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prospect is good for turnips and celery. Apples are a very light 

 crop of poor quality ; peaches, pears and plums large crops ; 

 grapes medium. All kinds of fruit seem to have very poor flavor, 

 probably on account of so much rain and so little sunshine. 



Brool-fidd (F. E. Pkouty). — Indian corn is a good crop. 

 Rowen and fall feed are up to the usual average. Fully an aver- 

 age amount of fall seeding has been done, and it is in good con- 

 dition. Onions are not much raised but are a good crop. Potatoes 

 are not more than half a crop but are of good quality. Turnips 

 promise well. Apples are not one-fourth of last year's crop, 

 peaches and plums little raised, grapes good, cranberries destroyed 

 by the rains of July. 



Spencer (H. H. Kingsbury). — Corn is all cut; some fields are 

 good and others poor, according to location. A large crop of 

 rowen was secured and fall feed is good. About the usual amount 

 of fall seeding has been done and it is in excellent condition. 

 Potatoes about half a crop owing to blight and rot, but the quality 

 is fair. Root crops have grown remarkably well and are very 

 satisfactory. Apples are very poor, pears plenty and cheap, 

 peaches about as usual, plums plenty, grapes average but mil- 

 dewed and ripening unevenly, cranberries good. 



New Braintree (C. D. Sage). — Corn is about three-fourths of 

 a crop. Rowen and fall feed are better than for several years. 

 Very little fall seeding is done here, lands seeded in the spring 

 look well. Potatoes are not half a crop and are rotting somewhat. 

 There is very little done in root crops and late market-garden 

 crops. Few winter apples ; pears, peaches and plums very heavy 

 crops ; grapes are full, but can hardly mature. 



Petersham (S. B. Cook). — Indian corn is sixty-five per cent 

 of an average crop. Rowen and fall feed are fifty per cent better 

 than usual. One-fourth less seeding has been done than usual 

 but it is in fine condition. Potatoes are forty per cent off in yield, 

 tubers small with some rot. Root crops of all kiuds are good, 

 also celery ; late market-garden crops are only fair. Apples few, 

 pears and plums abundant, peaches and grapes average. 



Gardner (A. F. Johnson). — Indian corn is not more than two- 

 thirds of a crop. Rowen and fall feed are up to the usual aver- 

 age. Potatoes are about one-quarter of a crop. Root crops, 

 celery and late market-garden crops do not promise to be up to 

 the average. Apples are about one-fourth of a crop and the 

 quality is poor ; pears a large crop. 



Westminster (I. Dickinson). — Indian corn is not an average 

 crop. There has been more rowen and fall feed than for many 

 years. Not much fall seeding has been done as yet. Onions are 



