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warm weather, then cold and wet, killed many injurious insects 

 after hatching. 



Foxborough (Wm. E. Perkins). — Corn is very backward and 

 about two-thirds is used for ensilage. Hay is of good quality, but 

 not quite up to last year's yield. It looks as if there would be a 

 light fruit crop. Pastures are very dry. About one-half of the 

 dairy farmers in this vicinity use the silo, double the number that 

 had them ten years ago. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Mansfield (E. Jasper Eisher). — Potato bugs, elm-leaf beetles 

 and plant lice seem to be most injurious. Corn is uneven, but doing 

 well and about one-third of the crop is grown for ensilage. The qual- 

 ity of the hay crop is good, and in quantity it is slightly more than 

 last year. Millet and rye do not look well, owing to the drought. 

 Market-garden crops are backward and no potatoes harvested. Pros- 

 pects are for a fair crop of apples; not many pears and no peaches, 

 and a fair crop of cranberries. Pastures are pretty well dried up. 

 Rye is up to the average as a grain crop. Very few of the dairy 

 farmers have silos; not as many as ten years ago. 



Attleborough (Isaac Alger). — Indian corn is in good condi- 

 tion and about one-half will go into the silo. About an average 

 crop of excellent quality hay. The millets are being grown as forage 

 crops and are in good condition. Potatoes are now looking fairly 

 well; none dug yet. There will be a small fruit yield excepting 

 grapes. Pastures are very short. About an average crop of rye, 

 oats and barley. About one-half of the dairy farmers have silos, 

 which was true ten years ago. 



Eehoboth (Adin B. Horton). — Potato bugs and plant lice are 

 much in evidence. Corn is below normal; not more than one-tenth 

 grown for ensilage. Hay crop about normal. Some millet is raised 

 for forage, but is in poor condition. Market-garden crops are below 

 the average, and prices about the same as former years. Apples and 

 pears promise a 30 to 40 per cent crop, while peaches are practically 

 a failure. Pastures are in very poor condition. Rye and barley are 

 not raised much. Oats not more than two-thirds crop. Not more 

 than one dairy farmer in twenty has a silo; this being about double 

 the number there were ten years ago. 



Swansea (F. G. Arnold). — Corn is suffering for want of rain. 

 Early plantings have made good growth; much of the later plant- 

 ings have not come up. About a normal quantity of fine quality hay. 

 MUlet and fodder corn are being grown as forage crops, but both 

 are backward, owing to dry weather. Market-garden crops are in 

 poor condition, owing to the dry weather; cabbage crop late, prices 



