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Moniteau, Mo. : Our prospects are gloomy indeed j our splendid wheat- 

 crop is all we have to depend on. 



Jasper, Mo. : i^To rain for four months. 



Craivford, Mo. : Poorest crop-year ever known in the county. 



Cowley, Kans. : Times hard ; money monopolies using all the advan- 

 tage that the grasshopper, chinches, and severe drought will give them. 



^eflgwicJc, Kans.: We are not in as destitute a condition as is supposed 

 farther east. There are a few families that must have help ; the rest of 

 us are in a poor condition to give this aid. 



Boone, Nebr. : Grasshoppers destroyed all the corn, nearly all the oats, 

 and garden vegetables, and injured the wheat. 



Merrick, Nehr.: Grasshoppers numerous. 



Thayer, Nehr. : Everything, except small grains, taken with drought, 

 grasshoppers, and potato-bugs. 



San Joaquin, Cal.: Notwithstanding San Joaquin County has raised 

 about 1,000,000 centals of the finest wheat this year, the farmers, as a 

 rule, are comparatively poor, owing to the heavy expense attending the 

 harvesting and sacking of their wheat at the low price it brings. The 

 grangers have loaded about twenty vessels with wheat on their own 

 account, and the warehouses are full all over the State. 



Fruit- CULTUEE. — Monroe, N. Y.: At Charlotte, the port of Roches- 

 ter, the receipts of winter-apples average 5,000 barrels per day. The 

 market price is about $2 per barrel. 



Wicomico, Md. : Cranberries have been plauted here in considerable 

 quantities during the last four years. Lack of knowledge of their 

 proper treatment has delayed good yields. Experience indicates, in the 

 future, a profitable growth. 



Ashe, N'. C. : Cranberries almost a failure ; cause unknown. 



Liberty, Ga.: An enterprising lady, Mrs. R. Screven, planted some 

 young pear-trees three years ago, and from their fruit this year shipped 

 to Savannah fifteen barrels of Pound pears, retailing at 5 cents each. 

 She has also successfully cultivated many thousands of tea-plants. 



Bandera, Tex. : Peach-trees that bore a good crop this year commenced 

 blooming again about October 12. Should the warm weather continue 

 the trees will soon be in full bloom. 



Van Biiren, Mich. : Cranberries half a crop. Our fruit-crop will ex- 

 ceed in value our wheat-crop at present prices — 95 cents to $1 per bushel. 



Pulasl'i,Ill. : I can only repeat with earnestness my former statements, 

 that the blights of the roots and trunks of our apple-trees must soon 

 make it impossible to grow apples in this locality unless remedies can 

 be found for these diseases. 



Jackson, Mo. : Some of our apple-trees have bloomed since the rains. 



Osage, Kans.: There are some curious phenomena to be mentioned. 

 The fruit-trees (stripped by the grasshoppers) have all releaved, and 

 many of them have bloomed with double flowers. Most of the embryo 

 fruit is double. 



&m Joaquin, Cal. : There will be hundreds of tons of the finest grapes 

 left on the vines, there being no demand for them. Wine-makers are 

 paying $15 per ton, and very few buying at that price. 



Sonoma, Cal. : No such a crop of grapes was ever before known in 

 this county, where the grape attains the most perfect development and 

 growth. Your correspondent harvested in his own vineyard eight tons 

 of grapes per acre. Foreign grapes have also done well, though injured 

 by frosts. The wine-product of the county, even at 30 cents per gallon, 

 -will be worth more than all the other products; yet there is not more 

 than one acre in grapes of a thousand suited to that culture. 



