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weather. Schuyler : Never so near a total failure of apples since orchards comtnoaced 

 bearing. Boone : Few apples. Morgan : Alnoosfc no applee. 



Wisconsin. — Broken : At least two-thirds of the grape-crop did not ripen. Clarlc : 

 Grapes fatally injured by the Angnst frosts. Jefferson : Grapes a total failure from 

 frosts. Washington : An abundant crop of grapes was spoiled by a hard freeze i» 

 September. Iowa : The best crop of grapes for many years spoiled by frost. 



Minnesota. — Isanti : Apples and grapes damaged by frost in August. 



Iowa. — Marion : Good crops of apples and grapes. Decatur : A good crop of fruit. 

 Harrison : Grape-crop fine, and apples unusually fine. 



Missouri. — Perry: Apples half a crop. Grapes all rotted. Schuyler: The grape-crop 

 was rotted by the warm moist weather. 



California. — Sonoma : The grape-crop a full average, though 90 compared with last 

 year. Butler : The fruit-crop almost a failure owing to the dry season. Lake : Grapes 

 injured by the white fly. 



Utah. — Washington: Pears good; grapes extra; other fruit damaged by frost. San 

 Pete: Grapes and apples much injured by hail. Salt Lake: Apples and early pears 

 destroyed by the codling-moth. Beaver : Fruit entirely destroyed by frost in June. 



HAT. 



In 1874, Kew England, except Maine, and the Middle States, reported 

 a large crop, of good quality. Compared with last year's crop, Maine 

 reports aa increase of 10 per cent, but in the other States of that sec- 

 tion, also in Virginia and West Virginia, there is an average falling off 

 of about 13 per cent. ; the principal cause being an early drought. In 

 New England, as a whole, the good quality of 1874 is fully maintained; 

 but in the other States throughout the whole section north of the thirty- 

 sixth parallel, and east of the Mississippi, the quality was much dam- 

 aged by the rains prevailing in the season of cutting and curing. In 

 all that section, Michigan is the only State which returns an average 

 quality equal to that of last year. West of the Ohio and south of Vir- 

 ginia, Georgia, 97, Alabama, 9G, Louisiana, 98, California, 92, and Oregon, 

 99, are the only States returning a yield below last year's. In the fol- 

 lowing States, which report an extraordinary increase on last year's 

 crop, the figures for 1874, as compared with the previous crop, are 

 given first, as affording a better indication of the import of those for 

 1875: Mississippi, 100; 145; Texas, 113; 121; Arkansas, 74; 200; 

 Tennessee, 75;. 120; Illinois, 95 and 116; Kansas, 94 and 184; I^e- 

 brasta, 81; 216. The entire crop, compared with that of 1874, is 3 per 

 cent, greater in quantity. 



Maine. — Piscataquis : Not secured in good condition, owing to bad weather. We are 

 learning that it pays to cut hay early. Aroostook: Abundant, but much injured in 

 quality by rains in the cutting-season. 



Vermont. — Caledonia : Quality extra. 



New York. — Washington : The crop materially injured by a large white grub. Sul- 

 livan : Suffered by droiight ; not much over half a crop. 



New Jersey. — Very light crop, and not gathered in good condition, owing to heavy 

 rains in July. 



PENNSYLVANiA.-^ilfonroe : Very short, owing to drought. Bedford: A larger crop 

 than last year, but much damaged by excessive rains. A good crop of aftermath was 

 secured in good condition. Moi^totir : Very light, nearly a failure on upland, owing to 

 drought. Potter : A full crop, of excellent quality. 



Maryland. — Frederick : Probably less than 40 per cent, of a crop. Howard : A great 

 deal damaged by the protracted wet. Baltimore : Short crop of all kinds. 



Virginia. — Carroll : Suffered very much from wet weather during the haying season. 

 Powhatan: Good, both cultivated and wild. Spotsylvania: Very short crop, but good in 

 quality. Floyd: The quantity reduced by drought, and the quality greatly injured by 

 wet weather. Dimciddie : Late frosts and early drought cut short the quantity ; the 

 quality is good. Wythe : A much larger crop than last year, but the quality very bad ; 

 it being impossible to cure it, owing to the rains. Chesterfield: Short. Highland: good 

 yield and quality. Washington: Very much injured by wet weather in harvest. Franklin: 

 Much entirely lost in curing, and the remainder greatly injured. 



North Carolina. — Good crop. Davie: Could not be cut at the proper time, owing 

 tp wet weather. Chowan : Much damaged by wet weather. 



