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pears, and no cranberries. Pasturage is in fairly good condition. 

 Oats and barley were good average crops. There was a light crop 

 of hay, but rowen started very quickly. Many crops are suffering 

 from weeds. 



Windso)' (H. A. Ford). — Indian corn is late, but in good con- 

 dition. Sweet corn is not raised for canning. Rowen never looked 

 better. There will not be a large crop of late potatoes, and blight 

 has struck them. Apples are a good crop, but not as plenty as 

 last year. Pastures are in good condition. Oats and barley are 

 fully up to the normal. 



Hancock (B. H. Goodrich). — Indian corn is looking well. 

 Sweet corn is not raised for canning. Eowen will be a small crop, 

 as haying was finished late. Late potatoes will be a light crop ; 

 vines have blighted badly, but little rot has been found as yet. 

 Apples will be a light crop ; peaches not grown ; grapes about 

 average ; cranberries not raised here. Pasturage is good for the 

 time of year. Few have threshed oats and barley as yet, but those 

 report about average yields. 



Cheshire (L. J. Northup). — Indian corn promises to be a 

 normal crop. Sweet corn is not raised for canning. Rowen will 

 be a normal crop where the first crop was cut early. Late potatoes 

 are a good crop ; no blight or rot noticed. Apples are no more 

 than a one-fourth crop ; fair outlook for pears. Pastures are get- 

 ting short, and some are feeding green feed. Oats are a first-class 

 crop ; barley not grown here. 



Williamstoivn (S. A. Hickox). — Indian corn will be 90 per 

 cent of a full crop. Sweet corn is not raised for canning. Rowen 

 will be nearly a full crop. The prospect for late potatoes is poor, 

 and blight and rot have appeared. Apples will give about a third 

 of a normal crop ; other fruits half crops. Pastures are in good 

 condition. Oats were nearly a full crop and barley a two-thirds 

 crop. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Charlemont (J. M. J. Legate). — Indian corn is backward, 

 probably two weeks behind the normal. Sweet corn is not raised 

 for canning. Rowen will give three-fourths of a normal crop. 

 Late potatoes now promise only a light crop ; complaint of their 

 not setting well, and some blight. Apples and pears half crops ; 

 peaches a full crop. Pasturage is in good condition. Oats and 

 barley are little raised for grain, being principally used as soiling 

 crops. 



Colrain (A. A. Smith). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Sweet corn is not raised for canning, Rowen will not be a normal 



