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looks well. Garden crops are not up to the average; no potatoes dug 

 as yet; prices about average. No apples; few pears; grapes promise 

 well. Pastures are looking well. R3^e and oats are extra good crops. 

 No new apple orchards have been set. 



Easthampton (Wm. C. Clapp). — Squash bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn promises about a normal crop, but has begun to roll 

 on light land; about one-third of the crop is grown for the silo. The 

 hay crop was good on new seeded fields. All forage crops need rain; 

 millet and fodder corn are the principal ones grown. Potatoes need 

 rain and early potatoes will be a light crop. Some apple trees hang 

 full of fruit, while others in the same orchard have none. Upland 

 pastures are brown. Rye and oats are average crops. No new apple 

 orchards have been set out in this town. 



Wesihampton (Levi Burt). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is very backward and two-thirds of the crop will go into 

 the silo. The hay crop was of excellent quality and a full yield. Oats 

 and peas, and millet are our principal forage crops and are in good 

 condition. Potatoes are looking well and none have been dug as yet. 

 Apples promise a good crop; about the usual amount of other fruits. 

 Pastures are very dry. Rye, oats and barley are but little raised. 

 About six acres of apple orchard have been set out in 1908 and 1909. 



Chesterfield (Horatio Bisbee). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is in fairly good condition; not over one- 

 eighth of the crop is grown for ensilage. The hay crop was a large 

 yield of good quality. Millet, Hungarian grass and corn are our 

 principal forage crops. The apple crop is our main money crop and 

 is not now very promising. Dry weather has injured pasturage. 

 Oats are raised a little for forage; rye and barley not at all. One 

 man set 200 apple trees. 



Plainfield (C. A. Williams). — Potato bugs are the only insect 

 causing damage. Corn is doing well, the warm weather pushing it 

 along well; about half the crop goes into the silo. The hay crop was 

 larger than for some years and of good quality. Barlej^, millet and 

 fodder corn are our principal forage crops and are in good condition. 

 Garden crops are looking well, also potatoes, but few are harvested 

 as yet. There will be an average crop of fruit as a rule. Pasturage 

 is in good condition for the time of year. Rj'e, oats and barley are 

 fully average crops. There have been a few apple trees set in the 

 last two years, but not enough by any one person to make an estimate 

 as to the number of acres. 



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Tolland (E. M. Moore). — Potato and squash bugs and horn flies 

 are proving troublesome. Indian corn is in fair condition; about 

 one-fourth the crop is grown for ensilage. Hay is about a normal 



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