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as all crops are suffering from drought. Potatoes are small. Apples 

 have fallen badly and are undersized. 



Etissell (E. D. Parks). — Condition of corn, 85. Rowen will be 

 a 50 per cent crop. Late potatoes will be a 90 per cent crop, and 

 35 per cent is affected by blight. Fruit prospect : apples, 90 ; pears, 

 100; peaches, 85; plums, 100; quinces, 80; grapes, 90. Condition 

 of pasturage, 70. The oat crop was 80 per cent of normal, while 

 barley yielded an 85 per cent crop. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — Corn wall not be over a 50 

 per cent crop. There is no rowen at present, but what a wet Sep- 

 tember may do is problematical. The crop of late potatoes will 

 possibly be 60 per cent of a normal; blight has affected 40 per cent 

 of the crop. Fruit prospect: apples, 25; pears, 100; quinces, very 

 few; grapes, 80. There is practically no feed in the pastures, but 

 they serve as exercising ground for the cows. But little oats is 

 raised; the crop will be 60 per cent of a normal. Large quantities of 

 celery are grown, but the yield will be only about 60 per cent as 

 compared with normal, and the condition of other market-garden 

 crops is about the same. Formerly, large quantities of tobacco were 

 raised here; now there is none, market-gardening having taken its 

 place. All crops are suffering severely from drought. On the night 

 of August 22 less than one-half inch of rain fell. It came gently 

 and revived vegetation slightly, but by the 24th the good results 

 had vanished. 



East Longmeadow (John L. Davis). — Indian corn condition, 

 25. Rowen prospect, 10. Late potatoes will show a 40 per cent 

 crop ; have noticed some dry rot. Fruit prospect : apples, 40 ; pears, 

 100 ; peaches, 50 ; plums, 80 ; quinces, 70 ; grapes, 70. There is no 

 pasturage. The yield of oats was 70 per cent of normal. Condition 

 of celery and other late market-garden crops, 40. 



Ham-pden (E. Norton Davis). — 'Dry weather has ruined some 

 fields of corn; condition is 75 to 80, Very few farmers here cut any 

 rowen. Late potato prospect, 70 to 80 ; fully 50 per cent of the crop 

 is affected by blight. FiiTit prospect : apples, 40 ; peaches, 10 ; plums, 

 25; grapes, 90 to 95. Pastures are i^retty well dried up; condition, 

 60 to 70. The crop of oats was 80 per cent of normal. 



Brimfield (F. N. Lawrence). — Corn condition, 50. Rowen pros- 

 pect, 10. Crop of late potatoes will be 50 per cent of normal; 

 blight has affected 10 per cent of the crop. Fruit prospect : apples, 

 25; pears, 50; peaches, 25; plums, 10; grapes, 75. Condition of 

 pasturage, 50. The oat crop was 80 per cent of normal. We have 

 had some showers in the past two weeks, but they came too late to 

 save most crops. 



