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Shelby: Apples mostly fell from the trees. Adair: Apples and pears almost failures. 
Marion: Apples and peaches failed. Nicholas: Apples scarce. Clinton: Small crop 
of apples. Henry: Applesand pears almost failures. McLean: Fruit a failure. Logan: 
Apples and pears nearly failures. J ayette: Grapes rotted badly; apples mostly fell 
from the trees; winter apples in small sapply. Anderson: Grapes badly rotted ; 
apples and pears average. Larue: Fruit a failure. Jackson: Fruit nearly ‘a total 
failure. ‘ 
Onto.—Fulton: Apples about average in quantity and quality. Franklin: Fruit-trees 
stripped in the spring by a black measuring-worm. J/fedina: Fruit a great failure. 
Wood: Largest yield and best quality of apples ever known; fruit smooth; sold at 
$2.50 perbarrel. Lorain: Grapeslargely winter-killed; pears greatly blighted; trees in 
some cases stripped by grasshoppers. Crawford: Grapes and apples winter-killed : 
pears very poor; many pear-trees blighted. Vyandot: Apples fell off greatly ; short 
crop. Sandusky: Apples better thanformany years. Lawrence: Apples abundant and 
fine. Hamilton: One-fourth of the pear-trees destroyed by blight of last year. Perry: 
Some varieties ripened but little of their frnit; this attributed to the wet spring; 
apples very scarce; pear-trees generally well loaded witlr good fruit. Mercer: Pear 
culture growing in favor. 
MicHiGan.—Mason: Apples and pears never better; grapes not so plenty, but very 
fine. Lapeer: Grapes large yield of the best quality; apples excellent, but not so 
abundant; pears, a fair yield of the best quality. Hillsdale : Apple-crop worth $100,000. 
Calhoun: Grapes a good crop, and ripened well where the vines had escaped injury. 
Gratiot ;: Huckleberries and cranberries abundant in the swamps and marshes. JMJont- 
calm: Many apple and pear trees dead and dying. Oakland: Apples scarce and inferior. 
Antrim: Apples and grapes abundant and good; pears extra nice, equal to California 
pears; afew peaches. Berrien: Grapes so abundant that only half the crop was saved ; 
apple and pear crops heavy and good. Livingston: Apples few and wormy. 
InDIANA.—Owen: Grapes badly winter-killed; remains of the crop closed out by 
hot, damp weather and insects. JJarion: Fruit nearly all winter-killed. Montgomery : 
Fruit mostly a failure. Gibson: Apples badly rotted; peaches winter-killed. Hamil- 
ton: Fair crop of apples, but not of the best quality. Morgan: Fruit scarce, knotty, 
and wormy. Dearborn: Almost a total failure. La Porte : Grapevines largely winter- 
killed; apples and pears.injured by drought and blight. Floyd: Apples a failure; 
grapes badly mildewed. 
Intinois.—Kankakee: Apple-trees badly winter-killed; lightest crop for years; 
quality fair. Fayette: Apples nearly a failure. Madison: Half crop of grapes; apples 
above last year. Pike: Grapes nearly all winter-killed except Concords, which yield 
a fair crop; apples scarce and poor. JVhiteside: Apples and pears almost nothing. 
Bureau: Grapes half a crop, of good quality; apples a fourth of a crop, and generally 
small. Perry: Fruit mostly a failure. Sangamon: Fruit largely winter-killed. Cum- 
berland : Grapes and apples mostly, and pears entirely failed. Henry: Apples mostly 
afailure. Cass: Fruit of all sorts almost a failure. Edwards: Apples almost none. 
Grundy: Fruit-trees badly winter-killed. Hancock: Fruit badly winter-killed and 
injured by storms. Macon: Some varieties of grapes good; apples a failure. Boone: 
Apples alight crop. Clinton: Apples not good. Douglas: Fruit almost a total failure ; 
trees largely winter-killed. 
WIscoNsIN.—Dodge: Apples with many trees destroyed by May freeze. Monroe: 
Cranberries almost equal to last year, though injured by early frosts; this culture 
increasing. Walworth: Grapes short and of poor quality. Green Lake: Orchards 
terribly injured by the cold of last winter; blight fast destroying pear-trees. Wash- 
ington: Some orchards did well, others poorly; very few pears; I gathered from 
trees from 16 to 24 bushels, each, snow-apples, Tolman’s sweet, greenings, &e. 
‘ MinnEsora.—Steele : Vines and trees injured greatly by last winter’s cold. Carver: 
Grapes would have been average but for winter-killing. 
Towa.—Decatur: Less than half a crop; some orchards good, others no yield at all; 
pears badly blighted. Harrison: Grapes injured by grasshoppers. Montgomery : Grapes 
injured by drought. Hardin: Apples fell off badly. JZouisa: Apple-crop small and 
inferior. Guthrie: Apples scarce and poor; worth $2 per bushel. 
Missourt.—Caldwell : Apples ashort crop. Platte: Apples very poor. Holt: Fruit 
winter-killed ; first failure of apples in thirteen years ; south part of the county brought 
a fine crop.. Clay: Apples and pears shortened by drought. Texas: Grapes half a 
crop, and rotted before ripening. Montgomery: Apples small and falling off before 
maturity. Perry: Grapes badly rotted. Phelps: Grapes badly mildewed and rotted ; 
apples frosted on low lands. Cass: Very wormy apples; large pear-trees nearly all 
blighted. Franklin: Grapes, none; apples, very few. Laclede: No apples. Newton: 
No apples worth naming. Cole: Only hardy varieties like the Concord fruited. 
Kansas:—Miami: Concord grapes stung by some unknown insect; peaches winter-’ 
killed; apples short. Leavenworth: We had no apples worth counting. The State 
society took some premiums in the East, but it was a mere “ trick of business.” They 
solicited a few good specimens from young orchards in favorable localities and artfully 
