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Apples and peaches will give only light crops; grapes a good crop. 

 Pasturage is very short, owing to drought. Oats and barley are little 

 raised in this section. Gardens are looking well, although some have 

 suffered from the dry weather. 



Marshfield (John H. Bourne). — The late rain has greatly improved 

 the condition of corn, and the prospect is for an average crop. Rowen 

 is in very poor condition ; the late rains may help on rich soils, but will 

 hardly give an average crop. There is every appearance of a poor 

 potato crop. Apples are poor; pears good; peaches few; grapes very 

 good; cranberries good. Pasturage is in very poor condition. Oats 

 and barley are less than average crops. If the season is wet and 

 warm, celery and late market-garden crops, which now look doubtful, 

 may do well. 



Hanson (Flavel S. Thomas, M.D.). — Corn is in rather poor condi- 

 tion, on account of drought. The prospect for rowen is very poor. 

 There is no blight or rot on late potatoes, but the prospect for the crop 

 is poor. The prospect is poor for all kinds of fruit. Pasturage is in 

 poor condition. Oats and barley are but little raised. Celery and 

 other late market-garden crops are in poor condition. The drought 

 has made the prospect for all crops poor; early crops fair; later crops 

 may brighten, now that we have had rain. 



Carver (J. A. Vaughan). — The prospect for rowen is good. There 

 is no blight or rot on potatoes as yet. There will be an average crop of 

 apples and pears. Pasturage is dried up. Oats and barley are average 

 crops. Celery and other late market-garden crops are but little raised. 

 Until Tuesday, August 17, no rain had fallen for a long time, and all 

 crops have suffered. Cranberries blossomed very full, but some were 

 very late, and on parts of some bogs they did not set well, but on the 

 whole there is prospect of a good crop. 



Lakeville (Nathaniel G. Staples) . — Indian corn is not up to the 

 average in condition. There will be practically no second crop of hay. 

 There is not much blight on late potatoes, and there may be a three- 

 fourths crop. Pears and grapes are average crops. Pastures are very 

 dry, and there is no feed at all. Oats and barley are not more than 

 three-fourths crops. Celery and other late market-garden crops are 

 in fair condition. The rain of the 18th was the first of any account 

 we have had since the 1st of June. 



Mattapoisett (E. C. Stetson). — Many fields of corn look well, while 

 others look poorly. The prospect is very poof for rowen. Late pota- 

 toes are in good condition; have noticed neither blight nor rot. Apples 

 are rather poor; pears quite good; peaches good; grapes and cran- 

 berries good. Pastures are very dry and poor. Oats and barley are 

 about average crops. Celery and other late market-garden crops are 

 in fair condition. 



