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Fruit scarce and defective. Spencer: Peaches and apples inferior and tending to 
decay. Larue: But litde fruit. Lewis: Apples not so plenty as last year, but better; 
peaches fair, but not plenty; grape-crop large, but half rotten. Breckinridge: Apples 
and peaches almost a failure, rotting and dropping before maturity. Logan: Peaches 
Trotting. Anderson: Fruit abundant. 
Oxnto.—Hardin: Peaches and grapes failures: a few Clintons in towns doing well. 
Ross: Apples badly stung and falling off; peaches almost a failure; grapes injured by 
wet. Meigs: Peaches rotting badly; apples and grapes ditto. Mercer: Fruit-crop 
light and inferior. Defiance: Many fruit-trees dying, apples, pears, and all the quinces. 
Gallia: Grapes good, but small-crop. Athens: Appies inferior, rusting and rotting; 
grapes unusually good. Lucas: Peaches an entire failnre. 
MIcHIGAN. —Calhoun: Grapes good; pears a fine crop; blight affected the standard 
varieties, except Seckel, Buerre Diel, Clairgau, White Dozenne, &c. Montcalm: No 
peaches; very few apples; many fruit-trees dying through injuries from last winter’s 
cold. Macomb: Peaches an entire failure. Lapeer: Apples and grapes good. Oakland: 
Apples falling from the trees. 
Inp1ANA.—Noble: No peaches; apples generally good. Perry: Grapes rotted badly 
before ripening. Ripley: Apples few and imperfect ; no peaches and few pears. Hamil- 
ton : Crop short; much bitter-rot. Lake: Apple-crop very small. Orange : Apples and 
peaches almost failures. Crawford: Apples and peaches almost entire failures. Newton: 
Very small crop of apples; grape-vines that escaped winter-killing are full of fine 
fruit. Clay : Few apples and no peaches. 
Intrno1s.—Cass: Apples almost a failure ; peaches entirely so; few grapes. McLean: 
Apples poor; grapes fine and sweet; old vineyards badly winter-killed. Pike: Apples 
a half crop ; cherries almost a failure except Early Richmonds. -Morgan: Most varie- 
ties of apples failed ; peach-trees mostly winter-killed ; Concord-grapes a light yield ; 
most other varieties killed. Putnam: Apples almost a failure. Ottawa : Apples scarce; 
grapes recovering from winter-freezing and nearly average. though late ; peach, pear, 
and quince trees away from the lake shore mostly winter-killed; one-tenth of the ap- 
ple-trees killed. Pulaski: Concord grapes rotted badly; other varieties not so bad. 
Wayne: Few apples and no peaches or grapes, 
Wisconsin.—Juneau : Cranberries abundant, especially where cultivated. Chippewa: 
Apple-trees badly killed. Milwaukee: Apple-crop short. 
MInNESOTA.—Goodhue: Apples and grapes show the sad effects of last winter; trees 
dying all summer; apples few and poor. 
Iowa.— Harrison: Apples and grapes greatly reduced by grasshoppers, which killed 
many of the young trees. Louisa: Apple-crop short.but good. Benton: Apples injured 
by worms. Blackhawk: Fruit of all kinds short; if frost delays, grapes will be a toler- 
able crop. Polk: Apples almost ruined by heavy storms. Outagamie: Apples a fail- 
ure ; fruit of all sorts very light. Green: Fruit first-class in quality, but only a fourth 
of acrop. Crawford: Apples, grapes, and other fruit almest-a total failure. Ringgold: 
Fruits shortened by drought. Linn: Grapes nearly a failure; apple-trees dying all 
summer from the efiects of last winter’s freezing. 
Missourr.— Cass: Peaches a failure; apples more orless wormy. Harrison: Peaches 
an entire failure; grapes doing well. Platte: Apples almost a failure as to quality; 
many young orchards killed by grasshoppers. Newton: Apple-crop light; no peaches 
of consequence; grapes badly injured by insects. Boone: Apples almost a failure. 
Daviess: Peaches a failure. Perry: The few apples that remain are rotting and fall- 
ing off. Shelby: Many apple-trees killed by winter-freezing; grapes almost a total 
failure from same cause. Taney: Peaches a failure. Pettis: The twigs of nearly all 
apple-trees have died about eight inches from their ends; Jeanettons suffering most ; 
Bell-flowers entirely exempt. Pulaski: Apples sutfering from dry or bitter rot ; peaches 
winter-killed; grapes not a success. _Dallas: Apples inferior; not a-peach. Calaway: 
No peaches; few apples. Laclede: Peaches killed; apples one-fourth of a crop. 
Kansas.— Doniphan: Fruit-crops poor. Lincoln: Peaches killed in the bud by cold 
weather. J¥oodson: Fruit almost a failure; grapes destroyed by rose-bugs. Osage: 
Very few peaches; apples scarce; grapes falling from the bunches, Douglas: Apples 
less than halfa crop; no peaches; fruit-trees blighting. Jackson: Apples injured by 
worms. 
CaLirorniA.—Napa: Apples and pears failed to bud; peaches and grapes killed by 
frost. Nevada: Apples abundant, but all other fruits injured; mildew in grapes. 
Sonoma: Grapes in better condition than was supposed. Amador: Peaches and 
grapes injured by late frosts. Contra Costa: Grapes fine, but a third short. Zl Do- 
rado: Peaches very fine; many weigh over a pound each; grapes good. 
OrnEGON.— Douglas : Peach-crop injured by late frosts; grapes injured by the same. 
Linn: Apples better than last year; no peaches; plums scarce, the trees becoming 
unhealthy and the fruit stung by the ecurculio for the first time. Grant: Fruit-trees 
generally quite young; fruit-culture becoming more successful, especially peach-cul- 
ture; orchards of 5,000 trees to be found. ‘Clackamas: Apples 50 per cent. above 
average; peaches good; grapes 25 per cent. below average. 
Urau.— Beaver: Frost?in May killed all the peach and 80 per cent. of the apple 
bloom. Salt Lake: Apples‘seriously damaged by worms; fruit small and ill-tasted. 
