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of good quality. Oats and peas, fodder corn, Japanese millet, 

 Hungarian grass and the clovers are the principal forage crops 

 grown. Market-garden crops are in good condition ; potatoes 

 looking well ; prices about average. Pastures are in fair condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are better than average crops. 



Franklin (C. M. Allen) . — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is in fine condition ; one-half the crop will go into the 

 silo. There was a three-fourths crop of hay of fine quality. 

 Millet, barley and fodder corn are the principal forage crops 

 grown, and are in fine condition. Market-garden crops are in av- 

 erage condition as regards both yield and price. Apples will be a 

 poor crop ; pears and plums light ; peaches good. Pasturage is 

 in average condition. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Mansfield (Wm. C. Winter). — Potato bugs and currant worms 

 are our most prevalent insects, but neither are very troublesome. 

 Corn came up rather unevenly, but looks fairly well ; very little 

 put in silo in this locality. Hay is perhaps 80 per cent of the 

 normal in quantity, and of good quality. Sweet corn and Hun- 

 garian grass are the principal forage crops. Apples medium ; 

 pears fair ; peaches poor ; plums, quinces and grapes looking well, 

 but the latter late. P^xcept peas, which have been scarce and 

 higher than usual, there are few market-garden crops in the market ; 

 potatoes lower. Owing to dry weather, pastures are generally poor. 

 Rye, oats and barley are normal crops. 



Attleborough (Isaac Alger). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is in good condition, and half the crop is 

 raised for ensilage. Hay is a full average crop in both quantity 

 and quality. Millet, corn and Hungarian grass are the principal 

 forage crops grown. Potatoes look well, but none have been dug 

 as yet. The prospect is poor for all kinds of fruit. Rye, oats 

 and barley are about average crops, both for grain and forage. A 

 great many grape vines, quince bushes and cranberry vines winter- 

 killed. 



Norton (Wm. A. Lane). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is in good condition, and but a small part of the crop goes 

 into the silo. The hay crop is about average in yield and quality. 

 Oats and millet are the principal forage crops grown. There is 

 no great amount of market-garden crops raised in this locality. 

 There will be a very light fruit crop ; some apples and plums. 

 Pastures are in good condition. Oats have been a good crop and 

 rye a fair one. 



