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MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Sherhorn (N. B. Douglas). — English hay secured ; crop sixty 

 per cent; quality A No. 1. Meadow hay of average quantity and 

 of good quality. Outlook poor for roweu. Prospect for a small 

 crop of apples ; size large. Yield of small fruits good, except 

 strawberries, and prices above the average. Fair yield of early 

 potatoes, but the price has declined so rapidly that it is difficult to 

 fix the average; should say, to date, about $1.10 per bushel. 

 Little grain raised, except for stover. Rye and oats good. Very 

 little barley raised until late, for green feed. Much seeding will 

 be done this fall. Corn, though rather late, shows good color and 

 looks thrifty. Pastures rather short. The season has been better 

 for the farmer than the preceding three, 



Framingham (H. S. Wiiittemore). — Haj' crop mostly secured ; 

 two-thirds in quantity ; quality good. Outlook very poor for rowen 

 unless we get rain. Prospect very poor for both fall and winter 

 apples. Berries are plenty. Cherries in abundance. Prices low. 

 Good yield of early potatoes ; average price about 'JO cents per 

 bushel. Jiye is an average crop. 



Concord (W. H. Hunt). — The hay crop has been secured in 

 good condition. The quality is not quite up to last year. In old 

 fields wild grasses have worked in. Rowen promises to be better 

 than last year. P^air crop of fall apples ; few winter apples. 

 Strawberry crop three-fourths of a full crop; price 10 to 20 cents 

 a box. The average price of strawberries would be hard to deter- 

 mine. Some large berries have been sold for 30 cents a box, and 

 small poor ones for 10 cents. The average price for the year is 

 above that of the last few years. Potato crop a good one, and 

 price low for this time of year. 



Billerica (J. N. Pardee). — Hay about all in; two-thirds of a 

 crop ; quality excellent. Rowen not growing, except in the shade ; 

 ground very dry and hard. Apple crop very light; quality good. 

 Yield of small fruits good. Yield of early potatoes large ; no 

 potato rot as yet. Earliest dug brought 40 cents per peck ; now 

 80 cents per bushel. Not much grain raised except for forage, but 

 yield of that has been good and quality excellent. 



Westford (Arthur Wright). — The hay crop has been secured, 

 and should say it is one-eighth less than last year ; quality excel- 

 lent. Outlook for roweu better than last year. Fall apples fair ; 

 winter crop very short, hardly any lialdwins. The crop of small 

 fruits is large, and the price is fitUy average so far. The late 

 rains have been very beneficial to all our growing crops, and gen- 

 erally they are looking much better than at the same time last 

 year. 



