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poor quality. Millet and oats and peas are the principal forage 

 crops and they have improved very much since the rain. Most 

 market-garden crops are below the average. Very few, if any, 

 potatoes have been harvested. Fmit prospects: apples 75 per cent; 

 pears 50 per cent; peaches 40 per cent; plums 75 per cent; quinces 

 100 per cent : and grapes 100 per cent. Pasturage has improved 

 very much since the rjtin. Rye, oats and barley have been good 

 crops. Barley and oats rather light as forage crops. New apple 

 orchards have been set, but not enough to replace the old ones that 

 are fast getting unprofitable; perhaps 25 acres set in 1911 and 1912. 

 About two-thirds of the dairy farmers use sUos, which is perhaps 

 an increase of 15 per cent in the past ten years. 



Stoio (Geo. "W. Bradley). — Potato bugs and cabbage worms are 

 doing the most damage in this vicinity. Corn is now gi-owing well 

 but is backward for the season; very little grown for the silo. 

 About two-thirds of a crop of good quality hay. Hungarian and 

 Japanese millet are grown as forage crops, but are not looking very 

 well. Most all fruits have been dropping badly, as the result of the 

 dry Aveather. Pastures are pretty well dried up. There is very 

 little rye, and oats did not come up well. About five acres of new 

 orchard have been set. There are not half the silos used that there 

 were ten years ago. 



Marlborough (E. D. Howe). — The San Jose Scale and plant lice 

 are proving most troublesome. Corn is about 90 per cent of normal 

 condition : 75 per cent of the crop will be put in the silo. The hay 

 crop is about 95 per cent in quantity and 99 per cent in quality. 

 Sweet corn is in good condition. Millet is just starting. . But little 

 is done here in market-gardening; crops are in fair condition, with 

 good prices. The fruit prospect as follows: apples 60 per cent; 

 pears 50 per cent; peaches 10 per cent; plums 50 per cent; quinces 

 25 per cent ; and grapes 100 per cent. Pastures are all dried up and 

 need rain badly. Rye 100 per cent and oats 90 per cent of normal, 

 and barley not planted yet. About 500 new apple trees have been 

 set, and about one-quarter of these are dead from drought. About 

 60 per cent of the dairy farmers have silos, which is very little 

 change from ten years ago. 



Newton (G. L. Marcy), — Mosquitoes, flies, gypsy and brown- 

 tail moths are proving most troublesome in this locality. The con- 

 dition of Indian corn is good; about two-thirds of the crop is grown 

 for ensilage. The hay crop is good both in quantity and quality. 

 The potato crop will be poor this year. Fruit prospects in general 

 are fair. Pastures are in better condition since the rain. Rye, oats 

 and barley compare well with former years. Dairy fanners are 

 becoming more scarce. About half the farmers have silos, but more 

 would have them if there were better prospects of securing a living 

 price for dairy products, where labor and land are so expensive. 



