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inakiug the receipts of those two counties for apples alone over eleven 

 hundred thousand dollars. Large quantities were also sent to market 

 from adjoining counties. ' One town in Monroe Countv shipped about 

 48,000 barrels. 



Peaches ripen in Florida as follows: Hale's Early, June 10 to 15; 

 Early Tillotson and Yellow St. John, June 15 to .20; Canary, June 30, 

 Amelia, July 1 to 10 ; Bergen Yellow, July 10 ; Grosse Mignonne, July 

 15; Late Admirable, July 20; Oldmixon Free, July 15 to 30; Great 

 Eastern, July 20; Pncelle de Maliues, July 10; Late liareripe, August 1; 

 Lagrange, August 15 to 30; Gaylord, August 15; Owen's Seedling, 

 August 1 to 15 ; Osceola, September 1 ; Piquet's Late, September 1 to 

 15 ; Fruitland's Seedling, September 5 to 20 ; President Church, Sep- 

 tember 15 ; Lady Parham, October 1 ; Baldwin's Late, October 10 ; Julia, 

 October 30. 



The Eocky Mountain News gives the following estimates of crops of 

 small grain last year in the valleys of St. Yrain, Left Hand, and Boulder : 



St. Vrain. — Wheat, 19,414 bushels ; oats and barley, 51,630 bushels ; 

 against 21,073 bushels of wheat and 31,023 bushels of oats and barley 

 in 1868. The averages per acre were : Wheat, 23 bushels ; oats, 35 

 bushels. The corn crop generally good. Potatoes a failure. 



Left Hand. — Wheat, 10,618 bushels; oats and bailey, 18,217 bushels ; 

 against 10,350 bu>shels of wheat and 13,707 bushels of oats and barlev in 

 1868. 



Boulder. — Wheat, 45,060 bushels ; oats and barley, 62,715 bushels ; 

 against 46,350 bushels of wheat and 42,000 bushels of oats and barley in 

 1868. These estimates are based upon figures obtained personally Ixom 

 a large proportion of the farmers of the valleys named. 



