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bay crop is about 80 per cent of an average in quantity and the 

 quality is first-class. Oats, corn, millet and barley are the princi- 

 pal fodder crops raised and all have made a good growth. Market- 

 garden crops are fully up to the average in condition and yield but 

 prices are very low. Apples promise a large yield, grapes good, 

 all other fruits very light. Pasturage has improved from the 

 recent rains and is as good as usual at this season. Rye, oats 

 and barley are fully up to average crops. 



Agawam (Reuben DeWitt). — Corn is looking very well now. 

 The silo is gaining in popularity every year. The hay crop is a 

 little later than last year. Corn, oats and barley are the principal 

 forage crops and all are looking well. Potatoes are hardly as 

 good a crop as last year. Apples are a fair crop ; all other fruits, 

 except perhaps grapes, are very poor. Rye is hardly as good a 

 crop as usual. Oats are raised mostly for green feed or for hay. 

 Pasturing is but little practised, the cows being kept in the barn 

 and fed with green feed. 



Wilbraham (H. M. Bliss). — The potato bug is doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is in good condition ; not more than oue- 

 thirtieth of the crop will be put into the silo. Hay is three- 

 fourths of an average crop in quantity and of good quality. 

 Barley, fodder corn and turnips are raised to supplement the hay 

 crop. Potatoes are not more than a three-fourths crop and prices 

 are low thus far. Fruit will be a light crop with the exception of 

 grapes. Pasturage is in good condition. Rye, oats and barley 

 are about average crops. The unfavorable weather has delayed 

 haying so that nearly one-fourth of the grass is still standing. 



3fonson (W. M. Tucker). — Squash bugs and potato bugs are 

 doing some damage. Corn is in fine condition ; about a week 

 later than last season but growing very fast ; about 10 per cent 

 will go into the silo. Hay not quite average in yield but quality 

 good. Rye, oats and peas, corn, barley and oats are the principal 

 forage crops raised and they never looked better. Market-garden 

 crops are good as a whole though prices are rather low. Apples 

 promise well, pears are very scarce, no peaches, and grapes plenty. 

 Recent rains have helped pasturage but cows have shrunk never- 

 theless. Rye is not a large straw but is well filled out. Oats and 

 barley never looked better. There is quite general complaint of 

 sorrel in our best grass lands where it was never seen before. 



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Soutlibridge (G. L. Clemence). — Indian corn is a little later 

 than usual but is in good condition ; half the crop will be put into 



