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berries good. Pasturage is in poor condition. Oats and barley 

 are average crops. Celery and other late market-garden crops are 

 very little grown. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Hopkintoii (W. V. THOMPSOiSr). — Indian corn has suffered from 

 drought, but some fields would be fairly good with a little more 

 rain. There is no rowen. There is little chance of a crop of 

 potatoes of any account. Apples are not a very good crop and 

 are dropping; pears fair; peaches few; grapes fair. Pastures are 

 dried up. Oats were a fairly good crop for fodder. Celery and 

 other late market-garden crops are not much raised. 



Marlboro (E. D. Howe). — Corn is in very good condition, con- 

 sidering the dry season ; that planted on stable manure shows better 

 than that on fertilizer. Rowen will be about 10 per cent of a 

 normal crop. Late potatoes promise a three-fourths crop, with no 

 blight or rot. Apples 60 per cent of a normal crop ; pears, peaches 

 and quinces, 50 ; grapes, 75. Pastures are all dried up. 



Maynard (L. H. Maynard). — Indian corn looks well, but is 

 late, and the crop will be an average one. The rowen crop will 

 be short, owing to di'y weather. Potatoes look well, but are late; 

 some blight, but no rot as yet. Apples are short, 50 per cent of 

 a normal crop; pears small and poor; peaches average; grapes a 

 full crop; quinces and cranberries an average crop. Pastures are 

 in poor condition, though the recent rains helped out a little. Oats 

 and barley on high land were failures. Celery is in poor condition; 

 market-garden crops have improved wonderfully since the rains. 

 The onion crop is the poorest for many years. Fall web worms are 

 making havoc on apple and other fruit trees and the elm-leaf beetle 

 has practically stripped the elms in this section. 



Westford (J. W. Fletcher). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 There will be very little rowen this year. The prospect for late 

 potatoes is good, with no blight or rot. There Avill be full yields 

 of apples and pears. Pasturage is in poor condition. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Corn is a little late, but is otherwise 

 in good condition. The crop of rowen will be below the normal. 

 Late potatoes promise a medium crop; no blight or rot has been 

 noticed. Apples are a light crop, also pears and peaches; grapes 

 and cranberries are good crops, but the berries are small. Pastur- 

 age has improved since the rains, but feed is still short. Oats and 

 barley are principally raised as forage crops. 



Chelmsford (W. B. Bullock). — Indian corn is a good crop and is 

 well advanced for the time of year. There will be an average crop 

 of rowen. Potatoes will be a light crop, though there is very little 



