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of apples, pears, plums and quinces. Pasturage is extra good. 

 Rye is a good crop and oats and barley look well. 



Lenox (Alex McConache). — Currant worms and potato bugs 

 are doing some damage. Corn is looking well ; I know of no silos 

 in this vicinity. There is a very good crop of hay, double that of 

 last year. Sweet corn is the principal forage crop raised, but 

 some vetches and peas are raised. Potatoes are generally a poor 

 crop with prices about as last year ; other vegetables have done 

 well. Fruit promises a fair crop at present. Pasturage is in good 

 condition. Rye, oats and barley are not yet ripe. Haying is about 

 two weeks behind. 



Hinsdale (S. M. Raymond). — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Corn is very backward and the pi'oportion put into the silo 

 depends on how much of the crop gets ripe. The hay crop is 

 better than usual in both quantity and quality. Hungarian grass 

 and millet are the principal forage crops raised and are in good 

 condition. Market-garden crops are good ; potatoes late and price 

 high. The prospect is favorable for all kinds of fruit. Pastures 

 never looked better. Rye, oats and barley are looking well. It 

 has been a late, cold and wet season. 



Windsor (H. A. Ford). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is backward and one-fourth of the crop will be put into the 

 silo. The hay crop is one-third larger than usual and the quality 

 is good. Oats and barley are the principal forage crops raised. 

 Apples promise to be a good crop. Pasturage is in fine condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are as good or better than usual. 



Savoy (W. W. Burnett). — Potato bugs and cabbage worms 

 are doing some damage. Corn is rather backward, but is growing 

 fast and looking fairly well ; a small share will go into the silo. 

 Hay is ahead of the last few years in both quantity and quality. 

 Corn, oats and Hungarian grass are the principal forage crops and 

 all look well. Early potatoes are not yet ready to harvest. Apples 

 are looking fairly ; otlier fruits not of much account in this locality. 

 Pasturage is in more than average condition. Rye, oats and 

 barley are about average crops. Haying has been much delayed 

 and hay injured by bad weather. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Charlemont (H. S. Giles). — Potato bugs and squash bugs are 

 doing some damage. Corn is looking well and growing rapidly. 

 Hay is above an average crop in quantity and of quite good quality. 

 Fodder corn, Hungarian grass and barley are the principal forage 

 crops. Market-garden crops compare well in yield and price with 



