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grasshoppers. Gage: No fruit of any kind. Otoe: Grasshoppers took the grapes and 

 strawberries. Johnson : There will be a few peaches ; grape-vines generally stripped 

 by the grasshoppers. 



California. — Sacramento: Fruit-trees of all sorts bloomed full, but were swept by 

 April frosts. Xevada : Fruit, especially early varieties, cut considerably short by spring 

 frosts ; apples and grapes in abundance. Contra Costa : Apples scarce ; iieaches a half 

 crop; grapes excellent. Amador : Apples and peaches in good condition. San Bernar- 

 dino : Spring frosts very disastrous. 



Oregon. — Clackamas : Strawberries fine ; cold rains caused much fruit to drop. Til- 

 lamook : Apples almost a failure; grapes a thii-d of a crop. Columbia: Caterpillars 

 playing havoc with fruit-trees on the Columbia bottoms. Grant : Fruit mostly froat- 

 killed. Linn : Fruit-trees largely winter-killed. 



TriK Territokies. — Ch'octaw Nation, Indian Territory : Fruit-crops unusually good. 

 Box Elder, Utah: Fruit frosted. Salt Lake, fto/i : Motiis threatening apples and y)ear9. 

 Kane, Utah: Small fruit uuusually line; apples abundant. 



HAY AND PASTUEES. 



Timothy is iu maxiuuiiu condition in Kentucky, 110. Only five otlier 

 States are above average, viz: Texas, lOG; Oregon, 105; Indiana, 104; 

 Maine, 101; and Iowa, 101. Its ininiinum condition is found in New 

 Jersey, 67. All the New England States except Maine, the Middle, 

 South AtUmtic, and Gulf States are below average. In some localities 

 drought is stated as very severe, utterly drying up the sod, while in 

 others army-worms and other insects have been more or less destructive. 

 The same causes reduced the crops in the inland Southern States and 

 north of the Ohio Eiver. In the Northwest the grasshopper was quite 

 injurious. On the Pacific coast this crop is replaced in California by 

 other grasses. In Oregon it was favored by conditions generally favora- 

 ble to vegetation. 



■ Clover is not quite so good as timothy. The maximum condition was 

 in Arkansas, lOS. It was full average or above in South Carolina, 105; 

 Oregon, 103 ; Maine, 102 ; and Mississippi, 100. Its minimum condi- 

 tion was in New Jersey, 57. It was in many counties badly winter- 

 killed. Drought and worms were also injurious, cutting down the crop 

 very seiiously. In many cases old clover was entirely destroyed by its 

 varied disasters. 



Pasture shows a considerably higher average than mown grass. The 

 maximum condition was in Illinois, 110; the other States above average 

 were Arkansas and Nebraska, 109; Maine and Indiana, 108; Oregon 

 and Missouri, 107 ; Wisconsin and Kansas, lOG ; Florida, 105 ; Missis- 

 sippi, Kentucky, Ohio, and Minnesota, 103; Tennessee, 101. The min- 

 imum was in California, 05. In some counties of the latter State pasture 

 was nearly ruined by late rains. Our correspondent in Amador explains 

 the peculiar character of California pasturage. The ripe grass, parched 

 in the hot summer sun, lies like hay upon the ground, well cured, and 

 perfectly i)reserved for cattle to feed upon until the winter rains rot it. 

 In the present case late spring rains have mostlj' spoiled it, destroying 

 the provender for summer and fall feeding. In Iron County, Utah, 

 grasses have been destroyed by the immense number of rabbits on the 

 range. At least 5,000 of these animals had been destroyed by hunting- 

 parties organized for their destruction. 



Maine. — Aroostook: Hay prospect never better; pastures superior. Ctimherland : 

 Very favorable ; May and June have reiiaired the injuries of winter. Waldo : Hay-crop 

 promising. 



New Hampshire. — HiUshoroiujh : Grass-crops fair. Rockinjham : Injured by drought 

 in May. 



Vermont. — Franklin: Hay short ; badly wiuter-killed. Orleans: Grass-crops thick- 

 ening uj); considerably winter-killed on western slopes. Windsor: Improving fast. 

 Grand Isle : Timothy thinned out by hard winter and dry spring. Addison: Not rain 



