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Deerjield (Charles Jones). — Hay has been nearly all har- 

 vested, and is about three-fourths of a crop, and of good quality. 

 Rowen is looking well. Very few apples, either fall or winter. 

 Early potatoes are yielding well ; average price about 85 cents per 

 bushel. Rye is good ; more than an average. Oats look well, but 

 are not harvested. Tobacco is looking extremely well, and some 

 has been topped. Onions are looking very well, but are not full 

 stocked. We have had a fair amount of rain in July, with some 

 very warm weather. All crops are looking well now. 



Orange (Ansel Harrington). — Hay crop mostly secured, and 

 the qiiality and quantity are excellent. Quantity about one-eighth 

 above an average season. Not a very good outlook for rowen. 

 Yield of small fruits very good ; prices about the same as in for- 

 mer years. Yield of early potatoes very good ; prices variable. 

 Potatoes never looked better. Very little grain raised in this 

 vicinity, except oats, which are cut green for fodder, and this year 

 the yield and quality are excellent. Corn is looking finely, but is a 

 little backward. Farm crops, as a whole, are very promising. 

 Slight frost on morning of the 28th. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Greenwich (Wm. S. Douglas). — Hay crop secured and quantity 

 about one-half an average, with quality about an average. The 

 outlook for rowen is quite favorable. The late frosts injured 

 apples, and there is prospect of less than half a crop. Early pota- 

 toes are jnelding fairly well and are much cheaper than in some 

 seasons. Grains are fairly good. 



Belchertotun (H. C. West). — Hay mostly secured. Old pieces 

 and early cut are light, but newly seeded and later cut pieces three- 

 fourths of a crop. As yet the outlook for rowen is not encour- 

 aging. The prospect is for a fair crop of apples. Early potatoes 

 are yielding above the average ; prices commenced with 82, now 

 $1 per bushel. Rye good. Oats not harvested and are looking 

 well. Very little barley raised, though there are some good pieces 

 in town. I wonder that more barley is not raised as it is one of 

 our best paying sowed crops. Corn is growing finely. 



Hadley (L. W. West). — Hay crop secured, and is ninety per 

 cent of an average season in quantity and of good quality. Out- 

 look for rowen poor unless it rains soon. Apple crop will not be 

 up to the average. Early potato vines look well, but few potatoes 

 in a hill ; price not established. Yield and quality of r^^e good. 

 Oats not harvested. Three and three oue-hundredths inches of 

 rain have fallen since last report. 



