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Taylor County, loica. — The fruit crop was cut off by frost ia April. 



Muscatine County, JoHYt.^Apples are falling from the trees to an 

 unprecedented extent. The grape crop is good. 



Madison County, Iowa. — Apples are almost an entire failure. 



Woodson County, Kans. — Grapes are much above an average crop. . 



Franl'Un County, Kans. — The grape crop is good, though affected by 

 mildew. Isabellas and Catawbas, which had been almost discarded as 

 unprotitable, this year yielded bountifully, 50 per cent, more than Con- 

 cords. 



Cherol'ce County, Kaus. — Fruit is chiefly ruined by late frosts. The 

 country is new and most orchards have scarcely begun to bear. 



Franliin County, Kans. — Xotwithstanding the prolonged drought, 

 grapes have again rotted, Coiu^ord and Clinton being injured as badly 

 as Catawba and Isabella. Last year at the corresponding season it was 

 exceediugl}- wet, and although Isabella and Catawba suffered, Concord 

 and other varieties were free from rot or blight. The old theories do 

 not appear to give a satisfactory exi)lanation of this experience. 



Bearer County, Utah. — Fruit was chiefly killed by late frosts. 



El Dorado County, Cat. — Peaches started in the winter, and were frozen. 

 Black Hamburg and Muscadine grapes have mildewed badly from some 

 unknown cause. 



LaJx-e County, Cat. — The apple crop is not more than one-quarter of 

 what it was last year; but, with the exception of the Ked June, the 

 quality is very superior. 



Tuolumne Counti^ Cal. — In many vineyards grapes have been injured 

 by a late frost. Fruit cro])S of all kinds will be light. 



Plumas County, Cal. — Late frosts nearly destroyed fruit. Some atten- 

 tion is l)eing i)aid to cranberry culture. 



San Diego County, Cal. — Fruit will fall short, excepting grapes, which 

 will be nearly an average crop of fair quality. 



Los Angeles County, Cal. — The season has been unusually dry and 

 warm. The orange and lemon crop will be an average, and the trees 

 are apparently well filled with the new crop. 



Lane County, Oreg. — The apple crop will probably fall much below an 

 average. 



Lin>i County, Oreg. — There are few apples, and no peaches; and the 

 l)lum crop is poor. The crop of grapes is the finest ever produced. 



C(dumhia County, Oreg. — One-fifth of the apple crop was lost by being 

 sun-burned. 



Benton County, Oreg. — Apples are not more than half a crop. 



EXTKACTS FEOM CORRESPONDENCE. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SEEDS. 



Chester County, Fa. — We have just finished thrashing thirty kinds of 

 oats. We find the late-ripening kinds do not weigh so well as the early. 

 The straw is finely grown and clean of rust or disease, but the dry 

 weather seems to diminish the meal. The Cape of Good Hope oats were 

 small in size, but ripened very early. If they improve in stature, as some 

 others have done, their earliness may make them valuable. Taking all 

 things into consideration, we find tlie Excelsior the most valuable of the 

 lot, very early, handsome, and heavy. Somerset and White Swedish come 

 next in value. Among nearly all the new grains we find a dis])Osition 

 to adapt themselves to oiu^ climate. Some of the wheat that did poorly 

 last year stood the winter better and gave inomise of considerable 



