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hayed is the principal forage crop grown. Potatoes are not look- 

 ing as well as usual. Not many apples ; few pears ; no peaches ; 

 grapes badly injured by rose bugs. Pasturage is in good condi- 

 tion. Rye good ; oats light and rusted. 



Sherhorn (N. B. Douglas) . — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Corn is backward though coming on rapidly ; one-third to 

 one-half the crop will go into the silo. There was a large crop of 

 hay of fair average quality. Corn, oats, barley and Hungarian 

 grass are the forage crops grown and are raised in the usual 

 amounts this year. Garden crops look well ; no potatoes dug as 

 yet. Apples and pears a light crop ; peaches full crop ; grapes 

 average. Pasturage is in very good condition. Oats for forage a 

 light crop. 



Sudbury (E. W. Goodnow), — Potato bugs and currant worms 

 are our most troublesome insects. Indian corn is backward but is 

 looking well ; about one-fourth the crop will go into the silo. A 

 large crop of hay of excellent quality will be harvested. Oats are 

 used to supplement the hay crop and for the silo. All market- 

 garden crops are backward with good prices for those harvested. 

 There will be a very small crop of apples ; prospect excellent for 

 a large crop of peaches. All pastures are looking well. Most of 

 the oats and barley raised are used for forage. 



Ashhy (A. Wetherbee). — Potato beetles and tent caterpillars 

 are doing some damage. Indian corn is late but otherwise will be 

 a good crop ; probably two-thirds of it will go into the silo. 

 Quality of the hay crop good except that injured by wet weather 

 at harvesting, quantity average. Japanese millet, oats, barley and 

 fodder corn are the forage crops raised, look well and acreage 

 larger than usual. Market-garden crops are not much raised, but 

 have not made average yields. Nearly all fruits will give short 

 crops, with the possible exception of grapes. Pastures are in need 

 of rain. Oats poor ; rye good ; barley fair. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Potato bugs are our most trouble- 

 some insect. Corn never looked better, but was badly bent over 

 by wind and rain on the night of the ISth ; only a small amount 

 goes into the silo. In quality the hay crop is good and in quantity 

 a little above the normal. Corn, Hungarian grass and oats are the 

 principal forage crops raised and are in good condition. No market- 

 garden crops raised ; no potatoes dug as yet. Apples, pears, 

 peaches, plums and quinces very light crops ; grapes and cran- 

 berries promise well. Pastures are getting short of feed. Rye, 

 oats and barley compare well with former years. 



Lowell (C. L. Marshall). — The pea vine louse is the only 

 insect doing damage. Corn is in g-ood condition and about three- 



