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crop is 75 per cent of a full crop; quality good. Corn, oats and 

 millet are grown for forage; their condition is fairly good. No 

 market-garden crops grown except sweet corn and potatoes. Apples 

 show prospect of being a half crop; pears, few; peaches, fewer; 

 cranberries, none but wild ones. Pasturage is improving; it has 

 been very dry. Rye, oats and barley not grown for grain; as forage 

 they are not up to the average. Very few new apple orchards have 

 been set. Ten per cent of the dairy farmers use sUos; the number 

 is not much of an increase over ten years ago. Corn only crop used 

 for ensilage. 



Hamilton (Geo. R. Dodge). — No particular species of insect are 

 especially troublesome. Indian corn is coming along rapidly so that 

 its condition is nearly normal; about 80 per cent is put into the silo. 

 The quality of the hay crop compares favorably with former years, 

 with slightly increased production. Oats, barnyard millet and Indian 

 com are used for forage; their condition is normal. Market-garden 

 crops have yielded less plentifully than in former years, but prices 

 have ruled high. All tree fruits will be in shorter supply than was 

 promised in the spring due to non-pollenation and heavy drop. 

 Pasturage is short but is recovering since recent heavy rains. Winter 

 rye is especially good as grain. Oats and barley as forage crops 

 are about normal. One 3-acre apple orchard has been planted the 

 past year. One-half the dairjrmen use the silo, which proportion has 

 remained the same for the past ten years. Indian corn is almost 

 universally grown for ensilage; soy beans have been tried in a small 

 way. 



Wenhani (N. P. Perkins). — Cutworms have done damage to 

 some extent but are not bad. Squash maggots and potato bugs are 

 doing injury. Indian corn is looking well but is rather backward. 

 More than two-thirds is used for the silo or green forage. The hay 

 crop is not an average, and not as much as expected. Corn, Hun- 

 garian grass, oats, barley, millet are grown for forage and are in 

 fair condition. Not many market-garden crops put on the market 

 yet. A few orchards will have a fair crop of apples, but there will 

 not be many of the other fruits mentioned. Pasturage has been 

 improving since the rains of the 18th to 21st, but will soon have to be 

 supplemented with gTeen feed. No rye, oats or barley grown except 

 for fodder. A few apple trees have been set here and there, and 

 one orchard of V2 acre. Only 3 dairy farmers in town use silos but 

 that is three more than ten years ago. Hungarian grass, oats, barley, 

 millet and peas, besides corn, are used for ensilage more and more 

 each year as pastures are growing poorer. 



