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growing finely. Pasturage is in good condition. Market-garden 

 crops are good, but prices are extremely low. Tomatoes, squashes 

 and melons are looking finely, but are late in ripening. All fruit 

 except grapes is very scarce and of poor quality ; grapes large and 

 fine. 



Marshfield (J. H. Bourne). — White grubs are eating potatoes 

 and strawberry plants. The prospect is that rowen will be a poor 

 crop. Winter apples will be an exceedingly poor crop. Potatoes 

 will be a good crop, but not more than three-fourths as many as 

 if rain had fallen a month ago. Corn is an excellent crop ; if the 

 frost keeps off for three weeks it will be the best crop for ten 

 years. Fodder crops are all looking well and barley is particu- 

 larly good. Pasturage is very short. The oat crop is fully as 

 good as last year. 



Hanson (F. S. Thomas). — Rowen promises to be a good crop. 

 Winter apples are very, very poor. Potatoes are good in quality 

 and quantity. The prospect for the corn crop is fair. Fodder 

 crops for green feeding promise to be good. Pasturage is in fine 

 condition. 



Kingston (J. H. Cushman). — Rowen bids fair to be about a 

 two-thirds crop. There are vex'y few winter apples and those are 

 of poor quality. What potatoes have been dug are very good. 

 Corn promises to be a heavy crop. Fodder crops are all very 

 good. Pastures are very short and cows are fed from sown crops. 

 Oats are up to any other year. 



Lakeville (Elbridge Cushman). — Rowen is a remarkably good 

 crop, especially on low meadows. Winter apples are poor indeed ; 

 there will be a few Greenings but practically no Baldwins. Pota- 

 toes are an abundant yield, but are rotting some, especially on low 

 ground. Corn was probably never better. All fodder crops are 

 good. Pasturage on high ground is short, as is usual at this time 

 of the year, but that on low ground is fair. Oats are a better 

 crop than last year. Pears and grapes are good crops. Prices 

 generally rule low, but the year promises to be a more than usually 

 prosperous one. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 

 Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Cranberry worms are doing some 

 damage. Rowen promises to be a good crop. Winter apples will 

 be a very small crop. Potatoes are a large crop, but they have 

 blasted badly and are beginning to rot. Corn promises to be a 

 good crop. Fodder crops were never in better condition. Past- 

 urage is in good condition. Oats are a heavy crop, much better 

 than last year. 



