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Ihiplin County, N. C. — Pear blight veiy destructive. In one orchaTd three-fourths of 

 the bearing trees have been destroyed. In a young orchard of 200 trees three years 

 old twenty trees have been destroyed. The Bartlett and the Beurre superfine have 

 Avifhstood its attacks better than other varieties. 



Hinds Counfy, Miss. — An unusual crop of fruit— apples, pears, apricots, and peaches — 

 is now being shipped. One hundred thousand boxes of fruit will be shipped from Terry 

 this year. 



Tanfjipalioa Parish, La. — Peach crop excellent, ten days earlier and fifty per cent, better 

 than the average for the last five years ; grapes above an average. 



Cherokee County, Texas. — Plums more valuable in this county than apples or pears ; 

 mine are keeping twenty-five hogs fat. 



Cherokee County, Texas. — Fruits very abundant ; -woods full of ripe plums and berries; 

 hogs fat. 



Williamson County, Texas. — The crop of peaches, plums, and grapes promises to be 

 immense throughout the State; Chickasaw plums (Pj-mmhs cfticasaj now ripe; Hales's 

 early peach by the 10th of June. 



Sangamon County, III. — Apples plenty; peaches one-third of a crop; all small fruits 

 except grapes abundaut. Frosts as late as May 9th and 10th. Most varieties of grape- 

 vines were badly winter killed. 



Holt County, Mo. — Apples and pears were injured by frost; the latter a total failure. 

 Peaches, although in bloom, w;ere not touched, even when ice was formed three-fourths 

 of an inch thick. Peaches are never hurt here by spring frosts, but are by winter 

 fr'eezing. 



Green Lake, Wis. — Fruits of all the kinds grown here promise an abundant crop, the 

 largest ever grown in the county. 



McLcocl County, Minn. — A large number of apple trees has been brought into the 

 county during the past two years; some are now beai'ing. Hardy varieties of apples 

 and cherries bid fair to succeed. 



Jefferson County, Kansas. — A hard frost, April 13th, killed all the fruit on low lands, 

 where many of the oldest orcliards are located ; but on high lands the crop will be large. 

 One orchard slightly elevated above the Kansas Valley will bear no fruit ; all killed by 

 frost. 



Woodson County, Kansas. — Exposed orchards have fared the best. Trees exposed to the 

 north winds are full of fruit, while those protected by skirts of timber along the val- 

 leys never bloomed. 



Anderson County, Ky. — Grapes were killed by the frost, and the leaves and young 

 branches on the vines were literally blackened, but siuce the frost more new branches 

 have shot forth, and the blossoms on them give promise of a crop, not, however, as 

 large as the first. In some orchards the iieach trees having limbs that were partially 

 broken otf by sleet in the winter were not atfected by the frost, and peaches are grow- 

 ing finely on them. One gentleman states that there are many, such limbs in his 

 orchard loaded witli fruit, while on the uubroken and healthy limbs of the same trees 

 the fruit was all killed. 



Salt Lake County, Utah. — The ftiilure of the ' apple crop is almost total. The grass- 

 hoppers, which for some years past have mainly taken our fruit crops, have now 

 seriously injured our trees, in some instances killing them outright. Peach, apricot, 

 plum, and pear trees do not appear to have suffered so much, although their fruit has 

 been completely devoured for the same period. 



