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crop is good. There are very few winter apples and the quality is 

 poor. Early potatoes good ; late ones affected by blight. The 

 prospect for fodder crops is good. Pasturage is in good condi- 

 tion. Oat crop about as last year, mostly raised for fodder. 



Goshen (Alvan Barrus). — The black squash bug and the po- 

 tato bug are doing some damage. The prospect is not encourag- 

 ing for a large crop of rowen. Winter apples promise to be a very 

 short crop. Potatoes will be a good crop unless they rot. Corn 

 a fair crop except where cut by frost. Fodder crops good except 

 on low lands. Pastures are too dry for perfection. Oats nearly 

 all cut for green or dry feed. Quite a sharp frost on low lands on 

 the morning of August 21, but it did not reach the hills. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Tolland (E. M. Moore). — Rowen promises to be a medium 

 crop. Winter apples not more than half a crop. Potatoes are 

 quite a good crop, but some fields are rotting badly. Corn prom- 

 ises to be a good crop, the heaviest for several years. Fodder 

 crops promise to be very good. Feed in pastures is very short, 

 there not having been rain enough to make it grow. Oats a much 

 better crop than last year. 



Blandford (E. W. Boise). — The horn tly is very troublesome 

 this season. Judging from present appearances, little rowen will 

 be cut. Winter apples will be three- fourths the average crop for 

 an off year. Potatoes have looked well, but nearly all fields now 

 show blight and complaint is made of decay. Corn promises to be 

 an extra good crop. All fodder crops are extra good. Bad 

 droughts last season and this make our pastures very short Oats 

 one-fourth better than last year and no rust. There will be no 

 shortage in hay, on account of the small amount of stock now on 

 hand. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — Rowen will be a poor crop 

 except on moist land. Very few good winter apples ; cider apples 

 are in fair quantity. Potatoes few in a hill, but tubers fair and of 

 good size ; blight universal and some rot. Corn never looked 

 better. Fodder crops are in good condition, though it is getting 

 dry for the late ones. Pasturage is again in need of rain. The 

 oat crop is one-third better than last year. 



Wilbraham (H. M. Bliss). — Rowen 60 per cent of a full crop. 

 Winter apples not more than half a crop. Potatoes a full crop. 

 Corn about 90 per cent of a full crop. Fodder crops are all in 

 good condition. Pasturage is in fair condition. Oats a better 

 crop than last year. 



Hampden (John N. Ishaji). — The horn fly is very plenty. 



