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NOTES OF CORRESPONDENTS. 



[Returned to us August 25.] 



BEKKSHIRE COUNTY. 



Cheshire (L. J. Nokthup). — Condition of Indian corn, 80. There 

 is no rowen. Late potato crop prospect, 50. Plum crop prospect, 75. 

 Pastures are in poor condition. Barley yielded a 75 per cent crop. 

 Crops as a whole are not even good; the dry weather seems to have 

 been a detriment to fruit. 



Windsor (Harry A. Ford). — Condition of corn, 80. No rowen. 

 Prospect for late potatoes, 50. Prospect for apples in some localities, 

 10 ; in others, 50. Pastures are in 50 jier cent condition, — very 

 dry. Oats yielded a 100 per cent crop. 



Pern (F. G. Creamer). — Indian corn is in 75 per cent condi- 

 tion. Rowen offers a 25 per cent prospect. Late potatoes will be 

 a one-half crop. Apple prospect, 25. Pasturage is all dried up. 

 Oats is looking well. 



Sfockbridge (F. A. Palmer). — Indian corn condition, 75. 

 Rowen prospect, 25. Late potato prospect, SO. Fruit prospect: 

 apples, 18; pears, 40; plums, 30. Pastures are so dry that there 

 is no growth. Oats yielded an 85 per cent crop. Condition of 

 celery, 90. It is so dry that apples are not gi-owing as in a normal 

 j-ear. Dairymen are feeding in the barn the same as in winter, 

 to keep up the flow of milk. 



Lee (Edward J. Normax). — Indian corn condition, 75. Rain is 

 very badly needed. Meadows are about dried up. Late potatoes 

 offer a 75 per cent prospect, and on moist land are still growing; 50 

 per cent of the crop is affected by blight. Fruit prospect: apples, 

 10, looking very badly; pears, 75; grapes, 50. Condition of pastur- 

 age, 25. Mountain pastures and brooks are dried up. Oats yielded 

 80 per cent of a normal crop ; straw was a little short, but the grain 

 very good. Barley yielded a 50 per cent crop. Early celery is a 

 little inclined to run to seed. General crop conditions, 60. Condition 

 of other late market-garden crops, 75. Cabbage and root crops need 

 rain to hurry them along. 



Becket (William H. Sxotv). — Condition of corn, 80. Pros- 

 pect for rowen, 60. The ground is so dry that late potatoes cannot 



