“ei ney, 
showed them up. In truth our apples are very knotty and poor, and not one-tenth of 
a product; not one-fourth of a supply for the people here. Montgomery: Grapes do 
well; very few bearing apple or pear trees; young orchards look well. Jtiley: Suffered 
from sun-scald; apples and pears nearly a failure. 
Nepraska.— Pawnee: Fruit did not fill well on account of drought. Nemaha: Fruit- 
crops good. Otoe: Apples half average; pears a good average. 
CALIFORNIA.— Tuolumne: Grapes nearly gathered; short, but good. San Luis Obispo: 
May frosts made great havoc with fruit-crops. Contra Costa; Vineyards greatly cur- 
tailed in production by the desiccating north winds. 
OREGON.—Grant : Many young orchards just coming into bearing; a large annual 
increase in fruit products may he expected hereafter. Fruit does remarkably well. 
though late peaches were cut by early frosts. Tillamook: A few varieties of grapes; 
apples excellent, and crops enormous. 
Uran.—Kane: Fruits generally scarce, but good in quality, especially winter apples ; 
best varieties, Rawle’s Jannet, Spitzenburg, and Limber Twig. Morgan: Apple-trees 
have commenced bearing well, after being swept for. five years by grasshoppers. Iron : 
Fruit destroyed by spring frosts. JVeber : Fruit abundant and excellent; grape culture 
increasing ; its success demonstrated. San Pete: Grapes a good yield, but of inferior 
quality; apples never so good; pears very good. Sali Lake: Apples almost a total 
failure ; apple and pear trees much infested by worms; loss from the depreciation of 
these crops, $200,000. ; 
Ipano.—dda: Fruit injured by frosts; few orchards yet bearing. 
New Mexico.—Dona Ana: Fruit and grapes destroyed by frosts last April, a thing 
which never occurred before in this valley. Thurston: Good apple year; selling at 
50 to 75 cents a box; pears always good; Seckel selling at $1.25 per box. 
