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the usual acreage. Market-garden crops have improved ; potatoes 

 are looking well. No apples, few pears, no peaches or plums ; 

 prospect good for grapes. Pasturage is very short. Rye is 75 

 per cent of an average crop and oats 85 per cent. 



New Braintree (C. D. Sage).— Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is backward; 10 per cent may be put into the 

 silo. Hay was about a two-thirds crop, of good quality. Fodder 

 corn is the principal forage crop grown and the acreage is about 

 as usual. Few market-garden crops raised, with the exception of 

 potatoes, and no potatoes marketed as yet. Apples 60 per cent 

 of a full crop, pears 50 per cent, no peaches, plums 40 per cent, 

 quinces 75 per cent, grapes 100 per cent, cranberries 50 per 

 cent. Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats and barley are 

 good average crops. 



Petersham (S. B. Cook) . — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Indian corn is in good condition and a fifth of it will go 

 into the silo. Hay was about a two-thirds crop, of good quality. 

 Fodder corn is the principal forage crop, though oats and barley 

 are more grown this year than usual. Market-garden crops are in 

 good condition ; potatoes yield well with about the usual prices. 

 There will be few apples, peaches and quinces ; no cranberries ; 

 pears, plums and grapes plenty. Pastures are in fair condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley have all proved heavy crops. 



Templeton (Lucien Gove) .— Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is generally in quite good condition, though 

 in some instances it is rather late ; 60 per cent of the crop will go 

 into the silo. Hay was about a three-fourths crop, of excellent 

 quality. Oats and peas, barley, Hungarian grass and millet are 

 the principal forage crops and all are rather below the average in 

 condition. Market-garden crops are not up to the average ; pota- 

 toes are the best, yield light, prices somewhat higher. Very light 

 crop of apples and pears ; no peaches ; plums light ; grapes looking 

 well. Pasturage is quite poor. Winter rye very good, oats and 

 barley rather light. 



Hubbardston (C. C. Colby) .— Potato bugs are unusually plenty. 

 Corn is from ten to fifteen days late, but is looking well ; fully 70 

 per cent of the crop will be put into the silo. Hay will be about 

 80 per cent of an average crop and is of excellent quality. An 

 unusual amount of oats, barley, millet, Hungarian grass and corn 

 have been sown because of the prospect of a light hay crop. 

 Potatoes are looking well and are selling for a dollar a bushel. 

 The apple crop will be very light ; pears an average and grapes 

 abundant. Lowland pastures are good, but those on dry ground 

 are a failure. Oats and barley are about three-fourths crop. 



