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other fruiis are light. Pasturage is in good condition. Oats and 

 barley are first-class crops, but the weather is poor for harvesting 

 them. A good deal of attention is paid to poultry raising. 



Fitchburg (Jabez Fisher). — Indian corn is doing very well 

 now. The prospect for rowen was never better. Potatoes make 

 a good show of vines, with little early blight and no rot as yet. 

 There is a small yield of apples, pears and peaches generally, with 

 a few exceptionally good orchards. Pasturage is in unusually 

 good condition. Grapes are yielding well, but showing consider- 

 able rot. Every farmer keeps a few fowls, but I am unable to es- 

 timate the proportional investment. 



Lunenburg (J. L. Harrington). — Indian corn is in excellent 

 condition. Rowen promises to be a large crop. Apples an aver- 

 age crop, pears light ; some peach orchards loaded, others very 

 light. Pastures are in excellent condition. Much attention is 

 paid to poultry, which is quite profitable. 



Harvard (J. S. Preston). — Corn is looking well, though a 

 little backward in growth. The rowen crop is very heavy, much 

 more than in former years. The prospect is good for a large crop 

 of potatoes. Apples, pears and peaches are about half crops ; 

 grapes very good indeed. Pastures are in much better condition 

 than usual at the time of year. Oats are cut green for fodder and 

 show a large yield. Poultry is a side issue, our farmers keeping 

 from 50 to 200 fowls. 



Bolton (H. E. Babcock) . — Indian corn is looking well. There 

 has seldom if ever been as large a crop of rowen as this year. Po- 

 tatoes are looking well and I have noticed no blight. Apples are 

 an average crop, pears plenty, small crops of other fruits. Pas- 

 turage is in good condition. Very little oats or barley were left 

 to ripen in this vicinity. Some attention is paid to poultry, but 

 the proportion of profit is not as great as from the dairy. 



Clinton (P. B. Southwick). — Corn is looking finely, but is 

 somewhat backward. Rowen is 50 per cent above an average 

 crop. Some fields of potatoes show signs of blight, but I do not 

 hear of rot. Fall apples plenty, winter apples half an average 

 crop for the bearing year ; pears a little below the average ; no 

 peaches ; grapes look well. Pastures are looking finely. Oats 

 and barley are fair average crops. The majority of farmers do 

 not pay much attention to poultry, but a few say that they get 

 more profit from their poultry than from their dairy. 



Worcester (S. A. Burgess). — Indian corn is in extra good 

 condition. Rowen promises to be a good crop. Late potatoes 

 promise an average crop, but both blight and rot have appeared. 

 Apples poor, pears light, few peaches, grapes average. Pastures 



