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quality. Oats and peas, barley, Hungarian grass and fodder corn are 

 the principal forage crops raised. Market-garden crops are in good 

 condition and prices are fair. Pasturage is in good condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley are fair crops. 



Medway (Monroe Mouse). — Potato bugs ai-e doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is at present about 80 per cent of a full growth. Hay was 

 10 per cent above a full crop and of good quality. Fodder corn, oats 

 and peas are the forage crops grown, but less were put in than usual. 

 Potatoes look well at present. Apples half a crop, pears three-fourths, 

 peaches one-fourth, plums half a crop and grapes a good crop. Pastur- 

 age is in unusually tine condition. Rye, oats and barley are good aver- 

 age crops both for grain and fodder. 



Franklin (C. M. Allen). — Potato bugs and coddling moths are i^roving 

 troublesome. Indian corn is 80 per cent of a full crop ; not more than 

 15 per cent of it will go into the silo. There was a very heavy crop of 

 No. 1 hay. Oats, barley, millet and fodder corn are the principal forage 

 crops grown and are in average condition! Market-garden crops are 

 about average in condition and potatoes look finely. There will be half 

 a crop of all kinds of fruit. Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley are average crops. 



Wre?ithani (Thomas Bkeen). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is in good condition. The hay croj} is of good quality and 

 larger than last year. Fodder corn is the principal forage crop raised. 

 Market-garden cro^js are in good condition. Ajiples good, pears and 

 peaches very shoi't crops. Pasturage is in very good condition. Rye, 

 oats and barley are very large crops. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Mansfield (Wm. C. Winter). — Very little trouble from insects. 

 Corn is looking well but is late ; very little done with silos in this vicin- 

 ity. The hay crop is extra in both quantity and quality. Sweet corn, 

 Hungarian grass, oats and rye are the forage crops grown and all are in 

 good condition. Market-garden crops are generally up to the average 

 in yield, prices lower than usual ; potatoes looking finely but late. 

 Apples liave drojjped badly and will be but a medium crop, no peaches, 

 very few jjlums, quinces fair, grapes ai'e so late that it is doubtful 

 whether they will ripen. Pastures were poor but abundant I'ains have 

 started them up. Rye, oats and barley are above average crops. 



Eaynham (N. W. Shaw). — Rose bugs are doing some damage. In- 

 dian corn is in good condition ; none is used for the silo. Hay was a 

 very large crop and was secured in good condition. No foi'age crops 

 are raised except corn for fodder. Market-garden crops are yielding 

 fairly well ; prices of potatoes higher than usual. Few apples and 

 pears ; not many peaches ; 'a fair crop of plums ; rose bugs destroying 

 grapes. Pasturage is in very good condition. Rye, oats and barley are 

 good crops. 



Berkley (R. II. Bahiutt). — The large white grub is the most trouble- 

 some insect at present. (3orn is looking well ; very little will be put 

 into the silo. Hay was good in quality and above the average in quan- 

 tity. Corn fodder, barley and Hungarian grass are the forage crops 

 raised and are in good condition. There is not much money in market- 

 garden crops this year. There is a small yield of potatoes. Apples a 

 light crop ; few pears and peaches ; no plums ; grapes and cranberries 

 about average crops. Pasturage is in good condition. Rye, oats and 

 barley are about average crops. 



Dightou (J. N. Paul). — Cabbage maggots and strawberry fleas are 

 doing some damage. Indian corn is in good condition and very little of 

 it will go into the silo. Quantity of hay larger than usual and (juality 

 very good. Barley, fodder corn and Hungarian grass are the principal 



