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early cut fields. Potatoes are a good crop, but blight and rot have 

 both appeared. There will be a large crop of all early apples and 

 a fair crop of winter varieties ; pears and grapes plenty. Fall 

 seeding has begun and the seed comes well. There was a large 

 crop of hay, but much of it was secured in a damaged condition 

 on account of so much dull weather. 



Andover (Milo H. Gould). — Indian corn is rather backward. 

 Rowen will be considerably above an average crop. The prospect 

 is good for late potatoes and neither blight nor rot have appeared. 

 Apples are abundant ; pears good ; peaches very few ; grapes and 

 cranberries good. Pasturage is above the average in condition. 

 Oats and barley compare favorably with the crops of other years. 



Roioley (Daniel H. O'Brien). — Corn is in quite good condi- 

 tion and promises well. Rowen will be below an average crop. 

 Late potatoes promise well, but blight is showing in a few places. 

 Apples are a medium crop ; pears fair ; no peaches ; grapes and 

 cranberries light crops. Pastures are in rather poor condition. 

 Oats and barley are about normal crops, when compared with 

 other years. 



Topsfield (B. P. Pike). — Indian corn is looking well, but the 

 acreage is very small. There will be a full average crop of rowen. 

 Late potatoes are looking well and there is no blight as yet. 

 Apples will give a medium crop of good quality. Pastures are in 

 good condition. Oats and barley are only raised for hay and as 

 forage crops. Pears are below an average yield ; very few 

 peaches ; few grapes and cranberries. 



Manchester (John Baker) . — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Rowen promises to be a good crop. There is some blight on late 

 potatoes, but the prospect for the crop seems good nevertheless. 

 There are fair crops of apples, pears, grapes and cranberries, but 

 no peaches. Pasturage is in good condition. Oats and barley 

 are about average crops as compared with those of former years. 



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Stoughton (Chas. F. Curtis). — Indian corn has grown very un- 

 evenly and is not quite up to the average. Rowen will be a full 

 average crop. Blight has struck some fields of potatoes and 

 the prospect for the late crop is poor unless the Bordeau mixture 

 has been used. Apples will be half a crop; pears very poor; no 

 peaches; grapes three-fourths crop; cranberries almost a failure. 

 Pasturage is as good as any year at this time. Oats and barley 

 are full average crops. 



Norwood (F. A. Fales). — Corn is rather late but is looking 



