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is poor ; no blight or rot as yet. Pears and grapes will give good 

 crops ; other fruits poor. Pasturage is in good condition. The 

 interest in poultry is not increasing, but there has always been a 

 good interest taken, and the income from it is probably twice that 

 from the dairy. 



Maynard (L. H. Maynard). — Corn looks well and promises a 

 full crop. The rowen crop will be above the normal. Potato 

 vines look remarkably well, but the crop seems uncertain, although 

 the tubers are growing well now ; no blight or rot. Pears, peaches, 

 grapes and cranberries are full crops ; apples poor, and early 

 varieties a complete failure. Pastures are in good condition, owing 

 to the abundant rains. Oats for fodder were a failure in many 

 cases, being of small growth. Poultry raising in this section is 

 not increasing ; although most farmers keep a few hens, there are 

 no poultry raisers who make a specialty of it. 



Pepperell (P. J. Kemp). — Indian corn is making a very rapid 

 growth, and if frost holds off there will be more than an average 

 crop. Most fields are covered with a heavy crop of rowen. Late 

 potatoes look like a light crop, there being but few in a hill. 

 Apples a very light crop ; pears fair ; peaches light ; grapes fair. 

 Frequent showers have kept the pastures in very fair condition. 

 Oats and barley are about average crops. The interest in poultry^ 

 is increasing, and the profit is double that to be made in dairying. 

 Tewkshury (G. E. Crosby). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Rowen is looking better than for the last two years. Blight is 

 apparent in some fields of potatoes, with a slight tendency to rot. 

 Apples scarce ; pears good ; no peaches ; grapes plenty ; cran- 

 berries fair. Pastures are in good condition. Oats and barley 

 for forage are very good crops. Poultry raising seems to be 

 nearly a failure here this year, and the interest is certainly not 

 increasing ; not much profit in either the dairy or poultry. 



Bedford (Henry Wood). — Corn is in very good condition. 

 A good crop of rowen is looked for, and it is now looking well. 

 No blight or rot has appeared on potatoes. There are no apples 

 of any amount ; a few early ones only. Pasturage is in very 

 good condition. Oats and barley are not as good crops as usual. 

 There is considerable interest in poultry, but not as much as in 

 the dairy. 



Concord (Wm. H. Hunt). — Corn looks very well, but there is 

 some complaint of smut. There will be a good crop of rowen. 

 Potatoes will be a light crop, but have not noticed blight or rot. 

 Winter apples very light ; no peaches ; fair crop of pears. Pastur- 

 age is in very good condition. Oats and barley are fair crops. 



