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early frosts little of it will ripen. Sweet corn is not raised for 

 canning. Rowen will be a little better than a normal crop. Late 

 potatoes promise a fair crop, but there is some blight where they 

 have not been sprayed. Pears, peaches and grapes good ; apples 

 a small crop. Pastures are in very good condition. No oats or 

 barley raised for grain ; oats for fodder yielded well. 



Lancaster (S. C. Damon). — Indian com promises a full crop. 

 Sweet corn is not grown for canning. The prospect for the rowen 

 crop is not good. Late potatoes promise good crops, and there is 

 no blight or rot as yet. There will be but few apples ; pears and 

 grapes good. Pasturage is very short. Oats and barley are not 

 grown except for soiling. 



Holden (Chas. E. Parker). — The ideal weather has brought 

 Indian corn to an average growth. Sweet corn is not raised for 

 canning. There will be a light crop of rowen. Both blight and 

 rot have appeared on late potatoes. Pears and peaches are good 

 crops ; apples half a crop. Oats are an excellent crop ; barley 

 grown mostly for a late forage crop. 



Shreivsbury (Fred J. Rp:ed). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Sweet corn is not raised for canning. Rowen promises to give a 

 very good crop. Late potatoes are very good, with no blight or 

 rot as yet. The fruit crop will be very light. Pasturage is in 

 good condition. Oats and barley are about average crops, and 

 looking very well. 



Sonthborongh (E. F. Collins). — Indian corn is very late, but 

 will give a good crop if it has time to mature. Sweet corn is 

 raised for market, and is yielding well. There will be a full aver- 

 age crop of rowen. P.>tatoes are yielding well, with no blight or 

 rot. There will be a full crop of apples, and they are fair and 

 nice, but late. Pasturage is in very good condition, better than 

 usual at this time of year. 



Axiburn (Wm. Gilbert). — Indian corn is looking well. Sweet 

 corn is not raised for canning. The weatlier has been too dry for 

 a full crop of rowen. J^ate potatoes promise a full crop ; no blight 

 or rot. Apples very light ; pears a full crop. Pastures are short 

 of feed. Oats and barley are about average crops. 



Oxford (D. M. Howe). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

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

 yield. Late potatoes promise well, and there is as yet neither 

 blight nor rot. Apples will give a good crop ; no peaches. Pas- 

 turage is in fair condition. Oats and barley have given good 

 average crops. Farmers have had an average year in general. 



BlacJtslone (O. F. Fuller). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Sweet corn is not raised foi- cunning, liowen will give about an 



