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Our Jackson reporter says : 
The capabilities of our county are most excellent for all fruits raised in this latitude. 
The grape grows superbly. Our orchards are young, but every man who has an orchard 
is making it pay; apples and peaches selling at from $1 to $2 per bushel in the orchard, 
and grapes from 15 to 25 cents per pound. 
Woodson county : 
There is not an acre of dry land in our county that is not adapted to fruit culture. The 
peach is peculiarly adapted to our soil and climate, and the crop has not failed since 1860. 
Grapes do well, and are not subject to the blight or mildew. Apples are only beginning 
to bear. Pears succeed as far as tried. 
Pottawatomie : 
The large fruits promise well. Grapes indicate exceedingly fine results. Apples and 
peaches are worth $2 50 per bushel; grapes, 25 to 35 cents per pound. 
Bourbon : 
Fruits of all kinds do well. Peaches bear in three years from the seed; apples from six 
to seven years. 
Peaches are sometimes winter-killed, but seldom prove entire failures. Our 
Miami reporter says they are saved from early frosts by winter mulching. Our 
Wyandotte correspondent thinks there is no better fruit region in the United 
States than in that county. He reports an orchard that has not failed in six 
years to yield an abundant crop; the apples selling in the orchard at $1 25 per 
bushel, and yielding from $700 to $900 each year. “All the grapes tried suc- 
ceed, except the Catawba. In Franklin, the Catawba and Isabella have been 
blighted in many localities during the past three years, but the Concord and 
Clinton do well.” In Osage, “apples do well, and grow large and luscious, 
but need a wind-break ; while peaches do well one year in five ; grapes succeed 
finely, as do all small fruits, except currants, which need shade.” 
Our Marshall reporter writes : : 
But little attention has been paid to fruit culture here, but it is believed that all the hardy 
fruits will do well. If some ‘one would come and start a nursery here in the Blue valley 
he would have many customers. Nothing of the kind exists in all this valley. 
ARE OUR WINTERS BECOMING COLDER? 
People are proverbially forgetful of facts in weather experience. It is inti- 
mated in public prints that the winters of central United States are gradually 
becoming colder, and a possibility of an approaching cycle of Arctic cold is 
hinted. That the public fear of such a climatic misfortune may not become 
intensified, the following facts from Niles’s Register are given : 
The Charlestown, Virginia Free Press, of the 8th of January, 1835, says, that on the 5th 
of that month everything in a fluid or damp state about the office became congealed; that 
water poured on the form was instantly converted into a cake of ice, and the paper which 
was worked off on one side had the appearance of a huge block of timber. 
A couple of gentlemen belonging to the city of New York went from Jersey City on skates 
down to Bergen Point, through the kills across the bay to Newark, which was accomplished 
in four hours. . 
The Chesapeake bay was frozen over at the Capes of Virginia in February last. 
During the cold weather in January the children at Bordentown and Camden, New Jer- 
sey, sold hot bricks to the passengers on the railroad at sixpence each. 
The thermometer at Charleston, South Carolina, in an exposed situation, on the 8th Feb- 
ruary, at daybreak, was at zero, an intensity of cold without example in the memory of man, 
or-as far as the thermometrical records of that city reach. Fluids of almost every kind - 
became congealed into solid substances. 
The ice on the Mississippi, at Bowling Green, on the 8th February, was strong enough for 
foot passengers to cross on, and the following day horses and teams crossed in safety. 
In 1641 Governor Winthrop, in his journal, mentions that the frost was so great that the 
Boston bay was frozen over from the 18th November to the 21st December, so that horses and 
carts crossed over parts where ships had sailed. Loads of wood drawn by six oxen passed 
