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barley are in fair condition. Market-garden crops are backward, 

 owing to the dry weather, and yield and price are about the same as 

 usual. Apples promise a fair crop; grapes good and cranberries 

 fair. The drought has dried up the pastures very much. Some four 

 or five acres of new orchard have been set. About 10 per cent of the 

 dairy farmers have silos; the number changing very little since ten 

 j^ears ago. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Townsend (Geo. A. Wilder). — The elm-leaf beetle has done much 

 damage this year. Corn is in good condition; 75 per cent of the 

 crop will be put into the silo. The hay crop is light and of poor 

 quality. Market-garden crops are looking good and there will be 

 an average crop, with higher prices than usual. Prospect for apples 

 is fair and for peaches it is good. Pastures are in poor condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are about the same as usual. About from 1,000 

 to 1,500 apple trees have been set in this vicinity. There are not as 

 many silos in this town as there were ten years ago. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Corn is late, but gi'owing fast. 

 Only a small part is grown for ensilage. The hay crop is about 

 normal and of good quality. Corn, millet and barley are raised as 

 forage crops and are in good condition. Market-garden crops are 

 not very heavy. No potatoes harvested as yet. The prospect is for 

 a light crop of all kinds of fruit, except grapes, which will be plenty. 

 Pastures have improved since the rain. All kinds of gi'ains are 

 about the same as in former years. One small apple orchard has 

 been set. About one-third of the dairy farmers use silos. There has 

 been very little increase in the last ten years. 



Westford (J. W. Fletcher). — Plant lice on apple trees are the 

 most troublesome insect pest. Indian corn is in good condition; 

 about one-half of the crop is grown for ensilage. About an average 

 hay crop. As forage crops oats and millet are in good condition. 

 Early potatoes were damaged by the dry weather. Fall apples quite 

 plenty; winter apples scarce. Oats a short crop. Fifty acres of 

 new orchard have been set. Most of the dairy farmers use the silo. 



Stoneham (J. E. Wiley). — Insects do not seem to be very trou- 

 blesome. The hay crop is a fair average. As a forage crop corn is 

 not up to the average. Market-garden crops are small and prices 

 high. No potatoes have been dug. Aj^ples and pears will be a light 

 crop; grapes a heavy crop. Currants were a good crop. Pasturage 

 is in good condition. The same number of silos are in use as ten 

 years ago. 



Lexington (Howard M. Munroe). — Apple and pear aphis and 

 asparagus beetles are doing damage. Indian corn is looking well; 

 about three-fourths of the total acreage is grown for ensilage. There 

 is more hay than last year, but not an average crop, and of rather 



