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and barley are quite good crops. Apple trees are put out every year, 

 but not on an extended scale. 



Royalston (C. A. Stimson). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is small and half the crop will go into the silo. There was a 

 bumper hay crop of fine quality. Oats and barley are the principal 

 forage crops grown and are in fair condition. Potatoes look fairly 

 well; no market-garden crops grown. Apples and pears are fair crops; 

 no peaches or plums ; grapes good; cranberries not grown. Pasturage 

 is in medium condition. Rye, oats and barley are good as forage 

 crops; not grown for grain. No apple orchards have been set out 

 here in the last two years. 



Gardner (W. E. Knight). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian com is in good condition; three-fourths of the crop is grown 

 for ensilage. The hay crop was the largest for several years and of 

 good quality. Barnyard millet is our principal forage crop and looks 

 well. Potatoes look well; none dug as yet. Apples promise about 

 an average crop; other fruit not raised to any extent. Pastures are 

 getting dry. Rye, oats and barley are good crops. No new apple 

 orchards have been set out during the past two years. 



Ashburnham (E. D. Gibson). — Cut worms are doing some damage. 

 Corn is two weeks late and needs rain badly. Hay is a good crop of 

 the best quality. Millet, barley and corn are the principal forage crops 

 grown and all look well. Potatoes are not dug and are in need of rain. 

 Apples and pears will give fair crops. There is little feed in pastures, 

 many feeding from the barn. Rye, oats and barley are average crops. 

 I do not know of any new apple orchards. Crops of all kinds, also 

 mowings, are in need of rain. 



Hubbardston (Chas. C. Colby). — Indian corn is very backward and 

 several lots planted early for grain had to be replanted for ensilage; 

 probably half the crop will go into the silo. The hay crop was of good 

 quality and above the average in quantity. Oats, Hungarian grass 

 and the millets are grown for forage and have made good growths. 

 All market-garden crops, including potatoes, are looking well, but are 

 late. At present the prospect is for a small apple crop. Pasturage is 

 holding out well for so dry a season. Not many new orchards have 

 been set, but some of the old ones ha^'e been renovated, and the 

 results obtained will be carefully noted by other growers. 



Princeton (A. O. Tyler). — Squash bugs and cut worms are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is backward, and owing to dry weather 

 will be small; the greater portion will be used for ensilage. The 

 hay crop was larger than last year in quantity and of good quality. 

 Millet, Himgarian grass and oats are our forage crops, and are suffering 

 somewhat from drought. Market-garden crops are in good condition, 

 but dry weather is beginning to injure them; yield of those harvested 

 fair and prices better than last year. AjDples and pears fair; peaches, 

 plums and quinces very few; grapes fair. Pasturage is in very poor 



