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Fruits of all kinds promise well. Pasturage is in poor condition. 

 Oats and barley are about average crops. There is a great deal 

 of poultry in this section, and I should think the income derived 

 from it was nearly as great as that from dairy products. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Bourne (D. D. Nye). — Indian corn is in fair condition. The 

 prospect for rowen is very poor. The prospect for late potatoes 

 is very poor, although there is no rot as yet. Apples, pears, 

 grapes and cranberries promise very good crops. Pastures are 

 poor and short, because of drought. Oats are a very good crop, 

 but are grown for fodder only. Very little is done with poultry 

 except on a small scale. Nearly all our milk is sold to the sum- 

 mer people, and those farmers who keep cows all buy their butter. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — Corn is looking very well, and 

 there will be half a crop. Rowen is a failure. There will be 

 about a two-thirds crop of potatoes ; no rot nor blight. Apples, 

 pears, grapes and cranberries will each give half a crop. Pastur- 

 age is quite good. Oats and barley are failures. Not much at- 

 tention is paid to poultry raising. 



Dennis (Joshua Crowell) . — Indian corn is below the average 

 at this season. No rowen except on low land. The potato crop 

 is very light ; no rot noticed. Pears and apples fair crops ; 

 grapes quite plenty ; cranberries a very small crop. Pasturage 

 is in very poor condition. Oats were rather light. The season 

 has been one of the driest ever known. 



Hanvich (A. N. Doane) . — Indian corn is late, on account of 

 dry weather. The rowen crop is very short. Late potatoes are 

 doing fairly well ; no rot. Apples and pears are good crops ; not 

 many grapes ; cranberries almost a failure. Dry weather has 

 spoiled upland pastures for this season. 



Chatham (E. Z. Ryder). — Corn will be a small crop. Rowen 

 is half a crop, owing to the drought. Late potatoes are nearly a 

 failure, with some blight and rot. The prospect for apples and 

 pears is poor ; peaches few ; grapes average ; cranberries less than 

 half a crop. Pasturage is in very poor condition. Oats are about 

 a two-thirds crop. Our farmers don't pay much attention to 

 poultry, though most of them have a flock of hens. 



Welljleet (E. Jacobs). — We have no crop of corn. There will 

 be about one-third as much rowen as last year. Late potatoes are 

 a good crop in most sections. Very few apples and of very poor 

 quality. Pastures are in very poor condition in all sections. About 

 one-third of the income of our farmers is derived from poultry. 



