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looking well. Late potatoes are looking well. Apples will be a short 

 crop; pears less; peaches few; plums promising; quinces a failure; 

 grapes a full crop. Pastures hold out as well as could be expected. 

 Rye is a fine crop; oats a trifle short; no barley grown. Bees are 

 few and far between. 



Amherst (Wm. P. Brooks). — Plant lice, elm-leaf beetles and potato 

 bugs are doing damage. Indian corn is uneven and some fields are 

 very late, but in general is in good condition ; about one-half goes into 

 the silo. The hay crop was average except on run-out fields. Corn, 

 Japanese millet and Hungarian grass are the forage crops grown and 

 are generally in good condition. Market-garden crops have been good, 

 except on fight soils of low fertility. Apples fair; grapes fine; pears 

 poor; peaches good; plums good; quinces few. Pastures are short 

 and dry. Rye is a good crop ; oats rusted and poor; no barley grown. 

 There are probably 175 colonies of bees in town and the industry is on 

 the increase. 



. Hadley (L. W. West). ' — No insects are doing damage. Indian corn 

 is a week late; about one-sixth the crop is grown for the silo. The hay 

 crop was 85 per cent of the normal in yield and 105 in quality. Jap- 

 anese millet and corn are the principal forage crops and are in good 

 condition. Market-garden crops were injured by dry weather; potatoes 

 look well, none dug yet. Apples good; pears poor; no peaches; plums 

 good; quinces poor; grapes good. Pasturage is short and dry. Rye 

 is a good crop; oats a three-fourths crop; no barley grown. Very few 

 bees are kept here. The rain of the 16th did much good. 



South Hadley (W. F. Person). — Corn looks well, but will be late; 

 about two-thirds goes into the silo. Japanese millet is the principal 

 forage crop grown, with some Hungarian grass and oats. Market- 

 garden crops are looking well; no potatoes harvested as yet. There 

 will be a very light yield of all kinds of fruit in this locality. Pastures 

 are not in very good condition. Rye is better than the average, but 

 oats and barley are very poor crops, heading out very short on account 

 of the dry weather. Potatoes are looking well, but the crop will be 

 light, owing to lack of rain. 



Southampton (C. B. Lyman). — The potato bug is the only insect 

 doing damage. Corn has been slow of growth on account of drought; 

 about 20 per cent of the crop is grown for the silo. The hay crop was 

 below the normal in quantity, but never better in quality. Corn and 

 millet are the principal forage crops grown and are slow in growth. 

 No potatoes have been harvested as yet; market-garden crops give 

 light yields. Apples will be a light crop as they are dropping badly; 

 peaches, pears and grapes promise well. Pastures are badly dried up. 

 Rye and oats are average crops. Few bees are kept here. Tobacco is 

 late and small. 



Westhampton (Levi Burt). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is in good condition, though backward; probably 75 per cent 



