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A few iipples, peaches, and grapes. Owiley : No fruit of any kind iu the county. John- 

 son : A tiue prospect for small fruits. 



Oiuo.—Iiclmont : All destroyed by severe frost iu April. Rocking: A failure. Mor- 

 row : Very scarce. I'erri/ : Some small fruit ; otherwise, nearly a failure. Sandusky : 

 Apples and peaches killed, and some of the peach-trees. Coshocton : Apples and peaches 

 a failure ; grapes, a full crop. Jackson : Almost au entire failure. Medina : Black- 

 berries killed, but raspberries and strawberries in usual quantities. Holmes : All killed 

 by late frosts. Geauga : The smallest crop of apples for twenty years ; peaches, none 

 at all ; grapes, an average. Fairfield: Peach and apple crops almost a failure. Bela- 

 icare : There has not been such a perfect failure iu apples for fifty years. Crawford : 

 No fruit. Richland: Apples and peaches an entire failure. Athens: Apples and peaches 

 an entire failure ; killed in April. Seneca : The poorest crop of apples grown for many 

 years. 



MicuiGXN.— Kalamazoo : Apples about half an average crop; grapes looking well ; 

 strawberries late, but a fair crop. Van Burcn : Not over a Iialf crop of apples ; peaches 

 killed— even the trees — except on lake shore. T«5co/rt.- Prospect not encouraging. 

 Saint Joseph: Very few apples ; no peaches — trees nearly all killed. Mason: Apples, 

 plums, and grapes nearly all lost by frost iu June. Wayne : Apple-crop very light, and 

 peach-crop a total failure. Manistee : What escaped the winter and June frosts is doing 

 finely; peach-trees winter-killed. Shiawassee: Apple-crop light ; peaches killed. 



Indiana.— i'Vo^fi ; A total failure. Clarke : All killed by frosts in April. Jennings : 

 Almost au entire failure. Madison : All killed. Steuben : A full crop of grapes. Deca- 

 tur : All destroyed by frost in April. Washington: A very small crop of apples. 

 Peaches have all fallen off". Putnam : But few apples and pears, and peaches all killed. 

 Great many grape-vines winter-killed. Noble : No peaches and not many apples, and 

 they are all falling oft'. Martin: Wet weather rotting the grapes. Jasper: Apples 

 nearly a total failure. Hoivard : Peach and apple crop an entire failure. Hendricks : 

 Apples, peaches, and pears an entire failure. Be Kalb : Apples a failure, except North- 

 em Spy and a few hardj^ varieties. Cass: Correspondent reports "three hundred 

 bearing apple-trees, and not one bushel of apples." Kosciusko : All kinds a failure. 

 Tippecanoe: All a failure, except a few varieties of small fruits. Hamilton : Perhaps a 

 hali' crop of small fruits ; otherwise an entire failure. 



Illinois. — Clark : Grapes very full ; some rotting. Madison : Not promising. Shelby •' 

 Apples and peaches a failure ; " will barely get a taste ; grapes very fine. Warren •' 

 Heavy apple-bloom ; but few varieties now show fruit. Peach-trees generally killed, 

 and some grape-vines also. White: Peaches winter-killed. 0(/Zc ; A failure, except some 

 kinds of small fruit. DeWitt : No apples or peaches worth mentioning ; grapes never 

 promised a better yield. Bureau : Apples not one-third of a crop. No peaches. Grapes, 

 about half crop. Boone: Very few apples. Carroll: Apples, the poorest crop for 

 years. Many grape-vines winter killed. Livingston : But few apples ; no peaches or 

 pears; small fruits abundant. Massac: Apple-crop small ; peaches a failure. Monroe: 

 Concord grapes full; Catawba rotting. Moultrie: No apples, peaches, or pears. 



Wisconsin. — Waupaca: Orchards dead ; supposed to have been winter-killed ; cran- 

 berries promise an abundant crop. Jilneau : Apples an entire failure from late frost. 

 Columbia : Apple-trees partially leaved out, but are now drying up. Walworth : A 

 failure. Dodge : Nearly a failure. Door ; Many of the apple-trees and nearly all plum- 

 trees winter-killed. 



Minnesota. — Stearns : Fruit-growing is still iu its infancy in this county. Young 

 apple-orchards are loaded with fruit. Winona: Few apjile-trees iu bearing, conse- 

 quently but few apples. 



Iowa. — Lee: A very short crop of apples, and peach-trees winter-killed. Scott: 

 Apples very scarce; grapes and strawberries suffered by the cold winter. Louisa: 

 Apples in good condition, but very scarce. Howard : Apples only half a crop ; small 

 fruits an average. Hardin : Better than last year, but fruit-growers discouraged. 

 Decatur : Apples a full crop ; peaches a failure. 



Missouui. — Franklin : Fruit below average in quantity and quality. DavieMs : Apples 

 few but good. Lincoln: Very few apples and peaches. Maries: Fruit badly injured 

 by storms. Stoddard : Apples few but good ; peaches half crop. Jasper : Apples and 

 peaches half crops. Shelby : Grapes either rotting or scabbed by wet and hot sun. 



Kansas. — Clay : Peaches nearly all killed. Wabaunsee : All bearing peach-trees 

 killed last summer and fall by hot winds aud grasshoppers. Franklin : Grapes suft'ered 

 badly from grasshoppers ; some vineyards and orchards entirely destroyed. Shawnee : 

 Apples and peaches almost a failure. Cloud : All destroyed by grasshoppers, cold 

 winter, and tlat-head borers. Anderson : Nearly all sorts of fruit ruined by the grass- 

 hoppers. Lyon : Apples but 5 per cent, of last year's yield. Leavenworth : Only a few 

 apples, and they injured by grasshoppers. Douglass : Apples, peaches, aud grapes all 

 gone. Osage : Peach-trees mostly dead ; apples almost worthless from ravages of grass- 

 hoppers. Mitchell : Not so much as last year, although there are many new bearing- 

 trees. 



Nkbraska. — Fawnce : Apples not generally bearing ; grapes and peaches taken by 



