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many years. Sandusky : Good outlook. Meigs : Frosts killed many of the early peaches. 
Franklin: Peaches killed. : alin 
~ MicuiGaNn.—Jonia :' Many of the trees have been killed by recent severe winters, 
but those left promise a full crop. Oakland: Fuller blossom than ever before seen 
Lenawee. A very full bloom. Shiawassee: Promise better than for some years. Grand 
Traverse: A very full bloom all over the county. Muskegon: Three-fourths of the 
peaches .killed. Ottaway: All kinds promising. Wayne: Prospeet’ nevér’ better. 
Mason: Prospect fine. - . ; ~ HATU 
InpIANaA.— Whitley : Never a finer bloom, but the feait has not set well as was hoped. 
Franklin: Trees unusually full of bloom, bnt frni¢ not abundant. Howard: Prospect 
ofapples above average, peaches mostly killed. Floyd: The crop will belarze. Hamil- 
ton: A full bloom of apples but fenit falling off badly; peaches a fair crop. Carroll: 
Apples and peaches much damaged by frosts. Washington: Peaches an entire fail- 
ure, except on budded trees. Kosciusko: Fruit prospects were never more promising 
until within two weeks: since which, have had an east wind almost confinually, and 
at least 50 per cent. of the apples have fallen off, and a large per cent. of the cherries. 
Noble: The prospect for fruit is good. Floyd: Small fruits very abundant; a few 
early peaches and no late ones. Cass: Killing frosts May 22d and 23d, badly injured 
the. finest of fruit prospects. Lake: Fruit bas the best showing ever Known. Wells: 
Frost. May 7th, killed iruit to a considerable extent. Madison: All fine except the 
peach-crop. ’ 
Ivuinors.— Boone: Biossomed profrsely, but owing to cold and wind will not be 
more than average crops of frnit. De halb: Fruits of all kinds promise well; cher- 
ries, a good crop, and grapes above average ; ap) les 20 per cent, below average. IW hite: 
Fruit killed by the cold weatherin Maich. Logan: Apples not setting well, falling 
off. Bureau: Prospect of the jargest crop of apples ever raised, though some com- 
plaint of dropping off. YZazewell: Canker-worms have appeared in a few of the large 
orchards. The prospects for small fruitssplendid. Clinton: Apples ivjured by frost. 
Fayetie: Prospect very good. Mason: Short crop of apples. Sangamon: Apples fall- 
ing off badly. Jefferson: Half a crop of apples. Hancock: Half the apples have 
dropped off. McLean: Apples have dropped oft badly. Logan: Peach-trees badly 
winter-killed. Mercer: Few peach-trees, but well leaded. 
Wisconsin.— Green Lake: Promise a large crop,especially ef apples. Richland: 
Fullest blossom for years. WWaskingion: Promise of au abundant crop. Greene: Prom- 
ise abundant. 
Towa.— Woodbury: There ave a great many young orchards not yet in bearing, all 
doing well. The few in bearing have done well, and will produce some frnit. Hardin: 
Promise a very heavy yield. Clayton: Never a better prospect. Iowa: Our few trees 
full: Jefferson: The fruit prospect is the finest for years ; all kinds promise abundantly. 
Sac; In this new county the orchards are young, but some apple and cherry orchards 
just coming into bearing give great promise. 
Missovunr.—De Kalb: Every kind promises a Jarge yield. Clay: Frnit short,owing 
to a freeze after the buds were partially opened. Pettis; Half a erop of cherries and a 
fair crop of grapes. Johnson: Very little fruit. owing to storm and cold the last week 
in March. Barton: Peaches and all small fruits killed by-the freeze in March. Jef- 
ferson: The prospect is good for cherries ard grapes. Calloway: Fruit has dropped off 
the trees badly. Laclede: Peaches nearly all killed. Pemiscot: Peaches all killed. 
Stone: Fourth ofa crop. Christian: Not goed. Stoddard: Killed. Saint Genevieve: All 
killed, except a small percentage of very hardy seedlings. Chariton: Peaches killed. 
Mississippi; Peaches all killed in some parts. Polk : Peaches killed. Cass; Apples and 
peaches nearly all destroyed by three haii-storms. Jefferson: Poor prospect. Dallas: 
Peaches a failnre; apples injured by hail. Butler: Apples and peaches half killed by 
the frost. Laclede: Apples nearly all killed. Platte: Scarcely 25 per cent. of a bloom. 
Now a small worm, 3 of an inch long, called by some the canker-worm, is making sad 
bavoc among the apple-orchards, eating all the leaves and destroying the apples. 
Stone: Half a crop of apples. Holt: A bug, allied to the chinch, injured the apple- 
blossoms. They were very numerous in some orchards. The canker-worm has stripped 
a few orchards in the eastern part of the county of their leaves and fruit. The codling- 
moth is the principal enemy of the apple in this part of the country. The destruction by 
them equals fully 20 per cent. of the crop.. Perry: Halfa crop of apples, and still falling 
off. Pettis: Three-fourths of a crop of apples. Stoddard: Most of the apples killed 
by a freeze. Saint Genevieve : Late frosts very destructive. Charidon : Apples killed. 
Kansas.—Shawnee: Fruit destroyed by hail. Cowley: Peaches killed. Osage : Almost 
a total failure. Barbour: Prospect of apples greater than ever before. Doniphan: Ap- 
ple-blossoms injured by a small brown bug; peaches killed. Cherokee; About the first 
crop of apples raised is doing well; peaches a failure. Brown: Destroyed throngh the 
center of the county by a violent storm. Douglas: Some appearance of bight on 
the trees. Labette: Rose chafer did much damage to early apples. Ek: Peaches killed. 
Brown : Peaches destroyed. Montgomery: Peaches {killed on bottom -lands; a few on 
uplands. . 
