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potatoes are doing finely. Apples almost a total failure ; grapes 

 promise very well ; few other fruits. Pasturage is in good condi- 

 tion. Rye, oats and barley are about average crops. 



Ashby (Anson VVetherbee). — Potato bugs, currant worms and 

 born flies are doing some damage. Corn is about three weeks late ; 

 a large part of the crop will go into the silo. Hay is the largest 

 crop for several years and of good quality. Hungarian grass, 

 barley and oats are the principal forage crops and are in good con- 

 dition. Pears, peaches, plums and grapes will be full crops ; 

 there will be some apples, and a few cranberries and quinces. 

 Pasturage is in the best of condition. Rye looks well, oats fair 

 and barley fair. Grain is lodging badly in some places. 



Bedford (Henry Wood). — Potato bugs and squash bugs are 

 doing some damage. Corn looks well, but is late ; but few silos 

 in town. Quantity of the liay crop large and quality fair. Oats, 

 millet and corn, with some cow peas, are the principal forage crops. 

 No potatoes have been marketed yet. Apples will be scarce, 

 pears plenty, and grapes scarce. Pasturage never was better. 

 Rye, oats and barley are good, being raised for forage crops. 



Wakefield (Chas. Talbot) . — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is very good, and about three-fourths of the crop 

 will go into the silo. The hay crop is 20 per cent greater than last 

 year's and mostly housed in good order. Barley, oats and rye are 

 the principal forage crops and are all doing finely. Potatoes are 

 looking finely and yielding well ; all market-garden crops are look- 

 ing finely. No apples, pears a large crop, grapes never more 

 plentiful, cranberry vines loaded. Pop corn is planted in large 

 quantities and is doing well. 



Lincohi (Samuel Hartwell). — Corn on high land is looking 

 well ; very few silos in use in this town. The hay crop is exceed- 

 ingly large, but the quality has been much injured by bad weather. 

 Fodder corn, millet, barley and oats are the principal forage crops 

 and are looking well. Market-garden crops look well on high 

 land, yield large, prices small. Apples scarce ; pears, peaches, 

 quinces and grapes abundant. Pastures never looked better at 

 this time of year. Rye, oats and barley are not much raised, but 

 the fodder looks well. Weeds are very troublesome on account 

 of the excessive rains. 



Westo7i (H. L. Brown). — Squash bugs, potato bugs and plant 

 lice are doing some damage. Hay is a large crop and has been 

 mostly secured in good condition. Corn for the silo and millet are 

 the principal forage crops. Market-garden crops in good condi- 

 tion ; potatoes looking well ; peas have hardly paid for picking. 

 Some fall apples, no winter apples ; pears, peaches and all other 



