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crop. Potatoes will be below the average in yield ; no blight or 

 rot as yet. Apples are a light crop ; pears and grapes good. 

 Oats are a good crop. This has been a hard season to make milk, 

 as the pastures have been poor from the start in the spring, and 

 there was but a three-fourths hay crop. 



Southampton (C. B. Lyman) . — There is a good growth of Indian 

 corn, and the ears are well set. Sweet corn is not raised for can- 

 ning. Rowen will be a light crop. Potatoes look well, but blight 

 is beginning to show on some fields. Tobacco acreage about the 

 same as usual, but condition never better. There will be a fair 

 crop of apples; pears plenty; peaches few; grapes full. The 

 rains have improved the pastures. Oats made a good growth, and 

 were mainly cut for hay ; no barley raised. 



Williamsburg (F. C. Richards). — Indian corn looks well, but 

 is backward in maturing. Sweet corn is not raised for canning. 

 Rowen will hardly be an average crop. Yield of late potatoes not 

 heavy but good ; some blight, but no rot as yet. Acreage of 

 tobacco about the same as usual, and condition above average. 

 Apples and pears half a crop ; peaches 80 per cent of a full crop. 

 Feed in pastures is still good, but they are getting quite dry. Oats 

 and barley are full average crops, except on light, dry soils. 



Huntington (H. W. Stickney). — Indian corn is in fine condi- 

 tion. Sweet corn is not much raised for canning. There is sel- 

 dom such a heavy growth of rowen. Blight has appeared on some 

 fields of potatoes, but no rot as yet. Tobacco is little raised. 

 Apples are a light crop ; grapes looking finely. Pastures have 

 improved since the recent showers. There is a fine growth of oats 

 and barley. 



Chesterfield (Horatio Bisbee). — Indian corn never looked bet- 

 ter than at the present time. Sweet corn is not raised for canning. 

 Rowen is doing well now, and will be an average crop a little later. 

 There is a fair prospect for late potatoes, with neither blight nor 

 rot. Apples will not give a very good crop. Feed in pastures is 

 pretty good. Stock is looking well, though flies are causing much 

 trouble. Oats and barley are very fair crops. 



Ihmtinglon (C. K. Brewster). — Indian corn is quite promis- 

 ing. Sweet corn is not raised for canning. There will be about 

 a normal crop of rowen. There is a great growth of potato vines, 

 but the yield is light. There will be a fair crop of apples ; other 

 fruits light. The recent rains have helped the pastures, and they 

 are in good condition. Gardens have produced well. 



MidcUefield (J. T. Bryan). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Sweet corn is not raised for canning. Rowen will be an average 

 crop. Late potatoes promise fairly well, with little sign of l)light. 



