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Blanclford (E. "W. Boise). — Indian corn is a good crop, but 

 fully two weeks late. The prospect for rowen is fairly good. Late 

 potatoes have improved in the past ten days, and the crop should 

 be fair ; neither blight nor rot has appeared. Virtually no apples ; 

 pears about 80 per cent of a crop ; few peaches or cranberries. 

 Pastures are fully up to the average, the recent rains having given 

 them new life. Oats and barley are about 80 per cent of a normal 

 crop. 



Russell (E. D. Parks) . — Corn is in very good condition. Rowen 

 is a full average crop, and above the average on some farms. Po- 

 tatoes are improving, but a light crop is expected. Fruit of all 

 kinds will give a very small crop this season. Pastures are in 

 very good condition for the season of the year. Oats and barley 

 are up to the usual average. I think the interest in poultry is in- 

 creasing, and that the income derived from it is fully one-fourth 

 that from the dairy. 



West Springfield (J. N. Bagg). — Corn is in good condition. 

 Rowen never looked better than at present. The potato tops are 

 green and the tubers are growing ; no blight or rot as yet. Acre- 

 age of tobacco increased, and condition of crop promising. Apples 

 light ; pears abundant ; other fruits scanty. Pasturage is in very 

 good condition. The interest in poultry is increasing among our 

 farmers. Weeds have been unusually rampant, and those who 

 have conquered them have done so at large cost. Pole beans are 

 a partial failure, the leaves being spotted and the pods few. 



Longmeadow (W. F. Emerson). Indian corn has grown well 

 and is ripening slowly. The weather has been very favorable for 

 the rowen crop. Late potatoes promise much better than the early 

 ones ; no blight or rot as yet. Very little tobacco raised here, and 

 no change to note. The prospect is good for all kinds of fruit, 

 with this drawback, that large crops sometimes produce small 

 fruit. Pasturage continues in good condition. Oats are a very 

 small crop, and short straw ; evidently the weather has been too 

 warm. The interest in poultry is apparently increasing in every 

 direction in comparative ways, though not generally in the way of 

 large plants which are made the principal business of the farm. 



Hampden (J. N. Isham). — Corn has made a rapid growth and 

 is earing well. A good crop of rowen is in prospect on early cut 

 land. Late potatoes promise well ; tops ripening a little early, 

 but no real blight or rot. Apples short supply, pears good and 

 peaches extra. Pastures are holding out green and are still grow- 

 ing. Oats and barley are average crops. The interest in poultry 

 is increasing, and the income derived from it is nearly one-tenth 

 that from the dairy. 



