Prof. C. E. Bessey says: "This county lies in the extreme southeast corner of the State. It has long been noted for its fine apples, which are annually shipped in large quantities. Pears are not much grown. Peaches produce a crop about once in five years; two or three years ago the peach crop was so large that they sold for only a few cents a bushel. The berry crop is usually good, but this industry has not been as yet fully developed.

Grapes grow well and are very productive, especially along the bluffs of the Missouri river. The cold weather of the early part of January reached something more than twenty degrees below zero in southern Nebraska, thus destroying all hopes of a peach crop in that region".

[It is not the degree of temperature alone that forms the sole climatic condition favorable or unfavorable to the peach bud. The circumstances outside of mere low temperature have been very favorable, and we should not be surprised if the peach buds are not found "sound as ever." - Ed. G. M].