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Market-garden crops are good and potatoes above the average, 

 with prices 25 per cent better than for some years. Apples below- 

 average ; pears nearly a full crop ; no peaches ; plums, quinces 

 and grapes about average. Pasturage is in exceedingly good con- 

 dition. Rye, oats and barley are much better than for a number 

 of years. 



Wendell (N. D. Plumb). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is somewhat backward, but is growing fast ; one-tenth will go 

 into the silo. The hay crop is the best known for twenty years. 

 Sowed corn is the principal forage crop and is in fair condition. 

 Early potatoes are rotting very badly ; barring rot the yield is 

 good. Pears and apples will be good average crops ; no other 

 fruits grown. Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats and 

 barley are fully one-fourth larger than average crops. Hay is 

 much delayed by the wet weather. 



Orange (Ansel Harrington) . — Potato bugs and squash bugs 

 are very troublesome. Corn is looking fairly well, but is rather 

 backward, especially on wet land ; nearly all will be put into the 

 silo. Hay made a heavy growth, but was badly damaged by w^et 

 weather. Corn, millet and oats are the principal forage crops ; 

 some pieces badly damaged by wet weather. Market-garden crops 

 are about as in former years. Apples are very scarce, other fruits 

 about average yields. Pasturage is in very good condition. Rye, 

 oats and barley make good yields for forage ; but little raised for 

 grain. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Greemvich (Wm. S. Douglas). — Potato bugs and currant worms 

 are doing some damage. Indian corn is in fair condition and a 

 small proportion of the crop will be put into the silo. Hay is 

 a large crop of good quality. Fodder corn is the only forage crop 

 raised. Market-garden crops and potatoes are rather backward. 

 There will be more apples than were at first expected. Pasturage 

 is in good condition. 



Enfield (D. O. Chickering) . — Potato bugs are unusually plenty. 

 Corn is backward, but is looking quite well as a rule. There has 

 been an unusually heavy crop of hay and except on low land the 

 quality is good. Fodder corn is the principal forage crop. Early 

 potatoes are in good condition ; late ones do not look as well. 

 Pears, peaches, plums and grapes promise heavy crops ; apples will 

 be about half a crop. Pastures are in good condition. R3'e, oats 

 and barley are a little above average crops. 



Belchertoion (H. C. West). — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Corn was never growing faster ; very little will be put into 



