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Illinois. — McLean : Trees all bloomed, but tlid not set, aud the fruit is falling off. 

 Bureau : Apples a half-crop. Peaches few, but look well. Hancock : Curculio is more de- 

 structive than ever ; codling-moths less numerous. Stephenson : A fair show of almost all 

 sorts of fruit. Sairit Clair : Apples almost a failure compared with their bloom. Concord 

 grapes rotting. A new insect has appeared on the Norton. Montgomery : Strawberries 

 lasted only a week, and then a luxuriant crop dried up ; apples almost a failure. Moultrie : 

 Apples promising. Young peach-trees will have a fair crop ; old trees dead. Putnam : 

 Apples dropped off to a third of a crop. Morgan : Fruit prospect has declined within two 

 weeks. Ogle : Unpromising. Vermillion : Apples dropped off. Wayne : Apples and peaches 

 have fallen short. Piatt : Apples have fallen badly. 



Wisconsin.— rr«/!cor<// ; Fruit a failure; usually precarious. Broicn : A singular dis- 

 ease affecting fruit-trees; limbs dying gradually from the top. Juneau: Best apple-crop we 

 have yet had. Fond du Lac : Copious apple-bloom, but blown oft' by east winds. 



Minnesota. — Goodhue: Apples have not recovered from the injuries of 1873; trees 

 still dying. Jaclson : Nearly all the berries eaten. 



loM' A. —Marion : Apples fallen from the trees ; cherries, full crop ; insects destroying 

 plums ; grapes and small fruits good. Marion : Apples, cherries, and small fruit grow well 

 here. Lee : Peach-trees full. Van Buren : Small fruits abundant. Marshall : Apple-trees 

 dying ; raspberries winter-killed ; grape-vines never before so loaded with fruit. Des Moines : 

 Orchards doing nearly nothing ; strawberries ruined by drought. Harrison : Apple-trees 

 injured by grasshoppers ; many trees set out in the spring have been killed, Hoicard: 

 Apples have not recovered from the freeze of last year ; gooseberries remarkably liue and 

 plentiful. Guthrie: Copious apple-bloom, but hght crop. Hardin: Strawberry and grape- 

 vines largely killed by drought last fall. Jefferson : Good prospect of apples destroyed by 

 worms, 



Missouri. — Texas : Peaches, apples, and grapes 50 per cent, better than last year. 

 Platte : Apple-bloom copious, but few trees have any fruit, and those shedding ; a small 

 worm is found in each falling apple. Caldicell : Prospects remarkably good. Saint Clair : 

 Peaches have fallen badly, Nodaway : A beetle destroyed many of the apples about the 

 middle of June. Moniteau : Peaches and apples dropping ; leaves crisped and drying ; 

 probably the work of some insect. Daviess: Apples dropping; injured by worms: 

 peaches promise a most extraordinary crop. De Kalb : Apples blasted, but peaches a fine 

 yield. Johnson : Apples a good crop generally ; peaches mostly failed ; grape-culture 

 increasing. Marion : Splendid bloom, but light yields. Phelps : Apples and peaches have 

 fallen badly. Adair : Peaches and grapes abundant. Cole : Fruit a good average ; early 

 harvest-apples already gone. Pike : Fine apple-bloom, but poor yield. Jasper : Seed- 

 ling-peaches, on prairie lands, were killed by protracted spring cold, while bedded trees are 

 well filled, raising the crop to half average. 



Kansas. — Leavenworth : Immense crop of apples, peaches, and cherries; small fruits 

 injured by fall drought and winter-freezing. Douglas : All varieties of cherries have pro- 

 duced abundantly ; peaches, plums, aud grapes will also yield large crops. Nemaha : Fruit- 

 crops never better, Wyandotte : Fruit abundant. Bourbon : Apples abundant ; peaches 

 leaf-blighted and dropping off, but will be sufficient for home consumption ; grapes look 

 splendidly, Doniphan : Fruit materially injured by south winds while iu bloom, Jackson : 

 Fruit-crops generally fine, but strawberries poor ; grapes splendid. Montgomery : Peaches 

 and strawberries suffering from drought, Washington : Rose-bugs injured tame grapes ; 

 afterward a worm denuded the vines of leaves and fruit. Peaches and small fruits abundant, 

 Butler : Peach-crop large. 



California. — Napa: Curl-leaf injured peaches; apples short; extraordinary yield of 

 grapes. Sacramento: Peaches injured severely by curl-leaf; many orchards along the 

 streams injured by seepage-waters, from overflow; second crop of strawberries destroyed by 

 the north winds. El Dorado: Fruit-crops much increased; fine growing rains. Ala- 

 meda: Grapes looking very well; promise the largest crop yet known. 



Utah. — Box Elder : Apricot-crop heavy ; fruit generally promising. Salt Lake : Cod- 

 ling-moth as destructive as last j car on apples and pears; a destructive worm attacking 

 the grapes. Utah : Apple-blossoms blown off by high winds. Early peaches frost-killed. 



HAY AXD PASTURES. 



Timothy is in liigliest average condition iu Connecticut, 118 ; and 

 above average in Kew York, 106 ; Yermont, 104: ; Massachusetts, 

 103 ; and Nebraska, 101. It maintains an average in Delaware, Mary- 

 land, California, and Oregon. Its uiinimum coiidition is found in Ken- 

 tuck}', 55, where it was depleted by the severe drought ; West Yirginia 

 stands but little higher, 03 ; Tennessee, 70 ; Ohio, 71. North of the 

 Ohio Eiver it is uniformly below average, reaching its highest figure, 

 98, in Michigan. The severe drought, as well as spring-frosts here, 



