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good condition. Onions are a very poor crop, maggots and blight 

 having destroyed them. Potatoes are a good crop in quality, and a 

 fair yield. There are no apples, and very few pears, peaches and 

 grapes. There was a slight frost August 31, but it hurt only squash 

 vines and beans. 



Blackstone (0. F. Fuller). — Indian corn is a very good crop. 

 There is a good fair crop of rowen, and good fall feed. The usual 

 amount of fall seeding has been done. Very few onions are raised 

 here. Potatoes are a good normal yield. Root crops give promise 

 for a good yield. There are very few apples; few pears; a good crop 

 of peaches and a good yield of cranberries. We have had a light 

 frost, but it did little damage, the hail storm doing much more. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Hopkinton (W. V. Thompson). — Field corn is a full normal crop, 

 with good cultivation; ensilage corn an average crop, under same 

 conditions. There is no rowen except on reclaimed meadows. The 

 usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and it looks fairly well. 

 Not many potatoes have been dug as yet. Root crops, celery and 

 market-garden crops are not much raised. Apples are a light crop; 

 pears fair; peaches half a crop ; grapes a full crop. There was a light 

 frost on low ground August 30. There has not been rain enough at 

 one time to reach the bottom of a fairly deep furrow, and the ground 

 is dry at the present time. 



Marlborough (E. D. Howe). — Indian corn is 95 per cent of a normal 

 crop. Rowen and fall feed are emphatically not up to the usual 

 average. Onions are a three-fourths crop. Potatoes are 60 per cent 

 of the normal in yield, and 95 per cent in quality. The prospect is fair 

 for root crops, celery and other late market-garden crops. Apples, 

 45 per cent of a full crop; pears, 50; peaches, 60; grapes, 90. There 

 is no frost as yet. 



Stoiv (Geo. W. Bradley). — The corn crop is not quite up to the 

 average. Newly seeded fields had very fair rowen, but it hardly 

 started on old fields. There is very little fall seeding done as yet. 

 The potato crop is much better than last year, both in yield and 

 quality. Prices for fruit have averaged better than quality. No 

 frosts so far, except a little in meadows. 



Westford (J. W. Fletcher). — There is about a three-fourths crop 

 of corn. Rowen and fall feed are not up to the usual average. The 

 usual amount of fall seeding has not been clone. Potatoes are about 

 an average yield; quality fair, some rot. There is a good crop of 

 fruit. There has been no injury from frost as yet. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Indian corn is considered below a 

 normal crop. Rowen and fall feed are below the usual average, and 

 very little rowen will be cut this season. Only a small portion of the 

 fall seeding has been done, and that is growing very slowly. Onions 



