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NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Millis (E. F. Richardson). — The spittle insect and potato 

 beetle are doing the most damage. Pasturage and rowen are in 

 poor condition. Early fruits made a good yield, but later ones 

 will be poor. Potatoes promise a fair crop. Market-garden crops 

 have made a fair yield. Corn will be a good crop. Barley and 

 oats were fully as good crops as last year. 



Franklin (C. M. Allen) . — Insects are not doing much damage. 

 Pasturage is short, and rowen will be a light crop. Fruit crops 

 will make an average yield. Potatoes are a very light crop. 

 Market-garden crops have made a very light yield the past month, 

 but promise well for the future. Corn will be a full average crop. 

 Barley and oats were a little better than last year. Peaches are a 

 heavy crop. 



Medfield (Geo. R. Chase). — Potato beetles are doing a little 

 damage. Both pasturage and rowen are poor, because of drought, 

 but both have been improved by the rain of August 24. Early 

 fruit crops were average, but late ones will be below the average. 

 Potatoes promise to be a poor crop, though some may be improved 

 by the rains. The prospect for market-garden crops is below the 

 average. Corn will be ten per cent above an average crop. Barley 

 and oats were rather below last year's crops, and were raised 

 exclusively as fodder. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Attleborough (Isaac Alger). — Pasturage and rowen are in 

 good condition. Early fruits have been abundant, but apples will 

 be a small crop. Potatoes will be a fair crop. Market-garden 

 crops have yielded fairly during the past month, and the prospect 

 is good for those yet to come. Corn will be a very good crop. 

 Barley and oats are an average crop. 



Taunton (C. H. Wilmarth). — Pasturage is in good condition, 

 and rowen promises to be a good crop. The yield of early crops 

 was above the average, but the prospect for late ones is bad. 

 Potatoes will be about an average crop. Market-garden crops 

 have made a good yield, and promise well. Corn is not an average 

 crop, because of damage from severe gales. Barley and oats are 

 about the same as last year. 



Somerset (Joseph Gibbs). — White grubs are doing the most 

 damage. Late rains have improved the pastures, but very little 

 rowen will be cut. Small fruits were about a three-fourths crop, 

 but recent gales have blown off nearly all the apples and pears. 

 Potatoes will be about a three-fourths crop. The long drought 



