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Market-garden crops are above the average, and prices are better 

 than for some years. Apples, pears, peaches and grapes promise 

 a heavy crop. Pasturage is in good condition. Rye is a good 

 crop. Tobacco is from a week to ten days late, but is looking 

 well and growing fast. 



Norilifield (Ciias. Pomeroy). — The potato beetle is doing the 

 most damage. Corn is looking well, but is about a week later than 

 last year. No new silos have been built this year. The hay crop 

 was of first-class quality, but the quantity was about 20 per cent 

 off. Potatoes are not an average crop ; price 81.50 per bushel. 

 Market-garden crops are hardly an average in yield, but the price 

 is about as usual. There are very few apples, pears and peaches ; 

 grapes will be a fair crop. Pastures are short, because of dry 

 weather. Rye was not quite an average crop. 



Orange (Ansel Harrinuton). — Grasshoppers are our most 

 troublesome insect. Corn is looking finely, and three-fourths of 

 the crop will be put into the silo. Hay w r as about an average crop 

 both in quantity and quality. Potatoes are in very good condition, 

 with the price ranging from Si. 00 to $1.50. Market-garden crops 

 are about as in previous years in yield and price. All kinds of 

 fruit will be a light crop with the exceptiou of peaches. Pasturage 

 is in very good conditiou. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Enfield (D. O. Chickering). — Potato beetles are doing the 

 most damage. Corn is in good condition ; but few silos in this 

 vicinity. The hay crop was fully up to the average in yield and 

 quality. Early potatoes were somewhat affected by the dry 

 weather, but late ones are looking well. There will be but few 

 apples, but the prospect for all other kinds of fruit is good. Pas- 

 turage is in fair condition. Rye was a very good crop. 



Belchertotvn (H. C. West). — Insects are doing very little dam- 

 age. Corn is in first-class condition. The hay crop was below the 

 average in both quantity and quality, the promise of the early part 

 of the season not having been fulfilled. Early potatoes have been 

 somewhat injured by drought, but late ones promise a good crop. 

 Apples and pears will be a three-fourths crop, and grapes will be 

 first class. Pasturage is shorter than usual at this season. Rye 

 was a first-class crop. 



North Hadley (H. C. Russell). — Potato beetles are doing the 

 most damage. Corn stands well and is making rapid growth : a 

 very small percentage goes into the silo. Hay was a three-fourths 

 crop and was gathered in good condition, with the exception of the 

 first cutting, which was injured by rain. The condition of potatoes 



