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their mowing lands. Hoidg is entertained for improvement in the 

 potato crop; considerable blight has appeared, but no rot as yet. 

 Tobacco was formerly raised here in large cjuantities, but none is now 

 raised in to^^m. Apples are generally a very short crop, with a few 

 exceptional cases of fine yield, with good quality ; pears plenty ; grapes 

 good; other fruits light. Feed in pastures is very short, but is grow- 

 ing since the drought was broken. Oats and barley are mostly cut for 

 hay or fed green, and have made good growths. Celery and other 

 late market-garden crops are doing well at present, but the cabbage 

 crop is short. Early potatoes were nearly a failure. 



Chicopee (E. L. Shaav). — Indian corn is doing finely now. Rowen 

 seems likely to be about a normal crop. Late potatoes are still green 

 and growing, with no blight or rot. Apples are very few; pears plenty; 

 peaches few; grapes plenty. Pasturage is in good condition. Oats are 

 a good crop, better than usual. Celery and other late market-garden 

 crops generally promise well. 



Ludlow (Chas. B.Bennett). — Corn is in very good condition, 

 but is ten days late. Rowen will give about one-fourth of a normal 

 crop. Early potatoes were a failure, owing to drought; but the late 

 ones are holding out well, and the crop will be large if they do not 

 blight. Apples and pears promise fair crops; no peaches or quinces; 

 grapes good. Pasturage is in very good condition, Oats are a better 

 crop than usual; no barley grown. There is a large acreage of buck- 

 wheat, and the yield will be large. Onions are a light crop. Cabbages, 

 celery and turnips will give good yields. The month of August has 

 been perfect for the grovWng of all crops. 



East Longmeadow (John L. Davis) . — Indian corn is above the 

 normal in condition. Rowen is a normal crop, and earh^ cut pieces 

 are above the normal. Early planted late potatoes will give a poor 

 yield, but very late planted ones promise well; there is no blight or 

 rot, but a good deal of leaf burn. Apples and pears are excellent; 

 there will be some grapes; no peaches, cjuinces or ci'anberries. Pas- 

 turage is in excellent condition. Oats are a heavy yield; no barley 

 grown. Celery should be excellent; also melons, turnips and vine 

 crops. 



Wilhraham (H. M. Bliss). — Indian corn is about 85 per cent of the 

 normal in condition. Rowen will give half a crop. Early potatoes 

 were a failure, but the late crops i^romise much better yields; no 

 blight or rot. Apples are 70 in condition; pears, 90; peaches. So; 

 grapes, 95; quinces, 60; cranberries, 50. Pasturage is 70 per cent of 

 the normal in condition. Oats and barley were good crops. Celery 

 and other late market-garden crops j^romise fairh' well. 



Palmer (O. P. Allen). — Since the recent rains corn has improved 

 rapidly and is looking well. Rowen is not quite up to the normal in 

 condition. The prospect for late potatoes is very good, with neither 

 blight nor rot. Fruit promises very good yields of good quality. 



