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potatoes will be a light crop. Pastures are short but improving 

 from recent rains. 



Shelburne (Geo. E. Taylor). — Grasshoppers and army worms 

 are doing some damage. Condition of corn fair and perhaps 5 per 

 cent will be put into the silo. Hay is less than an average crop in 

 quantity but the quality is very fine. Corn and oats are raised to 

 supplement the hay crop and are in good condition. Apples will 

 be an average crop but all other fruits will be light. Pasturage is 

 very short but is still green. Oats are very fine and heavy. The 

 army worm appeared in several places in this vicinity and destroyed 

 about three acres of grass and millet for me. It has now disap- 

 peared. 



Whately (Frank Dickinson). — The army worm has done dam- 

 age in some localities. Corn is growing very fast ; only one silo 

 in this neighborhood. The hay crop was of extra quality but below 

 the average in quantity. Corn is the crop mostly raised for fodder 

 and the condition is good. Potatoes are about an average crop, 

 with prices hardly up. Apples are a full crop, few pears, no 

 peaches, plenty of grapes. Pastures are improving. Rye and 

 oats are full crops. 



Leverett (W. L. Boutwell). — The army worm is doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is in average condition and about half the 

 crop will go into the silo. Hay was about a three-fourths crop of 

 extra quality. Sweet corn, oats and barley are raised to supple- 

 ment the hay crop and all are doing well. Market-garden crops 

 are all average except potatoes, which are suffering from blight 

 and show a very light yield. The prospect for fruit is better than 

 usual. Pastures are getting rather dry. Rye, oats and barley are 

 not more than average crops. 



Northfield (T. R. Callendar). — The potato bug is numerous 

 and the army worm has done some damage Corn is a little late 

 but is looking finely ; not more than one-tenth of the crop is grown 

 for the silo. The hay crop has been rather better than last year 

 on the whole. Barley and oats are much grown for forage and are 

 in fine condition. The season has been favorable for all market- 

 garden crops ; yield abundant, prices low. Apples are well fruited, 

 pears light, no peaches, grapevines loaded with fruit. Pasturage is 

 in fairly good condition. All small grains are remarkably good 

 crops. Tobacco is looking well though somewhat uneven. 



New Salem (Daniel Ballard). — Potato bugs and grasshoppers 

 are very plenty. Indian corn is a little backward but growing 

 finely ; very little put in the silo. The hay crop in nearly average 

 in quantity and of good quality. Oats, peas and oats, fodder corn 

 and Hungarian grass are raised to supplement the hay crop and are 



