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Pasturage is in excellent condition. Oats and barley compare well 

 with last year's crops. Not much attention is paid to poultry. 



Hinsdale (S. M. Raymond). — Indian corn is in very poor con- 

 dition. Rowen never looked better than at present. Potatoes 

 promise a light crop ; some blight and rot. Apples, pears, grapes 

 and cranberries promise light crops. Pasturage never looked 

 better and some are mowing their pastures. Oats and barley are 

 good crops. No poultry raised except for home use. A great 

 many farmers are not through haying yet and considerable grass 

 will not be cut at all this year. 



Hancock (C. H. Wells). — Corn is very backward. Rowen 

 shows a much better yield than usual. The prospect is for less 

 than half a crop of potatoes ; they blighted badly and show some 

 rot. Apples light, pears a good crop, no other fruits. Pasturage 

 is in fine condition. Oats and barley are about three-fourths crops. 

 There is very little poultry kept. 



Cheshire (J. L. Northup). — Indian corn is backward. Rowen 

 promises well where meadows were cut early. Blight and rot pre- 

 vail in the potato fields throughout this section. Apples are a 

 short crop, but pears are very abundant. Pastures are holding out 

 remarkably, Oats are a fine crop ; barley not raised. More poul» 

 try is being raised from year to year. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Bowe (J. F. Brown). — Corn is small and backward and in 

 poor condition, but if the frosts hold off until late there will be a 

 fair crop. Rowen is a large crop. Potatoes promise to be below 

 the average in yield. All kinds of fruit will give but small yields. 

 Pastures are in good condition and show plenty of feed. Oats and 

 barley were good crops and were mostly cut for hay. We think 

 that poultry if well cared for pays better than dairying. 



Colrain (A. A. Smith) . — Indian corn is in poor condition. The 

 rowen crop is an increase over the usual crop. Potatoes promise 

 a good yield ; have noticed neither blight nor rot. All kinds of 

 fruit will yield poorly. Pasturage is in good condition. Oats and 

 barley were not as good crops as last year. Our farmers do not 

 pay much attention to poultry. 



Comvay (J. C. Newhall). — Owing to the wet weather, the 

 corn crop will be late and light. Where the land is not too wet, 

 rowen will be heavy, far above the average. The potato crop 

 promises to be light ; I hear of both blight and rot. The tobacco 

 crop has suffered from an excess of moisture, there being but few 

 fields that do not have some small wet spots in them, but late 



