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Bolton (H. E. Babcock). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is looking well and fully one-half the crop will be put into the 

 silo. Hay was hardly an average as to quantity but was of good quality. 

 Oats and barley are the principal forage crops grown. Market-garden 

 crops and potatoes are light crops, with average prices. There will be 

 an average crop of apples, pears and grapes ; but very few peaches, 

 plums, quinces and cranberries. Pasturage is very short and dry. Rye, 

 oats and barley are very good crops. 



Worcester (H. R. Kinney). — Potato bugs and grasshoppers are doing 

 some damage. Corn is late and in many places is suffering from 

 drought; a large portion of the crop goes into the silo. The hay crop 

 is very light on old fields, fair on new ones ; quality good. Oats are 

 about the only forage crop raised except corn, though a few sow barley. 

 Potatoes seem almost a failure ; market-garden crops fair and prices 

 satisfactory. Fruit promises a good crop in some places. Pastures are 

 in very poor shape and need rain badly. Rye, oats and barley are all 

 cut green, and while light, have mostly been secured in good condition. 



Milford (J. J. Nutter). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. Corn 

 is looking very well and only a small proportion of it will go into the 

 silo. Hay was a light crop. Corn is the principal forage crop raised ; 

 condition good and about the usual quantity planted. The condition of 

 market-garden crops is very good and prices are about as last year. 

 The prospect is good for apples ; other fruit not much grown. Pastur- 

 age is in poor condition. Itye, oats and barley are average crops. 



Hopedale (Delano Patrick). — Potato bugs are doing some damage, 

 though less than usual. Corn is doing well and perhaps two-thirds of 

 the crop will go into the silo. The hay crop was somewhat off in quan- 

 tity but was of good quality. Indian corn is the principal forage crop 

 grown, with about the usual acreage. Market-garden crops are doing 

 well ; potatoes yield well ; prices for both a little lower than usual. The 

 prospect is good for apples. Pasturage is not in very good condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are not much sown in this vicinity. 



Uxbridge (Augustus Story). — Pea lice, squash bugs and elm leaf 

 beetles are doing some damage. Corn is small and greatly in need of 

 rain ; about one-third of the crop will go into the silo. Hay was gener- 

 ally a good crop, well up to former years in quality. Oats are the 

 principal forage crop used and more than usual have been planted. 

 Market-garden crops are looking well, though the heat and drought are 

 injuring them now ; prices same as last year. Fruit promises well and 

 peaches are looking better than was expected earlier in the season. 

 Pastures are drying up badly. Oats have done well. 



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Ashland (C. F. Adams). — Indian corn is a good crop and one-tenth 

 of it will go into the silo. Hay was about 85 per cent of an average 

 crop, of good quality. Hungarian grass, corn and barley are the princi- 

 pal forage crops raised and are in good condition. Market-garden crops 

 are in good condition, with average prices prevailing. There will be 



