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nessee, the crop was extra fine; but in McMinn nearly all fell off before 
ripening, from the combined effects of drought and insects. 
In Kentucky, Anderson, Fleming, and Henry report the largest 
and best crop ever known; in the last named, the yield was so great as 
to almost annihilate the market-price. In Ohio, Butler returns a larger 
crop than has been known for forty years, and that of fine quality, free 
from all the usual defects; Geauga and Meigs, apples a drug in the 
market; Hancock, so superabundant that thousands of bushels are left 
to rot on the ground; Perry, an enormous crop, of excellent quality ; 
Miami and Franklin, the largest crops for 20 years, also of excellent 
quality; Preble, the largest crop ever known, making a demand for 
cider-barrels which outruns the supply; in Trumbull, cider sells at 5 
to 8 cents per gallon. In Michigan, Oakland saved in good condition 
the largest crop ever known; Wayne, a crop never exceeded in yield 
or quality. In Indiana, Ripley and Howard have the largest and best- 
matured crops ever harvested ; in Kosciusko, winter-apples, well handled, 
sell in markef at 25 to 40 cents per bushel ; in Noble, the best varieties 
of winter-apples sell for 25 cents per bushel; in Floyd, large quantities 
are being manufactured into cider, vinegar, and brandy. In Illinois, 
Boone and Carroll, the crop was so abundant that apples are worth but 
little in market, and are being mostly manufactured into cider; Ham- 
ilton reports winter-apples as knotty and imperfect; and Johnson, that 
apples rotted on the trees, worse than for many years. 
The return from Walworth, Wisconsin, reports that the crop is so 
abundant as to be fed to hogs—an unprecedented thing in that State; 
La Fayette had much the finest crop ever raised there; Columbia, an 
abundant crop, quite free from worms. Decatur and Henry, Iowa, had 
the largest crop ever grown. In Placer, California, the product sur- 
passes that of any crop for many years. In Frémont, Colorado, the 
trees were well loaded; but, long before the fruit was ripe, the grass- 
hoppers stripped them entirely of foliage. 
PEARS.—The pear-crop falls below the small crop of 1875. The ex- 
tensive prevalence of the tree-disease known as pear-blight appears to 
be the leading cause of this diminution. Its prevalence and effect in 
reducing the crop to a greater or less extent are noted in New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, West Virginia, 
Illinois, and Iowa. The only States in which the product does not fall 
below that of last year are New Hampshire, 103; Vermont, 100; Wis- 
consin, 119; Iowa, 105; Oregon, 101; no one of which produces a large 
erop. In the remaining States, the decline is about 20 per cent. Very 
few counties report full crops; but in Howard, Indiana, pears are plenty 
and fine; Decatur, Iowa, produced the largest crop ever known; and 
Placer, California, a crop surpassing any other for many years. 
GRAPES.—The returns indicate a product somewhat less than in 1875. 
The small crop in New England averaged better than last year. Penn- 
sylvania returns 103, but in the other States north of the Potomac the 
falling-off averages about 12 per cent. There appears to be a reduction 
from last year in the Southern States, averaging about 10 percent. In 
the interior east of the Mississippi, the product is less than in 1875; the 
greatest reduction, 19 per cent., being in Illinois: West of the Missis- 
sippi, Arkansas reports a falling off of 32 per cent., Missouri of 15. In 
California, the product is reported two per cent. larger than last year. 
Except in localities where the yield was reduced by the effects of the 
hard winter or late spring frosts, the almost exclusive cause of reduction 
has been a widespread tendency to mildew and rot. But in Bucks, 
Pennsylvania, a good crop was largely injured by bees and wasps; in 
