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do well. Quite a number of farmers are raising cabbage for feed for 

 milch cows when the grass is gone. 



Wilbraham (H. M. Bliss). — Corn is 90 per cent of a full crop. 

 There will be a light crop of rowen. Late potatoes promise a three- 

 fourths crop. Tobacco is a full crop in acreage and condition. Apples 

 are 65 per cent of a full crop ; pears 50; peaches 95; grapes 95. Pas- 

 turage is in poor condition. Celery promises fairly well, as do late 

 market-garden crops in general. Oats and barley were three-fourths 

 of normal yields. 



Monson (F. D. Rogers). — Indian corn has made a good growth, 

 and promises well. The prospect for rowen is very poor. Late pota- 

 toes are looking well; a few fields show a little blight, but no rot. 

 Apples and pears are light crops; peaches and plums good. Pastures 

 are poor, but are improving since the rains. Celery and other late 

 market-garden crops are little grown. 



Palmer (0. P. Allen). — Indian corn has been retarded by drought, 

 but has been somewhat improved by recent rains. Rowen is not very 

 promising. Late potatoes can be saved only by frequent rains in the 

 immediate future. Fruit of all kinds is rather below the average in 

 quantity. Pasturage has suffered greatly from the drought. Oats 

 and barley are not up to average crops. There is no celery raised 

 here; other market-garden crops are in fairly good condition. 



WORCESTER COUNTY. 



Brookfield (Frank E. Prouty). — Indian corn is in good condition, 

 considering the dry weather of July and the first part of August. 

 Hardly any rowen will be cut here. The drought has hurt late pota- 

 toes some, and some fields are blighted. Apples are not half a crop. 

 Pasturage was badly injured by the dry weather. Oats rusted some- 

 what, but are an average crop. Celery and other late market-garden 

 crops are late, on account of the dry weather. Pears are not more 

 than half a crop; grapes good; quinces and cranberries little raised. 



North Brookfield (John H. Lane). — Indian corn is good, but late. 

 There will be no rowen and many grass roots seem to be dead. Potatoes 

 are probably not much over 25 per cent of a normal crop. Apples 

 25 per cent of normal crop; pears 15 per cent; grapes 50 per cent. 

 Pastures are very dry, and are eaten close in favorable spots. Oats 

 are probably SO per cent of a normal crop. The drought was very 

 severe until the recent rain. 



West Brookfield (Myron A. Richardson). — Indian corn is coming 

 forward rapidly, and if warm weather continues there will be a good 

 crop. Rowen is a total failure on most fields. There is no blight or 

 rot on potatoes as yet, but the drought has injured them considerably. 

 There will be more than a normal crop of apples, but the fruit is small, 

 on account of drought. Pasturage is all dried up, and cattle have 

 qeen fed from barns, but recent rains have brightened the pastures 



