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Rye, oats and barley are fully up to the average. Very few keep bees. 

 Tobacco and onions are little raised. 



Chicopee (C. G. Chapin). — Potato bugs, elm-leaf beetles and scale 

 insects are doing damage. Indian corn is generally in good condition ; 

 perhaps half the crop will be put into the silo. On new seeded ground 

 the hay crop was good, on old seeded, light; haying now nearly com- 

 pleted. Oats and peas for forage are a light yield ; too early to predict 

 on barnyard millet. The prospect for most fruits is good. Pasturage 

 has been good, but is rather drying up now. Rye is a good average 

 crop; oats poor. Only a few hives of bees are kept. 



East Longmeadow (John L. Davis). — Potato bugs are doing dam- 

 age and white grubs are eating strawberry plants. Indian corn is a 

 little backward, but should rapidly improve. Hay is quite backward, 

 but is nearly an average crop of good quality. Oats, millet and Hun- 

 garian grass are the principal forage crops and they are not in very 

 good condition. Market-garden crops all ripened at once, which hurt 

 the price. Apples are dropping, but promise a fair crop; pears fair; 

 peaches plenty; grapes good. Pasturage is very short. Rye is a fair 

 crop; oats the poorest ever known. A very few swarms of bees are 

 kept; not enough white clover and buckwheat raised for bees to do 

 well. 



Wilbraham (H. M. Bliss). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is 90 per cent in condition and 15 per cent of the crop 

 goes into the silo. The hay crop was an average one in quantity and 

 quality. Fodder corn is the principal forage crop and is looking fairly 

 well. Market-garden crops, including potatoes, are average in yield 

 and price. Apples 50; pears 85; peaches 95; plums 90; quinces 85; 

 grapes 95. Pastures are very dry. Rye and barley are average crops. 

 Very few bees are kept. 



Monson (F. D. Rogers). — Potato bugs and elm-leaf beetles are 

 doing damage. Indian corn is backward, but is looking well; probably 

 half the crop goes into the silo. There was about a normal yield of 

 hay, secured in good condition. Fodder corn and Japanese millet are 

 the principal forage crops grown. Potatoes are looking well and with 

 recent rains should make a good crop ; they bloomed profusely. Apples 

 and pears are light; peaches, plums and grapes promise well. Pas- 

 turage is in very poor condition, owing to dry weather. Rye has made 

 a good growth ; oats have done well, but are mostly cut for hay. Bees 

 are not kept to any great extent. 



Palmer (O. P. Allen) . — The elm-leaf beetle, currant worms and 

 potato bugs are doing some damage. Indian corn is very backward, 

 but recent rains have improved it ; dry weather cut down the hay crop 

 but the quality was good. The usual amount of forage crops have 

 been sown, but they do not promise well unless we have much rain 

 soon. Market-garden crops compare favorably with other years in 

 yield and price. The dry weather has had an unfavorable effect on 



