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usual. The prospect for fruit of all kinds is not very promising. 

 Pasturage is in good condition. 



Enfield (D. O, Chickering). — Potato bugs and rose bugs are 

 doing some damage. Corn is quite backward but is growing fast 

 now ; not much of it will be put into the silo. Hay is above the 

 average in quantity and quality. Oats, Hungarian grass and corn 

 are the principal forage crops grown. Market-garden crops, in- 

 cluding potatoes, are about average ; prices a little better than 

 usual. Pears, plums and grapes promise well ; apples a light 

 crop. Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats and barley are 

 about average crops. 



Belchertown (H. C. West) . — Potato bugs have not been as 

 troublesome for years as they are at present. Corn is late, but is 

 making a great growth and now bids fair to be a full average 

 crop ; very little for the silo. Hay is a fair average crop, not as 

 large as w^as expected a month ago. Fodder corn, millet, oats and 

 barley are the forage crops raised and are all looking well ; acre- 

 age greater than usual. Market-garden crops are little raised ; no 

 potatoes harvested as yet. Apples half a crop or less ; pears, 

 peaches, plums and grapes fair. Pastures are short but green. 

 Rye and oats are good crops ; barley just comiug u[) and looks well. 



Hadley (H. C. Russell). — Potato bugs and squash bugs are 

 more plentiful than usual. Indian corn never looked better and 

 has improved greatlj^ in the past two weeks ; only a small per cent 

 will go into the silo. The hay crop is much better than last year, 

 but haying is later than usual and much of the crop is too ripe. 

 Hungarian grass and sowed corn are the principal forage crops 

 grown. Early potatoes will be a very poor crop. Market-garden 

 crops much below the average with prices good. There will be 

 only a medium crop of fruit. Pasturage is in good condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are about average crops. Onions are looking 

 well. Tobacco has grown very fast since the rains. 



Southamjjton (C. B. Lyman). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is looking first rate ; only a small part goes into 

 the silo. The hay crop was not as large as some years, but the 

 quality was good. Corn, oats and millet are the principal forage 

 crops grown ; oats the poorest for years. Potatoes look the 

 poorest for years. There will be a light crop of fruit, except 

 grapes, which promise well. Pastures are in very good condition. 

 Rye is a good crop ; have not seen a good field of oats. Cabbage 

 are looking finely. 



Chesterfield (Horatio Bisbee). — Potato bugs are more numer- 

 ous than ever before. Corn is in good condition and one-fourth 

 the crop will go into the silo. Hay was less than an average crop, 



