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Rowen will be a good normal crop this year. The prospect for 

 late potatoes is quite good, with no blight or rot as yet. Tobacco 

 promises to be a full average crop. Apples are plenty this year. 

 Pasturage has been good, but is now a little short. Oats are 

 looking well. 



East Longmeadow (John L. Davis). — Corn promises well 

 except that a good many fields are uneven on account of having 

 been planted over. Rowen is only a fair crop as most farmers 

 were late in securing the first crop. Late potatoes have set very 

 poorly on dry ground. Apples are a fair crop ; no peaches ; 

 grapes plenty. Pastures are now in need of rain. Oats and bar- 

 ley are average crops. Grain is so high that farmers find little 

 profit from cows. 



Wilbraham (Henry M. Bliss). — The late rains have been 

 very beneficial to corn and grass, and both Indian corn and rowen 

 promise normal crops. Potatoes make but a small yield and show 

 some blight. The apple crop is good ; peaches very light ; plums 

 a full average ; pears fair ; grapes and cranberries average. 

 Pasturage is in good condition. Oats and barley are about aver- 

 age crops, as compared with other years. 



Palmer (O. P. Allen). — Indian corn is in good condition for a 

 backward season. The prospect for rowen is favorable on account 

 of recent rains. The prospect is good for late potatoes and neither 

 blight nor rot have appeared. Tobacco is not raised in this part 

 of the county. The yield of fruit will be better than usual, ex- 

 cepting peaches, of which there are none. Pastures are in good 

 condition for the time of year. Oats and barley are quite up to 

 average crops. 



Brimfield (C. S. Tarbell). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Rowen will give a good crop on early cut fields. There is a good 

 yield of late potatoes, but some indications of rot. The prospect 

 is good for apples, pears, peaches and grapes. Pasturage is in 

 very good condition. 



WORCESTER COUNTY. 



Spencer (H. H. Kingsbury). — Indian corn is making a fine 

 growth and is in seasonable condition. Favorable weather has 

 produced a crop of rowen well up to the average. Potato vines 

 are in unusually thrifty condition with no signs of either blight or 

 rot. Fruits, with the exception of peaches, promise abundant 

 yields. The many cloudy days and showers have kept pasturage 

 in fine condition. Oats and barley are generally cut for hay and 

 were up to the average. 



