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rye is yet to be sown. Alfalfa growing has met with little success. 

 Onion crop yield, 50. Potato yield, 50; tubers, small, and the vines 

 frost-bitten. Fruit i^rospect: fall apples, 25; winter apples, 25; 

 pears, 100. Apples, pastures and last spring's seeding have derived 

 the most benefit from recent rains. Hard frosts occurred on the 

 10th. 11th and 15th, the ground being frozen. All crops were 

 damaged. 



New Marlborough (E. W. Rhoades). — Indian corn yield: as a 

 grain crop, 50 ; as a fodder and ensilage crop, 90, Rowen yield, 25. 

 Fall feed condition, 25. Per cent of fall seeding : grass, 40 ; rye, 40, 

 Farmers are not taking much interest in alfalfa growing. Onion 

 crop yield, 75. Yield of potatoes, 50; quality, 80. Late market- 

 garden crop prospect : beets, carrots and parsnips, 100 ; cabbage and 

 cauliflower, 30; celery, 75; turnips, 45. Fruit yield: fall apples, 

 20; pears, 100; peaches, 40; grapes, 50. Frosts occurred on the 

 15th and 16th and damaged corn 10 per cent. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Boxoe (Henry D. Wright). — Indian corn as a grain crop is a 

 failure; as a fodder and ensilage crop, 50. No rowen. Fall feed 

 condition, 50. Yield of potatoes, 75; quality, 100. Fall apple yield, 

 15. Corn was damaged by frost on the 10th and 15th. 



Colrain (W. H. Davenport). — Indian corn yield: as a grain 

 crop, 30; as a fodder and ensilage crop, 65. Rowen yield, 10. Fall 

 feed condition, 25. Per cent of fall seeding : clover, 100 ; grass, 100. 

 No onion crop of any account raised. Potato yield, 50 ; quality, 100. 

 Late market-garden crop prospect : beets, 75 ; cabbage, parsnips and 

 turnips, 40; cauliflower and squash, 10; celery, 45. Fruit yield: 

 fall apples and pears, 100 ; peaches and gi'apes, 25. The rains came 

 too late to help crops other than beets and fall seeding. Frost oc- 

 curred about the 15th, ruining melons and squashes. Crops were so 

 belated by dry weather that frosts had little to injure. Apples this 

 year are the one success of Colrain farms. 



Leyden (Frank R. Foster). — Yield of Indian corn: as a grain 

 crop, 60; as a fodder and ensilage crop, 90. Yield of rowen, 20, 

 Condition of fall feed, 50. The usual amount of fall seeding has 

 been done in clover, grass and rye. Potato yield, 75; quality, 100. 

 Late market-garden crop prospect: beets, carrots and parsnips, 50; 

 cabbage, 100: turnips, 100. Fruit yield: fall apples and grapes, 75; 

 pears, 100; peaches, 90. No rain since May, to do any good. There 

 were frosts on the 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th, which damaged 

 corn 50 per cent, and affected potatoes and all gardens. 



Gill (F. F, Stoughton). — Indian corn yield as a fodder and 

 ensilage crop, 75. Condition of fall feed, 100. Four acres have 

 been sown to alfalfa this vear. It is too early to ascertain the qual- 



