of the trees winter-killed. Fulton: No peaches ; apple 
almost an entire failure. Hancock: Peach-trees and some apple-trees badly injured by 
the winter ; tender kinds of grapes killed. Anox: The appie-crop a total failure ; 
many trees dying from theeffects of the winter. Lawrence: The apples have nearly 
all fallen off. No peaches ; trees nearly all killed. Macon: Grapes few—the Catawba 
the only kind that has any. Moultrie: Apples a failure. Putnam : Apple-trees very 
much injured by the winter; many dead, and more will die. Tazewell : Peach-trees 
_mostly killed by the winter, and apple-trees badly injured; many will die. Vermilion : 
Bearing peach-trees nearly all winter-killed, and apple and cherry-trees considerably 
injured. Warren: Last winter injured fruit-trees of all kinds, killing many apple, 
pear, plum, and sweet-cherry trees. All tender varieties of grape-vines, with a part of 
the Concords, suffered to some extent. In orchards of 500 trees, notan apple to be 
found, though the bloom was fuller than usual. White: Apples and peaches dropping 
off badly. Boone: Apples not affected by canker-worms doing well, but many orchards 
are being denuded. Hdwards: The tent-caterpillar has riddled many orchards, and a 
terrible hail-storm completed the destruction. No peaches. Massac: Apples and 
peaches somewhat injured by the cold last spring. Ogle: Most of the apples have 
fallen off. Some ofthe fruit-trees, and the tender varieties of grape-vines, were killed 
or injured last winter. Raspberries that were mulched are doing well. Afercer : The 
heavy bloom of fruit-trees will result in but a small crop. Franklin : Apples drop- 
ping off very much. Peaches nearly a total failure. The winter caused much damage 
to the grape-vines. 
WIsconsin.—Clark : Apples, grapes, and strawberries injured by cold winter and 
hard frosts in May. /Washington: Five per cent. of the apple and pear trees dying; the 
trees blossomed out beautifully ; three weeks after, they looked in a sickly condition, 
and now the leaves and fruit are drying up. Brown: The bloom of apples was very 
profuse, but a cold night during the blooming season seems to have destroyed much of 
the fruit. Richland: Apple-orchards winter-killed; look very bad; grape-vines badly 
winter-killed. Walworth: Fruit comparatively a failure. Dodge: ‘The frost in May 
nearly destroyed all the apples, pears, and strawberries; will not be more than one- 
tenth of acrop. Vernon: Apples a failure; the bloom deceptive, and over half the 
trees dead or injured. Callumct: Peach-trees nearly all killed, and other fruit-trees 
and grape-vines injured very much, last winter. 
MINNESOTA.—Mower: Fifty per cent. of the apple-trees and grape-vines were killed. 
Douglas: The last winter injured young orchards and killed some entirely, leaving 
only the crab species uninjured, Jsanti: The extreme cold of the winter did immense 
damage to our young orchards. Olmsted: The severe winter destroyed many kinds of 
standard-fruit trees, supposed to be quite hardy, and a large amount of small fruit. 
Ramsey: The winter killed a large portion of the apples, pears, peaches, and plums. 
Goodhue: Apple-trees, with few exceptions, very much injured by successive freezings ; 
many bearing-trees ruined; grapes have suffered from the same cause. 
Iowa.—Clarke: The yield of fruit promises to be extraordinary. Lyons: From 5 to 
10 per cent. of the bearing apple-trees killed last winter; most of the trees that are 
now dead blossomed and threw out leaves; peach-trees all killed; 50 per cent. of the 
plum-trees; 10 per cent. of the grape-vines. Guthrie: Grapes winter-killed, more than 
I ever knew them; even Concords, both old and young, killed to the ground; apples 
bloomed wonderfully, but the hard winter destroyed a great many. Harrison: Apples 
succeeded well, and are planted in large amount each year.. Delaware: Fruit 
generally fair considering the damage done last winter. Floyd: Apples almost a 
failure; many trees killed. Hardin: About 20 per cent. of the fruit-trees and grape- 
vines killed by the winter. JLowisa: Last winter greatly injured the fruit-trees; old 
trees suffered the most. Marshall: About 15 per cent. of large bearing apple-trees died 
after blooming. Taylor: Peaches almost played out; quite a number of trees killed, 
and others badly injured. Des Moines: Bearing peach-trees killed last winter; apple- 
trees badly damaged; next to no crop. Monona: Apples and grapes reduced by the 
severe winter. Muscatine: All kinds of fruit manifesting the bad effects of last winter. 
Jasper: Past winter very severe on fruit-trees and grape-vines; 50 per cent. of the 
apple-trees and grape-vines killed, and more of the pear-trees. Tama: Grape-vines 
injured by winter; many two-year-old Concords killed; pear-trees and many apple- 
trees dead, and others injured. ; 
MissourI.— Gasconade: Peaches on the low land were nearly all killed last winter. 
Platte : The apple-bloom was very heavy, but most of the young apples are fallen off ; 
not more than a fourth of a crop. Many of the trees dying; the decay commences on 
the south side of the tree. Cass: Peaches an entire failure. Caldwell: Peach-trees 
and grape-vines badly frozen and killed on low ground. Barton: Fruit of all kind a 
total failure on account of the cold last winter. Cole: Apples below average in quan- 
tity ; no peaches ; grapes doing well, the Concords and similar varieties promising a 
full yield. Taney: Almost all peach-trees killed. Adair: All the old peach-trees 
