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rowen, but hardly a normal crop. Late potatoes are still growing; 

 there is some blight, but no rot as yet. Tobacco is reported better 

 than last year. There will be a fair crop of apples, pears and grapes; 

 other fruits little grown. Rains have helped pasturage materially. 

 Oats are a good crop; barley not much raised. Celery is little grown. 

 Late cabbages are growing well. 



Southampton (C. B. Lyman). — Corn is looking fairly well, though 

 the drought will lessen the yield of grain. The prospect for rowen is 

 very poor. Late potatoes are very uneven, some fields looking very 

 ■well and others the reverse. Tobacco looked poorly three weeks ago, 

 but has taken a new lease of life and is turning out well; cutting has 

 commenced, acreage about as usual. Apples will be a light crop; 

 pears plenty; peaches scarce; grapes fair. Pastures very short of 

 feed. Oats were never better, mostly cut for hay. All crops have 

 imiDroved greatly since the rains of three weeks ago. 



Williamsburg (F. C. RiC'HX'Rvs,). — -Indian corn is looking finely, 

 but will be late in ripening, and early frosts would injure it severely. 

 The weather has been too dr\' for rowen, except in a few well-favored 

 fields. Late potatoes are looking well; little blight and no rot as yet. 

 Apples promise half a crop; pears and peaches good. Feed is getting 

 very short in pastures. There will be a short growth of oats. 



Goshen (George L. Baerus). — Corn is somewhat backwaixl, but 

 will ripen with time. The rowen crop promises to be better than the 

 average. Late potatoes are looking well, but some blight is seen. 

 There will be about half yields of all fruits. Pasturage is in good 

 condition, showers and short rains having kept it green. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Blandford CEnos W . Boise) . — Corn has of late made a good 

 growth, but is still backward and not up to the average. Rowen is 

 not over half a crop. The rains have helped late potatoes, which 

 promise well, with no blight. Apples and pears are from one-half to 

 three-fourths of the normal. Pastures are dried up, and stock is being 

 fed from the barn. Oats and barley are fully up to the average. Gar- 

 den crops are late, but are doing well since the recent rains. 



Agawam (J. G. Burt). — Lidian corn promises a good crop. The 

 prospect is for only a light crop of rowen. Potatoes promise a light 

 yield; no blight or rot as yet. The acreage of tobacco is about the 

 same as usual, and there will be a good crop. Apples and peaches 

 will give light crops; other fruits good. Pasturage is pretty short. 

 Oats and barley are better crops than in former years. Late market- 

 garden crops are in good condition. 



West Springfield {1!^. T. Smith). — Corn is growing well, but will 

 require a late fall to mature well. Very little rowen will be cut, and 

 that late; grass is now growing well, and some have turned stock into 



