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good at the present time. Crop of fall apples promises to be 

 fairly good. Baldwin apple trees failed to blossom. Good aver- 

 age yield of small fruits ; prices as usual. Yield of early potatoes 

 good, and price 81 per bushel. Indian corn is looking well, but 

 backward. The weather the last tw^o weeks has been favorable 

 for the growth of crops, and they have advanced rapidly. 



Worcester (S. A. Burgess). — Hay crop nearly secured and is 

 about two-thirds of an average crop in quantity, and of average 

 quality. Fair outlook for rowen. Prospect of a small crop of 

 apples, especially of winter apples. Small fruits quite abundant 

 with prices about an average. Early potatoes yielding fairly well 

 with about the average price. Rye, oats and barley are used 

 mostly as forage and hay. Wheat has proved an excellent forage 

 crop for milch cows. Late potatoes are looking very well. Field 

 corn is looking well and if frost holds off until the middle of Sep- 

 tember will prove a good crop. An unusually large acreage of 

 corn for fall fodder has been planted and now looks well. 



Dudley (J. J. Gilles). — Ha}' crop in quantity three-fourths of 

 an average season ; quality average. The prospect is that rowen 

 will be a light crop. Prospect of one-half of an average crop of 

 apples. Early potatoes yielded well ; price from $1 to 81.50 per 

 bushel. Rye straw is yielding above an average. Oats are free 

 from rust, and a fine crop both in straw and berry. Barley is not 

 much raised in town. 



Douglas (Geo. M. "Wallis). — Hay all secured, and quantity 

 three-fourths of an average and quality one-fourth better than last 

 season. The prospect is good for rowen if it holds wet. Apples 

 about twenty-five per cent of a crop. Small fruits very fair, with 

 prices about the same as last season. Good crop of early potatoes ; 

 average price 81 per bushel. Corn, potatoes, oats, rye, barley and 

 buckwheat on an average are one hundred per cent. Grape vines 

 are loaded with fruit, and the finest I ever saw them. No potato 

 rot or scab has been discovered yet. All kinds of garden vege- 

 tables promise to be first class. 



Blackstone (L. R. Daxiels). — About seven-eighths of the Eng- 

 lish hay crop secured ; three-fourths of an average crop of good 

 quality. Not a very promising outlook for rowen. Prospect of 

 about one-third of a full crop of apples. Small fruits are yielding 

 well ; prices about as usual. Red raspberries one-half price. 

 Early potatoes j-ielding very well, with average price to date about 

 90 cents per bushel. Very little grain grown here except for feed- 

 ins green. 



