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good on low land ; little or none on high. The prospect for late 

 potatoes is generally good, with no blight. Apples poor; pears 

 generally good; grapes good; cranberries uncertain. Pasturage 

 fair on low land, poor on high. What little oats and barley there 

 are are grown compared favorably with good years. Generally 

 speaking, the weather has been too dry in this section the last two 

 months. 



Norton (William A. Lane). — Field corn is in very good con- 

 dition. Sweet corn is not raised for canning. Rowen is about an 

 average crop. Some late potatoes have blighted. There will be a 

 light crop of all fruits. Pasturage is in fair condition. There is 

 a heavy crop of oats. Crops in general are looking well. 



AttleborougJi (Isaac Alger) . — Indian corn is above the aver- 

 age. Sweet corn is grown for market, but not for canning. Rowen 

 will be less than an average crop. The potato crop is extremely 

 small, not half as many as last year. All fruits show small crops. 

 Pastures are in fair condition. Oats and barley are average crops. 

 The hot dry weather in July was too much for potatoes. 



.SeeJconk (John W. Reed). — Indian corn looks well. Sweet 

 corn is little raised for canning, mostly for market. Rowen will 

 not give as good a crop as usual, owing to dry weather after first 

 cutting. Late potatoes are fairly good, though some fields show 

 rot and the vines are dying down. Apples scarce ; pears and 

 peaches plentiful ; grapes and cranberries fair. Pasturage is fully 

 up to the average in condition. Oats and barley are good crops 

 generally. 



Dighton (James N. Paul). — Field corn is in good condition. 

 Sweet corn is not raised for canning, but quite a large acreage is 

 raised for market, and is looking well. The prospect for rowen 

 is good. Not many late potatoes raised ; have blighted some, but 

 show no rot as yet. Apples good ; pears poor ; no peaches ; not 

 many grapes ; cranberries not grown. Pastures are in good con- 

 dition. Oats and barley are not grown. Strawberry plants set 

 this season are looking well, and also most of the old beds that 

 were cleaned out for another year. There is a large acreage of 

 tomatoes for canning and the market, and they have made a large 

 growth of vine, but do not promise much fruit. 



Swansea (F. G. Arnold). — Indian corn is in very good con- 

 dition. Sweet corn is not used for canning, being all sold in nearby 

 markets. Rowen will be fully an average crop. Late potatoes 

 look well where sprayed; no rot reported. Apples poor; pears 

 poor ;" peaches very good; grapes good. Pastures are in very 

 good condition. Oats and barley are cut green for fodder ; where 

 raised for grain this year they were damaged by the army worm. 



