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of a crop is reported, the product being much reduced by the dry sea- 

 son, causino- the fruit to fall. In New Jersey the crop is less than half 

 an average yield. Injury fi-om hail-storms and from drought is reported 

 from Pennsylvania, and in some sections the fruit is knotty and wormy ; 

 the crop is estimated at about three-tenths below average. Delaware 

 reports three-fifths of a crop, and the hill country of the south, half to 

 two-thirds of a crop. In Maryland the fruit is two weeks earlier than 

 usual 5 the quality is inferior in the neighborhood of Baltimore. The 

 dry weather affected the crop seriously' in the South, but our i^orthum- 

 berland, Virginia, correspondent writes that apples have pajd better 

 than any other farm product this season. The Woodruff, Arkansas, 

 reporter complains that, for several years past, midsummer apples have 

 rotted and fallen. In the Western States the crop is generally better 

 than in the east or south, Missouri, W^isconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and 

 Kansas each reporting more than an average. Kentucky falls the 

 lowest — to 50 per cent, of an average. Ohio, West Yirginia, Xebraska, 

 California, and Oregon range from seven to nine-tenths of an average. 

 Illinois and Indiana fall five to eight per cent, below an average. In 

 localities, the fruit is dropping from the trees. In Warren and Butler 

 Counties, Ohio, the crop is reported to be the best grown in twelve to 

 fifteen years; and in Peoria, Illinois, it is ''enormous." In Muscatine, 

 Iowa, apples are " a drug in the market, selling at 25 to 35 cents i^er 

 bushel," while in Woodson, Kansas, they " are not so fair or plenty as 

 usual, and are- selling at So cents to 81 per bushel." In Osage, Kan- 

 sas, the crop was nearly destroyed by spring frosts. 



Peaches have yielded above an average croj) in most of the peach- 

 growing regions of the Middle' and Southern States, falling short only 

 in Pennsylvania, Virginia, in the Carolinas, and in Tennessee. Our 

 Morris, Xew Jersey, correspondent writes that the fruit has rotted con- 

 siderably ; that the late varieties have black spots on the skin and crack 

 open : and that white moldy spots also appear on the under side of the 

 leaves, causing them to die. In Cecil, Maryland, '• there has never been 

 a larger peach crop — many will go to waste." In Williamson, Texas, 

 "l)eaches are plenty, bnt small, owing to the drought. Probably, ten times 

 as many have been canned in this State this year as ever before in one 

 season." In the AVestern States the crop ranges from about two-thirds 

 of an average in Kentucky, ]Srebraska, and Oregon, to three-fourths in- 

 West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, and California, over nine-tenths in Illi- 

 nois, Missouri, Iowa, and above average in Kansas and Michigan. In 

 Nicholas, West Virginia, the crop was reduced one-half by the cnrcnlio, 

 and in Ealeigh County there was much falling oft'. In Woodson, Kan- 

 sas, where apples are scarce and high, peaches have been abundant at 

 30 cents per bushel. In Osage County they were wilting and rotting 

 on the trees. 



Grapes promise well from -Maine to North Carolina. In the States 

 south the crop is below an average, except in Alabama and Mississippi, 

 and falling to about two-thirds of a crop in Georgia. In the West the 

 crop is above an average, except in Kentucky, where it is only three- 

 fifths, in Indiana, where it is reported five per cent, below an average, 

 and in California, where it is rated 10 per cent, below. In Addison, 

 Vermont, gi-apes have mildewed badly. In Essex, New Jersey, they 

 have been seriously damaged by drought, Isabellas and Catawbas 

 especially suffering. The Concord and Delaware remain comparatively 

 free from rot. In Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, the " spot" on grapes 

 .is almost universal, and the slug, so prevalent on the rose in the early 

 summer, has attacked the foliage of the grape. In Northumberland, 



