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but doing' very well. There will not be more than a normal crop of 

 rowen. Have not heard of any trouble with potatoes. Fruit pros- 

 pect : apples, 100 per cent; pears, fair; peaches, small; grapes, fair; 

 quinces, fair; cranbei'ries, fair. Pasturage is in better condition 

 than at time of last report. Neither oats nor barley is raised for 

 grain. Very little market gardening in this vicinity. Interest in 

 ducks and geese has not increased. 



Princeton (A. L. Tyler). — Indian corn is backward, but doing 

 nicely. RoAven crop will be small, if any. Prospect for late pota- 

 toes is good ; have not noticed blight or rot. Fruit prospect : apples, 

 a one-half crop; pears, very few; peaches, none; grapes, plenty; 

 quinces, fair; cranberries, good. Pasturage is in fairly good con- 

 dition. Oats and barley compared very poorly with f»i'mer years. 

 No market-garden crops raised. Interest in ducks and geese has not 

 increased. 



Oakham (Jesse Allen). — Indian corn looks well, but is late. 

 Little, if any, rowen will be cut, because of the early drought. Late 

 Ijotatoes look well ; no blight or rot. Fruit prospects : apples, small 

 crop; pears, small; peaches, none; grapes, few; quinces, none; cran- 

 berries, none. Pastures are very short. Oats and barley about a 

 one-half crop. Interest in ducks and geese has not increased. 



Shrewsbury (Fred J. Reed). — Indian corn is very backward, 

 and early frosts would hurt many fields. Rowen crop will be very 

 light. Late potatoes are looking well, with no blights yet. Fruit 

 prospect : apples, vei*y light ; pears, veiy few ; peaches, very few ; 

 gi'apes, some; quinces, none; cranberries, none. Pastures are not in 

 verj' good condition, but late 'rains have improved them somewhat. 

 Oats and barley crops are about the same as in foi-mer years. Late 

 market-garden crops are looking fair. No ducks or geese raised. 



Worcester (H. R. Kinney)! — Indian corn is late, bi;t grooving 

 fast. Rowen looks as though it would be light. Potatoes are late, 

 but the vines are big; some blight. Fruit prospect: apples, good; 

 pears, light ; peaches, light ; grapes, good. Pasturage is fully up to 

 the average. Celery is not as large or even as usual, but is gi'owing 

 well ; other crops are groAving nicely. Interest in production for 

 market of ducks and geese has increased. There are many people 

 who do not know how nice fresh ducks and geese are, but when they 

 try one, they want more. These fowls gi'ow easily. We want a 

 market at a paying price. Fruit has been damaged by lice and 

 thrips. — the worst in my memory. Vegetables, as a whole, are in 

 good shape, with the exception of scjuash, and the Worcester pole 

 beans have been nearly ruined by thrips. 



Leicester (Henry H. Kingsbury). — Cold nights the first part of 

 Augaist checked the growth of Indian corn, which is now maturing 

 slowly. Rowen is doing well, and apparently a nonnal crop will be 

 harvested. Prospect for late potatoes is good; no rot or blight seen. 



