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BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Hay all secured, and the crop is a 

 little more than one-half in quantity, but of good quality. Out- 

 look for rowen very poor, as dry weather holds on. Prospect for 

 apples fair, but they are dropping badly. Yield of small fruits 

 fair. Strawberries with nie average 11 \ cents per box. Potatoes 

 here have suffered for want of rain, and blight has struck both 

 early and late varieties. Oats are grown for fodder. 



Mashpee ( W. F. Hammond) . — About three-fourths of a crop of 

 hay ; quality good. Rowen promises well. One-fourth of a crop 

 of apples. Crop of small fruits light. Prices a third higher than 

 last year. Earl}' potatoes have yielded better than for some years ; 

 average price $1 per bushel ; last year Si. 25. Yield and quality of 

 oats and rye have been fair. The prospect for a crop of cran- 

 berries looks better than for the past two years. 



Dennis (Joshua Cro\vell). — Hay all secured; quantity two- 

 thirds of an average ; quality good. Outlook unfavorable for 

 rowen. Apples are not plenty. Yield of small fruits below the 

 average, and prices about the same as usual. Early potatoes 

 yielded well ; average price Si per bushel. Late potatoes are look- 

 ing well. 



Eastham (J. A. Clark). — Hay crop less than an average; 

 quality good. Outlook poor for rowen, unless we have rain soon. 

 Fair prospect for a crop of apples. Not many small fruits raised. 

 Grapes are looking finely. Early potatoes are good, and have been 

 selling for $1 per bushel ; now 75 cents. Very little grain raised. 



DUKES COUNTY. 



West Tishury (Wm. J. Rotch). — The hay crop has been 

 secured in good condition and quality ; but English hay is light, 

 and perhaps sixty per cent of a fair crop. The outlook for rowen 

 is good. There is a prospect of an average crop of apples. The 

 drought in June injured strawberries. The crop was sold for an 

 average price of 15 cents per box. The yield of early potatoes 

 is heavy ; average price $1 per bushel, now 80 cents. The grain 

 crops are average ones. 



NANTUCKET COUNTY. 



iVa?;^fc'7Le^ (CiiAS. "NY. Gardner). — Hay crop mostly secured ; 

 quantity two-thirds of a crop ; quality not as good as the average, 

 on account of wet weather. Potatoes are yielding extra well in 

 quantity and quality ; $1.50 per bushel. Heavy yield of straw, but 

 there is not much threshed here, being mostly made into hay or 

 fodder. 



