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crop. Blueberries and blackberries yielded fairly well, but other 

 fruits were short. Potatoes are a light crop. Market-garden 

 crops are rather light, on account of drought and frost. Corn is 

 rather below an average crop. Barley and oats are about as last 

 year. There was a hard frost here on August 14, which nearly 

 ruined vines and some tender vegetables. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Pelham (J. L. Brewer)- — Pastures are very short, and the 

 rowen crop light. Huckleberries and blackberries are very scarce. 

 Potatoes are a fair crop, except on very light soil. Corn promises 

 to be a fair crop. Oats were a good crop. Tobacco is late, but 

 looks well. The high wind August 29 did much damage. Apples 

 promised to be twenty-five per cent of a full crop, but the winds 

 have reduced them to about ten per cent. 



Belchertoion (H. C. West). — There is no feed in pastures, and 

 not a ton of. rowen in town. Small fruits were a fair crop, but 

 apples, pears, etc., have been injured by the drought. Potatoes 

 will be a much better crop than was expected. Corn is late, but 

 the recent rains have improved it so that it now promises to be a 

 fine crop. Barley and oats were better crops than last year. 

 Winter apples were badly blown off by the recent winds. 



Northampton (D. A. Horton). — Pastures are badly dried up; 

 many are feeding from the barn. There is no rowen. Fruit crops 

 are a fair yield, though the high winds are injuring them. Potatoes 

 are about an average crop so far as harvested. Corn will not be 

 over two-thirds of an average crop. Some tobacco is being har- 

 vested, but the prospect is that the crop will not be much over 

 one-half that of last year, and it will probably be of inferior 

 quality. The drought has been severe here. 



Chesterfield (Horatio Bisbee). — No insects are doing material 

 damage. Pastures are very short, and there will be practically no 

 rowen. Early fruit may have been an average, but late fruit must 

 be light. Potatoes promise to be a poor crop. Corn will be a 

 poor crop. Nearly all the oat crop was cut for fodder. This 

 locality has suffered severely from drought. 



Goshen (Alvan Barrus). — Grasshoppers are doing the most 

 damage. Pastures are in fair condition where not overstocked ; 

 rowen is nearly a failure. Fruit crops have been and will be light, 

 as a rule ; apples were badly blown off by the late winds. Potatoes 

 will be of fair quality and a nearly average yield. Many fields of 

 corn were injured by drought, while all are badly beaten down by 

 the late storms ; there will hardly be a two-thirds crop. 



