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usual amount of fall seeding has been done and is in good condi- 

 tion. Potatoes are nearly an average crop but are not as good as 

 last year. Apples are a good crop and the fruit has matured early. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Chester (P. M. Adzima). — Indian corn is more than an average 

 crop. Rowen is better than an average crop and fall feed is up to 

 the usual average of condition. About the usual amount of fall 

 seeding has been done and the condition was never better. Onions 

 are about an average crop. Potatoes are about a third short in 

 yield but of average quality. The prospect for late market-garden 

 crops is very good and root crops are average. Apples half a 

 crop, and pears, peaches and grapes good. The past month has 

 been cloudy, with a heavy rainfall. 



Westjield (C. F. Fowler). — Corn is a full average crop. 

 Eowen is more than an average crop and fall feed was never 

 better. The usual amount of seeding has been done this fall and 

 it looks unusually well. On most potato fields the tubers turn out 

 well in number but are small in size, and a few fields are reported 

 as not worth digging. Beets are hardly up to the average in con- 

 dition. Celery is doing well. Apples are very plenty and fine, 

 pears scarce and grapes fairly good. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — Indian corn is a full average 

 crop. Rowen is above the average, with the exception of some 

 fields, which were injured by the white grubs. The average 

 amount of fall seeding has been done and it has started well. 

 Onions are three-fourths of an average crop, being under sized. 

 Potatoes are about 80 per cent of an average crop, some pieces 

 being badly grub eaten, while others are scabby. Root crops, 

 celery and other late market-garden crops promise well both as to 

 yield and quality. There is a remarkably heavy crop of apples 

 where the trees did not bear last year. The fruit is coloring well 

 and is of superior quality but prices are very low. Grapes and 

 cranberries are generally good yields. 



Chicopee (R. W. Bemis). — Indian corn is a good crop. Rowen 

 and fall feed are both above the average. The usual amount of 

 fall seeding has been done and it is now looking finely. Onions 

 are a good crop. Potatoes are an average crop both in yield and 

 quality. The prospect for all root crops is good. Apples are a 

 large crop, pears short, grapes and peaches a fair average. 



Wilbraham (F. E. Clark). — Corn stover is heavy but it is not 

 eared out quite in proportion ; on the whole about an average 

 crop. There is a remarkably good crop of rowen. Fall feed is 



