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according to the land, some being too wet and some too dry. 

 Potatoes are not quite ready for harvesting ; peas doing well. The 

 prospect is very good for all fruits. Pasturage is in extra good 

 condition from timely rains. Eye, oats and barley are fully up to 

 the average. 



Medway (Monroe Morse). — Potato bugs and squash bugs are 

 doing some damage. Indian corn is late but is growing well now ; 

 one-third the crop will go into the silo. Hay was an extra crop 

 in quantity and of good quality. Corn and oats are the principal 

 forage crops grown. Potatoes promise a three-fourths crop. 

 Apples very poor ; pears fair ; peaches good ; plums rotting ; 

 grapes good. 



Norfolk (G. E. Holbrook). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is very backward, but is of good color. Hay was 

 just an average crop. Corn and Hungarian grass are the principal 

 forage crops grown and are looking well. Potatoes are almost a 

 failure. The apple crop is the poorest for years ; pears, peaches 

 and grapes look well. Pastures are in good condition. Rye is a 

 good crop ; oats and barley cut for feed and look well. 



Foxborough (E. A. Morse). — Potato bugs and elm leaf beetles 

 are doing some damage. Corn is looking finely, was backward at 

 first but is booming now ; only two silos in town. The hay crop 

 is above the average. Corn, Hungarian grass and barnyard millet 

 are the principal forage crops grown. Potatoes are looking well, 

 but none are harvested as yet. Apples a fair crop ; pears and 

 plums a full crop ; cranberries promise well, and should be a full 

 crop. Pasturage is good for the time of year as we have had 

 plenty of rain. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Mansfield (Wm. C. Winter). — Potato bugs, thrips on grape 

 vines and rose bushes, and curculios on plums, apples and pears 

 are doing some damage. Corn is in excellent condition, but late; 

 no silos in this town. Quantity of the hay crop above the average, 

 quality generally excellent. Sweet corn and oats are the principal 

 forage crops grown and the acreage is about the same as usual. 

 Market-garden crops are all looking well now. Apples and pears 

 promise one-third crops ; no peaches ; plums and grapes looking 

 finely ; quinces half a crop. Pasturage is in excellent condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are more than average crops both for grain 

 and forage. 



Norton (Wm. A. Lane). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is in good condition; no silos here. Hay was a good 

 crop in both quantity and quality. Fodder corn, millet and Hun- 



