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the principal forage crops and are in fair condition. No potatoes have 

 been harvested as yet. Apples, pears and peaches are poor; plums 

 good; quinces poor; grapes good. Pasturage is poor, owing to dry 

 weather. Rye, oats and barley are raised entirely for forage and are 

 from one-half to two-thirds crops. Very few bees are kept. 



Sterling (Henry S. Sawyer). — Potato bugs are doing damage 

 Corn is coming ahead very fast since the rain. There will be about the 

 usual quantity of hay and the quality is good. Oats, barley and millet 

 are the principal forage crops and they are looking well. Potatoes, 

 peas, beans, etc., have suffered from the dry weather; peas and beans 

 bring good prices. Apples and pears will be rather light crops; other 

 fruits looking fairly well. Feed is drying up in pastures in some 

 localities. Rye, oats and barley are all raised for forage. Bees are 

 kept only to a small extent. 



Worcester (H. R. Kinney). — Potato bugs are the insect doing the 

 most damage. Corn is very late, but growing fairly now; less will be 

 put into the silo than usual. The hay crop has been rather light, but 

 is of good quality. Millet and cabbage are used with corn fodder as 

 forage crops. All garden crops are late; potatoes do not look as well 

 as usual. Apples have dropped badly, but there are some left; plums 

 and peaches fair; grapes looking well. Pasturage has been damaged 

 by dry weather, but looks better since the showers. Rye, oats and 

 barley are cut for fodder and have been light. There are a few bees 

 kept, but they do not seem to do as well as they should. 



Leicester (H. H. Kingsbury). — Potato bugs and grasshoppers are 

 numerous. Corn is growing finely, but is backward; about half the 

 crop goes into the silo. Hay was nearly average in quantity and of 

 excellent quality. Fodder corn, millet and oats are the forage crops 

 grown. Potatoes look thrifty, but need rain to develop well. The 

 prospect now is not what the bloom promised for fruit, with the ex- 

 ception of grapes and blackberries. Pastures are very much shortened 

 by dry weather. A few swarms of bees are kept by a few individuals. 



Blackstone (O. F. Fuller). — Unless farmers open their eyes the 

 San Jose scale will have both fruit and fruit trees. Corn is a little 

 backward on account of the cool summer; no silos in town. There was 

 an average crop of hay of good quality. Considerable Japanese millet 

 is grown as a forage crop. Market-garden crops are in fair condition; 

 no potatoes have yet been harvested. There will be very poor yields 

 of apples and pears; some peaches and plums; good outlook for 

 grapes. Pasturage is a little short. Rye, oats and barley are good 

 crops as forage crops. There are possibly ten beekeepers in town. 

 Your correspondent makes a business of beekeeping, having queens and 

 colonies for sale, and will this season have half a ton of honey from 

 20 colonies, spring count. 



