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tobacco is doing well now. Very few apples, pears very plenty, 

 other fruits about average. Pastures have been fine all the season. 

 Oats and barley have not been average crops. Very few farmers 

 keep more than enough poultry to supply their own wants. 



Deerfield (Chas. Jones). — Corn is backward and not very 

 well eared out. Rowen is good where the first crop was cut early. 

 Potatoes are a small crop, with some blight and rot. Tobacco is 

 a light crop and the wet weather has injured some pieces very 

 much and all tobacco somewhat. Apples few, pears plenty, some 

 peaches. Pastures were never better. Oats and barley are not 

 as good crops as last year. Not much attention is paid to 

 poultry. 



Whately (Frank Dickinson). — Indian corn is poor and yellow. 

 Rowen is a heavy crop. Potatoes are a medium crop, with very 

 little blight. Tobacco is not over half a normal crop ; too early 

 to tell as to quality. Very few apples, other fruits good. Pastures 

 are in good condition. Very few oats grown and no barley. Poul- 

 try is only kept for home use. 



Montague (C. S. Raymond). — Indian corn will give 70 per 

 cent of a crop. Rowen will be a much better crop than usual. 

 Most potato fields show blight, but there is little rot. Tobacco is 

 the poorest ever known, perhaps half a crop. All kinds of fruit 

 will give light yields. Pasturage never was better. Oats made a 

 fair growth, but the grain is light weight. Not much is done with 

 poultry. The extremely wet season has been very bad for all 

 crops, especially for corn and tobacco, and crops are very unsatis- 

 factory on the whole. 



Sunderlarid (J. M. J. Legate). — Corn is very late and not 

 earing ; I think it the poorest crop I ever knew. The rowen crop 

 is very heavy, the only question being about the weather for secur- 

 ing it. Potatoes are a poor crop, rotting on heavy land and not 

 setting on light. Tobacco is late and the crop as a general thing 

 is very poor ; there are some good pieces, but thej' are very few. 

 Apples and pears look well ; few peaches and grapes. Pastures 

 show plenty of feed. Very few oats are raised and no barley. 

 Our farmers pay little attention to poultry. 



New Salem (Daniel Ballard) . — Indian corn is much below 

 the average. There is a large growth of rowen where the first 

 crop was cut soon enough. Potatoes are a light crop ; have 

 noticed but little blight or rot. Apples a light or medium crop ; 

 pears, peaches, grapes and cranberries good. Pasturage is in 

 excellent condition. Oats and barley are about the same as last 

 year. Most of our farmers keep some poultry and a few make it 

 a specialty. 



