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Fruit yield: fall apples, 70; pears, 80; peaches, 25; grapes, 70; 

 cranberries, 50. Recent rains helped to start the grass roots, as well 

 as cabbage and cauliflower. Frost damaged corn, potatoes, squash, 

 beans and millet, on the 14th and 15th, certainly 50 per cent. 



Cummington (Andrew A. Shaw). — Indian corn yielded a 50 

 per cent grain crop, and a 100 per cent fodder and ensilage crop. 

 Rowen yield, 50. Condition of fall feed, 20. Per cent of fall seed- 

 ing: clover, 75; grass, 100. Practically no onions grown. Potato 

 yield, 75; quality, 100. Late market-garden crop prospect: beets, 

 100; cabbage, 100; squash, 50; turnips, 100. Fruit yield: fall 

 apples, 50; pears, 75. Late potatoes is the only crop benefited by 

 recent rains. A hard frost on the 12th killed ensilage corn and 

 potatoes. We have had a bad year for crops, the frost early in the 

 month completing the damage done by the drought. 



Westhampton (Levi Burt). — As a grain crop, Indian corn 

 yielded a 50 per cent crop ; as a fodder and ensilage crop, 75. Rowen 

 yield, 25. Condition of fall feed, 50. Per cent of fall seeding: 

 clover, 100; grass, 100; rye, 100. Farmers are showing more inter- 

 est in alfalfa. Potato crop condition, 60 ; quality, 100. Fruit yield : 

 fall apples, 50; pears, 90; peaches, 25. Rowen was most benefited 

 by recent rains. Corn and all other garden crops were damaged by 

 the frosts of the 15th and 16th; all vegetation except grass was 

 killed. Alfalfa gi'own here is in little patches on trial plots. 



Hadley (E, J. Burke). — Indian corn yield: as a grain crop, 75; 

 as a fodder and ensilage crop, 80. Yield of rowen, 50. Per cent of 

 fall seeding: clover, 100; grass, 100. Next year several people will 

 grow alfalfa, co-operating with the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege and the United States Department of Agriculture; none was 

 sown this year, the land not being in proper condition. Onion crop 

 yield, 25; quality and prices good. Yield of potatoes, 95; qualit}', 

 85. Late market-garden crop prospect: beets and celery, 90; cab- 

 bage and carrots, 75; parsnips, 60; squash, 80; turnips, 50. Fruit 

 yield: fall apples, 85; pears and grapes, 90; peaches, 101. Corn, 

 grass and garden truck were much benefited by the recent rains. 

 Tomatoes, corn, squash and melons were damaged by frost on the 

 10th, 11th and 23d. Yield of tobacco, 78; price, 105; quality good, 

 but will run light. Practically all tobacco and onions have been sold. 



Belchertown (Almon L. Pratt). — Indian corn yield: as a grain 

 crop, 80; as a fodder and ensilage crop, 75. Rowen yielded a 5 per 

 cent crop. Condition of fall feed, 40. Per cent of fall seeding: 

 grass, 80; rye, 90. Potato yield, 80; quality, 100. Late market- 

 garden crop prospect: beets, turnips and carrots, 90; cabbage, 75; 

 parsnips and squash, 80. Fruit yield: fall apples, 80; pears. 100; 

 peaches, 75; grapes, 100. The recent rains benefited potatoes, corn 

 and fall feed. Garden crops suffered most from frost. 



