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fair. Principal small fruits grown are strawberries, raspberries 

 and grapes. 



Douglas (Geo. M. Wallis). — Indian corn looks fairly well; 

 acreage fully up to last year. Haying has commenced ; crop 

 about one-half of last yeai''s ; quality better. Early potatoes look 

 very well ; acreage one-tenth greater than last year. Dairy prod- 

 ucts about the same as last year in quantity and price. Strawber- 

 ries fair. Cranberries and grapes are in full bloom. Wild berries 

 promise a good crop. 



Fitchhurg (Dr. Jabez Fisher). — Judging by the data furnished 

 by the Concord grape the season is seven days earlier than 1890, 

 or the average for thirty-five years past. Cut orchard grass June 

 1.') ; seventy per cent of last year's yield. Other grasses promise 

 about the same or perhaps a little more. Early potatoes promise 

 well ; acreage greater than last year. Strawberries are yielding 

 better than last year. Good promise for other berries. 



Neio Braintree (C. D. Sage). — Corn generally is looking well ; 

 acreage one-fourth greater than last year. Very little grass has 

 been cut. Recently seeded fields will cut a fair crop, eight to nine 

 tenths. Old mowings winter-killed and injured by dry weather. 

 Acreage of early potatoes about the same as last year ; are looking 

 well, but are not as early as last year. Less milk and butter made ; 

 prices better and butter twenty per cent higher than last year. 



Oakham (Jesse Allen) . — Season more backward than last. 

 Indian corn is looking well ; larger acreage than last year. Hay- 

 ing has commenced ; promises to be perhaps two-thirds of a crop. 

 Early potatoes promise well ; acreage greater than last year. 

 Quantity of dairy products a little less than last year ; price higher. 

 Outlook for small fruits is good. Principal ones grown in this 

 town are strawberries, currants, blackberries and huckleberries. 



Petersham (S. B. Cook). — Corn is looking well; acreage 

 greater than last year. Haying has commenced, and the prospect 

 is that the crop will be much lighter than last year. Early pota- 

 toes are looking splendidly ; acreage about the same as last year. 

 Dairy products about the same as last year. The outlook is 

 favorable for small fruits. Strawberries, raspberries and currants 

 are as abundant as in previous years. 



Temjileton (Lucien Gove). — Season as a whole later than last. 

 Indian corn not as forward as last year at same date ; acreage 

 greater. Haying has commenced ; crop one-third less than last 

 year and of poorer quality. Early potatoes promise Avell. Less 

 milk, more cream, quality excellent ; price of butter higher than last 

 year by three cents per pound. Outlook is good for small fruits. 

 Strawberries, raspberries and blackberries equal to the average of 



