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grown, and are looking well. Potatoes are looking well; none 

 harvested as yet. There are quite a few apples in some orchards ; 

 other fruits not very plenty. Pasturage is very fair for the time 

 of year. Tlye, oats and barley were about average crops, but 

 mainly cut for fodder. 



Oroton (C. H. Berry). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is looking finely ; about half the crop is raised for the 

 silo. There was about a two-thirds hay crop of very fine quality. 

 Oats and millet are the principal forage crops grown, and are early 

 for harvest. Market-garden crops are looking finely. Peaches 

 promise a good crop. Pastures are in very fair condition. Rye, 

 oats and barley promise very favorably, both for grain and forage. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is in good condition, but about two weeks late ; the 

 usual amount will go into the silo. The hay crop is about normal 

 in both quantity and quality. Oats, barley, Hungarian grass and 

 corn are raised as forage crops and are in good condition. No 

 potatoes have been harvested as yet. Grapes and cranberries 

 promise fair crops ; all other fruits very light. Pastures are very 

 short of feed. Rye, oats and barley compare well with former 

 years, both for grain and as forage crops. 



Tewksbury (G. E. Crosby). — Potato bugs are still at work on 

 potatoes and tomatoes. What Indian corn there is raised here is 

 looking well, but there will be but little put into the silo. The hay 

 crop was good on newly seeded land, and from 50 to 60 per cent of 

 a full crop on old land. Japanese millet is raised to some extent 

 as a forage crop. Market-garden crops are not as good as usual. 

 There will be few apples ; plums and pears promise good crops. 

 Pastures are very dry. Rye, oats and barley compare very well 

 with former years, both as forage and grain crops. 



Lincoln (C. S. Wheeler). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is in average condition ; three-fourths of 

 the crop will go into the silo. The hay crop was average in 

 quantity, though less than last season. Oats, Hungarian grass, 

 Japanese millet, barley and rye are the principal forage crops 

 grown. Market-garden crops are about average in condition ; 

 strawberries have been a light crop, but brought good prices ; 

 greenhouse cucumbers sold well. There will be about half crops 

 of fruit of all kinds. Pasturage is in about the usual condition, 

 or perhaps a little above the average. Rye, oats and barley have 

 not been raised for grain, but are average crops for forage. 



Wakefield (Charles Talbot). — Brown-tail and gypsy moths 

 are doing much damage. Corn is looking very well, fully up to 

 the average, and the usual amount will go into the silo. Hay is 



