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killed; the young trees doing well, but no fruit. Bollinger: Apples and peaches good 
pus scarce ; most of the peach-crop killed by the freeze. Grapes good, though theie 
S some rot, owing to an insect, I think. De Kalb: Peaches killed last winter. Holt: 
The largest bloom of apples is resulting in the poorest crop ever known; a blight in 
the twigs or ends of the limbs, and insects or worms in the young fruit. Unless we 
do something to encourage birds our fruits will fail; we have very few birds, and no 
law to protect them. Lawrence: Peach-crop all killed, and apples damaged greatly. 
Lincoln: Apples are falling and have been all the season. Moniteau : Peach-trees, to a 
large extent, killed; no fruit. Catawba grape-vines killed; other kinds injured, but 
will make a partial crop. Pulaski: Peaches totally winter-killed ; nearly all the eld 
trees killed ; the young trees uninjured. Grape-vines growing vigorously, but not so 
much fruit as last year. Saint Clair: The blight very extensive this year, particularly 
in young orchards. Worth: Peaches a failure; all killed inthe winter. Clay : Peaches 
an entire failure, and apples and other fruit nearly so. Grapes injured by the freeze, 
the Concords alone sustaining the estimate for the crop. Howard: Peach-trees all 
killed, except those one or two years old. Grape-vines, except Concords, all killed to 
the ground. Jefferson: Peaches an entire failure; many orchards killed, and have 
been cut down. Pears blighted and nearly a failure. The blight has just struck the 
vineyards, and the crop is much injured. Phelps: Peaches all killed; apples only 
three-fourths of a crop and some wormy. Grapes rotting from warm, wet weather. 
Dale: No peaches. Callaway : Peach-trees nearly all killed, and other fruit-trees and 
grape-vines injured very much. 
KANsAs.—Shawnee: A species of blight has attacked the apple-trees in the western 
part of this county, killing to the ground whole orchards of bearing-trees. Douglas: 
A terrible blight has again appeared among our apple-orchards, killing very many 
trees from fifteen down to three years old in nurseries. The blight acts precisely like 
the pear-blight. /Vyandotte: Peach-crop an entire failure; probably one-half an apple- 
crop. When in bloom the trees were injured by some insect—many branches being 
killed, and in some instances the trees—resembling the blight in pear-trees. Coffey: 
Apples and peaches which promised a full half crop in May have cast the fruit until 
there will be but little more than one-fourth crop. Morris: In May a furious hail- 
storm (some of the stones weighing three ounces) injured fruit very badly. Nemaha: 
A blight on the peach-trees—“ curled leaf” —is damaging all the orchards in the county. 
Apple-trees have done badly; much of the fruit falling off the last two weeks. Woodson: 
The apple-crop will be very light, owing to a severe storm that seemed to blast them 
in the bloom. Linn: Grapes not winter-killed are looking well. Clintons not in- 
jured by winter, and Concords not much; but rose-bugs are eating them up. Labette: 
Not any apples or peaches ; killed by the frost. Zogan: Apples in condition are equal 
to last year, but in quantity only one-fourth. Miami: Young trees doing uncommonly 
well; have never seen such growth. Osage: Peaches all destroyed by winter freeze. 
Ripley: Apples and peaches very scarce; a great many old peach-trees killed. Wash- 
ingion: Peach-trees were not killed in this county last winter, and there are peaches 
wherever there are trees old enough. 
NrEBpraska.—WMerrick: A fearful snow-storm in the middle of April ruined a great . 
many fruit-trees. 
CALIFORNIA.— Sonoma: The fruit and grape crops will be better than was expected. 
Butte: First grape-blossoms were cut down; second blossoms, nearly as good as the first, 
put forth and promise well as such. Sacramento: Fruit-crop injured by late severe 
frosts; on same localities the peach-trees and crop are injured from the effects of mil- 
dew of the foliage. San Luis: May frosts destroyed half of our fruit, but that left 
appears to be of superior quality. Mendocino: Our fruit-crop is short, owing to late 
frosts, except grapes, which promise a large yield. Tuolumne: The heavy frosts in 
April and May injured fruit of all kinds; apricots and waluuts were almost entirely cut 
off; cherries, strawberries, and peaches, about one-half. San Bernardino: The peaches 
and grapes have been affected by late frosts. Klamath: The grapes were seriously ip- 
jured by frost. : 
OREGON.—Lane: Fruit in general looks much better than last year. Clackamas: 
Apples and peaches rather below average on account of late frosts. Strawberries, 
cherries, cherry-currants, and the Lawton blackberry do well in this county. Clatsop : 
Small fruits, both cultivated and wild, abound. Douglas: The peach-crop was injured 
by the late frost. i 
Uran.— Utah: The cold rains and frosts in May and the beginning of June killed the 
early peaches. Jron: Frost, June 6, killed apple, pear, and peach blooms. Strawberries 
blighted badly. Heavy crop of English gooseberries, and red Dutch currants. Wash- 
ington: Fruit-crop short owing to late frosts. 
