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Our reporter in the adjoining county of Pulaski says: 
For early apples they have realized $7 per bushel, above expense of shipping and com- 
missions, and for other fruits proportionately high prices. In Washington county most 
orchards are young, just beginning to bear. One man, from an orchard of 150 acres, the 
trees four years old from the bud, shipped 5,000 boxes (2,000 bushels) of peaches, at a net 
profit of $3,000. Another man, from six acres, the trees seven years old, sold 1,300 boxes 
of peaches, at anet profit of $650. 
In McDonough county, apples succeed well, but our correspondent adds : 
The worms and freezes in our soil render necessary the renewal of orchards in 20 years. 
Dwarf pears do well, but standards blight badly. Our only reliable cherry is the old Morello 
and English Morello dwarfed. Concord, Hartford, Prolific, Clinton, and a few other 
varieties of grapes do well, and we frequently have good crops of the Isabella, Diana, &c. 
From Winnebago, in the extreme north, our correspondent writes as follows : 
Our soil is excellent for fruit, but our climate is very unfavorable on account of the great 
extremes of heat and cold, and frequent and sudden changes. Peaches cannot be raised, 
pears but seldom, on account of the spring frost. The finer varieties of cherries do not suc- 
ceed, while the coarser kinds are liable to be killed by frost while in bloom. Many varieties 
of hardy apples do well, but are not so fair and large as the same kinds imported from Michi- 
gan. The small fruits and hardy grapes do finely. One great drawback to fruit-raising is 
the late spring frosts which often occur while fruit trees are in bloom, especially the earlier 
varieties. Apples are much troubled with the codling moth, and plums with curculio. 
In De Witt, apples appear to be the fruit best adapted to the soil and climate, 
though small fruits are raised in great abundance. During the past three or four 
years, apples have paid better than any other crop; many orchards of from 
three to five acres netting from $400 to $700. Our Grundy reporter says: 
That fruit culture there affords a better profit than grain or stock growing, ranging from 
$100 to $200 per acre. In Jersey county there are several vineyards that have sold to the 
amount of $1,500 per acre, at an expense of from $700 to $800 per acre; while apples yield, 
on an average, 150 barrels per acre, worth, net in the orchard, 75 cents per barrel. 
Our Effingham correspondent writes as follows : 
Our soil is well adapted to apples, peaches, pears, quinces, plums, cherries, grapes, &c., 
though no attempt has been made to develop our capacity in these respects. Last year our 
apple crop was probably 30,000 bushels, worth $1 per bushel here. The varieties now cultiv 
vated are the Ben Davis, Rome Beauty, Maiden’s Blush, Rambo, Raul’s Jannetting, Golden 
Russet, Fall Winesap, &c., &c. Some of the older trees bear 20 to 25 bushels, indicating a 
capacity of 1,000 bushels to the acre. One peach orchard of 1,200 trees, near Mason, netted 
$1,200 last year. An orchard of peaches and apples, 10 acres, in Effingham, netted $3,000 
at eight years old. As yet, nothing has been done with pears, except to get a fine show of 
Flemish Beauties. From a young vineyard of 400 vines, Mr. Hegeman netted $400. From 
a mixed ten-acre orchard of apples, peaches, quinces, plums, &c., Mr. L. W. Thompson, 
of Effingham, obtains a very comfortable living. About 100 bushels of strawberries can 
easily be raised to the acre, worth $3 per bushel, net. Early Richmond and May Duke 
cherries grow in great abundance and large shipments are made annually. 
MISSOURI. 
1. A number of the western counties of Missouri, including Holt, Jackson, 
St. Ulair, McDonald and Green, Texas, near the southern border, and How- 
ard, Shelby, and Linn, in the north-eastern portion of the State, report no 
material change in the average value of farm lands since 1860; whilst Mont- 
gomery reports an active decline of 20 per cent; Madison, 33 per cent., and 
Stoddard a still higher rateof decrease. Cooper, Ray, Osage, DeKalb, Calloway, 
Vernon, Audrain, Scotland, Lewis, Canton, Buchanan, Lincoln, and Scott, report 
advances ranging from 4 to 15 per cent.; Gentry, 20 per cent.; Christian, 
Cedar, Newton, and Dallas, 25 to 30 per cent.; Cass, St. Genevieve, Mercer, 
33 to 40 per cent.; Pike, Mississippi, Harrison, Livingston, Iron, Char- 
iton, Boone, Dade, Lawrence, Nodaway, 40 to 50 per cent.; Cole, 65; Miller 
and Bates, 80 percent.; Moniteau, St. Louis, Phelps, Hickory, Johnson, and Henry, 
100 to 150 per cent.; and Jefferson reports an advance of 400 per cent. From 
the several estimates of our reporters, there appears to be an average of 30 to 
35 per cent. for the farm lands of the whole State since the date named. Our 
