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crop and of very good quality. Corn, oats, barley and rye are the 

 forage crops grown. Apples and pears promise about 40 per cent of 

 average crops. Feed is very poor in pastures. Rye was a very good 

 crop and oats and barley are about average. No new apple orchards 

 have been put in in this section. Springs, brooks and wells are getting 

 low. 



Blandford (Ends W. Boise) . — Potato bugs are very plenty and 

 flies are troubling stock badly. Indian corn shows a poor stand, but 

 is making a good growth; nearly all the crop is grown for grain. The 

 hay crop was much above the normal and of extra quality. Millet is 

 our principal forage crop, with some oats. All garden crops are late 

 and suffer from drought. Fruits bloomed full, but dry weather has 

 caused the prospect now to be for light crops. Pasturage is in about 

 average condition. Rye, oats and barley are above the normal. Some 

 three or four parties have put out apple trees, perhaps 7 or 8 acres in 

 all. 



Southwick (L. A. Fowler). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is in good condition, but needs rain; there are but few silos here. 

 The hay crop was above the normal in quantity and of good quality 

 Oats, Hungarian grass and millet are the principal forage crops grown. 

 Early potatoes yield well, price as last year; late ones need rain. The 

 fruit crop will be a little below the average. Pasturage is drying up. 

 Rye, oats and barley are above average crops. Tobacco promises 

 well, but needs rain on light land. 



Agawam (J. G. Burt). — Indian corn is a little backward and more 

 than half the crop is grown for ensilage. There is a large hay crop of 

 good ciuality. Forage crops have not been sown as yet, owing to dry 

 weather. Potatoes look well, but none have been dug as 3^et. There 

 will be a light crop of apples, but the prospect is good for other fruits. 

 Pasturage is short. Rye, oats and barley are heavy crops. No or- 

 chards have been set out here to my knowledge. We must have rain 

 soon if we are to have any crops. 



West Springfield (T. A. Rogers) . — Squash vine borers and stock 

 flies are our principal insects. Corn is growing well now, but is a week 

 late; about one-fourth the crop is grown for the silo. Oats, corn and 

 Hungarian grass are our forage crops, and are looking well. Early 

 potatoes were injured by drought, and have not made half a crop; 

 price about as usual. Apples have dropped badly ; pears good ; plums 

 and grapes average; few quinces grown; some peaches. Pastures are 

 very short and dry. Rye, oats and barley are generally good crops. 

 A few apple trees have been set by different parties, not many acres 

 in all. 



Chicopee (E. L. Shaw). — Elm-leaf beetles are doing some damage. 

 Corn is a little late, but is doing well now; about a third of the crop 

 goes into the silo. Fertile fields have produced a large crop of hay 

 of good quality. Rye, wheat, oats and peas, Japanese millet and 



