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in good condition. There will be a good crop of apples and some 

 grapes and cranberries. Pasturage is in good average condition. 

 Rye and oats have yielded well. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Evjield (D. O. Chickering). — Potato bugs are quite plenty. 

 Corn is looking very well. The hay crop is above the average in 

 quantity and fully up in quality. Eye, oats and corn are raised for 

 forage and all are in fine condition. Potatoes look well. The 

 prospect is good for apples, grapes and cranberries. Pastures are 

 holding out well, much better than usual. Rye and oats are better 

 crops than for several years. Haying is progressing slowly and 

 but little is secured without getting wet. 



Pelham (J. L. Brewer). — Cabbage worms and potato beetles 

 are doing some damage. Corn looks very well ; none will be put 

 in the silo. The hay crop will be about a two-thirds crop, as in 

 the past two years. Sweet corn and oats and peas are the prin- 

 cipal fodder crops raised to supplement the hay crop. Market- 

 garden crops all look well. Apples will be half a crop, pears 

 one-fourth a crop, quinces good, grapes good and cranberries good. 

 Pastures are looking well for this time of year. Rye and oats com- 

 pare favorably with former crops. Blueberries are abundant ; 

 huckleberries are just coming on and promise well. 



Amherst (Wm. P. Brooks). — The army worm, elm tree leaf 

 beetle and potato beetle are doing damage. Corn rather backward 

 and stand uneven but color good ; perhaps one-fifth will go into 

 the silo. Hay is about three-fourths of an average crop with 

 quality good. Corn, millet and Hungarian grass, oats, oats and 

 peas and vetch are raised as fodder crops and are in good condi- 

 tion. Potatoes look well but prices are very low. Apples generally 

 promise well, pears poor, quinces good, no peaches and grapes 

 good. Pastures are in excellent condition. Rye is a good crop 

 and oats look well. The army worms have done much damage in 

 some late fields of timothy and grain and have injured some fields 

 of corn. The most serious damage, however, will be in reducing 

 the yield of rowen in many fields. In a great many places they 

 have eaten all the new growth and the meadows are browner than 

 when first cut. All mowings where they have been found should 

 be burned over early next spring. 



Hatfield (Thaddeus Graves). — The army worm is doing some 

 damage. Corn is in fine condition but none will be put into the 

 silo. The hay crop is good both in quantity and quality. No 

 forage crops are raised to supplement the hay crop. Potatoes 



