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Illinois. — Montgomery: Winter apples almost a failure. Sangamon: Early apples 

 good ; later ones scarce. Concord grapes looking badly since late rains. De Kalh : 

 Apples blown from the trees. Madison : Few bearing trees, but they are thrifty and 

 full of fruit. Moultrie: Young peach trees loaded with fruit. Carroll: Apples and 

 grapes injured by hail. 



Wiscoxsix. — Fond du Lac: Apples wormy and inferior; crop short. 



Iowa. — Lee : Largest peach crop ever known ; every tree full. 



Missouri. — Caldwell : Apples and peaches plenty, but small. Platte : Fruit injured 

 Ijy grasshoppers. Clinton : Southwest winds roasted the apples nnder the trees, and 

 some wild plums on the trees. Daviess: Apples few, but good; peaches plenty, but 

 shriveled by drought. De Kalh : Peacheseateufrom the stones by grasshoppers. Mon- 

 iteau : Apples scarce ; peaches a failure. 



Kansas. — Jefferson : Ripened prematurely by hot winds. Franklin : Peaches plenti- 

 ful, but small ; grapes considerably destroyed by grasshoppers. Nemaha : Fruit swept 

 bj' grasshoppers. Mitchell: Swept by grasshoppers. Montgomery: Peaches and apples 

 shortened by drought. Alien : Peaches and apples taken by grasshoppers ; trees stripped 

 of foliage. Douglas : Trees stripped of fruit and foliage. Osage : Apples and peaches 

 nearly ruined by grasshoppers ; grapes rotted badly. Eepuhlic : Peach-trees stripped 

 of their foliage and fruit. Jackson : Apple and peach trees stripped of foliage, and the 

 fruit dried up in the scorching sun. Shawnee: Grasshoppers stripped all fruit-trees. 



Nebraska. — Pawnee: Trees swept by grasshoppers. Otoe: Grasshoppers have reduced 

 the yield and quantity of apples and grapes by cousuiuing the fol iage. They are also de- 

 vouring the peaches. 



California. — Stanislaus: Grapes injured by the fly fully 20 percent. Fl Dorado : 

 Fruit very fair ; peaches smaller than usual, on account of the great number on the 

 trees. Sutter : Only a few apples on the trees, but they are large and fine. Mendocino : 

 Fruit-trees and vines all young ; crops abundant. Sonoma : Peach-crop shortened by 

 curled leaf. Grapes promise the largest crop yet raised in the State, yielding, probably, 

 1,500,000 gallons of wine. Alameda : Largest and finest grape-crop yet grown. Butte : 

 Fruit crops copious, but stunted by overbearing. Nevada : Fruits of all kinds abun- 

 dant, but late. Amador : Season remarkably favorable for all kinds of fruit. 



Oregon. — Clatsop: Damaged greatly by blight; early apples n)ostly lost and late 

 ones damaged. Clackamas : Yield declined, but quality excellent. Grant : Fruit-crops 

 injured by hail-storms. 



