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forage crops grown. Market-garden crops and potatoes are not up to 

 former years, but prices are good. Ajjples jjoor, pears good, peaches 

 poor. Pastures are in good contlition. Rye, oats and barley are about 

 average crops. Dighton had the largest strawberry crop ever grown 

 and the quality was good, but ])rices were so low that they hardly paid 

 for picking and thousands of quarts were not picked. 



Dartmouth (L. T. Davis). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. In- 

 dian corn is looking very well ; perhajis two-thirds of it will go into the 

 silo. The hay crop was very good both in quantity and quality. Corn, 

 oats and peas and bai'ley are the principal forage crops grown and they 

 ai'e looking very well. Market-garden ci'ops are not as good as some 

 years and potatoes are hardly up to the average. Apples tire one-fourth 

 of a crop, pears three-fourths, plums one-tenth, grapes not quite half a 

 croj). Pastures are in fair condition. Rye, oats and barley are hardly 

 up to the average. 



PLYMOUTH COUNTY. 



Brockto?i (Davis Copeland). — Horn flies and mosquitos are proving 

 rather troublesome. Indian corn is in good condition and half the crop 

 will go into the silo. The hay crop was tirst-class both as regards 

 quantity and quality. Fodder corn is the principal forage crop grown. 

 Market-garden crops are in fair condition, though the hot weather hurt 

 the pea crop ; j^rices on early crops less than usual. The hot, dry 

 weather has caused apples to drop. Pastures ai"e getting short. 



Hanover (H. L House). — Potato bugs are doing a little damage. 

 Corn is in good condition ; no silos in this vicinity. Quantity of the hay 

 crop above the average and quality good. Some fodder corn and 

 Hungarian grass are grown for forage and are generally in good con- 

 dition. Some damage has been done to market-garden crops by dry 

 weather ; yield rather below average and prices Ioav. The prospect is 

 very good for all kinds of fruit. Pastures are in very fair condition, 

 but the dry weather has hurt some on high land. 



Duxbury (A. M. Goulding). — We are remarkalily free from insects 

 of all kinds. Corn is coming forward rapidly and perhaps half the 

 acreage will go into the silo. The hay crop is wonderful both as to 

 (juantity and quality. Early i)otatoes are a light crop with prices above 

 the average. Market-garden crops were retarded by the Avet weather 

 in the eai-ly season and have not I'ecovered ; think they are one-third off 

 from last year. Very few apples, peaches or plums ; peai's fair ; 

 quinces, grapes and cranberries promise well. Pastures are in very 

 good condition. Rye, oats and barley are about average crops. 



Bridgewater (IIoavland Cass). — Potato bugs, cabbage Avorms and 

 squash bugs are doing some damage. Corn is in good condition ; none 

 is used for silage. Hay Avas a very heavy crop of excellent quality. 

 Fodder corn is the principal forage crop and is in good condition ; oats 

 and millet are grown in small quantities. Market-garden crop.s are 

 generally good, potatoes look well, pilees higher than usual. Apples 

 about half a crop, pears poor, quinces good. Pastui'age is in good con- 

 dition. Rye, both straw and grain, is a heavy crop. 



Carver (J. A. Vaughan). — The hay crop was large in quantity and 

 good in quality. Fodder corn is the principal foi'age crop grown. Mai'- 

 ket-garden crops are in good condition. There will be but few apples 

 and little other fruit. Pastures are getting diy. There Avas a full bloom 

 of cranberries, but the extreme hot sun early in July, Avhich seemed to 

 burn and wither patches on many bogs, and later the fire Avorms and 

 sj^an Avorms, have damaged the crop to a considerable extent. 



Mattaj)oisctt (A. R. Savift). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is in good condition ; no silos in this section. 1 he hay croj) 

 is large and of good quality. Fodder corn is the jirincipal forage crop 

 grown. Market-garden crops are up to or a little above the average in 



