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MOST of the apple crop in Rappahannock County was wiped out this past weekend when a killing frost froze the apple blossoms that were almost in full bloom. According to some estimates, more than 90% of the crop was destroyed when temperatures in the area , dropped into the .low twenties: • Hi • B.' Wood of Woodville, who ■ owns .50 acires of apple orchards,, said that “it looks .like they are : about'all-vgonev”/He said that the thermohieter Onhis house droned to' 2ft .degrees. ' “.That was cold enough-. to get ,‘em” he said..
Wood remarked that the Week-' end frost, was one .of the worst' that the apple crop has ever suffered. “The kill is the worst that I have ever seem' I’ve heard alot of people say that, and some of. them are older, than I am.”.
Another Rappahannock orchardist, Ned Johnson,, said that his Red Delicious apples suffered the worst damage. “My Red Delicious are wiped out' completely;, the Staymans .Will- be short and.
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