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MiCHiGAX. — Calhoun: Apples not more than 75 per cent, of a crop. Grapes late, and 

 not a large crop. Lapeer; Light crop of apples. Maimtee: What fruit escaped the 

 June frosts and July hail is doing well, but " few and far between ;" codling-moth 

 damaging apples some, but less than usual. Shiawassee : Smallest crop of apples ever 

 known. Peach-trees killed. Sxginaw : Not one-twentieth of a crop. A great many of the 

 trees dead and dying. Tuscola : Apples not plenty, but fair. No peaches. Grapes 

 promise fair. Wayne : Apples nearly a failure. Grapes affdcted with yellows in some 

 localities. Ottawa: Apples not more than h«ilf a crop. No peaches. Grapes half a 

 crop. Saint Joseph : Not half enough apples for home consumptiou. Branch : Apples 

 a light crop but fine in quality. 



In^diana. — Franklin : Few such failures of apples and peaches in forty years. Floyd : 

 Not a bushel of apples or peaches ; grapes badly rotted. Dearborn : Fruit a complete 

 failure, except some grapas. Howard: No apples or psaches. Heniricks : Fruit an 

 entire failure. Grant: No apples or peaches, and but few grapss. Waihington : Ap- 

 ples about one-twentieth of a crop; no peaches. Rxmllton : Apples a failure; no 

 peaches ; small crop of grapes. 



Illixois. — Pike: Grapes good. Miiison: Apples half crop, in quantity but good in 

 quality; peaches killed in the winter; grapes, chiefly Concord, rotting partially. 

 Johnson : Grapes rotted before they matured. Clinton : Not many apples or peaches. 

 Pope : A half crop of apples, but rotting on the tree. Clark : Bat few apples or peaches ; 

 grapes above average. Piatt: No fruit. Bureau: Apples less than a fourth of a crop : 

 grapes fair. Menard : Grapes rotted badly. Putnam : Apples less than one-fifth of 

 a crop. Fulton : Apples very scarce, but the few doing well ; grapes badly rotted. 

 Macon : Grapes still affected by rot. Sangamon : Apples scarce ; no peaches ; grapes 

 ripening" up Avell. Warren : Grapes have rotted to the extent of 33 p&r cent. 



WiscoNSix. — Walworth: Fruit a failure. Dodge: Will be one-fourth of a crop of 

 apples, and half a crop of grapes if no more injury by frost. 



Iowa. — Harrison : Apple and grape crop not large, owing to the grasshoppers last 

 year, but the fruit is fine. Scott: Condition of apples and grapes good, but the yield 

 far below an average. Benton: Grapes destroyed by hail. Fremont: Fruit destroyed 

 by a terrific storm of hail and wind. 



Missouri. — Gasconade; Half the grapes lost by wet weather. Chariton: Grapes in- 

 jured by mildew; small crop of apples and peaches. Harrison: Apples fine but not 

 so numerous as some years ; peaches scarce ; grapes fine and plenty. Platte : Apples 

 almost a failure, and the few greatly injured by insects. Clay: Apples and peaches 

 reduced by the hard winter, and the remainder destroyed by grasshoppers, which en- 

 tirely destroyed the grapes. DeKalb : Small crop of apples and peaches. 



Kansas. — Linn : Grapes were destroyed in most localities by grasshoppers. Osage : 

 Grapes good but few in number. Anderson : Grapes and apples almost a failure. 



Nebraska. — Dixon : The Clinton and Concord grapes hang full of clusters. Pawnee : 

 Destroyed by grasshoppers in the spring. 



Caltforxia. — San Bernardino : An abundance of apples ; next to no peaches. 



Oregox. — Grant: A failure, owing to a heavy freeze Miy23. El Dorado: The 

 grape-crop injured to some extent by the hot weather. 



BEANS. 



The bean-crop is nearly if not quite average, on the whole, the varia 

 tions below or above being small. The State averages range from 112 

 in Nebraska to 71 in Wisconsin. The States fall average or above were 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, 

 Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, 

 Tennessee, Kansas, and Nebraska. These embrace the largest bean- 

 raising States. The others are below average, but their deficit is in 

 most cases very small. 



HOPS. 



New York and Wisconsin, which together produce from three-fourths 

 to four-fifths of the hops of the United States, have largely increased 

 tbeir acreage, the former 10 per cent., and the latter 7 per cent. Kansas 

 has also engaged largely in hop-raising, having increased her acreage 

 50 per cent, this year in the counties reporting. An increased acreage 

 is also noted in Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, and Iowa, the 

 increment of the last named being 14 per cent. New Hampshire, Dela- 

 ware, and Kentucky maintained their last year's area, while the other 

 hop-producing States fell off. 



