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Field and garden vegetables were good. Farm stock has 

 increased largely over previous years, and the cheese factories 

 in the county have had a successful season. 



Lincoln. (S. Kennedy.) There was a third more wheat 

 sown than last year, and the crop is good, averaging fifteen 

 bushels per acre. Of barley less was sown than usual, and 

 the yield was not up to the average. More corn was planted 

 than usual and the crop more than an average. Not as many 

 potatoes were planted as usual and the crop was poor. 



Penobscot. (D. M. Dunham.) Apples and all fruits are 

 abundant. The hay crop was above an average yield and 

 secured in good order. A larger breadth of wheat was sown 

 than usual, with a fully average yield ; the few pieces of 

 winter wheat that were sown did very well. The area of 

 corn planted has more than doubled in the last two years, 

 and the yield was very good. James M. Winchester of 

 Bangor, has raised 83 bushels of shelled corn on one acre, 

 and H. Doughty of Alton, 125 bushels of shelled corn from 

 two acres. Barley, buckwheat and rye are not much sown ; 

 oats were an average crop. Potatoes were less planted than 

 usual; the beetle did but little damage, but the potatoes 

 rotted badly. Mangolds were a good yield. 



Oxford. (T. Reynolds.) Corn one-third more than the 

 average of the past five years. Wheat is the best it has been 

 for years. The potato crop was light, not over half of last 

 year's yield. Fruit the largest it has been for years, apples 

 being smooth and free from worms. The hay crop was a 

 good one — a quarter larger in yield than last year. 



Franhlin. (J. O. Keys.) Hay more than an average; 

 the area of corn planted was one-fourth more than the aver- 

 age, with an average yield ; wheat was a little less than an 

 average in yield, but the breadth sown was a fourth more 

 than usual ; oats an average ; of potatoes not half the usual 

 acreage was planted, and the yield was not half the average. 

 Neat stock in the county are increasing in numbers and in 

 quality or value. Sheep are increasing, and horses growing 



