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All fruits are below average yields except grapes, which are better 

 than usual. Pasturage is in very good condition for the time of 

 year. Oats and barley are more than average crops. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Corn is fully up to the average in 

 growth and is looking finely. Rowen is or bids fair to be a good 

 crop. Potatoes are rotting on heavy land, largely because of the 

 wet weather. Apples are a very good crop ; peaches and plums 

 are rotting ; pears small and scaly. Pastures are in fine condition 

 as the continued wet weather keeps the feed growing. Oats and 

 barley are little grown except for fodder. 



Barnstable (John Bursley). — On warm land Indian corn is in 

 very good condition, but on cold or wet land very poor. The 

 rowen crop will be very large and farmers are cutting when the 

 weather allows. The prospect for late potatoes is good, with very 

 little blight. Apples, pears and peaches are very light ; grapes 

 good ; cranberries a small to fair crop. Pasturage is in good con- 

 dition. Oats made good growth, but the weather has been very 

 poor for harvesting them. The prospect for the cranberry crop 

 seems to lessen, and the fruit worms are now eating badly. 



Brewster (Thos. D. Sears). — Indian corn is in very good Con- 

 dition. The prospect for rowen is very good, owing to the wet 

 season. The prospect for late potatoes is not very good and I 

 have noticed blight and some rot. Fruit is looking fairly well, 

 but there will not be an average crop of cranberries. Pasturage 

 is good owing to the wet weather. There is a normal crop of oats 

 and barley. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — Indian corn is above the aver- 

 age in condition. There will be more than an average crop of 

 rowen. Late potatoes promise well and there is neither blight nor 

 rot. Apples, pears and grapes will be half crops ; cranberries a 

 two-thirds crop. Pasturage is above the average in condition. 

 Oats turned out well. 



Dennis (Joshua Crowell) . — Corn is in good condition. Rowen 

 will be a little above the normal in yield. The prospect is fair for 

 late potatoes, although I have noticed some blight. Apples, pears 

 and grapes will give fair crops, but cranberries are less than the 

 average. Pastures are in very good condition. Oats are about 

 a normal crop ; no barley grown. Corn looks finely, but needs 

 some hot, dry weather to mature it. The season has been unusu- 

 ally wet so far. 



Chalham (E. Z. Ryder). — Indian corn is in very good condi- 



