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The hay crop was about three-fourths of the normal and was never 

 better in quality. Potatoes but little dag as yet, but those dug 

 show heavy tops with light tubers ; price about average. Apples 

 enough for home use ; pears light ; no peaches ; other fruits light. 

 Pastures are in poor condition, yet stock is doing fairly well. 

 Eye, oats and barley are but little below the average. 



Westfield (C. F. Fowler).— The elm-leaf beetle is working 

 now. Corn is looking well and very little will go into the silo. 

 Hay was about a three-fourths crop and the quality was never 

 better. Some oats have been cut for hay, and more corn has been 

 planted for fodder than usual. Potatoes show very heavy tops, 

 but the tubers are few in a hill. Apples are a light crop; few 

 pears ; no peaches ; very few plums and few grapes. Pasturage is 

 very short. Rye and oats are about average crops. Tobacco is 

 now being topped and bids fair to be an exceptional crop. 



West Springfield (T. A. Rogers) . — Potato bugs and horn flies 

 are proving troublesome. Indian corn is looking well and but 

 a very small part of it will go into the silo. The hay crop was 

 below the average in quantity, but the quality was good. Oats, 

 barley and corn are the principal forage crops ; early oats suf- 

 fered from drought, late sown good ; corn is doing well. Early 

 potatoes good ; early vegetables hurt by drought ; prices about as 

 usual. Apples, pears, peaches and plums will be less than half 

 crops ; quinces and grapes full average crops. Pasturage has 

 been short all summer, but has improved since the rains. Rye 

 good ; oats and barley below the average. Tobacco is looking 

 about average. Onions will be a light crop on account of seed 

 failing to germinate because of early drought. 



Agawam (R. DeWitt). — Potato bugs and rose bugs are doing 

 some damage. Corn is looking fairly well ; only a small part of 

 it goes into the silo. The hay crop was somewhat less than usual 

 in quantity, but was of fair quality. Corn is largely grown as a 

 forage crop, and oats and peas are grown a little more than usual 

 this year ; all are looking well since the rains. Potatoes are a 

 little under the average in yield, but the price is all right. Few 

 apples ; no peaches ; all other fruits poor. Pasturage is improving 

 since the rains. 



Longmeadow ( W. F. Emerson) . — Elm-leaf beetles and potato 

 bugs are doing some damage. Some Indian corn is looking well, 

 much not looking well ; very little will go into the silo. The hay 

 crop was perhaps half of a normal crop ; quality very good. Very 

 little additional in the way of forage crops has been planted as the 

 overplus of the last few years' hay crops will be used. Potatoes 

 are yielding well with prices about as usual. There is the pros- 



